In addition to sanctions and a series of state-sponsored acts of terrorism and sabotage directed against the people and the nation of Iran, the U.S. and Israel are threating Iran with unprovoked aggression. Iran is unfairly accused of having an “ambition” to develop nuclear weapons and posing a “threat” to... » read this article

Israel to the US: 'We'll Give You the War, You Give Us the Cannon Fodder" In meeting rooms in London, Tel Aviv and Washington the dice have been thrown: snake eyes. Flashback, 1963: When John F. Kennedy decided not to escalate the soon-to-be disastrous Vietnam war and issued National Security... » read this article

In August 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, asking Jourdan to come back to work on his farm. Since being emancipated, Jourdan had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family. He responded spectacularly with the... » read this article

Egypt's crackdown on Republican and Democratic organisations is hardly surprising: they're widely seen as stooges of US empire I have to laugh when I see the International Republican Institute (IRI) described by the international media as an "organization that promotes democracy" (in this case, on NPR). The IRI is in... » read this article

This week’s Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in western democracies.  This is Assange’s final appeal against his extradition to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct that were originally dismissed by the chief prosecutor in Stockholm and constitute... » read this article

31 January 2012 The New York Times on Sunday published a lengthy article in its weekly magazine that sympathetically and clinically lays out the arguments of Israeli policy makers in favor of a military attack on Iran sometime this year. The article, written by Ronen Bergman, a prominent Israeli journalist... » read this article

President Chavez presented his annual report on activities carried out in 2011 and his program for 2012 to the Venezuelan Parliament. After thoroughly carrying out the formalities required by this important activity, he addressed the official state authorities, members of parliament from all parties, and supporters and opposition members who... » read this article

The idea of economic conversion, of retooling and retraining pieces of the military industrial complex to build what other wealthy nations have (infrastructure, energy, education, etc) converged with the end of the Cold War two decades back. It was time for a peace dividend as well as a little sanity... » read this article

Editor’s Commentary: According to the 2012 report issued this week:   Human Rights Watch is one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights. By focusing international attention where human rights are violated, we give voice to the oppressed and hold oppressors accountable for their... » read this article

Editorial Comment: For the last 10 years Axis of Logic has consistently boycotted US national elections. Do not participate in the fraudulent 2012 elections in the United States.  Do not give credibilty to a false democracy. Your most powerful vote is abstention. Vote on your feet. Vote on the street.... » read this article

The United States claims Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons. Israel says Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons. Iran says it is trying to build nuclear power generation - you know, the same kind of activity the US paid Iran to do during the reign of the Shah.... » read this article

Statement Venezuela Withdraws Consular Personnel in Miami The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has verified with extreme concern the increase in threats against Venezuelan consular personnel in Miami, Florida. The U.S. government’s decision to declare the Consul General of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela persona non grata based... » read this article

Editor's Commentary: Our publication of this interview with Chris Hedges does not necessarily mean that we are on board with everything he has to say. Actually, that's never the case with anything we publish on Axis of Logic. This video contains complexities within US liberalism and Chris Hedges is a... » read this article

I left Guantanamo Bay much as I had arrived almost five years earlier -- shackled hand-to-waist, waist-to-ankles, and ankles to a bolt on the airplane floor. My ears and eyes were goggled, my head hooded, and even though I was the only detainee on the flight this time, I was... » read this article

Officially, America is now bankrupt: financially, economically, politically – and morally. Its criminal aggression towards Iran is just one of many parts of a jigsaw that add up to a clear and grotesque picture of what the United States of America now represents in the 21st Century world. The numbers... » read this article

Most of the blame for the crisis in Somalia goes to the U.S. as it deploys its military might in effort to control Africa's oil   The worst humanitarian catastrophe in the world is unfolding in the Horn of Africa, which includes Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Djibouti. This region... » read this article

"And one day we must ask the question, Why are there forty million poor people in America? And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic... » read this article

13 January 2012 Job cutting continues in the new year across a wide range of economic sectors in the US. Layoff announcements so far in January appear to follow last month’s trend, in which planned firings rose 31 percent over previous year figures. According to Chicago-based Challenger, Gray & Christmas,... » read this article

Axis Reader, CanDoJack's comment today in the Reader Comment section below, prompted us to bring Tracy and her brilliant music back for a replay. Her lyrics and music in these three songs are prophetic, even more relevant today than when she first wrote and sang them. - LMB Editor's Note:... » read this article

Editorial comment: This excellent article from 2006 is well worth getting republished today. Every word is as important in the year of 2012 as it was when it was first written.  -SON The push to attack Iran has been on for so long that entire categories of arguments for it... » read this article