How the "internet of things" could become a nightmare just by carrying out its stated purpose.

However, in order to become widely used, this technology would need a "social" element: social pressure to use it because otherwise nobody will like you, or nobody will hire you. The designers will surely come up with a way to put pressure on people to suffer the various nastinesses of "smart homes" (including spying and reporting to companies and the state).

You will be well advised to start practicing now to reject addictive technology.

The UK Conservatives have another method of sabotaging the UK's National Health Service: by cutting doctors' pay so that they can't maintain staffing levels.

Iranian troops are going to the aid of the Iraqi government, since its own troops hardly fight.

With neocons pushing for the US to enter the war in Iraq, remember how mistaken their advice was in 2002.

Some neocons aimed to split up Iraq to weaken it. The current civil war is almost what they wanted.

Three Israeli teenagers disappeared on the way home from school to Israeli colonies in Palestine. The government assumes they were kidnaped by Palestinians.