Editor's Comment: We thank Siv O'Neall for translating Pierre Larrouturou's article below. It serves as an example of the theme that dominates the liberal response to the collapsing capitalist system and all that follows in its wake. The author's "solution" to "the situation of the global economy" is entirely based on praise... » read this article

This article is not my idea. A friend sent me an email that contains the gist of the point being made here; but the text is mine. -prh, Axis of Logic editor For those of you who are aware there are other countries outside the borders of your own country... » 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

RESURRECTION If I had died And come back living My life would be marked By scars you've inflicted Upon my soul and spirit. My wounds would prove The tyranny and slavery Set upon my flesh That eventually killed me off Into the land of the haunted spirits Where the Red... » read this article

Literally over night in May of 1970, President Richard M. Nixon’s ill-planned and ill-fated invasion of Cambodia revived the dwindling antiwar movement to vigorous life. Whether it was his verbal barrages of “Peace with Honor” or his “Vietnamization” euphemism that lulled pro-life protesters to sleep, when President Nixon announced he... » read this article

Wake up and smell the roses, Wake up and smell the Earth! Wake up and smell the atmosphere -- Survival here, what's it worth? China's on a scentless runaway train of concrete, more roads for more cars raising the heat. Fukushima still tottering on a brink of destruction; before building... » read this article

An inquisitive alien visits the planet to check on our progress as a species, and gets into a conversation with the first person he meets. The alien discovers that we live under the rule of a thing called "government", and wants to understand more about what "government" is, what it... » read this article

There is a widespread misunderstanding about what democracy is. According to this misunderstanding, democracy is a way for all of the citizens of a nation, rich and poor alike, to peaceably reach agreements about important and controversial social questions, with every citizen having equal status in the process, and without... » read this article

Organized by musician Neil Young and his wife, Pegi, the Bridge School Benefit Concert is an annual, all acoustic, non-profit charity event held every October at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. All proceeds directly benefit the operations of The Bridge School. The Bridge School is a non-profit organization whose... » read this article

“What a rag-bag of singular happenings! But surely the most valuable hunting-ground that ever was given to a student of the unusual!” - Sherlock Holmes Far more disconcerting than the recent closings of big chain bookstores is the wave of destruction and censorship of books and information. Ray Bradbury’s 1953... » read this article

If you really want to put an end to terrorism, you have to begin by no longer participating in it. ~ Noam Chomsky. Or more sharply: Stop killing their babies, as put by Georgia State law professor Natsu Saito Based on the book On the Justice of Roosting Chickens by... » read this article

Editor's Note: We bring this article back for those who may have missed it first time around. Axis of Logic Editor, Paul Richard Harris republished it first on December 27, 2011. - LMB In January of 2011, we were told that “spontaneous,” “indigenous” uprising had begun sweeping North Africa and... » read this article

Reinvent America and the world. -Lawrence Ferlingehtti, from Poetry As Insurgent Art  About the only inventions that the guardians of the corporate-state covet and have recently employed are high and low tech gadgets. While the high tech is mostly unleashed by the military for wars, the low tech, being used... » read this article

  Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.  - Mark Twain   There is an annual wringing of hands by many in the Christian community, especially in Canada and the United States. It seems they are perturbed by the celebration of Christmas as it is generally conducted in the... » read this article

Man walks along the railroad track Goin' some place, there's no turnin' back The Highway Patrol chopper's comin' up over the ridge Man sleeps by a campfire under the bridge The shelter line stretchin' around the corner Welcome to the New World Order Families sleepin' in their cars out in... » read this article

During the protests in Tahrir Square in November 2011, Mohamed Ali, age 20, responded to a journalist’s query as to why he was there: “We want social justice. Nothing more. That’s the least that we deserve.” The first round of the movements took multiple forms across the world—the so-called Arab... » read this article

A DEBATE between Henry Kissinger, Fareed Zakaria, Niall Ferguson, and Li Daokui: Is This the Chinese Century? A CENTURY FOR SALE, ANY TAKER? The Munk Debate in Toronto has in the past three years become a significant forum for discussing global issues of our age. The most recent one held... » read this article

One of the most penetrating essays on the commons that I have encountered in the last few years was published this year by Italian comparative law professor Ugo Mattei, who teaches at the International University College of Turin (Italy) and the University of California, Hastings College of Law.  Professor Mattei... » read this article

In every aspect of human existence, change is a constant.  Yet change that actually matters occurs only rarely.  Even then, except in retrospect, genuinely transformative change is difficult to identify.  By attributing cosmic significance to every novelty and declaring every unexpected event a revolution, self-assigned interpreters of the contemporary scene... » read this article

On September 27, several hundred people in Boston, inspired by Occupy New York, began to express their outrage at Global Corporate Empire by marching to Boston Common and declaring the onset of Occupy Boston.  Matthew Krawitz, one of Occupy Boston's main organisers, explains why locals are planning to occupy a section of the... » read this article