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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 Politics of Military Ascendancy</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/the-politics-of-military-ascendancy/</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2017 14:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/the-politics-of-military-ascendancy/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	In this paper we will discuss the advantages that the military elite accumulate from the war agenda and the reasons why ‘the Generals’ have been able to impose their definition of international realities.
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		<title>The Fall Offensive:  the US, France and Brazil</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/the-fall-offensive-the-us-france/</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2017 23:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/the-fall-offensive-the-us-france/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Throughout the summer, public opinion has been diverted by US threats to launch new overseas wars, France’s rhetoric about forming a post-Brexit, Berlin-Paris pact, which will remake the European Union, and Brazil’s President Michel Temer’s [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Who Rules America? The Power Elite in the Time of Trump</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/who-rules-america-the-power-elite/</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2017 23:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/who-rules-america-the-power-elite/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	1. Free marketers, with the ubiquitous presence of the ‘Israel First’ crowd.
2. National capitalists, linked to rightwing ideologues.
3. Generals, linked to the national security and the Pentagon apparatus, as well as defense industry.
4. Business elites, [...]]]></description>

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