Before New Labour came to power, when reform of Britain's House of Lords was in the air, Anthony Barnett and Peter Ca

Suzanne Treister's art project and book Hexen 2039 investigates and links a number of occult phenomena to the military industrial entertainment complex. Cameron Bain examines the project and finds that there are empirical reasons for the continuing popularity of mysticism. Treister's approach, he writes, points not only to the surreal foundations of contemporary consciousness but also to a materialist study of power

Description of the Mexican election circus elaborately suspended by rusty chains and pulleys over the class confrontation summarized by the same author a few days ago (see: Mexico, there's a riot going on, also from 'Counterpunch', posted here last week).  Inasmuch as it documents plain facts of fraud whose 'exposure' seems likely to change precisely nothing, perhaps the text can be read as a sort of funeral sermon for the faith in representative democracy recently renewed on Latin America's behalf by Western leftist well-wishers.

Since their introduction, RFID tags have been the subject of intense debate between privacy, consumer rights, and civil liberties groups and the companies that produce or employ them. Through their near invisibility and the fact that, unlike bar-codes and magnetic strips on credit cards, they can be read silently and imperceptibly from a short distance, RFID tags introduce the potential for violations of privacy in unprecedented ways.

Speaking of the alien

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