:: United States
Trump “The Fascist”: Backdoor Backing of a Political Psychopath Named Hilary Clinton
04.12.2016Introduction: From left to right a raucous chorus has emerged to denounce Republican Presidential primary frontrunner Donald Trump as a ‘fascist’. They cite his campaign promises to build an Israeli-style wall along the US border; his threats to expel eleven million undocumented immigrants; and to restrict foreign Muslims from entering the US, as well as the way his pugnacious face and arm resemble those of Benito Mussolini (’he juts out his chin, he raises his arm’).
The Rise of the Jewish Policy Elite: Meritocracy, Myth and Power
03.26.2016Introduction: Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court marks a continuation and deepening of the lopsided ethno-religious representation in the US judicial system. If Garland is appointed, Jewish justices will comprise 45% of the Court, even though they represent less than 2% of the overall population.
Pluto - Zionists Support for Hillary Clinton
03.09.2016Introduction: Pluto-Zionism is the three-way marriage of plutocracy, rightwing Zionism and US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, a serial war criminal, racist and servant of Wall Street. How did this deadly ménage-a-trois come about?
Presidential Elections 2016: The Revolt of the Masses
02.24.2016Introduction: The presidential elections of 2016 have several unique characteristics that defy common wisdom about political practices in 21st century America.
Zionist Power: Swindlers and Impunity, Traitors and Pardons
11.24.2015We work so hard to establish ourselves and to get where we are and to have somebody (Jonathan Pollard) screw it up
and then have Jewish organizations line up behind this guy and try to make him out a hero of the Jewish people, it bothers the hell out of me
Democratic Party Primaries: Progressives as Political Contraceptives
11.22.2015Introduction: Over the past few decades, insurgent mass movements reflecting political discontent with the domestic economy and imperialist foreign policy have emerged to challenge the leadership and policies of the Democratic Party (DP).
Wars: US Militarist Factions in Command
11.19.2015Introduction: Over the past 15 years the US has been engaged in a series of wars, which has led many writers to refer to the rise of militarism the growth of an empire, built primarily by and for the projection of military power and only secondarily to advance economic imperialism.
The Conference of 52 Presidents of the Major American (sic) Jewish Organizations and the US-Iran Nuclear Agreement: The Centerpiece of US Foreign Policy Struggle
08.11.2015Prologue: In the village of Duma, an 18 month old Palestinian baby died following the fire-bombing of his familys home by Israeli settlers. The father of the child died of burns a week later and the surviving mother and young sibling are barely alive covered with burns from racist Jewish arson.
Rightwing Radicalization, Militarization and the Boomerang Effect
06.22.2015Introduction: Throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia, rightwing governments have increasingly adopted extremist socio-economic policies, slashing social expenditures, labor and welfare legislation, while increasing corporate subsidies and reducing taxes for the elite.
A Critique of US “Grand Strategy toward China”. Seven Mistaken Assumptions, Presumptions and Prescriptions
05.29.2015The highly influential Council on Foreign Relations recently published a Special Report entitled, Revising US Grand Strategy toward China, (Council on Foreign Relations Press: NY 2015), co-authored by two of its Senior Fellows, Robert Blackwill and Ashley Tellis (B and T), which proposes a re-orientation of US policy toward China
Mandarin for the Warlords: The Harvard School of Empire Building
04.15.2015Introduction: Harvard professor Joseph Nye, a former senior Pentagon functionary, is one of the longest serving and most influential advisers to US empire building officials. Nye has recently re-affirmed the primacy of the US as a world power in his latest book, Is the American Century Over? And his article, The American Century will survive the Rise of China (Financial Times, 3/26/15, p. 7).
Who Spies for Israel in Washingtons Nuclear Negotiations?
03.31.2015Introduction: The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) (3/25/15) headlined: Israel Spied on Iran Nuclear Talks with the US. The article goes on to detail the way in which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used the confidential information to sabotage the talks, including playing them back to US legislators to undermine US diplomacy.
Netanyahu: He Came, He Saw, He Conquered. The Power of Israel over the United States
03.08.2015There is only one reason that Netanyahu is received as a Viceroy overseeing and dictating strategic policy to what clearly is a servile colonial legislature
Fifty Years of Imperial Wars: Results and Perspectives
03.01.2015Over the past 50 years the US and European powers have engaged in countless imperial wars throughout the world. The drive for world supremacy has been clothed in the rhetoric of world leadership, the consequences have been devastating for the peoples targeted
Imperialism and the Politics of Torture
12.15.2014Introduction: The US Senate Report documenting CIA torture of alleged terrorist suspects raises a number of fundamental questions about the nature and operations of the State, the relationship and the responsibility of the Executive Branch and Congress to the vast secret police networks which span the globe including the United States.
The Con-man Cornered: Obama and the Democratic Debacle of 2014
11.11.2014Introduction: The meteoric rise to power of Barack Obama in 2008 was propelled by one of the greatest demagogic US Presidential campaigns of all time: To millions of young Americans, he promised to end the US wars in the Middle East. To millions of working and middle class voters, he promised to end the economic crisis by confronting Wall Street.
Empire or Republic: Imperial Wars and Domestic Epidemics. You Cant Have Wars and Public Health
11.02.2014Washington escalates its military interventions abroad, launching simultaneous air and ground attacks in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan; multiplying drone attacks in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia; training, arming and financing proxy mercenaries in Jordan, the Gulf States and Iraq; and dispatching National Guard battalions to West Africa, ostensibly to combat the Ebola epidemic, though they lack the most elementary public health capabilities.
Ballots or Bullets: Democracy and World Power
10.31.2014Introduction: The principal reason why Washington engages in military wars, sanctions and clandestine operations to secure power abroad is because its chosen clients cannot and do not win free and open elections.
The Pentagon and Big Oil: Militarism and Capital Accumulation
10.26.2014Introduction: There is no question that, in the immediate aftermath and for several years following US military conquests, wars, occupations and sanctions, US multi-national corporations lost out on profitable sites for investments.
US Global Power in the 21st Century: Military or Economic Imperialism?
09.25.2014Despite vast amounts of imperial data to the contrary, the great majority of writers on imperialism continue to describe and analyze US imperialism strictly in economic terms, as an expansion of capital accumulation, accumulation on a world scale.
The US and Global Wars: Empire or Vampire?
09.10.2014Introduction: To the growing army of critics of US military intervention, who also reject the mendacious claims by American officials and their apologists of world leadership, Washington is engaged in empire-building.
Petras Books Clarify US Support for Zionism
Clarity Press :: 07.21.2014
Can’t understand how the US Senate can unanimously pass a resolution supporting the murderous Israeli assault on Gaza? Get some clarity. Award-winning Author and Professor Emeritus James Petras gets between 5-7,000 hits on his website every day.