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Did the White House "Enforcement Squad" Write Dale Petroskey's Letter to Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon? Law Firm of Bush Consigliere, James Baker, Represents Saudi Royalty in Lawsuit by 9-11 Victims Rumsfeld Admits Ignorance of Whereabouts (Existence?) of Iraq's WMDs; Hopes Iraqis Will Find Them For Him Bechtel Has Ties in Washington, and to Iraq 4/18 Paul Krugman: Rejecting the World 4/18 Rumsfeld's Former Employer Bechtel Wins Contract worth $680 Million. What a Coincidence. 4/18 Bush Cultural Advisers Quit Over Iraq Museum Theft: "It didn't have to happen" Nicholas Kristoff: Running for the Exits. Will Iraq Become Another Kuwait? 4/19 Maureen Dowd: History Up in Smoke 4/19 Molly Ivins: Arizona's Homophobia 4/19 Why One American Will No Longer Support a Propagandized Media - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary Aaron Brown, Why Do Networks Parrot the Right Wing Spin? - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary Will The Real James A. Baker III Please Stand Up! - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary HELP US: BuzzFlash Depends Entirely Upon You. We are Completely Reader Supported! We are THE Pro-Democracy News and Commentary Site for Peace, Justice, and the American Way. We Have No Advertising, Just You. Regime Change - BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison The BuzzFlash Mailbag - Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, And All-American! For the People on the Streets of Iraq, This is Not Liberation but a New Colonial Oppression Batting for the Winning Team: The "lyrical flights of fancy" by Pro-War Commentators following the Fall of Baghdad 4/18 Child casualties 'fill Iraq hospitals'. Bush's New Slogan: Leave No Live Iraqi Child Behind 4/18 Spurned Bush wife promises tell-all memoir about 'the family that is a political operation' 4/18 Support Independent Media! The April 18th BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.) One Day After American Airlines Employees Take Huge Pay Cut, It's Revealed that Management Had Secret Deal to Protect Their Pensions and Bonuses. Brazen and Disgusting. 4/18 Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute! Evaluating Gun Policy Americans turn to BBC for war news 4/19 Rep. Henry Waxman asked a congressional committee to investigate Philip Morris USA for destroying e-mail relevant to a Justice Department lawsuit. 4/19 Cato Institute: A Democratic Iraq May Not Be Friendly to U.S. 4/19 The Revolution Must Be Monetized 4/19 Robin Cook: Blair's alliance with Bush is a damaging strategic error 4/19 U.S. to Remake School System In Postwar Iraq. Do You Think Bush Will Underfund That One, Too? 4/19 As Luck Would Have It . . .A 9/11 victim testifies that the carnage could have been averted 4/19 Liberal Russian Political Figure Slain on Moscow Street 4/19 "The president’s claim that the dividend tax cut would benefit most taxpayers goes largely unchallenged. Seventy percent of taxpayers would receive no benefit at all according to the IRS." 4/19 Grim situation in Basra: "Diseases like dysentery are spreading in Basra as a result of a lack of clean drinking water" 4/19 Charity's anger as US halts aid plane 4/19 A Skewed History of Asia: Wolfowitz "is turning history on its head" 4/19 Must Read: Tim Robbins Speaks to the National Press Club Arianna Huffington's "Pigs at the Trough" and a BuzzFlash.Com Honest-to-Goodness Piggy Bank! Can You Beat a Combination Like That? Did U.S. Lose Nine Marines in an Earlier Attempted Rescue of Jessica Lynch? 4/19 WorldNetDaily: On pimps and 'presstitutes' 4/19 U.S. Actions Questioned After Killing: Family in Mosul Angered by Death 4/19 The Bush Legacy: Once Just Threats, Cutbacks Sink in Among New Yorkers 4/19 Lobbying by Form E-Mail Endangered: Forest Service cites volume, considers ban on digital lobbyists. 4/19 N. Korea Says It's Extracting Plutonium 4/19 "[T]he U.S.-Iraq showdown was a colossal mismatch." 4/19 Father Andrew Greeley: Victory doesn't justify war 4/19 Jeb Bush's Florida: Child placed by DCF is beaten to death 4/19 Thanks for Nothing: Bush's gift to taxpayers—and Halliburton. 4/19 Salt Lake City paper on Hatch and the Patriot Act: "dissolve is exactly what the law should do." 4/19 Exiled Shiite Chief: Iraqis Should Rebel: Exiled Shiite Opposition Leader Calls on Iraqis to Oppose U.S.-Led Interim Administration 4/19 Sen. Kennedy: "The budget that passed the Senate two weeks ago was not a good one. The budget which returned from Conference today is much, much worse." 4/19 The 'Liberation Honeymoon' Is Over 4/19 When Freedom Leads to Anarchy 4/19 Gulf states warn US over Syria 4/19 U.S. Army dismisses more gay linguists 4/19 The secret society: Under Attorney General John Ashcroft, America is becoming an Orwellian state where people are locked up and no one can find out why -- least of all a compliant Congress. 4/19 Rumsfeld, Myers Again Criticize War Coverage 4/19 Tell the GOP What You Really Think! New! Updated and Expanded American Edition of Greg Palast's "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." Available Now at BuzzFlash.Com. Iraq war: Unanswered questions (i.e., Plenty of Bush Lies) 4/19 Buy Bush's Brain and Help BuzzFlash.Com Grow. We Accept No Advertising. You are Our Sponsors. Capitalizing On Fear Itself: CBS (barely) examines how politicians are capitalizing on the nation's post-Sept. 11 mood. 4/19 Bush-Ashcroft vs. Homeland Security: Clean Air Act Polluted by the Justice Department 4/19 Probe: U.K. Army Aided Protestant Killers 4/18 This Week on Now with Bill Moyers: Is a new bill in Congress putting corporate profits over workers' rights?	British Aid Plane Prevented from Entering Iraq 4/18 Pilots Finishing Cockpit Gun Training 4/18 Michael Kinsley: Spoils To the Victor; "nation-building, Republican-style, with huge contracts awarded in secret to politically connected companies." 4/18 Howard Dean: Bush: It's Not Just His Doctrine That's Wrong 4/18 "It is a sad state of affairs when a movie actor [Robbins] must tell a group of assembled journalists that they missed the mark on covering a huge voting scandal in Florida's 2000 presidential election." 4/18 BuzzFlash Alerts! Don't Miss A Thing! E.J. Dionne, Jr.: Disabling Organized Labor 4/18 Preventing a Miscarriage of Justice: The Supreme Court must not allow Delma Banks Jr., a Texas death row inmate, to be put to death while there is serious doubt about his guilt. 4/18 The Bush/GOP Cash Connection to the National Baseball Hall of Fame Board of Directors.Sixth in a BuzzFlash Series on the Partisan Republican Scandal in Cooperstown. Here We Go Again: "Neoconservative Richard Perle, a leading hawk in the Iraq debate, yesterday called for Congress to pass a "Syrian Liberation Act" modeled on the 1998 law that made regime change in Baghdad official U.S. policy." 4/18 No Head is Complete Without a BuzzFlash Cap! The Bush Legacy: Industry in Peril; Unemployment Rises 4/18 Bush's Tax Cuts Just a Recycling of "Voodoo Economics." 4/18 Associated Press Story: Many Iraqis Turn Anger Toward U.S. Waiting for the Other Shoe(s) to Drop - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary Helen Thomas: Once Opposed, Bush Begins Nation Building 4/18 Judges Say White House Has "No Legal Basis" To Stop Cheney Energy Suit 4/18 New York Times Supports Filibustering Extremist, Radical Bush Federal Judicial Appointments 4/17 Car Makers Go Green With Hybrids 4/18 All the President's Lies 4/17 Who Plundered Iraq National Museum? - A BuzzFlash News Analysis Riot Breaks Out at Bank in Baghdad; Marines Kill Suspected Looter 4/17 Another Young Iraqi "Liberated" by U.S. Gunfire 4/17 U.S. Troops Accused of Killing "Liberated" Iraqis 4/17 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. 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 Past is Prologue: "Secrets," by Daniel Ellsberg. By the Man Who Released the Pentagon Papers. A Warning About a Government that Keeps Secrets. Repost: GOP Hypocrisy: Republicans Fail Their Own Standards of Patriotism 4/18 10 New Nations Join European Union 4/18 A More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights Take Back America on June 4, 5 and 6 in Washington, D.C. Okinawans schedule anti-war protests, 'die-in' for this weekend 4/18 U.S. Flies in Millions of Dollars for Iraq; Will Give Each Civil Servant $20. Is This a Payment from Bush for the Oil? 4/18 Looters had keys to Iraqi antiquity vaults; UNESCO scrambles to track down missing antiquities and prevent further looting of the valuables 4/18 Michelangelo Signorile: Slams and Smears; Why Grove put Brock on the block 4/18 Baghdad Museum raid looks planned; Loss of antiquities not as severe as first thought, experts say 4/18 "America promised Iraq to remove the tyrant government, but now things are even worse. Some people are even beginning to wish Saddam had stayed because all the troubles erupted after his departure." 4/18 WHERE'S SADDAM?: Arab rumor mill says U.S. helped him disappear 4/18 Embedded Photographer: "I Saw Marines Kill Civilians" 4/18 Arianna Huffington: Why the anti-war movement was right; Clear and present danger? Quick fall of Baghdad proves that might makes wrong 4/18 GOP Rep. Boehner says Treasurer Stole $400,000 from Re-Election Fund. 4/18 Even before the fighting began, the Bush administration had secretly invited bids for work to rebuild Iraq’s battered roads, power plants, oil wells and so on. Now, they complain about not getting enough. 4/18 Some Iraqis yearn for order of Saddam's rule 4/18 Wisconsin GOP Proves There Are Always More Republican Dunderheads 4/18 America targeted 14,000 sites. So where are the weapons of mass destruction? 4/18 "Crossfire" Shipped Out of Primetime by CNN 4/17 'Citizen's Anti-War Movement More Important Than Ever...'; Transcript of the speech given by Win Without War's Tom Andrews 4/18 AWOL Bush and His Chickenhawk Colleagues in Cowardly Behavior Q&A on International Law, Occupation 4/18 An Army for Art: The looting of Iraq's national museum in Baghdad could have been prevented. 4/18 Depleted uranium casts shadow over peace in Iraq 4/18 The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things. The Book that Inspired "Bowling for Columbine." George McGovern: The Reason Why; While waging war against Iraq, the Bush administration wages another war against the well-being of America 4/18 Take Back the Media US call to lift Iraq sanctions draws cool response 4/18 The Elusive Weapons Of Mass Destruction 4/18 Democratic leader Pelosi: A good start, by all accounts 4/18 U.S. digs, searches in vain for Iraqi chemical weapons 4/18 Congress to Pentagon: Iraq Is All Yours 4/18 International Organizations Must Play Role in Iraq, E.U. Says 4/18 Mosul Still Violent as Locals Reject US Rule 4/18 Robert Novak: Israel wants strike on Syria while iron's hot 4/18 CNN's Aaron Brown Talks to Democracy Now on the network's coverage of the anti-war movement, the media's sanitization of the invasion of Iraq and why he believes this is an inappropriate time for reporters to ask questions about war. 4/18 The System That Doesn't Safeguard Travel: The government's error-prone database of possible terrorists now has 13 million travelers' names, and once you're in, just try getting out 4/18 Bush's Drum Beats of War Against Syria Not Echoed by Britain and Spain 4/17 Pentagon says it won't withdraw Franklin Graham's invitation to speak 4/17	When a People are Deprived of Their History, It is Much Easier to Write a New One for Them. Isn't It? A BuzzFlash.com Editorial Nothing Left to Drink in Basra 4/17 BuzzFlash Headlines On YOUR Web Site for Free (You Can't Get Any Cheaper Than That!) -- Spread the Pro-Democracy, Anti-Hypocrisy Word! Will Sharon Bush Tell All about the Bush Dynasty? Or is She Trying to Leverage a Larger Divorce Settlement? 4/17 US admits Mosul killings 4/17 Fear reigns, as one detested militia replaces another 4/17 Priest Decries Looting of Iraqi Artifacts 4/17 Don't Let Dale Petroskey Make Baseball a Political Football 4/17 Hundreds of Palestinian Minors "In Custody" 4/17 Blair's Former Minister Hits Out at Bush 4/17 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). U.S. Firm Wins Contract to "Restore" Education in Iraq 4/17 Why is This Man Smiling? 4/17 Interesting Dust-Up About U.S. Role in Coup Against Allende and His So-Called "Suicide" 4/17 "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers" by Daniel Ellsberg Long-Term Damage from a Short-Term War 4/17 More Headlne Grabbing Disinformation from the Pentagon and Karl Rove: "AMERICAN commanders have promised to launch a “snatch-and-shoot” raid for Saddam Hussein if they track him to a hiding place in Syria." 4/17 Did Bush's Brother, Marvin, Ask Dale Petroskey to Cancel the "Bull Durham" Event at The Now, Apparently, Republican Baseball Hall of Fame? Just Asking. A Dissenter Looks at Wars Consequences 4/17 War Appealed to Americans' Fears 4/17 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. Annan Snubs Blair on Envoy Issue 4/17 Filmmaker Moore urges liberals not to despair, better days ahead 4/17 U.S. Central Command has admitted its soldiers shot dead seven Iraqis demonstrating in the northern Iraq town of Mosul. An Outrage! Power Outage Continues in Baghdad 4/17 Bob Dylan: With God on Our Side Was the Iraq Museum Looting Planned? 4/17 You'll Never See This on American Television: An Australian Media Critique that Slices and Dices FOX News and Serves It Up on a Platter (Flash Presentation) 4/17 The Shooting Continues Here in America 4/17 Report in Canadian Paper: A coalition of lawyers and human rights groups yesterday unveiled a bid to use the UN's new International Criminal Court as a tool to restrain American military power 4/17 A Passover Primer 4/17 More Work, Less Pay -- Republicans Call It Family Time Flexibility 4/17 Gore Details How Republicans/Bush/Industry Use the Argument That "There is No Scientific Evidence" To Thwart Efforts to Reduce Global Warming 4/17 Republicans WON'T Fix Broken Voting Machines in New York 4/17 Who Controls Our Voting Machines? 4/17 Cronkite on Famine, Pestilence and Death - Thursday 4/17 on PBS Contribution Numbers are in for Dem Presidential Candidates; More on Neil Bush Divorce Controversy (Sharon Bush is Writing a Tell-All about the Bush Family) 4/17 The Bush Legacy: The Economy Collapses in Wichita 4/17 Buzz Into Spring! Get A BuzzFlash.com T-shirt And Spread the News! Gephardt: Scrap Tax Cuts for Healthcare 4/17 Bombard the Baseball Hall of Fame! U.S. May Punish Cuba for Imprisoning Critics Frist Off to Rocky Start 4/17 Susan McDougal's "The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk." A Premium From BuzzFlash.com. The Osama Clock - How Many Days Will Osama Run Free (not to mention the Anthrax Terrorist) Embedded Photographer 4/17 Agent Orange in Vietnam Used More Than Previously Admitted by Military 4/17 Ashcroft's New Ally: Senator Schumer Pushes to Make Covert Surveillance Easier 4/17 Relief for GI students backed by Sen. Harkin 4/17 No President Should be Above Criticism 4/17 Terror Alert Falls From Orange to Yellow. Bush Supporters Take Less Soma. 4/17 Shouldn't We Know Why We're at War Before the War Starts? - The Angry Liberal 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 LIGHTER SIDE:: Vandals Loot Rumsfeld’s Home As Expression Of Liberation 4/17 These are Ironic Times 4/17 Ted Rall: The Law of Conservation of Democracy 4/16 Fiore Presents: Looting and Apple Pie 4/18 Dubya's Congratulations Message to Sharon Bush 4/18 The Top Ten Conservative Idiots are Back 4/15

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"Tens of Thousands of Protesters" Demand U.S. Get Out of Iraq