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7. Cybersex Games [3,135]

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

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

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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]


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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]

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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]


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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]


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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]


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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]


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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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Western Imperialism



Myanmar [Burma]: The West's Propaganda Campaign for "Intervention"

Sunday, 11 May 2008 9:28 A GMT+01
The catastrophe has provoked an extraordinary campaign by the US and Europe, and in the western media, demanding that the military junta open its borders to aid and aid officials as well as to American military aircraft, troops and warships.

Myanmar [Burma] Disaster: Imperial Powers Itching to Intervene

Friday, 9 May 2008 8:34 A GMT+01
“The death toll could mount to something like 250,000 people.” Such estimates need to be treated with caution as there is an unmistakable media propaganda campaign to vilify the Burmese junta in order to justify international intervention.

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.

Fuck Charity! [Helping the Privileged Feel Good about Themselves]

Wednesday, 23 April 2008 8:55 A GMT+01
'American Idol' was not giving back anything, besides the enormously heavy air of self-congratulation. The people giving back were the public -- manipulated by clips and photos of tearful, pitiful-looking black and brown children, women and men.

Zimbabwe: The BBC & Its Imperial Propaganda War Against Mugabe

Wednesday, 16 April 2008 8:54 A GMT+01
The BBC is always eager to attack independent black republics. It can't tolerate them, but it's especially hostile to Zimbabwe. The BBC functions as a propaganda system for elite interests. It's been an essential imperial tool for eighty-six years.

Anti-China Hate Campaign: The Power of US 'State' Propaganda

Monday, 14 April 2008 8:51 A GMT+01
The anti-Chinese protests didn't mobilize massive numbers of people, yet received wide coverage in the US media. The vast worldwide demonstrations against American intervention in Iraq in February 2003 didn't get one-tenth the anti-China coverage.

The West's Well-Run Indoctrination System

Monday, 14 April 2008 8:50 A GMT+01
Properly functioning indoctrination has a variety of tasks, some rather delicate. One of its targets is the stupid and ignorant masses. They must be kept that way, diverted with emotionally potent oversimplifications, marginalised and isolated.

Anti-China Campaign Intensifies: Western Media Frenzy

Sunday, 13 April 2008 8:30 A GMT+01
Washington is providing financial, political, diplomatic and propaganda support to the racist demonization of China, supposedly because of concern for “human rights.” Yet America is directly responsible for the death of one million Iraqis since 2003.

Zimbabwe: Countering the Ferocious Western Propaganda Onslaught

Sunday, 13 April 2008 8:30 A GMT+01
"We've beaten Mugabe" could be the propaganda slogan of political and media operators in the West, who like to fantasise that President Mugabe is "Africa's Hitler", that his Zimbabwe was "more evil than, for example, China and Saudi Arabia."

China, Tibet, The Olympics & Western Propaganda

Thursday, 10 April 2008 9:16 A GMT+01
America's political elite would prefer nothing more than US students forming "Free Tibet" committees and protesting against China’s fictitious "cultural genocide" in Tibet while Washington continues its very real war and occupation of Iraq.

America Fights Foreign Wars to Defend Capitalism

Tuesday, 8 April 2008 8:47 A GMT+01
Can you imagine 'our' president openly imploring America's young people to fight a foreign war to defend "capitalism"? The word itself is taboo. The approved reference now is the market economy, free market, free enterprise, or private enterprise.

I Dare Clinton or Obama to Say: "I Will End the War on Terror"

Tuesday, 8 April 2008 8:47 A GMT+01
Years of conditioning by Hollywood vilifying Arabs had jump-started American fear and loathing of Islamic culture, even before 9/11, planting the seeds of hatred and xenophobia. Americans were already fully primed for the dreaded Arab terrorist.

Zimbabwe: A Case Study in Western Propaganda Techniques

Monday, 7 April 2008 8:45 A GMT+01
The purpose of the propaganda is to justify efforts to replace Mugabe and his policies of land reform and economic indigenization with the pro-foreign investment, pro-private property policies of the US- and EU-backed Movement for Democratic Change.

Guess Who's Fomenting the Anti-China Olympics Campaign?

Monday, 7 April 2008 8:45 A GMT+01
Can there be any doubt that the U.S. government is behind the attacks on China targeting the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing? "Free Tibet" is just a ruse. The events that unfolded at the lighting of the Olympic flame in Greece were most revealing.

America's 'Leftists' Believe in "Promoting Democracy" [Imperialism]

Sunday, 6 April 2008 9:23 A GMT+01
'Leftist' articles about 'freedom and democracy' in Belarus, Zimbabwe, Myanmar and Iran use language that mimics the propagandistic bilge that gushes in rivers from White House and State Department speechwriters trying to shape public opinion.

Africa & American Imperialism

Friday, 4 April 2008 8:38 A GMT+01
The severe limitations of US imperialism?s policy toward Africa is revealed in its one-sided policy toward Zimbabwe. China has stepped into the vacuum in Zimbabwe created by sanctions imposed by US imperialism and its sidekick in London.

Zimbabwe Elections & Western Propaganda

Monday, 31 March 2008 9:06 A GMT+01
Detractors of Zimbabwe’s governing party ZANU PF and President Robert Mugabe are already forecasting the election results will be rigged. The western propaganda machine is ready to plant doubts about any outcome that announces victory for Mugabe.

America's Manipulation of 'Unrest' in Tibet

Sunday, 30 March 2008 9:45 A GMT+01
With the CIA's deep involvement with the Free Tibet Movement and its funding of the suspiciously well-informed Radio Free Asia, it would be unlikely that any revolt could have been planned or occurred without its knowledge and clandestine support.

Dalai Lama: The Brand Name for Celebrity Buddhism

Friday, 28 March 2008 9:38 A GMT+01
The Hollywood image of Tibet as a Shangri-La guarantees that there is little real understanding of the Tibetan situation amongst the wider population. It's seen as a cultural relic - mystical, unchanging and desirable in an ‘ever changing’ world.

"Universal Values" Used to Justify Western Imperialism

Friday, 28 March 2008 9:37 A GMT+01
Since the Enlightenment, Western intervention around the world has been justified by appeals to ideas of civilization and progress. The assumption has been that such ideas are universal. This rhetoric has been a smoke screen for Western dominance.

America's Knee-Jerk Patriotism

Wednesday, 26 March 2008 9:17 A GMT+01
It reveals how narrow the range of acceptable discourse remains in this country. This is especially true of anything to do with patriotism or 9/11. The Rev. Wright's unforgivable sin was that he violated our rigid code of national etiquette.

China, Tibet: CIA-Sponsored "Uprising"

Wednesday, 26 March 2008 9:14 A GMT+01
he US news media are filled with stories about events unfolding in Tibet. The sources of the reports are shadowy and unknown. If past practice is any indicator, it is likely that the U.S. State Department and the CIA are their primary sources.

"Terrorism" Is Justified [Must Watch Video]

Tuesday, 25 March 2008 10:24 A GMT+01
Taking what he says is the betrayal of the Palestinian people as his starting point, Ted Honderich, Britain's leading moral philosopher, reveals who shares moral responsibility for recent acts of terrorism, and points a finger at the politicians.

Tibet, China & Western Hypocrisy

Monday, 24 March 2008 10:10 A GMT+01
What bothers me is the self-righteous Westerners' failure to examine themselves in the same light. China has a shaky record on human rights, but the West, particularly the US, has a human rights record that has created suffering around the world.

As America Wanes [We're Still in Denial]

Friday, 21 March 2008 9:26 A GMT+01
The unspoken truth is that the good old days are gone, probably for a very long while. Like its predecessors, this particular financial meltdown has brought fear verging on panic. It is destroying not only wealth. It is also destroying illusions.