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

Editor's Comment: Admittedly, this is a long and detailed article to read. Imagine the time and effort involved for Richard D. Vogel to produce it! If you don't have time to read the entire article, please read the author's words leading up to "What is Globalization" and "Closing the Texas Deal" ...... » read this article

Friday, January 1. It is Haitian Independence Day, and I am in a mood to celebrate year two-hundred and six. The stereo blasts a wild, up-tempo, tune. Haitian drums burn! As I dance, I explain to my befuddled husband that this exhuberant song is about a woman who survived a storm. She is stuck up... » read this article

Editor's Note: An Axis of Logic correspondent sent this article to us by Cynthia McKinney saying, "This is the best thing I've read so far [on Haiti]. We concur. - Les Blough, Editor Jan. 19, 2010 President Obama's response to the tragedy in Haiti has been robust in military deployment... » 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

"This is the moral state of the American media: the murder of poverty-stricken children by missiles or bombs might, after all, be no more than an 'honest mistake'.” 14 January 2010 American television news becomes more and more unwatchable, especially in its reports on the expanding wars in the Middle... » read this article

It was a sad day for all people of good will on October 9th 2009 when the Nobel Committee announced the award the Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama. At the ceremony Obama was obliged to defend his decision to authorize the sending of a further 30,000 US troops... » read this article

January 2, 2009. Axis of Logic - When India exploded its first nuclear device in 1974, culminating a program launched as far back as 1951, Western powers only reacted with customary “show of concern”. But on the other hand, Pakistan’s nuclear program, initiated in response to the Indian acquisition of... » read this article

Editor's note: For added perspective, we introduce this article on Evo Morales' re-election victory with words from James Petras' assessment: Latin America’s Twenty-First Century Socialism in Historical Perspective "The 21st Century Socialism of Morales’ political practice is far less innovative and ’socialist’ and far closer in political style to 20th... » read this article

Jeanne Theoharis is the author of an April, 2009 article in The Nation, entitled "Guantanamo At Home," which focuses on the arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment of US citizen Syed Hashmi in a New York City prison with Guantanamo-like conditions. Theoharis holds the endowed chair in women's studies and is an... » read this article

In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger compares the current drum-beating for war against Iran, based on a fake "nuclear threat", with the manufacture of a sense of false crisis that led to invasion of Iraq and the deaths of 1.3 million people. In 2001, the Observer... » read this article

30 September 2009 In an editorial published Sunday, the Financial Times of London joined the media onslaught against Iran, calling its rulers “cheats and deceivers” who “cannot be remotely trusted” in relation to the country’s nuclear program. If the newspaper is committed to exposing “cheats and deceivers,” why has it... » read this article

It was extraordinarily questionable why U.S. President Barak Obama chose not to credit the War on Afghanistan with a separate paragraph in his speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations on September 23, to “note” the war on Iraq with only a four – line paragraph, and instead... » read this article

The Joint Turkish-Israeli Lobby Forces On September 10 Luke Rosiak of Sunlight Foundation wrote a thorough investigative piece on the Turkish lobby as it relates to the recent developments in the Schmidt v Krikorian case. Here is the best part of this expose: “Lobbyists for the government of Turkey, including former congressmen... » read this article

(requires a minute or two to load after you have clicked on the play arrow - but this video is well worth your time)   Dr. Bonita Lawrence explores institutionalized racism, cultural genocide, and the history of aboriginal policy in Canada.   Can you remember the times That you have... » read this article

Editor’s Comment: The writing below is now 15 years-old. But it is as true today, and will be into whatever future humanity has left, as it was when written. It isn’t a message about the futility of our existence, but about the stupidity of our devices and desires. It is... » read this article

August, 29 2009 - On Varadero Beach, a hail of bullets fired from a speedboat hit their target, shooting up the Hotel Melia, one of Cuba's main resort hotels.  A week later, the Miami Herald reported that it had received a "war communiqué" boasting that "On the evening of October... » read this article

At mass rally in Lebanon Hezbollah rejects new Israeli threats Dahia, Lebanon - The pride was palpable and the emotion stirring. It was the pride of a people who have twice freed their land from U.S.-backed Israeli forces. Tens of thousands of men, women and children gathered in this poor... » read this article

Editor's Note:  Mazin Qumsiyeh has been sharing his first-hand experiences with our readers for years. Often his letters provide a careful accounting of the sad realities in which Palestinians live. His true stories are more powerful than any polemics, mental exercises and "peace plans" created by the Zionist entity and... » read this article

[The following is the editorial in the latest issue (No. 21, July 28) of Marea Socialista (Socialist Tide), a magazine published by an organized tendency of the same name within Venezuela’s PSUV, the United Socialist Party headed by Hugo Chávez. It is best read in conjunction with the article by... » read this article