CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................ 2 INTRODUCTION ................................................................. 3 Methodology .................................................................... 4 What is a forest?............................................................... 4 Who are indigenous peoples? ............................................... 5 Who are forest peoples? ..................................................... 7 TABLE A: Forest peoples¡¦ numbers by region ......................... 8 Forest peoples¡¦ numbers by type of dependence .................... 8 TABLE B(1) ....................................................................... 8... » read this article

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

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

“If you want to create a change, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them.” - Stafford Beer Imagine you are a 7-month-old baby and your older brother or sister is about 520-years-old. Wouldn’t you want to know something about how he/she has... » read this article

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

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

Editor's Note: When Papaherakles listed Cuba, North Korea and Iran as the only countries whose central banks are not under Rothchild control, he apparently didn't think about Venezuela. Venezuela's Central Bank is no longer Rothchild-controlled. - LMB Could gaining control of the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran (CBI)... » read this article

EcoWatch reveals shocking information of a BP cover-up of a blow-out prior to the deadly Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf. Special report from the Caspian sea. for Ecowatch.org by investigative reporter Greg Palast Source: EcoWatch.org via Youtube About Greg Palast, Journalist Greg Palast is the author of the New... » read this article

Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known. This video demonstrates that the United States is not a... » 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

Japan is almost completely free of nuclear power now, after the shutdown on March 26, 2012 of the Number 6 reactor at the country’s Kashiwasaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant. No nuclear reactors are now operational on the Japanese mainland. When scheduled maintenance closes the Number 3 Tomari reactor on the island... » read this article

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The U.S. dollarhas probably been the closest thing to a true global currency that the world has ever seen. For decades, the use of the U.S. dollar has been absolutely dominant in international trade. This has had tremendous benefits for the U.S. financial system and for U.S. consumers, and it... » read this article

The fact that the world is being restructured from decentralized diversity to collectivized hierarchy by an authoritarian regime cloaked in green trappings can hardly be disputed. The final push toward the next and perhaps final phase may be announced this June at the 2012 U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development in... » read this article

From the Editors: We've republished this song in the past by different artists. This time, Axis of Logic reader, contributor and friend, Ed Dake, sent this to us from California - guaranteed to slow us all down to do some important pondering on this Sunday evening. Ed sent it with the following... » read this article

Editor's Comment: Many have observed the systematic "China-bashing" ramped up in the US/Euro imperialist media over the past decade. Likewise, many have questions about the bourgeoning Chinese economy, China as the next superpower and questions about their military prowess or vulnerability. In other words, China has been enigmatic in the... » read this article

Last year marked an important event for people fighting against global warming and climate change. The US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) acknowledged the validity of theories related to the two phenomena, and put them on par with such theories as Earth's age, the Big Bang and evolution. These are... » read this article

NEWS RELEASE:   THE ACTORS' GANG CONTACT: ELIZABETH DORAN (310) 838-4264 (US - California)                       1984 Directed by Tim Robbins   The Actors’ Gang re-visits George Orwell’s Masterpiece to celebrate its 30th Anniversary Season  As a highlight of its 30th anniversary season, The Actors’ Gang will remount George Orwell’s 1984, directed... » read this article

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