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The Obama Regime’s Military Metaphysics Rejects Diplomatic Opportunities 23 Aug 2013 | 04:15 am
At every opportunity, with precise consistency, the Obama regime rejected fresh overtures from adversaries, choosing instead to rely on a now discredited “double discourse”, of talking peace and engag...
The Obama Regime’s Fabricated “Terror Conspiracy” in Defense of the Police State 13 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Such a bogus fabrication is evident in the Obama regime’s current announcements of an imminent global “terrorist threat”[1] in the face of multiple crises, policy failures and defeats throughout the M...
Latin America: Class Struggle and Resistance in the Age of Extractive Capitalism 6 Aug 2013 | 08:03 pm
Especially in the era of imperialist globalization, the class struggle takes on an international character, as multi-national corporations, international financial organizations and imperial states, d...
“Hay que organizar la lucha, crear conciencia y utilizar instituciones locales para crear micro-modelos” 29 Jul 2013 | 03:12 am
Intelectual comprometido con los movimientos sociales, James Petras es uno de los sociólogos más destacados del mundo. Respondiendo a la invitacion del sindicato LAB y la Fundacion Ipar Hegoa estuvo e...
Do “Peace Accords” Lead to Peace, Justice and Security for the People? (Lessons from El Salvador for the Columbian FARC) 23 Jul 2013 | 09:05 am
A number of peace agreements which were signed and implemented in the 1990’s in Central America, South Africa, Philippines and elsewhere provide us with ample data over two decades to confirm or rejec...
Wall Street Take-Off: 2012 – 2013 22 Jul 2013 | 09:04 am
Wells Fargo, the fourth largest bank, reaped $5.27 billion up 20%. Citigroup’s profits topped $4.18 billion, up 42% over the previous year. The ruling elite, the financial CEOs pay is soaring: John St...
Brazil: Extractive Capitalism and the Great Leap Backward 21 Jul 2013 | 10:07 pm
Changes in the ‘balance’ between national and foreign (imperial) capital began to take place following the military coup of 1964 and accelerated after the return of electoral politics in the mid-1980’...
Presidential Rule by Deception: Obama, the Master Con-man 23 Jun 2013 | 09:40 pm
Every US President has engaged, in one fashion or another, in ‘play acting’ to secure popular approval, neutralize hostility and distract voters from the reactionary substance of their foreign and dom...
The Deeper Meaning of Mass Spying in America 14 Jun 2013 | 05:49 pm
In the United States, despite widespread mass media coverage and the opposition of civil liberties organizations, there has not been any mass protest. Congressional leaders from both the Republican an...
Prologue To “Dos Pueblos a los que amar, un Mundo por el que luchar” 7 Jun 2013 | 09:55 pm
The exemplary internationalism described in this book (”Dos Pueblos a los que amar,un Mundo por el que luchar”) by the participants in the Salvadorian civil war follows the grand tradition of socialis...
