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Articles of the author James Petras
The deeper meaning of US mass spying
The exposure of the Obama regime's use of the National Security Agency (NSA) to secretly spy on the communications of hundreds of millions of US and overseas citizens has provoked worldwide denunciations. In the United States, despite widespread (...)

18 - 06 - 2013
On Obama's second term
As US President Barack Obama enters his second term with a new cabinet, the foreign policy legacy of the past four years weighs heavily on his strategic decisions and empire-building efforts. Central to the analysis of the next period is an (...)

01 - 04 - 2013
The legacy of Hugo Chavez
The late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez was unique in multiple areas of political, social and economic life. He made significant contributions to the advancement of humanity. The depth, scope and popularity of his accomplishments mark out Chavez (...)

20 - 03 - 2013
Myths of a limited Israeli-Iranian war
Israel's projected "limited war" against Iran threatens to become an all-out regional conflict, with fatal consequences for the Middle East and beyond, writes James Petras* The mounting threat of a US-Israeli military attack against Iran is based on (...)

19 - 04 - 2012
AIPAC invades Washington
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is trying to drag the US into another war in the Middle East, apparently with the connivance of the Obama administration, write James Petras and Robin Eastman Abaya in Washington IPAC AS A LAUNCH PAD: The (...)

29 - 03 - 2012
A bloody road to Damascus
A huge propaganda campaign is demonising the Syrian government at the behest of Western interests, writes James Petras* There is clear and overwhelming evidence that the uprising to overthrow President Bashar Al-Assad of Syria is in fact a violent (...)

15 - 03 - 2012
A virtue of necessity?
Is there an "Obama Doctrine" governing the conduct of US foreign policy in the Middle East or has it all been increasingly desperate improvisation, asks James Petras* After nearly three years in deep pursuit of the colonial wars initiated by (...)

17 - 11 - 2011
Washington's long hand
The killing of theological blogger Anwar Al-Awlaki in Yemen by a CIA drone demonstrates the US's increasing use of death squads to silence critics abroad, writes James Petras* The killing of theological blogger Anwar Al-Awlaki in Yemen by a CIA (...)

13 - 10 - 2011
Puppets in revolt
As the will of the imperial US to sustain decade-long wars wanes, the puppets it promoted scramble to appear independent, fearful for their positions and lives, writes James Petras* Empires are built through the promotion and backing of local (...)

28 - 06 - 2011
Afghanistan: why civilians are being killed
Only an army of occupation would be willing to sacrifice a multitude of Afghan civilians in killing a single combatant, writes James Petras* The recent rash of civilian killings by NATO forces in occupied Afghanistan raises several basic questions. (...)

16 - 06 - 2011
Uses and abuses of Al-Qaeda
The US killing of Osama bin Laden has no strategic or tactical importance for the world's major theatres of war and political conflict, writes James Petras The assassination of Osama Bin Laden has been celebrated as a great strategic victory by the (...)

12 - 05 - 2011
Obama's Franco moment
Humanitarian intervention flounders on the lack of support from the Libyan people, says James Petras* Over the past two weeks Libya has been subjected to the most brutal imperial air, sea and land assault in its modern history. Thousands of bombs (...)

07 - 04 - 2011
Reversing natural relations
James Petras explains how US sanction policies have become a powerful tool of the Zionist power structure One of the key distinctions between a capitalist and a non- capitalist (socialist, feudal, absolutist) economy is the separation of state and (...)

24 - 03 - 2011
Democracy US-style
Egypt's pro-democracy movement was greeted in Washington by scheming and second-guessing, observes James Petras* One of the least analysed aspects of the Egyptian pro- democracy movement and US policy towards it is the role of the influential (...)

24 - 01 - 2011
Mossad's murderous reach
Israel's practice of extraterritorial assassination is a threat to the very basis of the international order, writes James Petras* On 19 January, Israel's international secret police, the Mossad, sent an 18-member death squad to Dubai using European (...)

25 - 02 - 2010
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