The Killing Continues Since the suspension of the death penalty in Japan in September of 2009, the US is the only developed nation in the world that continues to execute its citizens -- but, perhaps, not for long. The unmasking of the political agenda behind state sanctioned killing during the... » read this article

Why Militant Struggle? In a January 28 UW Daily article, Keep violence out for fairer budget Rebecca Kuensting attacks the International Socialist Organization (a UW registered student organization) for proposing “militant struggle” to oppose budget cuts and tuition increases. She feels that militant struggle must mean violence, or at least... » read this article

By one estimate, China has been at the top of the global economy for 18 out of the last 20 centuries. That's an impressive track record, whatever you might think of imperialism, communism, and all the other systems that have prevailed in that vast country over the centuries. Even President... » read this article

1 February 2010 The 90-minute televised meeting between President Barack Obama and the House Republican caucus, broadcast over the cable networks Friday, was an extraordinary exposure of the right-wing consensus within American bourgeois politics. It was a demonstration of the administration’s decision, in the wake of the Republican victory in... » read this article

The President on Wednesday may have reassured Americans that the state of the Union is "strong," but, just the week before, a group of Vermont secessionists declared their intention to seek political power in a quest to get their state to quit the Union altogether. On Jan. 15, in the... » read this article

"No matter how skilfully he ducked and dived today, Tony Blair's legacy will forever be that of the illegal, immoral Iraq war.” - Angus Robertson of the SNP The ineffectual Chilcot Inquiry was never designed to account Tony Blair; rather it appears to have served as a lesson for future... » read this article

Some strands of feminism have a long history of serving as adjuncts of Western imperialism. Today they also enable domestic prejudice. Gore Vidal once mocked George Bush’s idea of democracy promotion as being synonymous with: ‘Be free! Or I’ll kill you’. In a similar vein, some feminists today want to... » read this article

As we near two weeks after the devastating earthquake and terrifying aftershocks in Port-au-Prince and Zacmel, Haiti, we face the inevitable media wall, that closes up, unless a story emerges of such surprise and delight that it's able to shine through.   For the media light, by it's very nature,... » read this article

25 January 2010 In a public statement criticizing the major banks Thursday, followed by a speech on jobs in the industrial town of Elyria, Ohio, Friday, President Barack Obama has begun a transparent effort to posture as the defender of the people against corporate interests. In what media pundits and... » read this article

January 6, 2010 American military personnel are continuing to take their own lives in unprecedented numbers, as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq wars drag on. By late November, at least 334 members of the armed forces had committed suicide in 2009, more than the 319 who were killed in... » read this article

The long history that “binds” the US and Haiti together! "And all of you – whether French and English, Russians and Germans, Italians and Americans – we have seen you all together once before in brotherly accord, united in a great league of nations, helping and guiding each other: it... » read this article

  Between 45,000-50,000 may have died in the impoverished country of Haiti according to the American Red Cross as a result of the earthquake that shook Port-Au-Prince and surrounding areas on January 12, 2010. A hospital collapses, the President's palace is left in ruins, and many homes in shambles. Haitians... » read this article

Editor's Note: Quotes appearing before Nadia Hijab's article have been added by Axis of Logic. Say it isn't genocide. - LMB "Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography... » read this article

Consumerism has, as Huxley feared, changed all of us – we'd rather hop to a brave new world than rein in our spending . . . Who said this? "All the evidence shows that beyond the sort of standard of living which Britain has now achieved, extra growth does not automatically... » read this article

What are we to make of the failed Underwear Bomber plot, the Toothpaste, Shampoo, and Bottled Water Bomber plot, and the Shoe Bomber plot? These blundering and implausible plots to bring down an airliner seem far removed from al-Qaida’s expertise in pulling off 9/11. If we are to believe the... » read this article

It is interesting to note what happens to espionage cases in the United States.  If you spy for China, or Cuba, or Iran you will be exposed, excoriated in the media, locked up and denied bail, convicted, and sentenced to many years in a federal prison.  Spying is serious business... » read this article

Since the foiled underpants bomber on Christmas, advocates and friends of Israel as well as media talking heads have all argued that Israeli security techniques should be applied in the United States to make us all safe. Israeli Security agencies claim their sole airport had no airport security breach since... » read this article

As scholars who work on the centuries-old Islamic presence in Europe and the continent's first post-Holocaust genocide against, not coincidently, the Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina, we were deeply disturbed but not surprised that an ostensibly tolerant and pluralistic Western democracy like Switzerland would vote by a margin of 57... » read this article

(edited by Axis of Logic) Historically Latin America has been of great importance to the United States on numerous counts:  the region has in the past, provided the US with a trade surplus; its outflows of licit and ill-begotten funds to US banks, numbers annually in the tens of billions;... » read this article

All too often, official inquiries are conducted by the very people who should themselves be under investigation. In this respect, Britain’s Chilcot Inquiry on the Iraq war bears a distressing similarity to the 9/11 Commission. In a remarkable symmetry, both inquiries involve a Jewish Zionist historian, who not only advised... » read this article