Author:“James Petras ”
The Fifty-Two Major Jewish American Organizations and Israel Celebrate Passover with the Slaughter of Twenty-five Muslim, Christian and Secular Palestinians
04.08.2018 :: Middle EastIntroduction: As of April 7, nearly three thousand unarmed Christian, Muslim and secular Palestinians have been wounded, over three dozen are in critical condition and at least twenty-five unarmed protestors, including children have been assassinated by hundreds of Israeli snipers and heavily armed troops shooting tank shells into crowds of civilians protesting their decades of incarceration by the racist Israeli state.
Trump’s Protectionism: A Great Leap Backward
04.02.2018 :: United StatesUS Presidents, European leaders and their academic spokespeople have attributed China’s growing market shares, trade surpluses and technological power to its “theft” of western technology, “unfair” or non-reciprocal trade and restrictive investment practices.
US Technological Transformations and The Narcotic-fueled Genocide of American Workers
03.28.2018 :: United StatesDuring his recent visit to New Hampshire on 3/20/18, President Trump declared once again that the US is facing a ‘drug epidemic’. This time he advocated the death penalty for criminal drug dealers as the solution to a national crisis that has killed over 1 million Americans since the 1990’s (when the blockbuster prescription opiate Oxycontin was first released on the market).
Why the UK, the EU and the US Gang-Up on Russia
03.20.2018 :: AnalysisIntroduction: For the greater part of a decade the US, the UK and the EU have been carrying out a campaign to undermine and overthrow the Russia government and in particular to oust President Putin. Fundamental issues are at stake including the real possibility of a nuclear war.
US Empire: Global Imperialism and Internal Colonialism
03.20.2018 :: United StatesIntroduction: The dynamic of contemporary US imperialism is built around two structural features: the drive toward global military expansion, conquest and occupation backed by the intensification of exploitation of domestic labor and pillage of the domestic economy.
United States: The Political Economy of Massacres
03.05.2018 :: United StatesEvery year over 30,000 Americans are killed by gunfire. Every month, in public schoolyards, dance clubs, concert venues, work places and public gatherings, innocent people are slaughtered by assassins wielding legally purchased high powered semi-automatic weapons.
Mapping Trump’s Empire: Assets and Liabilities
02.19.2018 :: United StatesThe US empire spans the globe; it expands and contracts, according to its ability to secure strategic assets, willing and able to further military and economic power to counter emerging adversaries. The map of empire is a shorthand measure of the vectors, reach and durability of global power and wealth.
The FBI and the President – Mutual Manipulation
02.09.2018 :: United StatesFew government organizations have been engaged in violation of the US citizens’ constitutional rights for as long a time and against as many individuals as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Seldom has there been greater collusion in the perpetration of crimes against civil liberties, electoral freedom and free and lawful expression as what has taken place between the FBI and the US Justice Department.
Making America Great Through Exploitation, Servitude and Abuse
02.08.2018 :: United StatesThe public denunciation by thousands of women and a few men that they had been victims of sexual abuse by their economic bosses raises fundamental issues about the social relations of American capitalism.
Blackouts and Flashpoints in 2018
01.26.2018 :: AnalysisThe prophets and forecasters for the coming year have already set out their global vision ranging from rising economies to catastrophic global wars.
The Opioid Epidemic in America - Killing One Million Workers: The Triumph of Capital (Creating a Domestic ‘Shithole’)
James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya :: 01.24.2018 :: United StatesThe link between capitalism and drugs reaches back to the middle of the 19th century, when the British Empire forced their surplus opium crop from their South Asian colonies into the Chinese market creating massive demand from millions of addicts.
President Trump’s Jerusalem Decision: The End of Hegemony?
01.01.2018 :: Middle EastThe Trump regime proclaimed that the vote in the General Assembly of the United Nations regarding the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel was a strategic US decision.
Congress in Search of a Bordello (Make The Chumps Pay the Bill)
12.23.2017 :: United StatesIn accordance with the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 (CAA) the Office of Compliance (OC) compiled and published shocking statistics listing (1) the number of settlements paid to its employees and interns after allegations of abuse by legislators; (2) the total amount of dollars paid by US Treasury to the victims of Congressional workplace abuse.
Latin America: The Pendulum Swings to the Right
12.19.2017 :: Latin AmericaClearly the pendulum has swung to the right in the past few years. Numerous questions arise. What kind of right? How far right? How did they gain power? What is their appeal? How sustainable are the right wing regimes?
Rise and Decline of the Welfare State: Class Struggle and Imperial Wars as the Motor Force of US History
12.11.2017 :: United StatesThe American welfare state was created in 1935 and continued to develop through 1973. Since then, over a prolonged period, the capitalist class has been steadily dismantling the entire welfare state.
China, Saudi Arabia and the US: Shake Up and Shake Down
12.04.2017 :: Middle EastMajor changes are roiling the states, societies and ruling classes of the biggest industrial economies, oil regimes and military complexes. China is re-allocating its economic wealth toward building the most extensive modern infrastructure system in history, linking four continents.
Socialism, Capitalism and Health Care
11.27.2017 :: United StatesThe US political and economic elites have always bragged that capitalism is far superior to socialism in terms of providing people’s personal welfare. They claim that citizens live longer, healthier and happier lives under capitalism.
US Enemy List: Prospects and Perspectives
11.24.2017 :: United StatesFor almost 2 decades, the US pursued a list of ‘enemy countries’ to confront, attack, weaken and overthrow. This imperial quest to overthrow ‘enemy countries’ operated at various levels of intensity, depending on two considerations: the level of priority and the degree of vulnerability for a ‘regime change’ operation.
Saudi Arabia Regional and Global Linkages
11.15.2017 :: Middle EastSaudi Arabia has built a powerful network of regional and local political, military and economic relationships incorporating a shared extremist-religious affiliation. As a result, despite its reputation as a backward despotic clerico-monarchy with an extreme dependency on oil sales, it has become a deadly political force in the Middle East and beyond.
China and the US: Comparing Leadership Selection
11.11.2017 :: AnalysisThe US selection of leaders has virtually nothing to do with democratic processes and outcomes. It is useful to contrast this with the process in China. In most instances, China’s selection of leaders is far more meritocratic, successful and performance-based.
China and the US: Rational Planning and ‘Lumpen’ Capitalism
11.03.2017 :: AnalysisUS journalists and commentators, politicians and Sinologists spend considerable time and space speculating on the personality of China’s President Xi Jinping and his appointments to the leading bodies of the Chinese government, as if these were the most important aspects of the entire 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (October 18-24, 2017)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Leads US President Trump to War with Iran
10.26.2017 :: Middle EastCan Generals James Mattis (US Secretary of Defense) and John Hyten (Head of US Strategic Command) Prevent a Disaster?