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	<title>The Official James Petras website</title>
	<link>https://petras.lahaine.org</link>
	<description>United States, Latin America, Middle East, Analysis</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Washington&#8217;s &#8216;Pivot to Asia&#8217;:  A Debacle Unfolding</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/washingtons-pivot-to-asia-a-debacle/</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2016 11:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/washingtons-pivot-to-asia-a-debacle/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Dubbed the &#8216;Pivot to Asia&#8217;, it suggested that the US would concentrate its economic, military and diplomatic resources toward strengthening its dominant position and undercutting China&#8217;s rising influence in the region.
	The &#8216;pivot to Asia&#8217; did [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Washington&#8217;s Global Economic Wars</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/washingtons-global-economic-wars/</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2016 12:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/washingtons-global-economic-wars/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	More recently Washington has escalated its global economic war against major economic rivals as well as against weaker countries.  The US no longer confines its aggressive impulses to peripheral economic countries in the Middle [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Overview of Class Struggle</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/overview-of-class-struggle/</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Latin America</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/overview-of-class-struggle/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	In general terms the countries with relative higher levels of urbanization and industrialization, experience the greatest urban centered struggles - as is the case with Argentina, Venezuela and Chile but not Brazil and Mexico.
	Among the [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Brazil: The Billion Dollar Coup</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/brazil-the-billion-dollar-coup/</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2016 07:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Latin America</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/brazil-the-billion-dollar-coup/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	This &#8216;legislative coup d&#8217;état &#8216;eliminated the democratically-elected &#8216;political intermediaries&#8217; and installed a regime directly controlled by the CEO&#8217;s of leading multi-nationals. The corporate composition of the post-coup regime insured there would be a radical restructuring [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Barbarism in Words and Deeds</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/barbarism-in-words-and-deeds/</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2016 16:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/barbarism-in-words-and-deeds/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	&#8220;What Russia is sponsoring and doing [in Syria] is not counter-terrorism it is barbarism&#8221;
Samantha Power, US Representative to the United Nations
	Introduction
	The US representative to the United Nations, Ambassador &#8216;Ranting Sam&#8217; Samantha Power, accused the Russian [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Propaganda Techniques of Empire</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/propaganda-techniques-of-empire/</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2016 00:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/propaganda-techniques-of-empire/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	In this paper we will discuss the most common recent techniques used to support ongoing imperial wars.
	Propaganda Techniques of Empire.
	Role Reversal
	A common technique, practiced by the imperial publicists, is to accuse the victims of the [...]]]></description>

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