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In the Absence of Truth from the White House, Conspiracy Theories Emerge About the Nick Berg Murder -- BuzzFlash Reader Contributions
Berg Case Gets Even More Bizarre: When Nicholas Berg took an Oklahoma bus to a remote college campus a few years ago, the American recently beheaded by terrorists allowed a man with terrorist connections to use his laptop computer, according to his father
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NYT Editorial: Mr. Bush and his Republican allies in Congress should stop trying to evade responsibility by accusing those who want to ask tough questions of being disloyal to the troops and the war effort. 5/14
Sidney Blumenthal: The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012 is today circulating among top US military strategists.
Al-Qaeda Not Actually Mentioned in Berg Videotape, Just Bush Cartel Propaganda. And the Bad Guy the Bush Cartel Claims is in the Video Doesn't Appear to be. More Treasonous Propaganda from the Bush Cartel. 5/14
Troops Catch Rumsfeld Off-Guard with Hard Questions. Rumsfeld Must Have Thought He was Getting a Patsy Audience, Like Bush Gets. 5/14
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U.S. arranges to detain and interrogate terror suspects in secret 5/15
Geov Parrish: Time to move along; Stench comes from the top, based on this week's responses to the Abu Ghraib scandal by Pres. Bush and Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld 5/15
Conservatives' dissent puts pressure on Bush 5/15
War Management Follows the Wrong Corporate Model 5/15
Chicago Area couple may acquire Air America 5/15
A Letter to the President: "Mr. Bush, You'd Have Liked My Brother" 5/15
U.K. Editor Quits Over Fake Abuse Photos 5/15
Jim Hightower: Advertisers make a splash with 'Wizmark' interactive urinal device 5/15
Studies show less light getting to Earth. Pollution is Dimming Son. 5/15
Mark Morford: Please Write More About Rape; Will sucking down endless stories of tragedy and war and BushCo poison the human soul? 5/15
Americans evaluating presidential candidates based largely on situation in Iraq, say UC Berkeley researchers 5/15
"The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity," The New Book by Ambassador Joe Wilson
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"Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill," by Jessica Stern. Available from BuzzFlash.com. Yes, There are Christian, Jewish and Islamic Terrorists. Stern Talks With Representatives of All of Them. A Riveting Book.
Corporate Political Censorship Runs Wild 5/15
Denver Bishop Says If You're Pro-Choice You Can't Take Communion. Will Ashcroft Revoke Their Non-Profit Status? Just Asking. 5/15
Prison rules 'not humane'; Iraq interrogation guidelines possibly illegal, officials concede 5/15
New Feature: Thom Hartmann's "Independent Thinker" Book of the Month: "Class War in America: How Economic and Political Conservatives Are Exploiting Low- and Middle-Income Americans"
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Behind the Scenes, U.S. Tightens Grip on Iraq's Future 5/15
Where Was Press When First Iraq Prison Allegations Arose? 5/15
Rehnquist Sucking the Corporate Teat; will ride corporate jet to dedication 5/15
E.J. Dionne, Jr.: A referendum on Bush; Electon focus will not be John Kerry; current polls show voters lining up against Measure Dubya 5/15
Wesley Clark Gets the Buzz of the Day as Kerry's VP Candidate 5/15
Limbaugh to Criticize Fla. Prosecutor in Ads 5/15
Polls Show Bush's Job-Approval Ratings Sinking 5/15
Secret US jails hold 10,000 5/15
Abuse of Iraqis 'well thought through' 5/15
Senators Dems and Repubs Assail Request for Aid for Afghan and Iraq Budgets 5/15
Sunnis and Shias Uniting Against U.S. 5/15
Good News for the Moment: Kerry Edges Ahead of Bush in Ohio by 7 Points. Bush Won't Win Without Carrying Ohio. Although He Can Still STEAL the Election Again. 5/14
Guantánamo abuse same as Abu Ghraib, say Britons 5/15
Bill Berkowitz: Look out for 'torture fatigue'; Right wing supporters of the Iraq war are outraged at the outrage over the Abu Ghraib photos 5/15
JUST SHUT UP!! You are full of shit, Rush. So shut up. You too, Coulter. And Lieberman? For the love of G-d, shut your fool mouth. Everybody just shut up. 5/15
John Bonifaz, Author of "Warrior-King: The Case for Impeaching George W. Bush" -- A BuzzFlash Interview
Kerry makes unexpected trip to Capitol to view prisoner abuse photos 5/15
Ramstein now adhering to DOD guidelines banning photos of coffins 5/15
US forces were taught torture techniques 5/15
Fox Puts Foot in Its Mouth, Kicks Self 5/15
Early alarm bells sounded, ignored Abuse reports began almost at war's start 5/15
Ten Mistakes History Will Record about Iraq -- Gen. Anthony Zinni, USMC (Ret.) Remarks at CDI Board of Directors Dinner 5/15
The Progress Report: More Blank Checks for Iraq; Geneva Conventions; and more 5/15
Budget Boobs II: "Here's the good part -- the White House wants the $25 billion placed in a fund entirely under Bush's control, without congressional oversight." 5/15
Why the Troops Don't Trust Rummy 5/15
U.S. Pledges to Avoid Torture; Pledge on Terror Suspects Comes Amid Probes of Two Deaths 5/15
U.S. missed chances to stop abuses 5/15
Reports: Sivits Describes Laughing Abusers 5/15
Bad Sign for Bush in History, Numbers
Wolfowitz Draws Democrats' Ire 5/14
The White Chair Nick Berg Conspiracy Theory. We Don't Support ALL the Conspiracy Theories, But There is Enough Bush Cartel Prevarication Going On That We Think They Are Worth Airing, Since the Mainstream Press is Buying the Bush "Spin" on Nick Berg. 5/15
Father of Nick Berg: "My son died for the sins of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld. This administration did this."
But it is now the greater struggle against terrorism that I worry about, led as we are by ideologues whose willing self-deception has led this country into such peril. 5/14
Stars and Stripes Letter: What are we accomplishing? 5/14
Photos show 'sadistic torture' 5/14
Bush War Crimes Update: More Bush Cartel Officials Say "What Me Worry, I Knew Nothing." And, It is Our Taxpayer Money That Pays These Incompetent Liars, Knaves and Fools. 5/14
It Gets Fishier and Fishier. Bush Cartel Claims Al Qaeda Leader Who Has Been Reported Dead Killed Berg. How Strangely Convenient for the Bush Cartel. 5/14
Military Missions in Afghanistan, Iraq May Cost $66 Billion in '05 5/14
"Uncovered: The Whole Truth About The Iraq War" Get This DVD!
More in U.S. express doubt about mission 5/14
Kerry: Veterans Earned Their Health Care 5/14
Four buses carrying an estimated 315 prisoners left Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison Friday, the first mass prisoner release since images of abuse at the hands of the U.S. military surfaced several weeks ago. So What Were They Guilty of Senator Inhofe? 5/14
"Rumsfeld's Friday testimony was a mountain range of preposterousness, so full of peaks that the high point was hard to identify." 5/14
Federal Judge Rejects Bid to Stop Gay Marriages in Massachusetts 5/14
Get a Copy of "Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times" by Bill Moyers. A Renaissance Man of Endless Curiosity, This Collections of Commentary Will Bring You to Tears Over What America Has Lost, While Also Restoring Hope About Regaining Democracy.
World recoils at prison abuses, beheading 5/14
A pattern of culpability in Iraq 5/14
Arianna Huffington: See Rummy spin. Spin, Rummy, spin 5/14
General Took Guantánamo Rules to Iraq for Handling of Prisoners 5/14
"House of Bush, House of Saud"
The saviour of democracy is run by a unilateral bully 5/14
Bush Cartel War Crimes Update: Rummy Tries to Save His Job By Putting on a Show in Iraq. What Was the Point of His Going There, Other Than to Use GIs as a Backdrop to Lie Some More 5/14
Iraq Prison Abuse May Hurt Administration in Court 5/14
Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush by John W. Dean, Available at BuzzFlash.com
Conspiracy Theories Abound About the Nick Berg Killing -- And With Good Reason, A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
More Analysis of Nick Berg Conspiracy Theories 5/14
Similarities Between Nick Berg and Charles Horman (Chile 1973) -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
Bush Ratings Fall Amid Iraq Woes 5/14
'E&P' Editor on CNN Urges Press to Consider Iraq Pullout 5/14
"Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time"
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New Site Counters Right Wing Media Lies: Media Matters 5/14
Another GOP Role Model: Joseph P. Waldholtz, a former Republican strategist already on parole for embezzling nearly $4 million from his former father-in-law, was sentenced yesterday to three to 15 years in prison for forging insurance and Veterans Affairs
Read THE Book That Exposed Diebold. "Black Box Voting" by Bev Harris, Lead Investigator on the Perils of Electronic Voting. A Must Read This Election Year as California Explores Criminal Charges Against Pro-Bush Diebold Electronic Voting Firm.
A Must for Any BuzzFlash Reader Library: "Take Them at Their Words: Startling, Amusing and Baffling Quotations from the G.O.P., Their Friends and a Few Others, 1994-2004"
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Bush Cartel War Crimes Update: So, We are Lead to Believe That Rumsfeld and His Neo-Con Anti-Geneva Convention Torture Crew Just Let Some Junior Rank GIs Run a High Security Prison Without Any Supervision. Amazing Things Happen in the Bush Cartel.
2 FDA Officials Urged to Resign Over Plan B 5/14
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Go Ellen Malcom, Go! 5/14
James Carville, "Had Enough?: A Handbook for Fighting Back." Available on BuzzFlash.com. Your Carville Book Purchase is the Way We Pay for the Site. Remember, No Outside Advertising, No Subscription Fees, No Sales of Our E-mail List. We Depend on You.
More Bush Cartel Lies Exposed: A U.S. diplomatic official in Iraq told the family of slain American Nicholas Berg that he was being detained by the U.S. military
"The Horror" - BuzzFlash Editorial Cartoon by Thomas Burns
Blair Stands by His Man, George! 5/14
From the Archives: If the Bush Cartel is Right That Abu Musab Zarqawi Killed Nick Berg, Then Bush is Responsible. Read Why. Bush Was Too Obsessed With Iraq to Take the Terrorist Out. 5/14
A Gandhi Returns to Power in India 5/14
Bloggers doubt Berg execution video 5/14
Washington Post: 80% in Iraq Distrust Occupation Authority 5/14
BuzzFlash Editorial Cartoon by Kirk Anderson
Michael Moore's Anti-Bush 'Fahrenheit 9/11' Rescued By Miramax Heads 5/14
Iraq War Costs Spiralling Beyond Worst-Case Scenarios 5/14
The Progress Report: Rumsfeld Prepared to Fail in Iraq; Labor Bridging the Information Gap 5/14
Some Unanswered Questions About the Murder of Nicholas Berg 5/14
U.S. Takes Greenpeace to Court in Unusual Trial 5/14
Surprise, Surprise, Surprise: G.O.P. Got Most Money From Drug-Card Company Workers 5/14
Death Toll in Nigeria Riots 500-600 - Christians 5/14
FEC Won't Impose New Limits on Groups 5/14
Max Blumenthal for BuzzFlash.Com: America's Rape Rooms, From the War on Drugs to the War on Terror
Joe Wilson Releases His Book and Talks With BuzzFlash: "It was truly un-American. It was a betrayal of the country, irrespective of whether they can prosecute this through conviction. It was treasonous."
Canadian Columnist John Derringer: Why I No Longer Back Bush's War 5/14
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The 30th BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week is Donald Rumsfeld. And Did We Mention, By the Way, That He is a War Criminal. Oh, Don't Act So Shocked! It's the Truth. He Replaced a Torturer with Torturers. He's An Embarrassment to America.
Right Wing Nuts From Free Republic Run Headline, "Public Opinion Of Bush Administration Saved By The Beheading Of Nicholas Berg." It's All Just a Little Too Neat and Timely, Isn't It? 5/14
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Warrior King: The Case for Impeaching George Bush. Get the Book at BuzzFlash.com.
Site with beheading video shut down 5/14
Beheaded Man's Firm Was on Right-Wing Enemies List
Margie Burns: War crimes 5/14
The Pro-War Press Breaks With Bush 5/14
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Why Kerry can't seem to get a bounce 5/14
Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else, by David Cay Johnston
Lawmakers Are Stunned By New Images of Abuse 5/14
Questions Abound About the Bush Cartel and the Berg Beheading: Friend: Berg said he was in U.S. custody. His Father Opposed the War. What Really Happened? 5/14
"Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill," A Timely BuzzFlash Interview with Terrorism Expert Jessica Stern
Through the Looking Glass:In Desperation, Rumsfeld Hops a Flight to Baghdad to Declare No More Photos Released Because "such materials would violate a Geneva Convention stricture against presenting images of prisoners that could be construed as degrading"
The Timing and Circumstances of the Beheading of Nick Berg Just Get Murkier and Murkier. U.S. Officials Failed to Protect Slain Civilian, Family Says.
"In a remarkable series of interviews in the Washington Post, senior American army officers have openly expressed doubts about whether the United States will win."
"Bush's War," By James Moore, Author of "Bush's Brain." Moore Doesn't Forget the Military Victims of the Bush Cartel War Machine and Neither Do We. This is a Book that is Written With Heart, Soul, and a Sense of Deep Betrayal by Bush and His Cohorts.
The Wolf in Reporter's Clothing: The Rise of Pseudo-Journalism in America 5/14
Bush Refuses to Condemn Proponents of Torture 5/14
Rumsfeld glad to flee Washington for Baghdad 5/14
Is Tucker Carlson Having a Change of Heart? 5/14
Chilling new evidence of the brutal regime at Iraqi prison 5/14
Focus shifts to jail abuse of women 5/14
Spy Case Stunner: Judge orders airman's release as he awaits trial 5/14
U.S. and British Casualty Count. Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died -- And Continue Dying.
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New Study Shows Big Drop in Book Sales 5/14
Send the Message Across the Nation: "Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died" Postcards. The Perfect Message to Your Senators and U.S. Representatives.
Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died. A BuzzFlash List of Casualty Resources.
Bush Frets Over Energy Prices as Kerry Attacks 5/14
Jim Hightower: Your friendly cable-TV price gouger 5/14
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Haitians Seized, Abused by U.S. Marines; Women, Children Subjected to Hood Treatment 5/14
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U.S. Missile Shield Won't Work: Scientist Group 5/14
Will the Torture at Abu Ghraib (Finally) Open Americans' Eyes? Why Iraq is Becoming More Like Vietnam Every Day. BuzzFlash Columnist Maureen Farrell
"The Politics of Gall" -- BuzzFlash Columnist P.M. Carpenter
"A Brief Timeout" -- Episode #16 of "The Last Chance Democracy Cafe" -- Political, Historical Fiction by Steven C. Day
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A Poll So Frivolous That We Laughed and Had to Post It (For Real): "Porsche Owners More Driven to be Unfaithful" 5/13
Laura Bush Internet Ad (For Real). What a Hoot. The Original Stepford Liar. 5/13
Ronald Reagan Health Posters 5/14
Fiore presents: Privatizing the military 5/14
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