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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>Immigration:  No Easy Answers</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/immigration-no-easy-answers/</link>

		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Mar 2017 05:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/immigration-no-easy-answers/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Both the progressive pro-immigrant and rightwing anti-immigration parties and movements propose easy answers and attack their adversaries with political invective.
	Both left and right engage in a losing war, based on historical omissions, abstract and muddle-headed [...]]]></description>

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		<title>China&#8217;s Great Leap Forward: Western Frogs Croak Dismay</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/chinas-great-leap-forward-western-frogs/</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2017 14:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/chinas-great-leap-forward-western-frogs/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	They have variably proclaimed (1) China&#8217;s economy is in decline; (2) the debt is overwhelming; a Chinese real estate bubble is ready to burst; (3) the country is rife with corruption and poisoned with pollution; [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Peace Accords or Political Surrender? Latin America, the Middle East and Ukraine</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/peace-accords-or-political-surrender-latin/</link>

		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Mar 2017 23:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Latin America</category>
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/peace-accords-or-political-surrender-latin/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	In recent times, &#8216;peace accords&#8217; (PAs) have become a common refrain across the world. In almost every region or country, which are in the midst of war or invasion, the prospects of negotiating &#8216;peace accords&#8217; [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The Rising Tide of Militarism in the 21st Century: From Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/the-rising-tide-of-militarism-in/</link>

		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Mar 2017 14:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/the-rising-tide-of-militarism-in/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	We will proceed in this essay to compare and discuss the unbroken rise of militarism over the past seventeen years.  We will then demonstrate that militarism is an essential structural feature of US imperialism&#8217;s [...]]]></description>

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