Editor's Note: One of the Axis reader comments below raises an important question. Please note that the Washington Post did not publish their poll results until after the Iranian election. As a result of this omission and of other western media propaganda, unrealistic expectations of a victory were created for Mousavi supporters. Those western-nurtured expectations are... » read this article

June was a busy month for two of Washington’s real ‘Axis of Evil’. Venezuela’s Chavez completed his nationalisation of oil and Iran’s Ahmedinejad stemmed a Western-backed colour revolution, leaving both bad boys in place, muses Eric Walberg   What drives US foreign policy? Is it primarily the domestic economy, as... » read this article

“The sooner the extremists are isolated and unwelcome in Muslim communities, the sooner we will all be safer”. - U.S. President Barack Obama, Cairo, June 04, 2009. According to US leaders and their Zionist handlers, the term “extremist” is any nation or movement resisting US-Israel domination. They are accused of... » read this article

The month of June brought a lot more than its heat to the world. The EU, Lebanon and Iran were to hold their elections and Netanyahu was waiting to catch the moment of announcing his Hawkish policy for the world. The EU electorate allowed the right-wing parties (Geert Wilders, Nick... » read this article

We were all moved to tears of grief and anger when the Zionist state launched its murderous bombardment against the people of Gaza in December and January. Millions of us took to the streets in unprecedented protests around the globe. Each and every one of us has asked himself what... » read this article

You who in a minefield perform the morning prayer, from today’s rulers, expect not but words. Expect nothing but love letters back. Don’t look, our imam, nothing there except ignorance and darkness. Nothing there except mud and smut. Nothing there except miscarriage and dwarf cities, where the rich eat the... » read this article

“Change for the poor means food and jobs, not a relaxed dress code or mixed recreation…Politics in Iran is a lot more about class war than religion.” - Financial Times Editorial June 15 2009 Introduction There is hardly any election, in which the White House has a significant stake, where... » read this article

The News: Carter says Gaza Palestinians treated like animals Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are being "treated more like animals than human beings", former U.S. president Jimmy Carter said on Tuesday. On a visit to the enclave, he condemned Israel's January bombardment of Gaza and its continuing trade blockade, which... » read this article

On Sunday 14 June 2009, hours before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a statement announcing his expectations of the international community, Israeli F-16 jets dropped several bombs along the southern Gaza border. The Israeli military said it was targeting underground tunnels. Four Palestinians were wounded. (More on the exchange... » read this article

Jordan is an amazing country.  Most of the population here comes from Palestine.  Some refugees, some displaced people, some economic migrants.  The infrastructure and economy mushroomed in the 30 years since I was a student at the University of Jordan and the population more than doubled.  Beautiful clean streets, thriving... » read this article

Since the Lebanese parliamentary elections on June 7, the mainstream media have declared that the results of the elections clearly show that Hizbollah and its coalition partners have suffered a “crushing defeat.” Some, led by the New York Times and cable news outlets, went even further, suggesting that the Cairo... » read this article

June 14, 2009 There is no doubt that Benyamin Netanyahu’s odious screed at Bar Ilan University Sunday night was a slap in the face to all those who gave the so-called "peace process" between the Palestinian people and Israel the benefit of the doubt. First, it was a brazenly direct... » read this article

Javier Solana's meeting with Hajj Hassan today was pregnant with significance. Solana, EU's Foreign Policy Chief, was not only meeting with a Lebanese MP, he was also meeting with a "terrorist", by definition of the Obama regime in Washington. Hassan is one of 11 Hezbollah MPs who won seats in Lebanon's... » read this article

Less than a day since leaving Palestine and I already miss it but I will be back  but I am in a second home, Jordan.  Thousands of people were leaving the West Bank through the only border crossing allowed to us in Jericho area.  Many thousands headed to Mecca for... » read this article

In an open clinic in the West Bank city of Jenin, 86-year-old Israeli nurse and volunteer for Physicians for Human Rights, Pnina Feiler explains why it is important to her to volunteer at a free clinic in a Palestinian refugee camp Thursday June 4th 2009 When I was younger I... » read this article

Editor's Note: Important background information on this story was published by the BBC on May 29, 2009. The attack on the mosque in Zahedan has all the earmarks of an operation spawned by the CIA or Mossad. The BBC reported - "A provincial official in Iran has accused the United States of being... » read this article

Editorial Note: Axis of Logic of course does not attempt to promote or diminish any candidate in the Iranian elections - that's the business of the Iranian people in a democratic society. However, the same journalistic practice can hardly be claimed by the editors of the BBC who cast light and shadows on the... » read this article

5 June 2009 The speech delivered by US President Barack Obama in Cairo yesterday was riddled with contradictions. He declared his opposition to the “killing of innocent men, women, and children,” but defended the ongoing US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the US proxy war in Pakistan, while remaining... » read this article

“We've accomplished quite a few things, and I think the most important one is to cement the principle that the path to peace is through negotiations and not through violence.”  These were the ‘encouraging’ words modestly uttered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during a joint press conference with the... » read this article

May 29,2009 Iran official accuses US over mosque bomb A provincial official in Iran has accused the United States of being behind Thursday's bombing of a mosque that killed at least 19 people. Jalal Sayah, deputy governor of Sistan-Baluchestan province, said three people had been arrested following the attack. "According... » read this article