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  • Bjorn Jorgensen, Norway , Telegraph (UK)

    Editor's Note: The northern lights, or aurora borealis, are seen when the solar wind stream hits Earth's magnetic field, sparking bright auroras around the Arctic Circle. The photos and comments beneath them are by photographer Bjorn Jorgensen who lives in Tromso in northern Norway. Kevin, a friend and reader of Axis of Logic... » read this article
  • Mohamed Khodr. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    “But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.” - Declaration of Independence “Once... » read this article
  • John Pilger , JohnPilger.com

    In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes the growing boycott, disinvestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine. Based on the anti-apartheid campaign that helped bring down the racist regime in South Africa, BDS is becoming a catch-cry for freedom in countries whose... » read this article
  • Alex Lantier , WSWS

    18 January 2010 Amid the humanitarian tragedy following the January 12 earthquake in Haiti, Washington has concentrated on establishing indefinite military control of the country. Fearing mass protests and riots by desperate Haitians against inadequate rescue efforts, US logistical efforts are focused on massing tens of thousands of troops for... » read this article
  • John Roberts , WSWS

    12 January 2010 A Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China came into effect on New Year’s Day, creating the world’s third largest free trade bloc behind the European Union (EU) and the North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA). While limited in... » read this article
  • Ashley Seager , Guardian.co.uk / The Observer

    As the past decade slips away, it is easy to remember it economically as one which began with the dotcom boom and ended with the "Great Implosion" that left Britain, the US and other industrialised nations struggling with the most painful recession in the postwar period. But a deeper shift... » read this article
  • Barry Grey , WSWS

    4 January 2010 The new decade has begun with a series of events signaling that the United States will intensify its aggressive and militarist policies in Central Asia, East Africa, the Middle East and beyond. These actions indicate that international tensions, fueled over the previous decade by the US-led wars... » read this article
  • Maidhc Ó Cathail , Sabbah Report

    All too often, official inquiries are conducted by the very people who should themselves be under investigation. In this respect, Britain’s Chilcot Inquiry on the Iraq war bears a distressing similarity to the 9/11 Commission. In a remarkable symmetry, both inquiries involve a Jewish Zionist historian, who not only advised... » read this article
  • Petition , Boycott Flying

    December 31, 2009 Update Today we begin the first international campaign to boycott flying. Many of us have been grumbling for awhile about the increasingly humiliating experience of going to an airport but now we are saying, "Enough is enough!" Our Open Letter To the TSA and the Aviation Industry... » read this article
  • Barry Grey , WSWS

    28 December 2009 The nearly catastrophic attempt to blow up a US passenger jet during its final approach to Detroit Metro Airport on Christmas Day raises a number of serious questions. While many details of the attempted terror attack and the biography of the would-be suicide bomber remain sketchy, widely-reported... » read this article
  • Ghali Hassan , Axis of Logic exclusive

    The outcome of the UN climate meeting in Copenhagen was “a gross violation of the tradition of the United Nations”. We have been asked “to sign a suicide pact, an incineration pact, in order to maintain the economic dominance of a few countries. It's a solution based on values that... » read this article
  • Mahesh-Bhatt and Ajay Kanchan , CAC Production

    Editor's Note: “Poison on the Platter”, is an eye-opening film, made by Mahesh Bhatt and Ajay Kanchan, illustrating how all of our lives are going to be (adversely) affected by genetically modified foods. It is no longer a farmer’s issue alone. It's a matter of the consumers’ right to food safety. For... » read this article
  • Eric Walberg , EricWalberg.com

    2000 - Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak resigns, marking the end of the Oslo peace process; 2nd Intifadasparked by Ariel Sharon visiting Temple Mount with armed escort; Mohammed Al-Dura killed by Israeli sniper; Bashir Al-Assad inherits the Syrian presidency on the death of his father Hafiz. 2001 - Taliban control... » read this article
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World News
  • Khadr Case Raises Broad Questions on Child Detainees
    Canada's top judges expressed such concern in a Jan. 29 decision, arguing that Khadr has endured and continued to experience violations of his rights under the constitutional Canadian Charter of Rights after the U.S. military...
  • Seeking A Kinder, Gentler Image For Israel
    Israel submitted its formal response last month to a U.N.-commissioned probe that accused both Israel and Hamas of war crimes during last winter's war in the Gaza Strip. Israel defended its conduct and pledged to...
  • GREECE: New Migrant Law Tough But Respects Rights
    The newly elected Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) government's plans to move legislation, that will greatly affect migrants and refugees, have been both welcomed and criticised by rights organisations and activists. The interior ministry is ready...
  • Israel Admits Detention of International Activists Illegal
    A state prosecutor admitted before the Supreme Court today that the Immigration Police illegally detained the two international activists arrested yesterday in a pre-dawn raid on the International Solidarity Movement's  Ramallah offices. The two will...
  • Berlusconi, Israel, and The Big Brother
    After the three-day visit of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to Israel and a short visit to the Occupied Palestinian Territories, a judgement is due. Berlusconi came with a large Italian ministry delegation (Foreign Minister...
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