Technical types often ask

"What can we do with our cool tech?",

rather than "How and why does sex feel good?"

Recent meetings on sex technology show

a burgeoning interest in hooking up vibrators

to iPods, microphones, cellphones, and video games

   more »

Dominant media manipulation shapes public perceptions to justify our actions against states we target as enemies when they resist - meaning their wish to remain free and independent makes them a threat to western civilization.

Washington never tolerates rebellious regimes who place their sovereignty above ours or whose internal resistance movements hit back for what we do to them.

Those doing it are called terrorists and are targeted for removal by economic, political and/or military state terror.

Tactics used by the US, or its proxy paramilitaries, involve mass murder and incarceration, torture, and a whole further menu of repressive and economic barbarism designed to crush resistance paving the way for unchallengeable US dominance.   more »

Our minds are rocked to sleep by propaganda

– the conscious manipulation of information

It's designed to direct popular support for,

or against, various forms of power and privilege

It’s the hand that rocks the cradle of mass culture

   more »

Keywords: homegrown, media, indoctrination, propaganda

Iraq was really another chance for the West to play the “Great Game” - try to control Eurasia and all of the oil down to the Persian Gulf.

Some historians and commentators track the strategy back to the late 1970s, when President Jimmy Carter announced the Carter Doctrine in a State of the Union message.

It was a declaration in the spirit of the Monroe Doctrine. If any nation or power should seek to cut off American access to the oil supplies of the Middle East, military action would be taken in order to forestall or eliminate such a threat.

Bush has merely fulfilled what the Carter Doctrine promised.   more »

Vladimir Putin fired an acerbic

broadside Thursday at the US,

condemning "imperialism" in world affairs

and blaming Washington for igniting

a new "arms race" that Russia wouldn't ignore

It's the latest in a line of

harsh outbursts against the West

   more »

Keywords: putin, us, imperialism, russia