Necrophilia is sexual desire in combination with a dead body. The phenomenon has a very simple explanation.

People in all kinds of professions have to deal with corpses: pathologists, doctors and nurses, morticians, gravediggers.

Moreover, the deceased are naturally surrounded by loved ones, relatives, friends and acquaintances. Not more than a few hundred years ago, death was a frequent characteristic of daily life.

Bad sanitary conditions, contagious diseases, poverty and need, conflict and war caused many to die at a young age.

The presence of a youthful corpse, which is completely passively available in all its beauty and which won't resist and cannot be hurt, can easily bring about strong feelings of lust which are then satisfied by touching and masturbation or intercourse.   more »

There were an estimated two million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire on the eve of W.W.I. Well over a million were deported in 1915.

Hundreds of thousands were butchered outright. Many others died of starvation, exhaustion, and epidemics which ravaged the concentration camps.

We should accuse the US congress of mind-boggling hypocrisy when it comes to the 'recognition' of the Armenian genocide. Would Congress debate the on-going genocide in Iraq?

The estimated 1.2 million deaths in Iraq should play a major role in the debate over continuing the occupation. They probably won't.   more »

The essential features of American Personality Disorder include pervasive patterns of extreme self-absorption, profound and long-term lapses in empathy, a deep disregard for the well-being of others...

A powerful aversion to intellectual honesty and reality, and a grossly exaggerated sense of the importance of oneself and the nation.

These patterns emerge in infancy, manifest themselves in nearly all contexts, and often become pathological.

These patterns have also been characterized as sociopathic, or colloquially as the “Ugly American Syndrome.”   more »

The Chief Rabbi of the Orthodox

Jewish Community in Austria, Moishe Arye Friedman,

believes that the “Zionist regime

is using the Holocaust as a tool

and weapon to silence people

The root of the world’s problems

is the existence of the Zionist regime”

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Keywords: holocaust, palestinians, israel, zionism, propaganda

The period after the Second World War gave new life to the “middle-class America” myths.

Partly, this was because McCarthyism hounded the left out of the unions and other institutions in society.

But even more importantly, a postwar economic boom lasting several decades provided many workers with steadily rising living standards.

The “American Dream” didn’t apply to all workers--especially not to African Americans and other minorities--but it did appear to describe the lives of a majority of the working class, allowing “post-Marxist” Daniel Bell to write: “Abundance...was the American surrogate for socialism.”

But even as uneven and modest as it was, the “American Dream” was crushed by the 1970s recessions and a renewed offensive by the U.S. ruling class to re-establish the profitability of its corporations and roll back the political gains made by the social movements of the 1960s and ’70s.

By the end of the ’70s, a “one-sided class war” was being waged by U.S. capitalists against workers.   more »