GLOBAL DEPRESSION AND REGIONAL WARS James Petras ISBN: 0-932863-68-X ISBN13: 978-0-932863-68-3 $16.95 / 234 pp. / 2009 see below for SYNOPSIS CONTENTS AUTHOR |
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The UK Daily Telegraph listed Jim Petras as #59 most influential liberal in the United States, ahead of Noam Chomsky and Stephen Colbert. |
disastrous effects of neoliberalism on Latin America, the forces which constrain it, and how the people and governments of that region are fighting back. |
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." |