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

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah secretary general of Hezbollah in a speech in Baalbek – Lebanon on Saturday January 14th declared that he would like to thank Mr. Ban Ki Moon Secretary General of the United Nations for worrying about Hezbollah’s growing military strength. Sayyed Nasrallah on Arbaeen: "Our Certainty of this... » read this article

"Farewell, my library! Farewell, the house of wisdom, the abode of philosophers, a house and witness for literature! How many sleepless nights I spent there, reading and writing, the night is silent and the people asleep… goodbye, my books!... I know not what has become of you after we left:... » 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

"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

Editor's Comment: Venezuela's opposition once again appears to be withering on a vine that has not taken root since President Chavez was first elected 12 years ago. The men who would be president this year are little more than plastic media candidates, reading scripts written by their funding source in... » read this article

"Despite warnings from the Obama administration that Latin America should not engage in relations with Iran, President Ahmadinejad held a successful four-country tour in the region forging commerce and trade and consolidating relations."  T/ COI P/ Presidential Press Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez received his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in Caracas... » read this article

Washington has made no secret of its disdain for Venezuela’s President Chavez and mass media have turned a democratic leader into a dictatorship. Does Venezuela really represent a threat to the United States or is the hype just an excuse for regime change? [NOTE: I accompanied President Chavez on his... » read this article

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is... » read this article

At 5:20 p.m., Thursday, December 8, 2011 our shipment of 9,000 liters of clean water left the El Libertador Air Base (BAEL), at Palo Negro, Venezuela and landed at the airport in Port au Prince, Haiti about 2 hours later. We purchased the water at San Miguel Water Company in... » read this article

“Over earth and ocean with gentle motion This pilot is guiding me.” P.B. Shelley, The Cloud After the Haiti earthquake in 2010, which the US used as yet another excuse to militarise the tortured country’s aid relief, Hugo Chavez bravely quoted a Russian Northern Fleet document suggesting that America’s huge... » read this article

Editor's Note: It's one thing for a writer to explain a complex issue with his or her peers within their own discipline. But there's a certain genius among those who can translate the story into lay terms which the rest of us can grasp. We are grateful to Annibale Marsili... » read this article

William James Martin teaches mathematics. We’ve been in email contact for a few years, and during that time, he’s moved schools more than once. I don’t know if he moves because he hasn’t been able to find a school that will offer him tenure, if he simply has an adventurous... » read this article

Editor's Comment: We received the following letter from our friend John Spritzler in response to William Martin's essay, On the 9/11 Conspiracy Theories, which we featured on Axis of Logic on January 2, 2012. There are two levels in this challenge which we will briefly consider in this editorial commentary.... » read this article

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

Editor's Note: Please permit me to add a few things to Greg Grist's brilliant essay: if anyone by happenstance were to take our publication of this essay as even the slightest suggestion of our endorsement or liking of Ron Paul as a US presidential candidate ... well ... you're wrong... » read this article

EDITOR'S COMMENTARY: As can be seen, Mr Martin's original essay below generated a significant response from readers. While the author did engage in the debate, it is clear that both sides had little tolerance for the views of the other. Mr Martin requested the opportunity to craft a formal response... » read this article

THE INAUGURATION OF POLICE STATE USA 2012: Obama Signs the “National Defense Authorization Act " With minimal media debate, at a time when Americans were celebrating the New Year with their loved ones,  the “National Defense Authorization Act " H.R. 1540 was signed into law by President Barack Obama. The... » read this article

Best wishes from all the editors and writers at Axis of Logic And don't forget to keep your New Year's resolutions ... Simón Bolívar In Black & White Figaro the Magnificent Audrey & Joey Huggies Aspen, Audrey & Joey Audrey, thinking 'ain't I cute?' Pampers, the world's nicest cat Butterscotch... » read this article

Jean Ziegler[1], in his recently published book 'Massive Destruction – the Geopolitics of Hunger'[2], is denouncing the brutal arms the neoliberal masters of the world are using in order to annihilate resistance to their senseless attempt to run the world as they see fit. Jean Ziegler is a tireless fighter... » read this article