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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>The &#8216;Worker President&#8217; and the Banker Regime: Brazil under Lula DaSilva 2003-2010</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/the-worker-president-and-the-banker/</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2016 14:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Latin America</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/the-worker-president-and-the-banker/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	The leading international figures in this deceptive leftwing punditry include the famous Noam Chomsky, once eulogized by the New York Times (NYT) as &#8216;America&#8217;s most important public intellectual&#8217;.  Such effusion is not surprising: Professor [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Foibles, Fables and Failures:  The Financial Press and its Keepers</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/foibles-fables-and-failures-the-financial/</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2016 15:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/foibles-fables-and-failures-the-financial/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	We will discuss the most pernicious of these remarkable foibles and fables and their predictable failures.
	1. The pundits, prestigious editorialists and &#8216;economists with gravitas&#8217;, have convinced themselves that the election of Donald Trump would &#8216;lead [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Presidential Elections:  Myths and Deceits</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/presidential-elections-myths-and-deceits/</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/presidential-elections-myths-and-deceits/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	We will proceed to discuss facts and fictions.
	(1)  Electoral Participation
	The mass media, parties and candidates emphasized the &#8216;unprecedented voter turnout&#8217; in the elections.  In fact, 48% of the eligible voters abstained. 
	In other [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Clinton Promotes War While US Public Opinion Speaks to Anti-Militarist Populism</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/clinton-promotes-war-while-us-public/</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2016 17:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/clinton-promotes-war-while-us-public/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Both the Right and Left have failed to grasp the contradiction that defines US political life: Namely, the profound gap between the American public and the Washington elite on questions of war and peace within [...]]]></description>

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		<title>US Public Opinion Speaks to Anti-Militarism, the Electorate Votes for Warmongers</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/us-public-opinion-speaks-to-anti/</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2016 17:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/us-public-opinion-speaks-to-anti/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	The right and Left, each in their own way, fail to grasp the contradiction that define US political life, namely, the profound gap between the American public and the Washington elite on questions of war [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The Nemesis and Scourges of the Western World</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/the-nemesis-and-scourges-of-the/</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2016 00:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/the-nemesis-and-scourges-of-the/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	&#8216;Nemesis, Winged balancer of life, dark-faced goddess, daughter of Justice&#8217;
	Introduction
	Seven is a winning throw of the dice. But in our civil society, seven now signifies the multi-thong scourge, the whip used by the Western world [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Wall Street and the Pentagon: Pre-mature Political and Military Ejaculations</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/wall-street-and-the-pentagon-pre/</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2016 10:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/wall-street-and-the-pentagon-pre/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Brazil and Argentina, the most powerful and richest countries in South America and the Philippines, Washington&#8217;s most strategic military platform in Southeast Asia, were the objects of intense US political operations in the run-up to [...]]]></description>

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