Bush: No evidence Saddam was involved in 9/11 attacks
President Bush said Wednesday there was no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 -- disputing an idea held by many Americans. "There's no question that Saddam Hussein had al Qaeda ties," the president said. But he also said, "We have no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11" attacks.

Saudis consider nuclear bomb
Saudi Arabia, in response to the current upheaval in the Middle East, has embarked on a strategic review that includes acquiring nuclear weapons, the Guardian has learned. This new threat of proliferation in one of the most dangerous regions of the world comes on top of a crisis over Iran's alleged nuclear programme. A strategy paper being considered at the highest levels in Riyadh sets out three options:
· To acquire a nuclear capability as a deterrent;
· To maintain or enter into an alliance with an existing nuclear power that would offer protection;
· To try to reach a regional agreement on having a nuclear-free Middle East.

Vaccine Mercury 'Likely' Damaged Thousands Of Children
A study published this month in the International Journal of Toxicology, the official journal of the American College of Toxicology, provides the strongest clinical evidence to date supporting the theory that mercury exposure is tied to autism. The study, co-authored by Mark Blaxill, a director of Safe Minds, suggests a biological mechanism for the hypothesis first advanced by Safe Minds that autism is a form of mercury poisoning and that exposure to the mercury-based preservative thimerosal in vaccines has likely caused neurological damage to thousands of children.

Dirty Secrets of the Pharma-Cartel: Part Two
The Pharma-Cartel's "business with disease" has made enormous profits for the pharmaceutical investment industry, as they continually work with governmental agencies toward instituting medical tyranny, using "scientific advances" and "biomedical research" for unethical purposes.

Mixing bugs and bombs
For months, U.S. and coalition forces have scoured Iraq searching for biological weapons and the labs that might have made them; the possibility of these labs’ existence led broadcasts around the world. Meanwhile, in the United States, with very little media attention or public discussion, the Bush administration is quietly pursuing plans to build biowarfare agent facilities of its own. The new labs will handle, modify, and experiment with some of the most harmful agents known to humanity, including live anthrax, plague, Q fever, and botulism.

Propagandists for the State
First, it was Dan Rather, who after the Afghan War, said he would have been "necklaced" if he asked the tough questions during that conflict. After September 11, Rather himself wore an American flag pin in his lapel and offered, on David Letterman's show, to line up wherever George Bush told him to. But in an interview with BBC last year, he talked about the pressures: "It is an obscene comparison-you know I am not sure I like it-but you know there was a time in South Africa that people would put flaming tires around people's necks if they dissented. And in some ways the fear is that you will be necklaced here, you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck. Now it is that feat that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions." Rather called this "patriotism run amok." Now Christian Amanpour, CNN's top war correspondent, has come clean, echoing Rather, but this time about the Iraq War. "I think the press was muzzled, and I think the press self-muzzled," she said on "Topic A with Tina Brown" on CNBC last week. She added, "I'm sorry to say, but certainly television and, perhaps, to a certain extent, my station was intimidated by the Administration and its foot soldiers at Fox News. And it did, in fact, [create] a climate of fear and self-censorship. . . . It's a question of being rigorous. It's really a question of really asking the questions."

Growing World View US Govt Was Complicit In 911

Al Qaeda terrorist worked with FBI Ex-Silicon Valley resident plotted embassy attacks
A former U.S. Army sergeant who trained Osama bin Laden's bodyguards and helped plan the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya was a U.S. government informant during much of his terrorist career, according to sources familiar with his case.

“The Crazies Are Back”: Bush Sr.’s CIA Briefer Recalls How the First Bush Administration Referred to Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld and Cheney
Former CIA analysts Ray McGovern and David MacMichael accuse President Bush of waging the Iraq war based on a series of lies, discuss the unprecedented pressure that VP Dick Cheney put on the CIA before the invasion and call on CIA analysts and agents to come forward with information that will reveal the lies of the Bush administration.

Neo-Nazis run rings around German intelligence services
Germany's biggest neo-Nazi party is to escape a legal ban after it was revealed that the party members who gave evidence against it in the country's highest court were agents provocateurs paid by the intelligence services.

The coming first world debt crisis
The reckless financial policies of leading western powers in the last two decades make it likely that the next seismic debt crisis will be in America, not Argentina. It can be avoided, says Ann Pettifor of the Real World Economic Outlook, only by serious efforts to bring regulation and balance to the international economy.

8 American soldiers killed in heavy attack in Iraq
Eight American soldiers were killed in a fierce attack Thursday on the road to Khaldiyah, 80 km west of Baghdad, Dubai-based Arabiya TV channel reported.

House-Senate Panel OKs $368B Defense Deal
House-Senate negotiators have reached agreement on a $368 billion 2004 defense spending bill that would shift — but not eliminate — a widely criticized Pentagon (news - web sites) anti-terror surveillance program.

Cheney’s word over Iraq contracts defied -- Detail Story
Top Democrats in Congress scoffed at recent statements by US Vice President Dick Cheney that he played no role in awarding lucrative Iraq contracts to his former firm Halliburton Corp., and refuted his assertions that he has no financial interest in the company.