30 August 2010 Over the past month more than a fifth of Pakistan’s territory and close to a quarter of its cropland have been engulfed in floods, creating a humanitarian crisis which UN officials describe as the greatest in that organization’s 65-year history. Twenty million people are now said to... » read this article

Axis of Logic Columnist, Shahid R. Saddiqi wrote us a letter and sent us these photos to us from Pakistan, calling them "a glimpse into the devastation caused and the poor people's struggle to hang on to life." Torrential rains in these areas of Pakistan have caused the most severe flooding in... » read this article

28 August 2010 With the opening of a new front in Yemen for the CIA’s drone “targeted killing” program, the Obama administration is steadily escalating the role played by both the covert agency and secretive US military Special Operations forces as a global Murder Incorporated. “The White House, in an... » read this article

"Completion of the project is another sign that the international sanctions are not working," Jerusalem Post Editorial The much-delayed nuclear power plant in the southern Iranian city of Bushehr was uploaded with nuclear fuel on Saturday, the first step toward the Russian-built plant going online next month. This realizes a... » read this article

HANOI, Vietnam -- An American warship docked Tuesday in central Vietnam where the former foes planned to conduct naval training in a sign of growing military ties amid new warnings from China for the U.S. to stay out of its backyard. The USS John S. McCain's port call comes as... » read this article

Monsanto’s plans to push genetically modified (GM) food crops in Asia ran into a wall on February 9, 2010 when India’s Environment Minister put a moratorium on the introduction of a variety of GM brinjal (eggplant) containing Monsanto’s patented Bt gene. China too has been hesitant to approve GM food... » read this article

Editor's Note — The USS George Washington supercarrier recently deployed off North Korea in a high-profile show of U.S. sea power. AP Tokyo News Editor Eric Talmadge was aboard the carrier, and filed this report. ABOARD THE USS GEORGE WASHINGTON – Nothing projects U.S. global air and sea power more... » read this article

As Indians prepare to celebrate the country’s sixty-third Independence Day on August 15, an eruption of deadly violence in the picturesque countryside and towns of Kashmir is a reminder that many Kashmiris still do not consider themselves part of India, and profess that they never will. On paper, their claims... » read this article

// End of Iraq Combat Operations or Beginning of Downsized, Rebranded Occupation Relying Heavily on Private Military Contractors? President Obama said Monday in a speech before the Disabled American Veterans national convention in Atlanta that the US military is on target to withdraw all its combat troops from Iraq... » read this article

August 1, 2010 Reuel Marc Gerecht’s screed justifying an Israeli bombing attack on Iran coincides with the opening the new Israel lobby campaign marked by the introduction of House resolution 1553 expressing full support for such an Israeli attack. What is important to understand about this campaign is that the... » read this article

In four months the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will hold a summit in Lisbon, Portugal. The host country was one of the 12 nations that founded the United States-dominated military bloc 61 years ago. The Warsaw Pact dissolved The rival grouping that was created six years after NATO’s formation and... » read this article

24 July 2010 The statement by British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg that the Iraq war was “illegal” leads to only one conclusion—that former Prime Minister Tony Blair and many others must immediately be arraigned on war crimes charges. Clegg was standing in for Prime Minister David Cameron in parliament... » read this article

About 24 kilometres from the centre of Dhaka, in the gritty industrial suburb of Savar Upazila, down a narrow path, a small sign reads ‘Latest Washing and Blasting Industries.’ It’s not much more than a large corrugated metal shack with room for three young men, who work shoulder-to-shoulder. In the... » read this article

Unfinished stories, goes an old idiom in Ajmer, find their denouement in Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti’s shrine. Perhaps, unfinished investigations do too. Two-and-a-half years after low-intensity blasts ripped apart the courtyard of the centuries-old shrine, the Rajasthan police arrested three men—Devendra Gupta, Vishnu Prasad and Chandrashekhar Patidar. Gupta, an RSS worker,... » read this article

July 19, 2010 (Axis of Logic) - The dirty war against the Tamil Tigers went ahead with the co-operation of the international community - that is to say, with a subtle nod and a wink, some 13 months ago.  The agreed purpose was that this is part of the global... » read this article

July 17, 2010 (emphases and subtitles added by Axis of Logic) Delayed until after the United States achieved a United Nations Security Council statement on July 9 condemning the sinking of a South Korean warship in March, Washington’s plans for naval maneuvers in the Yellow Sea near Chinese territorial waters... » read this article

12 July 2010 Last week, the Obama administration named Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis to replace Gen. David Petraeus as chief of US Central Command, giving the Marine officer overall command of US forces in Afghanistan and Iraq and across the Middle East and Central Asia. The elevation of... » read this article

A new study by U.S. researchers raises questions about the investigation into the sinking of a South Korean navy ship. International investigators blamed a North Korean torpedo, raising tensions on the Korean peninsula. Researchers J.J. Suh and Seung-Hun Lee say the South Korean Joint Investigation Group made a weak case... » read this article

ISLAMABAD - The twin suicide attacks on Thursday on the shrine of a Sufi saint in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore in which more than 40 people were killed and nearly 200 injured will most likely force the government to reluctantly take action against Punjabi militants while also derailing... » read this article

DHAKA — Violent protests by thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers demanding higher pay turned main roads in the capital Dhaka into a battleground Wednesday, as riot police struggled to break up the crowds. For four hours, a 15,000-strong crowd of garment workers, who sew clothes for top Western brands, blocked... » read this article