A new world is being born, one without the US dollar greasing the wheels of commerce, notes Eric Walberg Yekaterinburg, famous tragically as the spot Lenin chose to have the Tsar and his family executed in 1918, and ironically as the fiefdom of Boris Yeltsin, who finished off the Russian... » read this article

Buried on page 83 of the 89-page Report on Financial Regulatory Reform issued by the U.S. Administration on June 17 is a recommendation that the new Financial Stability Board strengthen and institutionalize its mandate to promote global financial stability. Financial stability is a worthy goal, but the devil is in... » read this article

A recent study was conducted in Vidharbha, India to determine the effect of Bt (Bacillius thuringiensis) cotton on the microbial population of various soil micro-organisms. The results indicated a significant decline in total microbial biomass in the Bt soil. If current trends continue, the researcher estimated that 6.7 million hectares... » read this article

This week marks the end of the dollar’s reign as the world’s reserve currency.  It marks the start of a terrible period of economic and political decline in the United States. And it signals the last gasp of the American imperium. That’s over. It is not coming back. And what... » read this article

`Its high input costs have increased farmers' indebtedness' MUMBAI: A new study on the introduction of Bt cotton in Vidarbha reveals that it has failed in the region. Suman Sahai, Director of Gene Campaign, told journalists on Wednesday that despite specific knowledge that Bt cotton would not work in rainfed... » read this article

In Mortal Hands – A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age.  Stephanie Cooke.  Bloomsbury, New York, 2009.   In an era when the corporate media and the corporate politicians and the corporate military men gang up together and denounce and threaten other countries because of their nuclear related activities, they... » read this article

13 June 2009 Even as US unemployment rolls soar to their highest levels in post-war history, employed workers face the worst conditions since the Great Depression, according to a front-page article in Friday’s USA Today. Based on its analysis of employment data, the newspaper reports that pay cuts, reduced hours,... » read this article

The praise heaped on President Obama for his speech to the Muslim world by writers on the left, both here and abroad, is disturbing. I’m referring to people who I think should know better, who’ve taken Politics 101 and can easily see the many hypocrisies in Obama’s talk, as well... » 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

4 June 2009 The campaign for Iran’s June 12 presidential elections has been dominated by debate over national strategy between the four candidates allowed by the clerical Guardian Council to run. Amid a global economic crisis and expectations of a shift in US foreign policy after the election of President... » read this article

9/11 Blueprint for Truth: The Architecture of Destruction Commercial architect Richard Gage (founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth) presents a watertight case for controlled demolition of the three steel-building collapses at the World Trade Center, New York on 9/11/01. Includes physicist Steven Jones' updated evidence of thermite. Gage's... » read this article

President Obama’s greatest foreign policy successes are found in the reports of the mass media.  His greatest failures go unreported, but are of great consequence.  A survey of the major foreign policy priorities of the White House reveals a continuous series of major setbacks, which call into question the principal... » read this article

Editor's Note: According to a NYT article today, the Pakistan military has killed 700 "militants" in SWAT in the last 4 days. Obviously, the military has ceded Pakistan sovereignty to the U.S. under pressure from Richard Holbrooke and Hillary Clinton. Obama, under the guidance and direction of the Council on... » read this article

Editor's Note: For nigh on 10 years I have been telling my friends that I've never been more optimistic in my life than I am now at age 66. Always, the response is a puzzled look or a query, "How can you say such a thing, when the world looks... » read this article

Within a week after security forces foiled an assassination plot against President Evo Morales inside Bolivia, the United Nations General Assembly approved on April 22 the president’s initiative to create International Mother Earth Day to protect the rights of Mother Earth and of all living beings. Bolivian security forces on... » read this article

Editor's Note: The following film documentary is conveniently presented in 18 parts, each covering a different sub-topic and each ranging in length from approximately 6 to 10 minutes. The segments can be viewed in their entirety or according to the viewer's interest, by title. They examine geopolitics and New Zealand's... » read this article

Scientific American has at times been very harsh on economists1 and as one would expect it does well with its articles on science, many of which I understand to a certain degree and others that are too technical for my knowledge.  A recent article on global food shortages rests in... » read this article

(2 reports) Australian Labor government escalates military involvement in Afghanistan By James Cogan 2 May 2009 The Rudd Labor government announced on Wednesday a significant expansion of Australia’s military commitment to the US-led occupation of Afghanistan. The number of Australian troops operating in the southern province of Uruzgan, alongside Dutch... » read this article

"So be careful, if Obama looks better than Bush, it means you just don’t know how he’s about to screw you. Careful Cuba and Venezuela. And if you’re looking for a black president to finally make America discuss its history of racism, wait a little longer." The World Conference on... » read this article

One can only wonder what prompted the incredible absurdities written by President Obama in his April 16th love letter to the employees of the Central Intelligence Agency(CIA). It not only absolves CIA torturers from prosecution on the grounds that they were only following orders, (the same defense employed by Nazi... » read this article