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Second Top Official to Quit CIA 6/4
Bush Meeting With Pope is Perfect Example of Karl Rove's Cynical and Morally Bankrupt "Image" Steamroller. Bush Gives Pope Medal to Lure Catholic Vote, Even Though Pope and Almost Every Major Religious Leader Opposed Bush's Actions in Iraq. 6/4
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Colin Powell Over the Top: Powell compares Iraq war to fight against Nazis. Who are We Fighting Exactly, Colin? The People We Came to Liberate. 6/4
Iraqi Presidential Candidate who pulled out blames Chalabi plot 6/4
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Conservative Chicago Tribune Columnist Stephen Chapman: Bush, Rumsfeld, misinterpret our war history 6/4
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It’s do or die for drug bill; Senators claim 60 votes for legislation allowing reimportation from Canada 6/4
Incredible! Chalabi accuses George Tenet of being behind allegations against him AND He blames Tenet for Bush's Lies about WMDs. That Fits In With Buzz's Theory that There is a CIA/State Department Split with the WH About Chalabi. 6/4
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Flashback: Chalabi, Who? Ken, Who? 6/4
Four Alarmer: Bush has consulted an outside lawyer in case he needs to retain him in the grand jury investigation of who leaked the name of a covert CIA operative. Is the rule of law finally catching up to the liar-in-chief?
Bush said Thursday that it would be disastrous if Australia were to withdraw its 850 troops from Iraq, 6/4
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Kerry Condemns White House Support for Chalabi 6/4
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CIA Director George Tenet Resigns Abruptly. Why Now? Is Tenet Being Kicked Out for Going After Chalabi? Now, A Total Cheney-Bush "Propaganda Intelligence Packager" Will be Appointed. Personal Reasons for Resignation. Yeah, Right.
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.
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Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else, by David Cay Johnston
Amazing! Bush Pulls a "Hastert" and Pretends Not to Know Chalabi! -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
Poor Mothers Need More Options 6/4
Democratic Committee Leaders Determined to Investigate Abu Ghraib Prison Abuses (PDF) 6/4
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Oil Prices Drop After OPEC Deal 6/4
Means Matter 6/4
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Unconfirmed Allegation: Bush Knew About Leak of CIA Operative's Name 6/4
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"Memorial donations may be made to John Kerry for President or America Coming Together." 6/4
Revisiting the 2000 GOP Platform: 20 Outrageous Assertions, Shameless Lies and Broken Promises, By BuzzFlash Columnist Maureen Farrell
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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.
Bush Campaign Seeks Help From Congregations 6/4
Bush Takes Orders from Dictators on Mideast Democracy 6/4
Bush Still Not on IL Ballot. Federal Courts May Get Involved. 6/4
Herseth to Get Ag Com. Appt.; Republicans Blame "Indian reservation" for Her Win. 6/4
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Nobel winner says Islam and democracy are compatible, but U.S. cannot impose it on Iraq or elsewhere in the Middle East. 6/4
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Government Must Act On Environment, Say Americans 6/4
Airport accused of ejecting woman with anti-war poster 6/4
The Big Greasy: How do the Bushies deal with a company being investigated over Abu Ghraib? Easy: They give it another contract. 6/4
Arianna Huffington: Shakespeare turns a spotlight on Bush and Iraq; Bush, like Henry V, engaged in war of choice to distract his people 6/4
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Eric Alterman: You Call this 'Liberal?' 6/4
The Progress Report: Straining the Troops; Maybe Bush Needs A New Lawyer? 6/4
Geov Parrish: David Dellinger; Remarkable 70 years of nonviolent activism spanned everything from the Depression-era Catholic Worker movement to this year's war in Iraq 6/4
Molly Ivins: Can the PR -- get the facts; On Enron tapes and the "Lynch"ing of Pat Tillman 6/4
Clinton Filmmaker Defends "The Hunting of the President" Documentary 6/4
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False Ads: There Oughtta Be A Law! Or -- Maybe Not. 6/4
"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.
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David Corn: Bush Oversells Progress in Afghanistan 6/4
Unbelievable. Lott Defends Treatment of Iraqi Prisoners. Who Still Gives This Loser a Microphone? 6/4
Pending Draft Legislation Targeted for Spring 2005; The Draft will Start in June 2005 6/4
Justices loosen Miranda restrictions 6/4
Teresa Heinz Kerry visits Charleston; talks with relatives of those fighting war 6/4
400 Protest Bush in Colorado Springs 6/4
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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
Panel faults police during FTAA; A draft report by the Miami-Dade Independent Review Panel was highly critical of police response to protests during last year's Free Trade Area of the Americas conference in Miami. 6/4
Bush Judge Deal Irks Conservatives 6/4
To Many, Mission Not Accomplished; Iraq Residents Say Occupation's Unkept Promises, Military Tactics Fuel Resistance 6/4
Condi Rice Must Be Sniffing Glue. She Thinks History Will Compare Bush to Roosevelt and Churchill. We Think He'll Be Compared with the Hindenburg: Too Much Hot Air that Went Up in Flames and Killed a Lot of Innocent People. 6/4
Poll: Most Portuguese want to exit Iraq 6/4
Background on the Extraordinary Documentary, "Orwell Rolls In His Grave"
Relief Agency Suspends Afghan Operations; Five Medecins Sans Frontieres Workers Killed 6/4
Repost: Ahmad Chalabi pushed a tainted case for war. Can he survive the occupation? 6/4
Warrior King: The Case for Impeaching George Bush. Get the Book at BuzzFlash.com.
"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.
IL Sen. Candidate Barack Obama: How the son of a Kenyan economist became an Illinois Everyman 6/4
Bush Administration Freed High-Risk Terror Suspect 6/3
Concerns growing about anti-malarial drug given to U.S. troops 6/4
80% of Canadians dislike Bush: poll 6/4
Critics: Long deployments strain soldiers, reveal deeper problems 6/4
Draft Dilemma: They are going to reintroduce the draft in the US. But it's such a vote loser, no one wants to mention it 6/4
"Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time"
Richard Cohen: It's Not the American Way; "It's not just [Jose Padilla's] rights that have been suspended. It's our own." 6/4
Seattle group warns parents of military recruiting in schools 6/4
Proposed Pollution Rules Reward Election "Swing" States for Bush 6/4
Brahimi: Bremer the `dictator of Iraq' in shaping Iraqi government 6/3
Bush Cartel frantic to soften harsh language in UN rights report on Iraq 6/3
Yes, It is Getting Even More Surreal at The New York Times. The Return of Judith Miller. You Won't Believe This One. Who is the Publisher of the NYT? Donald Rumsfeld? 6/3
Sidney Blumenthal: Images of the second world war pepper the president's rhetoric - but the one word you won't hear him say is Vietnam 6/3
Bush Impeachment Watch: FBI Investigating Possible Leak to Iran 6/3
Bush Expands 'Stop-Loss' Program; It's A Draft, and It Eats Morale Faster Than a War for No Reason or With No End. 6/3
Two months before the invasion began, the chief correspondent for the New York Times, Patrick E. Tyler, who was in charge of overseeing the paper's war coverage, hired Chalabi's niece. NYT Reporter Claims He Wasn't Aware Chalabi was a Player. LOL. 6/3
The June 2nd World Media Watch by Gloria Lalumia
Polygraph Testing Starts at Pentagon in Chalabi Inquiry 6/3
Nader's Numbers. Nader Says He Takes More Votes From Bush. The Polls Say Otherwise. 6/3
NYT's Apologies Miss the Point 6/3
Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died. A BuzzFlash List of Casualty Resources.
Government uses Tillman to sell war on terrorism 6/3
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U.S. and British Casualty Count. Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died -- And Continue Dying.
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End of the Barrel 6/3
Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush by John W. Dean, Available at BuzzFlash.com
The Color Purple -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution from One Citizen
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Fiscal Shenanigans 6/3
But the truth alone is not enough. Progressives must communicate, and market, who they are and what they stand for, to win the hearts and minds of a majority of Americans. 6/3
Two Powerful GOP House Chairmen Don't Even Talk to Each Other 6/3
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An Exquisite Danger: John Negroponte's record in Honduras does not inspire confidence about his appointment as US ambassador to Iraq 6/3
CACI, the US contractor whose employees allegedly helped interrogate prisoners in Iraq, faces cuts to credit ratings over Iraq 6/3
"The Bush Boil," A Follow-Up Photo Archive to "A Photo Essay of Bush Bruises and Spills" -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
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Enron Tape Transcriber: "...while we skimmed off the cream of these tapes, there's still a lot more that could be uncovered" 6/3
Must Read: "[I]nterviews with nearly 40 Marines in Fox Company and the 2nd Battalion raise the question of whether military leaders endangered some troops by waging war on the cheap" 6/3
President Bush: Flip-Flopper-In-Chief 6/3
Can't Say We're Surprised: "I am quite surprised to see that in his campaign for re-election as chief executive that the president is encouraging churches to break the tax rules the chief executive is supposed to enforce" -- Former IRS Commissioner 6/3
Mole in Our Midst: Finally, a grand, unified theory that explains Bush's domestic and international policies. Little did we know 6/3
UN Report Says No Nukes in Iran 6/3
Bush Push May Cost Churches Tax Breaks 6/3
Unfit to Print -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
Must Read: "In American journalism, you can have it both ways ... and having been right seems only to lead to further marginalization" 6/3
Civil-rights and veterans groups on Wednesday sued the U.S. government for what they said was illegally withholding records about American military abuse of prisoners held in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay and other locations 6/3
Republican Senator Rejects "Blank Check" for Iraq 6/3
A Seattle view of the Bush Smear Machine 6/3
The Justice Department's triumphant victory over the Constitution 6/3
Bush's Handling of this Umbrella is Representative of His Handling of the U.S.'s Foreign and Domestic Policies. 6/3
A small town comes together to support the troops, a general comes apart, a Gold Star mother pleads for peace, and arms manufacturers squeeze in as patriots 6/3
Bush Gives Contract to Tax Traitor/Campaign Donor 6/3
Baghdad Rocked By Blasts 6/3
Check Out the Middle Class Squeeze (Hang On!) 6/3
Got Issues? Compare Where Bush and Kerry Stand 6/3
Report: 20 Drug Card Companies Approved by Bush Involved in Fraud Charges 6/3
Kathy Kelly: "Social Security" 6/3
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.
House Dems Request Special Counsel to Investigate Cheney's Involvement in Awarding Halliburton No-Bid Contract for Iraqi Oil Recovery 6/3
Who Gave Chalabi Top-Secret Info? 6/3
Just to Keep Everything in Perspective, Check Out "The Big Lie" 6/3
Bush the Divider: Bush Faith-Based Chief Cites 'Culture War' 6/3
Pumping Kerry: Filmmaker Who Made Arnold Schwarzenegger a Star With 1977 documentary "Pumping Iron" Directing Film on Kerry's Life 6/3
Bush's Invitation to Chirac: He Can Come and See the Cows 6/3
Kerry says nation lacks national strategy for bioterrorism defense 6/3
Kerry details plans to cut nukes Says U.S. has 'done too little, often too late' 6/3
Sidney Blumenthal: Bush Takes Refuge in History 6/3
Bill Clinton Discusses New Book in Chicago 6/4
Seymour Hersh Plans Book on Torture and Abuse Prison Scandal 6/4
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The Fruits of Saint George: The Christian Right needs to take a long, hard look at George W. Bush and decide "What Would Jesus Do?" 6/3
Quagmire: Bush Dug Us In, Who Can Dig Us Out? 6/3
What the Heck Does AWOL Bush Know About War, Huh? 6/3
Saudi Attack Spurs More U.S. Workers to Pull Up Stakes 6/3
It's Time for Regime Change at the New York Times
Laugh of the Day: On Hill, Rice Pledges bush Administration Probe Of Alleged Chalabi Leak. That's Like Al Capone Investigating John Dillinger. 6/3
Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time: BuzzFlash Interviews Paul Rogat Loeb, Author of "Soul of a Citizen."
Tom "Duct Tape" Ridge is the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week
BuzzFlash Editorial Cartoon by Kirk Anderson
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"
"Goat" - BuzzFlash Editorial Cartoon by Thomas Burns
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THE LIGHTER SIDE:
All Hat, No Cattle 6/3
This Modern World: The Blame Game 6/2
New York Times: We're Sorry We Didn't Act Like Journalists and More than 800 American GIs Have Died in Iraq as a Result. No, Not Sorry! 6/4
Bush Says Iraq Interim Leaders; 'Technically' Not Puppets 6/3
Bush Picks His Father to Replace George Tenet 6/4
President's Farewell Telegram to Ahmed Chalabi 6/4
Fiore presents: Quit yer whining! 6/4
After Meeting His Lawyer, Bush Shows Up Zonked At Air Force Academy Graduation Ceremony 6/3
911 Blimp.net 6/3
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