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As Usual, It Appears Saudi Arabians Were at the Center of the Recent Terrorist Attacks in That Country, Not Iranians as the Bush Cartel Wants You to Believe. What Will It Take for the Democrats to Stand Up to an Administration of Serial Lying? 5/29
"Republican support for simple majority is hypocritical considering they only invoke it when it is to their advantage." 5/29
Bush Cartel Warns Head Start Programs Not to Lobby to Try and Save Head Start Programs. Makes Sense in a Dictatoryship, Right? 5/29
Eight American Soldiers Have Died in Iraq Since Sunday, for a "Show War" for Oil
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Another One of Our Soldiers is Shot Dead in Iraq 5/29
"Texas-Gate" Saga Continues 5/29
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Social moderates have lost all say in the Republican Party. 5/29
More Deception from the Pentagon: Saddam's Bombed Bunker Wasn't a Bunker 5/29
Lover of Illinois GOP Operative Becomes 63rd Republican-administration related defendant in ongoing federal investigation of GOP office holder wrongdoing in Illinois 5/29
Another Report that Jessica Lynch Rescue Met No Resistance. By the Way, the Alleged Iraqi Attorney Who Allegedly Notified U.S. Soldiers of Jessica's Whereabouts Now Has a Job With Former Congressman Livingston, the Serial GOP Adulterer (Says Larry Flynt)
Bush Cartel Hedges on Finding Iraqi Weapons 5/29
Another Scandalous No-Bid Contract Makes Us Look Like Fools, From BuzzFlash.Com
The Bush Legacy: Russia and China May Unite in Alliance Against U.S. 5/29
SCANDALOUS ATTACK ON OUR MOST VULNERABLE CITIZENS, OUR CHILDREN:Tax Law Omits Child Credit in Low-Income Brackets 5/29
Report: Texas Governor's Office Linked to Use of Department of Homeland Security for Partisan Political Purposes 5/29
More on Tony Blair's Embarrassing Day 5/29
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Orrin Hatch on the Defensive. It Can be Done Folks. 5/29
Bush and His Anti-Government, Pro-Rich Cronies Celebrate as the Nation Deteriorates and Our the Future of Our Children is Mortgaged -- And You Can Barely Hear a Word of Protest Out of Tom Daschle, the Minority Enabler 5/29
As Usual Bush Picks Loyalty Over Competence 5/29
HELD OVER by Popular Demand: Would You Hire this Man? The George W. Bush Resume That First Appeared on BuzzFlash.Com!
Tom DeLay is on a Rampage, And the Democratic Leadership Isn't Willing to Take on His Toxic, Radical, Extremist, Un-American Campaign 5/29
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Republicans Complete Their "Texas-Gate" Cover-up in State House 5/29
Supreme Court Deals Blow to Miranda Rights 5/29
Bill Clinton Wants Change in Presidential Term Limits 5/29
Maureen Dowd: The Bush Cartel May Reap a Legacy of Cynicism 5/29
Hatespeak 101, by BuzzFlash Writer Maureen Farrell
Chicago Tribune to Bush Cartel: Iran is Not Iraq 5/29
Kerry Pushes for Healthcare in the Bay Area 5/29
The May 28th BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.)
Canada Quarantines 5,000 Due to SARS 5/29
Feinstein, Another Wobbly Senate Democrat 5/29
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Disgusting: Karl Rove Helps Write "Docu-Drama" (Read Fictional Account) of Bush's Activities on 9/11
The BuzzFlash.Com Interview with Sidney Blumenthal About Ken Starr and "The Clinton Wars"
Arianna Huffington Takes on the Wimpy Democrats in the Senate 5/29
The Big Lies 5/29
Neo-cons Move Quickly to Attack Iran, Even Though the Primary Source of Terrorists and Financing is Saudi Arabia 5/29
NPR Partners with Microsoft's Slate 5/29
"Akron students will be fingerprinted beginning this fall to identify them in school lunch lines." 5/29
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.
Times accepts Pulitzer-winning reporter's resignation 5/29
Jessica Lynch Was Opportunistically Misused by the Pentagon, But She's Still Worthy of Our Admiration and Best Wishes 5/29
Proposed Safeguards Against TB Dropped 5/29
Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute!
Washington's Rare Byrd 5/29
Supreme Court Hands Bush Administration KGB Style Police State Victory 5/29
Don't Give Up the Fight! A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary.
"The Looting of America" - P.M. Carpenter
The Terrorists are Winning: Terror War is Eroding Basic Rights 5/29
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 Osama Clock - How Many Days Will Osama Run Free (not to mention the Anthrax Terrorist)
Bush Plans Mideast Summit Next Week 5/29
Bush unchallenged by media 5/29
'But Then It Was Too Late': "The dictatorship, and the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting. It provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway." 5/29
A More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights
As economic fears creep higher, dreaded 'D' word [DEPRESSION] lurks in wings 5/29
Exxon Backs Groups That Question Global Warming 5/29
At Death’s Door; American Woman Travels Door to Door to Count Iraqi Casualties 5/29
Veterans' care squeezed by VA; Many lose coverage under new policy 5/29
Toxic, Deadly and All Over The Village: In Iraq, looters feast upon the Al Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center and inadvertently spread their radioactive bounty throughout the local villages 5/29
Journalist Deaths in Baghdad Hotel 'Avoidable' 5/29
More Mishaps in Rumsfeld's Def. Dept.; Orders 50% Reduction in Mishaps. Really. 5/29
Liberace Candidate: Mark Foley’s glass closet. 5/29
9/11 film makes hero of Bush; TV movie, made with White House help, gives revised [i.e., FABRICATED LIES] account of President's day 5/29
Which Democrat Will Speak the Fiscal Truth? 5/29
GOP Congressman Mark Foley's bedfellows: politics, hypocrisy 5/29
George W. Bush's sales plan for his tax cut is much the same as the one for his war on Iraq 5/29
What if a Shi'ite Group Wins Elections in Iraq? 5/29
Lou Dobbs Interview With FCC's Michael Powell 5/29
Strange Bedfellows Department: Texas State Rifle Association Opposes Media Consolidation 5/29
First, The Bush Cartel Censored the 9/11 Investigation; Now They are Setting the Wheels in Motion for Ensuring the Space Shuttle Investigation Doesn't Reveal Damaging Information About How the Bush Administration Might Have Prevented the Disaster.
Houston Teacher's aide accused of injuring gay student 5/29
This is the Scandal of the New Century: Bush Cartel Won't Tell the American Public the Truth About Their Culpability and the Role of the Saudis in 9/11. We Say Investigate, Indict, Prosecute and Jail the Guilty in the Bush Cartel.
Support the Democrats' Fight Against Bush's Extreme Judges; Sign the Petition for American Values Today! 5/29
The power of one; Weak nations will succumb to American ambition unless we insist on respecting sovereignty 5/29
Which Way? Will the Democrats follow Robert Byrd or Nancy Pelosi on foreign policy? 5/29
Amnesty: 'War on Terror' Has Made World Worse 5/29
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Image Makers Obscure President’s Policy Failures 5/29
AWOL Bush and His Chickenhawk Colleagues in Cowardly Behavior
Barney Frank Urges Ashcroft to Drop KGB Anti-free Speech Prosecution of Bush Protestor 5/29
"The makers of the lubricant WD-40 are objecting to some Texas lawmakers calling themselves "the WD-40s" - a name they say describes them because they're white Democrats over 40." 5/29
Ominous increase in cholera cases in Iraq's Basra 5/29
Iraq's 'weapons' doubts; Donald Rumsfeld, has acknowledged for the first time that Iraq may have destroyed its weapons of mass destruction before the US launched its offensive. 5/29
New! Updated and Expanded American Edition of Greg Palast's "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." Available Now at BuzzFlash.Com.
The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things. The Book that Inspired "Bowling for Columbine."
Bio weapons, or just a trailer? 5/29
As US cuts taxes, states hike them; New York's $2 billion-plus tax hike is just the latest of several overhauls that could recast the social safety net. 5/29
Other Opinion: Americans must lose sheepishness about 9/11 5/29
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Arianna Huffington: Democrats Too Craven to Fight Back; They are paralyzed by the fear of doing or saying something that could be turned against them in GOP attack ads. 5/29
All In the Family: The Rehnquists 5/29
Bush's Racist Judges: A Judge, a Renomination and the Cross-Burning Case Without End 5/29
Same-sex marriages cannot be recognized in Texas under legislation that Gov. Rick Perry signed today. 5/29
Trust in media keeps on slipping. 5/29
Publishers open arms -- and wallets -- to conservative writers 5/29
Red Cross Chief Urges Due Process for Guantanamo Detainees 5/29
Tom "Toxic Brain" DeLay Promises MORE Tax Cuts, Until They Shrink the Federal Government to the Size of Nothing. The Greatest Contribution DeLay Could Make to a More Honest and Effective Government is For Him to Resign.
Bill Press: The McCarthy Club has been making a comeback 5/29
Bush Signs Tax Cuts Into Law. The Rich Fill Their Pockets, Everyone Else Gets the Finger. 5/29
Texas Residents: Oppose Secret Surveillance of Texans 5/29
The Supreme Court is PRO-Torture 5/29
U.S. Puppets in Iraq to cancel three oil deals 5/29
Justice Takes a Beating: "Clarence Thomas labored to justify the bullying interrogation of a farm worker whom an Oxnard police officer had just gravely wounded" 5/29
Pentagon Was Warned Over Policing Iraq 5/29
Tax Cut an Empty Gesture to Cities 5/29
PR Society Seeks More Transparency in FCC Broadcast Ownership Review 5/29
Why Does John Lott Pretend to be a Woman?
Rumsfeld Outlines His Ideas for Iraqi Democracy 5/29
"Pro-life campaigners in America are using a murder case to try to force the federal government to recognise the foetus as an individual in cases of violent crime." 5/29
The UN Has Capitulated: "If it is futile to look to the UN or Euroland, let alone Russia or China, for any serious obstacle to American designs in the Middle East" 5/29
Close unpatriotic tax haven loopholes 5/29
Kucinich stumps as the anti-Bush 5/29
Statement Of Senator Edward M. Kennedy On The Republican Economic Plan: Ineffective, Unfair, And Unaffordable 5/29
What Really Happened at the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad? 5/29
BuzzFlash Salutes Mark Crispin Miller 5/29
Susan McDougal's "The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk." A Premium From BuzzFlash.com.
Evaluating Gun Policy
Arianna Huffington's "Pigs at the Trough" and a BuzzFlash.Com Honest-to-Goodness Piggy Bank! Can You Beat a Combination Like That?
Texan "Values" are New Global Menace 5/29
WTC Sues Tennant for Back Rent 5/29
"Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers" by Daniel Ellsberg
Prime Minister of Canada Assails Record Deficits Posted by "Right Wing" Bush Administration 5/28
Waxman Takes on the Pentagon 5/28
A Familiar Odor from the Bush White House 5/28
How sweet it is: Respect for Clinton rebounds among Americans 5/28
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Welfare Reform Useless Without Education and Training 5/28
Four People Who are Unintimidated 5/28
Be wary of NYT stories with unnamed sources, says Rocky Mountain News Editor 5/28
Why Isn't the NRA Mad that Bush is Seizing Iraqi Weapons? - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
Bill Moyers "On Being a Journalist": A BuzzFlash Special Guest Contribution
State Workers Win Right to Family Leave 5/28
Holy Cripes! NYT's Judith Miller says her main source on Iraq WMDs is Ahmad Chalabi, Evil Pentagon Insider and Influential Iraqi Exile Working in Iraq for Bush and Rumsfeld. Miller Was/Is Being Played Like a Cheap Violin. 5/28
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 Canadian government introduced legislation today to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana, a move that U.S. officials said could increase the amount of marijuana smuggled across the border." 5/28
Speak out for academic freedom; Teachers who encourage debate about the war with Iraq are being mistreated at local schools 5/28
GOP Says More Outdoor Advertising is good for Small Businesses. Doesn't Clear Channel Own a Whole Lot of Billboards? Is This Bill Payback for Pro-War Support by Clear Channel Radio Stations? Just Asking. 5/28
Welcome to your new world: A fractured Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a police officer did not violate the rights of a gravely wounded farm worker by interrogating him at the hospital without reading him his Miranda rights. 5/28
Karl Rove's Chief Advisor Said: "Bipartisanship is another name for date rape." Norquist and Rove Should be Exiled to North Korea, Where Their Style of Government and Coarseness Fits Right In.
The US strategic air command maintains a 'target list' for nuclear strikes in contingency planning against several countries, including Russia, China and North Korea, a defence expert has claimed 5/28
The computer system used by the Environmental Protection Agency to track and control water pollution is obsolete, full of faulty data and does not take into account thousands of significant pollution sources 5/28
Pro-Taliban Government Presents Islamic Law Package in Frontier Province 5/28
Iraqi Officials Say Looting of Ancient Sites Continues Despite Pleas to U.S. Troops for Help 5/28
FCC vote may limit independent views; Call it the "Wal-Martization" of American media. 5/28
Another opening to push for peace 5/28
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter Crosses The New York Times' Line of 'Strict Neutrality' 5/28
More DeLay/Texas Dems Problems. If It Smells Like Watergate . . . Malfunction blamed for gap on DPS tape; "It's odd that it was the day and time that we wanted," Bailey said. "It's fine all week, except for that one period." 5/28
Fresh Gulf War Syndrome Issues in U.K. 5/28
U.S. Changes Policy in Grant to Church; Erodes Separation of Church and State 5/28
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Democrats Seek Accountability in Texas Dispute; Lieberman, Others Want to Know if Federal Resources Aided GOP in Redistricting Controversy 5/28
Gore Vidal on the "United States of Amnesia," 9/11, the 2000 Election and the War in Iraq 5/28
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?"
Reposted: BuzzFlash News Analysis, The Chinese Spy Who Loved the Republican Party Too Much 5/27
The Past is Prologue: "Secrets," by Daniel Ellsberg. By the Man Who Released the Pentagon Papers. A Warning About a Government that Keeps Secrets.
Some Greens Consider Standing Behind Democratic Presidential Candidate in '04
Rumsfeld Now Basically Admits the WMD Charge Against Iraq Was Merely a Pretext for Invading the Country (for its oil) 5/28
Now the Bush Cartel is Blaming Iran for Terrorism in Saudi Arabia that Saudi Arabia Did Little to Stop. Al-Qaeda is a Creature of Saudi Arabia, But the Bushes Blame Everybody But Saudi Arabia. The Phony War on Terrorism.
"Substantial grass-roots resistance to the Federal Communication Commission's plans to relax or eliminate several major media ownership rules has been building in recent weeks"
US finds evidence of WMD at last - buried in a field near Maryland
Chicago Tribune Editorial: Why We Need the Filibuster 5/28
Was Karl Rove-Groomed Governor of Texas Involved in KGB Style Republican "Texas-Gate"? Let's Get Perry Under Oath. Let's Get Tom DeLay Under Oath. Then Let's Indict Them, Try Them and Put Them in Jail. 5/28
Lionized in Winter: At 85, Robert Byrd has become an overnight Internet sensation and the Senate's unlikeliest liberal 5/28
Liberals vs. Conservatives? It's the Corruption, Stupid -- Maureen Farrell
The Bush Tax Cut, Part II: The Free Ride for Stockholders by The Angry Liberal
The Search for Weapons - BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison
Hey, Bill Bennett! You are the Outrage! - Rebecca Knight at BuzzFlash.com
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Mad King George in "Disarm" 5/28
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