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Scripted Press Conferences and the Lapdog Media - A BuzzFlash News Analysis Arianna Huffington's "Pigs at the Trough" and a BuzzFlash.Com Honest-to-Goodness Piggy Bank! Can You Beat a Combination Like That? Where Are The Democrats? - A BuzzFlash Guest Commentary by Bill Moyers Tom Shales (Media Critic of the Washington Post) Asks the Question that is on Everybody's Mind: Was Bush Medicated for His News Conference? 3/7 Paul Krugman: Let Them Hate as Long as They Fear. Bush's Threats Against the French and Mexicans Makes You Ashamed to be an American. He is Literally Inciting a Hate Campaign. Immoral, Disgusting, and Worthy of Impeachment. 3/7 President Gump - A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution March 17th is Back as War Day for Bush/Blair 3/7 Hans Blix -- BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison Profiles in Prophecy: Which Armageddon Angle is Right for You? - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary Does a Scripted "Shrub" Bother You? It Gets Worse. - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary Bush Will Go to War to Divert Attention from Headlines Like This:Payrolls Plunge 308,000 in February 3/8 BuzzFlash Alerts! Don't Miss A Thing! NOW, MORE THAN EVER. BuzzFlash Depends Upon You to Expand Our Resources. We are Completely Reader Supported! We are THE Pro-Democracy UnDrudge Report for Peace, Justice, and the American Way. BuzzFlash Headlines On YOUR Web Site for Free (You Can't Get Any Cheaper Than That!) -- Spread the Pro-Democracy, Anti-Hypocrisy Word! The BuzzFlash Mailbag - Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, And All-American! Latest Poll: Bush Would Lose to Democrat (AGAIN) if Election Were Held Today Daschle and Pelosi Say War is Premature. That's a Start. 3/7 Give Limbaugh the Bum's Rush! The March 7th BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.) Was the Bush "News Conference" Scripted? A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution Iraq a Terrorist State? Rumsfeld Doesn't Know - A BuzzFlash News Analysis Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute! Pa. Democrat Backs Away From Iraq Vote; Rep. Joseph Hoeffel "accused the administration Wednesday of bungling diplomatic relations and said the United States should not go to war without broad international backing." 3/8 Buzz Into Winter! Get A BuzzFlash.com T-shirt And Spread the News! U.S. Public Divided on War With Iraq, CBS News Poll Shows. It's Divided Between The Public that Wants War and The Public that Has a Brain 3/8 Let's Really Support Our Soldiers, By Saving Their Lives Report: Bush to Give Iraq a 72-Hour Ultimatum to Disarm Itself and Then the Bombing Will Begin on March 13th "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 "Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate," by Naomi Klein The Past is Prologue: "Secrets," by Daniel Ellsberg. By the Man Who Released the Pentagon Papers. A Warning About a Government that Keeps Secrets. Power grab II: "This frightening 120 pages so further threatens Americans' fundamental constitutional protections that it's hard to know where to begin." 3/8 US troops seen at key Saudi airport 3/8 Strangeloves in Bloom, by James P. Pinkerton, a White House staffer in the Reagan and first Bush administrations 3/8 Moves to stifle dissent in America are cause to fear 3/8 T-Shirt, Web Site Spark Challenges to Rights 3/8 Blix: Iraq Now Proactive on Disarmament 3/8 Dem. Senator Tom Harkin: I was fooled on Bush Iraq plans 3/8 U.S., Britain give Iraq deadline 3/8 Anti-War T-Shirts cut from TV performance 3/8 Mark Morford: The Lie Of The U.S. Military; Tough gritty American soldiers protect freedom of liberal S.F. columnist? Or the other way around? 3/8 Blix: Inspectors 'need months' 3/8 America admits suspects died in interrogations 3/8 Repost: Bush's bogus Medicare reform 3/8 COWARD IN CHIEF: Graceless, Vindictive Fraud Trembles In Fear of 82 Year-Old Woman, Helen Thomas 3/8 ElBaradei: 'Proof' That Iraq Sought Uranium Is Fake. Is Bush Lying? Just Asking. 3/8 'No war for oil,' Canadian students say 3/8 Euro touches fresh four-year highs 3/8 E.J. Dionne, Jr.: The 3 to 6 Gap 3/8 Bush, the Bible, and Iraq: What scares so many people outside the U.S. is the President's religious, apocalyptic rhetoric. Is he really ready for Armageddon? 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More Evidence that the Man Who Would Lead Our Sons and Daughters Into War Avoided War Like a Coward - Special BuzzFlash Guest Contribution (with Audio File from "Horns and Halos" explaining Bush's deception) Agent Who Saw 9/11 Lapses Still Faults F.B.I. on Terror 3/7 Washington Post Warriors 3/7 Tony Blair last night faced fresh pressure to abandon the threat of war against Iraq when 16 eminent academic lawyers warned him that the White House doctrine of "pre-emptive self-defence" has no justification under international law. 3/7 Two American Companies Pay Penalties for Improving Chinese Rockets 3/7 Get Yourself a .50 Caliber Handgun and be a Straight Shooter! 3/7 China Joins European War Opponents 3/7 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. Jobless Claims Reach Year's Highest Level 3/7 Congressman: Remove Top Air Academy Brass 3/7 Politically Incorrect Bill Maher is Author of "When You Ride ALONE, You Ride With Bin Laden." The Newest BuzzFlash.Com Premium. In Book or CD Format. The War on the Iraqi Civilian Population Began Long Ago 3/7 Send in the Clowns, Lynne Cheney 3/7 Record Gas Prices Predicted for April 3/7 Who armed Iraq? 3/7 Blair Gets Grilling on MTV 3/7 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). Ashcroft Defends Holding Americans as 'enemy Combatants' 3/7 Air Force Inquiry Finds 54 Cases of Rape or Assault at Academy 3/7 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! Bush's Latest Flash of Genius, Try to Take Down a Thriving Islamic Democracy, A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary Fairness Strikes Out in the Supreme Court 3/7 Mean Streets in Nablus 3/7 FBI Agent Rowley: "diversion of attention from al-Qaeda to our government’s plan to invade Iraq ... will, in all likelihood, bring an exponential increase in the terrorist threat to the U.S." 3/7 Great List of Bush Broken Promises! The Bush Credibility Gap BuzzFlash Can be Even Better, But Only With Your Support. Click Here. T-Shirt Incident Wasn't the First Time New York Mall Harassed People for PEACEful Activity 3/7 Call 44 Democratic Senators Who Voted to Continue Estrada Filibuster and Thank Them. Miller, Breaux, Nelson and Nelson Voted with the Republicans. (Graham Wasn't Able to Vote.) 3/7 Held Over. BuzzFlash Editorial: The U.N. "Win-Win" for the Bush Cartel: Security Council Supports Iraq War Or U.N. Disbands Radioactive Material Is Stolen From Halliburton, Cheney's Former Company Could be Source for Dirty Bombs. Ironic, Eh? 3/7 Senator Hatch Wants Asbestos Bill Quickly; Halliburton Would Be Big Winner 3/7 Pentagon Disinformation Campaign to Blame Saddam for Killing of Civilians by American-British Forces 3/7 "[T]he US and Britain envisaged a blitzkrieg-style onslaught against Saddam Hussein" Blitzkrieg? Now, Where Have We Heard That Before? 3/7 Tom "Toxic Head" DeLay Says He Will Bypass Courts on Pledge of Allegiance 3/7 Bob Herbert: The War on Schools 3/7 Troops 'told of March 17 invasion' 3/7 Boy, Won't Laura Bush Be Upset!? Afghan Women Restricted Despite Taliban Demise - UN 3/7 11 Palestinians Die in Israeli Raid 3/7 Grim Future for World's Water 3/7 Held Over: George W. Bush Can't Tell the Difference Between a Democracy and a Puppet Government. A BuzzFlash Editorial. 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! Marines May Have Violated International Law in Kuwait 3/7 Coke Chief Gets $4M Bonus Amid Layoffs 3/7 Retailers Put All Their Grenades in One Basket; Full Metal Bonnet 3/7	Lawyer, ex-judges fear Texas about to kill an innocent man 3/7 House's water proposal drips with pretense 3/7 3 Minority Caucuses want GOP Rep. Howard "Japanese Internment Supporter" Coble Denounced 3/7 U.S. Proposes Limited Smallpox Compensation 3/7 This is the GOP: Company pays millions less after donation to Minnesota Republicans; Florida insurer's fine is smaller under Gov. Pawlenty's watch 3/7 As Timely as a Book Gets! "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. Presidential hopeful Dean: Liberal and proud 3/7 The Pope might fly to New York to make a dramatic appeal for peace before the United Nations 3/7 Booth-Blair axis embarrassed by opinion on Iraq 3/7 Many countries are getting hush-money for siding with the US over Iraq. Britain's gains are not so obvious, but they are considerable 3/7 A Recent Oregon Ruling Allowing Secret Warrants in Domestic Terrorism Cases May Set A Troublesome Precedent 3/7 Politics of Abortion Delays $15 Billion to Fight Global AIDS 3/7 Major Powers at Odds on Iraq War Resolution 3/7 Mother Jones: War Watch: Arrogance Is Bliss, Time to Talk?, & What the Defector 3/7 Richest Minnesotans pay lower tax rates, report says 3/7 War costs revealed: between $US47 billion and $US67 billion this year 3/7 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation took names at MTSU peace rally 3/7 U.S. Considers Withdrawing Troops from South Korea 3/7 2 Companies Pay Penalties for Improving China Rockets 3/7 Students pack Capitol in their plea for peace 3/7 Triple veto threat caught White House by surprise 3/7 Americans ill-served by own media 3/7 Caught on Tape: The Bush Credibility Gap on Medicare (a PDF document) 3/7 Simply Brilliant Flash: TakeBacktheMedia.Com Lays Rush Limbaugh to Waste U.S. stocks drop as war, profit, job woes take toll 3/7 Fed report: Almost ZERO growth 3/7 Hollywood actors raise McCarthyism specter 3/7 Military Seeks Exemptions on Harming Environment. 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Isn't Homicide Also Called Murder? 3.7 "A chemical plant which the US says is a key component in Iraq's chemical warfare arsenal was secretly built by Britain in 1985 behind the backs of the Americans, the Guardian can disclose." 3/7 Bush to Hold News Conference Thursday Night The Mainstream Media Leads the March Toward War 3/7 Bush to Kill for Peace in the Name of God 3/7 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. Reposted: The Muscle Beach Party, A BuzzFlash Editorial French See Iraq Crisis Imperiling Rule of Law. "Rule of Law," Isn't that what the Treasonous Orin Hatch, Newt Gingrich, Trent Lott, Ken Starr and the Like Kept Saying About Clinton Fibbing About Oral Sex? 3/6 Susan McDougal, "The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk" Talks to BuzzFlash.Com This is the GOP: "Oral" Hatch and Son Get Boosts From Makers of Ephedra; "has kept regulators at bay and benefited via campaign donations. Lobbyists linked to his son have received $2 million." 3/6 The Osama Clock - How Many Days Will Osama Run Free (not to mention the Anthrax Terrorist) "Get Your War On" by David Rees Faced with Large, Spontaneous Protest, New York Mall Drops Charges Against Lawyer Wearing Peace T-Shirt. However, Mall Spokesperson Claims Wearing a Peace T-Shirt is Disruptive to "Other Shoppers." 3/6 "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers" by Daniel Ellsberg "Conservative" Bob Novak Says Bush is Going to War Because He Has Failed on the Economy and Failed in the War on Terrorism. Americans and Iraqis Will be Killed Because of Bush's Failed Presidency. He Will Go to War, Because It is All He Can Do. 3/6 No Head is Complete Without a BuzzFlash Cap! 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. Lapdog Blair Will Try for "Alternative" Resolution for Saddam to "Prove" He Doesn't Have WMD. Everybody Agrees Saddam is a Bad, Bad Man, But How Do You Prove You DON'T Have Something? 3/6 One Person With Principle Takes a Stand Against the Madness of King George: U.S. Diplomat's Letter of Resignation The Principles of Democracy, by BuzzFlash Writer Rebecca Knight There's a New Pope in Town, From BuzzFlash's Citizen One Ari Won't Comment on Leaked Memo Showing White House is Bugging Security Council Members, A BuzzFlash News Analysis Are You Ready.gov? - P.M. Carpenter Message to Tom Daschle: Continue the Filibuster Until Estrada's Nomination is Withdrawn -- Or Resign THE LIGHTER SIDE: Ted Rall: Trickle-Down Killonomics 3/8 President Bush's Anti-Terror Press Conference Detailing Terror-Circumventing War Against Terrifying Terrorists Of Terror 3/8 Mike Thompson Cartoon: Hitch Your Wagon to a Star? 3/8 White House Wallpaper 3/8 Ted Rall: Ancient History; Afghanistan, Iraq... does Bush see the correlation? 3/8

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BuzzFlash asks Arianna Huffington: "Who Are the Pigs at the Trough?" A BuzzFlash Interview.

BuzzFlash asks Arianna Huffington: "Who Are the Pigs at the Trough?"
A BuzzFlash Interview.