Millions of U.S. citizens continue to face discrimination at the hands of police and other law enforcement agencies just because they are not white, although the country's new leader in the White House is himself of African descent on his father's side. "Racial profiling remains a widespread and pervasive problem... » read this article

Move Would Bypass Congress The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close Guantanamo, is drafting an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate suspected terrorists indefinitely, according to three senior government officials with knowledge of White House deliberations. Such an order would... » read this article

Bail Out People Movement: Solidarity Center 55 West 17th St. Suite #5C, New York, NY, 10011 212-633-6646 PRESS CONFERENCE FRIDAY, JUNE 26TH 1 p.m. At the Church Center for the United Nations Boss Room, 8th Floor 777 United nations Plaza New York, NY 10017 (Directly Across the Street from the U.N.)... » read this article

EXPERT RESPONDS TO ABC PRIMETIME SHOW ON TEEN PREGNANCY: “WE MUST GET TO TEEN PARENTS BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE” (Portland, Ore.)—Jeannette Pai-Espinosa, President of The National Crittenton Foundation, thinks that the nation has overlooked the issue of teen parents at the worst possible time. Behind the conversations about abstinence, comprehensive... » read this article

The latest US State Department report on trafficked persons, released on 16 June, says Israel is still a destination for men and women trafficked for forced labour and sexual exploitation. Women from the former Soviet Union and China are still being trafficked across the border with Egypt into Israel for... » read this article

You have to hand it to Pentagon securocrats and their corporate cronies, they never miss an opportunity to demonize, vilify  or otherwise slander domestic political dissent as "terrorism." The American Civil Liberties Union reported June 10 that "Anti-terrorism training materials currently being used by the  Department of Defense (DoD) teach... » read this article

Though small in number, the indigenous people of Diego Garcia and the Chagossian Islands in the Indian Ocean have endured a suffering both relentless and intense. In the early 1970s, they were brutally deracinated and dumped in Mauritius and Seychelles to make way for a U.S. military base. Anthropologist David... » read this article

VIDEO: Border Police upload footage of their abuse of Palestinians to YouTube     Border Policemen have filmed themselves abusing and humiliating Palestinians in videos they have posted on YouTube over the past year. In one clip uploaded to the video sharing website an Arab youth is shown in arid terrain,... » read this article

Editor's Note: Axis of Logic correspondent, Betty Molchany sends us this Israeli report (Haaretz), exposing the parasitical dependency Israeli farmers, merchants and brokers have on their oppressed Palestinian host. Betty introduces the article with the following comment. - LMB   Israel does not permit shoes or clothing into Gaza, and I doubt it... » read this article

GOODBYE MOTO! GOODBYE APARTHEID! Summer in the Streets for Justice IN PALESTINE Don’t Miss: The NYCBI Summer Campaign’s First Street Action Saturday, June 27 1:00-3:00 pm Greeley Square Park, Manhattan (6th Ave & 32nd Street (1,2,3, A,B,C,D, to 34th St)   Participate in street theater, sing fun lyrics with us,... » read this article

Editor's Note: Jeanne Theoharis' tightly-written article is rich in detail on current policy and practice against Muslims by the U.S. Dept. of Justice. Her report deserves a careful reading. It cuts through the fat, empty rhetoric of the Obama regime like a razor. It cites fact upon fact, silencing all relativistic discussion and shuts up... » read this article

The News: Carter says Gaza Palestinians treated like animals Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are being "treated more like animals than human beings", former U.S. president Jimmy Carter said on Tuesday. On a visit to the enclave, he condemned Israel's January bombardment of Gaza and its continuing trade blockade, which... » read this article

Around the world, scarcity of potable water is becoming a portentous matter. Admonishing phrases like “water is the next oil,” and “wells are running dry” have percolated their way into the collective lexicon of global issues. Rivers and streams are vanishing, and the desiccation and depletion of entire watersheds and... » read this article

In early June, Peruvian President Alan García, an ally of US President Barack Obama, ordered armored personnel carriers, helicopter gun-ships and hundreds of heavily armed troops to assault and disperse a peaceful, legal protest organized by members of Peru’s Amazonian indigenous communities protesting the entry of foreign multinational mining companies... » read this article

A landmark human rights lawsuit accusing Royal Dutch Shell of complicity in the  execution of author and human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa some 14 years ago, will  be settled for $15.5 million just days before its trial was set to begin. The company called its payment a “humanitarian gesture” in... » read this article

Think you know Chevron? Think again. Chevron's 2008 annual report is a glossy celebration of the company's most profitable year in its history. What Chevron's annual report does not tell its shareholders is the true cost paid for those financial returns, or the global movement gaining voice and strength against... » read this article

June 8, 2009 For several weeks, from the highest levels of the government of [Oaxaca governor] Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, a state-wide campaign of defamation, harassment and persecution has been orchestrated and unleashed against the Committee in Defense of the Rights of the People (CODEP-APPO), a campaign that brings as one... » read this article

It doesn’t matter to “our” supposed representatives in D.C. that a majority of Americans prefer a single payer, all-inclusive health care system, especially once they understand how it works and how it would be better (truly universal, more efficient and more effective) than our current dysfunctional profit care system. It... » read this article

Dear Axis of Logic Reader, It is said that the ultimate heroic act is one of saving the life of another human being. There have been many celebrated stories of someone rushing into a burning building or diving into the water to save the life of another. Each of us... » read this article

Editor's Note: Important written updates on the Wiwa v. Shell trial follow this video. - LMB Update, June 3, 2009: The court hearing scheduled for today, June 3, 2009, has been canceled by Chief Judge Kimba Wood. The court order can be found on the Attend the Trial page of... » read this article