Editorial comment: Ron Rosenbaum is revealing a lot of facts that we need to know about in this important article, even though he might be slapped for failing to remind us of the fact that all U.S. wars after World War II have been strictly illegal, according to the Geneva... » read this article

"Humanity must preserve itself in order to live for thousands of years," Fidel responded to Russian writer Daniel Estulin, author of the Bilderberg Club trilogy, who is visiting Havana. He stated that in relation to the visitor’s belief that in order to solve many of its problems, humanity will have... » read this article

28 August 2010 A major environmental scandal has featured in the German media since the spring of this year. In Dortmund transformers were dismantled and recycled by the company Envio Recycling GmbH & Co. The recycling process resulted in setting free highly poisonous PCB chemicals in what amounts to a... » read this article

In 1962, the historian Barbara Tuchman published a book about the start of World War I and called it The Guns of August. It went on to win a Pulitzer Prize.  She was, of course, looking back at events that had occurred almost 50 years earlier and had at her disposal... » read this article

While progressives and leftists write about the “crises of capitalism”, manufacturers, petroleum companies, bankers and most other major corporations on both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific coast are chuckling all the way to the bank. From the first quarter of this year, corporate profits have shot up between twenty... » read this article

As the first of the 80 million Baby Boomers have begun to retire, it has become increasingly apparent that the United States is facing a pension crisis of unprecedented magnitude.  State and local government pension plans are woefully underfunded, dozens of large corporate pension plans either have collapsed or are... » read this article

Revolving Door between Government and the Private Sector Reaches Appalling Highs The symbiotic connection between government and business is reaching alarming levels in light of recent evidence, indicating that government officials and business executives are increasingly one and the same.  Consider the evidence that’s recently come to light.     ... » read this article

HANOI, Vietnam -- An American warship docked Tuesday in central Vietnam where the former foes planned to conduct naval training in a sign of growing military ties amid new warnings from China for the U.S. to stay out of its backyard. The USS John S. McCain's port call comes as... » read this article

In the wake of the wholesale suppression of democratic rights during the G20 meetings in Toronto in late June, no less than three governmental “reviews” of police conduct have been set up by provincial and municipal authorities to investigate the circumstances surrounding the mass arrest of over a thousand protestors... » read this article

On the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, John Pilger describes the 'progression of lies' from the dust of that detonated city, to the wars of today - and the threatened attack on Iran. When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967,... » read this article

Tom Peck: Handing traffic control to 'gatekeepers' would be an evil intervention, say critics Net neutrality may be a relatively new term, but the concept behind it is far older than the internet itself. The Pacific Telegraph Act, passed by the United States Congress in 1860 to aid communication between... » read this article

The US is building up its weapons arsenal on Russia's border. Confirmed by US military sources, "for the first time since the end of World War II, U.S. Army soldiers are making regular rotations into Poland", to train Polish forces to use US made Patriot missiles. (Stars and Stripes, 23... » read this article

Editor's Note: We have only one question for the author. His/her opening line is, "By the end of the recession..." What is meant by "the end of the recession"? The media has been toying with the term "recession" for the last several years, very careful to avoid the term "depression."... » read this article

Introduction Western societies and states are moving inexorably toward conditions resembling barbarism; structural changes are reversing decades of social welfare and subjecting labor, natural resources and the wealth of nations to raw exploitation, pillage and plunder, driving living standards downward and provoking unprecedented levels of discontent. We will proceed by... » read this article

In the first few days after BP's Deepwater Horizon wellhead exploded, spewing crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, cleanup workers could be seen on Louisiana beaches wearing scarlet pants and white t-shirts with the words "Inmate Labor" printed in large red block letters. Coastal residents, many of whom had... » read this article

In four months the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will hold a summit in Lisbon, Portugal. The host country was one of the 12 nations that founded the United States-dominated military bloc 61 years ago. The Warsaw Pact dissolved The rival grouping that was created six years after NATO’s formation and... » read this article

About 24 kilometres from the centre of Dhaka, in the gritty industrial suburb of Savar Upazila, down a narrow path, a small sign reads ‘Latest Washing and Blasting Industries.’ It’s not much more than a large corrugated metal shack with room for three young men, who work shoulder-to-shoulder. In the... » read this article

Editorial note: We do not usually give much credibility to 'news' from the Mainstream Media. This video, however, does seem like a worthwhile revelation,even though we are careful not to expect any real change in the traditional biased news proceeding from the MSM, even those that are touted as 'liberal',... » read this article

San Francisco - June 29, 2010 - Environmental advocate Van Jones reflects on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and what society must learn from the catastrophe. "I've never heard of a wind slick; I've never heard of a sun spill," says Jones. "There's a better way."... » read this article

(photos/comments added to this article by Axis of Logic) 15 July 2010 A speech by Tom Albanese, chief executive of the giant mining transnational Rio Tinto, underscores the key role played by the major mining companies in the June 24 coup that removed Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, and the ruthlessness... » read this article