Editor's Note: Last night I received a phone text mail message from a friend citing news that Bank of America Merrill Lynch recognized in an investment report that President Chavez will be re-elected and even if he cannot stand for re-election for health reasons, his substitute will win anyway. - LMB ... » read this article

Editor's Comment: Please note that The Red River Integrated Border Enforcement Team (IBET) is being billed as a "binational partnership" to “enhance border integrity and security along the shared Canada/U.S. border." In reality, this move takes the next step in building a new police state in both countries. It also... » read this article

When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die. Let the seas be emptied of life. Let one useless war after another be waged. Let the masses... » read this article

On the 15th of May of every year, Palestinians and the whole world remember how it all started. How the Israelis' ethnic cleansing of a people and the destruction of a society - the Nakba - was met with global indifference. Many factors made it so, but among them was... » read this article

Editorial Comment: As a member of a self-regulating legal society, I can empathize entirely with Dr Levitt's concerns about bad actors in the medical system. While he is in the United States and I'm in Canada, he'll no doubt not be surprised to hear that medical outcomes here are similar... » read this article

U.S. District Court Judge Robert Wilkins heard the arguments on Friday in Washington, D.C., and is deliberating now on the question of whether young people can sue to compel their government to take serious measures to stop global warming.  Judge Robert Wilkins is familiar with discrimination, having been the plaintiff... » read this article

Here’s what happens when corporations begin to control education. "When I approached professors to discuss research projects addressing organic agriculture in farmer's markets, the first one told me that 'no one cares about people selling food in parking lots on the other side of the train tracks,’” said a PhD... » read this article

Canada’s largest banks received $114 billion in liquidity support from the government of Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the United States Federal Reserve between 2008 and 2010, reveals a recent report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), a think tank with institutional backing from the trade unions.... » read this article

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12 May 2012 Senior officers at a top US war college have been instructed to prepare for “total war” against Muslims, including “taking war to a civilian population wherever necessary … the historical precedents of Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki being applicable,” according to leaked documents from course curriculum. The... » read this article

Editor's Comment: Hillary Clinton's "confession" that the U.S. created Al Queda was anything but spontaneous and honest. In this videotaped announcement, she attempted to justify the decision to fund, train and employ Al Queda to defeat the Soviets in Afghanistan. In the same argument she tried to justify US aggression... » read this article

12 May 2012 “Our policy is to try to accelerate the arrival of that tipping point” at which the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad is toppled, Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman explained last March to the US Senate’s foreign relations committee. Thursday saw the latest incarnation of this policy.... » read this article

The shock results in Italy’s local elections have been variously dismissed by all major political parties – which is understandable, since the results for all of them ranged from bad to terrible. The main leftist Democratic Party (PD) more or less held, albeit wobbling amidst a crisis of legitimacy which... » read this article

Know the truth about what is happening in Syria.... » read this article

CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................ 2 INTRODUCTION ................................................................. 3 Methodology .................................................................... 4 What is a forest?............................................................... 4 Who are indigenous peoples? ............................................... 5 Who are forest peoples? ..................................................... 7 TABLE A: Forest peoples¡¦ numbers by region ......................... 8 Forest peoples¡¦ numbers by type of dependence .................... 8 TABLE B(1) ....................................................................... 8... » read this article

The Social Security program…represents our commitment as a society to the belief that workers should not live in dread that a disability, death, or old age could leave them or their families destitute.   – President Jimmy Carter, December 20, 1977. [This law] assures the elderly that America will always... » read this article

SYRIAN responds to “Friends of Syria”: Not Friends of the Syrian People, a featured article on Axis of Logic by Ghali Hassan, Columnist.. SYRIAN: I would to thank you mr. obama and mr. sarkuzy and also mm. clinton for the huge gift for the syrians, morning of 9 mai tens of... » read this article

Editor's Note: Gay Marriage has been one of the corporate media tools used to divide (and control) the US population for a couple of decades. Others include fear of a "terrorist attack", immigration of Mexican workers, violent crime, "socialism" and moreso in the past there have been abortion v. anti-abortion,... » read this article

No wonder those Quebec student protestors have been spooking the English Canadian establishment. If they get their way, the same ideas could catch on here, leaving the best-laid plans for austerity in tatters. What seems to particularly gall some English Canadian commentators is the fact that the Quebec students —... » read this article

7 May 2012 Friday’s US jobless report, the most dismal so far this year, demonstrates the complete failure of the capitalist system to provide jobs for the unemployed. Nearly five years after the official beginning of the recession, and nearly four years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered a... » read this article