James Petras
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Past articles by James:
United States And Venezuela: A Historical Background – OpEd
“Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world and they own it and we want it” — (Anonymous Trump official) Introduction US hostility and efforts to overthrow the Venezuelan government … → Read More
Why Venezuela Has Not Been Defeated – OpEd
Over the past half decade, a small army of US analysts, politicians, academics and media pundits have been predicting the imminent fall, overthrow, defeat and replacement of the Venezuelan governme… → Read More
Why Venezuela Has Not Been Defeated – OpEd
Over the past half decade, a small army of US analysts, politicians, academics and media pundits have been predicting the imminent fall, overthrow, defeat and replacement of the Venezuelan governme… → Read More
President Trump And The Democratic Congress: The Score Sheet – OpEd
Going into the third year of President Trump’s presidency, it is necessary to draw a balance sheet on who is winning and/or losing. We will proceed by first analyzing domestic outcomes and then tur… → Read More
The Recolonization Of Latin America And The War On Venezuela – OpEd
Not since the US pronounced the Monroe Doctrine proclaiming its imperial supremacy over Latin America, nearly 200 years ago, has a White House regime so openly affirmed its mission to recolonize La… → Read More
The Recolonization Of Latin America And The War On Venezuela – OpEd
Not since the US pronounced the Monroe Doctrine proclaiming its imperial supremacy over Latin America, nearly 200 years ago, has a White House regime so openly affirmed its mission to recolonize La… → Read More
President Trump’s Losing Strategy: Embracing Brazil And Confronting China – OpEd
The US embraces a regime doomed to failure and threatens the world’s most dynamic economy. President Trump has lauded Brazil’s newly elected President Jair Bolsonaro and promises to promote close e… → Read More
The New Year Past And Future – OpEd
They year 2018 ended with bitter partisan conflicts over narrow issues. Over seventy percent of the federal budget was approved by both parties and another twenty-nine percent was delayed because o… → Read More
A World Of Multiple Detonators Of Global Wars – OpEd
We face a world of multiple wars some leading to direct global power conflagrations and others that begin as regional conflicts but quickly spread to big power confrontations. We will proceed to id… → Read More
US Mass Mobilizations: Wars And Financial Plunder – OpEd
Over the past three decades, the US government has engaged in over a dozen wars, none of which have evoked popular celebrations either before, during or after. Nor did the government succeed in sec… → Read More
US War Strategists: Military Defeats And Political Success – OpEd
In a previous article (‘US: The Century of Lost Wars’) I recorded the repeated US military defeats over the past two decades. In this discussion I will describe the role of military str… → Read More
The US: The Century Of Lost Wars – OpEd
Despite having the bigest military budget in the world, five times larger than the next six countries, the largest number of military bases-over 180- in the world and the most expensive military in… → Read More
Latin America: Rightwing Interlude And The Death Rattle Of Neoliberalism – OpEd
Business writers, neo-liberal economists and politicians in North America and the EU heralded Latin America’s embrace of a ‘new wave of free markets and free elections’. Beginning in 2015 they pred… → Read More
Imperialism And Its Accomplices: The Question Of Dictatorship And Democracy At Home And Abroad – Oped
One of the most striking world historic advances of western imperialism (in the US and the European Union) is the demise, disappearance and dissolution of large scale long-term anti-imperialist and… → Read More
Imperialists’ Fear And Loathing Of Being Colonized – OpEd
For decades and longer, the United States and Europe lectured and encouraged countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia to welcome and accept foreign investment as the virtuous path to modernizati… → Read More
Trump Marches Onward And Downward – OpEd
Journalists, academics, pundits and experts have ignored the complexity of President Trump’s impact on the state of the US Empire. To properly assess the geopolitical configuration of power, we wil… → Read More
Appeasement As Global Policy – OpEd
The world is riven with class conflicts in Latin America, political conflicts between the Anglo-Americans and Russians, and economic conflicts between Washington against Europe and Asia. The confli… → Read More
De-Briefing Academics: Unpaid Intelligence Informants – OpEd
Over the past half-century, I have been engaged in research, lectured and worked with social movements and leftist governments in Latin America. I interviewed US officials and think tanks in Washin… → Read More
Latin America In The Time Of Trump – OpEd
Introduction President Trump cancelled his attendance at the Summit of the Americas meeting of all the 35 presidents of the region designed to debate and formulate a common policy. Trump delegated … → Read More
Imperial Road To Conquest: Peace And Disarmament Agreements – OpEd
In recent years US imperial strategy has sought to lessen the cost of defeating and overthrowing independent countries. The means and method are fairly straight forward. World-wide propaganda campa… → Read More