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Siv O'Neall
Siv O'Neall was born and raised in Sweden where she graduated from Lund University. She has lived in Paris, France and New Rochelle, N.Y. and traveled extensively throughout the U.S, Europe, and other continents, including several trips to India. Siv retired after many years of teaching French in Westchester, N.Y. and English in the Grandes Ecoles (Institutes of Technology) in France. In addition to her own writing, Siv has also provided Axis of Logic with translation services. She has been living in France for 30 years, first in Paris and now Lyon. In addition to her political activism and writing, her life is filled with family, music, animals, reading, traveling and she also feels that 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'.

Siv O'Neall

  • NOMA – The Face of Poverty
    Siv O'Neall. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    The following article is based on a report “The tragedy of Noma1”, prepared by Mr. Jean Ziegler, Vice-President of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee. Unless otherwise noted, the quotes in this article are  excerpted from this report by Mr. Ziegler. Malnutrition and hunger are not only direct killers... » read this article
  • Jean Ziegler: Hatred of the West – interview with BASTA!
    Translated by Siv O'Neall , Axis of Logic

    This interview by Agnès Rousseaux and Alexandro Rosinhawas was published by the French information web site BASTA! [2] on January 27, 2009. It is based on Jean Ziegler’s latest book “Hatred of the West” (La Haine de l’Occident - Albin Michel, October, 2008) Jean Ziegler [1], one of the leading... » read this article
  • The Different Face of the Third World War
    Siv O'Neall, Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    Make no mistake. The third World War is right here. Now. It has been here for longer than you would believe. The world is at war. Unrelenting, genocidal war. Another war that is a racket, but with a different face and a different racket. A war that kills millions, as... » read this article
  • Capitalism Is Dying a Natural Death
    Siv O'Neall. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    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
  • The Mafia Is Running the Giant World Casino
    Siv O'Neall, Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    A breathtakingly powerful Mafia is running away with the world as we knew it. We now have indiscriminate killings, torture and deprivation of civil rights. We have unbound aggression on countries that present an obstacle to U.S. global power. We have colossal negligence of the environment, we have an impending... » read this article
  • What We Can’t Conquer, We Buy
    Siv O'Neall, Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    Lunacy is ruling the world. Eternal wars, environmental damage, neglect of the common people, are all proof of the total lack of common sense. The ever-increasing movement towards inequality and the gradual strangling of democracy are signs that people matter no more. Culture has been replaced by the accumulation of... » read this article
  • Monsanto – Public Enemy No. 1
    Siv O'Neall. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    The War of the Empire has many faces   The ‘war on terror’ has become nameless since our administration changed. But it is the same war, it has the same goals and it is as unwinnable as it always was. But certainly there are other ways of conquering the planet,... » read this article
  • Money is God, Greed is King and Corruption Runs the Game
    Siv O'Neall. Axis of Logic. , Axis of Logic

    Never has the world been subjected to as pure and destructive lunacy as at this time in history. Never have the anti-civilization voices been heard as stridently as in the so-called debate that is going on today. The insane and desperate noise of the single-party political scene in the  United... » read this article
  • The Multiple Faces of War
    Siv O'Neall in France. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    Wars have always been fought for the profit of the very few and brought about anguish and suffering for the very many. They have always been caused by the rapaciousness of the leaders. The people have always been the ones who had to bear the grim consequences of the selfish... » read this article
  • Will Democracy For Ever Remain an Illusion?
    Siv O'Neall. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    The country that was The United States is sinking deeper and deeper into the poisoned slough of their own making. Moral turpitude goes hand-in-hand with naiveté and arrogance. And nothing seems to have changed if it's not that there is now a president with acute intellectual abilities rather than an... » read this article
  • Is it the Dawn We Are Seeing on the Horizon? (Revised)
    Siv O'Neall. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    The inward-looking United States 'patriots' Patriotism, the military and the economy have morphed into the present-day trinity of a religious faith that has taken over the United States and steeped its citizens in the deep belief of the unconditional superiority of their country. Mammon is God, Greed is the Son... » read this article
  • Religion and money, the way to complete power – or not?
    Siv O'Neall , Axis of Logic exclusive

    Religion and money have always been the sacred pillars of American civilization, ever since the time when it was a British colony, ever since the Puritans in New England branded the philosophy of the new country as a god-fearing and materialistic new world. Thus it was and thus it still... » read this article
  • The Big Con Game
    Siv O'Neall. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic exclusive

    Milton Friedman's Chicago school [1] of deranged predators who wanted, and nearly managed as well, to completely distort the economic system on a global scale was born out of a creed that everything could be gained by a tiny minority.  There has been a total lack of concern for everything... » read this article
  • Articles by Siv O'Neall - 2008
    Siv O'Neall ,

    World View Jean Ziegler: "This World Order is not just murderous, it is absurd" Nov 23, 2008   World View Yes, I am my brother's keeper Nov 12, 2008   Global Empire The Slow Death of Democracy and the Rise of the Corporate Hydra Aug 28, 2008   Science/Nature Time... » read this article
  • Articles by Siv O'Neall - 2007
    Siv O'Neall ,

    Global Empire The Rule of the Vultures Dec 26, 2007   World Venezuela and Russia Voting on December 2 Worlds Apart Dec 21, 2007   Global Empire  Barbarism on the Rise Civilization on the Wane Nov 26, 2007     Global Empire The Cracks in the Faade are Widening Sep... » read this article
  • Series on India
    Siv O'Neall , Axis of Logic

    Asia The Multiple Faces of India Apr 3, 2008 Asia India - country of stark contrasts, fascinating people and holy cows March 27, 2006 Asia Impressions of Northern India - land of vivid colors, religion and cities bustling with life April 6, 2006... » read this article
  • Articles by Siv O'Neall - 2006
    Siv O'Neall , Axis of Logic

    Critical Analysis The Tower of Wealth Without a Foundation Dec 26, 2006   Critical Analysis The End of an Era Oct 5, 2006   Cuba Fidel Castro a liberator or a tyrant?   Aug 16, 2006   Global Empire The Hypocrisy of Corporate Wars Aug 6, 2006   Global Empire... » read this article
  • Articles by Siv O'Neall - 2005
    Editorial Board , Axis of Logic

    Critical Analysis The Day the People�s March Began - A Saga Nov 22, 2005 Global Empire French Riots and Neoliberalism Nov 11, 2005 Global Empire The Predators who rule the world Oct 28, 2005 Action & Conferences STOP WTO: International demonstration in Geneva on 15 October Oct 17, 2005 Global... » read this article
  • Empire of Shame. A Conversation with Jean Ziegler
    Jean Ziegler. Translated for The Crisis Papers from the French by Siv O'Neall. , The Crisis Papers

    March 27, 2005 Translated for The Crisis Papers from the French by Siv O'Neall. Jean Ziegler, rapporteur at the UN (60.000 civil servants) on questions of food resources has just published a book translated in 14 languages: Empire of Shame  (Editions Fayard). In this 11 MB video  [in French] ...  which... » read this article
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      ZEFAM stands for Zielona Gora Furniture Factory. Workers there had not received salaries for months. Some had not been paid for four months and nobody was receiving overtime payments. On August 19, the workers...
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  • Economic fault lines deepen in Europe
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