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Empire or Republic: from Joplin, Missouri to Kabul, Afghanistan

Sábado, 04 de Junio de 2011 06:13 Blogs - petras.lahaine.org
Coincidentally the same week Afghan President Karzai condemned the killing of a family of 14 by a NATO fighter bomber, running the total to several hundred civilians killed so far this year and thousands over the decade. The relation between the civilian deaths in Joplin and Afghanistan raises fundamental questions ...
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn: The Colonial Predator Legacy

Lunes, 23 de Mayo de 2011 17:32 Blogs - petras.lahaine.org
Efforts to portray this criminal act as an individual obsession or a personal failing or a “Latin idiosyncrasy” fail to take account of the ‘deep history’ in which these psychological pathologies are embedded. The first clue is evident on the very surface – skin deep – of the antagonists: On ...
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Imperialism: Bankers, Drug Wars and Genocide

Miércoles, 18 de Mayo de 2011 18:57 Blogs - petras.lahaine.org
Backed by advisers, agents and arms, the White House has been the principal promotor of a ‘war’ that has totally decimated Mexico’s society and economy. If Washington has been the driving force for the regime’s war, Wall Street banks have been the main instruments ensuring the profits of the drug ...
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The Assassination of bin Laden: Its Use and Abuse

Jueves, 05 de Mayo de 2011 03:18 Blogs - petras.lahaine.org
Contrary to this immense propaganda campaign and despite whatever symbolic value the killing may have in the eyes of his executioners, there is no evidence that the death will have any impact on the deteriorating military and political position of the US in South Asia, the Middle East, North Africa ...
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James Petras' New Book: "The Arab Revolt and the Imperialist Counterattack"

Jueves, 05 de Mayo de 2011 00:43 Blogs - petras.lahaine.org
As the Arab revolt spreads from North Africa to the Gulf and deepens its demands to include socio-economic as well as political demands, the Empire is striking back. The ruling military junta in Egypt has cracked down on the prodemocracy movement and looks to its autocratic “partners” in the Gulf ...
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Skyrocketing Crime Rates and Imperial Wars

Miércoles, 04 de Mayo de 2011 02:22 Blogs - petras.lahaine.org
Violence increased far beyond what existed prior to imperial wars in such countries as Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia. In the period prior to imperial intervention in Central America, during times of revolutionary ferment, high levels of social organization via inclusive social movements, channeled discontent into political and social channels. Revolutionary ...
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Capitalism and Class Struggle

Lunes, 25 de Abril de 2011 20:01 Blogs - petras.lahaine.org
In order to map out the unfolding of the class struggle it is necessary to specify key concepts related to the (a) varied conditions and dominant sectors of capital in the global economy (b) nature of the class struggle (c) the principle protagonists of class struggles (d) character of the ...
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Washington’s long war against Africa

Miércoles, 13 de Abril de 2011 06:05 Blogs - petras.lahaine.org
According to a US Congressional Research Service Study[1] published in November 2010, Washington has dispatched anywhere between hundreds and several thousand combat troops, dozens of fighter planes and warships to buttress client dictatorships or to unseat adversarial regimes in dozens of countries, almost on a yearly bases. The record shows ...
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Libya and Obama’s Defense of the ‘Rebel Uprising’

Sábado, 02 de Abril de 2011 19:32 Blogs - petras.lahaine.org
Dozens of CIA and SAS special forces have been training, advising and mapping targets for the so-called Libyan ‘rebels’ engaged in a civil war against the Gaddafi government, its armed forces, popular militias and civilian supporters (NY Times 3/30/11). Despite this massive military support and their imperial ‘allies’ total control of ...
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Euro-US War on Libya: Official Lies and Misconceptions of Critics

Viernes, 25 de Marzo de 2011 10:48 Blogs - petras.lahaine.org
Introduction The most common line on the US-Euro war on Libya is that it’s “all about oil” – the seizure of oil wells. On the other hand Euro –U.S, government spokespeople have defended the war by claiming it is about “saving civilian lives facing genocide”, an act of “humanitarian intervention”. Following the lead ...
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