“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

RESURRECTION If I had died And come back living My life would be marked By scars you've inflicted Upon my soul and spirit. My wounds would prove The tyranny and slavery Set upon my flesh That eventually killed me off Into the land of the haunted spirits Where the Red... » read this article

Editor's Note: We are grateful to Mankh, our resident poet, for writing this very moving poem to help us stop to remember our home ... our Mother ... on Earth Day, Sunday April 22, 2012. Mankh's poem combined with this performance by John Trudell, Bad Dog and Buffy Saint Marie... » read this article

Wake up and smell the roses, Wake up and smell the Earth! Wake up and smell the atmosphere -- Survival here, what's it worth? China's on a scentless runaway train of concrete, more roads for more cars raising the heat. Fukushima still tottering on a brink of destruction; before building... » read this article

Everybody Wants to Rule the World Welcome to your life There’s no turning back Even while we sleep We will find you Acting on your best behaviour Turn your back on mother nature Everybody wants to rule the world It’s my own design It’s my own remorse Help me to... » read this article

(with a nod to Paul Simon) 1. out the back, Jack - Get off the grid. Find ways big or small to lessen dependency, e.g., use low energy mercury-free bulbs or light a candle in the evening instead of using electric lights; cut back on air conditioner usage by using... » read this article

“What a rag-bag of singular happenings! But surely the most valuable hunting-ground that ever was given to a student of the unusual!” - Sherlock Holmes Far more disconcerting than the recent closings of big chain bookstores is the wave of destruction and censorship of books and information. Ray Bradbury’s 1953... » read this article

A hearty congratulations to Mankh (Walter E. Harris III), Axis of Logic columnist and resident poet, for the publication of his exciting new anthology, The (Un)Occupy Movement. This anthology is a topical, historical, forward-thinking, and holistic look at some of the problems Mother Earth and humanity are facing and how... » read this article

Reinvent America and the world. -Lawrence Ferlingehtti, from Poetry As Insurgent Art  About the only inventions that the guardians of the corporate-state covet and have recently employed are high and low tech gadgets. While the high tech is mostly unleashed by the military for wars, the low tech, being used... » read this article

Can you hear us calling out from a Freedom of Speech Zone? We are able to say whatever the F*&# is necessary so long as it is being emitted from this oxymoronic Zone of the status quo, a classroom under the supervision of the corporate-state where learning to count numbers... » read this article

. . . . The cork has popped, the cat is out of the bag, People are coming out of the woodwork, coming out of the closet, some are going out of their minds, some are fed up with going hungry being out of luck, out of touch, on the... » read this article

I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? - Leonard Cohen, from his song "Hallelujah" There is music in the voices of the People declaring real, impassioned concerns and demands. Personal and communal truths... » read this article

Ed. note: Mankh's poem reminds me of an admonition from the I Ching: "Hold fast to the lessons learned from nature." - LMB Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) is an essayist and resident poet on Axis of Logic. In addition to his work as a writer, he is a small... » read this article

Editor's Note: Mankh, our Resident Poet wrote the following poem for Axis of Logic Readers ... his response to a recent article, "Unrepentant Cheney Stands His Ground," published in the Chicago Sun Times. - LMB   When all Heaven breaks loose When all Heaven breaks loose Dick Cheney will have no underground... » read this article

NONCONNAH YARDS One railroad came from Chicago, bound for New Orleans Or vice versa One railroad came from Little Rock headed for Charleston Or the other way around In Nonconnah Yards south of Memphis The rails crossed My father knew that My father rode those rails Long before the Great... » read this article

We will not think about death or life. We will think about the call of the duty. ~ Muammar Gaddafi, 7th June, 2011 Once upon a time, not so long ago, and maybe not even so far away from where you live now, there lived many animals in a deep,... » read this article

Fearlessly the idiot faced the crowd, smiling Merciless, the magistrate turns 'round, frowning and who's the fool who wears the crown - Pink Floyd, from "Fearless" You are about to order lunch and the waiter has a sudden panic attack about the availability of salmon. Suddenly, what was a $19.95... » read this article

note: While a recent essay by the author, "Theaters War, Absurd, Educational, and Otherwise," addressed the variety of archetypal theaters in the world, this piece highlights a cast of characters aka actors. As the theater saying goes, "There are no small actors, only small parts." However, in the mainstream media... » read this article

A Sea Change (22) (from "White Egrets) Derek Walcott is a writer and painter from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia.  He was born in 1930. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. This is his poem #22 under “A Sea Change” in his latest volume of poetry, titled... » read this article

Riffing Orwell George Orwell prophesied much of the current doublespeak with his phrases such as: "war is peace." Nobel Peace Prize winning president Obama, currently commander-in-chiefing of war in six so-called theaters -- Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia -- fits the bill, or more so runs up the... » read this article