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

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

Editor's Comment: The following report is the 4th and final report in the series, "Libya One Year After" by Axis of Logic Columnist, T.J. Coles. We thank him for establishing a fully documented and accurate history of NATO's destruction of Libya 2011. Read Parts I, II and III of this... » read this article

Introduction: The leading agro-mineral exporting countries, including those engaged with the world’s leading mining and energy multi-national corporations(MNC) are also those characterized as having the most independent and progressive foreign policies. Apparently the primacy of “extractive capitalism” and commodity-export based economies are no longer correlated with ‘neo-colonial’ regimes. It can... » read this article

Dawn revealed an extraordinary sight in the Libyan coastal city of Sirte on the morning of 20 October 2011 – “extraordinary” that is if you disregard the fact that nothing could have been ordinary in a once beautiful city that now lay in ruins after weeks of continuous bombing and... » read this article

Editor's Introduction Why you should read David North's "In Defense of Leon Trotsky" North's treatise goes much farther than combatting the lies that continue today about the person of Trotsky himself, although that in itself would be a worthy project. His extraordinary defense describes the methods used by the bourgeois... » read this article

Editor's Introduction: We offered the following introduction to T. J. Coles second installment in this series, Libya: One Year On, Recording NATO's War Crimes, Part II and it applies just as well to his entire 4 Part Series on NATO's destruction of Sovereign Libya: "It is utterly important that the details of the... » read this article

23 April 2012 In a cynical and duplicitous editorial Saturday, the New York Times stepped up its campaign for US political subversion and military action against Syria, while demanding Washington adopt a more aggressive posture against Russia and China. The editorial, headlined “Assad’s Lies,” is itself a compendium of lies,... » read this article

Most Presidents preside over one or more capitalist downturns (recessions, depressions, crises, etc.).  Every President since at least FDR generated a "program" to respond to the downturn -- as demanded by citizens and businesses.  FDR and every later President promised that his program would "not only extricate the US from... » read this article

Behind the razor wire-topped fences of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba, the proceedings of the so-called “war court” have fully resumed under the new management of the Obama administration. Pretrial hearings are being held in two major cases that are to be heard under the direction of a... » read this article

Reporter: “What do you think of Western civilization, Mr. Gandhi?” Mohandas Gandhi: “I think it would be a good idea.”   The quote is probably apocryphal, but if the Mahatma didn’t say it, he should have.   Now we have something close to a global civilization: most of the world’s... » read this article

Editor's Note: With these new revelations it looks like there was much more to these murders of children than a "Lone Wolf Muslim" who hates Jewish people and went off to kill their children. The author places this attack in the context of an alleged killer working for French intelligence... » read this article

The U.S. dollarhas probably been the closest thing to a true global currency that the world has ever seen. For decades, the use of the U.S. dollar has been absolutely dominant in international trade. This has had tremendous benefits for the U.S. financial system and for U.S. consumers, and it... » read this article

In the Reuter's article included below, the corporate media boasts that the Barack Obama campaign raised 45 million US dollars in one month for his re-election in 2012. $45 million in one month spent to re-elect a president who for the last 3 years has served as front man for... » read this article

Introduction: A Week of National Humiliation From March 4th to March 9th, 2012, 13,000 militant Israel Firsters, took over “political Washington”1 and imposed a foreign regime’s (Israel) political agenda to the rousing applause and appreciation of their captive vassal US legislators and executives who crowded the halls and platforms groveling... » read this article

While most Australians rightly believe that Australia is a multicultural nation, in reality multiculturalism is encouraging divisions, discrimination and racism. Australia needs an inclusive multicultural policy to dismantle “white” dominance and unite Australians. Since the early 1970s, Australia has embraced multiculturalism and prides itself of being a multicultural nation. After... » read this article

Legislative initiatives, administrative interpretations, and judicial decisions are wearing away the image of a democratic republic in the United States. Observers peer through the thinning veneer to fathom the form of governance which lies beneath. More and more often, the structure being revealed is accurately labeled as an oligarchy or... » read this article

István Mészáros is professor emeritus at the University of Sussex, where he held the Chair of Philosophy for fifteen years. His book, Marx’s Theory of Alienation, was awarded the Isaac Deutscher Prize in 1970. He is also author of Beyond Capital, Socialism or Barbarism, The Structural Crisis of Capital, The... » read this article

War by media, says current military doctrine, is as important as the battlefield. This is because the real enemy is the public at home, whose manipulation and deception are essential for starting an unpopular colonial war. Like the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, attacks on Iran and Syria require a... » read this article

Editor's Comment: Many have observed the systematic "China-bashing" ramped up in the US/Euro imperialist media over the past decade. Likewise, many have questions about the bourgeoning Chinese economy, China as the next superpower and questions about their military prowess or vulnerability. In other words, China has been enigmatic in the... » read this article