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1. Fake Lesbian Phenomenon [Explicit Photos & Video] [4,738]

2. Sex Addiction [4,182]

3. More Casual About Sex [Hook-Up Culture] [4,180]

4. 2: Top Five Viral Videos [3,733]

5. 5: Fantasy Five [Explicit Videos] [3,649]

6. 27: Last Week's Front Page Photo Stories [3,626]

7. Cybersex Games [3,135]

8. Miley Cyrus, "Incest" & America's Culture War [2,952]

9. From Lolita to Miley Cyrus: Delicious Nymphets [2,463]

10. Almost Dead Bush: You Say Asshole; I Say Arsehole [2,099]

11. New Art: "Actress Slash Model" [Martin Maloney] [2,015]

12. Sex & Society: Prostitutes Condemned with Extreme Prejudice [1,914]

13. Sex Lives of Politicians [Don't You Long to Know More?] [1,873]

14. Maureen Dowd Gets Class-Conscious! [1,770]

15. 3: Top Five Viral Videos [1,742]


FRIDAY 9 MAY

Sex & Society: Prostitutes Condemned with Extreme Prejudice [1,304]

3: Top Five Viral Videos [1,096]

Meet the BoObs [Bourgeois Obamians] [713]

Myanmar [Burma] Disaster: Imperial Powers Itching to Intervene [651]

8: Most Popular Articles [Last 28 Days] [588]


THURSDAY 8 MAY

5: Fantasy Five [Explicit Videos] [1,804]

Myanmar [Burma]: Cyclone Disaster Exploited by the West [787]

Hillary Clinton Plans to Push Campaign Beyond Primaries [760]

Consumer Capitalism 101 [683]

Superhero Costumes: Kitsch Clashes with Fashion [661]


WEDNESDAY 7 MAY

Fake Lesbian Phenomenon [Explicit Photos & Video] [2,155]

Sex Lives of Politicians [Don't You Long to Know More?] [963]

Hillary Clinton Chases the Prole Vote [864]

"Iron Man" - Capitalist Propaganda Movie [829]

American Idol: Dumbed Down & Out [572]


TUESDAY 6 MAY

More Casual About Sex [Hook-Up Culture] [2,162]

Hillary Clinton: "Yes, We Can!" [958]

Barack Obama aka Slim Shady [869]

Creationists: Dumb Design Freaks [664]

The Brilliant "Mad Men" & America's Culture War [534]


MONDAY 5 MAY

27: Last Week's Front Page Photo Stories [1,682]

Cybersex Games [1,385]

Maureen Dowd Gets Class-Conscious! [924]

Reverend Jeremiah Wright Faces Racist Abuse [903]

Oprah & Obama: "Ordinary" Blacks? [879]


SUNDAY 4 MAY

Sex Addiction [2,040]

2: Top Five Viral Videos [1,719]

Miley Cyrus, "Incest" & America's Culture War [1,318]

Almost Dead Bush: You Say Asshole; I Say Arsehole [1,216]

New Art: "Actress Slash Model" [Martin Maloney] [1,163]

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Iraq: Occupation & Resistance



Look Who Benefits from War: PepsiCo, IBM, Microsoft, Krispy Kreme. . .

Sunday, 11 May 2008 8:49 A GMT+01
Corporations such as PepsiCo, IBM, Microsoft and Johnson & Johnson are, indeed, typical defense contractors. To suggest that such firms, and tens of thousands like them, only receive defense-related contracts occasionally is far from the truth.

White Man's Racism & Colonial Conquest [Iraq Is the Latest]

Wednesday, 30 April 2008 8:57 A GMT+01
Western propaganda talks about about fighting for ?democracy? in Iraq while they whip up hysteria over the alleged threat posed by ?Muslim extremists? to ?our values?. The racism is clear. But it is part of a much deeper tradition in Western culture.

The Rabid-Right War Cry: Blame, Blame Iran

Sunday, 13 April 2008 8:31 A GMT+01
The recent opinion piece by senators Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham was soothing for the Bush Regime supporters in its assurances that the "surge" in Iraq is successful as well as noble. It also served as a convenient demonizing of Iran.

America Still Refuses to Recognize the Rape of Iraq

Sunday, 13 April 2008 8:28 A GMT+01
Iraqis have had yet another western insult imposed upon them: the fifth anniversary of “liberation” and the shameful, staged toppling of the statue of President Saddam Hussein, beginning the systematic destruction and erasure of Mesopotamia.

Petraeus' Testimony: An Occupation without Limit & a War without End

Friday, 11 April 2008 9:08 A GMT+01
There was a weird atmosphere during the entire proceedings. The delicacy and outright obsequiousness with which the politicians addressed the four-star general was like the corrupt senate of Rome meeting with the returning commander of the legions.

Porn & Torture: From Abu Ghraib to Hollywood ["Captivity" Video]

Thursday, 10 April 2008 9:17 A GMT+01
Porno torture is defined as the intentional infliction of severe physical or mental pain for interrogative, punitive or abusive purposes by forcing a person to engage in sexually explicit behavior which is recorded, or staged before a live audience.

Iraq: When in Doubt, Blame Iran

Thursday, 10 April 2008 9:06 A GMT+01
Gen. Petraeus will claim that the Iranians assisted the Mahdi Army militia to fight the forces of Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki in the recent week-long battle in Basra. He will offer this "evidence" to oppose any reduction in US troops in Iraq.

Rape, Assault, Abuse: The US Military & Male Aggression

Friday, 4 April 2008 8:39 A GMT+01
The stories are shocking in their brutality: A female military recruit is pinned down at knifepoint and raped repeatedly in her own barracks. Her attackers hid their faces but she identified them by their uniforms; they were her fellow soldiers.

Praise the Lord! War Feels Good for America!

Wednesday, 2 April 2008 9:25 A GMT+01
The American public is made up of mature adults who happily accept and live daily with countless daunting facts, including the needless killing, since 2003, of more than one million Iraqis, and over 4.7 million Iraqis displaced from their homes.

Iraq: Is the US 'Surge" Collapsing? [Exclusive Video]

Sunday, 23 March 2008 9:47 A GMT+01
The success of the US "surge" in Iraq is under threat as leading members of the 80,000-strong Sunni Sahwa or awakening councils, employed by the US to fight al-Qaida, are warning of a national strike because they are not being paid regularly.

War & the Working Class

Wednesday, 19 March 2008 9:48 A GMT+01
TheState treats its soldiers the way most corporations treat their workforce - as an invisible, disrespected, disposable means to an end that is contrary to workers' interests. Soldiers come mainly and disproportionately from the working class.

Clinton, McCain, Obama: Who Will Fight for the Palestinian Cause?

Tuesday, 18 March 2008 9:53 A GMT+01
The next President must reject the juvenile Bush vision of Iraq as a playing field against al-Qaida. He or she should reach out to moderate Iranians and accept that until there is justice for the Palestinians, America will be hated by most Muslims.

Suicide Bombers: War Heroes

Monday, 17 March 2008 9:42 A GMT+01
What is not mentioned by the Americans or the Iraqi “government” or the British authorities or indeed by many journalists is the sheer scale of the suicide campaign, the vast numbers of young men (only occasionally women), who sacrifice themselves.

Why McCain Wants Obama to Beat Hillary Clinton

Tuesday, 4 March 2008 9:31 A GMT+01
Obama has consistently said he would have voted against going to war had he been in the senate at the time. When McCain, and not Clinton, is his opponent, that position becomes a liability. It can be attacked as being inflexible and without nuance.

Noam Chomsky: Iraq - Imperial Propaganda Masquerading As "Good News"

Tuesday, 26 February 2008 9:40 A GMT+01
The images confirm the horrors of US Imperialism: video clips the media will not show at home -- war machines spreading death and destruction in the streets and public plazas and infantry, armed with the latest weapons and technology of oppression.

"War Made Easy" - Chilling Video on Warmonger America

Thursday, 21 February 2008 9:21 A GMT+01
Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, "War Made Easy" reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq.

Iraq: The Truth about the "Surge"

Sunday, 17 February 2008 10:33 A GMT+01
Bush/McCain claim the 'surge' of 30,000 extra troops has succeeded in bringing stability to a nation still riven by ethnic, religious and tribal conflict. Life, the Pentagon boasts, is returning to normal. But the truth is a very different story.

Iraq: US Airstrikes Increase by 500%

Monday, 4 February 2008 1:10 A GMT+01
This month there were massive airstrikes in the region south of Baghdad involving 38 bombers dropping 40,000 pounds of bombs in 10 minutes. Iraqis face guided missiles, unguided rockets and cannon rounds fired by helicopter gunships and warplanes.

The Real McCain: Bush on Steroids [Clips]

Friday, 1 February 2008 9:38 A GMT+01
McCain is an insanely fervent advocate of the US war in Iraq. After his closely contested victory in Florida, media headlines were openly adulatory. Typical were “After Romney’s Barrage, McCain Stands Tall” and “The GOP could have its unifier.”

"War on Terror" Gave Bush Licence to Bring Death & Misery to MiIlions

Thursday, 31 January 2008 9:20 A GMT+01
To Bush, the "war on terror" is the ruling mantra of his politics of fear. Since 9/11 gave a prop to his weakening presidency, his language has scaled new heights of alarmist rhetoric. It's validated every internal repression and every external war.

Iraq: A Relentless Corporate Media Propaganda Drive Claiming "Success"

Thursday, 31 January 2008 9:17 A GMT+01
Barring a possible Dr Strangelove-like attack on Iran, Bush will bequeath a nearly $10 trillion black hole, a lost war in Afghanistan, total chaos in Pakistan, an open wound in Gaza, a virtual civil war in Lebanon and the heart of darkness in Iraq.

US Military: Women Constantly Face Rape Threat

Wednesday, 9 January 2008 10:06 A GMT+01
If one out of every five women in the National Guard is sexually assaulted weren't appalling enough, keep in mind what Defense Department spokesperson Cynthia Smith said in response: "Sexual assault is the nation's most underreported crime."

Twilight of Empire

Wednesday, 28 November 2007 9:49 A GMT+01
Dying empires decay from within. They cling until the very end to the outward trappings of power. They mask their weakness behind a costly and technologically advanced military. They pursue increasingly unrealistic imperial ambitions.

When Will We Acknowledge the Holocaust in Iraq?

Friday, 23 November 2007 10:16 A GMT+01
The traditional media have refused to acknowledge the massive number of Iraqis killed since the invasion. Is Washington responsible for a holocaust in Iraq? That is the question that almost everyone here wants to avoid. So the holocaust is denied.

Iraq Veterans: "Suicide Epidemic" [Over 6000 a Year]

Tuesday, 20 November 2007 10:01 A GMT+01
The Pentagon are covering up the real magnitude of the ?suicide epidemic?. CBS discovered that in 2005 alone: "There were at leat 6,256 sudides among those who served in the armed forces. That's 120 each and every week in one year."