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NYT Editorial: Steamrolling Judicial Nominees 2/6
Beth Osborne Daponte talks about how her estimates of Iraq's Gulf War dead got her in deep trouble with the White House 2/6
Did Miguel Estrada Commit Perjury in His Senate Testimony?
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Bush 2/6
No Head is Complete Without a BuzzFlash Cap!
U.S. Economy in Worst Hiring Slump in 20 Years 2/6
Make Oral Hatch Eat His Words. Democratic Senators, Show Some Backbone! Filibuster Estrada! 2/5
Powell's Speech Doesn't Change Any Minds at U.N.
More Bush Lies Exposed: Al Qaeda Still A "Viable" Threat, Says FBI - A BuzzFlash News Analysis
Powell fails to make case 2/6
John Ashcroft Orders Prosecutors: I Want More Death! 2/6
The Bush Legacy: North Korea Threatens a Pre-Emptive Strike 2/6
Be There on February 15th!
N. Korea Reactivates Nuclear Facilities 2/6
BuzzFlash Alerts! Don't Miss A Thing!
New York Sued Over Refusal to Grant Parade Permit for Anti-War Protest 2/6
What Pyongyang Knows, A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
The Direct Link to Al Qaeda, Once Again, Leads to Saudi Arabia. The Bush Cartel is Betraying America by Focusing on Iraq When 15 of the 19 Hijackers and Osama's Financing Came From Riyadh, Not Iraq.
Turkey Will Not Fight in An Iraq War 2/6
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Dean Sees Security Threat in U.S. Need for Oil 2/6
From Britain: "We can still stop this blind march to disaster' 2/6
US claim dismissed by Blix 2/6
A Daschle Moment: Tom Unsure if He Has Enough Votes to Lead a Filibuster of the Ted Olson Clone, Estrada, Court Nomination. Tom, Lead, Or Step Aside! 2/6
U.S. poet laureate opposes war with Iraq 2/6
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Bush Needs to be Distrusted 2/6
Depressed? Read "The Emerging Democratic Majority." Remember that the Democrats Won the Last THREE Presidential Elections. Republicans Can Only Win Through Campaign Deception and 5-4 Supreme Court Votes. This Book Will Cheer You Up!
What Will We Tell The Grandkids? - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
Hot off the Presses! "Target Iraq: What The News Media Didn't Tell You" Introduction by Howard Zinn, afterword by Sean Penn. Written by Norman Solomon and Reese Erlich. Just Released This Week.
Lord, Please Make it True! Democrats Plan Filibuster of Estrada Nomination!
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Bush is "Robbing Peter to Pay Paul" to Fund His African AIDs Initiative 2/6
Gen. Franks Probed by Inspector General; Rumsfeld Defends Him and Then Says He Doesn't Think His Comments Have "prejudged the results of the inquiry, which is still underway." 2/6
Molly Ivins: FCC and Right-Wing Radio Helping U.S. Press Freedom Slip Away 2/6
More on the Boycott Rush Campaign! 2/6
Powell Fails To Sway Key Allies 2/6
S.F. man's astounding photo Mysterious purple streak is shown hitting Columbia 7 minutes before it disintegrated 2/6
Ted Olson Clone Alert, Miguel Estrada: Filibuster the Estrada Nomination. Call Your Senator Now.
The February 5th BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.)
NASA Tries Damage Control: They Must be Receiving Advice from Karl Rove 2/6
Maine Senate OKs resolution opposing war in Iraq 2/6
World Court: U.S. must stay execution of 3 Mexicans on death row 2/6
Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute Will Only Take a Second!
Gene Lyons: Gambling with History 2/6
Full text of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech to the United Nations on Iraq 2/6
Iraq's Liberation Day 2/6
"The truth is that the administration has blustered its way into a box, ruling out its two basic options -- talking or fighting -- and giving the North Koreans time to strengthen their hand by advancing their plutonium production." 2/6
Media Ownership Consolidation Chart 2/6
The February 5th BuzzFlash Mailbag - Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, And All-American!
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Energy trader admits his guilt; Enron employee helped rig market 2/6
ANWR drilling in today's Bush proposed spending budget 2/6
Resolutions challenge U.S. anti-terror laws 2/6
A Must Read: "Wealth and Democracy" by Kevin Phillips. A BuzzFlash Premium. The influence of money on government is now, more then ever, a hot political issue.
The Osama Clock - How Many Days Will Osama Run Free (not to mention the Anthrax Terrorist)
Anti-war rally to go ahead in London's Hyde Park 2/6
The Past is Prologue: "Secrets," by Daniel Ellsberg. By the Man Who Released the Pentagon Papers. A Warning About a Government that Keeps Secrets.
U.S. to Hit $6.4 Trillion Debt Ceiling in February 2/6
Ominous outlook in Fed inaction 2/6
N.C. congressman says internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II was appropriate 2/6
Mandela Says Powell Is Undermining U.N. 2/6
Command center not ready for war, Air Force reports 2/6
"Get Your War On" by David Rees
Joe Conason: A Caper Flick With a Lone Star, "It’s The Sting meets The Grifters at the Heritage Foundation!" 2/6
Helen Thomas: “This is the worst president ever,” she said. “He is the worst president in all of American history.”
"Ohio needs to plug a loophole" in the 14th Amendment 2/6
Total Information Awareness: Down, but not out 2/6
BuzzFlash Interviews Earl Katz About the Documentary "Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election"
NPR's Tavis Smiley: "The president has essentially done the equivalent of giving black Americans the middle finger" 2/6
"Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers" by Daniel Ellsberg
Bush seeks revenue through more fees, including new fees for Veterans 2/6
New Fees to Pay for Some Bush Tax Cuts 2/6
British Audiences Laugh at Play Mocking Bush 2/6
Fighting For Freedoms We Already Have 2/6
Bush's New "Evidence": Just a Crank Call? A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
The Rehnquist Choice by John Dean -- The explosive, never-before-revealed story of how William Rehnquist became a Supreme Court Justice, told by the man responsible for his candidacy.
The Bush Legacy: Tempers Flare At Jobs Event Over Bad Info On Ford Hiring 2/6
It's Kitsch, It's Campy. Dress Up the "First" Family! George W. Bush and His Family Paper Dolls -- Available From BuzzFlash
More on WJS's Anti-Clinton John Fund, the Civil Suit Filed against him, and his Former Girlfriends, Melinda Pillsbury-Foster and her Daughter Morgan Pillsbury (see: "Party Pooper" heading) 2/6
Bob Graham Nears, at Last, The Start of White House Run 2/6
Soldiers Beware: WWII and Korean War Vets "tell the nation how the capital gang has hung them out to die on promised lifetime health benefits" 2/5
Aid to Poor Faces More Scrutiny 2/6
Showdown at the UN Corral: Pressing the Press on Iraq 2/6
Al-Qaeda seeks to top Sept. 11, FBI report to say 2/6
Bush's budget would cut impact aid to school districts serving military installations, including the Bellevue Public Schools, by about $115 million in 2004, a drop of nearly 11 percent over this year. 2/6
"Iraq's "Day of Liberation" -- as George W. Bush calls it -- is set to begin with a bombardment of 3,000 U.S. missiles delivered over 48 hours, 10 times the number of bombs dropped during the first two days of the Persian Gulf War in 1991." 2/6
In the Northwest: Bush smiles at environment, but his teeth are fangs 2/6
France Suggests Tripling Iraq Inspectors 2/6
Ex-U.N. Inspector Sees Attack on Iraq This Month 2/6
"[As] chief scientific advisor to the British Gulf war veterans ... I came up against corrupt politics, bad medicine and science prostituted in the service of the military." 2/6
Who Would Jesus Bomb?
Bill Berkowitz: The GOP's man on the Moon; Unification Church leader and self-proclaimed Messiah builds legacy with support from the Bush administration 2/6
U.S. Seeks Dismissal of Suit by Critic of Missile Defense. Dr. Nira Schwartz says the heart of the nation's main antimissile system is faulty but that industry and the government have conspired to cover up its flaws 2/6
"If You Want To Win An Election, Just Control the Voting Machines" 2/6
Jurors say they were duped; 4 of 12 wish they had heard pot defendant's medical defense in medical marijuana case 2/6
Spending plan reverses party roles 2/6
Our Taxpayer Dollars are Being Used by the Bush Cartel to Bribe Countries (With Cash and Weapons) to Support the Iraq Attack
N. Korea Reactivates Nuclear Facilities 2/5
Freedom States Alliance: What John Ashcroft Isn't Doing to Fight Gun Violence and Terrorism 2/5
Warning on Hitting Debt Ceiling of $6.4 Trillion 2/6
Filibuster Estrada!
The share of Americans favoring President Bush's re-election in 2004 has fallen below 50 percent 2/5
Rumsfeld Stands by His Franks 2/5
Unbelievable Hypocrisy Alert: Bush Nominates Man to Federal Bench Who Allegedly Improperly Intervened Into an Investigation of a "Bush the First" Loan Guarantee to Saddam Hussein. Unbelieva-BULL! 2/5
Powell Attempts to Make Iraq Case With Photos, Tapes. One Question: If You Can Take Pictures of Iraqi Weapons, Why Can't the UN Inspectors Find It? Can We Trust the Bush Administration to Present Real Evidence? 2/5
Leaked British Intelligence Report Rejects Iraqi Al-Qaeda Link, According to the BBC
Justice Estrada -- an Oxymoron? 2/5
Bush Never Visited Johnson Space Center in Texas As Governor, Even Though Bush "Recalls" Such a Trip. "I think right now it's somewhat murky," the press secretary said aboard Air Force One. An Apt Description for the Bush Cartel as a Whole.
Richard Perle Announces, "France is No Longer Our Ally." Someone Needs to Put a Muzzle on this Guy and Tie His Leash to the Fire Hydrant. 2/5
Guernica Censored: Powell Without Picasso 2/5
State of the Union: Disarray, By BuzzFlash Writer Rebecca Knight
The Wrong Stuff: Was Columbia Being Used For Military Purposes? 2/5
The Hypocrisy and Lies of Bill O'Reilly 2/5
Georgia Republican Goes to Bat for Convicted Sex Offender. Oh, Yes, Did We Call It the Grand Hypocrisy Party (GHP)? 2/5
Shock troops for Bush: Partisans of the extreme right gathered outside of Washington this weekend to cheer on Cheney and Coulter -- and vent their rage at the liberals who rule America. Hunh? 2/5
"Canadian schoolchildren have been banned from a poster contest in the United States because of Canada's shaky support of the American position on Iraq" 2/5
They Fry More People Than Chicken in Texas 2/5
"I recommend this book to everyone with a brain -- and Republicans too," Says James Carville. "It's Still the Economy Stupid," by Paul Begala. Your Purchase of This Book Supports BuzzFlash.Com
From the Archives: Tonkin Gulf Lie Launched Vietnam War 2/5
Great Graph Showing Clinton's Record-Setting Surplus and Bush's Record-Setting Deficit 2/5
Vets for Justice 2/5
"Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate," by Naomi Klein
The Long Beach Peace Area Network Will March on February 15 2/5
Australian Senate Censures Prime Minister Over His Pro-Bush Iraq Policy 2/5
Only by Swallowing Big Lies Can Powell Justify a War 2/5
I will risk all on Iraq, says Blair. Hey, What's to Lose? After He Gives Iraq to Bush, He'll Join Poppy at the Carlyle Group. 2/5
Suit: Chrysler denied loans to blacks 2/5
What? Fleischer said, "Bush has never seen a NASA launch or landing, in part because there are so many other beautiful things to see in the country that he has yet to explore." Um, Bush Has Yet To Explore His Own Conscience. Maybe He Can't Find It? 2/5
Give Limbaugh the Bum's Rush!
The Bush Legacy: Worse Than Hoover 2/5
A Professor at the College of Charleston Experiences First Hand the Tactics of a Secret Police State 2/5
Bush Cartel "Ballooning Deficits for Your Children and Grandchildren Economic Plan" Gets Chilly Reception in the House 2/5
North Korean Leaders Calls Forces 'human Bombs' for Socialism Amid Standoff With Washington 2/5
PM admits he has failed to convince Britons of need for military action 2/5
State of the Union -- BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison
THE LIGHTER SIDE:
Powell Tells U.N. Iraq Secretly Baking Pretzels Of Mass Destruction 2/6
These Are Ironic Times 2/4
Bill Mitchell: The Bush/Pepsi Twist Spot 2/5
Space Maven Bush 2/5
Administration Seeks Public's Help In Finding An Excuse For War 2/6
Bush-Toons 2/5
Lack of Evidence Proves Iraq is Hiding Evidence 2/5
The Fifth Issue of Liberty Man 2/4
Ted Rall Cartoon: Free Trapped Stuff; Putting America's resources to work for America 2/4
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