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

"This is meant to be a call for the 40 – 50 somethings in America to get off our butts and make a difference is some more aggressive way." - Joe Boyd Axis of Logic       Frequently Shaken, Never Quite Stirred  We remember the Vietnam body counts read,... » read this article

(originally published on Axis of Logic on August 9, 2007) The Problem with Jesus  .... or was Jesus really run-down by a Bulldozer ??    To start with, he was from a middle class family whose father was a simple carpenter, nothing fancy, nothing exciting. You might also call him a... » read this article

  Three poems for Oscar Grant Face down by Dee Allen Smashed vehicle windows Cannot scream. Burning dumpsters Cannot unleash their agony into the smoky evening sky. Neither damaged T-Mobile nor McDonald’s nor Wells Fargo Can feel pain. Underground subways Cannot fight their sudden closure. So there’s no need to... » read this article

Sarah Meyer* sent us this essay on Harold Pinter from the Brussells Tribunal of which she is a member: We are sad to learn that Harold Pinter, honorary member of the BRussells Tribunal, died today, Christmas day 2008, at the age of 78. The last thing he wrote was a contribution... » read this article

The Dirty, the Clean and the Obelix Lebanon (Phoenicia) was always in the middle of many Historical happenings and between many different Empires and Cultures.... nothing new....nothing strange.  Suleiman Franjieh Lately two opposed Lebanese leaders went simultaneously to visit Cairo and Tehran.   Both leaders were Christian-Lebanese and even from the... » read this article

Originally published on Axis of Logic on May 8, 2007. There is a great hue and cry over the May Day demonstrations in Los Angeles (legitimate) that saw the LAPD in their military gear - assaulting mostly Mexican immigrants. Nobody should suffer brutalization by the police.This has been given a... » read this article

The Mavericks He wears a ten-gallon hat on his $4.00 per-gallon head, and sports aviation glasses over his bushy eyebrows. He wants to ride a mustang, but feral horses have issues with cowboys and their domesticpolicy, preferring true independence to unbridled secession. She's a reformer without a reformation, and her... » read this article

The Development Set Excuse me, friends, I must catch my jet I'm off to join the Development Set; My bags are packed, and I've had all my shots I have traveller's checks and pills for the trots! The Development Set is bright and noble Our thoughts are deep and our... » read this article

The Canaanites pounded wheat and baked bread on me. The children of Abraham carried me to the Temple of Prayer and I became a Wailing Wall. Then came the Romans and the Hellenized Jews put me in a flower garden where they drank wine and expounded on the virtues of... » read this article

Mirza Beg writes: One of the greatest gifts of writing is that I have come to know kindred souls in far off lands, whom I may never meet, but who have touched me deeply. Ashok Gupta and I have exchanged notes and poems. His Poems share the inexpressible helplessness of... » read this article

America (I am blind to your virtues) I have seen What I have not seen The nightmare vision Of homeless soldiers Washing their feet In the fountains of Malibu As the flashy cars of millionaire Middle East philanthropists Pass them by I have seen The ragged trousered soldiers Panhandling on... » read this article

Tie and Ties   Gordon Brown went to visit his masters in Washington................ and for those of you who claim that Gordon is a puppet just like his predecessor Tony, I say that they are not "completely right"..... Because , Gordon has chosen all by himself the colour of his... » read this article

Rising on the other side Yesterday I called my doctor He said take this pill and you'll be fine I laughed inside and thought to myself He has no clue what's on my mind I think of things that most do not The White House, the Greenhouse, race cars Red... » read this article

Foible Seething, creeping, seeping up; of a test, then a foible, then divulged. Our electric sibling, our buzzing mate; the last heralds of the dark ages - what tongues slipped that Foible, we call the internets.... » read this article

Sunday, April 08, 2007 "And on the third day, I rose" Something inside keeps pushing me to write through. Even though I have no "ink" left. Something, someone, like a still little voice deep from within, from without, gently commands me...WRITE. And I struggle and I wrestle...with words. Words that... » read this article

Change Bill Costley and Michael Smith   The night before the morning that shall never come it is almost midnight in Amsterdam it is dark outside a dark night a dark Christmas,  no snow and probably a dark Eid for Islam and a dark Silvester Eve , very soon Baghdad... » read this article

How thick is the icing on this cake? Double Chocolate with marshmallow, the story goes. Spoon by spoon we're getting only icing. Where's the cake? Does anyone know? Icing's making us real stupid and fat. Maybe that's the plan. Scrape away the propagandist goo, Let's see the cake. We find... » read this article

Gracefully she approached Gracefully she approached, in a dress of bright blue silk; With an olive branch in her hand, and many tales of sorrows in her eyes. Running to her, I greeted her, and took her hand in mine: Pulses could still be felt in her veins; warm was... » read this article

 "...this is about exchanging ideas... it's about getting a message out. It's about empowering people by giving them a voice. I know not everyone believes what I say is what they think. But like I said before.. ya know.. red and blue is not black and white. We're all together.... » read this article