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Rethinking Imperialist Theory
12.21.2010 :: AnalysisAlmost all theories of contemporary imperialism lack any but the crudest sociological analyses of the classes and political character of the governing groups which direct the imperial state and its polices. The same is true about the theorizing of the imperial state which is largely devoid of institutional analyses.
Trends to Barbarism and Prospects for Socialism
11.01.2010 :: AnalysisPaper presented at the Third Conference Civilization or Barbarism, Serpa, Portugal. October 30 to November 1, 2010
The Ecuadorian Coup: Its Larger Meaning
10.09.2010 :: Latin AmericaThe abortive military-police coup in Ecuador, which took place on September 30, has raised numerous questions about the role of the US and its allies among the traditional oligarchy and the leftist social movements, Indian organizations and their political parties.
Latin Americas Twenty-First Century Socialism in Historical Perspective
10.07.2010 :: Latin AmericaIntroduction: The electoral victory of center left regimes in at least three Latin American countries, and the search for a new ideological identity to justify their rule, led ideologues and the incumbent presidents to embrace the notion that they represent a new 21st century version of socialism (21cs).
Brazil and Venezuela: Two Turning Point Elections this Fall
08.19.2010 :: Latin AmericaTwo elections in Latin America this fall will have decisive importance in the direction of economic and foreign policy for the coming decade.
US — Venezuela: The Empire Strikes Back (and Loses)
08.09.2010 :: Latin AmericaUS policy toward Venezuela has taken many tactical turns, but the objective has been the same: to oust President Chavez, reverse the nationalization of big businesses, abolish the mass community and worker based councils and revert the country into a client-state.
Lulas Legacy: The Two Brazils
04.14.2010 :: Latin AmericaBrazil is a country of paradoxes: President Lula embraces free trade, signs military agreements with Washington, is acclaimed as Statesman of the Year by the billionaires club at Davos in 2010 and has enriched bankers from Wall Street to the city of London; yet many western and a few Brazilian writers , Fidel Castro and other intellectuals and academics call him a pragmatic leftist or progressive visionary.
U.S. Venezuelan Relations: Imperialism and Revolution
01.05.2010 :: Latin AmericaHistorically Latin America has been of great importance to the United States on numerous counts: the region has in the past, provided the US with a trade surplus; its outflows of licit and ill-begotten funds to US banks, numbers annually in the tens of billions; the US has been, up to recently, the major trading partner in the region; Latin America has provided a lucrative outlet for US buyouts of oil, telecoms, banking and related strategic mining companies during the golden age of imperial pillage (1975 1999).
Imperial Globalization and Social Movements in Latin America
James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer :: 10.16.2009 :: Latin AmericaThe unimpeded growth of Euro-American capitalism following the collapse of Soviet and European communism, the conversion of China and Indochina to state capitalism, and the rise of US backed, free market military dictatorships in Latin America give new impetus to Western empire building, labeled globalization.
Latin America: Energy Workers in Time of Crisis
07.17.2009 :: Latin AmericaThe situation of the energy sector in Latin America is determined by both internal and external correlations of political forces, the level of class organization and power within the ruling and the working classes, the condition of the world economy and the strength and weakness of US imperialism.
Iranian Elections: The Stolen Elections Hoax
06.18.2009 :: Middle EastThere is hardly any election, in which the White House has a significant stake, where the electoral defeat of the pro-US candidate is not denounced as illegitimate by the entire political and mass media elite.
Peru: Blood Flows in the Amazon
06.10.2009 :: Latin AmericaIn early June, Peruvian President Alan García, an ally of US President Barack Obama, ordered armored personnel carriers, helicopter gun-ships and hundreds of heavily armed troops to assault and disperse a peaceful, legal protest organized by members of Perus Amazonian indigenous communities protesting the entry of foreign multinational mining companies on their traditional homelands.
Obamas Foreign Policy Failures: Diplomacy, Militarism and Imagery
05.20.2009 :: United StatesPresident Obamas greatest foreign policy successes are found in the reports of the mass media. His greatest failures go unreported, but are of great consequence.
Procuring Academics for Empire: The Pentagon Minerva Research Initiative
03.31.2009 :: United StatesThe Pentagons military strategists have recognized that they have suffered political losses, with strategic consequences in their recent military invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Venezuela: Socialism, Democracy and the Re-Election of President Chavez
01.08.2009 :: Latin AmericaOn February 15, 2009, Venezuelan voters will go to the polls in order to vote on a constitutional referendum, which would allow for the indefinite re-election of the President.
The Great Land Giveaway: Neo-Colonialism by Invitation
12.01.2008 :: AnalysisColonial style empire-building is making a huge comeback, and most of the colonialists are late-comers, elbowing their way past the established European and US predators.
Mass Media and Mass Politics: Conservative, Liberal and Marxist Perspectives
11.05.2008 :: AnalysisThe role of the mass media (MM) in influencing mass and class behavior has been a central concern among critical writers, especially since the turn of the Twentieth century.
Latin Americans New Left In Crises as the Free Market Collapses
10.27.2008 :: Latin AmericaLatin America is entering a period of profound economic recession, financial crises, collapsing stock market quotations, prices, deep devaluation of its currencies, growing unemployment, declining revenues and the prospect of a prolonged socio-economic recession.
A Class Perspective on Ecology and Indian Movements: Diversity with Inequality is Not Social Justice
10.11.2008 :: AnalysisThere are two opposing approaches to the analysis of ecological destruction and the emergence of Indian movements in Latin America: the liberal and the Marxist.
Human Rights Watch in Venezuela: Lies, Crimes and Cover-ups
09.27.2008 :: Latin AmericaHuman Rights Watch, a US-based group claiming to be a non-governmental organization, but which is in fact funded by government-linked quasi-private foundations and a Congressional funded political propaganda organization, the National Endowment for Democracy, has issued a report A Decade Under Chavez: Political Intolerance and Lost Opportunities for Advancing Human Rights in Venezuela (9/21/2008 hrw.org).
Bolivia: Fascism Seizes Power - Morales Complains
09.16.2008 :: Latin AmericaBolivian fascists have seized power in five of the richest states in Bolivia, forcefully ousting all national officials, murdering, injuring and assaulting leaders, activists and voters who have backed the national government with total impunity.
Masters of Defeat: Retreating Empire and Bellicose Bluster
09.11.2008 :: United StatesEverywhere one looks, US imperial policy has suffered major military and diplomatic defeats. With the backing of the Democratic Congress, the Republican White Houses aggressive pursuit of a military approach to empire-building has led to a world-wide decline of US influence, the realignment of former client rulers toward imperial adversaries, the emergence of competing hegemons and loss of crucial sources of strategic raw materials.