The Arab Revolt and the Imperialist Counterattack

Second expanded edition by James Petras - Available in the USA   Overseas

James Petras

(NEW YORK) - On December 8 2010 The Mexican Press Club 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."

When the popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia overthrew the public faces of the imperial-backed regimes in the region, it inspired supporters of popular democracy worldwide. However, as the Arab revolt spread from North Africa to the Gulf and deepened its demands, the Empire struck back. The ruling military junta in Egypt cracked down on the prodemocracy movement as its autocratic “partners in the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula drowned the civil society movements in blood.

While standing by the crumbling dictatorships elsewhere in the region, the United States, France and the United Kingdom seized the opportunity to intervene in Libya under cover of a new “responsibility to protect” doctrine authorizing humanitarian intervention. But instead, NATO took sides in the Libyan civil war, unleashing a savage bombing campaign against the very people it purported to protect, reducing the Libyan capital and surrounding cities to rubble, and opening itself to charges of war crimes.

These essays chronicle the growing militarization of US policy in North Africa and the Gulf and the historic confrontation between the Arab democratic revolts and the imperial backed satraps. Bearing witness to the ragtag rebel victory enabled by NATO in Libya and ongoing chaos throughout the region, Petras disassembles America’s collapsing Middle East policy.

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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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