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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>
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		<title>Oligarchs Succeed! Only the People Suffer!</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/oligarchs-succeed-only-the-people-suffer/</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2017 14:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/oligarchs-succeed-only-the-people-suffer/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	For the first time in US history, the incumbent elected president struggles on a daily basis to wield state power. The opposition-controlled state (National Public Radio) and corporate organs of mass propaganda are pitted against [...]]]></description>

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		<title>President Emmanuel Macron: Reversing Five Decades of Working-Class Power</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/president-emmanuel-macron-reversing-five-decades/</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2017 14:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/president-emmanuel-macron-reversing-five-decades/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Macron and &#8216;What People&#8217;?
	First of all, Macron received only 46% of the actual vote. Over 54% of eligible French voters either abstained, spoiled their ballots or voted for Marine Le Pen, the nationalist populist. In [...]]]></description>

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		<title>US and Turkey:  The Balkanization of the Middle East</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/us-and-turkey-the-balkanization-of/</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2017 23:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Middle East</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Frustrated at its inability to control national policy of various independent nation-states, Washington used direct and indirect military force to destroy the central governments in the targeted nations and create patchworks of tribal-ethno-mini-states amenable to [...]]]></description>

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		<title>From Richard Nixon to Donald Trump: America&#8217;s Great Leap Backwards</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/from-richard-nixon-to-donald-trump/</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2017 13:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/from-richard-nixon-to-donald-trump/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Since the end of the Viet Nam war, US military &#8216;interventions&#8217; have become wars of long duration. These have cost millions of lives overseas, tens of millions of refugees and scores of thousands of American [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Twenty Truths about Marine Le Pen</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/twenty-truths-about-marine-le-pen/</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2017 14:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/twenty-truths-about-marine-le-pen/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	They obfuscate her program, substituting the label &#8216;extremist&#8217; for her pro-working class and anti-imperialist commitment. Fear and envy over the fact that a new leader heads a popular movement has seeped into Emmanuel &#8220;Manny&#8221; Macron&#8217;s [...]]]></description>

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