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Wideranging Rebel Attacks Underway in Iraq 6/10
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Maureen Dowd: Bush Has Grabbed Onto Reagan's Coffin and Won't Let Go! 6/10
LA Times Poll: Voters Shift Toward Kerry, But It's a Tight Race 6/10
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Bob Woodward Criticizes Iraq Reporting, Says White House Spied on Hans Blix 6/10
"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
"Taking Back America and Taking Down the Radical Right," Now Available from BuzzFlash.com
On Appearances, Spin and Reality (or What's Below the Media Radar) -- A BuzzFlash Guest Contribution from the Director of "Orwell Rolls in his Grave," Robert K. Pappas
Authorization of Torture by Bush an Impeachable Offense -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
Theft of Election 2004 Preview: The head of Florida's elections division resigned Monday amid reports he was feeling political heat over a push to purge thousands of suspected felons from the state's voter rolls.
Republicans "tacked on to a major jobs bill a provision that would give religious leaders more freedom to engage in partisan politics without endangering the tax-exempt status of their churches."
Sen. Nelson joins CNN lawsuit over copying felons' voter list 6/10
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Terrorism INCREASES under Bush 6/10
Interrogations Are Criticized; Lawyers Fault Tactics Used on Witnesses Against Detainees 6/10
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More Enron Tapes, More Gloating. Check Out "Lights Out at Enron" for "the company's connections with the Bush administration." 6/10
The chairman of the AZ state Democratic Party called Monday for an investigation into whether a Republican consultant is a major source of funding for a petition drive to put Ralph Nader on Arizona's presidential election ballot 6/10
Reagan played decisive role in Saddam Hussein's survival in Iran-Iraq war 6/10
Scientific American: The White House bends science to its will. Soviet model of Bush scientific deception deplored. 6/9
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Sidney Blumenthal: The u-turn that saved the Gipper 6/10
The Progress Report: Tell Ashcroft to Stop Stonewalling Congress 6/10
The June 9th World Media Watch by Gloria Lalumia
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"In cyberspace, AirAmerica has been a hit. In its heavily hyped first week of broadcast, the network sent 2 million streams out to listeners who dialed in via computer" 6/10
Reagan Worshippers Want Him on Money 6/10
State Dept. Cooking the Books on War on Terror; "understated the number of deadly attacks in 2003" 6/10
Prison Interrogators' Gloves Came Off Before Abu Ghraib 6/10
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Clinton and Carter Shut Our From Reagan Eulogies. It's Not a Funeral for an American President. It's a Partisan, Republican Funeral. 6/10
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.
Maverick colonel blames US army's 'sycophantic' culture and heavy-handedness for failures in Iraq 6/10
Saboteurs Blow Up Iraqi Oil Pipeline 6/9
Kerry boosts lead over W 49% to 43% - Gallup poll 6/10
Tampa Airport now verifies post-9/11 flight of Saudis; The government has long denied that two days after the 9/11 attacks, the three were allowed to fly. 6/10
NYT: The Roots of Abu Ghraib: "Mr. Bush set the tone for this dreadful situation by pasting a false 'war on terrorism' label on the invasion of Iraq." 6/10
Class Warrior: Ronald Reagan changed America, and -- with all due deference to his dedication to principle, his indomitable spirit, his affability -- not for the better. 6/10
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Bush Cartel Torture Idea is a Terrorist Victory 6/10
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Feds Exaggerated Padilla Case? 6/10
Reagan vs. Bush -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
David Sirota: When Ignorance Isn’t Bliss 6/10
Let's Just Say That Theres No Love Lost Between AIDS Activist Larry Kramer and Ronald Reagan 6/10
Bush ignored Pentagon lawyers over tactics in war on terror; No consultation on detention without charge 6/10
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Kerry Pays Respects to Reagan, but Takes a Swipe at Bush 6/10
Ex-C.I.A. Aides Say Iraq Leader Helped Agency in 90's Attacks 6/10
Mercury Issue Takes Wing; Easing of Power-Plant Emissions Plan Fuels Rival Campaigns 6/10
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Kurds Threaten to Bolt Iraq Government 6/10
Report: Pentagon wasted $100M on unused airline tickets 6/10
The Real Legacy of Ronald Reagan -- BuzzFlash Columnist The Angry Liberal
CNBC fires moonlighting financial analyst for making Nazi salute during wrestling match 6/10
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.
David Corn: Reagan's Bloody Legacy 6/10
Ted Rall: Reagan's Shameful Legacy 6/10
Maureen Farrell:Just How Bizarre Have Things Become? Take This Quiz and Find Out
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Free Speech Zone 6/10
Sign the Petition: "W" Does NOT Stand For Women! "George W. Bush has waged an all-out war on women's health and rights" 6/10
Bush's Bellicose Bullying 6/10
Legion Post: A Great College Essay Topic 6/10
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Grand Canyon in deep trouble 6/10
Global Military Spending Soars in 2003 6/10
Fiery cleric al-Sadr gains political ground among Iraqis 6/10
Arianna Huffington: Kerry should use a hopeful, unifying vision to combat politics of fear 6/10
Repost: Robert Scheer: A Nice Guy's Nasty Policies 6/10
Fewer Republicans Trust the News, Survey Finds 6/10
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Joe Conason: Bush should fear Nancy Reagan's ire; Luddite position on stem-cell technology sets President at odds with the nation's most powerful widow 6/10
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Florida Sued Over Voters' List 6/10
U.S. and British Casualty Count. Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died -- And Continue Dying.
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Bill Berkowitz: Hijacking history; Grover Norquist's Reagan Legacy Project has its eyes on many prizes 6/10
Poll of Saudis shows wide support for bin Laden's views 6/10
The torturers among us 6/10
"Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time"
Soldier Described White House Interest 6/10
"Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson" -- "Independent Thinker" Book of the Month Review by Thom Hartmann
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U.S. force in Iraq to grow as Marine deployment pushed up; General: Corps badly stretched 6/10
Bomb wounds at least 17 people in Germany 6/10
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Ruling in Sharon Bribery Case Shadows Gaza Plan 6/10
Laura Bush Says Cannot Support Stem Cell Research 6/10
Hoaxing the Supreme Court: Padilla remains gagged, but justice department tells 'his' story 6/10
Soldier Described White House Interest in Abu Ghraib; Staff Requested Data From Prison, Probers Told 6/10
The conscience vote: Lifelong Republican Christian de Fouloy has decided to do the unthinkable and back the Democratic candidate in this year's US elections. 6/10
Memo on Torture Draws Focus to Bush; Aide Says President Set Guidelines for Interrogations, Not Specific Techniques. 6/10
Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died. A BuzzFlash List of Casualty Resources.
Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else, by David Cay Johnston
Organizing could get harder for UAW, others 6/10
Geov Parrish: Reader responses to Monday's column decrying Ronald Reagan's legacy -- including letters generated by having the column partially read aloud on Michael Savage's syndicated hate radio 6/10
War on Terrors' Cost: $3550 Per Family of Four 6/10
As War Toll Rises, Governors Face Delicate Decisions 6/10
Between 2 First Families, a Complicated Rapport; "Mrs. Bush felt she had been slighted by Mrs. Reagan.'' 6/10
Backup Steps Urged for Voting Machines 6/10
If The News is Written, but not Published, Did it Happen? A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
Media Matters: O'Reilly apologized for calling Molly Ivins a socialist 6/9
U.N. Security Council Backs New Iraq Gov't 6/9
The "Little Late" Department: Bush Seeks Wider NATO Role in New Iraq 6/10
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
An investigation into electronic voting in Indiana has frightening implications for the presidential election in November. 6/9
Democrats Tear Into Ashcroft Over Torture Memo, As Ashcroft Evades, Decieves and, Dare We Speculate, Lies! Not to Mention Stonewalls. 6/9
One for the Gipper -- A BuzzFlash Guest Contribution from Norma Sherry
Amy Goodman: Remembering the Dead, Reagan Foreign Policy from the Victim's Perspective 6/9
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
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
Gore's Truth Carries Weight, But Falls on Media's Deaf Ears -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
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U.S. Justice Department Legitimatized Torture 6/9
Latest Zobgy Battleground Poll 6/9
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
Saint Ronnie 6/9
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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
Sen. Cantwell 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
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
The Dawn Of Political Incivility: "the Reagan presidency in many ways kicked off an era of incivility that plagues American politics today." 6/9
The Progress Report: G-8 Must Lead Global Attack On Nuclear Threat; Memo Legitimizes Torture, Puts President Above Law 6/9
Background on the Extraordinary Documentary, "Orwell Rolls In His Grave"
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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
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"
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
"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
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
Department of Injustice Update: Ashcroft Won't Release or Discuss Bush's Torture is O.K. Memo
Kast Resignation Prompts New Concerns on Florida Voting Purge, Fall Election 6/9
Although Generally Pro-Bush, the Washington Post Editorial Board Has Gotten Steamed Up About the Bush Cartel Torture Scandal: "Legalizing Torture." 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
Read the Full Honor Roll of the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrites of the Week! Or Listen to Them! You Can Also Hear Them as Part of the Take Back the Media.com Weekly News Program.
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"
THE LIGHTER SIDE:
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
Boondocks: Truth, the anti-drug 6/10
This Modern World: Conservatives Suspicious of Coverage 6/9
Fiore presents: Quit yer whining! 6/8
“American Idol” Faceoff: Reagan vs FDR 6/9
Documents Build a Case for Working Outside the Laws in Interrogations 6/10
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