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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
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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
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Iraq a Terrorist State? Rumsfeld Doesn't Know - A BuzzFlash News Analysis
Bush Shuns Helen Thomas at Press Conference. That's Because He's a Coward. He'd Lose in a Match-up With Her, Right Quick. 3/7
Milestone for the Democrats: They Hold the Line, Defeat Republican Effort to End Estrada Filibuster with 4 Votes to Spare! Finally, Something to Celebrate!
Photo of the Peace T-Shirt that a New York Mall Jailed a Man for Wearing 3/7
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Osama arrested near Pak-Afghan border area?
Terror, Taxes and the Pax Americana 3/7
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Losses Before Bullets Fly 3/7
Hot! Hot! 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
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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
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Who armed Iraq? 3/7
Blair Gets Grilling on MTV 3/7
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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
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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.
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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
3 Minority Caucuses want GOP Rep. Howard "Japanese Internment Supporter" Coble Renounced 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. Again. They Lost the Vote Last Year, But They're Asking For a New Vote 3/7
Security Council members with pivotal Iraq votes receive billions in aid (read: BRIBES) from U.S. 3/7
FBI agent: Agency unprepared for 'flood of terrorism' 3/7
More criticism of Wellstone pilots 3/7
Patriot II's attack on citizenship: "A basic principle of American democracy is that members of government serve at the behest of the citizenry, and not vice-versa." 3/7
Apparently These Guys Didn't Get the "Torture Light." Two Afghan Detainees are Killed While Under U.S. Military "Arrest." One senior military official said, "This investigation may not go well for us." 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
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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
A CIA team will use "all appropriate measures," including using two young boys as leverage, to convince Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to give up Al Qaeda info. 3/6
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It's Back to the Karl Rove Scare Tactics. Do These "Alerts" Serve Any Other Purpose Than to Frighten People? If So, What Purpose? Please Explain. 3/6
Ratio of Governments We Have Bombed to Formation of Democratic Governments (Plus a Must See Graphic), A "One Citizen" BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
Lawyer Arrested for Wearing Peace T-Shirt in New York Mall 3/5
UN's Blix More Upbeat on Iraq Than U.S. Officials 3/6
Worldwide Student Protests Against a Pre-Emptive Invasion of Iraq 3/6
Clinton and Dole Will Do a Weekly Debate on 60 Minutes 3/6
For execution of Donahue, General Electric supplied the current and, among other things, "told Donahue that he had to have more conservative or right-wing guests than liberals on the same hour show." So, Where Again is that Liberal Media? 3/6
Thousands of Students Protest War in Wisconsin 3/6
Suicide Bomber Kills at Least 15 in Haifa 3/6
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Turkish army presses parliament to accept deployment of U.S. troops in Turkey 3/6
Media Whore Insanity: Boston Globe Devotes an Entire Article to a 1986 Statement of Kerry's About Being an Irish-American. Unbelievable B.S. from Another So-Called "Liberal" Paper. 3/6
John "KGB" Ashcroft Advances His Stalinist Searches 3/6
Translation of Der Spiegel Article on Security Council Vote on the "Second Resolution"
Harkin Blasts Sutton 3/6
Chicago City Council to Hold Hearings on Shortage of Minorities in the Media 3/6
Peace Protestors Arrested and Detained in Baltimore Suburb for Leafletting Mall, A BuzzFlash Reader Firsthand Account
Democrats Criticize Bush on North Korea 3/6
Updated: Letters from BuzzFlash Readers in Response to Our Editorial on Norm Coleman, Minnesota Creep
The March 5th BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.)
Report: North Korean Missile Warhead Was Found in Alaska, But the Bush Administration Kept Mum About It (Takes Awhile to Load)
A Diplomat's Stand: "John Brady Kiesling, the career diplomat who resigned, had it right in his letter of resignation" 3/6
"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.
When It Goes Wrong at a Charter School. Free-Market Education Ain't All it was Supposed to Be. 3/6
Going Off to War Supplied With Lies 3/6
Mother Jones: Big Lie Unraveling?, Getting a Running Start, Meet the New Boss 3/6
Privacy Activist Takes on Delta 3/6
Top Business Group Urges Bush To Scrap His Tax-Cut Plan 3/6
Support an Emergency Appeal to the U.N. 3/6
U.S. Students Mount Anti-War Protest 3/6
Hype outraces facts in malpractice debate 3/6
Dick Cheney Has White House Lawyer Write Internet Parody Site To Demand They Stop Making Fun of Lynne Cheney 3/6
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
Union warns movie execs not to pick on (i.e., Blacklist) anti-war actors 3/6
U.S. Students Hold Anti-War Rallies 3/6
Even Ultra-Hawkish Washington Post Admits "U.S. in a Tough Position As Isolation Increases." Although, It Writes as Fact the Powell Statement that "Iraq has made great headway in splintering the Security Council." It was Bush That Did That. 3/6
It's Bush Against the World: France, Germany and Russia Will Not Support a Second Resolution. World (Except for Blair and Third Tier Country LEADERS Bush Has Bribed with Taxpayer Money) Rebels Against the Madness of King George. 3/6
Laughing Out Loud! Powell says Saddam Trying to Divide U.N.
Vatican to Bush: Iraq war would be 'disaster.' The Pope doesn't know that the Bush family is hotwired to God.
Up Close and Personal With George W. Bush: Digusting and Alarming!
"The declaration issued today by Germany, Russia and France against war in Iraq now — with its implicit threat of veto — may go down as the loudest "No!" shouted across the Atlantic in a half century or more."
Group Protests N.Y. Peace T-Shirt Arrest (Remember, the Lawyer Who Was Arrested BOUGHT the T-Shirt AT THE MALL HE WAS ARRESTED IN FOR WEARING IT!) 3/6
From the Cato Institute: Why Hussein Will Not Give Weapons of Mass Destruction to Al Qaeda 3/6
Agents Win Lawsuit Against Pa. Attorney General 3/6
Chief UN Inspector Positive Over Iraq Disarmament 3/6
Joe Conason: Path Not Taken May Haunt Bush 3/6
Mark Morford: Peace Takes A Bullet; In which the Bush Doctrine means never having to say, sorry about all the warheads and death 3/6
Supreme Court upholds California's three strikes law 3/6
Expert identifies extreme groups in state 3/6
Ari Won't Comment on Leaked Memo Showing White House is Bugging Security Council Members, A BuzzFlash News Analysis
Bush cripples his AIDS initiative 3/6
Tax Cut Cost Estimate Revised Upwards to $726 Billion 3/6
Library restrictions borrow from colonial-era abuses 3/6
Protesters cry foul over police videotaping 3/6
Pope Urges World to Avoid Conflict in Iraq. Um, Mr. Pope, It's not the World We Have to Worry About. It's the Cerberus named BushCheneyRumsfeld. 3/6
About 100 anti-war demonstrators marched through a mall today to protest the arrest of a shopper who wore a T-shirt that read "Peace on Earth" and "Give Peace a Chance." 3/6
Washington State Sues Bush Administration Over Radioactive Waste 3/6
Give Limbaugh the Bum's Rush!
Are You Ready.gov? - P.M. Carpenter
Message to Tom Daschle: Continue the Filibuster Until Estrada's Nomination is Withdrawn -- Or Resign
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Lynne Cheney, Your Husband Has a Message for You 3/7
The Latest Liberty Man! 3/7
First Lady Introduces "Let Them Eat JELL-O" Campaign 3/5
High Command 3/4
Pentagon Revises Cost Of Iraq War From $100 Billion To $24.95 3/6
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