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Bush's Approval Rating Drops: Rove is Sure to Start Another War Now or Increase the Terror Alerts 5/22 Just as We All Predicted:" The Justice Department has used many of the anti-terrorism powers granted in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to pursue defendants for crimes unrelated to terrorism, including drug violations, credit card fraud and" so on House, Senate Reach $350B Tax Cut Deal (AKA "rip off for the rich") 5/22 The NRA to Run Ads Targeting Daschle. Lax Gun Laws in U.S. Might Help Arm Terrorists. And More.... 5/22 BuzzFlash asks Greg Palast: "What About Saudi Arabia? How Come the Birthplace, Chief Financier and Illicit Supporter of Al-Qaeda Gets a Free Pass from the Bush Cartel?" Radical, Extremism of Texas GOP Chief Revealed in Recorded Conversation: This is the Bush Cartel at Work, Folks! 5/22 Robert Byrd Should Replace Tom Daschle as Minority Leader: "Meanwhile, lucrative contracts to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure and refurbish its oil industry are awarded to Administration cronies, without benefit of competitive bidding" 5/22 BuzzFlash Alerts! Don't Miss A Thing! 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). 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. BUZZ NEEDS YOUR HELP: BuzzFlash Depends Entirely Upon You. We are Completely Reader Supported! We are THE Pro-Democracy News and Commentary Site for Truth, Justice, and the American Way. We Have No Advertising, Just You. Help Us Expand. Support Independent Media! A White House Fluent in Language of Fanatics 5/22 Senate Limits Military Exemptions to Environmental Regs: Rumsfeld is all Pissed Off About It 5/22 The Bush Tragic Farce Legacy of "Leave No Child Behind" in Texas 5/22 Edwards Proposes Aid for Rural Economy 5/22 No WMD's, Just More Propaganda. We Were Had. HELD OVER by Popular Demand: Would You Hire this Man? The George W. Bush Resume That First Appeared on BuzzFlash.Com! The Bush Tax Cut, Part II: The Free Ride for Stockholders by The Angry Liberal Total Information Awareness becomes Terrorist Information Awareness, but Still Collects Data on Everyone. 5/22 BuzzFlash Headlines On YOUR Web Site for Free (You Can't Get Any Cheaper Than That!) -- Spread the Pro-Democracy, Anti-Hypocrisy Word! New Al-Qaeda Terror Threat is Broadcast 5/22 Bomb damages Yale Law School Classroom 5/22 A Few Questions for President Bush, A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary Reposted: Did Karl Rove Stuff Socks Down the Front of Bush's Pants Before He Got On THAT Plane? The Bush Legacy: Federal Deficit is 3 Times Higher Than It Was in 2002 5/22 Bob Herbert: Dancing with the Devil 5/22 A More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights Republican Sheriff Becomes a Democrat 5/22 Whitman Quits As EPA Chief Now In Stock: Sidney Blumenthal's "The Clinton Wars" from BuzzFlash.Com Just Call It "The TexasGate" Cover-up 5/22 Bush's TV Image is Remote from Reality 5/22 Liberals vs. Conservatives? It's the Corruption, Stupid -- Maureen Farrell Bush's Incompetence Puts Us at Risk for "Dirty Bombs." If Anything is Proof that the Iraq War was a "Show War" for Oil, this Story and Others Like It Prove the Point. 5/22 Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute! The BuzzFlash Mailbag - Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, And All-American! Orrin Hatch: The Maestro, By David Podvin Allies to Begin Seizing Weapons From Most Iraqis 5/22 GOP Cover-up of Use of Law Enforcement and Homeland Security to Track Down Killer D's in Oklahoma. Dan Burton, How About a Congressional Investigation? 5/21 Can Dems form a "SHADOW GOV'T" NOW? - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary Democrats Press for Unemployment Support Extension 5/22 Question "W" Agent Tells of Immigrants Screaming from Airless Truck 5/22 The May 21st BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.) Get Eric Alterman's Brilliant Book Debunking the Myth of the Liberal Media and Help Out BuzzFlash.Com The Chinese Spy Who Loved the GOP Too Much, A BuzzFlash News Analysis Amazing: Moonie-Owned UPI Gives Blumenthal's Book a Good Review 5/22 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. Overruling the Class Warfare Objection, A BuzzFlash Commentary An Interview with Howard Dean on the Environment 5/22 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. Buzz Into Summer! Get A BuzzFlash.com T-shirt And Spread the News! The Past is Prologue: "Secrets," by Daniel Ellsberg. By the Man Who Released the Pentagon Papers. A Warning About a Government that Keeps Secrets. Evaluating Gun Policy Court Sets Aside Huge Tobacco Verdict 5/22 Parent Unhappy Student Given a Bible at School 5/22 Savage Stupidity. Com 5/22 Where is Captain Speicher and Why Have You Abandoned Him? - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary Why Have so Many Women Been Killed in Juarez? 5/22 "The man that hath no music in himself … is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils" - P.M. Carpenter Airwaves Heating Up: Interview with an FCC Commissioner 5/22 The Osama Clock - How Many Days Will Osama Run Free (not to mention the Anthrax Terrorist) For Three Nuns, A Prairie Protest And a Price to Pay; Sisters Reconciled to Prison For Actions at Missile Site 5/22	Hamas Goes Global: Fearing eclipse by Hizballah, a Palestinian terror group considers attacking U.S. interests in Iraq 5/22 Will you be able to trust the news? Ask Sen. John McCain to stop media monopolies. 5/22 AES colluded with Enron to rig auction 5/22 Bulgaria: Sofia’s daily says ‘Halliburton’ will build US bases in Bulgaria 5/22 Where's the beef (from)? Ranchers hail a law that would mandate country-of-origin labels by 2004. Some sellers and processors would prefer that consumers didn't know. 5/22 Ltr to Ed: Unclassify pre-9/11 intelligence 5/22 Byrd Presses Treasury Secretary on IRS Privatization 5/22 U.S. Wants Vote on U.N. Iraq Resolution Thursday; Security Council's Unanimous Support Still in Doubt 5/22 Arianna Huffington's "Pigs at the Trough" and a BuzzFlash.Com Honest-to-Goodness Piggy Bank! Can You Beat a Combination Like That? Are We Safer? 5/22 Leo Strauss' Philosophy of Deception 5/22 Nuclear waste bill expands definition of 'renewable energy' 5/22 Anti-Terror Power Used Broadly; Laws Invoked Against Crimes Unrelated to Terror, Report Says 5/22 State won't track peace protesters, attorney general says 5/22 No Head is Complete Without a BuzzFlash Cap! Mike Magnum is Up in Arms! For the second time, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee has delayed a vote on the promotion of Maj. Gen. Robert T. Clark, an Army general who commanded a base where a gay soldier was beaten to death in 1999. 5/22 U.N. Envoy Triggers a Debate in Colombia 5/22 Russia blocks vote on UN resolution on Iraq 5/22 Gene Lyons: A Victory (Of Sorts) in Iraq 5/22 Bush's Plans for More Privatization Prompt Rally in Opposition 5/22 U.S. Analysts Link Iraq Labs to Germ Arms 5/22 Strategy guru Albert Wohlstetter spent decades arguing for military flexibility and precision targeting. But have his Washington disciples learned his real lessons? 5/22 CENTCOM blackout on Pakistan 5/22 U.S. Gun Laws Lax on Terrorism, Several Democratic Senators Say 5/22 Dixie Chicks Invited To Play For ACM Awards 5/22 Bush plan could shift tax burden; Wage earners will pay more, experts agree 5/22 Palestinians decry militant fire 5/22 Susan McDougal's "The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk." A Premium From BuzzFlash.com. Harold Meyerson: GOP Gamesmanship 5/22 Balt. Officials Take Stand Against Patriot Act 5/22 Censorship, oil and politics Smithsonian accused of caving in to pressure on ANWR 5/22 Bill Berkowitz: Bush's China syndrome; China scholar Aaron Friedberg joins Team Cheney as deputy national security advisor and director of policy planning 5/22 Alarm at Pentagon's email snooping 5/22 New! Updated and Expanded American Edition of Greg Palast's "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." Available Now at BuzzFlash.Com. Molly Ivins: Unrepentant Democrats Return to Texas as Heroes 5/22 The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things. The Book that Inspired "Bowling for Columbine." Buy Bush's Brain and Help BuzzFlash.Com Grow. We Accept No Advertising. You are Our Sponsors. The New York Post, one of the city's most widely read tabloids, announced Tuesday that one of its freelance writers plagiarized an article from The National Enquirer. 5/22 Bush Eyes Easing of Missile - Export Rules 5/22 Take Back the Media IL Sen. Dick Durbin criticizes Smithsonian for caption policy 5/22 Last Week, Saudi Arabia Even More Dangerous Than Iraq For Americans 5/22 Feingold Calls on FCC to Delay Vote on Media Ownership Rules 5/22 WorldCom Said to Be Near Deal in Fraud Case; WorldCom, reverting to MCI name, Also Just Won Contract to Rebuild Iraqi Communications 5/22 War on terror hits Somali orphans 5/22 U.S., IAEA Negotiate Sending Teams to Iraq 5/22 America first: In the second of [this Guardian] series on global institutions, we see how the Iraq conflict accelerated the crisis in the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO 5/22 Companies are eager to land Iraq deals; 20,000 inquiries about subcontracts; oil money is the lure 5/22 Texas Senate bill could derail Planned Parenthood abortions 5/22 New law exiles North Carolina doctor 5/22 How Does George W. Bush Compare with Other Presidents on Job Creation? - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary A 'Statistical' Victory Over Terrorism Cannot Be Achieved 5/22 NYT Ed.: A Weakened Treasury 5/22 Some Common Sense on the FCC from TomPaine.Com 5/22 Nicholas D. Kristoff: Helping Binyam, When His Mother Won't 5/22 New Name of Pentagon Data Sweep Focuses on Terror 5/22 Repost: Robert Scheer: Saving Private Lynch: Take 2 5/22 Perle's actions indefensible in light of Bush vow 5/22 Congress hears how execs cashed in as companies failed 5/22 Blair 'broke his promise not to tap MPs' phones' 5/22 U.S. Suggests a Qaeda Cell in Iran Directed Saudi Bombings. Didn't the U.S. (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld) Also "Suggest" that Hussein had WMDs? Just Asking. 5/22 Voting machines in 2002 primary criticized; Miami-Dade misled by firm, report says 5/22 The dollar falls, and Treasury stands aside 5/22	WorldNetDaily, NewsMax and the MRC should acknowledge their own Jayson Blair-like credibility problems before beating up on the New York Times. 5/22 Who is Mary Rosh? An American Enterprise Institute Pro-Gun "Fellow and Scholar" Report blasts Miami-Dade's new voting machines as inadequate 5/22 "Cheney's tie-breaking vote on the Senate's $350-billion tax cut last week could have a dramatic impact on his own tax return -- it would save him tens of thousands of dollars." 5/22 GOP Congressman turns lobbyist for offshore profit 5/22 Jeb Bush Gives Everglades to Corporate Polluters 5/21 U.S. Raises Terror Alert Level to Orange 5/21 NYT Ed.: Reaffirming Miranda 5/21 Ouch, But Will It Play in Rockford? Obviously Not. Bring in the First Aid Kit. 5/20 Repost: Robert Scheer: A Nuclear Road of No Return 5/21 Kerry Says Bush Fosters 'Creed of Greed' 5/21 Bush Says He is Vanquishing Al-Qaeda, But U.S. Shuts Down Embassy in Saudi Arabia, the Birthplace of Al-Qaeda 5/21 The Chicago Ten for Peace in the Middle East 5/21 We are Not Making This Up: Metallica and Barney the Dinosaur Used to Interrogate Iraqis 5/21 George W. Bush: Dry Drunk 5/21 The "Get-Glover" campaign is spearheaded by the far-right attack dog Judicial Watch. Go here to see how you can help Danny Glover (see "Danny Glover targeted" about halfway down) 5/21 Kennedy kin irate at ads linking JFK, Bush tax cuts 5/21 Female Palestinian Suicide Bombers 5/21 Where Did My Raise Go? Ask Mr. Bush 5/21 "More than 625,000 former prisoners will be coming back into U.S. society this year, part of a record flow of inmates who will face crushing obstacles in finding work and housing and repairing long-fractured family ties" 5/21 Bill Clinton Blasts Bush Hollinger investors to seek review of CEO's dealings 5/21 Colombian Troops Stole Rebel Money 5/21 An Economic Menu of Pain 5/21 Spying under Patriot Act disclosed 5/21 A Weakened Treasury 5/21 Village Voice Picks up on BuzzFlash's Piece on Bush Flashing His Crotch on the Aircraft Carrier 5/21 Color Us Curious About Iraq Deals 5/21 Maureen Dowd: The Bush Cartel Gait-Gate 5/21 Dividend Voodoo: "The annual Forbes 400 lists prove that -- with occasional blips -- the rich do indeed get richer." 5/21 It's Not Too Late to Save Our Oceans 5/21 Top two whistleblower protectors resign 5/21 Congress Needs to Remember the Jobless 5/21 Jayson Blair Needs Some Therapy, Right Quick 5/21 US post-war effort seen as on the brink of "fiasco" Radio Ga Ga: The Unholy Alliance Between Clear Channel and the Bush Family 5/21 Justice Dept. Inflates the Number of Terror Arrests 5/21 Unlikely Alliances Forged in Fight Over Media Rules 5/21 Sunday Night Underground: Mark Crispin Miller in Manhattan 5/21 TIA Spy Plan Faces Critical Deadline 5/21 "A Dream Only American Power Can Inspire": The Project for the New American Century’s vision of global military dominance 5/21 "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers" by Daniel Ellsberg Move Over, Right Wing Radio - the Liberals Are Coming 5/21 Disunited nations: In the first of this week's series on global institutions, Jonathan Steele examines how the conflict in Iraq has undermined the role of the UN 5/21 GOP outspends Democrats in states 5/21 Bush Cartel Completely Compromised Our Nuclear Security by Not Securing Sites in Iraq. They are Desperate and May Even -- Gasp! -- Accept U.N. Help. 5/21 Senate Democrats Try, But Fail, To Halt Bush Cartel "Slouching Toward Armageddon" Nuclear Weapons Madness "Bush's use of macho military trappings a textbook example of 'image management.'" 5/21 AWOL Bush and His Chickenhawk Colleagues in Cowardly Behavior The Search for Weapons - BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison Hey, Bill Bennett! You are the Outrage! - Rebecca Knight at BuzzFlash.com THE LIGHTER SIDE:: Know Your War Profiteers Card Deck 5/21 GWBush.com: the OFFICIAL RE-SELECTION site of the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign. 5/21 Asa Hutchinson GOP Most Wanted Playing Card 5/21 Tom the Dancing Bug: Economy in Recovery! 5/20 Crazy Don's SUV World 5/22 These Are Ironic Times 5/20 Boondocks: A Bold-Faced Lie 5/22 Southern Baptists, Republican Party Merge 5/22

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