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Dying in squalor, the children betrayed by broken promises; Baghdad doctors despair at hospital's filthy conditions and lack of drugs 6/8
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Forced Nudity of Iraqi Prisoners Is Seen as a Pervasive Pattern, Not Isolated Incidents 6/8
Bush already using Reagan's death to campaign 6/7
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GOP pitch for Patriot Act draws a raucous response; Demonstrators say law erodes essential liberties 6/8
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Rumsfeld to restrict senators' access to documents in Boeing deal 6/8
Paul Krugman: Over the course of this week we'll be hearing a lot about Ronald Reagan, much of it false. 6/8
A U.S. Gift to Iraq from Reagan: Deadly Viruses; "the CDC supplied Iraqi scientists with nearly two dozen viral and bacterial samples in the 1980s, including the plague, West Nile, and dengue fever." 6/8
Talk About a Smoking Gun: A Pentagon report last year argued that President George W Bush was not bound by laws banning the use of torture, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Detroit terror trial prosecutor faces criminal probe 6/8
Will Teresa Heinz Carry PA for Kerry? 6/8
Repost: CNN sues for access to Florida's voter rolls 6/8
A team of administration lawyers concluded in a March 2003 legal memorandum that President Bush was not bound by either an international treaty prohibiting torture or by a federal antitorture law 6/8
Another Republican Governor's FAMILY Behaving Badly: The Judy Martz Watch 6/8
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Bush backing seen eroding in defense professions 6/8
Bin Laden stars in Rumsfeld pillow talk 6/8
Gore continues to blast Bush 6/8
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820 Military Deaths in Iraq, and Bush Remains the Smirking Village Idiot of the World, As Uncle Dicky and Ronny Rumsfeld Pull the Strings 6/8
Dean Is Back, and Not on the Fringe, Either; Studies the Right for Lessons On How to Better Organize the Left 6/8
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Suicide Car Bombing Kills 14 Iraqis 6/8
Before 9/11, One Warning Went Unheard; An Australian convicted in a terrorist plot had tried to tell authorities about Al Qaeda in 2000. 6/8
Six soldiers from eastern Europe were killed while disposing of ammunition from an Iraqi depot in the Polish-run occupation zone on Tuesday 6/8
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The June 7th World Media Watch by Gloria Lalumia
Colorado GOP Loses Redistricting Case 6/8
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FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds: State Dept. Quashed 9/11 Links To Global Drug Trade 6/8
Conn. GOP Gov. Rowland To Face Impeach Panel 6/8
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Bush's Hispanic Support May Be Weakening 6/8
Thom Hartmann: The Choice This Year Is Between Empire and Democracy 6/8
Schwarzenegger plays randy royal in film cameo 6/8
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Markets to Shut Friday for Reagan Funeral 6/8
It's the Incompetence, Stupid, And You're The Lead Enabling Incompetent, Next to Cheney and Bush, Rummy! Rumsfeld fears U.S. losing long-term fight against terror.
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FOX News is the nemesis of an informed democracy. It provides the deceptive claim of being "fair and balanced," while at the same time being driven by a right wing political agenda that is unfair and unbalanced.
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Walter Cronkite: Coast Guard foundering as funds run dry 6/8
Michelangelo Signorile: Dredge Report; The cyberhack jumps the gun. Bennett and Kerry: A tale of two "scandals." 6/8
Music Video: AMURKA- Make No Mistake 6/8
Bush Wins Mexican Truck Safety Case; Expect More Pollution 6/8
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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
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Land where women are killers' prey; Guatemala is a hunting ground for brutal gangs who feel free to rape and murder 6/8
Ronald Reagan: Still the Teflon President? 6/8
Energize the Women's Vote in 2004 6/8
The most popular president ever? 6/8
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Suggestion of Anti-Semitism Colors House Primary in Virginia 6/8
"Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time"
Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else, by David Cay Johnston
For-Profit Hospitals Cost More, Canadian Study 6/8
58 Senators Seek Looser Stem-Cell Rules 6/8
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Why Poverty Matters 6/8
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Welcome to America: When writer Elena Lappin flew to LA, she dreamed of a sunkissed, laid-back city. But that was before airport officials decided to detain her as a threat to security ... 6/8
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For the second straight presidential election, Florida's law against former felons voting, a law grounded in Old South racism, may prevent thousands of people from voting.
Wise Use Activists "backed by some of America’s most powerful industries" Steering Federal Policy Under Bush 6/8
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Lawsuits Put Military Contractor on Defensive; The San Diego-based Titan Corp. is embroiled in allegations that include bribery. 6/8
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Poor Schools Sue for Funding; Higher Standards Are Basis for Seeking 'Educational Adequacy' 6/8
Criminal probes of U.S. troops in war zones grow; Cases total 107 in Iraq, Afghanistan 6/8
Nine Iraqi Parties to Disband Militias 6/8
Move to Stiffen Decency Rules Is Losing Steam in Washington 6/8
U.S. and British Casualty Count. Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died -- And Continue Dying.
First Gay Couple Marries in France 6/8
Stretching The Troops In Iraq; Pentagon seeks reinforcements 6/8
Designer's NY Store Selling Bush Deck of Cards 6/8
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Bomb Claims GI In Afghanistan 6/8
Same-sex-marriage issue could aid Bush in Oregon 6/8
Bush: a hard sell in Europe; Thanks to Bush, "almost two-thirds of the public in France and Germany hold an 'unfavourable' opinion of the United States" 6/8
Eric Alterman: I was not a fan of Ronald Reagan. And his death ... does not change that. Perhaps he was a nice man, perhaps not. 6/8
Fed court nominee Thomas Griffith missed paying dues 6/8
Repost: A Washington Success Story Ends; Administration To Halt High-Tech Training Grants 6/8
Gay about Reagan's death: "gay activists struck a discordant note on Sunday, lamenting his alleged insensitivity to Aids when it struck devastatingly during his presidency." 6/8
Broken contract: Army conscription by any other name 6/8
Bush On The Verge: "As if I didn't already know that Bush was a maniac ... Capitol Hill Blue confirms my suspicions" 6/8
Enron E-mails Confirm Schwarzenegger-Ken Lay Meeting During Energy Crisis 6/8
France and Germany Hold Out for True Democracy in Iraq, While Blair and Bush Try and Give it the Bum's Rush in U.N. Vote 6/7
Iran-Contra Affair Dogged Reagan
Florida: Theft of Election 2004 Update. "Felon" Voter Purge Update. 6/7
After More Than Three Years of Being a De Facto Editorial Broadside for the Bush Cartel, the Washington Post is Taking the Torture and Abuse Scandal Seriously 6/7
Explosion rocks revered Iraq mosque, at least nine wounded 6/7
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Quietly, U.S. Releases More Abu Ghraib Prisoners 6/7
Tears, Pride Mark D-Day Ceremony in France 6/7
Greg Palast on the Reagan "Legacy" 6/7
The man who taught Republicans to be irresponsible: Ronald Reagan 6/7
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Bob Herbert: Level with Americans 6/7
"House of Bush, House of Saud"
Report: Diebold stops top executives from making political donations 6/7
BBC journalist killed, 1 wounded in Saudi Arabia 6/7
David Corn: 66 (Unflattering) Things About Ronald Reagan 6/7
Padilla Case Spawns More Questions Than Answers 6/7
One Error in a Prominent Reagan Obit 6/7
Afghan children fall prey to killers who trade human organs 6/7
Lockboxes, Iraqi Loot and a Trail to the Fed 6/7
William Rivers Pitt: Planet Reagan 6/7
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Abuse of Power: George Bush Should Stay Out of Australian Politics 6/7
GOP Can't Beat '3rd Party' Groups, so It Forms Them 6/7
Ah, the OTHER Failed "War." U.S. Warplanes Pound Afghan Insurgents. 6/7
House Dems Spoof GOP with Reality Show 6/7
The mark of Reagan's presidency was paradox. Having campaigned as an implacable foe of government deficit spending, he left office with a federal debt that was nearly triple its level when he was inaugurated. 6/7
Impeaching Unstable Presidents? 6/7
Islamic militants who killed 22 people in a shooting spree in Saudi Arabia a week ago have posted a 3,000-word account of the operation on the internet. 6/7
Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush by John W. Dean, Available at BuzzFlash.com
Bush's Planets of Influence 6/7
Al Gore Keeps Slugging Away. How Long Can the Bush Cartel Dodge the Truth?
Nuclear 'Football' in Vatican Hallowed Halls 6/7
The After-Life of an Enron Whistle Blower 6/7
Following the Afghan Drug Trail: George Bush Makes the World Safe for Increased Heroin Production 6/7
Bush Cartel Snow Job on Snowmobiles in Yellowstone 6/7
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A Rose-Tinted President 6/7
Consortium News: Rating Reagan 6/7
Sharon Advances Toward Removal of Some Settlers 6/7
Enron: Bad to the Top 6/7
Kerry talks of service at Michigan school's graduation 6/7
Hume’s crackpot crew said Gore was insane when he dared criticize conservative media. And yes, that was the start of it all—the start of the repulsive, Soviet-style denunciation which every member of your “press corps” has tolerated 6/7
Congress Might Postpone Debt-Limit Vote 6/7
Bush Disses Reagan 6/7
A HUMAN rights investigator who claims she was sacked for exposing the sexual abuse of Bosnian women by her United Nations colleagues, told a tribunal yesterday that girls as young as 15 were offered for sex. 6/7
World War II, George, and me 6/7
Background on the Extraordinary Documentary, "Orwell Rolls In His Grave"
Pope to Dubya: "That means murder, baby!"
Texas Republican delegates on Friday adopted an ultraconservative party platform that attacks a wide range of targets -- from taxes and homosexuality to abortion and the United Nations. Sounds Like Cheney.
At Least 19 Die as Violence Continues to Surge in Iraq 6/7
France Says, Love the U.S., Hate Its Chief 6/7
Paul Krugman: The Maestro Slips Out of Tune 6/7
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The Day After Tomorrow Never Dies 6/7
Theft of the Election in Florida, 2004: The law restricting the news media's access to Florida's voter purge list should be declared unconstitutional and the list made available for verification and analysis. 6/6
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Bev Harris: E-Voting, It's an Auditing Problem 6/6
Updated: A Photo Essay of Bruises and Spills
Amazing! Bush Pulls a "Hastert" and Pretends Not to Know Chalabi! -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
Notice How This NYT Article About Cheney Being Questioned About PlameGate Reads Like WH Spin. "His willingness to answer questions was voluntary and apparently followed Mr. Bush's repeated instructions to aides to cooperate with the investigation." Barf!
A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq 6/7
Bush Incompetence Once Again Threatens Our National Security: Pentagon has lost track of exported missiles. Terrorists could use anti-aircraft Stinger missiles. 6/7
War Puts Strain on National Guard 6/7
Former White House counter-terrorism adviser Richard Clarke on Sunday accused members of the US administration of using terror warnings to manipulate voters ahead of the presidential election in November. 6/7
Flashback: Unidentified senior US military officers say covert US program during Reagan administration provided Iraq with critical battle planning assistance at time when US intelligence agencies knew Iraqi commanders would employ chemical weapons 6/7
Revisiting the 2000 GOP Platform: 20 Outrageous Assertions, Shameless Lies and Broken Promises, By BuzzFlash Columnist Maureen Farrell
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"
"Of Rats and Men" -- BuzzFlash Columnist P.M. Carpenter
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The Top Ten Conservative Idiots (No. 158): Chalabi Damned Edition 6/8
The Onion: Poll: Many Americans Still Unsure Whom to Vote Against 6/5
Laura Bush Takes Fashion Page from Jackie Kennedy 6/7
Boondocks: According to plan 6/5
The Dubya Chronicles 6/8
President's Farewell Telegram to Ahmed Chalabi 6/4
Fiore presents: Quit yer whining! 6/8
Security Gap in Condoleezza Rice's 6/5
Ashcroft Raids Dinosaur Lab For Heresy Violations 6/6
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