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Oligarchs Succeed! Only the People Suffer!
05.31.2017 :: United StatesIntroduction: On a scale not seen since the ‘great’ world depression of the 1930’s, the US political system is experiencing sharp political attacks, divisions and power grabs. Executive firings, congressional investigations, demands for impeachment, witch hunts, threats of imprisonment for ‘contempt of Congress’ and naked power struggles have shredded the façade of political unity and consensus among competing powerful US oligarchs.
The ‘Worker President’ and the Banker Regime: Brazil under Lula DaSilva 2003-2010
11.28.2016 :: Latin AmericaIntroduction: Leftwing academics, writers and journalists have written tendentious articles where they manage to transform reactionary political leaders into working class heroes and present their dreadful policies as progressive advances. Recently, leftist pundits throughout US and Latin America have plagued the reading public with gross distortions of historical events contributing, in their own way, to the demise of the left and the rise of the right.
Latin America and the Anglo-American Booby-Left
03.25.2015 :: Latin AmericaNumerous prominent progressive US pundits, whose political pronouncements carry great weight in the alternative media, have proclaimed Latin Americas decisive break with US domination and have gone on to announce the beginning of a new post-imperial epoch.
Lies and Deceptions on the Left: The Politics of Self Destruction
03.22.2015 :: AnalysisIntroduction: Over the past year, what appeared as hopeful signs, that Left governments were emerging as powerful alternatives to right-wing pro-US regimes, is turning into a historic rout, which will relegate them to the dustbin of history for many years to come.
US Elections: From the Lesser to the Greater Eviland the Demise of Critical Liberalism
11.03.2012 :: United StatesIntroduction: There is ample evidence that the Obama Presidency has pulled the US political spectrum further to the Right. On most domestic and foreign policy issues Obama has embraced extremist positions surpassing his Republican predecessor and in the process devastating what remained of the peace and social movements of the past decade.
Israels Willing Executioners: AIPAC Invades Washington
James Petras and Robin Eastman Abaya :: 03.15.2012 :: United StatesWhen a country, like the United States, is in decline, it is not because of external competition: Declining competitiveness is only a symptom. It is because of internal rot. Decline results when a nation is betrayed by craven leaders, who crawl and humiliate themselves before a minority of thuggish mediocrities pledged to a foreign state without scruples or moral integrity
The Major Jewish American Organizations Defend Israels Humiliation of America
04.07.2010 :: United StatesWhen Israel announced a major new Jews-only building project of 1600 homes in occupied East Jerusalem, it was not only spitting in the face of visiting Vice President Biden, it was demonstrating its power to humiliate America and Americans
Israels War with Iran and the Zionist Power Configuration in America
07.15.2008 :: United StatesZionists and their allies in Congress authored, implemented and enforced sanctions against Iran, which hinder the ambitions of the worlds biggest oil and gas companies
A Disenchanted James Petras
Efraín Chury Iribarne :: 06.12.2008 :: AnalysisAn interview with James Petras :: It\’s pure Stalinism, to say that an insurgent group with 40 years of struggle is playing imperialism\’s game is pure idiocy; imperialism functions well enough in Venezuela without need for a guerrilla movement
The Daily Telegraph considers James Petras one of the most influential US liberals
Daily Telegraph :: 11.09.2007 :: United StatesAs the US prepares for what is arguably the most open presidential election since 1928, the last time there was no incumbent president or vice-president on the ballot, the Daily Telegraph\’s Washington correspondents compile a list of the 100 most influential liberals in America. James Petras is #59. Noam Chomsky is #63.
The pro-israel lobby. The debate between James Petras and Norman Finkelstein
04.16.2007 :: Middle EastIntifada. Hosted and produced by Hagit Borer for the SWANA (South and West Asia and North Africa) Collective of KPFK
Between Insurrection and Reaction: Evo Morales Pursuit of Normal Capitalism
03.15.2007 :: Latin AmericaMany progressive overseas academics, politicians, journalists and commentators have glowingly characterized the Evo Morales regime as radical, revolutionary and part of an anti-imperialist bloc.
An Open Letter to the People and Government of the US (and a reply to the FARC)
11.20.2006 :: United StatesOn a November 9, 2006, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-Peoples Army, (FARC-EP) sent an Open Letter to the People of the United States. It was specifically addressed to several Hollywood producers and actors (Michael Moore, Denzel Washington and Oliver Stone) as well as three leftist academics (James Petras, Noam Chomsky and Angela Davis) and a progressive politician (Jessie Jackson).
The Jewish States final solution: The assault on Gaza
07.16.2006 :: Middle EastBeginning on the night of June 28, 2006, Israel launched a massive land, and air assault and invaded the Gaza Strip, in which over 5,000 soldiers followed hundreds of tanks and armored carriers, while scores of helicopter gunships and fighter jets fired missiles and rockets into populated centers, destroying the basic infrastructures of over 1.4 million Palestinians.
Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourteen erroneous theses
04.06.2006 :: AnalysisYesterday the major Zionist organizations told us who we may or may not criticize in the Middle East, today they tell us who we may criticize in the United States, tomorrow they will tell us to bend our heads and submit to their lies and deceptions in order to engage in new wars of conquest at the service of a morally repugnant colonial regime.
New winds from the left or hot air from a New Right
03.15.2006 :: Latin AmericaThe Center Left regimes and their Left intellectual supporters represent a sad epitaph on the radical generation of the 1970\’s and 1980\’s: they are a spent force, lacking critical ideas and audacious proposals for challenging imperialism and capitalist rule
The responsibility of the intellectuals: Cuba, the U.S. and Human Rights
04.18.2003 :: Latin AmericaOnce again the intellectuals have entered into the center of a debate this time over the issues of U.S. imperialism and human rights in Cuba.
Israel and the U.S: Petras replies to his critics
02.08.2002 :: Middle EastThe letters written by Sres. Almeyra, El Fisgon and Petro Miguel and Arnoldo Kraus in La Jornada criticizing my article, \”Israel and the United States: A Unique Relation\”, are full of distortions, fabrications and slanderous accusations.