Editor's Comment: Petras' brilliant lesson in linguistics shows how the ruling class has confused and shackled the minds of the left by co-opting and corrupting our language, thus turning it into weapons that we end up using against ourselves. By allowing them to do this, we advance their objective "to end... » read this article

Editorial Commentary: All across Canada, journalists and politicians and the élite are talking about these whiny Québec students and their stupid idea that education should be: a) available; and b) affordable. The critics point out that Québec has the lowest costs for post-high school education of any Canadian jurisdiction. Absolutely... » read this article

18 May 2012 While publicly insisting that it is only providing “non-lethal” aid to elements seeking the overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria, Washington is coordinating the shipment of arms into the country and working to expand the deadly conflict. This was the thrust of a lead article in... » read this article

Editorial commentary: We received this article directly from the author. He lives in the southern United States and, as you might imagine, he has not had a lot of luck in finding a local place to publish his thoughts. If you can read this piece and disagree, then you are... » read this article

Know the truth about what is happening in Syria.... » read this article

CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................ 2 INTRODUCTION ................................................................. 3 Methodology .................................................................... 4 What is a forest?............................................................... 4 Who are indigenous peoples? ............................................... 5 Who are forest peoples? ..................................................... 7 TABLE A: Forest peoples¡¦ numbers by region ......................... 8 Forest peoples¡¦ numbers by type of dependence .................... 8 TABLE B(1) ....................................................................... 8... » read this article

Editor's Comment: Venezuela's National Assembly passed extraordinary new labor laws in support of workers on April 30, 2012. In a time when workers have had their rights stripped away and capitalist economies are collapsing throughout the United States and Europe, the Venezuelan government has managed to keep its economy thriving... » read this article

Editor's Comment: The following report is the 4th and final report in the series, "Libya One Year After" by Axis of Logic Columnist, T.J. Coles. We thank him for establishing a fully documented and accurate history of NATO's destruction of Libya 2011. Read Parts I, II and III of this... » read this article

One of the great myths about the Argentine economy that is repeated nearly every day is that the rapid growth of the Argentine economy during the past decade has been a "commodity export boom". For example, the New York Times reported last week: "Riding an export boom for commodities like... » read this article

On 01 April 2012, the so-called “Friends of Syria” met in Istanbul to plan their agenda of fomenting civil war in Syria to destroy the country and oust the Syrian Government, using “human rights” as a pretext. They have agreed to provide finance and arms to outlawed groups attacking the... » read this article

Today is not just a day of celebration. It's clearly a day of protest - for a variety of reasons, all of which boil down to the objections of the people to the huge gap between rich and poor.... » read this article

This article is not my idea. A friend sent me an email that contains the gist of the point being made here; but the text is mine. -prh, Axis of Logic editor For those of you who are aware there are other countries outside the borders of your own country... » read this article

“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

Editor's Introduction Why you should read David North's "In Defense of Leon Trotsky" North's treatise goes much farther than combatting the lies that continue today about the person of Trotsky himself, although that in itself would be a worthy project. His extraordinary defense describes the methods used by the bourgeois... » read this article

Editor's Introduction: We offered the following introduction to T. J. Coles second installment in this series, Libya: One Year On, Recording NATO's War Crimes, Part II and it applies just as well to his entire 4 Part Series on NATO's destruction of Sovereign Libya: "It is utterly important that the details of the... » read this article

Literally over night in May of 1970, President Richard M. Nixon’s ill-planned and ill-fated invasion of Cambodia revived the dwindling antiwar movement to vigorous life. Whether it was his verbal barrages of “Peace with Honor” or his “Vietnamization” euphemism that lulled pro-life protesters to sleep, when President Nixon announced he... » read this article

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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

Editor's Comment: Bravo! We have nothing but praise for President Cristina Ferdandez for her courage and leadership demonstrated once again in her move to nationalize Argentine's natural resources. From Argentina's nationalization of the country's airlines and pension funds to it's recent stand to regain the Islas Malvinas from Britain, Cristina... » read this article

The Ngäbe-Buglé people are fighting back on multiple fronts against big business, the Panamanian regime of Ricardo Martinelli and even the United Nations - in our terms - Global Corporate Empire. Martinelli, a former business tycoon and friend of Washington is bent on crushing the Ngäbe-Buglé with with his riot... » read this article