Washington has made no secret of its disdain for Venezuela’s President Chavez and mass media have turned a democratic leader into a dictatorship. Does Venezuela really represent a threat to the United States or is the hype just an excuse for regime change? [NOTE: I accompanied President Chavez on his... » read this article

WASHINGTON - A prominent physicist and skeptic of global warming spent two years trying to find out if mainstream climate scientists were wrong. In the end, he determined they were right: Temperatures really are rising rapidly. The study of the world's surface temperatures by Richard Muller was partially bankrolled by... » read this article

Editor's Comment: We have read and published many of James Petras' analyses over the years which have been both, enlightening and prophetic. But this one is all the more exceptional. Anyone who seeks an understanding of the interplay between democracy and imperialism should read this essay. There are many writers... » read this article

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We need to do more when it comes to having brief, panicked thoughts about climate change. The 20 hottest years on record have all taken place in the past quarter century. The resulting floods, wildfires, and heat waves have all had deadly consequences, and if we don't reduce carbon emissions... » read this article

The following op-ed appeared in the New York Times yesterday, Sunday. We assume there is no need to explain who the author is. But true to form, the financial press have been all over this today to explain why Mr Buffett has it all wrong. They are full of shit.... » read this article

Editor's Note: Axis of Logic Columnist Siv O'Neall urged us to publish this film documentary. After viewing it, we entreat all Axis of Logic Readers to watch this inspirational and informative film by Jamie Doran. It reveals how the ingenuity and selfless work of people in extreme poverty can bring... » read this article

Early last month, pharmaceutical titan Merck became the latest multinational to pledge allegiance to the CEO Water Mandate, the United Nations' public-private initiative "designed to assist companies in the development, implementation and disclosure of water sustainability policies and practices." But there's darker data beneath that sunny marketing: The CEO Water... » read this article

The International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank are violating their charters in order to bail out French, German, and Dutch private banks. The IMF is only empowered to make balance of payments loans, but is lending to the Greek government for prohibited budgetary reasons in order that the... » read this article

NATO: A Feast of Blood While serving on the House International Relations Committee from 1993 to 2003, it became clear to me that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was an anachronism. Founded in 1945 at the end of World War II, NATO was founded by the United States in... » read this article

The standard-bearers of Anglo-American imperialism in the current epoch, President Barack Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron, met in London on May 25 to discuss the world’s two ongoing wars of aggression, those in Afghanistan and Libya, both under the command of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization dominated by Washington... » read this article

The elimination of al-Qaida figurehead Osama bin Laden earlier this month was widely celebrated. But was it the right thing for the US to do? International law expert Kai Ambos argues that killing him was both illegal and morally dubious. Terrorists, even Osama bin Laden, are humans. As such, they... » read this article

Editor's Note: In times when corporate food prices are high and folks are hard pressed to make ends meet, Ellen LaConte suggests that we buy locally and grow our own! We introduce her lovely and informative article with some photos of urban gardens and their fruits to illustrate what she's teaching us! -... » read this article

Editor's Note: Axis of Logic has always been known as a "reader's site" so we make no apology for the length of this excellent research article on the Peruvian Amazon by Michael Reaney for the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. In terms of its importance, it resides easily alongside reports flooding the... » read this article

Americans have been watching protests against oppressive regimes that concentrate massive wealth in the hands of an elite few. Yet in our own democracy, 1 percent of the people take nearly a quarter of the nation’s income—an inequality even the wealthy will come to regret. It’s no use pretending that... » read this article

Slip in covert operationals under cover of night, spark off an incident somehow, send in the mainstream media to spread the lies far and wide, start a bombing campaign to protect "unarmed" civilians and then help the suddenly heavily armed "civilians" to sweep to power. Then the oil companies move... » read this article

Fidel Castro was right.  The West was planning an attack on a sovereign third world nation imminently: Libya.  Nothing like a good old war against brown and black people in Libya by the West to remind oneself of what Western civilisation is all about.  Many of us who have been... » read this article

In his 1994 book entitled The Location of Culture, post-colonial theorist Homi Bhaba writes that "cafes are part of the social phenomena of the 'third place' [which] . . . people occupy outside of the home and work.  It's a place to relax, to be alone, to socialize, to read,... » read this article

Haiti's presidency is up for grabs, and here in the US, we need to do something about it!... » read this article

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