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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>Congress in Search of a Bordello (Make The Chumps Pay the Bill)</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/congress-in-search-of-a-bordello/</link>

		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2017 11:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/congress-in-search-of-a-bordello/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	The US taxpayers were made to pay millions of dollars in financial settlements for hundreds of incidents of Congressperson abuse, including gross sexual harassment, against interns, staff and office employees, of both sexes. 
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		<title>Latin America:  The Pendulum Swings to the Right</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/latin-america-the-pendulum-swings-to/</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2017 15:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Latin America</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Who are their international allies and adversaries?  Having taken power, how have the rightist regimes performed and by what criteria is success or failure measured?
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		<title>Rise and Decline of the Welfare State:  Class Struggle and Imperial Wars as the Motor Force of US History</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/rise-and-decline-of-the-welfare/</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2017 16:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/rise-and-decline-of-the-welfare/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Between the mid 1970’s to the present (2017) labor laws, welfare rights and benefits and the construction of and subsidies for affordable housing have been gutted.  ‘Workfare’  (under President ‘Bill’ Clinton) ended welfare [...]]]></description>

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		<title>China, Saudi Arabia and the US:  Shake Up and Shake Down</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/china-saudi-arabia-and-the-us/</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2017 00:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Middle East</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/china-saudi-arabia-and-the-us/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Saudi Arabia is transferring a trillion dollars of pillage from princes to princes, from old business parasites to up-to-date versions, from austere desert mirages to fantasies of new mega-cities. The United States is emptying the [...]]]></description>

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