{"id":105665,"date":"2018-01-29T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=105665"},"modified":"2018-01-28T14:21:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T14:21:34","slug":"blackouts-and-flashpoints-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/01\/blackouts-and-flashpoints-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackouts and Flashpoints in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>26 Jan 2018 &#8211; <em>The prophets and forecasters for the coming year have already set out their global vision ranging from rising economies to catastrophic global wars.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I want to argue from a different perspective, focusing on the increasing subdivision of markets, the deepening autonomy of political action from economic development, the greater threat of military interventions and increasing political accommodation.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/petras.lahaine.org\/b2-img\/PetrasBlackoutsFlashpoints.pdf\" >Read essay [PDF]<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/james-petras-e1497793376538.gif\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-80568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/james-petras-e1497793376538.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><em>James Petras is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York. He is the author of more than 62 books published in 29 languages, and over 600 articles in professional journals. 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, <\/em><em>La Jornada<\/em><em>, and previously, for the Spanish daily, <\/em><em>El Mundo<\/em><em>. He received his B.A. from Boston University and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/petras.lahaine.org\/blackouts-and-flashpoints-in-2018\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 petras.lahaine.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>26 Jan 2018 &#8211; The prophets and forecasters for the coming year have already set out their global vision ranging from rising economies to catastrophic global wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":80568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-focus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}