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Bush Favorite Admiral "Convicted Felon" Poindexter to "Step Down" After Creating System for People to Make Money Off of Terrorist Attacks and Assassinations. Hmmm, We're Suprised Bush Didn't Promote Him Considering This Administration's Standards.

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Young Republicans Just Like the Old Ones: Hypocrites About Sex and Booze. A booze-soaked sex bash in Boston. 8/1

Bush Cartel Stirs Up Its Hardcore Base by Trotting Out the Gay Marriage Issue. Rove is Succeeding at Derailing the "Bush and Cheney and Condi and Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz" Lied Storyline. 8/1

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Weapons of Mass Deception Alert 8/1

2 U.S. soldiers killed, 5 wounded. Bush Lied -- And Our Soldiers Dies, and Continue Dying. 8/1

U.S. Army Admits Iraq Suicides 8/1

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The Pentagon's "Big Impact" Weapons of Mass Deception Plan 8/1

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Bush administration and Mideast media are in a dispute over coverage of Iraq that has seen U.S. forces shut down a Baghdad newspaper and charges by television networks of harassment and detention of film crews. 8/1

Senate Democrats Block Pryor Nomination to Bench 8/1

$30M Reward Approved by Bush Cartel for Saddam Sons Tip 8/1

"The war to topple Saddam Hussein may have damaged the campaign against international terrorism by driving Muslims into the arms of al-Qa'ida" 8/1

The Bush Cartel Assault on Civil Liberties Continues Unabated: "The government announced Thursday it will begin testing a revised nationwide system for checking personal information on every airline passenger" 8/1

`Progressive' Lawyers Group Ready to Challenge Formidable Federalist Society 8/1

It's Time to be Afraid, Really Afraid in America: The Bush Administration Makes Dr. Strangelove Look Rational

At a Time of "Hijacking Alerts," Bush and the Grand Hypocrisy Party Want to Risk We Might Get Hijacked by Cutting Down on Air Marshals So That They Can Give Tax Breaks to the Wealthy 8/1

9/11 Funds Traced to Pakistan Accounts.9/11 Funds Traced to Pakistan Accounts. 8/1

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Bush Cartel Pays Warlords to Tyrannize Afghani People 8/1

No Future for Poindexter? 8/1

Bush Cartel Secretly Negotiating with Iran 8/1

West Wing Pipe Dream 8/1

Do 28 Pages Mean Duplicity? 8/1

Judge Says I.B.M. Pension Shift Illegally Harmed Older Workers 8/1

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

Molly Ivins: All That Effort for This Report? 8/1

Repost: The Theft of Your Vote is Just a Chip Away 8/1

Kerry, Dean Sharpen Debate Over Tax Cuts 8/1

Teamsters Endorse Gephardt 8/1

Behind the Homefront 8/1

Separation Fence Traps 12,000 Palestinians 8/1

A More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights

The Persuaders: Corporate Lobbyists in D.C. 8/1

As Soldiers Die, "President Bush plans to spend the entire month of August at his ranch in broiling Crawford, Texas - a slightly longer vacation than in 2001 and 2002, the White House revealed yesterday." 8/1

Two U.S. GIs Killed in Iraq 8/1

Economy Clocked 2.4 Percent Growth in 2nd Quarter: GDP Boosted by Defense Spending 8/1

No Child Left Behind? That's Because They're Shoved Out on the Street. 8/1

Tax Cuts Helped Create Deficit, Bush Concedes 8/1

America..Is George Bush's Re-Election Worth Your Sons' Blood? 8/1

ExxonMobil Profits Jump 58 Percent 8/1

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Sidestepping on Iraq 8/1

Ex-Interior chiefs blast Bush outsourcing 8/1

Don't Miss: 24 "deceptions" in 704 words from the President's 2003 State of the Union Address (Held Over)

The Amazing Stories of Condoleezza Rice

The Bush Administration Alienated the World, Now They're Using Tax Dollars to Buy an Int'l Army for Iraq. That's Just Disgusting, Despicable, and Depressing. 8/1

Lack of funding leaves AmeriCorps in limbo 8/1

Blair implicated in Kelly death, says former cabinet minister Clare Short 8/1

Cheney's Irresponsible Speech 8/1

Toxic, Psychotic Tom DeLay's Constitution Police 8/1

The usual mangled speech but Bush is let off the hook in rare press conference 8/1

AIDS Activists Jeer Senior Bush Health Official 8/1

Dems find hope in Bush polls 8/1

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More Bush Administration Lies, And the Mainstream Press Hardly Gives a Hoot 8/1

Peacekeepers May be in Liberia by Monday 8/1

Senate Committee Explores Alleged Links of Saudis to Charities with Relations to Terrorists 8/1

Molly Ivins: Patriot Act, the Sequel 8/1

NO WMD IN IRAQ: Leaders of Iraq Weapons Search Brief Senators 8/1

Tex-Exodus Update: Day Four 8/1

Opponents of Gay School Display Their Bigotry 8/1

Poindexter's policy bracket: "The Defense Department should sever its ties with Poindexter before he can humiliate Americans again." 8/1

US Colonel Kidnaps, Holds Family of Iraqi General Hostage 8/1

Random searches at airports would catch more terrorists than the current system of passenger profiling. 8/1

Pac Bell's Internet arm sues music industry over file-sharer IDs 8/1

A One-Sided 'Gunfight': "Has this administration lost its Wild West, bounty-hunting mind?" 8/1

Companies downsize pay raises for employees 8/1

The Homeland Security Department will begin testing a program to classify all airline passengers according to their security risk. 8/1

Tax Court Nominee Queried; Hill Staff Finds Improper Deductions Over Three Years 8/1

Suit Says Machines Missed 60,000 Votes in 2000 Race 8/1

Bait and switch / The neocon case for war in Iraq 8/1

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Repost: Troops keep dying -- but for what? 8/1

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Defense Spending Drives U.S. Recovery. Bush's Economic Plan: Killing People = Better Economy. 8/1

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Times to Name 'Public Editor' to Be Readers' Representative 8/1

Pipeline (through the "Peruvian rain forest and coastal reserve") Financing Vote Postponed 8/1

Australia demands U.S. retracts airline attack threat 8/1

ACLU, Community Groups Challenge Surveillance Under Post-Sept. 11 Terrorism Law 8/1

AWOL Bush and His Chickenhawk Colleagues in Cowardly Behavior

Rice Feels 'Responsible' for Iraq Uranium Charge. Tell That to the Families of Soldiers Who Died in Because of Bush's Lies. 8/1

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US Backflips Over Australia Terror Warnings 8/1

Suit Challenges Constitutionality of Powers in Antiterrorism Law 8/1

A Progressive Democrat Can Win 8/1

Cut off for un-American activities: the mobile phone firm that connected Iraqis 8/1

Saddam's Daughters Take Refuge in Jordan 8/1

Dean Passes the Front-Runner Test 8/1

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Don't become callous to the casualties of war 8/1

How Bush Shuns the Media 8/1

Support Our Troops: Send Them Air Conditioners, The Bush Administration Doesn't Care 7/31

Paraphrasing Bush: Hijackings, Bring 'Em On. I Need the Media to Get off the Story That I am a Liar, And Karl Tells Me Scaring Americans Half-to-Death is a Great Strategy, Even If It Means Taking Down the Airlines Industry. I am King George the Liar.

"ACCESS DENIED" to Joint Inquiry on 9-11 by Bush Administration: Record of the Bush Administration Denying the Truth to the American People About Their Failed War on Terrorism

Must Watch: A Tribute to Our American Troops -- And Their Betrayal by the Bush Cartel (Flash Presentation)

Do not use 45-minute claim, CIA told No 10 8/1

Updated and Expanded American Edition of Greg Palast's "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." Available Now at BuzzFlash.Com.

Philippines Still Faces Coup Threat, Says Arroyo 8/1

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

Randomness of Attacks Takes a Toll on Troops 7/31

Joe Conason: Bush blames Iraq for aiding Al Qaeda when it was clearly Saudi Arabia 7/31

Updated: "9/11: Bush Knew" - A Collection of Articles That Paint a Much Different Picture than the one from the White House

The 9/11 Report Raises More Serious Questions About The White House Statements On Intelligence 7/31

Signs of Instability 7/31

Doubts Mount on Powell's "Evidence" to the U.N. 7/31

Karl Rove Distracts Public with Hijacking Alert After Saddam Son Media Extravaganza, WHILE the Bush Cartel is Removing Air Marshals from HIGHEST RISK Flights for Hijacking. Impeach Bush and Then Prosecute Him. He is Putting Our Lives in Greater Danger.

Green Bay workers gather to protest tax cuts 7/31

From 9/11 to Terror War: The Dangers of the Bush Legacy, by Douglas Kellner (Author of "Grand Theft 2000")

The Bush administration's Top 40 Lies about War and Terrorism 7/31

Bush's Pentagon Buys Into Tragedy 8/1

Another Must Read: "16 Words and 28 Pages," By BuzzFlash Columnist Maureen Farrell. Was the Iraq War Just a Way to Deflect Attention from the Umbilical Cord to Al-Qaeda, Saudi Arabia? Are Our Soldiers Dying to Spare The Saudi Sheiks?

Bush Says He Takes "Personal Responsibility For Everything [He Says]." Okay, Great. You Lied. We Still Don't Have the Truth. Soldiers Died Because of Your Words. Who Will Ultimately Be Responsible For Their Deaths?

Bush Wants to "Codify" Man-Woman Only Marriage; Says "We're All Sinners"; Points out "Logs" in Other's Eyes. The Man Couldn't Hold a Job Greasing Cars If His Name Weren't Bush. 7/31

The Rest of Your Words, Mr. Bush, Are Also A Problem: 117 Words of Lies in the State of Union -- And Still Counting

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John Bolton is Probably Right About the Basket Case Leader of North Korea, But Bolton Forgot to Tell You That He's a Bit of a Nut Case Himself 7/31

From the BuzzFlash Archives: 24 Ways Republicans Lie. It's All They Know How to Do.

Washington Post Calls Bush "Confident" for Being Too Big of a Liar to Admit that the Country is Going to Hell in a Handbasket Under His Rule. Bizarre. 7/31

Updated: The George W. Bush Scorecard of Evil 7/31

Annan Warns of World Crisis 7/31

Ted Rall: Bring Home the Troops 7/31

Unveiling Bush's Mass Deceptions 7/31

Judge Bars POW Claims To Frozen Iraqi Assets 7/31

Reposted: 20 Lies About the Iraq War! More lies are being used in the aftermath. It's Not Just the Niger Uranium Lie; It's a Whole Orchestrated Avalanche of Lies.

Senate Democrats Hang Tough on Some Judicial Nominations 7/31

Life at the Front No Picnic for GIs 7/31

Uday and Qusay:
The Men Who Knew Too Much, A BuzzFlash Editorial

Politically Incorrect Bill Maher is Author of "When You Ride ALONE, You Ride With Bin Laden."

The Past is Precedent: About the 1953 CIA-Sponsored Coup of a Democratically-Elected Government in Iran, An Interview with the Author of"All The Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror"

The July 30th World Media Watch by Gloria Lalumia

If You Don't Believe that the Saudis and Bush Planned This Little Propaganda "Diffuser" in Advance, You are an Idiot. Sorry, But the Saudi "Desire" to Have 9/11 Info Implicating Them "Released" Was Only Made After Bush Promised Them Not to Release It.

A BuzzFlash Chart of Bush Lies About Iraq

GOP, not Democrats, has let Texans down 7/31

Clinton Should Have Had Rice to Lie For Him, Like She Does for Bush 7/31

CBSNews.com's Washington Wrap 7/31

Sons' killings change little in Iraq 7/31

Voting and Democracy: The Challenges Ahead 7/31

Be Like Dean! John Kerry's voters ask their candidate to act like the other guy. 7/31

Beyond Voting Machines: HAVA and Real Election Reform 7/31

It's not just the weather that's cooler in Canada; Why didn't the Right-wingers eat "Freedom Bacon"? Just asking. 7/31

Look for another Terrorist Alert: New Poll says Less than half of US would vote to return Bush to White House 7/31

Willie Nelson Does Radio Spots for Kucinich 7/31

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"

Bush, the rainforest and a gas pipeline to enrich his friends; Plan would enrich Bush corporate campaign contributors 7/31

Flip-flop on air marshal schedules; Guards will continue to fly on international, cross-U.S. trips 7/31

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

Did Cheney's Secret Energy Meeting Set Stage for Iraq Attack? 7/31

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS: One of Bush's Scapegoats, Stephen Hadley, Has His Own Credibility Problems

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The Gross Incompetence and Opportunism of the Bush Administration Endangers All Our Lives. To be Against the Bush Administration is to be for Self-Survival. 7/31

Bush Administration Sold Cuban Refugees Down the River, Returned Them to Cuba and Agreed to Castro Giving Them 10 Years in Prison. I Wouldn't Trust Bush Holding a Baby. 7/31

As is Rove's Custom, Bush Cartel Backs Off a Sensational Claim After It Has Used a Phony Headline to Distract Attention from the Bush Lie Machine 7/31

Bush seeks law to keep gays from marrying 7/31

More Bush Madness that Threatens Us All: "A US department of energy panel of experts which provided independent oversight of the development of the US nuclear arsenal has been quietly disbanded by the Bush administration" 7/31

The Mob Rules of the Bush Cartel 7/31

More Sidney Blumenthal Revelations 7/31

How Do You Explain the Recent Terrorist Alerts, "Saddam Sightings," Shots of Saddam Sons' Corpses? Bush's Poll Ratings are Falling. That Explains It All. 7/31

Backers pressure Gore to run again next year 7/31

Bush Cartel Runs for Cover and Backpedals on Air Marshal Issue 7/31

"Integrity, Always Integrity" by BuzzFlash Columnist P.M. Carpenter

"America's Future Depends on Your Response to This Column" by BuzzFlash Columnist The Angry Liberal

The African Bush - BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison!

How the Land of the Free Became the Dinosaur in the Tar Pit by BuzzFlash Columnist Maureen Farrell


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Powell Point 7/31

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Rumsfeld To Host Pentagon Game Show: Wheel of Farces 7/30

Evil GOP Bastard of the Month 8/1

Bush Accepts Personal Responsibility for Blaming CIA 7/31

Revised Copy of Bush's State of the Union Address 8/1

Uday and Qusay dead, Udai and Qusai still at large. Officials admit it could also be the other way around. 8/1

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