Editor's Comment: Please note that The Red River Integrated Border Enforcement Team (IBET) is being billed as a "binational partnership" to “enhance border integrity and security along the shared Canada/U.S. border." In reality, this move takes the next step in building a new police state in both countries. It also... » read this article

When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die. Let the seas be emptied of life. Let one useless war after another be waged. Let the masses... » read this article

7 May 2012 Friday’s US jobless report, the most dismal so far this year, demonstrates the complete failure of the capitalist system to provide jobs for the unemployed. Nearly five years after the official beginning of the recession, and nearly four years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered a... » read this article

"A few months ago I told the American people that I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that is true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not." — President Ronald Reagan, 1987 1 On April 23, speaking at... » read this article

Editor's Note: "Lori High Priestess" suggested this video created by "The Dream" in her Reader's Comment to an article we published, "Lies Killed The Colonel." Both, LHP and The Dream are both long-time correspondents with Axis of Logic and we thank them both. Lori wrote the following comment: "I am posting... » read this article

According to Chomsky, America's declining power is self-inflicted. Last year, the Occupy Movement rose up spontaneously in cities and towns across the country, radically shifted the discourse and rattled the economic elite with its defiant populism. It was, according to Noam Chomsky, “the first major public response to thirty years... » read this article

Editor's Note: Now that the corporations have penetrated Mother Earth, on every continent, polluting rivers and pristine wilderness and robbing indigenous people of the wealth beneath their homes and villages we have this new for-profit adventure. Of all places for billionaires to put their money as national economies collapse and... » read this article

In taking back oil and gas company YPF, Argentina's state is reversing past mistakes. Europe is in no position to be outraged. The Argentinian government's decision to renationalise the oil and gas company YPF has been greeted with howls of outrage, threats, forecasts of rage and ruin, and a rude... » read this article

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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

"If you put a label on genetically engineered food you might as well put a skull and crossbones on it." -- Norman Braksick, president of Asgrow Seed Co., a subsidiary of Monsanto quoted in the Kansas City Star, March 7, 1994 "Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of... » read this article

Wake up and smell the roses, Wake up and smell the Earth! Wake up and smell the atmosphere -- Survival here, what's it worth? China's on a scentless runaway train of concrete, more roads for more cars raising the heat. Fukushima still tottering on a brink of destruction; before building... » read this article

The Anti-Empire Report The Holy Triumvirate — The United States, NATO, and the European Union — or an approved segment thereof, can usually get what they want. They wanted Saddam Hussein out, and soon he was swinging from a rope. They wanted the Taliban ousted from power, and, using overwhelming... » read this article

Reporter: “What do you think of Western civilization, Mr. Gandhi?” Mohandas Gandhi: “I think it would be a good idea.”   The quote is probably apocryphal, but if the Mahatma didn’t say it, he should have.   Now we have something close to a global civilization: most of the world’s... » read this article

Everybody Wants to Rule the World Welcome to your life There’s no turning back Even while we sleep We will find you Acting on your best behaviour Turn your back on mother nature Everybody wants to rule the world It’s my own design It’s my own remorse Help me to... » read this article

The fact that the world is being restructured from decentralized diversity to collectivized hierarchy by an authoritarian regime cloaked in green trappings can hardly be disputed. The final push toward the next and perhaps final phase may be announced this June at the 2012 U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development in... » read this article

From the Editors: We've republished this song in the past by different artists. This time, Axis of Logic reader, contributor and friend, Ed Dake, sent this to us from California - guaranteed to slow us all down to do some important pondering on this Sunday evening. Ed sent it with the following... » read this article

While the drop in oil demand and enhaced production should be pulling prices down, fuel has never been more expensive. Engdahl dismisses explanations linked to saber-rattling and the peak oil theory. He points instead an accusing finger at oil price speculation and manipulation by Wall Street banks, with the collusion... » read this article

István Mészáros is professor emeritus at the University of Sussex, where he held the Chair of Philosophy for fifteen years. His book, Marx’s Theory of Alienation, was awarded the Isaac Deutscher Prize in 1970. He is also author of Beyond Capital, Socialism or Barbarism, The Structural Crisis of Capital, The... » read this article

RESIST THE POLICE STATE. BRING DOWN THE MACHINE. Lyrics Come on! Uggh! Come on, although ya try to discredit Ya still never read it The needle, I'll thread it Radically poetic Standin' with the fury that they had in '66 And like E-Double I'm mad Still knee-deep in the system's... » read this article