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"The Words of the Prophets" by BuzzFlash Columnist Maureen Farrell Bush Said, "Bring Them On," And Our Soldiers Died -- And Continue Dying, As Do Iraqis, As Do Members of the U.N., As Do Journalists. 9/4 The Bush Legacy: 1.4 million more Americans in poverty in 2002 9/4 "Save California: Recall Bush" Bumper Stickers, From BuzzFlash.com (In Stock and Shipping!) State Dept. Is Sued by Applicant With H.I.V. 9/4 A Palestinian Teen Gets Sent to Detention -- And Stays 9/4 Bush's Incompetent War on Terrorism: Security weakened at U.S. entries? INS inspectors pulled from duty 9/4 Bob Herbert: Sick and Suspicious at IBM 9/4 More Wasteful Garbage From Bush: A Manufacturing Jobs Czar. How Much More Ridiculous Can They Get? 9/4 Would You Like Some "Freedom Fries" With Your Crow, Mr. Bush? 9/4 Total Recall 9/4 Mary McGrory is Ill. Send Her Your Best Wishes. 9/4 Diebold: What Happened in San Luis Obispo County? 9/4 Be Cool This Summer in a BuzzFlash Hat! Where Did Bremer's Senior Adviser Previously Work? The Carlyle Group, Of Course. 9/4 Has One of the Heroic Texas Eleven Sold Out? 9/4 More on Arnold Being Egged as He Avoids First Debate. He Will Only Deign to Debate Once and Will Receive the Questions a Week in Advance, So His Handlers Can Write His Script. What a Gang-Banging Wimp! 9/4 Send the Message Across the Nation: "Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died" Postcards. The Perfect Message to Your Senators and U.S. Representatives. BuzzFlash Headlines On YOUR Web Site for Free (You Can't Get Any Cheaper Than That!) -- Spread the Pro-Democracy, Anti-Hypocrisy Word! The Bush Legacy: The Bush administration is relaxing rules that say hospitals have to examine and treat people who require emergency medical care, regardless of their ability to pay. Despicable. 9/4 BuzzFlash Gets By With a Little Help From Its Friends. Yes, We Have 2.5 Million Users a Month, But We Need Your Financial Support Because We Accept No Ads and Don't Charge for Subscriptions. Buy a Premium. (Not Tax-Deductible). Moveon.org: How to defeat the California recall 9/4 The Spymaster Gets a Pass: Nominated to fill the position of undersecretary of defense for Intelligence, Stephen A. Cambone — a Rumsfeld loyalist rising rapidly through the Defense Department’s senior ranks 9/4 Greg Palast answers the question, "Was the Iraq War a Bush Cartel Effort to Divert Attention from Saudi Arabia, the Home and Chief Financier of bin Laden?" A BuzzFlash Interview Gun Violence is a Preventable Epidemic 9/4 John Kerry's Announcement Speech 9/4 Tom "Cockroach" Delay Opens His Mouth and A Few Vile Things Crawl Out Concerning Howard Dean. Whatever Delay Dislikes Is Usually Good for the Country and Bad for DeLay. 9/4 Bush's Incompetent War on Terrorism: Taliban Teaming With Al-Qaida Again 9/4 "Governor Gang Bang," A BuzzFlash Editorial Wesley Clark Declares That He is a Democrat. He's Passed the First Test. He's Proved That He's Sane. 9/4 Arnold, the Would-be "Gang Bang Governor," Gets Egged 9/4 Dennis Kucinich: Power to the People 9/4 How FOXNews, Owned by Rupert Murdoch and Managed by Republican Operative Roger Ailes, Tries to Trivialize The Deaths of Our American Soldiers Jim Hightower's "Thieves in High Places" at BuzzFlash.com Robert Byrd: We Need Relief for American Troops in Iraq 9/4 Some newspapers pull `Doonesbury' installment that mentions masturbation 9/4 More American Deaths in Iraq 9/4 Gray Davis Fights for His Job 9/4 Clarence Page: Groping for a face-saving way out of Iraq 9/4 Bustamante lashes out against big business 9/4 Joseph Wilson Puts Finger on Karl Rove 9/4 We need to return honor and dignity--and a sense of reality--back to our White House. And fast. Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute! Read Blogs from Iraq for the Real Story of How We, As Taxpayers, are Getting Fleeced by Bush Campaign Contributors Who Got Contracts to "Rebuild" Iraq 9/4 Schwarzenegger the Liar 9/4 "An Anaconda Deficit" by BuzzFlash Columnist P.M. Carpenter	Greg Palast: Exxon Lubricated by Bush Judges 9/4 Click Here to Make a Difference! BuzzFlash Depends Entirely Upon You. 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. "The Eleventh Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Exploit the Lord Thy God for Cheap Political Gain" by BuzzFlash Columnist The Angry Liberal The September 3rd World Media Watch by Gloria Lalumia Repost: "The Clinton Wars" Excerpts: Bush Ignored The Terrorist Threat Enron Scandal in Connecticut 9/4 The Weekly Standard vs. BuzzFlash.com and Sidney Blumenthal, A BuzzFlash Editorial U.S. Report Ties Iraq Unrest to Poor Planning 9/4 Embassy shooting fuels Iran-UK tensions 9/4 Harrison Ford Not Happy with the Direction of the America under Bush 9/3 BuzzFlash Alerts! Don't Miss A Thing! Feinstein takes to Calif. airwaves to fight off recall of Davis 9/4 Report: "Ansar al-Islam behind UN bombing" 9/4 Judge may block further consolidation in the US media industry. 9/4 Bush Urges Senate to Support Retroactive 'Enron Escape' 9/4 Another lame-brained idea to shoot down 9/4 Depp Slams Bush, Says U.S. Is Like 'Dumb Puppy,' 'Broken Toy' 9/4 From 9/11 to Terror War: The Dangers of the Bush Legacy, by Douglas Kellner (Author of "Grand Theft 2000") It All Started on BuzzFlash.com. HELD OVER by Popular Demand: Would You Hire this Man? The George W. Bush Resume That First Appeared on BuzzFlash.Com! Riveting: A Book About the CIA Coup in 1953 that Put the Shah and His Secret Police Into Power in Iran. It Foreshadows the Bush "Adventure" in Iraq. A Premium from BuzzFlash.com. Washington Wrap 9/4 Buy Hillary's Book from BuzzFlash.Com! Remember, With Each Book, You Help BuzzFlash.com Continue to Fight for Truth, Justice and the American Way! Buy Bush's Brain and Help BuzzFlash.Com Grow. We Accept No Advertising. You are Our Sponsors. From the Archives: The Candidate from Brown and Root; See also "Cheney Makes a Bundle Off War," below this article 9/4 Mother Jones Daily Mojo: A Lost War 9/4 Everything Bush is Selling America is Contaminated: E.P.A. Relaxes Restrictions on Sales of Contaminated Land 9/4 House's pro-auto budget is a big, fat mistake 9/4 Bombshell hits government's claims: two intelligence officers revealed there were deep concerns about the strength of the language used in the Iraq intelligence dossier, with one complaining the document was shaped for political purposes. 9/4 Who Knew? The unanswered questions of 9/11 9/4 Joe Conason: Hey Arnold: Just be a winner! GOP sells out for 'Republican' Schwarzenegger 9/4 Jim Hightower: Don’t Be an Idiot! (an excerpt from "Thieves in High Places" -- get your copy from BuzzFlash) 9/4 Countries Resist Aid To Iraq; Few Pledge to Help Because of Security Fears, U.S. Control 9/4 Bush's Incompetent War on Terrorism: Ridge Warns al-Qaida Still Targeting U.S. 9/4 U.S. rushed post-Saddam planning 9/4 Molly Ivins: Remember how we got here; US troops continue to die in Iraq -- don't forget who sent them 9/4 New: "Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq" - Get A Copy Today! Bush's Floundering Doctrine 9/4 Buzz Into Summer! Get A BuzzFlash.com T-shirt And Spread the News! Ted Rall: Iraq: What Went Wrong 9/4 Bush's election liabilities mount 9/4 Dissector Investigation: Behind "DC-911" Pt. 1, The Movie that Lies about Bush (scroll down) 9/4 Jimmy Breslin: History Lives In Defiance 9/4 The Osama Clock - How Many Days Will Osama Run Free (not to mention the Anthrax Terrorist) Support Independent Media! Blow the Whistle on George W. Bush! Ashcroft’s Positive Rating Down 17 Points Since December 2001. Ashcroft Had a Positive Rating? Was it For Closed-Minded Ignorance? Just asking. 9/4 Documents Show Extent of Lobbying by Boeing; McCain's office released documents showing a high-level lobbying campaign by Air Force and Boeing to fend off critics as well as competitors. 9/4 Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died. A BuzzFlash List of Casualty Resources. Air Force Chided Over Boeing 767 Leases 9/4 U.S. Won't Yield Iraq Control. 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The Lessons of History: "All The Shah's Men" - A BuzzFlash Reader Review	Bush is on the Hot Seat for Letting 9/11 Happen, So It's Time to Blame Clinton Again, A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary Tim Robbins, Once Again, Speaks Out on Behalf of Democracy 9/3 How to Contact Congress? Buy the BuzzFlash 2003-2004,174-Page Congressional Directory as a Premium. Advocate and Help Out BuzzFlash.Com at the Same Time! (Includes Photos of Your Favorite Career Politicians) Content Provided by Capitol Advantage. Afghanistan's Taliban has sent 300 more fighters to the southern province of Zabol to help battle Afghan government and U.S.-led troops, a commander from the ousted militia said on Tuesday 9/3 Widening Cry Against GOP Election Tactics 9/3 Bush Eats Crow and Asks U.N. for Help in Iraq 9/3 Jimmy Carter: War with North Korea Seems Like a Strong Possibility 9/3 Joshua Micah Marshall: The Post-Modern President; Deception, Denial, and Relativism: what the Bush administration learned from the French. 9/3 What a Joke! Schwarzenegger, "Governor Gang Bang," Has Decreed That He Will Participate in Only One Debate, But He Will Get the Questions One Week in Advance! We are Not Making This Up! 9/3 Burning Money in Iraq 9/3 Number of Wounded in Action on Rise 9/3 Californians Against the Costly Recall 9/3 The Bush Cartel Takes the American Public for Fools: Now They Say Saddam "Duped" Them Into Believing He Had WMD's. You Wouldn't Accept This Sort of Inept Lying From a Five-Year-Old. A Guest Commentary. Senate Democrats Take the Offensive, on Education and Labor 9/3 "Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago?" Postcards from BuzzFlash.com. Send Them to Your Republican Friends. Anti-Abortion Murderer Remains Unrepentant 9/3 Thomas "Enron" White Blasts the Bush Cartel's Iraq Planning. Go Figure! 9/3 "Bowling for Columbine" (Expanded Edition) DVD at BuzzFlash.com Iraq: Four weeks, four bombs, 110 dead 9/3 Arafat: Road Map is Dead 9/3 More Media Consolidation: NBC in the picture to claim deal of the century 9/3 Slim Shady Vs. Dubya 9/3 How the New York Times Insinuates a Story Into a Pro-Bush Spin, A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary Rev. Moon, The Unification Church, The World Tribune, The Washington Times and Drudge. Breathlessly Related. 9/3 Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group, Available from BuzzFlash.Com In Setback for U.S., Indonesian Cleric Cleared of Terror Charges 9/3 Get Eric Alterman's Brilliant Book Debunking the Myth of the Liberal Media and Help Out BuzzFlash.Com Tantrums: LAST week the international community was treated to two displays of American pique in two very different gatherings. 9/3 Bush, Bloomberg bashed in 9/11 poll; N.Y.ers fear new terror attack 9/3 5,000 "New" Air Marshalls are Actually 5,000 Cross-Trained Customs and Immigration Agents 9/3 Schwarzenegger: I'll do one debate 9/3 GOP Rep. Janklow's Day in Court "on second-degree manslaughter and reckless driving charges stemming from a deadly motorcycle crash." 9/3 Job stress, burnout on the rise; Layoffs, long hours taking their toll on workers 9/3 NYT Ed.: Backward on Energy 9/3 Is Arnold guilty of Sexual harrassment? 9/3 A Failing Grade: "No Child Left Behind" 9/3 Inching Closer to Bread Line 9/3 The UnGreening of America: How the Bush Administration is Rolling Back 30 Years of Environmental Progress 9/3 Fleischer Finds Something to Do With His New Spare Time: Talk -- and Raise Money 9/3 U.S. and British Casualty Count. Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died -- And Continue Dying. Protesters line the streets; Bush's motorcade brings out critics, supporters alike, though message of presidential critics louder 9/3 Kerry launches US presidential bid 9/3 E.J. Dionne, Jr.: Can Clark Beat Bush? 9/3 Pentagon Abandoning Capt. Speicher - Again 9/3 Bush lifts ban on selling PCB sites 9/3 Frontline Duty Gives Pause To Potential Guardsmen; Recruiting Is Tougher When Combat's Possible 9/3 Broward’s top Republican official to switch parties: Change of Political Heart of Self-Preservation? 9/3 Lynch agrees to $1 million book deal 9/3 Reports of Casualties in Iraq May Be Scratching the Surface 9/4 The Bush Legacy of Incompetence in the War on Terrorism, and We Foot the Bill to Pay the No-Bid Contracts of Bush Campaign Contributors: Bush to Seek $60 Billion or More for Iraq 9/4 Bush's War on Cops: Thanks to White House policy, police departments are understaffed, cops are overwhelmed, murders are up, and killers are getting away. 9/3 The Bush Legacy of Incompetence in the War on Terrorism: Iraqi Civil War Brewing THE LIGHTER SIDE: The REAL Bush Action Figure 9/4 "Completely dense" FOX viewers mistakenly buy new Al Franken book 9/3 Bush Speaks 9/2 Repudiating the Myth of Nigergate 9/2 How Soon He Forgets 9/3 These are Ironic Times 9/1

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The Collapse of the American Middle Class: A Special BuzzFlash Guest Commentary By Congressman Bernie Sanders

The Collapse of the American Middle Class: A Special BuzzFlash Guest Commentary
By Congressman Bernie Sanders