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Although Generally Pro-Bush, the Washington Post Editorial Board Has Gotten Steamed Up About the Bush Cartel Torture Scandal: "Legalizing Torture." 6/9
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Scientific American: The White House bends science to its will. Soviet model of Bush scientific deception deplored. 6/9
Pentagon Memo Outlining the Case for Authorizing Torture, Obviously Condoned by Rumsfeld, Cheney and the White House. What Would It Take to Impeach Bush and Cheney, Being Caught in Bed with a Dead Woman or a Live Boy? Oh, DeLay Would Blame It On Clinton.
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Media Matters: O'Reilly apologized for calling Molly Ivins a socialist 6/9
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Saboteurs Blow Up Iraqi Oil Pipeline 6/9
U.N. Security Council Backs New Iraq Gov't 6/9
Repost: Theft of Election 2004 Preview, 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. Jeb's Crime Against Democracy. 6/9
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An investigation into electronic voting in Indiana has frightening implications for the presidential election in November. 6/9
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Democrats Tear Into Ashcroft Over Torture Memo, As Ashcroft Evades, Decieves and, Dare We Speculate, Lies! Not to Mention Stonewalls. 6/9
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Amy Goodman: Remembering the Dead, Reagan Foreign Policy from the Victim's Perspective 6/9
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Two news media organizations have filed motions to quash subpoenas that were issued by a special prosecutor investigating the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity 6/9
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THE NEXT REAGAN? Many on right doubt that the mantle will fit on Bush 6/9
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An Intriguing Conspiracy Theory on the CIA Resignations 6/9
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U.S. Bends (i.e., Loses) to France, Russia on U.N. Iraq Resolution; Interim Government Will Be Allowed to Opt Out of U.S.-Led Offenses, Hold International Conference 6/9
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U.S. Justice Department Legitimatized Torture 6/9
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More on the Bush Cartel War Crimes Smoking Gun: memo cast serious doubt yesterday on the Bush administration's insistence that its treatment of prisoners was bound by laws and treaties banning torture
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Bernard Weiner's "Bush's 2004 Scandals for Dummies" 6/9
Buying a home? Prepare to pay to have your name checked against a government list of suspected terrorists 6/9
Bush the First Won't Let Reagan Death Get in the Way of His Parachute Jump 6/9
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Republicans "hope the nation's week of mourning for Reagan ... will turn into a boost for Bush's reelection campaign." That's Because Bush Has ZERO Positive Points in His Record. It's All Image. 6/9
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9/11 Whistleblower to be joined by Dan Ellsberg at Upcoming Hearing, June 14th 6/9
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Despicable: Fed Reserve Says Banks Can Continue to use Hidden or Delayed Notice Overdraft Charges to Rip-Off "poor and middle-income people"; Rich Folks Usually Get Overdraft Protection for Free 6/9
Kerry With Slight Lead in Presidential Race; Bush's ratings still in low range of presidency 6/9
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Sen. Cantrell Calls for Release of All Enron Tapes 6/9
Judge: CT GOP Gov. Rowland must testify "before the legislative committee considering his impeachment" 6/9
Iraq Blasts Kill Dozens 6/9
Jim Hightower: Fantasies of corporate ideologues 6/9
Howard Dean: Hold Up on E-voting 6/9
Growing 9/11 Truth Movement Launches Joint Website, Calls for New Investigation of Unexplained Facts 6/9
Ronald Reagan's Records: 68 Firsts 6/9
Robert Scheer: A Nice Guy's Nasty Policies; For worse, Ronald Reagan was both more and less than he seemed 6/9
John Kerry's foreign media adviser said "several potential scandals were looming over the Bush administration which have prompted Downing Street to build bridges with the Democrats." 6/9
File Under "Iraq Can Create Any Government We Approve": US bans cleric from Iraq elections. 6/9
NYT: The Wrong Proliferation Message 6/9
The Progress Report: G-8 Must Lead Global Attack On Nuclear Threat; Memo Legitimizes Torture, Puts President Above Law 6/9
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From the Archives: Ron Reagan Jr. blasts Bush; "My father crapped bigger ones than George Bush" 6/9
Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush by John W. Dean, Available at BuzzFlash.com
Wolf poison kills dogs instead; ''I equate it to local terrorism,'' Nancy Barrus said. ''They don't care who they hurt.'' 6/9
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Robert Scheer: A nice guy's nasty policies; Separating Reagan's political legacy from his personality 6/9
Sophisticated TV spots wooing Hispanic voters 6/9
Republicans Write Bill to Make it Easier for Churches to Get Political 6/9
Boston Police to Randomly Search Rail Riders 6/9
From the Archives: Remembering The 1980s: The Press Slept While Reagan Rambled 6/9
Stop Republicans from putting Reagan on the dollar 6/9
Employee of Def. Contractor Vinnell Corp. Shot to Death in Saudi Arabia 6/9
Cheney Now Hides His Criticism of Reagan 6/9
Ashcroft under fire for memos on torture 6/9
Ivan Eland: Tenet Now, Rummy and Wolfie Soon 6/9
"House of Bush, House of Saud"
"Pre-emptive war, total indifference to deficits and assaulting the middle class as well as the poor—these are George W. Bush’s contributions to conservatism, not Ronald Reagan’s legacy. And progressives shouldn’t be ashamed to say so." 6/9
Ashcroft Refuses to Release Torture Memo 6/9
U.S. Forces Free Hostages in Baghdad Raid; Hours Later, Another Group Kidnapped Seven Turks "and demanded that private companies working with the U.S.-led occupation leave Iraq." 6/9
Ellen Goodman: Let's win one for the Gipper; Stem cell research victory would honor painful final ten years for Ronald and Nancy Reagan 6/9
Plug Pulled on Rome Radio Stations Covering Bush Protests 6/9
Report Describes Administration Laxity on Chemical Plant Safety 6/9
California woman gets OK to sue Austria for art stolen by Nazis 6/9
Bush FTC Nominee a Triple Threat: To Media Diversity, Affordable Gas Prices, and Role of States 6/9
Book Bares Cheney's 9/11 Hideout 6/9
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Molly Ivins: Bush's kiss of death; Look out if the president starts praising your program -- you're next on the chopping block 6/9
Bush Ad Claims His Tax Cuts Exceed Reagan's; Some experts disagree. 6/9
Cities Say No to the Patriot Act 6/9
Dark Reagan legacy in Central America 6/9
New Review of "Orwell": "makes the slightly paranoid -- but also fairly convincing and very scary -- argument that the increasing monopoly of the global media by a few multinational corporations is already leading to a subtle new kind of censorship" 6/9
Wal-Mart's U.S. Expansion Has Benefited from More Than $1 Billion in Corporate Welfare, Yet They Pay Their Employees Peanuts 6/9
NY Mayor barred from conducting more weddings 6/9
"Florida Not a Given for Bush This Fall." It Wasn't a Given For Bush in 2000. In Fact, He Lost. How Will Jeb Steal the Election for Him THIS Year? 6/9
GOP pitch for Patriot Act draws a raucous response; Demonstrators say law erodes essential liberties 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
Car Bombs in Two Iraqi Cities Kill 15 6/8
Rumsfeld to restrict senators' access to documents in Boeing deal 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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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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Detroit terror trial prosecutor faces criminal probe 6/8
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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
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
Jobs, Jobs Everywhere and Not a Job to Find -- A BuzzFlash Guest Contribution from Norma Sherry
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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
Colorado GOP Loses Redistricting Case 6/8
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.
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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'Steadfast' Bush's amazing flip-flops 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
58 Senators Seek Looser Stem-Cell Rules 6/8
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Why Poverty Matters 6/8
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
Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died. A BuzzFlash List of Casualty Resources.
Lawsuits Put Military Contractor on Defensive; The San Diego-based Titan Corp. is embroiled in allegations that include bribery. 6/8
Poor Schools Sue for Funding; Higher Standards Are Basis for Seeking 'Educational Adequacy' 6/8
U.S. and British Casualty Count. Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died -- And Continue Dying.
Stretching The Troops In Iraq; Pentagon seeks reinforcements 6/8
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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
Update on Theft of Election 2004 in Florida: Ed Kast, the director of the state Division of Elections, abruptly resigned from his job Monday, just months before the 2004 presidential election. 6/8
Forced Nudity of Iraqi Prisoners Is Seen as a Pervasive Pattern, Not Isolated Incidents 6/8
Gore is Mad as Hell and Isn't Going to Take It Anymore! Go, Al, Go! Calls Penelas Dishonest and Treacherous. It All Has to Do with the Theft of the Election in 2004. We're With You, Al. Keep It Up! Outrage on Behalf of Democracy is Good! 6/8
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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The Top Ten Conservative Idiots (No. 158): Chalabi Damned Edition 6/8
These are Ironic Times 6/9
Humor Gazette: Bush "took his favorite new Saddam Hussein handgun on a three-country rampage over the weekend" 6/9
The Dubya Chronicles 6/8
This Modern World: Conservatives Suspicious of Coverage 6/9
Fiore presents: Quit yer whining! 6/8
“American Idol” Faceoff: Reagan vs FDR 6/9
Ashcroft Raids Dinosaur Lab For Heresy Violations 6/6
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