by Citizen Sage The unanswered questions about 9-11 can no longer be ignored. A new, more comprehensive investigation by the US Congress is required, given all of the unusual circumstantial evidence on 9-11. Although it happened 6 years ago, the questions just won't go away. Unless such an investigation is done, the conspiracy theories will only gain more traction with the American people and call into doubt what really happened forever ...

No Such Thing as Bad Cholesterol: Dispelling the Marketing Myth Cholesterol seems to be one of those things that strikes fear into the hearts of many, so to speak. But is the reputation that this oily substance has acquired truly deserved? What is certain is that the 'little knowledge' that the media often imparts means many folks assume cholesterol is simply a 'bad' thing. Alternately, a good number of us may ...

Republican Presidential hopeful Ron Paul says some of the policies of the Bush administration set the stage for a deep looming recession. In a Thursday Republican debate, the 10-term congressman said the US economy is falling into recession which has been directly influenced by the flawed economic strategies pursued by the current administration. Criticizing Washington's monetary and fiscal policies, the anti-war Texan explained that the Americans ...

U.S. Army unit Probed for killing Iraqi prisoners The US Army has opened a criminal investigation into an allegation of "battlefield deaths" of detainees captured by a US brigade that operated last year in southwest Baghdad, an army spokesman said. The allegation involved the 2nd Combat Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division, which returned to its home base in Schweinfurt, Germany in November after a 15-month tour in Iraq, said Paul Boyce, ...

Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News Life in occupied Gaza was never easy, but conditions worsened markedly after Hamas' surprise January 2006 electoral victory. Israel refused recognition along with the US and the West. All outside aid was cut off, an economic embargo and sanctions were imposed, and the legitimate government was isolated. Stepped up repression followed along with repeated IDF incursions, attacks and arrests. Gaza's people have been imprisoned in ...

From CagePrisoners US Attorney H. Candace Gorman has revealed that her client Abdul Hamid Al-Ghizzawi has been infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Al Ghizzawi believes the infection happened during medical procedures at Guantanamo in 2004 when he was given a blood test which resulted in alarm amongst the hospital staff. Al Ghizzawi was not given any explanation for the alarm at the time. As a result Al-Ghizzawi has ...

COPENHAGEN : Denmark will demand answers from the United States for the "unacceptable" use of a Danish airport in Greenland for secret CIA flights, the country's foreign minister said on TV Wednesday. According to a documentary called "The CIA's Danish Connections", the US agency secretly used Danish airspace and airports as transit for its airplanes. Planes flying for fake corporations are suspected of transporting illegally-kidnapped terrorist suspects to Egypt, Jordan, Romania and ...

AFP US Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Tuesday that waterboarding is not currently authorized for CIA interrogations, but said he would not answer questions from Congress on the technique's legality in general. Mukasey, who is to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, said that since becoming attorney general on November 9 he had been briefed on Central Intelligence Agency methods in its current interrogation programme. "A limited set of methods is ...

A Turkish official has refused a US request to scrutinize and then suspend the activities of the Turkey-based Iran's Bank Mellat. “What binds Turkey are the resolutions of the UN and not US presidential decrees or Congressional decisions,” a Turkish diplomat told the Turkish Daily News. US officials have told bankers around the world that Iran is funding terrorists and seeking nuclear technology. Banks such as ...

By ROBERT BROOKS A CATALOGUE of errors involving sensitive personal data has led MP Alan Beith to back calls for the Government to scrap its identity card plans. He says the law to make carrying a card compulsory will become a "bureaucratic nightmare", which won't prevent illegal working or help stop crime or terrorism As chairman of the House of ...

Book Charges Zelikow May Have Interfered With the 9/11 Commission's Report By JUSTIN ROOD The former executive director of the 9/11 Commission denies explosive charges of undisclosed ties to the Bush White House or interference with the panel's report. The charges are said to be contained in New York Times reporter Philip Shenon's unreleased book, "The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation," according to Max Holland, ...

In Los Angeles, medical marijuana patients can now get their drug with a dose of convenience. The Los Angeles Herbal Nutrition Center installed medical marijuana vending machines to give patients a dose of convenience with their grass. The nutrition center's owner said they also offer low prices, safety and privacy.California allows marijuana use for medical purposes but it's still against federal law. "Convenient access, lower prices, safety, anonymity," inventor and owner ...

The Profile of a Third World Country By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS It is difficult to know where Bush has accomplished the most destruction, the Iraqi economy or the US economy. In the current issue of Manufacturing & Technology News, Washington economist Charles McMillion observes that seven years of Bush has seen the federal debt increase ...

EDWARD HEATHCOAT AMORY When it was passed into law, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (2000) sounded a pretty innocuous piece of legislation. But in truth it represented a significant victory for the busybody state over our ancient liberties. Labour claimed it was responding to demands from civil liberties campaigners for more control over state snooping. But it soon became clear that the legislation which Jack Straw, then Home Secretary, was ...

Research conducted by a leading British polling group shows that more than one million Iraqis have died as a result of war in their country. The survey, conducted by Opinion Research Business (ORB) with 2,414 adults in face-to-face interviews, found that 20 percent of people had had at least one death in their household because of the conflict, rather than natural causes, Reuters reported. The survey ...