Editor's Note: We appreciate the ongoing debate between author Dave Stratman and Axis of Logic Reader, Remy Waller in the Reader Comment section of Stratman's critique of the film documentary, "Inside Job". They continue their earlier exchange with this discussion on corporate bailouts and tax breaks. Waller leads with an... » read this article

Charles Ferguson’s new documentary about the current financial crisis, Inside Job, has gotten rave reviews from TIME, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe among others. The Globe’s reviewer virtually guaranteed the film would lead to riots in the streets. As you can imagine, my expectations were high for this... » read this article

Could there be a clearer demonstration than the Gulf oil disaster that the corporations will do anything for a buck, no matter the consequences? Could there be a clearer demonstration of the gap between the money-grubbing, selfish values of the corporations and the values of ordinary Americans? We can't go... » read this article

Israel is the “third rail” of American politics which public figures dare not touch except to praise it. Helen Thomas, the fearless and respected dean of White House correspondents, last week grasped the third rail with both hands. As one person put it, "Helen Thomas would have gotten in less... » read this article

Editor's Note: Our republication of Dave Stratman's excellent analysis of the chief aims of the ruling elite in Europe is by no means an endorsement of the history and use of the term "Social Democracy". According to David Robertson in A dictionary of modern politics, Social Democracy supports gradualism, in... » read this article

July 23, 2004   It used to be said during the Cold War that, "If the Communist threat did not exist, the US would have to invent it." The threat of nuclear war and the notion of a Communist (or capitalist) under every bed provided American and Soviet ruling elites... » read this article

Many people who oppose the war in Iraq are living under a dangerous illusion: that the war is the work of a cabal of fundamentalist Christians and Jewish neo-conservatives who have hijacked the government for their own purposes�that the war, in other words, represents not the policies of the core... » read this article

AN OPEN LETTER TO RALPH NADER March 27, 2004 Dear Ralph: Before you declared your candidacy, many people, including The Nation magazine and other former supporters, called on you not to run for President in 2004, fearing that your candidacy would lead to George Bush's re-election. I am writing now... » read this article

What Should We Do about the Elections? "Anybody But Bush?" Ralph Nader? Mass Refusal to Vote? Many people oppose the war in Iraq. Yet John Kerry, the likely Democratic nominee, does not offer a clear alternative. Kerry voted for the war and the PATRIOT Act, and he is calling for... » read this article