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Department of Justice's Own Report Confirms Our Fears About Treatment of 9/11 Detainees. How Do You Spell Kafkaesque? Of Course, Daschle and Pelosi Will Say Nothing Critical. 6/3

Bush trying to hide 9/11 information, Graham says 6/3

Mega Media Madness: "The Federal Communications Commission voted 3 to 2 to meet the demands of big communications corporations." 6/3

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Jesse Jackson: GOP Out to Swipe Your Overtime 6/3

Molly Ivins: "This is a gross scandal. The Center for Public Integrity has a stunning study out on the concentration of ownership in telecommunications." 6/3

Christian Terrorist Rudolph Will Face Trial in Alabama First 6/3

Gary Hart: Where is Bush leading us? 6/3

Ashcroft. You Know the Kind of Man. The Kind Who Would Have Been a Loyal Secret Police Leader for Franco, Stalin or Hitler. 6/3

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Phoenix Bishop Admits Cover-Up; "hid allegations of sex abuse by priests" 6/3

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Justices Rebuff Vets' Quest for Free Lifetime Health Care 6/3

The Bush administration official who will run day-to-day operations of the Pentagon's investigation into Air Force Academy sex assaults is a prominent conservative who opposes coed training in the military. 6/3

Who is Bush's Brain? Karl Rove is, according to a New Book Chronicling the Political Life of the Machiavelli Behind the Throne of King George, A BuzzFlash Interview About "Bush's Brain"

Helen Thomas: Nothing sweeter to Bush than revenge 6/3

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The Power of the Republican-Controlled News Media -- and the Lack of a Vocal Democratic Opposition: Poll: 70% say things going well in Iraq 6/3

GOP Ethics: "Former Republican Essex County Executive James Treffinger has pleaded guilty to two counts involving conspiracy and mail fraud in federal court" 6/3

Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group, Available from BuzzFlash.Com

Madison Libraries Rebel Against Patriot Act; Mayor: 'The Patriot Act Is Unpatriotic' 6/3

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Take Action! Call for the appointment of a “Special Prosecutor” to investigate the Iraq WMD Lies 6/3

Why are Americans Sleepwalking Through an Administration That is Destroying Their Country? 6/3

"Rumsfeld was deeply, almost pathologically, distorting the intelligence," 6/3

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Lawmaker says Halliburton deals on Iraq bigger than reported 6/3

More than 30 U.S. corporations, including Halliburton, are doing business in Iran despite trade sanctions imposed in 1980. 6/3

Colin Powell Was Pressured to Lie About Iraq WMD 6/3

Die-hards try to draft Gore for presidential run 6/3

Are You Better Off with a Bush Administration? Truth in Numbers. 6/3

Blessed are the Poor. They Don't Get Tax Cuts. 6/3

Allied use of cluster bombs illegal, minister admits 6/3

Reclaiming hope; The peace movement after the war 6/3

'The DLC lures the Democratic Party gently into that goodnight' 6/3

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Triple Barf Bag Alert: Katherine Harris for U.S. Senate? 6/3

Houston Chronicle Closes the Newspaper Handgun Loophole 6/3

Proof of WMD's Has Now Been Reduced to Trailer Trash 6/3

Heir to the Holocaust; Prescott Bush, 1.5 Million Dollars, and Auschwitz: How the Bush Family Wealth is Linked to the Holocuaust 6/3

Does the Pentagon Have Amnesia on Lynch? 6/3

New Technology Would Track Your Every Move 6/3

Protesters target Bechtel Corp. in San Francisco 6/3

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How About Those Bombs Dropped on Iraq? 6/3

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Where are the Flowers for the Liberators? We Ask Again? 6/3

Graham takes on Bush on national security 6/3

Report: Karzai Threatens to Resign if No Improvement in Government 6/3

Don't Give Up the Fight! A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary.

Anthrax suspect lied to get jobs 6/3

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The Osama Clock - How Many Days Will Osama Run Free (not to mention the Anthrax Terrorist)

As NY city officials raise taxes and tolls to scramble to close a $3.8 billion budget gap, the effects are visible on a block in Queens. 6/3

The Past is Prologue: "Secrets," by Daniel Ellsberg. By the Man Who Released the Pentagon Papers. A Warning About a Government that Keeps Secrets.

Once Media Ownership Loosened, It's Off to Court 6/3

Evaluating Gun Policy

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Evangelicals' rancor toward Muslims rises 6/3

Vanishing Agents: Did Iraq really have weapons of mass destruction? 6/3

Nuclear Mirage: Bush's Nuclear Ambitions "unwisely overturns a decade of restraint intended to discourage development of a new nuclear arms race." 6/3

The 'local' in local TV is in danger 6/3

Arianna Huffington's "Pigs at the Trough" and a BuzzFlash.Com Honest-to-Goodness Piggy Bank! Can You Beat a Combination Like That?

Child Tax Credit Puts Bush Team on Defensive 6/3

"Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers" by Daniel Ellsberg

The Supreme Court on Monday dodged a case that sought billions of dollars for the free lifetime health care promised to some World War II and Korean War veterans. 6/3

Updated! The George W. Bush Scorecard of Evil 6/3

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Modest legislation designed to make it easier for people to identify allergy-provoking ingredients remains stalled in Congress. 6/3

9/11 movie paints (i.e., LIES) Bush as hero. The truth is he ran away like a frightened hen. 6/3

Feingold Calls FCC's Easing of Media Ownership Rules Harmful to Local Diversity 6/3

Hearing to Affect Government's Ability to Try Terror Suspects in Civilian Courts 6/3

Too ambitious: bush's education reform law has states lowering passing test scores to meet unreasonable goals 6/3

Refocus the Peace Movement toward making the lapdog press accountable 6/3

Coming to you soon from the Pentagon: the diary to end all diaries — a multimedia, digital record of everywhere you go and everything you see, hear, read, say and touch. 6/3

In Madison, Kucinich calls himself a progressive for president 6/3

Madeleine Albright, Michael Moore Share Breakfast 6/3

Blair's Blunder: Crisis for the PM as critics say there was no need to go to war 6/3

Bush's credibility tainted 6/3

No Baghdad bounce for UK manufacturing 6/3

Bridging the credibility gap? Bush administration justifications for war -- in its own words 6/3

Powerful culture wars have kept the U.S. government from enacting workplace policies needed by 70 percent of families 6/3

AWOL Bush and His Chickenhawk Colleagues in Cowardly Behavior

Philadelphia Adopts "Modern-Day Declaration of Independence," Local Resolution Addresses PATRIOT Act, Post 9/11 Civil Liberties Concerns 6/3

President on security: Tough talk, soft funding 6/3

Blair in Weapons of Mass Destruction Crisis 6/3

A Must-Read and Must-Forward: Administration Quotes about Iraqi WMD 6/3

A Needed Human Rights Law 6/3

Halliburton pays $6m claim "to settle a series of shareholder lawsuits that alleged questionable accounting practices while the company was being run by US vice-president Dick Cheney." 6/3

America's Matrix: "Facts have lost value. Logic rarely applies." 6/3

The Bush Tax Plan Explained (flash animation by the DNC) 6/3

Bush-Bush-league budgeting 6/3

Bill Clinton still casts a long shadow 6/3

On C-Span, Al Franken Chews Up Bill O'Reilly for Lunch and Spits Out Nails

Report Says Sept. 11 Detentions 'Unduly Harsh' 6/3

Who can be believed now? The problem, of course, is that different politicians said different things. 6/3

More on Al Franken Taking Bill O'Reilly to the Woodshed 6/2

The Bush Legacy: Iraq's Once-Privileged Sunnis Increasingly See U.S. as Enemy 6/2

Bush's "Tax Cut" Could Invite a Fiscal Meltdown 6/2

The Bush Legacy: Baghdad Women Become Victims 6/2

Franken said it's time for liberals "to stop taking it" and to call conservatives on their lack of civility. 6/2

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.

George W. Bush is Being Childish 6/2

British Army to Face New Torture Claims in Iraq 6/2

Bush Cartel Decides that Democracy is Too Dangerous for Iraq 6/2

Is Frustration and Resentment Building Among U.S. Troops in Iraq? 6/2

Karl Rove's Handpicked Texas Governor is Up to His Neck in the "TexasGate" Scandal 6/2

Kilroy's Still Here, by Sean Penn 6/2

Reclaiming Hope: The Peace Movement After the War 6/2

Powell's Team is Clearly Trying to Distance the Secretary of State from the Bush Cartel Serial Lying Department 6/2

The Secret Saudi Flight on 9/13/2001

Bush "Special Office" Was in Charge of "Justifying" War 6/2

The Bush Legacy of Packaging and Politics Over Effectiveness: Officials Say Al Qaeda is Regrouped, Ready to Act 6/2

Former Blair Cabinet Minister: Tony "Duped" Us 6/2

Ashcroft Meets His Kindred Spirits: Christian Terrorism in America. The Eric Rudolph Story. 6/2

Monday FCC Media Deregulation Vote Will be Broadcast Live on C-Span 6/2

Blair: I have secret proof of WMD's 6/2

At Least the British Papers are Telling It Like It Is: Blair's "Deceit Sacrificed British Lives" 6/2

More on the Bush Budget Deception: It's All Smoke and Mirrors to Enrich the Rich, Starve the Government and Bankrupt Our Children and Grandchildren. 6/2

The Terrorist Sympathizers Among Us: Bush Red State Supporters Support a Homegrown Extremist Terrorist. Don't Expect John Ashcroft to be Spending a Lot of Time Getting to the Bottom of this Case. Bush Cartel Doesn't Want to Alienate Any of Its Voters.6/2

How Deficit Busting Bush Cartel Budget Denies Working Poor Their Share of Tax Cuts 6/2

As Bush Deficit Busting Plan Passes, Critics Abound 6/2

More News, Less Diversity 6/2

Investigate Republican Abuse of Homeland Security Agency 6/2

As the Fighting Continues, Some Back Home Wonder 6/2

The Rove Administration 6/2

Kerry Emphasizes His Military Service, As He Should 6/2

Stop Mincing Your Words New York Times, Bush is a Serial Liar 6/2

Cluster Bombs Litter Iraq 6/2

GOP Candidates' Catering Company Probed 6/2

The Education of Sidney Blumenthal 6/2

Bob Herbert: the Reverse Robin Hood 6/2

The release of a report critical of the DOJ's post-Sept. 11 roundup of terror suspects could mean legal action against some officials 6/2

"A growing number of U.S. national security professionals are accusing the Bush administration of slanting the facts and hijacking the $30 billion intelligence apparatus to justify its rush to war in Iraq"

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Brazen Bush Lie on WMD's: Claims Two Skeletal Trailers Were Bioweapons Labs, Despite No Proof. BuzzFlash Even Posted a Photo of a Soldier Within 10 Yards of One Wearing No Protective Gear Whatsover. This Guy is a Cheap Liar. Daschle Will Say Nothing.

The Gospel According to George W. Bush 6/2

Media Monopoly is No Game. Michael Powell is a Dangerous Man. 6/2

Two U.S. Soldiers Wounded in Baghdad Attack 6/2

The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things. The Book that Inspired "Bowling for Columbine."

Bush Cartel Screws the Poor Again 6/2

Blair on the Hot Seat Over Iraq Deceptions 6/2

Washington Post Editorial that Basically Supports the FCC Media Consolidation Vote While Making It Appear That They Have Some Minor Doubts. The Washington Post and the Washington Times are Starting to Look More Alike Everyday. 6/2

Blumenthal Accuses Lindsey Graham of Faking His Folksiness 6/2

Librarians: The True Patriots of America 6/2

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Jeb's World: Tug of War Over Fetus Continues 6/2

Under "Most Watched Videos" You Can View Bill Clinton's Comments to a Class Studying His Presidency. Highly Recommended. 6/2

Dean Says Bush is Paying for Tax Cuts with Social Security 6/2

States Turn to Gimmicks to Pay for Bush's Voodoo Economics 6/2

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Protests at G-8 Talks 6/2

Is the Arctic Wildlife Refuge Still Endangered by the Bush Oil Cartel? 6/2

Taxpayers Cover the Bill for GOP Propaganda in Washington State 6/2

Working Poor Shafted in Bush Deficit Busting Budget 6/2

The Bush Legacy: Military Abortion Ban Puts Women in Danger 6/2

The Not All Dumb Reporters are American Department 6/2

Second Study Finds Misleading Deficit Busting Bush Budget 6/2

Gambling on capital alone to create wealth 6/2

National Rifle Association Wins First Victory in Iraq: Allied Officials Now Allow Iraqi Civilians to Keep Assault Rifles.

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Wolfowitz Says U.S. Troops Must Adapt in Korea 6/2

ALERT: FCC Deregulates the Media. The Republicanization of Television, Radio and Newspapers Will Now be a Stampede Toward a Stalinist Press.

The Bush Legacy: "Thousands of sacked Iraqi soldiers threatened Monday to launch suicide attacks against U.S. troops as leaders of the country's squabbling tribes told the Americans they could face war if they did not leave soon."

FCC Meets on Monday to Allow More Corporate Republican Consolidation of the Media 6/2

The Straw/Powell Transcripts are Raising Alarm Among NATO Members. What Did They Know, And When Did They Know It Wasn't True? 6/2

The Nighmarish Future of Media Deregulation is Here Now: The Sinclair Group 6/2

William Raspberry: Where are the Democrats? 6/2

The BuzzFlash.Com Interview with Sidney Blumenthal About Ken Starr and "The Clinton Wars"

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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

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Chirac Presents Bush with Codpiece of Freedom 6/2

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