Camel No. 9 hit stores early this year

It immediately drew fire for its stylish packaging

— shiny, sleek black boxes bordered with fuschia and teal

— and ads that included florals, hints of lace

and the slogan "Light and Luscious"

The latest ad campaign says "Now available in stiletto"

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Keywords: cigarettes, smoking, sex, advertising, women

"I think every decade has an iconic blonde

- like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana

- and right now, I'm that icon,"

Paris Hilton told the Sunday Times last year,

at the height of her notoriety as

the tabloids' favorite party girl

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Keywords: princess, paris, hilton, whore, diana, culture, celebrity

Ex-Stone Roses, Ian Brown

[aided by Sinead O' Connor],

goes for the jugular from the opening:

"So what the fuck is this UK

Gunnin' with this US of A

In Iraq and Iran and in Afghanistan..."

although "fuck" won't be heard on the radio version

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Keywords: cultire, pop, music, antwar, anger, rebellion

Post Gulf War: "I felt there was

a real danger here that you would get bogged down

in a long drawn out conflict,

that this was a dangerous difficult part of the world,

if you recall we were all worried about

the possibility of Iraq coming apart"

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Keywords: gulf, war, iraq, cheney

“But Cindy Sheehan has no experience running a government!” you might fret.

Honestly, are you happy with the results garnered by our “government experienced” would-be Pharaohs?

Is there anybody who believes that Cindy Sheehan is less trustworthy, less honest, less truthful and less concerned about the US/American people than anyone in the dugout of Big Money approved presidential pitchmen?

Number One barks out the orders and hires and fires as needed to get them done.

Do you really believe Cindy Sheehan is less capable of doing this than the careerist androids of the Big Money Brat Pack?   more »

From 1945 to 2000, the US has attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, usually successfully, and crushed more than 30 populist movements struggling against dictatorships, killing several million people in the process, and condemning millions more to a life of misery.

Though these are shocking statistics, defenders of US foreign policy rarely quarrel with these statistics but rather only try to show why they were necessary.

This process of justification carries the hallmark of state terror by any definition of terrorism and where the adherents practice literal denial to the evidence.

Beyond these actions abroad, US policies have helped various regimes around the world to create terrorists and war criminals granting safe haven, carry out torture and assassinations, develop death squads, provide training manuals for repression.   more »