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The Sunni Muslim head of the Iraqi Governing Council was chosen as Iraq's new president Tuesday after Washington's preferred candidate, former Foreign Minister Adnan Pachachi, turned down the post, 6/1
Paul Krugman: The Bush Cartel and Class Warfare 6/1
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Kerry: Bush ``didn't learn the lessons'' of Vietnam. 6/1
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More on the New York Times and The Selling of the Iraq War 6/1
American contractors' role in Chalabi raid revealed 6/1
NY Times ombudsman prints withering critique of NYT's Iraq coverage 6/1
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Bush Cartel Flags GI for Telling the Truth About Abu Ghraib 6/1
Bush's Memorial Day Legacy: American troops in Iraq died in May at a rate of more than two per day, pushing the combined death count for April and May beyond 200 6/1
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The "Bremer Does an Impersonation of Antonin Scalia" Department: Bremer threatens to veto Iraqis' choice of president 6/1
After the Saudi Rampage, Questions and Few Answers 6/1
Salon Interviews John Kerry 6/1
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The independent president campaign of Ralph Nader has qualified for matching government money, the Federal Election Commission said 6/1
"Uncovered: The Whole Truth About The Iraq War" Get This DVD!
Kerry Pays Tribute to Other Veterans 6/1
World War II Veterans Parade Through D.C. 6/1
Reservists See Recruiting Scam 6/1
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Lax controls over e-voting testing labs 6/1
Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else, by David Cay Johnston
Warrior King: The Case for Impeaching George Bush. Get the Book at BuzzFlash.com.
Iraqis Chafe at Bush Cartel Block on President 6/1
Robert McNamara's Mesmerizing Reflections on War, The 2003 Academy Award Best Documentary Feature, "The Fog of War," Now Available on DVD at BuzzFlash.com. Riveting, Provocative, Insightful. Read Our Review.
/ Military Completed Death Certificates for 20 Prisoners Only After Months Passed 6/1
Iraqi Foreign Minister Off to UN, Seeks Sovereignty 6/1
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In Much of the U.S., Soaring Fuel Prices Are Starting to Hurt 6/1
Alliance with Chalabi inspires more questions 6/1
Bush Plan Eyes Cuts for Schools, Veterans 6/1
Puppet Government Betrayed Update: Time Magazine on the Curious Chalabi Affair. Who Will Ever Know the Truth About What the Bush Cartel is Up to With This One? 6/1
The Right Will Fight Dirty, Part II 6/1
Democrats Show Rare Unity 6/1
Major Magazine Article Critical of Judith Miller of "N.Y. Times" 6/1
Chalmers Johnson: Questions for Bush 6/1
Rhetoric Vs. Reality in Iraq 6/1
Bomb Blast in Pakistan Mosque Kills 16 6/1
Justice for Falun Gong 6/1
A Symbiotic Relationship 6/1
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Iraq deepens internal Pentagon tensions 6/1
Can Prints Lie? Yes, Man Finds to His Dismay 6/1
Attacked for art, S.F. gallery to close 6/1
Bob "Traitor" Novak: U.S. is Lost in Afghanistan. "Most important, they are appalled by the immense but fruitless effort to find Osama bin Laden for purposes of U.S. politics." 6/1
"Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time"
What Time is It When You're a Radical Neo-Con Administration and You Need a Reporter to Write Stories for the "Paper of Record" in the U.S. Based on the Flimsiest of Assertions? It's Judith Miller Time! 6/1
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.
Double standard 6/1
A Memorial Day Tribute: "The Boys of Praha," By James Moore Co-Author of "Bush's Brain" and "Bush's War for Re-Election"
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Message Discipline Takes a Break at the White House, for the Moment 6/1
Bush's Failed War on Terrorism: Al-Qaeda winning: Asian analysts 6/1
GOP Looks to Limit Class-Action Suits 6/1
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William Rivers Pitt: The Deep Game 6/1
The Education of Alexandra Polier 6/1
An A-Z of the Iraq war and its aftermath, focusing on misrepresentation, manipulation, and mistakes 6/1
Police adviser: Snafu in Najaf 6/1
Over the past year and a half, the Army has opened investigations into at least 91 cases of possible misconduct by U.S. soldiers against detainees and civilians in Iraq 6/1
Some in GOP Say Privatize Air Security 6/1
Bush's Case That He is ACTUALLY Returning Sovereignty to Iraq is Comic 5/31
Unchecked Lawlessness Stresses Iraqi Society 6/1
Another Republican Senator Behaving Badly: Ben Nighthorse Campbell 6/1
SEC to hire shrink to improve staff's morale 6/1
Iraqi doctors forced into exile 6/1
Ignoring Healthcare Crisis Would be Political Malpractice 6/1
Scholars and political strategists say the ferocious Bush assault on Kerry this spring has been extraordinary, both for the volume of attacks and for the liberties the president and his campaign have taken with the facts. 6/1
Whacko White House: Bush Keeps Saddam Gun Near Oval Office in "Monica Lewinsky Room." Happiness is a Warm Gun for George! Shouldn't the Right Wing Wackos be in a Lather About Their "Boy" Going Down on His Knees in the Oval Office Study?
The Rude Pundit: Isn't It Illegal for Bush to Own a Handgun in Washington, D.C.? 6/1
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.
The Billionaire in Our Corner. (Although, No, George Soros Does Not Fund BuzzFlash. But Maybe the Check's in the Mail.) 6/1
"Selection" of Puppet Iraq President is Delayed 6/1
The handover that became a shambles: ten U-turns on the road to 'peace' 5/31
Aristide Heads to Exile in South Africa 5/31
Even Some in G.O.P. Call for More Oversight of Bush 5/31
Bush Cartel War Crimes Update: Bush's General Partner in the Crusade 5/31
Tracking Why We Went to War 5/31
America's Abu Ghraibs 5/31
The attack at Khobar shows the bitter harvest that America will reap from Iraq 5/31
Who Tests Voting Machines? 5/31
Army's probe of abuse questioned. No kidding. 5/31
Credibility is a casualty of US retreat in Fallujah 5/31
Pinochet Stripped of Immunity in Chile 5/31
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Nat Hentoff: Patriot Act Besieged 5/31
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Differences between the Iraqi Governing Council and American authorities over who should be Iraq's figurehead president stalled a final agreement Sunday on the makeup of an interim government to take power June 30. 5/31
In Illinois, Kerry Has a 16 Percentage Point Lead Over Bush 5/31
"House of Bush, House of Saud"
Tom "Duct Tape" Ridge is the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week
Frank Rich: The United States won't bring democracy to Iraq until those of high rank and low alike submit to an all-American prosecution for crimes that extend beyond the perimeters of pornographic pictures that, in the end, are merely the evidence. 5/31
The Oil Connection 5/31
Exiled Allawi, Iraq's PM to be, was responsible for 45-minute WMD claim
Were some senior Bush officials just outed? 5/31
"It's pretty audacious to brag about looking the leaders of Rolling Thunder in the eye considering that his most recent veterans initiative is a secret plan to cut almost $1 billion from the Veterans Affairs." Bush Takes Veterans for a Ride. 5/31
Grumpy Old Grandma and Grandpa Drug Smugglers 5/31
BuzzFlash Supports Drafting Only Young Republican Males on Campus Who Support Iraq War But Don't Have the Cojones to Fight In It. Put Your Butts Where Your Fat Mouths Are. 5/31
Because Media Matters for Democracy 5/31
Good Grief from the Secretary of Incompetence and Lies: Rumsfeld Says 'War on Terror' Just Beginning
A car carrying two Japanese journalists has been attacked in Iraq, and there are reports that both have been killed. 5/31
Missile defense, on the other hand, is most effective as a profit center for the defense industry. 5/31
Cronkite suggested renaming the State Department to become the Department of Peace as part of a "full-court press" by America to end conflict around the globe. 5/31
Scant Evidence Cited in Long Detention of Iraqis
Latin America and Europe capped a summit with a condemnation of Iraqi prisoner abuse and calls for support for the International Criminal Court and the Kyoto Protocol -- indirect criticisms of the United States 5/31
Hey Lucy, GOP Conn. Governor Has Some Splainin' to Do! 5/31
Summer Job Market Dismal for Teens 5/31
Does the GOP Have a Lock on God? 5/31
How the Evangelicals and Catholics Joined Forces 5/31
Can't find Iraqis taped in alleged "arms plot," Powell says 5/31
Catholic Gay Activists Denied Communion in Chicago 5/31
Not Quite a Patrick Henry Moment 5/31
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Some States Mull Lowering Voting Age 5/31
Berg's Family Praises Michael Moore's Handling of Footage
Remembering George: Eerie Reminders of Old Texan Prison Abuse Case 5/31
Brown Watch.com 6/1
More Florida Voting Fiascos Possible, Groups Warn 5/31
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Oil Companies Exceed Land Limit 5/31
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"
A Photo Essay of Bush Bruises and Spills -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
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.
Italy has warned of "serious threats" when US President George W Bush visits Rome next week. 5/30
Surprising Choice for Premier of Iraq Reflects U.S. Influence 5/30
THE Book is Here! Richard Clarke's "Against All Enemies: Inside the White House's War on Terror--What Really Happened" Get Your Copy from BuzzFlash
Cuba Base Sent Its Interrogators to Iraqi Prison 5/30
Frank Rich: Postcards from the culture wars 5/30
Molly Ivins: As Depressing as Divorce 5/30
244 Reasons to Vote Bush Out 5/30
Military intelligence troops accused of abuses in 4 camps outside Abu Ghraib 5/30
Poking holes in the official story of 9/11 5/30
"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.
Consumer Confidence Slips in May 5/30
Sidney Blumenthal: The Bush orthodoxy is in shreds 5/30
Dubya is Trailing by 8 Points 5/30
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"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
Rupert Murdoch's Sleazebag: The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game 5/30
"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.
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Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush by John W. Dean, Available at BuzzFlash.com
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Report: Small towns shoulder large war burden 5/31
Doonesbury: The War in Iraq, In Memoriam 5/31
Clashes in Iraq Leave 3 Dead 5/31
Another Failed Legacy of Bush: He Made the Iranians, the Natural Enemies of Iraq, Into Their Allies. Good Job, George! Can't You Do ONE Thing Right? 5/31
Washington Post Actually Documents Some of Bush Cartel Character Assassination Strategy Against Kerry 5/31
Some Find Ties to CIA, Baath Party Worrisome 5/31
An American news agency says it has seen official papers suggesting that prisoner abuse in Iraq took place at four sites other than Abu Ghraib. 5/31
Four Members of U.S. Forces Killed in Afghanistan 5/31
President George W. Bush is using Air Force One for re-election travel more heavily than any predecessor, wringing maximum political mileage from a perk of office paid for by taxpayers. 5/31
Police clear out Chalabi offices 5/31
Time Uncovers Evidence That Cheney Lied About Not Being Involved in Halliburton Contracts 5/30
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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"Of Rats and Men" -- BuzzFlash Columnist P.M. Carpenter
Will the Torture at Abu Ghraib (Finally) Open Americans' Eyes? Why Iraq is Becoming More Like Vietnam Every Day. BuzzFlash Columnist Maureen Farrell
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Cheney Fires Saddam's Trophy Rifle 6/1
Fiore presents: Gun violence, it's not just for Iraq anymore 5/28
The Dubya Chronicles 5/31
Mark Fiore: Homegrown Gun Violence. A Must See Flash! 5/28
These are Ironic Times 6/1
Evil GOP Bastards 6/1
Fed-up Cheney Enters Presidential Race Himself 5/31
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