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

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

Editor's Commentary: We published the full length, revolutionary film documentary by John Pilger, The War You Don't See in 2010 and 2011 when it appeared on YouTube.com for a brief windows of time and before it was censored, taken off YouTube permanently. The film has always been banned in the United... » 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

This week’s Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in western democracies.  This is Assange’s final appeal against his extradition to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct that were originally dismissed by the chief prosecutor in Stockholm and constitute... » read this article

Editor's Note: Axis Reader Joseph comments on the article we re-published yesterday - The New York Times and the drive to war against Iran | Media Critiques |Axisoflogic.com - LMB How saddening... Many of us in the U.S. (the people working day to day) see ourselves slipping down this well-oiled,... » read this article

Editorial As most readers know, the drumbeat for war on Iran has been building over the last several years in both, the imperial and alternative media. Our question is: if the US/Israeli regime plans to attack, why threaten and not simply do it. The writer of the article below tries... » read this article

31 January 2012 The New York Times on Sunday published a lengthy article in its weekly magazine that sympathetically and clinically lays out the arguments of Israeli policy makers in favor of a military attack on Iran sometime this year. The article, written by Ronen Bergman, a prominent Israeli journalist... » read this article

Invited paper to be read at the “Symposium on Re-Publicness” Sponsored by the Chamber of Electrical Engineers Ankara Turkey, December 9 – 10, 2011 Introduction The relation of information technology (IT) and more specifically the internet, to politics is a central issue facing contemporary social movements. Like many previous scientific... » read this article

Editor's Comment: What is always ignored or hammered under by the corporate media is the fact that if the Iranian government wants to develop nuclear weapons it has a right to have them as an appropriate national defense against those who have nuclear arms and a history of threatening their country. This... » read this article

Editor's comment: The Axis of Logic reader who sent this BBC report to me for republication wrote, "Even the BBC cannot hide the atrocities in Libya by the 'rebels'." Reporting stories like this one - at this stage of the war - has always been the method of the government-controlled... » read this article

Alhurra (also known as al-Hurra) is a US-based satellite television network established in 2004, and which broadcasts in over 22 countries worldwide. Referring to Alhurra as a ‘news network’ constitutes the most egregious misuse of language; funded by the US Congress, Alhurra is nothing more than an Arabic-language extension of... » read this article

Editor's Comment We are grateful to Onan Musoy for providing details in his essay below on social networking as a tool for advancing the world revolution. The term "social media" refers to the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into an interactive dialogue. Its ubiquitous technology has... » read this article

Editor's Note: We received this WSJ article (in black print) via e-mail, with incisive analysis (in color) by Elias Davidsson. - Les Blough, Editor Killings Pose Legal and Moral Quandary Wall Street Journal by Evan Perez and Keith Johnson October 1, 2011 Federal investigators needed a judge's permission to wiretap Anwar... » read this article

Boston Globe publisher, Chris Mayer, announced today that the Globe was relocating its headquarters to Mars. The announcement came in response to a question by a reporter at the paper’s weekly press conference: “How come today’s Globe didn’t even mention yesterday’s large demonstration through downtown Boston by the 99% against... » read this article

The Longest War - The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al-Qaeda. Peter L. Bergen. Free Press, New York, 2011. Writing history is a matter of placing points in time as bookends or markers for significant events that have occurred around the world. Generally this is done by the winners of... » read this article

Editor's Comment: We have Martin Iqbal at Empire Strikes Back to thank for exposing this raw deception by the British Broadcasting Corporation in their attempt to reinforce the demonization of Col. Muammar Qaddafi and to justify NATO's destruction of Libya. In his report below, please note the contradictory statements within... » read this article

Editor's update: Axis of Logic reader and friend, "The Dream," found the first copy of this powerful John Pilger film documentary for publication on Axis of Logic. After only one month, the film was removed by our source, Vimeo in an act of brazen censorship (see copy of the removed... » read this article

The Western Media Examining the facts and finding the truth of what began Friday night as The Battle for Bani Walid has not been easy due to the many conflicting stories published by the pro-invader media. That the western media has organized itself to blantantly lie about the NATO war... » read this article

On 13 September, one of the world's biggest arms fairs opens in London, backed by the British government. On 8 September, the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry will hold a preview entitled "Middle East: A vast market for UK defence and security companies". The host was the Royal Bank... » read this article