From Private Eye, a brief update on the lie detector system soon to be used across the UK on suspected 'benefit thieves'*, i.e. all claimants.  The system comes from Mossad, but what's really alarming is that it is administered by scorched-earth PFI war machine Capita.
*NB. Readers with no sympathy for 'benefit thieves' have come to the wrong website.

Due to some back room bungling at Mute, this article failed to make it online before the Mental Health Bill received royal assent last Thursday to become law. Here mental health activist and editor of Mad Pride: A Celebration of Mad Culture traces the history of this deeply unpopular bill, from the early '90s to the present day. As of 19 July 2007, psychiatric service users can expect to be forcibly medicated even when not institutionalised and importantly when deemed 'untreatable'. The expanded number of health professionals given the powers to section patients will undoubtedly also result in more people being incacerated - predictably amongst the most vulnerable and discriminated against groups

A pertinent reminder that the so-called 'housing bubble' isn't just a matter of subprime foreclosures and repossessions: the buyers of the 'financial products' through which mortgage debt is abstracted and redivided at the outer limits of algorithmic calculation are none other than private pension funds, so that capital's 'no alternative' answer to the pseudo-problem of the 'demographic bomb' may yet manage to create a real 'pensions crisis' where none need have existed

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

Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment

This article is about the link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues. The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the environment. All issues are interlinked. Our Minds cannot be peaceful when attention-spans are down to nanoseconds, microseconds and milliseconds. Our Minds cannot be peaceful if we destroy Nature.

What is it that typifies and stymies organisational cultures, be they enterprising or oppositional? The repression of psychical multiplicity and alterity into the strait-jacket of the Self, argues Howard Slater

The recent revelation of certain dogs' ability to predict their masters' epileptic seizures is certainly good news for sufferers. Melanie Gilligan looks at the implications for cognitive science and our understanding of the complex interactions between biological 'networks'.