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James Petras
James Petras is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York. He is the author of 62 books published in 29 languages, and over 560 articles in professional journals, including the American Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology, Social Research, and Journal of Peasant Studies. He has published over 2000 articles in nonprofessional journals such as the New York Times, the Guardian, the Nation, Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy, New Left Review, Partisan Review, TempsModerne, Le Monde Diplomatique, and his commentary is widely carried on the internet. His publishers have included Random House, John Wiley, Westview, Routledge, Macmillan, Verso, Zed Books and Pluto Books. He is winner of the Career of Distinguished Service Award from the American Sociological Association's Marxist Sociology Section, the Robert Kenny Award for Best Book, 2002, and the Best Dissertation, Western Political Science Association in 1968. His most recent titles include Unmasking Globalization: Imperialism of the Twenty-First Century (2001); co-author The Dynamics of Social Change in Latin America (2000), System in Crisis (2003), co-author Social Movements and State Power (2003), co-author Empire With Imperialism (2005), co-author)Multinationals on Trial (2006).

He has a long history of commitment to social justice, working in particular with the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement for 11 years. In 1973-76 he was a member of the Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Repression in Latin America. He writes a monthly column for the Mexican newspaper, Le Jornada, and previously, for the Spanish daily, El Mundo. He received his B.A. from Boston University and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.


James Petras' extraordinary new book, The Power of Israel in the United States is highly recommended to our readers by the editorial board of Axis of Logic. Read the reviews and you'll want to order it ...

The Power of Israel in the United States
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  • James Petras. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    In each of the three decisive moments of recent history, Greece has been pulled backwards from a chance for social transformation, political independence and freedom from external tutelage by one and another of the Papandreou family. The three periods promising new vistas for the Greek popular movements include: The period... » read this article
  • James Petras. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    The principle propaganda mouthpiece of the Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (PMAJO), the Daily Alert (DA), has come out in full support for Israel’s practice of extra-judicial, extra-territorial assassination. In the face of world-wide governmental condemnation (except from the Zionist-occupied White House and US Congress), the PMAJO slavishly backs... » read this article
  • James Petras. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    On January 19 Israel’s international secret police, the Mossad, sent an eighteen member death squad to Dubai using European passports, supposedly ‘stolen’ from Israeli dual citizens and altered with fake photos and signatures, in order to assassinate the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud al Mabhouh. The evidence is overwhelming: The Dubai police... » read this article
  • James Petras. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    (edited by Axis of Logic) Historically Latin America has been of great importance to the United States on numerous counts:  the region has in the past, provided the US with a trade surplus; its outflows of licit and ill-begotten funds to US banks, numbers annually in the tens of billions;... » read this article
  • James Petras. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    "It is a biting irony that more American Zionists are more eager to join the Israeli ‘Defense’ Forces than to put on an American uniform. Yet Zionists in public office, in the Pentagon, executive branch and the White House, who design and promote war policies and military-driven sanctions, are in... » read this article
  • James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    Introduction The unimpeded growth of Euro-American capitalism following the collapse of Soviet and European communism, the conversion of China and Indochina to state capitalism, and the rise of US backed, free market military dictatorships in Latin America give new impetus to Western empire building, labeled “globalization”.  The process of globalization... » read this article
  • James Petras*. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    Introduction Throughout the world there is an upsurge of regional, ‘sub- national’ movements whose demands range from greater ‘autonomy’ to complete independence.  Many analysts have commented on the apparent paradox of increasing global integration of economies and the increasing fragmentation of nation-states.  A deeper look at the internal dynamics of... » read this article
  • James Petras. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    The current world recession and the potential recovery of some countries reveals all the weaknesses of the traditional “export market” – free trade - comparative advantage doctrines.  Nowhere is this more evident than in the recent experience of Latin America. Despite recent popular upheavals and the ascent of center-left regimes... » read this article
  • James Petras. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    "The US imperial conquest of Iraq is built on the destruction of a modern secular republic.  The cultural desert that remains (a Biblical ‘howling wilderness’ soaked in the blood of Iraq’s precious scholars) is controlled by mega-swindlers, mercenary thugs posing as ‘Iraqi officers’, tribal and ethnic cultural illiterates and medieval... » read this article
  • James Petras , Clarity Press

    GLOBAL DEPRESSION AND REGIONAL WARS BY JAMES PETRAS SYNOPSIS These extraordinary times--unprecedented in modern history--are marked by a worldwide depression and regional wars involving all the major imperial powers. This book exposes the roots of the crisis in the unsustainability of the United States' military-driven empire building based on a volatile... » read this article
  • James Petras. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    The most striking aspect of the prolonged and deepening world recession/depression is the relative and absolute passivity of the working and middle class in the face of massive job losses, big cuts in wages, health care and pension payments and mounting housing foreclosures.  Never in the history of the 20-21st... » read this article
  • James Petras. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    Presented at a plenary session of the international meeting of electrical workers in  Mexico organized by the Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (SME) July 2009 The situation of the energy sector in Latin America is determined by both internal and external correlations of political forces, the level of class organization and... » read this article
  • James Petras. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    President Obama’s greatest foreign policy successes are found in the reports of the mass media.  His greatest failures go unreported, but are of great consequence.  A survey of the major foreign policy priorities of the White House reveals a continuous series of major setbacks, which call into question the principal... » read this article
  • James Petras. Axis of Logic. , Axis of Logic

    Editor's Note: If ever there was a "must-read" on Axis of Logic, James Petras analysis and treatise on World Depression and the Decline of the US Empire is it. Petras doesn't leave a stone unturned and places the overwhelming published material out there into an easily understood perspective. He also... » read this article
  • James Petras* , Axis of Logic

    "The Israeli Defense Force is the most moral army in the World!" – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert   Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany bombed, invaded and annexed countries and territories as a prelude to their quest for World Empire. Israel’s drive for regional dominance has followed in their footsteps,... » read this article
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