The Age of Imperial Wars
James Petras Introduction 2015 has become a year of living dangerously. Wars are spreading across the globe. Wars are escalating as new countries are bombed and the old are ravaged with ever greater intensity. Countries, where relatively peaceful… more »
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Imperialism and the Politics of Torture
James Petras Introduction The US Senate Report documenting CIA torture of alleged terrorist suspects raises a number of fundamental questions about the nature and operations of the State, the relationship and the responsibility of the Executive Branch… more »
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The Changing Contours of US Imperial Intervention in World Conflicts
James Petras Introduction Following the Vietnam War, US imperial intervention passed through several phases: In the immediate aftermath, the US government faced a humiliating military defeat at the hands of the Vietnamese liberation forces and was under… more »
“Legal Imperialism” and International Law: Legal Foundations for War Crimes, Debt Collection and Colonization
James Petras Introduction By now we are familiar with imperial states using their military power to attack, destroy and occupy independent countries. Boatloads of important studies have documented how imperial countries have seized and pillaged the… more »
Imperialism and Democracy: White House or Liberty Square?
James Petras Introduction: The relation between imperialism and democracy has been debated and discussed over 2500 years, from fifth century Athens to Liberty Park in Manhattan. Contemporary critics of imperialism (and capitalism) claim to find a… more »
Organized Political Terrorism: The Norwegian Massacre, the State , the Media and Israel
James Petras “So let us fight together with Israel, with our Zionist brothers against all anti-Zionist,s against all cultural Marxists/Multiculturalists”. Anders Behring Breivik’s Manifesto “. . . two more cells exist in my organization”. . . Ander… more »
Multi-Billion-Dollar Terrorists and the Disappearing Middle Class
James Petras The US government (White House and Congress) spends $10 billion dollars a month, or $120 billion a year, to fight an estimated “50 -75 ‘Al Qaeda types’ in Afghanistan”, according to the CIA and quoted in the Financial Times of London (6/25… more »
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