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| THE ARAB REVOLT AND THE IMPERIALIST COUNTERATTACK James Petras On December 8 2010 The Club of Mexican Journalists awarded James
Petras its prestigious International Journalism Prize for Investigation and
Analysis of the News within the global context.
"Dr. James Petras is one of the greatest personalities of critical intellect of our time. His
numerous books, which have been translated into many languages, and his opinion articles
which are invariably defined by their rigor and decisive data, widely documented and
placed within their social context, have turned this thinker into one of the most lucid and
coherent minds of recent times. Naturally, this has earned Dr. Petras the resentment of
those who feel affected by his tireless efforts. Nevertheless, countless readers all over the
world seek the words of this thinker to defend themselves from propaganda that intends to
make us sympathize with the single-minded thinking of neoliberalism." |
| FROM THE PREFACE The popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia have overthrown the public face of
the imperial-backed dictatorships in the region, and inspired supporters of
popular democracy worldwide.
As the Arab revolt spreads from North Africa to the Gulf and deepens its
demands to include socio-economic as well as political demands, the
Empire is striking back. The ruling military junta in Egypt has cracked down
on the prodemocracy movement and looks to its autocratic “partners” in the
Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula to drown the civil society movements in a
blood bath.
While standing by the crumbling dictatorships elsewhere in the region, the
United States, France and the United Kingdom raced to intervene when it
seemed the revolt had spread to Libya. NATO was deployed, using the UN’s
new “responsibility to protect” doctrine authorizing humanitarian intervention.
Already NATO intervention has exceeded the UN mandate by bombing the
Libyan capital and inflicting civilian casualties. Meanwhile, western
governments openly pursue regime change in Libya while seeking to forestall
it elsewhere.
These essays chronicle the growing militarization of US policy in North Africa
and the Gulf and the historic confrontation between the Arab democratic
revolution and the imperial backed satraps; between Libyans fighting for their
independence and the Euro-American naval and air forces ravaging the
country on behalf of their inept local clients.
ISBN: 978-1-4611-1760-5 $10.00 78 pp. 2011
CLEAR DAY BOOKS
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http://www.claritypress.com | AUTHOR
James Petras is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at
Binghamton University, New York. He is the author of 64 books
published in 29 languages, and over 560 articles in professional
journals, including the American Sociological Review, British Journal
of Sociology, Social Research, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 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, Temps Moderne, Le Monde Diplomatique,
and his commentary is widely carried on the internet. His most recent titles are The Power of
Israel in the United States and Rulers and Ruled in the United States,
(acquired for Japanese, German, Italian, Indonesian, Czech and
Arabic editions), Zionism, Militarism and the Decline of US Power,
Global Depression & Regional Wars, and War Crimes in Gaza and
the Zionist Fifth Column in America. 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. |
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