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Tony Blair Drops 14 Points in New Poll 2/18 "Big Brother" Bush on AOL - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary U.S. official to Israel: We'll deal with Syria, Iran after Iraq war (Bottom of Article) 2/18 New: Susan McDougal's "The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk." A New Premium From BuzzFlash.com. BuzzFlash Alerts! Don't Miss A Thing! NATO Gives Into U.S. Pressure, As France is Left Out in the Cold Brilliant: The Miniature Earth 2/18 BuzzFlash's Grand Hypocrisy Party (GHP) Moron of the Day: Third-Ranking House Republican Tries His Hand at Sophomoric, Crude Anti-French Jokes. What a Creep. 2/18 Iraq Is 'Wrong War' Says Howard Dean 2/18 BuzzFlash Can be Even Better, But Only With Your Support. Click Here. You Can't Have a Forest Fire if There are No Trees, A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary US becoming a colonial power: Wesley Clark 2/18 BuzzFlash Headlines On YOUR Web Site for Free (You Can't Get Any Cheaper Than That!) -- Spread the Pro-Democracy, Anti-Hypocrisy Word! John Glenn Worries About the Destabalization that Might Result from Iraq War 2/18 Bush Cartel to Renew Pressure on U.N. 2/18 Updated! 101 Things You Can Do To Stop the War! by the BuzzFlash Readers Kurdish leaders enraged by 'undemocratic' American plan to occupy Iraq 2/18 More Indications that the Bush Cartel Continues to Use Terror "Alerts" for Political Purposes: This is Grounds for Impeachment The February 17th BuzzFlash Mailbag - Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, And All-American! Enjoying the BuzzFlash Coverage and Commentary? Buy a Premium from BuzzFlash.com. Think What We Could Do with More Resources. We Exist Because of Your Financial Support (Not Tax-Deductible). Paul Krugman: Has Television News Long Ago Decided That Its Job is to Sell the War, Not Report the Truth? You Decide. 2/18 "Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate," by Naomi Klein The February 17th BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.) Austria Closes its Borders to US Troops, Translation of Der Spiegel Article - A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution Report: Two-Week Window Frames the Dim Son's "Decision" About Whether or Not to Have the Sons and Daughters Die in a War for Oil Fields. Forget About It, The Decision was Made on Inauguration Day. 2/18 They Marched for Peace in Bellingham, Washington 2/18 Chicago's Democratic Matriarch, Eleanor Daley, is Dead at the Age of 95 2/18 Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute! Poppy Bush Thinks He's Closer to God Than the Leader of the Episcopal Church in America, Poppy's Church That Is 2/18 Iraqis believe '91 war still is killing people; Along the Highway of Death where depleted uranium rounds blasted Iraqi forces, fatal diseases and natal deformities reportedly abound 2/18 No Head is Complete Without a BuzzFlash Cap! "Get Your War On" by David Rees Kucinich Likely to Run for Democratic Presidential Nomination 2/18 The Bush Administration NEVER , NEVER Accepts Responsibilities for Their Actions 2/18 War Planners Begin to Speak of War's Risks. Imagine That. Like Our Sons and Daughters and Iraqi Women, Children, Seniors, and Men Dying. Oh, No, That's Just Collateral Damage, Not a Risk. 2/18 Chirac: France Would Oppose Second U.N. Vote 2/18 We Broke This Story on BuzzFlash.Com:Military offers signing bonus for morticians 2/18 BUZZFLASH EXCLUSIVE: GOP Hires 75 Telephone Marketers in New Delhi Suburb to Raise Funds for the Republicans, Exporting Away American Jobs Turkey Signals Delay in U.S. Troop Deployments 2/18 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. More Than 100 Feared Dead in Suspected Arson Fire in South Korea Train 2/18 Howard Dean: President Bush ‘fighting the wrong enemy’ 2/18 About the Phony Bush Line That We Will Bring Democracy to Iraq: "This is the same reasoning used by such notables as Adolf Hitler and General Tojo, who used military invasion to reform Europe and the Pacific to suit their own purposes." 2/18 Bob Herbert: Strategic Advice From the Public 2/18 Who Is This White House Source Who Said, "Right now, the worst thing that could occur for the administration's credibility is that nothing happens this weekend. I know that sounds terrible but we've got a lot riding on this"? Treasonous! Why does the US want to attack Iraq? Well, one reason is to see what it's like to microwave lots of people 2/18 Wash. Post Ed.: Squeezing the Poor 2/18 Susan McDougal, "The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk" Talks to BuzzFlash.Com Bush's Presidential Malpractice 2/18 Is Joe Lieberman a Republican Mole? Just Asking. 2/18 From the BuzzFlash Editorial Archives: Slouching Toward the Gulag Jimmy Breslin: Walking Along Streets Of Peace 2/18 Air Force Academy Cadets Claim They Were Reprimanded for Reporting Rapes 2/18 Google Buys Largest Blogger Company 2/18 Science censors itself for war effort; Journals try to keep sensitive findings out of terrorists' hands 2/18 Nation's Capital Still Buried in Snowl: John Ashcroft Announces it Was a Newly Developed "Snow Bomb" Weapon Developed by God, Who Ashcroft. Ashcroft Will Have the DOJ Charge God with Terrorism and Seek the Death Penalty. 2/18 Taxing Homeland Security 2/18 For Bush Tax Plan, A Little Inner Dissent 2/18 A Court Ruling Actually Favoring the Rights of Consumers Against HMO's? Amazing Things Happen. 2/18 A New Power in the Streets 2/18 Five Bush Judge Appointees That Are Dangerous to Our Democracy 2/18	A Fox News Ad Roils Some Readers of The Nation 2/18 Blair's 'moral' case for war in Iraq is shot full of holes 2/18 Our Designated Killers: 'Where Is the Outrage?' 2/18 Sharon says U.S. should also disarm Iran, Libya 2/18 "A BBC correspondent in Washington says the high level of concern of a terrorist attack in the US - possibly using biological or chemical weapons - may have added to the panic when the substance was sprayed." 2/18 Israel Won't Distribute Gas Masks to Palestinians 2/18 Medicate to Kill: "Can the state medicate an inmate, which is in his best medical interests, to make him competent for death, which is not?" 2/18 Protesters march downtown: Pensacolians opposed to U.S. stance on Iraq 2/18 "Creeping Mission" Results in Death and Abductions of Americans 2/18 EU Leaders Agree: Inspectors Should Get More Time 2/18 Doctors eliminating Medicare patients; Funding cutbacks have seniors 'sweating bullets' over coverage 2/18 Reality bites for headstrong superpower 2/18 Enron's trail of deception 2/18 Molly Ivins: Midwinter madness 2/18 Spending Bill Is Scorned but Is a Sure Vote-Getter 2/18 Study: It's Easy to Plant False Memories. Does This Explain the Right's Love for Bush? 2/18 Bob "Bonehead" Barr Thinks Congress Can't Live Without His Knuckleaded Thoughts and Politics 2/18 Laid-off workers exhaust options; Unemployed are Colorado's 'new poor' 2/18 Jim Hightower: Earth to the Wall Street Journal 2/18 A Haunting Silence: Senator Robert Byrd is the Prophet In Our Midst Tired of Getting Those Wingnut Emails Saying Clinton Did Nothing for Terrorism? Well, Send Them This Page. 2/18 War is Good Business, Invest Your Sons - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary Statement of Sarah Brady, Chair of the Brady Campaign, on the Nomination for Best Documentary for Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine 2/18 Sean Penn sues over anti-war 'blacklist' 2/18 Afghan Refugees' quest for liberty takes top prize at Berlin 2/18 Life with the Lay people 2/18 Where is Bush's plan to reform Medicare? 2/18 Terry Jones, of Monty Python fame: The audacious courage of Mr Blair; You cannot help but admire the Prime Minister's steadfast refusal to be intimidated by facts and figures 2/18 Iraq and the Axis of Oil 2/18 Flash Presentation on New York Protest for Peace, from Take Back the Media 2/17 Are we protecting the troops? The percentage of combat deaths linked to friendly fire increasing 2/18 At Enron, the Compensation Kept Paying. Hey Bush, Where's Ken Lay? 2/18 The Clinton-Gore Administration: A Record of Progress 2/18 FRONTLINE examines the hidden story of what is really driving the Bush administration to war with Iraq. 2/18 British foreign secretary says war against Iraq "very difficult" without public support 2/18 I was told to lie, Former IL Gov. staffer says; Ryan official gave order, court hears 2/18 'This government no longer speaks for me'; Young and old, British and American, Muslim and Jewish all make their feelings clear about the plan to attack Iraq 2/18 Representative Wants Colleague, a Calif. Republican, Censured for Internment Remarks 2/18 Is This Compassionate Conservatism? 85-Year-Old's Condo Auctioned Away Because He Owed $500 in Back Taxes Seven Years Ago 2/18 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 a Difference a Democratic Governor Makes: Home care workers to get bargaining rights in Illinois 2/18 Reposted: Are You Anti-American? Take This Quiz and Find Out! Vt. poets lead protest against war with Iraq 2/18 Bush DIRECTLY Intervened to Stop NY Protests: "The Bush administration - which is in the midst of trying to sell the war to the public - filed a brief urging the judges to uphold denial of the permit" 2/18 More on 21 Trampling Deaths in Chicago Nightclub 2/18 Suburbia's 'first-timers' raise their anti-war voice 2/18 Hundreds Protest in Hastert's Home "GOP Heaven" District. In a Small Chicago Suburb, Smack in Dennis Hastert's District, Hundreds Protest the War 2/17 Does Tom Ridge Have Any Idea At All About What He Is Talking About? Any? 2/17 Blair, Increasingly Alone, Clings to Stance 2/18 Richard Reeves: Smelling the Roses in New York 2/18 Filibuster Estrada! From Canada: U.S. lies shouldn't be leading us into battle again Naomi Klein: The Media Against Democracy 2/18 Tony Blair Uses Letter from "Iraqi Student" Who Has Never Been to Iraq to Justify War. Lapdog Tony Must be Getting PR Advice From Karl Rove. 2/17 Rupert Murdoch is a Big Booster of the Iraq Attack, And His News Editors Follow Suit, Including FOX News, Of Course 2/17 The Bush Legacy: Violence Surges in Afghanistan 2/17 A Bushel Full of Bushisms. Two Books Filled with the Slate Collection of Honest-to-Goober Bushisms. Buy Them AND Support BuzzFlash.com! It's Positively Stupefying! Executioner Ashcroft: America's New Dr. Death 2/17 Bush and Bloomberg Tried to Trample Free Speech in New York, But the People Revolted 2/17 Squeeze the Truth from the Orange Alert, Please! 2/17 Madness, Pure Madness: Bush Cartel to "Punish German Treachery" 2/17	Horrible: 20 Killed in Nightclub Stampede in Chicago, Not Far From Downtown 2/17 Blair to Defy Anti-War Protests. Those Must REALLY be Some Photos the Bush Cartel Must Have Showing Tony Doing Something Very Nasty? Don't You Think? 2/17 Highly Recommended Book on the Right Wing Agenda of the Supreme Court: "Courting Disaster." This Book and John Dean's Fantastic "The Rehnquist Choice" for $50 (less than the combined retail cost, and we pay the shipping). Support BuzzFlash. Ted Rall: The Bush Cartel Doesn't Have to Censor the Mainstream Media: They Do the Censoring for the Bush Cartel No Questions Asked 2/18 Buzz Into Winter! Get A BuzzFlash.com T-shirt And Spread the News! FOX News Steals CNN Coverage of the Columbia Disaster 2/18 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. They Voted With Their Feet in Britain. "It May Not Have Been War, But It Was Magnificent." Will England be Brought to a Standstill by Civil Disobedience if Lapdog Blair Starts a War? 2/17 The Bush Legacy: Revulsion at Bush fuels Europe's ire 2/17 Since the Political Objective of Using the Terror Alert to Dampen Turnout at Peace Marches Failed, Now Tommy Ridge is Going to Lower It Again. My, My, How the Coincidences Pile Up. 2/17 Give Limbaugh the Bum's Rush! The Bush Legacy: The People of Europe Fear and Loathe the Government of the United States 2/17 Catch Greg Palast on His book Tour. Yes, BuzzFlash.com Will be Offering His Expanded Version of "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" as a Premium. Herr Ashcroft's Grand Hypocrisy Party Violation of States' Rights 2/17 Message to Tom Daschle: Continue the Filibuster Until Estrada's Nomination is Withdrawn -- Or Resign Ted Olson Clone Alert, Miguel Estrada: Filibuster the Estrada Nomination. Call Your Senator Now. France, bolstered by weekend rallies, insists on more time for UN inspectors 2/17 Former NATO Head Clark Mulling Presidential Bid as Democrat 2/17 A BuzzFlash Breaking News Analysis: 330 Arrests in NYC. Police Accused of Charging Protestors with Horses. Interesting Analysis of U.S. Geo-Political-Economic Goals in Invading Iraq: "Military Solution to an Economic Crisis" 2/17 From the Archives: Didn't Bush Say That He Was Going to Get Osama Dead or Alive? Didn't He? 2/17 Report: Israeli Paper Says Sharon Government Is Sure Bush Cartel Will Launch War. It's Just a Question of "Logistics." Bush is Just Letting the U.N. Think It Matters, Until all the Military Preparations are Finished. Then It's Bombs Away for George! Was Sunday's Massive British March the Begining of the End for Tony Blair's Political Career? Let Tony's Rejection by the British People be a Lesson to American Democrats Who Act Like Republicans. You Know Who You Are. 2/17 If You Liked Patriot Act I, Don't Miss the Sequel! 2/17 BuzzFlash Readers Rally for Peace, Some Samples from Our Mailbox Dicky Cheney is Still Acting Like a Spoiled Kid Who Will Never Accept Responsibility for His Actions. Get This, He's Still Blaming Clinton. 2/17 Fresno Anti-War Rally Biggest Since Vietnam War 2/17 Photos of the New York Protest for Peace 2/17 Code Pink: Women's Pre-Emptive Strike for Peace 2/17 "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers" by Daniel Ellsberg Despite Their Leader Being a Bush Lapdog, 80% of Spain Opposes a War and Hundreds of Thousands Turned Out for Peace. Anti-war demonstrations took place in 57 cities throughout Spain, including all the provincial capitals. 2/16 Protest for Peace in Corpus Christi, Texas 2/17 Kurdish leaders enraged by 'undemocratic' American plan to occupy Iraq 2/17 French See Bush as the Ugly American, for a Variety of Reasons 2/17 In Romney, Some See Echoes of Bush. Disgusting! 2/17 Dennis Kucinich to Enter Democratic Presidential Primaries 2/17 The Gospel According to Bush 2/17 Vietnam Redux: Colombian Farc rebels executed US 'contractors' 2/17 When Rumsfield Speaks, Europe Bristles 2/17 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. Kerry is Recovering from Prostate Surgery 2/17 Photos of Hollywood March 2/17 "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 The Osama Clock - How Many Days Will Osama Run Free (not to mention the Anthrax Terrorist) The Past is Prologue: "Secrets," by Daniel Ellsberg. By the Man Who Released the Pentagon Papers. A Warning About a Government that Keeps Secrets. Millions March in Europe Against the War: Slap in the Face to the Bush "Oil Before Lives" Cartel "Homeland security is now a Monty Python skit. Instead of the Minister of Silly Walks, we have Ministers of Silly Warnings." 2/17 Many Moderate Churches Take Up Anti-War Cause 2/17 Is Bill O'Reilly Prevaricating a Little About His Support for Boycotts? You Bet. 2/17 The Shuttle -- BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison THE LIGHTER SIDE: The Top Ten Conservative Idiots (No. 99) 2/17 Bush Explains His Tax Plan (A Flash) 2/17 These Are Ironic Times 2/18 Empty Warhead 2/17 Members Of Congress Call For Ban Of French Products Including Fries and Dressing 2/18 Tom Ridge Demonstrates Correct Duct Tape Technique 2/16 Just Some Guys With Their Heads in Their Butts 2/18 Mad Cowboy Disease 2/17

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John Le Carre: The United States of America Has Gone Mad