Reinvent America and the world. -Lawrence Ferlingehtti, from Poetry As Insurgent Art  About the only inventions that the guardians of the corporate-state covet and have recently employed are high and low tech gadgets. While the high tech is mostly unleashed by the military for wars, the low tech, being used... » read this article

Can you hear us calling out from a Freedom of Speech Zone? We are able to say whatever the F*&# is necessary so long as it is being emitted from this oxymoronic Zone of the status quo, a classroom under the supervision of the corporate-state where learning to count numbers... » read this article

. . . . The cork has popped, the cat is out of the bag, People are coming out of the woodwork, coming out of the closet, some are going out of their minds, some are fed up with going hungry being out of luck, out of touch, on the... » read this article

I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? - Leonard Cohen, from his song "Hallelujah" There is music in the voices of the People declaring real, impassioned concerns and demands. Personal and communal truths... » read this article

Ed. note: Mankh's poem reminds me of an admonition from the I Ching: "Hold fast to the lessons learned from nature." - LMB Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) is an essayist and resident poet on Axis of Logic. In addition to his work as a writer, he is a small... » read this article

Editor's Note: Mankh, our Resident Poet wrote the following poem for Axis of Logic Readers ... his response to a recent article, "Unrepentant Cheney Stands His Ground," published in the Chicago Sun Times. - LMB   When all Heaven breaks loose When all Heaven breaks loose Dick Cheney will have no underground... » read this article

Fearlessly the idiot faced the crowd, smiling Merciless, the magistrate turns 'round, frowning and who's the fool who wears the crown - Pink Floyd, from "Fearless" You are about to order lunch and the waiter has a sudden panic attack about the availability of salmon. Suddenly, what was a $19.95... » read this article

note: While a recent essay by the author, "Theaters War, Absurd, Educational, and Otherwise," addressed the variety of archetypal theaters in the world, this piece highlights a cast of characters aka actors. As the theater saying goes, "There are no small actors, only small parts." However, in the mainstream media... » read this article

Riffing Orwell George Orwell prophesied much of the current doublespeak with his phrases such as: "war is peace." Nobel Peace Prize winning president Obama, currently commander-in-chiefing of war in six so-called theaters -- Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia -- fits the bill, or more so runs up the... » read this article

  Reel Mower went back to the future and bought a push mower no gas no fumes no cacophony of vibrating noise and suddenly a pause to talk with people first time the neighbor waved hi while the mowing was going on some teens walking by laughed as if it... » read this article

As he spreads his tall, lean wings sounds like the honoring of a Queen or a King so tune your dial to hear the choir of angels sing. Temperatures heating quickly in the late May sun. Look! What's that in the sky? . . . it's the Gil Scott-Heron! As... » read this article

It is not difficult to get lulled into thinking that one’s actions have little effect, what with the powerful rule of the corporate-governmental elite too often hiding behind their armies, mercenaries and three-card montes, or behind their “press # to speak to...” a real person, if they even have a... » read this article

Declined To Be Interviewed Blues   The water he was reportedly dumped in declined to be interviewed, Bin Laden's DNA declined to be interviewed and the fish, the honeybees, and caged chickens all declined to be interviewed.   At night, pacing the rooms wondering what in the world to believe... » read this article

  Doesn't Cost Anything to Pay Attention   background people mutter endless tv chatter gadget distractions   pay attention   there's gambling on oil prices they call it "the geo-political risk factor"   pay attention   which came first the chicken of information overload or the egg of attention deficit?... » read this article

In the face of corporate greed, government waste and other disasters it may sound cliché to say that sharing and caring is one of the cures, yet here is what 64-year-old Susumu Sugawara (who steered through the tsunami by riding the waves!) is quoted as saying about the island Oshima,... » read this article

"The Japanese word Kamikaze is usually translated as "divine wind" (kami is the word for "god", "spirit", or "divinity", and kaze for "wind"). The word kamikaze originated as the name of major typhoons in 1274 and 1281, which dispersed Mongolian invasion fleets." (Source) Japan: What Will Become of You? Land... » read this article

POPULAR UPRISINGS "I, a girl, am going down to Tahrir Square and I will stand alone. and I’ll hold up a banner, perhaps people will show some honor . . .”                                            - Asmaa Mahfouz, 26-year-old if you see something, say something i saw children making a snowman, and from the... » read this article

    Charles Hoy Fort was a writer and researcher of odd phenomena   What does cheese taste like or water, for that matter . . . a blueberry is not an orange yet both categorized as fruit, in size like, oh say, planets Mercury and Jupiter, but taste, and feel... » read this article

I am not from the East or the West... I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one... - Rumi1 I remember my first wild strawberry... so tiny... but the flavor was magnified, as compared with the large, store-bought kind that my city-upbringing taste buds were accustomed... » read this article

"Hip Hop and Rap your way to liberation" - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poetry As Insurgent Art If necessity is the mother of invention, then tragedy oftentimes serves as a transformation point. It does not have to be that way, yet people often make a choice to change course or attitude when... » read this article