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Bush Cartel Iraq Bids Delayed After Global Backlash 12/11
War Foes Rip Bush Cartel Iraq Contract Ban 12/11
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Not Worthy of a Great Nation. Makes Us as Cheap and Ethicless as a Tinhorn Dictatorship: At Bush Cartel Request, You Can be Sure, Iraq to Stop Counting Civilian Casualties 12/11
Pulitzer Prize-winner Seymour M. Hersh criticized the Bush administration's operations in Iraq as a "massive failure"
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Two U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq Attacks. Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died - And Continue Dying and Being Wounded. George Would be in Prison Stripes by Now if He Were a Democrat. But No Democrat Would F*** Up This Much. (Our Tribute to John Kerry.)12/11
The Bush Legacy of Failure: Iraqi soldiers deserting new army 12/11
Wesley Clark to be endorsed by U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel 12/11
California's already battered credit rating suffered another downgrade from a Wall Street rating agency that criticized Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's decision to cut car taxes without any plan to pay for the move. 12/11
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Canada threatens to stop aid to Iraq as Reaction to being Left out of Reconstruction 12/11
Humane Group Slams Cheney For Westmoreland Hunt 12/11
ABC News Pulls Reporter off Kucinich Campaign 12/11
Andrew Young, a civil rights trailblazer and former U.N. ambassador, plans to endorse Democrat Wesley Clark for president 12/11
Nixon On Reagan: Not 'Pleasant To Be Around' 12/11
Uphill fight for new S.F. mayor after narrowly defeating Green Party candidate 12/11
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Bush Administration CHANGES How They Calculate Economy So They Can Blame the Recession on Clinton. 12/11
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FCC Files a Defense of Its Media Rules 12/11
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Hollinger directors, exec face suit from major investor 12/11
UAW About to Pull Plug on I.E. America Liberal Radio Network 12/11
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Sharply Divided Supreme Court Backs Campaign Finance Law. O'Connor is Swing Vote. 12/11
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One day after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger scrapped plans to hire an investigator to look into sexual harassment claims against him, a prominent Los Angeles attorney vowed to force him to testify under oath about his behavior toward women 12/11
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New Hampshire, Boston to import Canadian drugs 12/11
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Angry House Democrats, still smarting over extraordinary parliamentary maneuvers that Republicans used last month to pass the Medicare bill President Bush signed Monday, sought to upstage Bush's big moment 12/11
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Gov. Gropernator hints school funding may be targeted 12/11
Israeli and Egyptian Officials Discuss Renewing Peace Efforts 12/11
Rumsfeld in Mazar-i-Sharif: A war criminal visits the scene of the crime 12/11
Joe Conason: Will Dean become a sitting duck? Wait until real scrutiny starts before declaring Dr. Dean unbeatable 12/11
A new low point in this President's dismal record 12/11
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Where The Blame Lies: The evidence shows President Bush was asleep or incompetent or indifferent and the horror of 9/11 happened because his Administration did not act on overwhelming intelligence. 12/11
Operation Enduring Vote is a "Call to Americans. Not Republicans, not Democrats, not Greens, not Libertarians. Americans. ...to protect our most essential right" 12/11
FDA draft plans ignore warnings on tuna mercury levels 12/11
British whistleblower faces trial for exposing US spying on UN delegates 12/11
The Pre-Emptive Prophet: "Something has gone extremely wrong with American politics." 12/11
War Crimes Court Established for Iraq 12/11
DeLay's Texas PAC investigated; Prosecutors are looking at how corporate money was spent 12/11
Schwarzenegger must shoulder some blame for budget stalemate 12/11
Antiterrorism Training Camp Opens in Florida 12/11
Nobel winner Ebadi takes swipe at US in accepting Peace Prize 12/11
US block on Iraq contracts threatens new rift 12/11
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Gay Ex-Officers Say 'Don't Ask' Doesn't Work 12/11
White House Backs Limiting Iraq Reconstruction 12/11
17 students file suit over school drug raid 12/11
ATF Boss Leaving for Anti-Piracy Group 12/11
Pentagon: One-third of new soldiers in Iraq army quit just before starting operations 12/11
Bush boldly going where we went decades ago 12/11
Prosecutors Say It's Unclear Papers Chaplain Carried Were Classified. Another Ashcroft Case Falls Apart. 12/11
Kucinich Sees Iraq as Key Election Issue 12/11
Schwarzenegger Retreats on Key Campaign Vows 12/11
Activists for Disabled Charge Betrayal by Gov. Gropernator 12/11
The privatisation of war: 30bn goes to private military; Fears over 'hired guns' policy; and more 12/11
Molly Ivins: The cockroach theory of finance corruption -- where there's one, there's many 12/11
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Judge Slaps Wrist of 5 HealthSouth Execs Found Guilty in Accounting Scandal 12/11
Washington Wrap: Nine More Shopping Days For Iowa 527s; Gephardt Gets Clyburn Nod; and more 12/11
Ted Koppel, Anchor Provocateur; "Big loser tonight: Koppel," said Kucinich spokesman Jeff Cohen. 12/11
The Daily Mislead: Wall Street Journal: President Backs Off Pledge to Fund Global AIDS Fight 12/11
Staff Says EPA Being Politicized as Never Before 12/11
Paul Simon, A Decent and Honorable Former Senator Passes Away. He Once Told BuzzFlash That He Didn't Seek Re-Election in the Senate Because He Couldn't Stand Spending Most of His Time Having to Fundraise and the People Deserved Better. A Fine Man. 12/10
U.S. Soldier Shot Dead in Northern Iraq While Guarding Gas Station. Bush Lies, Soldiers Die Defending Halliburton's Oil 12/10
Hillary Not Keen on Dean? Or Just the Rumor Mill? 12/11
Dean's Band of Outsiders: voters who know "that the party was shirking its obligation to oppose" 12/10
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Time to Draw the Line on Partisan Redistricting: "The American promise of democracy will be hollow if the House of Representatives virtually ceases to have contested elections." 12/10
U.S. Paying Halliburton TWICE What It Pays Other Companies to Truck Oil into Iraq. Outrageous! 12/10
Former Sen. Paul Simon dies after undergoing heart surgery 12/10
New Hampshire 9/11 widow who lost her husband Louis in Flight 175 which hit the WTC South Tower filed a 62-page RICO [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations] Act complaint against Bush, Cheney and other White House officials 12/11
Terror sweep probed in U.S.: ""half the suspects...deemed unworthy of prosecution"; Bush/Ashcroft "Big Broom" approach really just "an indiscriminate round-up." A Despicable and Disgusting Abuse of Power. 12/10
Death Comes in Cans for U.S. Troops In Iraq 12/10
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Oh, this'll win over our Int'l friends: Wolfowitz Bars Iraq Contracts for Nations That Opposed War. Stupid, stupid, stupid. 12/10
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Nations protest U.S. ban on Iraq bids: the Bush Cartel is Run Like the Corleone Family -- But this is the American -- Our -- Government. Did You Ever Think We'd Have WASP Mobsters in Charge of Our Nation? 12/10
Democrats Meet for Final Debate of Year 12/10
The Bodies Come Home The president is grieved by U.S. casualties. He also worries they'll cost him votes. 12/10
The Feith "annex" highlights the Bush administration's misuse of intelligence material. 12/10
Michelangelo Signorile: Cruisin’ for a Bruisin’; No luxury liner can insulate the GOP from New York’s masses. 12/10
In last night's Dem debate, it took Koppel 19 Questions to Get to a Policy Question. 12/10
HMOs Get $1.3 billion from new Medicare law NOW, Seniors Might Receive Benefits in 2006. What does that tell you about this administration's priorities? 12/10
Democrat Wins San Francisco Mayor's Race; strong challenge from a member of the Green Party 12/10
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The Saudi Connection: How billions in oil money spawned a global terror network 12/10
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States to get ‘very little' in Medicare law 12/10
Convicted Janklow Resigns from Congress
U.S. Chopper Felled by Guerrilla Attack in Iraq
Justices Hear New Arguments About Meaning of Miranda 12/10
Al Gore endorses Howard Dean: 'One candidate clearly now stands out'
Gov. Gropernator Will Not Investigate Sexual Harassment Charges: " I consider those kind of pre-election things." Your Typical GOP Hypocrite.
Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died. A BuzzFlash List of Casualty Resources.
Bush Legacy of Lies: Massive suicide car bomb wounds 58 US soldiers, one Iraqi near Mosul 12/10
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Gun Researcher John Lott Busted Having ANOTHER (Mary Rosh, a woman, is his first) Online Identity to Attack his Critics and Write Nice Things about Himself. 12/10
Now playing in 2,600 home theaters: Bush's lies about Iraq 12/10
Bush's VERY Selective Support of Democracy 12/10
James Ridgeway: Like Fox to Henhouse, Baker Goes to Iraq 12/10
Pastor says he hit boy at Bible study, but not 100 times. When God is on your side, who counts? Right, Mr. Bush? 12/10
Naval Academy grad out in cold; Bay Area man's gay alumni group spurned by school 12/10
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3 federal judges to take up Texas Democrats' redistricting lawsuit 12/10
Lost in the Fine Print: Ten Overlooked Policies That Harm Medicare and Its Beneficiaries 12/10
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Gov. Gropernator on Sexual Harassment Charges: " I consider those kind of pre-election things." Your Typical GOP Hypocrite. 12/10
Greg Palast, author Dan Briody and editor Mark Ames on James Baker in Iraq 12/10
U.S. House of Reps. Approves Bill to Censor American Citizens from Voicing Opposition to U.S. War on Drugs 12/10
Ralph, Don't Run! Nader is considering another run for the presidency; four years ago Ralph gave Americans an interesting alternative to Bush & Gore, this time Ralph could give Americans four more years of brutal, insane war. 12/10
Exit a CEO; enter a new case of cozy ties between Boeing and the Air Force 12/10
John Kerry slams Bush's "raw deal" for America 12/10
Howard Dean blasts the GOP's "politics of fear" 12/10
More Winning Hearts and Minds? Israel trains US assassination squads in Iraq 12/10
Noam Chomsky Exposes The Neocon Bush "False Prophets" 12/10
Poll: Americans Skeptical of Medicare Changes in New Bush Legislation 12/9
GOP punishes foes, strips more earmarks 12/10
Democrats Block Spending Bill in Senate 12/10
In Bush years, EPA nabs fewer polluters; Enforcement is way down, study shows 12/10
Wooing the Single Women Vote 12/10
U.S. Programmers at Overseas Salaries; Boston startup sought locals at the same money 12/10
Glaxo chief: Our drugs do not work on most patients 12/10
More Bush Administration Ignorance: White House Aide Angers Pagans 12/10
Bill Kristol: How Dean Could Win . . . "The Democratic presidential candidate has, alas, won the popular presidential vote three times in a row" 12/10
The Daily Mislead: Bush Touts Small Business, Puts Big Business First 12/10
Troops Pay Price as Military Skimps 12/10
Anti-spam measure wins congressional OK 12/10
York, PA Demonstrators hope their demonstration will ‘snowball’; Organizers of Saturday’s small human rights demonstration called it a start. 12/10
Firms ‘making money’ off Iraq; "You know, of course, they are connected to the higher-ups in Washington." 12/10
Judge Moves Enron Trial to Next October 12/10
Voting-Machine Makers To Fight Security Criticism; Critics argue that at minimum, the machines should be equipped to provide companion paper records of the votes 12/10
No Troops from Japan This Year 12/10
ProgressiveMajority.com: "From this site, we intend to build a growing network of new leaders and regular folks who share progressive values" 12/10
US child bombing account challenged by local Afghans 12/10
U.S. and British Casualty Count. Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died -- And Continue Dying.
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Saving the Village: "This fence is here for your protection. Do not approach or try to cross, or you will be shot," 12/10
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More Reactions to "Uncovered" Screenings, This One in Seattle 12/10
Will Your Vote Count in the Next Election? How will we even know? 12/10
Officials get taste of how lower income live; The "Walk a Mile" project challenges community leaders to live on a food stamp budget for a month 12/10
Dozens of dirty bombs missing in breakaway region of Moldova 12/10
Six Afghan Children Killed in U.S. Attack: This is the Second Killing of Children by U.S. Forces in Afghanistan This Week.
How the Bush Cartel Shafts Our Veterans: Held Over
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Dick's Big Break: Cheney Named Benevolent Dictator of Iraq 12/10
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