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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>Blackouts and Flashpoints in 2018</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2018 09:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/blackouts-and-flashpoints-in-2018/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	I want to argue from a different perspective, focusing on the increasing subdivision of markets, the deepening autonomy of political action from economic development, the greater threat of military interventions and increasing political accommodation.
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		<title>The Opioid Epidemic in America -  Killing One Million Workers:  The Triumph of Capital (Creating a Domestic ‘Shithole’)</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/the-opioid-epidemic-in-america-killing/</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2018 17:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/the-opioid-epidemic-in-america-killing/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	The Chinese government, which had banned the use and sale of opium, was alarmed at the growing social chaos created by mass addiction and went to war with the Western powers to halt the flood [...]]]></description>

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		<title>President Trump’s Jerusalem Decision:  The End of Hegemony?</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/president-trumps-jerusalem-decision-the-end/</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2018 12:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Middle East</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/president-trumps-jerusalem-decision-the-end/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Both President Trump and his bombastic UN Ambassador Nikki Haley threatened that all decisions and agreements regarding alliances, loans, aid and diplomatic relations were at stake.
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