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The Iraq War is Over, Except in Iraq 5/1
9/11 Panel to be Challenged for Letting Bush Cartel Screen Documents 5/1
The Bush Legacy: "Your next annual statement from the government estimating your Social Security retirement benefits will state in blunt language that those funds are in jeopardy." 5/1
Alan Greenspan Undercuts Bush Tax Cut 5/1
Now the Bush Cartel is Using a Questionable Firm to Collect Data on Voters in MEXICO! 5/1
Mike Magnum Invites You to Gun Guys.Com, Where Everyone is a Straight Shooter!
The Price of Opposing the Bush Cartel 5/1
Iraqis left baffled as Don drops in for a chat 5/1
Santorum's Unhealthy Obsession 5/1
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Iraqis Being Shot by U.S. Soldiers. Our Soldiers Dying in Afghanistan. Osama and Saddam on the Loose. We're Leaving Saudia Arabia, But Bush to Declare Iraq War Over. 5/1
New dispute brewing over fate of Florida's 2000 ballots, hanging chads 5/1
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The "Most Wanted" Deck That You Have Been Waiting For 5/1
Seven US soldiers have been wounded in a grenade attack on their headquarters in the tense Iraqi town of Falluja. But Bush to Say, in Staged Speech on An Aircraft Carrier that the War is Over. Not for these Soldiers. 5/1
The Bizarre Bush Legacy: Iran Denounces Bush Cartel Deal that Allows Terrorist Group to Keep Weapons 5/1
Ashcroft's Latest Assault on Liberty 5/1
Condi Rice Has Talked Her Way Into a U-Turn 5/1
A Winning Voting Machine for the Republicans 5/1
Bob Herbert: Teaching Kids a Lesson 5/1
U.S. Navy Leaves Vieques Bombing Range 5/1
The Saddam Watch: Arabic Newspaper Receives Letter Signed by Hussein, AFP Says 5/1
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10 Palestinians killed, 8 IDF soldiers hurt in Gaza, Including Children. The Biblical Bloodshed Between Israel and the Palestinians Never Seems to End. At Least, Clinton Was Near a Peace Agreement. 5/1
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Iraq War Helps British Petroleum Achieve Record Profit 5/1
"Ari, Why Won't You Answer the Question?"
Mark Morford: Charlton Heston's Last Sneer; The NRA retires its crusty king, with the country more violent and gun happy than ever 5/1
HELD OVER by Popular Demand: Would You Hire this Man? The George W. Bush Resume
HUSTLER magazine honcho Larry Flynt is hunting for a videotape rumored to show First Daughter Barbara Bush in the nude. 5/1
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The April 30th BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.)
More About Bechtel Winning Iraq War Contracts 5/1
Report: Bush to Name Diplomat to Administer Iraq 5/1
Rumsfeld and Garner are Living in Some Parallel Universe. They Need to Face Reality. 5/1
Who Owns the Media? 5/1
The Clear Channel Connection 5/1
Most Democratic Candidates for President Back Civil Unions 5/1
Bush Tries to Weaken Tobacco Treaty 5/1
Bin Laden Family Invested $10 Million in Bechtel; Bush Just Gave Bechtel Huge Contract in Iraq. 5/1
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Bush administration asks high court to preserve 'under God' in Pledge of Allegiance 5/1
Halliburton's Iraq work for U.S. adds to profit 5/1
Bush Chickens Out on Oslo Visit 5/1
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The Bush Legacy of Budget Cuts: U.S. to cut 6,000 airport screening jobs. How About That For Protecting Us From Hijackings? 5/1
Did American Navy Assist in Venezuelan Coup Attempt? 5/1
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For the 200th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase, the New Orleans Museum of Art is noting the occasion with an ambitious show celebrating French-American friendship. 5/1
Hart: President Bush "has not done a damn thing about" Terrorism; and Howard Dean unveils his health care plan in Manhattan on Wednesday. 5/1
Take Back America on June 4, 5 and 6 in Washington, D.C.
Arianna Huffington's "Pigs at the Trough" and a BuzzFlash.Com Honest-to-Goodness Piggy Bank! Can You Beat a Combination Like That?
Key McVeigh Witness Testimony Questioned 5/1
Chicks Against the Machine 5/1
At Iraqi Oil Plant, Bitterness, Idleness. Dick Cheney's Former Firm Comes and Goes. 5/1
Gene Lyons: Chanting the Party Line 5/1
Report: A Top Qaeda Member, Tied to 9/11, Is Captured 5/1
The Bush economy doesn't play in Peoria 5/1
Two British citizens were responsible for the suicide bombing of a pub in Tel Aviv early yesterday that killed three civilians and wounded 46 others 5/1
So much for Arab-American support; In Dearborn, Mich., Monday, the formation of a group calling itself Arab-American Republicans Against Bush was announced. 5/1
Unexploded Bombs Pose Threat in Iraq 5/1
The Horror of Being Liberated
The Forgotten Half of Budgeting: "little talk about the vital programs that face future cutbacks in the budget plan." 5/1
Evaluating Gun Policy
AWOL Bush and His Chickenhawk Colleagues in Cowardly Behavior
Emergy Bill Passes Senate Committee 5/1
FBI agent under fire — from agency; Turner blew whistle on Ground Zero theft 5/1
Sharon Receives Mideast Peace 'Road Map' 5/1
Did New York Times Reporter Make Guantanamo Bay Sound Like a Summer Camp? 5/1
Pearl 'killed over secrets' 5/1
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Norman Mailer: We went to war just to boost the white male ego 5/1
The Osama Clock - How Many Days Will Osama Run Free (not to mention the Anthrax Terrorist)
Susan McDougal's "The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk." A Premium From BuzzFlash.com.
If Evangelicals go to Iraq, Resentment, not the Gospel, likely to spread 5/1
BuzzFlash's Maureen Farrell: "So, no, this brave new vindictive, bullying, finger-pointing, lily-livered world isn't Hitler's Germany. But it certainly isn't America, either."
The Past is Prologue: "Secrets," by Daniel Ellsberg. By the Man Who Released the Pentagon Papers. A Warning About a Government that Keeps Secrets.
Mini-nukes a 'terrible idea,' adviser says 5/1
The forgotten famine in Africa 5/1
FBI Scientist to Plead Guilty to Lying during testimony she gave at a hearing about a 1994 Kentucky slaying 5/1
Libya offers cash to quit 'axis of evil' 5/1
A Recent Judicial Reprimand of Attorney General Ashcroft Exposes a Pattern of Gag Order and Ethics Violations By His Office 5/1
Leadership for Good or Bad? -- A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
Gingrich got Bush Administration Nod for AEI Speech. 5/1
Cause of Wellstone crash still unknown 5/1
"Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers" by Daniel Ellsberg
Alabama Bans "Sex Toys," Making Their Obscenity Law Illegal 5/1
'Keep Gays Out Of Baseball' Rockies' Player Says; Must Be Getting Media Coaching From Santorum 5/1
New Devices to Recognize Bodily Features on Entry Into the U.S. 5/1
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Putin to U.S. and U.K.: We are not with you and we don't believe you 5/1
Tax Cuts and the Move to the Right; Balanced Budget Is No Longer a Priority for Conservatives 5/1
Bill Berkowitz: Supersizing Santorum's bigotry; President's faith-based point man has big-time plan to institutionalize discrimination 5/1
Shiites in Revolt: Why Paul Wolfowitz Is in a State of Shock 5/1
Survey: Newspapers Need More 'Buzz'. We Couldn't Have Said it Better Ourselves. 5/1
High Court Weighs Minority Voting Rights; Scalia, More Clown than Justice, Gets a Big Laugh Making Fun of the Law. 5/1
Fake letter tells parents of condoms for prom 5/1
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Patriot Raid: A First-Hand Account of Why the Patriot Act Should be Repealed 5/1
Ellen Goodman: The Taliban or the Suburban? Santorum flap pits unlikely Republican allies against one another 5/1
The threat to our TV from this corrupter of politicians 5/1
Police: Dem Fund-Raiser in Murder-Suicide 5/1
Victory tour? Bush should tour a soup kitchen 5/1
Bush Admin. = Monkees? Ret. General Overseeing Rebuild of Iraq Says Americans Should "Beat Their Chests" Over Defeating Saddam and Protecting the Oil Fields "almost intact." Something Is Horribly and Terribly Wrong with This Gov't. 5/1
A teacher in New Mexico remained suspended last week after one of his students read a poem at school that included sweeping criticism of the war in Iraq, the Bush administration, and treatment of immigrants. 5/1
Who Will Rule Iraq Now? The Riddle of Saddam’s Vanishing Army 5/1
Joe Conason: Right wing loves Rev. Al Sharpton; Reverend gains powerful new ally -- a smirking GOP 5/1
In the end, Iraq might not want democracy 5/1
Cushy landing for PeopleSoft CEO in 2002; Quintuples 2001 Salary to the tune of $188 million, 5/1
A financially anemic Mississippi Delta county is taking the state to court, saying it can't afford to properly represent poor people charged with crimes. 5/1
The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things. The Book that Inspired "Bowling for Columbine."
Investors bristle at settlement: "Take your $1.4 billion and stick it where the dot-coms don't shine." 5/1
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Attorney Asks Why Halliburton Not Being Pursued For Selling Warheads To N.M. Company 5/1
Spam Sent by Fraud Is Made a Felony Under Virginia Law 5/1
$10 Million Settles Discrimination Suit against Dial Corporation 5/1
Jesse Jackson Visit Aids Workers’ Struggle 5/1
Regime Change Begins at Home, Freedom Flyer #14 5/1
Getting Ashcrofted: Preemptive finger-printings, public video surveillance -- it's all part of the pattern of giving up rights for no reason at all. 5/1
Syria to charge Ottawa man; Won't "say what evidence they have to support the pending charges." 5/1
The Road to War Was Paved With Lies
Our Children and Teens are Getting Shot. What Happened to Homeland Security? 4/30
Bush's Anti-Terrorism Hypocrisy: The U.S. cease-fire with an Iranian exile group Washington considers a terrorist organization allows the Mujahedeen Khalq to defend itself from Iranian-sponsored attacks and keep its artillery and other weapons
Dems to Filibuster Priscilla Owen 4/30
Sutton approved by Senate despite protests from disabled advocates 4/30
GAO Criticizes Bush Cartel System for Tracking Terrorists 4/30
Court Says Legal Immigrants Can Be Held Without Bail 4/30
Bin Laden's Main Demand is Met by the Bush Cartel. Ain't That Mighty Interesting. 4/30
Report Finds Number of Black Children in Deep Poverty is Rising 4/30
The Bush Legacy: NATO is Torn Apart 4/30
Did the Bush Cartel Use the Smithsonian Institute to Get Revenge on Someone? Imagine That? 4/30
Former Homeland Security Aides Switch to Lobbying for Homeland Security Firms 4/30
Bush Cartel Won't Turn Over Estrada Notes, But Right Wing Troops in Congress Want Notes from Judge They are Targeting for Testifying to the Truth. Ah, Ain't the Grand Hypocrisy Party (GHP) a Grand Hypocrisy? 4/30
Putin Snubs Blair by Refusing to Lift Sanctions 4/30
Donald Rumsfeld Has Some Explaining to Do 4/30
97 Held Hostage on Oil Rigs, Including Americans, But We Don't Hear a Word Out of the Bush Administration. It's Just Not in Karl Rove's Political Game Plan. Too Bad for the Hostages. 4/30
Top Iraqi Prisoners Deny Saddam Had WMDs 4/30
This is Liberation to the Bush Cartel. This is Democracy to the Bush Cartel. Iraqis Say U.S. Troops Kill at Least 13 Protesters.
Frist to Call New Votes on Miguel Estrada and Priscilla Owen (bottom article). Time to Call Your Representatives; End this Practice of Stacking the Courts with Right-Wing Ideologues. 4/30
A More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights
W’s Cynical Mask - P.M. Carpenter
Priorities, Priorities! It's Always a Buck for Bush: Chief executive for the Recording Industry Association of America, Hilary Rosen, is helping draft copyright legislation for the New Iraq, according to investigative journalist Gregory Palast. 4/30
Another GOP House Ethics Violation? 4/30
Hillary Clinton Rallies Democratic Troops 4/30
Palestinian Parliament Confirms Abbas 4/30
Rumsfeld wants Gen. Franks as Army chief; Rumsfeld Likes His "Yes Man"? 4/30
I Wonder, A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
American Troops Shoot Children in Iraqi Protest Demonstration
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'Even under Saddam pay was better than this' 4/30
Now Rumsfeld is Thinking He's Caesar! All Hail Unto Rummy! Don't Get Too Big for Your Britches or Little Caesar Might Become Upset.
Bizarre Report: Saddam to Deliver Message Within Three Days. 4/30
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The Right Wing Really Has Its Message Points Down: Falwell calls Dixie Chicks 'French hens' 4/30
Marie Cocco: On Women's Rights, Iran Becomes a 'Friend' 4/30
Former West Point graduate and Army lieutenant Going to Jail for Protesting at "School of the Americas" 4/30
Another GOP loose cannon backfires 4/30
Are We Dumb or Just Numb? 4/30
The Supreme Court Vs. the American People 4/30
Senator Santorum, You are FREAKING Us Out! (And Some of Orrin Hatch's Best Friends are Polygamists), A BuzzFlash News Analysis
Chalabi is Such a Stooge 4/30
He Can Do Anything He Wants with Impunity, So What the Heck. Bush Appoints College Girlfriend to Prestigious Government Position. (Jump to Bottom of Article)
The Busher of Baghdad 4/30
GOP is Silent About Santorum's Bigoted Words 4/30
EPA chief Christie Whitman Uses Security Personnel as Her (and her Husband's) Personal Servants 4/30
The Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction: Will the World Ever Know the Truth? - The Angry Liberal
The Loyal Opposition Goes AWOL. Tom Daschle, Are You Listening Yet? Has Anyone Seen or Heard from Tom Daschle Recently? Just Asking. 4/29
Frist Says Santorum Has Compassion. Yeah, Right! Compassion For Bigots, Homophobes and Hypocrites. 4/30
Report: Rule Changed for Iraq Contracts 4/30
Bush Cartel Upset that the Exercise of Democracy in Iraq is Delaying the Implementation of "Bush Cartel Style Democracy" In Iraq. Watch for More Arrests of Iraqis Who Actually Believe in Democracy. 4/29
Some GOP stupidities; "You can count on Republicans to eat their own young." 4/30
For the second time this week U.S. soldiers opened fire Wednesday on anti-American demonstrators in a town west of Baghdad, with apparently deadly results.
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Rick Santorum Shoots to the Top of the Top Ten Conservative Idiots 4/29
Boondocks: You Know What That Means 5/1
Betty Bowers: President Bush To Use What's Left of Social Security for Multi-Billion Dollar National Demon Defense Shield 4/30
Brilliant cartoon! "Is You a Patriot?" Follow This Guide...or Else Yer a Saddam-Lover! 5/1
Republican in Missouri Proposes Masturbation Tax. Apparently This is For Real. 5/1
How About Those Psychedelic Republicans?
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