Editor's Comment: Please note that The Red River Integrated Border Enforcement Team (IBET) is being billed as a "binational partnership" to “enhance border integrity and security along the shared Canada/U.S. border." In reality, this move takes the next step in building a new police state in both countries. It also... » read this article

When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die. Let the seas be emptied of life. Let one useless war after another be waged. Let the masses... » read this article

U.S. District Court Judge Robert Wilkins heard the arguments on Friday in Washington, D.C., and is deliberating now on the question of whether young people can sue to compel their government to take serious measures to stop global warming.  Judge Robert Wilkins is familiar with discrimination, having been the plaintiff... » read this article

12 May 2012 Senior officers at a top US war college have been instructed to prepare for “total war” against Muslims, including “taking war to a civilian population wherever necessary … the historical precedents of Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki being applicable,” according to leaked documents from course curriculum. The... » read this article

Editor's Comment: Hillary Clinton's "confession" that the U.S. created Al Queda was anything but spontaneous and honest. In this videotaped announcement, she attempted to justify the decision to fund, train and employ Al Queda to defeat the Soviets in Afghanistan. In the same argument she tried to justify US aggression... » read this article

12 May 2012 “Our policy is to try to accelerate the arrival of that tipping point” at which the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad is toppled, Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman explained last March to the US Senate’s foreign relations committee. Thursday saw the latest incarnation of this policy.... » read this article

Know the truth about what is happening in Syria.... » read this article

The Social Security program…represents our commitment as a society to the belief that workers should not live in dread that a disability, death, or old age could leave them or their families destitute.   – President Jimmy Carter, December 20, 1977. [This law] assures the elderly that America will always... » read this article

SYRIAN responds to “Friends of Syria”: Not Friends of the Syrian People, a featured article on Axis of Logic by Ghali Hassan, Columnist.. SYRIAN: I would to thank you mr. obama and mr. sarkuzy and also mm. clinton for the huge gift for the syrians, morning of 9 mai tens of... » read this article

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

Since the 2010 elections, when Republicans took control of many states, there has been an explosion of legislation advancing privatization of public schools and stripping teachers of job protections and collective bargaining rights. Even some Democratic governors, seeing the strong rightward drift of our politics, have jumped on the right-wing... » read this article

"A few months ago I told the American people that I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that is true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not." — President Ronald Reagan, 1987 1 On April 23, speaking at... » read this article

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT ??? “Take away the videogame technology of killing - America's contribution to modernity - and the behaviour is traditional. Immersed in comic-book righteousness, poorly or brutally trained, frequently racist, obese and led by a corrupt officer class, American forces transfer the homicide... » read this article

Editor's Note: "Lori High Priestess" suggested this video created by "The Dream" in her Reader's Comment to an article we published, "Lies Killed The Colonel." Both, LHP and The Dream are both long-time correspondents with Axis of Logic and we thank them both. Lori wrote the following comment: "I am posting... » read this article

U.S. Arms and Equipment Sales, All Programs, Entire Region, 2005-2010... » read this article

Editor's Note: Is the corporate media's (CBS Money Watch) motive for publishing this article to expose the rottenness of the capitalist system, jailing poor people because they can't pay their bills? Or is it meant to improve collections by the corporations and instill fear in anyone who does not pay... » read this article

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Americans, the British, and Western Europeans are accustomed to thinking of themselves as the representatives of freedom, democracy, and morality in the world. The West passes judgment on the rest of the world as if the West is God and the rest of the world are barbarians in need of... » read this article

According to Chomsky, America's declining power is self-inflicted. Last year, the Occupy Movement rose up spontaneously in cities and towns across the country, radically shifted the discourse and rattled the economic elite with its defiant populism. It was, according to Noam Chomsky, “the first major public response to thirty years... » read this article

Former Assange lawyer Jennifer Robinson speaks with the WSWS 23 April 2012 Jennifer Robinson spoke with the World Socialist Web Site last Friday in Sydney. The human rights lawyer and Australian citizen, who had assisted Julian Assange in his British legal challenges to being extradited to Sweden on concocted sexual... » read this article