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Bush is a Gong Show Reject. The Eyes Tell You Everything. 3/13
The BuzzFlash Mailbag - Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, And All-American!
A Call To Action: From the Widow of a Vietnam Veteran and Mother of a Soldier. She is Legally Challenging Bush's Right to Go to War Without a Congressional Declaration of War 3/13
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The Divine Right of Kings and The Madness of King George, A BuzzFlash Editorial
Rebuilding Iraq May Cost U.S. $20 Billion a Year. Cheney's Former Employer Could Make Out Like a Bandit. 3/13
Rumsfeld is a Loose Cannon Who Alienates Friend and Foe Alike. Just Part of the Bush Legacy. 3/13
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Did Pakistan Stage Arrest of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed? 3/13
The Past is Prologue: "Secrets," by Daniel Ellsberg. By the Man Who Released the Pentagon Papers. A Warning About a Government that Keeps Secrets.
It's Official: NYC Council Opposes War 3/13
Appeals Court Weighs Bush's War Powers 3/13
Held Over. BuzzFlash Editorial: The U.N. "Win-Win" for the Bush Cartel: Security Council Supports Iraq War Or U.N. Disbands
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Congressman Moran Should Not Be Blaming Jews. He Should be Blaming Bush and Cheney. They are the Unelected President and Vice President, After All. 3/13
The March 12th BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.)
"Get Your War On" by David Rees
Senate Defeats "Alternative" Late-Term Abortion Proposal 3/13
Faith No More: Texas’ record shows dangers of faith-based policy 3/13
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Bush's Relationship with His Soulmate Putin Deteriorates Amidst Little Caesar's Thuggish Threats 3/13
MORE than 10 million Iraqis will starve if war goes ahead, aid agencies warned yesterday. 3/13
Gary Hart Lays Out Case Against War 3/13
It Ought to be a Crime: Janet Rehnquist Covered up Jeb's Half Billion Dollar Problem Prior to the 2002 Election. As Usual, the Democrats Aren't Screaming to the High Heavens About This. 3/13
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Bush Cartel is Dragging Out 9/11 "Investigation" Security Clearances. How Unexpected, Eh? 3/13
George Soros: The bubble of American supremacy 3/13
Rumsfeld at War .... With the Pentagon Brass 3/13
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.
Right Wing New York Newspaper Says Perle is Suing Hersh in England Because It is Easier to Win There. Watch for Perle to Drop the Suit After the War Starts. 3/13
Supreme Court Grants Last Minute Stay of Execution 3/13
Tide turns against Bush 3/13
Anti-War Protestors Clash with Police in Turkey. If You Read the Fine Print, It Looks Like the U.S. Army is In Turkey Already and Continuing to Unload There. 3/13
A BuzzFlash Editorial from September 24, 2001, on Bush's "Crusade"
Senator Robert Byrd, Nobody Says It Better: America the Peacemaker Becomes America the Warmonger 3/12
Will Colin Powell be the Bush Cartel Fall Guy? 3/13
BuzzFlash Called It! Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer tells Bush to Dump the U.N.! 3/12
Arianna Huffington's "Pigs at the Trough" and a BuzzFlash.Com Honest-to-Goodness Piggy Bank! Can You Beat a Combination Like That?
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Dr. Strangelove Announcement of the Day: US can go without Brits, Rumsfeld Says 3/12
Is Bush a "Dry Drunk"? This is a Serious, Not Just a Provocative Question, A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
International Tide Turns Against Bush 3/13
Norm Coleman Shills for Junior 3/13
"Bombing His Way Into Armageddon," A BuzzFlash Editorial on Bush's Hijacking of God
Was Osama bin Laden Captured? 3/13
Statement Of Senator Kennedy Opposing The Nomination Of Miguel Estrada, Nominee For The United States Court Of Appeals For The D.C. Circuit 3/13
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Ellsberg on Whistleblower Arrest in U.S. Spying on U.N. Scandal 3/13
Secretive U.S. 'Information' Office Back 3/13
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Where In The World Is Iraq? "[A]n overwhelming number of young adults don't have a clue as to where that country is on a world map." 3/13
Clashes at Turkey anti-US demo 3/13
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"Right now there are seven to eight major factions in Afghanistan. They all have arms and they are all very powerful" 3/13
'Alternative Parliament' calls for outbreak of civil disobedience 3/13
A Far-Right Texan Inspires Antiwar Left 3/13
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)
Soaring Oil Prices: Another Culprit? Try the Administration's oil policies. 3/13
Are journalists missing in action? 3/13
Peers demand that England's Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, explain the legal basis for war. 3/13
Wall Street rebounds (Is 28 points a "rebound"?) as Europe crashes 3/13
Where This Bush Parts Ways with Dad 3/13
Armed US troops stormed the peace camp at RAF Fairford and ripped protesters' banners off the fence. 3/13
U.N. arms inspectors said Tuesday they had withdrawn two U-2 reconnaissance planes over Iraq for safety reasons after Baghdad complained both aircraft were in the air simultaneously. 3/13
California woman arrested for protesting Kmart's Military Easter Baskets 3/13
Halliburton to Get Windfall Post-Iraq War Contract. Cheney Gets $1 Million Dollars a Year from Halliburton. 3/12
"Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers" by Daniel Ellsberg
NYT Ed: Reproductive Rights in Peril 3/13
Almost for the first time, it isn't impossible to imagine Mr Blair choosing to resign instead of accepting what he sees as a shabby compromise 3/13
No Head is Complete Without a BuzzFlash Cap!
Oscars blacklist stars in bid to prevent peace protest speeches 3/13
U.S. Mum On New British Plan 3/13
The Manchurian President? A very weird hour with the president 3/13
Bush and the Bench: "Political polarization is a breakdown of the process and should be viewed as a failure, just as war is a failure of diplomacy." 3/13
Unions warn of mass Labour revolt if Blair Goes to War 3/13
Profiles in Prophecy: Which Armageddon Angle is Right for You? - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
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Energy Prices Boost Arctic Drilling Plan 3/13
Republican-controlled Senate rejects expanded health care for low-income pregnant women. 3/13
'It's not about Iraq any longer'; Undecided nations ponder whether to follow France or the US 3/13
Gene Lyons: No Guts, No Glory 3/13
Plan to snoop on fliers takes intrusion to new heights 3/13
The surreptitious way the process for inviting engineering companies to submit bids for the rebuilding of Iraq was handled could lead to more trouble for the Bush administration 3/13
Great List of Bush Broken Promises! The Bush Credibility Gap
Michael "Savage" Should be Put in a Cage and Displayed as a Remembrance of America's Age of Madness 3/13
Analysts worry about Patriot Act II 3/13
EU Might Not Fund Iraq Aid if War Illegal 3/13
More ailments seen in black children 3/13
Protesters lobby for fired mall security guard (the Peace t-shirt incident) 3/13
BuzzFlash asks Arianna Huffington: "Who Are the Pigs at the Trough?" -- A BuzzFlash Interview
Probe shows Gen Franks leaked secrets: Pentagon 3/13
Out of the straitjacket: The US wants to use potentially lethal chemicals against Iraq - despite the fact that this would contravene international law 3/13
Peace activists seek new id: Taking a page from the right, they're wrapping protests in patriotism. 3/13
War is Hell 3/13
Iraqis: "Smoking gun" made with duct tape 3/13
Britain Draws Up Conditions for Iraq 3/13
US firms set for postwar contracts 3/13
Give Limbaugh the Bum's Rush!
William Pfaff: The UN may check U.S. power 3/13
Bush vs. Bush: The coming Iraq war represents the president's ultimate rebellion against his father. 3/13
Australia: Gov't Rocked by Resignation of Anti-War Official 3/13
Court allows asbestos anxiety claims; Railroad workers fear getting cancer 3/13
A SENIOR Australian intelligence officer has quit in protest at what he said was Australia's dangerous rush to war with Iraq based on half-baked facts. 3/13
Senator Paul S. Sarbanes (D-MD) Questions Cost of War with Iraq 3/13
State Republicans Look to Scrap Primaries 3/13
Ex-counsel for grid operator is choice for seat on FERC 3/13
President Vladimir Putin gave Russia's security service sway over the border guards and government communications Tuesday — broad powers that nearly equal those of its powerful predecessor, the KGB. 3/13
Support for President George W. Bush's tax cut plan is being eroded among Senate Republicans 3/13
Boots & Coots fights its own fire; The publicly traded company may get a piece of the lucrative business in a post-war Iraq. But a group of oilmen are trying to take over the company on the cheap. 3/13
BP, Shell Salivate Over Post-Saddam Iraq 3/13
Richard Perle Accuses New Yorker Magazine Writer Sy Hersh of Being a Terrorist
Airlines: Iraq War Could Cost 70,000 Job. So, Where's that 15 Billion We Just Gave Them? 3/13
Bill Berkowitz: Does Mel Gibson have a Jewish problem? Will Gibson's parents' conspiratorial musings and his new film fuel anti-Semitism? 3/13
Press Isn't Asking Right Questions About Iraq 3/13
Mobilizing Online Against War 3/12
Oil Motives Seen in War Plan 3/12
"The cost of postwar reconstruction of Iraq will be at least $20 billion a year and will require the long-term deployment of 75,000 to 200,000 troops to prevent widespread instability and violence against former members of Saddam Hussein's government"3/12
Democratic Leaders are Mostly Silent About a War Devised by Madmen 3/12
40 Labour MPs call for Blair to resign 3/12
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.
Edwards Proposes Family Leave Credit 3/12
Susan McDougal's "The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk." A Premium From BuzzFlash.com.
Hourly Grand Hypocrisy Party Update: Bush Wants Mandatory Vote on Neo-Confederacy Judicial Nominees. Daschle is Starting To Talk Back Like He Means It. 3/12
Appeals Court Weighs Bush's War Powers 3/12
It's Wednesday in America's Gun Gallery! 3/12
Now the Bush Cartel is Imagining It Has Allies, But Can't Name Them, Maureen Dowd 3/12
Libraries Warn of FBI Spying Over Reading Habits 3/12
Who Owns the Weekly Standard? Rupert Murdoch, Of Course? Who Owns FOX? Rupert Murdoch, of Course. Are You Getting the Picture? 3/12
Blair Won't be Forgiven, Even if There's Dancing in the Streets 3/12
War opponents grill Gephardt on his Iraq vote. Hey, Dick, When You Drop Out of the Race, Take Joe Lieberman With You. 3/12
Reposted: The Muscle Beach Party, A BuzzFlash Editorial
Lapdog Blair to Follow Bush's Lead, Even Without a Favorable U.N. Vote 3/13
Bush Makes Desperate Bid for Iraq Attack Security Council Votes 3/12
Flag Also Belongs to Protestors for Peace 3/13
Serbian Prime Minister Is Assassinated 3/12
It Gets Even More Disgusting:French fries get new name in House restaurants. What are These Republican Morons Going to Do Next? Return the Statue of Liberty? These Jerks are Only Doing This Because the White House Supports Their Embarrassing Idiocy. 3/12
From the Archives: UK 'sells' bomb material to Iran 3/12
Blair Fails to Win Over Anti-War Critics on TV Program 3/12
Britain May Back Out of War! Dr. Strange[Rums]Feld Says, No Problem, We Will Send Our American Sons and Daughters to Die Anyway (BuzzFlash Interpretation of Rummy's Comments)
New York Times Says "Hold Firm on Estrada": 3/13
BuzzFlash that Padilla is of Little Importance to Terrorism Prevention, But the Bush Cartel is Using Him as Their Test Case to See How Much Dictatorial Power They Can Seize 3/12
Calvin Trillin: Richard Perle, Whose Fault is He? 3/12
Pentagon Stands Up Senate: Senators Blast Bush Cartel for Its Secrecy About Post-War Iraq Plans or Lack Thereof 3/12
The White House Press Corps politely grabs its ankles. 3/12
Reposted: Coward That He is, Bush Wouldn't Appear Before European Union Because He Wouldn't be Guaranteed a Standing Ovation 3/12
Hold on to Your Hats! The Counter-Disinformation/Misinformation Office is Back. For Real. 3/12
Ellsberg on Whistleblower Arrest in England 3/12
Must Read. Seymour Hersh: “There is no real standard of integrity because the White House doesn’t have any." 3/13
A Politically Weakened Bush 3/12
"New Urgency" in bin Laden Hunt 3/12
Is the Pope Saying that George W. Bush Will be a War Criminal if He Pre-Emptively and Unilaterally Bombs and Invades Iraq? 3/12
Is Bush One Vote Away from Arctic Drilling OK? 3/12
Economists Atttack the Madness of King George 3/12
Bush Signals that He's Sticking to His March 17th War Date 3/12
Tony Blair is in Desperation Mode, and Rumsfeld is in Full Incompetent, Dangerous Idiot Mode 3/12
At U.N., Since 1990, the United States Has Used Its Veto Power More Than Any Other Council Member 3/11
A Think Tank War: Why "Old Europe" Says No
From the Archives: In 1992, Cheney Ordered the Destruction of Files About Project "X." for decades, the U.S. Army had been training soldiers around the world in techniques of blackmail, kidnapping, murder and spying on non-violent political opponents.3/12
Federal Judge: Padilla, An American Citizen, Has the Right to Talk to a Lawyer. The Stalinist Ashcroft Justice Department Will, No Doubt, Appeal. 3/12
Reposted: Dad Disagrees with Junior 3/12
The Real Bush Press Conference - A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution from Riot
Ding Ding Diplomacy - P.M. Carpenter
Are Journalists Missing in Action? 3/12
Where Did Saddam Hussein Get His Weapons? - The Angry Liberal
So Many Issues: So Little Time, By BuzzFlash Writer Rebecca Knight in Southern Style
Hans Blix -- BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison
Message to Tom Daschle: Continue the Filibuster Until Estrada's Nomination is Withdrawn -- Or Resign
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Love Thine Enemy 3/12
New World Order = New Media Order 3/12
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