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MOST READ [4-9 MAY]

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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Radical Ecology



Meat-Eating Obscenity [Horrendous Pig-Farming Video]

Thursday, 17 April 2008 8:57 A GMT+01
While 100m tonnes of food will be diverted this year as biofuel to feed cars, 760m tonnes will be snatched from the mouths of humans to feed animals - which could cover the global food deficit 14 times. If you care about hunger, eat less meat.

Al Gore Is Finished with Status Quo Politics

Thursday, 10 April 2008 9:06 A GMT+01
Kyoto was "blocked by pressure from the polluters." Gore added that Exxon-Mobil and other big companies "purposely confused people" with tens of millions of dollars of advertising and lobbying that disparaged the science behind global warming.

Radical Ecology: 'Green' Energy Is Causing Devastation

Sunday, 6 April 2008 9:22 A GMT+01
Investment into this supposedly 'green' energy source in the US - 20% of US corn production is now for biofuels - has contributed to worldwide shortages of corn and pushed up the prices of corn and other staple foods such as wheat, barley and sugar.

Capitalist Fundamentalism; The God of Consumption

Monday, 31 March 2008 9:06 A GMT+01
The main dynamic is the transformation of living nature into dead commodities, creating tremendous waste in the process. The driver of this process is increasing consumption. The motivation is profit or capital accumulation: capitalism, in short.

We're Fucking Our Planet [Long Live the Earth Liberation Front!]

Thursday, 13 March 2008 9:45 A GMT+01
Sorry folks, but you’re just going to have to deal with the fact that we are greedy narcissists. We’re dyed in the wool consumers, we worship Mammon, and eliminating the cancer of capitalism is simply out of the question. So shut the fuck up!

Eco-Warriors Burn Down McMansions [Earth Liberation Front]

Wednesday, 5 March 2008 9:29 A GMT+01
Fires gutted three multimillion-dollar model homes in a Seattle suburb. A sign purportedly left by eco-guerrillas mocked claims that the homes were environmentally friendly: "McMansions in RCDs r not green," a reference to rural cluster developments.

Extreme Animal Cruelty: You'll Never Eat Beef Again [Shocking Videos]

Friday, 22 February 2008 2:29 P GMT+01
When the cow wouldn't stand, the worker applied a "hot shot" cattle prod to jolt the cow to its feet. When that failed, another worker jumped into the chute and shot the cow in the head with a bolt gun, designed to stun the cow into unconsciousness.

McCain Will Be Crucified by the Hard Right

Thursday, 31 January 2008 9:20 A GMT+01
A funny thing happened on the way to the primaries. The progressives hate Hillary. The regressives hate McCain. Their hatred for McCain is even stronger than the usual hard-right fury directed towards Hillary Clinton. Loathing makes it all go round .

Fucking Rubbish! Great Clip Challenging Consumer Waste

Thursday, 20 December 2007 10:16 A GMT+01
The Story of Stuff is a short film released online this month and takes viewers on a provocative tour of our consumer-driven culture, from resource extraction to iPod incineration, exposing the real costs of this use-it and lose-it approach to stuff.

Radical Ecology: Al Gore Misses the Elephant in the Room

Wednesday, 19 December 2007 9:33 A GMT+01
Increasing capitalist globalization in part means a huge increase in the transport of goods, which results in huge increases in the burning of fossil fuels to run the ships, trucks and airplanes that transport globalized commodities.

Bali Climate 'Deal' - The World's Been Fucked Again by the Americans

Tuesday, 18 December 2007 10:16 A GMT+01
Why does the US act this way? Like several other western democracies, it is subject to two great corrupting forces. Since 1990, the coal, oil, gas, logging and agribusiness has given $418m to politicians in the US. The other is the corporate media.

Casino Capitalism & Climate Change

Sunday, 16 December 2007 10:38 A GMT+01
The global environment is shaped predominantly by corporate, casino, and consumer capitalism. 3C capitalism, the culture of bigger is better, encourages speculative capital to rule the roost, and which glorifies conspicuous consumption as a deity.

Are You a "Homegrown Terrorist"? (I Quite Fancy Being One]

Tuesday, 4 December 2007 9:21 A GMT+01
The RAND corporation, a think-tank with close ties to the military-industrial-intelligence complex, say that ?homegrown terrorism? will result from anti-globalists and radical environmentalists who ?challenge the intrinsic qualities of capitalism."

Essence of Capitalism: Exploitation

Sunday, 25 November 2007 10:36 A GMT+01
Fifty years of capitalist propaganda have converted the economists? dogma into a general prejudice. Without discussion, we accept that accelerated economic growth is desirable. Now the time has come to abandon this pernicious obsession.

California Fires: A Disaster Made Worse by Profit & Plunder

Friday, 26 October 2007 8:44 A GMT+01
Housing tracts are built on the basis of the profit considerations of home builders, property developers and Wall Street speculators, not the needs of people for homes or the suitability of the development given the constraints of the environment.

California Fires: Don't Fuck with Nature

Thursday, 25 October 2007 8:51 A GMT+01
California's Native Americans regularly set fire to the hills above what is now Los Angeles to renew the fresh vegetation they depended on, to clear the land for better hunting and to reduce the chances of being ambushed by enemies in the canyons.

Paul Krugman Asks: Why Does Al Gore Drive the Rabid Right Insane?

Tuesday, 16 October 2007 8:29 A GMT+01
One right-wing hack said the prize should have been shared with “that well-known peace campaigner Osama bin Laden, who implicitly endorsed Gore’s stance.” You see, anyone who talks about climate change is a friend of the terrorists.

Gore vs. Bush: Look Who's Winning Now

Tuesday, 16 October 2007 8:26 A GMT+01
Gore's fortunes rise as the president's plummets. When Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, conservatives reacted with apoplexy. Talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, conservative bloggers and other Republican faithful denounced the prize as a fraud.

Bush Pisses While the Planet Burns

Sunday, 30 September 2007 9:48 A GMT+01
Bush is hosting a global warming summit this week. It's not intended to actually deal with global warming but to kick the problem down the road to the next administration, while creating the illusion of progress - just like his Iraq policy.

Leonardo DiCaprio & "11th Hour" - Superb 'Green' Documentary

Friday, 24 August 2007 1:49 P GMT+01
There's passion and brainpower in "The 11th Hour", teaching us everything we need to know about the fate of planet Earth -- how bad things are, and what we can do to reverse the effects of humanity's rapid devastation of this planet.

America Leaves One Motherfucker of a Carbon Footprint

Friday, 10 August 2007 9:18 A GMT+01
All this Fetishistic consumerism squanders precious, nonrenewable resources both in production and shipping while producing all sorts of waste products such as carbon, the effects of which we are only now beginning to understand.

"Going Green" - Middle-Class Smugness

Tuesday, 24 July 2007 10:25 A GMT+01
She teaches us "to live within nature's limits". It's easy. Just make your own bread, butter, cheese, jam, chutneys and pickles, keep a milking cow, a few pigs, goats, geese, ducks, chickens, beehives, and orchards. Well, what are you waiting for?

Can We Be 'Green' & Still Consume?

Tuesday, 10 July 2007 9:22 A GMT+01
As clean-up crews set about the chore of gathering the detritus of Saturday's Live Earth nine-city, seven-continent pop extravaganza aimed at climate-change awareness, the hangover from the event leaves behind vague feelings of unease.

"Live Earth" - Rock'n'Roll Won't Save the Planet

Monday, 9 July 2007 9:30 A GMT+01
This should have been a mass movement with clear political objectives. Imagine millions taking to the streets around the world with a coherent agenda for slashing greenhouse gas emissions. Instead, we got a rock concert with climate infomercials.

"Live Earth" - Climate Change Pomposity

Sunday, 8 July 2007 9:43 A GMT+01
"We - the human species - have arrived at a moment of decision. Our home - Earth - is in danger. What is at risk of being destroyed is not the planet, but the conditions that have made it hospitable for human beings." - Al 'call me pompous' Gore.