Photographer Monika Bulaj shares powerful, intimate images of Afghanistan -- of home life, of ritual, of men and women. Behind the headlines, what does the world truly know about this place? Source: Ted.com... » read this article

Arundhati Roy speaking at the People's University in Washington Square Park, New York, held at Judson Memorial Church, 16 November 2011 Tuesday morning, the police cleared Zuccotti Park, but today the people are back. The police should know that this protest is not a battle for territory. We're not fighting... » read this article

The FBI, under considerable pressure to produce results, has resorted to unjust measures to create villains of domestic terror. July 11, 2011 On August 28, 2008, two childhood friends from Midland, Texas, Bradley Crowder and David McKay, traveled north to join thousands of protesters at the 2008 Republican National Convention... » read this article

President Obama recently reshuffled his top Washington warriors, sending CIA Director Leon Panetta, a man who knows Congress well, on to the Pentagon to replace retiring Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.  In turn, the president is bringing in General David Petraeus, present Afghan War Commander, former Centcom commander, and former... » read this article

Mourners gather in Palestine and Italy for Vittorio’s funeral Yesterday evening mourners gathered in Ramallah and Gaza in memorial events for ISM activist Vittorio Arrigoni. The events were planned to coincide with Vittorio’s funeral in Bulciago, Italy, which was attended by hundreds of people. In Ramallah, crowds gathered outside the... » read this article

TORONTO—Once celebrated as a sanctuary for American soldiers unwilling to fight in Vietnam, present-day Canada, led by a conservative minority government, has turned its back on Iraq War deserters. The ones who have crossed the border since the 2003 invasion live in fear of deportation and imprisonment.   On a... » read this article

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It was, after all, New Year’s Eve, and Lynn our hostess naturally wanted the evening to be a festive occasion. She and her husband Carl had spared no expense in providing us with the most decorous of settings in which to welcome the birth of the New Year. Besides offering... » read this article

The speeches were over. There was a mournful harmonica rendition of taps. The 500 protesters in Lafayette Park in front of the White House fell silent. One hundred and thirty-one men and women, many of them military veterans wearing old fatigues, formed a single, silent line. Under a heavy snowfall... » read this article

The official trailer for John Pilger's new film, 'The War You Don't See', in UK cinemas from Sunday 12 December 2010 and on ITV two days later at 10.35pm The War You Don't See trailer from John Pilger on Vimeo. johnpilger.com... » read this article

THE RAIN sheeted down, time washed away. I looked down from the rooftop in Saigon where, more than a generation ago, in the wake of the longest war of modern times, I had watched silent, sullen streets awash. The foreigners were gone, at last. Through the mist, like little phantoms,... » read this article

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, was jailed in Britain Tuesday on charges that are nothing more than a pretext for an act of political repression dictated by the US government. The aim of this judicial travesty is, in the first instance, to punish Assange for having made public secret... » read this article

Revolution is one of those words that capture attention. When people think of revolution the War of Independence or the French Revolution come to mind. Revolution needn’t be that extreme, however, revolution is what is needed in what has become the most repressive and militarily expansive government on the face... » read this article

“There’s class warfare, all right,” Mr. Buffett said, “but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” - NYT, Nov. 26, 2006 There is indeed a class war whose outcome will determine whether our society will remain one based on inequality with real control over society... » read this article

“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.” - Albert Camus Recently, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) raided the homes of at least eight anti-war/social justice activists here... » read this article

29 July 2010 The public release of the 92,000 secret documents on the Afghanistan war by WikiLeaks, together with the reaction of the media and the official establishment, has immense political implications for the antiwar struggle in the US and internationally. This collection of battlefield reports from US military personnel... » read this article

Editor's Comment: The work of Julian Assange and others at WikiLeaks is truly heroic. Julian released the headline-making video of the U.S. military slaughtering unarmed civilians in Afghanistan. Another hero, SPC Bradley Manning was arrested by the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Division in May for leaking the video and many... » read this article

This coming week, the House of Representatives is expected to vote on $33 billion for war. A majority of Americans opposes this, but a sizable minority of Americans supports it. No one who supports it can be aware of any of the following six facts. 1. For many months, probably... » read this article

“When you vote for war, don't be surprised when you get it.” - Cindy Sheehan “I will send at least two additional combat brigades to Afghanistan.” - Presidential Candidate Barack Obama “This war (Iraq) prevents us from tackling every serious threat that we face, from a resurgent al-Qaeda in Afghanistan... » read this article

(photos added below by Axis of Logic: The Iran the U.S. and Israel want to bomb.) The history of endless US savagery reads like a horror story. Of course there was Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Just a little preview of things to come when a monster gets its hands on weapons... » read this article