“What a rag-bag of singular happenings! But surely the most valuable hunting-ground that ever was given to a student of the unusual!” - Sherlock Holmes Far more disconcerting than the recent closings of big chain bookstores is the wave of destruction and censorship of books and information. Ray Bradbury’s 1953... » read this article

If you really want to put an end to terrorism, you have to begin by no longer participating in it. ~ Noam Chomsky. Or more sharply: Stop killing their babies, as put by Georgia State law professor Natsu Saito Based on the book On the Justice of Roosting Chickens by... » read this article

Editor's Note: We bring this article back for those who may have missed it first time around. Axis of Logic Editor, Paul Richard Harris republished it first on December 27, 2011. - LMB In January of 2011, we were told that “spontaneous,” “indigenous” uprising had begun sweeping North Africa and... » read this article

Reinvent America and the world. -Lawrence Ferlingehtti, from Poetry As Insurgent Art  About the only inventions that the guardians of the corporate-state covet and have recently employed are high and low tech gadgets. While the high tech is mostly unleashed by the military for wars, the low tech, being used... » read this article

  Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.  - Mark Twain   There is an annual wringing of hands by many in the Christian community, especially in Canada and the United States. It seems they are perturbed by the celebration of Christmas as it is generally conducted in the... » read this article

Man walks along the railroad track Goin' some place, there's no turnin' back The Highway Patrol chopper's comin' up over the ridge Man sleeps by a campfire under the bridge The shelter line stretchin' around the corner Welcome to the New World Order Families sleepin' in their cars out in... » read this article

During the protests in Tahrir Square in November 2011, Mohamed Ali, age 20, responded to a journalist’s query as to why he was there: “We want social justice. Nothing more. That’s the least that we deserve.” The first round of the movements took multiple forms across the world—the so-called Arab... » read this article

A DEBATE between Henry Kissinger, Fareed Zakaria, Niall Ferguson, and Li Daokui: Is This the Chinese Century? A CENTURY FOR SALE, ANY TAKER? The Munk Debate in Toronto has in the past three years become a significant forum for discussing global issues of our age. The most recent one held... » read this article

One of the most penetrating essays on the commons that I have encountered in the last few years was published this year by Italian comparative law professor Ugo Mattei, who teaches at the International University College of Turin (Italy) and the University of California, Hastings College of Law.  Professor Mattei... » read this article

In every aspect of human existence, change is a constant.  Yet change that actually matters occurs only rarely.  Even then, except in retrospect, genuinely transformative change is difficult to identify.  By attributing cosmic significance to every novelty and declaring every unexpected event a revolution, self-assigned interpreters of the contemporary scene... » read this article

On September 27, several hundred people in Boston, inspired by Occupy New York, began to express their outrage at Global Corporate Empire by marching to Boston Common and declaring the onset of Occupy Boston.  Matthew Krawitz, one of Occupy Boston's main organisers, explains why locals are planning to occupy a section of the... » read this article

"What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected from 1760 – 1775, in the course of fifteen years, before a... » read this article

Pro-Israel politicians regularly claim their position is a defense of the Jewish community. It’s rare when they say their goal is to mobilize those who believe a Jewish “return” to the Middle East will hasten end times or that Israel is a prized ally as a heavily militarized “white” outpost... » read this article

23 September 2011 A newly reported fossil discovery from the Malapa, South Africa may provide greater insight into the evolution of the genus Homo from our australopithecine ancestors. The fossils consist of remains of two individuals, an adult female and juvenile male, possibly a mother and son. They appear to... » read this article

Ed. note: Mankh's poem reminds me of an admonition from the I Ching: "Hold fast to the lessons learned from nature." - LMB Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) is an essayist and resident poet on Axis of Logic. In addition to his work as a writer, he is a small... » read this article

Editor's Note: Mankh, our Resident Poet wrote the following poem for Axis of Logic Readers ... his response to a recent article, "Unrepentant Cheney Stands His Ground," published in the Chicago Sun Times. - LMB   When all Heaven breaks loose When all Heaven breaks loose Dick Cheney will have no underground... » read this article

Editor's Note: Our accomplished columnist and writer, Siv O'Neall republished this video on Axis of Logic. When most people hear the word "anarchy" or "anarchist" nowadays, they think of a young man dressed in black, hooded and bashing something in. The media has narrowed anarchy to that image and some... » read this article

Fearlessly the idiot faced the crowd, smiling Merciless, the magistrate turns 'round, frowning and who's the fool who wears the crown - Pink Floyd, from "Fearless" You are about to order lunch and the waiter has a sudden panic attack about the availability of salmon. Suddenly, what was a $19.95... » read this article

“Karl Marx got it right, at some point capitalism can destroy itself,” said Mr. Roubini, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. “We thought markets worked. They’re not working.” The world economy is in shambles and about to get worse, according to even mainstream economists. How bad is anybody's... » read this article

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