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Oakland Police Open Fire On Protesters, Longshoremen 4/8
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Oh Yeah, And About the Disastrous Economy Created by the Bush Cartel.... 4/8
Suspicions Swirl as U.S. Unveils Iraq Team 4/8
"Directors of one of the world’s largest armament companies are planning on meeting in Lisbon in three weeks time. The American based Carlyle Group is heavily involved in supplying arms to the Coalition forces fighting in the Iraqi war." 4/8
U.S. Forces Set Up Baghdad Base 4/8
I Miss America: Even Dick Nixon looks good to me now 4/8
"Smoking gun" WMD site in Iraq turns out to contain pesticide 4/8
Norm Coleman, A Poor Excuse for a Human Being:"To be very blunt and God watch over Paul's soul, I am a 99 percent improvement over Paul Wellstone," Coleman said. "Just about on every issue." 4/8
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Ed: Fight for veterans funding 4/8
U.S. Launched Missile Strike on Building Housing Al-Jazeera TV. Reporter Killed. Is this An Example of Bush Trying to Build Good Will in the Arab World? 4/8
Two Journalists Killed in Missile Strike 4/8
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Kerry's Not Backing Down. 4/8
Posted for a Second Time, It Is So Important: Smoking gun" WMD site in Iraq turns out to contain pesticide 4/8
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Five Journalists Injured by U.S. Fire 4/8
Repost: Tell Senator Stevens What You Think of His Belief that NYC Police and Firefighters Should Work Overtime for Free While Stevens Gives Wealthy Republicans Even MORE Tax Breaks 4/8
Norm Coleman: Is He Beevis or Butthead? 4/8
Those GOP/Bush Values: Neil Bush’s quiet divorce 4/8
Arianna Huffington's "Pigs at the Trough" and a BuzzFlash.Com Honest-to-Goodness Piggy Bank! Can You Beat a Combination Like That?
Conyers chastises Bush during downtown rally 4/8
Poverty, Military Service Seem to Go Hand-in-Hand 4/8
Opposition leader secretly flown to Iraq; Chalabi's rise is strongly opposed by the CIA and the US state department 4/8
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Bush and Lapdog Blair See U.N. "Advisory" Role 4/8
Student Slain In College Shooting 4/8
A List of Bush Lies on Iraq
Aljazeera in English. The Site is Often Overloaded, But You Can Try. 4/8
Taliban Reportedly Making a Comeback in Afghanistan 4/8
Like Robert Byrd, George McGovern is More Than 80 Years Old. Unlike Bush and Cheney Who Were Cowards During Vietnam, McGovern Was a War Hero. Why Do Only Democrats Over 80 Vigorously Speak Out for Democracy? Thank You George McGovern.
It's Hard to Go Home Without a Trinket! 4/8
Dana Milbank said reporters have become complacent and given up their aggressive style. He called this situation "the Prozac newsroom," and joked that 40 percent of Washington Post reporters were on some kind of anti-depressant. 4/8
Cuba jails top dissidents 4/8
Senate Begins Consideration of Another Dreadful Bush Cartel Monarchy Loyalist Court Appointee: Owen 4/8
Michael Moore.Com 4/8
Red Cross doctors who visited southern Iraq this past week saw "incredible" levels of civilian casualties including a truckload of dismembered women and children 4/8
Draft Gore Website 4/8
Water Under Siege in Iraq 4/8
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The "shock and awe" of Bush's war has sent shockwaves through the antiwar movement leaving bitterness and cynicism. 4/8
"The Boston Globe won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for ''courageous, comprehensive coverage'' of the priest sex abuse scandal that led to sweeping changes in the U.S. Roman Catholic church" 4/8
The Fifty-First State, by James Fallows 4/8
Halliburton is "Making a Killing" on the War - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
Troops discover the high cost of battle: $50 for a pack of cigarettes 4/8
Bush's Shady U.N. Ambassador to Get $600,000 to Redo Kitchen!
Strange Tale of Nerve Agents Allegedly Detected by U.S. in Iraq. Can Someone Explain How Men Guarding a Warehouse Would Come Down with Symptoms? Come on, We Need a Better Story Than This One. 4/8
Alleged Russian Military Intelligence Update on Iraq War. No Matter What, It's Quite Detailed. 4/8
A morally hollow victory: No amount of PR will disguise the fact that this war is an outrage against humanity 4/8
Principal pulls plug on anti-gun documentary 4/8
The World According to Marie Antoinette, Oh, We Mean Barbara Bush and Her "Beautiful Mind"
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Former NBC reporter Arthur Kent: Bush is out of control. 4/8
The Past is Prologue: "Secrets," by Daniel Ellsberg. By the Man Who Released the Pentagon Papers. A Warning About a Government that Keeps Secrets.
"Military officials report that using force against Syria or Iran once Iraq is stabilized is a "live issue" in Bushland." 4/8
Ed: Will our 'grunts' be discarded after war? 4/8
Mark Morford: Who Cares About Dead Iraqis? Body counts, Rummy's plan, and the grisly stuff they don't want you to see 4/8
My views are those of millions: I am not a traitor and I will not be gagged over this war 4/8
Let the Republican National Committee Know What You Think About War Hero John Kerry Telling Vietnam-Evaders Bush and Cheney to Stuff It
Agency wages media battle; Team makes sure war message is unified, positive 4/8
The thick fog of war: Don't adjust your set -- it's just the haze from America's 'embedded' journalists 4/8
From the Archives: Bush's Buddy, Ken Lay, On Deregulation. We Kid You Not. 4/8
The U.S. Betrays Its Core Values; Having learned from its past, Germany rightly rejects Bush's war and his disdain of the U.N. by Gunter Grass, 1999 Nobel Prize winner for Literature 4/8
Pyongyang abandons talks with Seoul 4/8
CNN won't let the facts in Iraq get in the way 4/8
High Court Upholds Cross-Burning Ban 4/8
Ted Rall offers Free Posters of "our beloved Ruler, Señor Generalissimo El Busho, also known as The Resident of the United States" 4/8
War Wounds: Bombs Fall and the Lights Go Out 4/8
Bikes not bombs: Antiwar movement achieves critical mass on the streets of San Francisco every weekday. 4/8
Poppy Bush's Carlyle Group is heavily involved in supplying arms to the Coalition forces fighting in the Iraqi war. Isn't There a Law Against This Type of Profiteering? 4/8
"Canada has always been there whenever the U.S. truly needed us. But when we went to war twice in the last century, America hesitated. So don't lecture us about freedom, democracy and friendship." 4/8
Congo massacre 'leaves 1,000 dead' 4/8
Iraqis Loot Basra As British Take Control 4/8
More War Lies: 'Palace' is little more than summer getaway 4/8
Susan McDougal's "The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk." A Premium From BuzzFlash.com.
Hawash case is cause for alarm; The Bush administration continues to take aim at constitutional rights 4/8
Bush scraps rule aimed at keeping pension plan swaps fair for all workers 4/8
A Vet Watches Rerun of a Bad War 4/8
Iraqi Missile Hits Army Base 4/8
Workers Who Feel Discarded 4/8
The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things. The Book that Inspired "Bowling for Columbine."
US accused of hypocrisy on human rights; State Department reveals double standards in annual global assessment of government treatment of citizens 4/8
Britain admits there may be no WMD's in Iraq 4/8
Overextended Military Reserves 4/8
The Bush Legacy: California's schools to lay off 25,000 staff, Class Sizes to Double. Bush's New Motto: "What Children? Look At This War!" 4/8
The Checkered Past of US Firms in the Frame; Cronies Set to Make a Killing 4/8
Chalabi Sees 2-Year Stay in Iraq for U.S. Military 4/8
Bush Speech: "Yet such words and simplistic comparisons ring hollow to many around the world who have spent the past 15 days watching graphic videos of heavily armed Americans storming Iraq and exploding buildings in Baghdad." 4/8
Hospital group retaliates against House GOP 4/8
The Democratic Leadership Doesn't Even Have a Clue. Second Part of a BuzzFlash Editorial Series: Winning the Hearts and Minds of Americans: The Battle for Democracy in Our Homeland
Bush, Blair Discuss Postwar Iraq Plans (i.e., Carve Up Oil Fields for Family and Friends) 4/8
Taliban Reviving, Afghan Gov't Faltering 4/8
What purpose does protest serve now? How can it not help, is my answer. Neither history nor collective conscience will ever excuse this war. Now is not the time for silent acquiescence. 4/8
U.S. forces storm through Baghdad 4/8
Winning the Hearts and Minds of Americans: The Battle for Democracy in Our Homeland, Part V
Murdoch the Hawk 4/8
AP Story: Arabs throughout the Mideast were dismayed by television images of American tanks rolling through the heart of Baghdad and some rushed to sign up for holy war against U.S.-led forces. 4/8
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What Happened to the Weapons of Mass Destruction? Wasn't That the Excuse Bush Used for Selling the War? 4/7
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Report: 'Chemical Ali' Found Dead in Basra 4/7
FROM THE BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL ARCHIVES: Proof That Our Forces Were Told to Kill Women and Children in Afghanistan. Do You Think That It's Any Different in Iraq?
Confusion in a City Sealed Off from the World 4/7
Belgians anti-war and anti-US 4/7
For One Pastor, the War Hits Home 4/7
Friendly Fire Incident: The Photos from the BBC 4/7
Iraqi Hospitals Offer Snapshot of War Horror 4/7
Report: British Troops Make Advances in Basra 4/7
Scary: The New Political Correctness by Richard Reeves 4/7
"This is Just a Scene from Hell" 4/7
An estimated 12 percent of African-American men ages 20 to 34 are in jail or prison, according to a report released yesterday by the Justice Department. 4/7
Former Poppy Bush Labor Secretary Strongly Supports Affirmative Action 4/7
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Wal-Mart Stops Selling Guns in California -- And More 4/7
Marine killed in action to receive posthumous citizenship 4/7
Evaluating Gun Policy: Effects on Crime and Violence
The Saddest Story of Many Saddest Stories. The Bush Cartel is "Liberating" Iraqis to Death.
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Oh Yeah, About Those Iraqi Oil Fields 4/7
No WMD Found Yet, No WMD Used. The Bush Cartel Needs Time to Plant Them. This Will be Another Major Lie That They Get Away With Because the Democrats Won't Challenge the Big Lie. 4/7
The daily White House press briefings and fuzzy real-time TV reports fall far short of conveying the brutality of war, says Boulder neurosurgeon Gene Bolles. He should know. He's Chief of Neurosurgery at the American Military Hospital in Germany.
Surrounded by guns but no water, southern Iraqis lose faith in invaders 4/7
FROM THE BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL ARCHIVES: The Truth -- Not Their Lies -- About How Rumsfeld and Bush Humiliated and Overrode the Recommendations of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Shameful and Worthy of Impeachment and Indictment.
"You expect lies, but usually they're found out once a war is over. But in this war the lying is so inept that it gets rumbled the next day." 4/7
After Iraq Come Syria and Iran. 4/7
Slouching Toward the Gulag as Judges Authorize More Police State Spying 4/7
FROM THE BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL ARCHIVES: Of All the Republican Chickenhawks, Tom DeLay Takes the Cake
Some Doubt Their Fellow Methodist 4/7
Likely Bush Supporters Compare Lincoln to Hitler, But You Can Get Away with that if You are a Neo-Confederate Bush Republican 4/7
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Ashcroft Way 4/7
A Controversial Iraqi Comes Home 4/7
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U.S. Prison Population Surpasses 2 Million 4/7
The toll of a war that has taken the U.S. and Britain to the gates of Baghdad 4/7
Congo Massacre Leaves 1,000 Dead 4/7
More Peace Protests in Spain 4/7
"Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers" by Daniel Ellsberg
AWOL Bush and His Chickenhawk Colleagues in Cowardly Behavior 4/6
It likely will take an informant if the man who called in threats to kill protesters at Western Washington University Friday is to be arrested, police said. 4/7
These Men Died in Vietnam While George W. Bush and Dick Cheney Avoided Combat Like Cowards. Third In a Series of BuzzFlash.Com Editorials.
Andy Rooney: An Especially Bad War 4/7
Antiwar Anger in Jordan 4/7
Bush Puts God on His Side 4/7
Another Reason the Bush Cartel Will Keep Us in a Permanent State of War: The Economy Can't be Fixed by 2004. In Fact, We Will be Saddled by Record-breaking Deficits for Years to Come 4/7
LA studies possible legal fallout from use of police computer to get data on celebrities 4/8
An Ominous GOP Attack On Federal Judge Sentencing Guidelines 4/7
Simply Molly Ivins 4/6
We're Losing the War for Truth 4/7
Newspaper Interview with Senator Robert Byrd 4/7
New Iraqi Government (Whatever That Means) May Take Six Months 4/7
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The Russian Report on the Iraq War 4/7
U.S.: Over 2,000 Iraqis Killed in Baghdad. How Many of Them Were Civilian? 4/6
The Washington Corporate War Tour 4/7
The Images of War 4/7
Food Rations and Small Bombs the Same Color. This Was the Same Problem in Afghanistan and the Military Still Hasn't Changed It Yet. 4/7
The Librarians of America Have More Courage to Protect Our Constitutional Rights Than the Democratic Leadership 4/7
Robert Novak Asks, "Where are the Weapons of Mass Destruction?" This Was the Major Reason the Bush Cartel Used for Invading Iraq. The Question is When Will the Bush Cartel Plant Some Anthrax? 4/7
The IRAQ BODY COUNT Database
John Kerry, Don't Apologize For Telling The Truth: The Future Of Democracy Depends Upon Exposing The Chronic Lies And Deceptions Of The Bush Cartel
Graphic Photo Illustrating George W. Bush's "Liberation" of Iraq
The Buck Never Stops With Bush. He Never Accepts Responsibility for His Actions. Never.
The Democrats Should Ram This Example of How the Bush Cartel's "War on Terrorism" is a Fraud that Threatens Us all Down Their Throats
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Ted Rall: In Sorrow, Not Anger 4/8
These Are Ironic Times 4/8
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