Axis of Logic - The curtain is going down on the lone-superpower world we know and it is now a most urgent question if and when and how forces for true democracy, human rights, peace and civilization can come out and dissipate the cloud that has spread over what was once... » read this article
A top priority on the neoconservative agenda for America is the privatization of social services, and their education initiatives have succeeded in gutting many public schools across the nation. As a result, the US has lost the education advantage that it enjoyed in the post-World War II era. According to... » read this article
The Obama Administration has heightened tensions with China through a series of measures which can only be characterized as major provocations designed to undermine relations between the two countries. These provocations include political support for separatist movements, such as the US-funded theocratic-monk led Tibetan secessionists and the Washington-based Uyghur secessionists,... » read this article
Students, Teachers, Campus Workers on the Day of Action. , Socialist Worker
The student activism yesterday in the "Day of Action" serves as one powerful example of what Civic Revolution is about.
Yesterday, March 4, students, teachers, faculty, campus workers and community members are made their voices heard--in California and around the country. They're taking a stand against the ongoing attack on... » read this article
The list of universal truths should be expanded to include the fact of Afghanistan’s invincibility. Afghanistan has maintained its reputation as the ‘graveyard of the empires’. The question is, before the US invasion of Afghanistan, did the US Military command really think they can invade, occupy and control Afghanistan? The... » read this article
Special Report with Editorial Comment by Arturo Rosales , Venezuelan National Statistics Office
Editorial comment by Arturo Rosales: The basic information outlined below is what readers abroad will rarely see in the corporate media. From the BBC to CNN, FOX and the floundering big city newspapers. If such media ever did publish this information it would be an admission that Chávez’ economic policies... » read this article
“The earth had never trembled here, in this soft point of land that leans forward toward the sea: the city is built on spongy soil, that of the coral plain; the region had never known volcanoes nor vents, nor columns of smoke, nor geysers, nor solfataras....”
Jose Marti, from the... » read this article
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
Translated from Spanish for Axis of Logic by Arturo Rosales , Axis of Logic
Editor's Comment: The following article was translated and expanded for Axis of Logic from Aporrea, a Spanish language newspaper by Arturo Rosales, an Axis columnist. The news broke in English in a somewhat obscure periodical on March 1st, followed by a corporate media barrage around the world on March 2nd.... » read this article
Ur Union of Unemployed, nicknamed UCubed (U3), is an opening salvo in the civic revolution that is brewing in the USA.
UCubed is a community service project of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) and its partners intended to unify the unemployed in a unique and useful way.... » read this article
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“Zamora lives, the fight continues," is the motto brought to life by our people. There could not be a better occasion for the enactment of the Organic Law of the Federal Council of Government than the unveiling of the statue of the Peoples General Ezequiel Zamora in the El... » read this article
February 27, 2010
“Right and wrong are the same in Palestine as anywhere else. What is peculiar about the Palestine conflict is that the world has listened to the party that has committed the offence and has turned a deaf ear to the victims."
-Prof. Arnold Toynbee,
Foreword to the... » read this article
Arturo Rosales writes from Caracas. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic
Researchers from the University of the West of England in the UK have uncovered the systematic and persistent bias of the BBC whenever this news outlet covers or reports news on Venezuela. The researchers, Lee Salter and Dave Weltman have analyzed the news coverage on Venezuela as presented by the... » read this article
Apparently, the corporate media doesn't consider it to be newsworthy: the confession to a Colombian prosecutor of 30,000 murders by paramilitaries who are linked to the Alvaro Uribe regime. To date, Associated Press, Reuters and their contracted media outlets remain silent on this latest news. If it had taken place... » read this article
February 22, 2010, Axis of Logic -As recently as in August 2007, USAF lost track of six Advanced Cruise Missiles armed with 150-kiloton nuclear warheads for 36 hours. These missiles were loaded onto wing launch pod of a B-52 H Bomber at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, were improperly... » read this article
This is the second installment of Axis of Logic's new mission, calling for a Civic Revolution in the United States, led by Richard D. Vogel. The direction is clear. The time is now.
February 23, 2010, Axis of Logic - Most educated Americans know Henry David Thoreau through Walden, the... » read this article
Writer/Director Paul Haggis (video) , We are the world foundation.
Dear Readers,
A 15 year old young woman asked me to feature the concert introduced below, We are the World 25 for Haiti, on Axis of Logic. She has a consciousness for the people of Haiti shared by millions of people around the world. Recently, she also made another suggestion for Axis... » read this article
Federico Fuentes. Green Left Weekly. , Green Left Weekly
Decisive battles between the forces of revolution and counter-revolution loom on the horizon in Venezuela.
The campaign for the September 26 National Assembly elections will be a crucial battle between the supporters of socialist President Hugo Chavez and the US-backed right-wing opposition.
But these battles, part of the class struggle... » read this article
Zaid Hamid, BrassTacks. Courtesy of Pakistan Ka Khuda Hafiz , Pakistan Ka Khuda Hafiz (PKKH)
Editor's Comment: Most readers are now aware of the new front that President Obama has opened in Pakistan for the U.S. war in Asia. Losing the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. has picked Pakistan as what they see as a softer target in the region. That decision may be another critical... » read this article
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
Come Home, America a national network of Americans from across the political spectrum is forming on the 7th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq to oppose U.S. war and Empire.
“After 7 years of the...
Full Text of Human Rights Record of the United States in 2009
BEIJING,
March 12 (Xinhua) -- China's Information Office of the State Council
published a report titled "The Human Rights Record of the United...
WASHINGTON - The United
States has a "special responsibility" to help Iraq address a dire
humanitarian crisis that sees huge numbers of displaced Iraqis struggle
to survive, an aid group said Wednesday.
In a report...
The current $350 million ad campaign for the 2010 Census, including the much-maligned $2.5 million Super Bowl spots, urges individuals to “Tell your story.” The Census Bureau is particularly eager for minorities and illegal immigrants...
Ukraine's new governing coalition has announced that it will pass a law against joining military alliances such as Nato.
In a statement of purpose published in the parliament's official
gazette on Tuesday, the Stability and...
In a
remarkable combination of civil society pressure and leadership from a
small number of progressive States, a strong ban on the use,
manufacture, and stocking of cluster bombs will come into force on
August...
SILWAN, EAST JERUSALEM - Three thousand heavily armed Israeli security
service forces locked down large parts of the Old City of Jerusalem on
Tuesday, as battalions of police fired rounds of tear gas and
rubber-coated...
SME Members Defend Themselves and Continue to Block Their Former Workplaces
At noon on March 16, the Mexican Electrical Workers Union went on an indefinite strike, and unions all over the country went on strike...
What’s Killing the Great Forests of the American West? A Frightening Phenomenon Happening Across the Globe For many years, Diana Six, an entomologist at the University of Montana,
planned her field season for the same...
EFF has posted documents shedding light on how law enforcement
agencies use social networking sites to gather information in
investigations. The records, obtained from the Internal Revenue Service
and Department of Justice Criminal Division, are...