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War is Bush's Teflon Cloak -- A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
MUST READ: Democrats Should Buy a Half an Hour of TV Time to Denounce This War for Personal Profit: The Pentagon's exclusive no-bid contract with a Halliburton Co. subsidiary for emergency oil-field services in Iraq could be worth as much as $7 billion
Whoa! Are Rush "Pig Boy" Limbaugh and Tom "The Toxic Psychotic" DeLay Talking About Republican Treason? FBI Agent Allegedly Carried on Affair with a prominent Republican activist who happened to be a Chinese double agent. Zowee!
BuzzFlash Interview with the Man Who Knows About Fear in American Culture
Chaos in Baghdad 4/12
Baghdad archeological museum looted 4/12
USS Cole suspects escape; 10 suspects "reportedly got out through a prison window early on Friday" 4/12
The GOP Ridiculous Quote Log
More Charges That Daschle Completely Capitulated on the Patriot Act 4/12
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Jerry Falwell Proves That He is An Un-American Religious Profiteer Who is Opposed to Democracy, An Actual Falwell E-mail Alert Posted by BuzzFlash.com
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Chaos After Fall of Saddam 4/11
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The BuzzFlash Mailbag - Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, And All-American!
The April 11th BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.)
Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute!
Upper-Class Tax Cuts, Working-Class Soldiers 4/12
What about Private Lori? Nobody wanted to hear the sadder story of her friend and tentmate Private Lori Piestewa, who died in combat. 4/12
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US is less popular in Kurdistan after the Kirkuk decision 4/12
Franks: U.S. Stays Until Free Gov. Forms 4/12
The battle for American science: Creationists, pro-lifers and conservatives now pose a serious threat to research and science teaching in the US 4/12
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)
U.S. Govt Accused of War Crimes Against Journalists 4/12
This war was not worth a child's finger 4/12
N Korea 'ready for war' 4/12
Spy case arrest shocks GOP friends. Hmm, Friends of GOP = Spies. Is That Patriotic? Just Asking. 4/12
The Bush Legacy: Mulling Action, India Equates Iraq, Pakistan; Pre-Emption Cited in Kashmir Conflict 4/12
US troops' anguish: Killing outmatched foes. Coalition forces wonder why more Iraqis didn't surrender to survive. Trauma may linger as soldiers return. 4/12
Ted Rall: We're Looking for a Few Poor Men 4/12
H'wood Exec Fired for "likening the public's acceptance of the Bush administration's pre-emptive strike on Iraq to the climate of fear that allowed Hitler to rise to power in post-World War I Germany." 4/12
Policing Baghdad not part of U.S. war plan 4/12
Pelosi stands by vote against Iraq war 4/12
Letters from Baghdad: War Wounds; Bombs fall and the lights go out. 4/12
Did George W. Bush go AWOL during his time in the National Guard? The Straight Dope Answers. 4/12
How pro-war songs help sell Country 4/12
War protesters sue Chicago police over March 20 arrests 4/12
California Adopts Tough Mining Rules 4/12
Sliding Toward Anarchy 4/11
Well That's Okay (A Letter to Bush Supporters) 4/12
Three Chairs for Tom Harkin: If Saddam Was So Dangerous, How Come He Collapsed Like a Paper Tiger? 4/12
Conservative Paper Dumps O'Reilly 4/12
"Now this administration is laying out a plan for building roads, schools, hospitals (and) providing books in Iraq," Kerry said. "And it's time for us to demand they lay out a plan for the same here in the United States of America." 4/12
The Lie Of Liberation: Cheering Iraqis are just a diversion, folks. BushCo's real goal is only just beginning 4/12
The Shooting Continues in America's Homeland! 4/12
FROM THE BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL ARCHIVES: Oh, Those Republican Chickenhawks
U.S. Negotiates with Russia for our 51st State 4/12
Cheney Says Iraqi Oil Output Could Be Restored by Year's End 4/12
"Those with a high school education or less were more likely than those with a college education to say that going to war was the right decision" 4/12
Stop the War--Against Our Own; Domestic racism produces conflict as threatening as any overseas 4/12
SEVEN BILLION over Two Years: Details Given on Contract Halliburton Was Awarded 4/12
The Rich Whine About Paying for Their War. Um, Hey Whiney Prowar Rich Folks: Shut Yer Pie-hole! 4/12
An Antiwar Chief (and Proud of It) 4/12
French aid agencies refuse to take US orders in Iraq 4/12
Tests point to domestic source behind anthrax letter attacks 4/11
Susan McDougal's "The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk." A Premium From BuzzFlash.com.
Cuba Executes Ferry Hijackers 4/12
Bill Berkowitz: R. James Woolsey: War-hungry non-combatant; Former CIA Director beats the drums for World War IV 4/12
The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things. The Book that Inspired "Bowling for Columbine."
Just Like Osama? "Finding Hussein and the others is 'not really important to us'" said Air Force Maj. Gen. Victor E. Renuart Jr. 4/12
Gulf War Syndrome, The Sequel: 'People Are Sick Over There Already' 4/12
Victory in the war is not victory in the argument about the war. 4/12
U.S. Won't Rap China On Rights Abuses 4/12
Food program for poor is at risk 4/12
Schwarzenegger, Rice May Run in Calif. 4/12
Powell Says U.S. Has No List of Countries to Attack. Room Goes Quiet, Everyone Starts to Grin, Laughter Erupts. What a Card! 4/12
Iraqis Now Waiting for Americans to Leave 4/12
Conservative Crybabies: Nothing worse than a sore winner 4/12
After Saddam, the real work starts 4/12
CIA Report: N. Korea Goal Is Two Nukes a Year 4/12
Blair launches new Iraqi TV 4/12
Shooting the Messengers: Truth, they say, is the first casualty of war. These days, you can get killed trying to tell the truth. 4/12
Iraqi Privatization in Disguise 4/12
The moral decline of a superpower 4/12
Paige's Intemperate Words 4/12
Spy Suspect Led an Active, Prominent Life with Active, Prominent Republicans 4/12
Experts say US 'discovery' of nuclear materials in Iraq was breach of UN-monitored site 4/12
Investors frown on Murdoch deal to control DirecTV 4/12
Education Secretary Rod Paige saying he finds "Christian schools preferable for the values they teach is an appalling gaffe that cries out for condemnation." 4/12
Praying for a Miracle with Tragic Little Ali 4/12
Disabled Activists Arrested in Texas 4/12
U.S.: 2 Children Killed in Iraq Checkpoint Error 4/12
Must Read! Many Anglers On The Tigris: The coalition isn't exactly crumbling. But there are differences over dividing the multi-billion-dollar reconstruction pie. 4/11
More Bizarre by the Moment: Marines Bomb Mosque in Baghdad Where Saddam May or May Not Have Visited. This Report is Filled with All Sorts of Disturbing Red Flags as to Credibility and the Rashness of Bombing a Mosque. 4/11
Announcing: National Progressive Conference to Take Back America
Not Content to Control the American Media, Bush Cartel Will Now Control the Iraqi Media, Including Subtitled Broadcasts of FOX News. Does It Get Any Loonier. If It Weren't So Dangerous, It Would Make for a Hysterical Farce. 4/11
AWOL Bush and His Chickenhawk Colleagues in Cowardly Behavior
The Straight Dope on Bushing Evading Service in Vietnam and Being AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard 4/12
The IRAQ BODY COUNT Database
Paul Krugman: Conquest and Neglect 4/11
Take Back the Media
America's Mother of Compassionate Conservatism 4/11
Bodies, Including Children, Litter Streets of Baghdad Suburb."If the price of freedom is this, we don't want it," said one Iraqi helping at the scene.
U.S. Issues 55-piece Deck of Assassination Cards, with Photos of Iraqis who U.S. Troops can 'pursue, capture or kill.' 4/11
Bush Cartel Describes Secondary Role for U.N. in Iraq. What a Surprise! 4/11
GOP Rams Compromise Budget Through House 4/11
Bob Dylan: Masters of War 4/10
Omar, the 411th Palestinian Child to be Killed 4/12
BuzzFlash.Com Set New Readership Records in March
Shia cleric backed by Washington murdered 4/11
The Manufactured Crowds of the Hollywood Staged Toppling of the Statue. By the Way the Soldier Who Put the American Flag Over Saddam's Head Said He Was Told to Do It by His Commander. 4/12
Evaluating Gun Policy: Effects on Crime and Violence
Anarchy in Basra 4/11
Oh Yeah, George, What About bin Laden? 4/11
Iraqis Attack Their Embassy in Iran and Denounce Saddam and U.S. Provisional Government 4/11
Another Amateurishly Fraudulent Attempt by the Bush Cartel To Claim They Found WMD in Iraq 4/11
Instability Plagues Baghdad 4/11
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Let the Republican National Committee Know What You Think About War Hero John Kerry Telling Vietnam-Evaders Bush and Cheney to Stuff It
Spending and Tax Cuts Harming Violence Prevention Efforts 4/11
Read Down the Debka Files to the Five Enigma Questions. They Leave Open the Possibility that the U.S. Secretly Struck a Deal with Someone in the Iraqi Military Hierarchy to Allow the U.S. Military Into Baghdad RELATIVELY Unopposed 4/11
House Okays Alaska Drilling 4/11
A Bush Judicial Nominee that EVEN the Washington Post Opposes. (The Post is Midway to Being a Neo-Con Newspaper, All the Way There on the War) 4/11
Who Said “F--- Saddam. We’re taking him out" in March of 2002?
Iraqi nuclear site lay at the mercy of looters 4/11
Baghdad shopkeepers open fire as 25 hurt in looting 4/11
Arianna Huffington's "Pigs at the Trough" and a BuzzFlash.Com Honest-to-Goodness Piggy Bank! Can You Beat a Combination Like That?
Where's the Outrage Against Racism in the GOP? Nowhere to be Found. 4/11
WellstoneAction: a non-profit organization dedicated to continuing Paul and Sheila Wellstone's fight for progressive change and economic justice. 4/11
Tell the GOP What You Really Think!
A List of Bush Lies on Iraq
Should U.S. Pay for Civilian Casualties? 4/11
Baghdad Suicide Attack Injures 4 Marines 4/11
All Blather All The Time - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
Political Chaos in Basra 4/11
SARS Update 4/11
TV Will Tell Us When This War is Over 4/11
Kurds Occupy Oil City of Kirkuk 4/11
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.
Speaking of Indulging in Costly Personal Vanity, How Much Does a George W. Bush Suit Cost. And What About Those $1000 Pairs of Shoes? Reposted.
Is This Liberation? -- A BuzzFlash Editorial You Can Send to George Bush to Remind Him of the Consequences of His Actions
U.S. Soldiers Killed in Suicide Attack 4/11
Geov Parrish: The Next President; "there is no more critical task in the coming months than to oust George W. Bush and the lunatics surrounding him in November 2004." 4/11
U.S. Media Conglomerates Dig Deep for Bush 4/11
How Bush Betrayed Our Troops 4/11
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.
The Past is Prologue: "Secrets," by Daniel Ellsberg. By the Man Who Released the Pentagon Papers. A Warning About a Government that Keeps Secrets.
WORLD VIEWS: British press knocks U.S. troop behavior; world ponders post-war scenarios; surrealist protest in Paris; and more. 4/11
War Update: Iraqi Ambassador, 'The Game Is Over'
Molly Ivins: Let the Real Looting Begin in Iraq 4/11
Dyncorp Rent-a-Cops May Head to Post-Saddam Iraq 4/11
Shi'ite Group to Boycott U.S. Talks on Iraq 4/11
Dean corrals key Bay Area endorsement; Lofgren on board for his presidential run 4/11
Fox plunges after DirecTV deal 4/11
A Letter from David and Mark Wellstone 4/11
"The executive producer of a CBS miniseries about Adolf Hitler's rise to power has been fired after giving an interview in which he compared the current mood of Americans to that of the Germans who helped Hitler rise to power." 4/11
We Don't Mean to be Nitpickers, But Where Exactly are the Thousands of Iraqis Who Allegedly Participated in the Pulling Down of the Big Saddam Statute? (If This Event Wasn't Choreographed Out of Rove's Office, We'll Eat Some Enron Stock for Breakfast)
Veteran Liberal Lions Roar at Bush 4/11
Iraq Aid Groups Plea For Safe Passage 4/11
Republicans Want to Make Patriot Act Dismantling of Constitutionally Guaranteed Civil Rights Permanent: The Slouching Toward the Gulag Continues. These Powers Will Ultimately be Used Against Bush Cartel Political Enemies.
Former FBI agent who helped investigate Clinton-era campaign finance allegations is being charged with passing classified information to a Republican activist in California
Spiritual Warfare Looms 4/11
New! Updated and Expanded American Edition of Greg Palast's "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." Available Now at BuzzFlash.Com.
U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd: In the Hope for the Safe Return of Missing Soldiers 4/11
The mystery of Saddam's banned arms: Chemical and biological weapons 4/11
Constitution Under Assault: Press Must Stay on Ashcroft's Case 4/11
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GOP struggles to hold together budget deal 4/11
A TV Glossary of the Iraq War Media Coverage 4/11
MOAB bomb moved to Iraq war region 4/11
Where is He? Saddam Hussein and his henchmen disappeared like ghosts as Baghdad fell. 4/11
Arming Iraq and the Path to War: "an accurate chronology of United States' involvement in the arming of Iraq during the Iraq-Iran war." 4/11
"The White House calls Afghanistan a success story. But the failure to commit needed resources has left it a chaotic, increasingly dangerous country where violent warlords run amok." 4/11
"Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers" by Daniel Ellsberg
US lobby could threaten Iraqi heritage 4/11
Under Investigation: Chaplain Who Made Soldiers Get Baptized before Getting Water 4/11
The World According to Marie Antoinette, Oh, We Mean Barbara Bush and Her "Beautiful Mind"
TV Images Stir Anger, Shock and Warnings of Backlash 4/11
GOP leader seeks big increase in size of contracts Pentagon can award without competitive bids 4/9
Poll: California residents want U.N. role in Iraq 4/11
The Strange and Quirky World of America's Future Fascists -- Maureen Farrell on BuzzFlash.com.
Yesterday’s Emergency Has Been Cancelled Due to Political Inconvenience - P.M. Carpenter
The Gulf War: How Did We Get Here? - The Angry Liberal
The Bombing of Baghdad - BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison
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We Love The Iraqi Information Minister.com 4/12
President's Address to Iraq's Proud Population of Newly-Liberated, Soon-to-be-Christian, Petroleum-Pumpin' Eunuchs 4/11
Carrot Top Named By Pentagon As Provisional Leader of Iraq 4/11
Boondocks: Completing the circle 4/12
Republican Rep. Barbara Cubin's Easter Card 4/12
Mark Fiore: Dissent Exposed; Because You Never Know Where You'll Find an Unpatriotic Nut! 4/12
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