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Three U.S. Soldiers Killed in Action, Four Wounded in Iraq on Friday. Bush Lies and Soldiers Keep Dying. 8/21
Abu Ghraib Probe Points to Top Brass 8/20
77 dead in Najaf mosque battle, 70 wounded. Also, six Iraqi police officers killed and 25 wounded. 8/20
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Senators Ask Where $8.8 Bln in Iraq Funds Went 8/20
As if we need any further proof that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth are Liars and GOP Operatives, the NYT Puts together this Handy Chart. 8/21
We could have stopped [bin Laden]; one spy has broken ranks to point the finger at the politicians - and warn that the war on terror could plunge the US into even greater danger. 8/21
Kerry comes out fighting over his Vietnam record 8/21
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Bob Perry, Financier of Bush GOP Swift Liars, Sure Loves Those Republicans! 8/20
Sporadic gunfire echoed through Najaf on Friday after a night of heavy U.S. bombing that saw radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr call on his fighters to hand control of a revered Najaf shrine to top Shiite religious authorities. 8/20
Perry, Backer of Bush GOP Swift Liars, is Largest GOP Donor in Texas, With Close Ties to Rove and Bush Campaign 8/20
Miller Beer Commemorates Rock and Roll by White People -- BuzzFlash Editorial Cartoon by Kirk Anderson
Kerry's Swift Boat Comes Out of Hiding and is Gunning Straight for the Bush Cartel 8/20
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The August 20th World Media Watch by Gloria Lalumia
Kerry's Military Records: "In a combat environment often requiring independant, decisive action LTJG Kerry was unsurpassed. ...emerges as the acknowledged leader in his peer group." Compare that to Bush: Coward, Deserter, and Spoiled Wienie. 8/20
You Go, John! Kerry is finally fighting back. Ahh, what a breath of fresh air. 8/21
Bernard Weiner: How [Bush] Got Into This Imperial Pickle: A PNAC Primer 8/21
Swift Boat Veterans for "Truth" v. The Truth 8/21
Bush's Wars Straining Guard and Reserve Forces 8/21
Swift Boat Ads all Connected to Bush Family 8/21
Based on Hearsay, Oregon prosecutor accuses Kerry in ad. 8/21
Former Def. Sec. Perry speaks out against Bush administration and Iraq war 8/21
Despite gains, women of color still see some closed doors 8/21
Repost: GIs in Iraq are asking: Why are we here? 8/21
TBTM: Condo LIES A; The Truth that Evades Condoleezza Rice -- A Flash Animation 8/21
'Soft Money' Groups Face New Ground Rules 8/21
Catch-43; Is Milo Minderbinder working for the U.S. government? 8/21
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Banana Republicans: How the Right Wing is Turning America into a One-Party State by Sheldon Rampton & John Stauber
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Britain 'knew about nuclear network [of Pakistani scientist AQ Khan]'; but did little to intervene 8/21
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This is Bush's America: Artist and Scientist Indicted "the transfer of small samples of two harmless strains of bacteria" 8/21
CIA Study on Iraq Weapons Is Off Course, Officials Say 8/21
Newspaper Refuses to Run Ad with Poster about Gruesome Casualties of War that "deconstruct the carnage in exhaustive physical detail" 8/21
Sources: Dead cleric was tortured 8/21
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United Airlines To Stiff Pensionholders; Union is Furious; 119,000 employees and retirees could get screwed. This is Bush's America. 8/21
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Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft --- And More Let Other Young Men Die for Them in Vietnam. That's the Swift Boat REAL Truth. Buy Your GOP Chickenhawk Cards Now.
AK Ballot bid for Nader has GOP signatures; "Having Ralph Nader on the ballot will improve President Bush’s chances of winning Arkansas." 8/21
U.S. and British Casualty Count. Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died -- And Continue Dying.
Team Iraq aims kick at Bush; "Iraq as a team does not want Mr. Bush to use us for the presidential campaign" 8/21
Paul Loeb: The Politics Of Bullying 8/21
"I would like to end some of the Republican hatriot-funded "Swift boat liars for Bush" (or whatever they call themselves) garbage being printed in this paper"; Choose your foxhole companion (2nd Letter) 8/21
Bush Flip Flops In Pander to Midwest Voters 8/21
Daily Show: Vet Offensive; about the Swift Boat Liars 8/21
Nick Coleman: "After three hours of speeches and nothing to eat or drink, I can say this: If you aren't dying to get into a political rally, you will be to get out of one." 8/21
As Iraq Appears to be Crumbling into Civil War, Condi Rice says "Be Patient," Like Anyone in the Bush Administration Understands Patience. 8/21
Iraq call-ups sap manpower back home; Deployed National Guard and Reserve members cause staffing holes from firehouse to the classroom. 8/21
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Bob Herbert: Voting While Black 8/21
Iran Uranium Source Revealed to Be Pakistani scientist AQ Khan, Buddy of Bush and Powell. 8/21
For Post-9/11 Material Witness, It Is a Terror of a Different Kind 8/21
Let's Stop Beating Around the Bush by Jim Hightower
CBS Poll: Kerry And Bush ThisClose 8/21
Republican Lawmaker gets jail for stalking lover 8/21
A Chilling Insight Into the Evil that is Karl Rove: "Bush's Brain," the DVD, Now Available at BuzzFlash.com
Private Guns, Public Health: Why Gun Violence is a Public Health Problem and What to Do About It
God is Not a Republican. Or a Democrat. 8/21
Send the Message Across the Nation: "Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died" Postcards. The Perfect Message to Your Senators and U.S. Representatives.
Repost: Danny Schecter: Is Our Media Covering its Errors or Covering Them Up?
Critics say FBI crosses line by intimidating activists 8/20
Kerry Campaign: Debunks False Swift Boat Attacks; Sets the Record Straight With New Ad 8/20
Incestuous Texas Cronyism and Politics Connect the GOP Swift Liars Directly to Bush and Rove 8/20
"Error" Puts Ted Kennedy on Airline No-Fly List 8/20
"Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order," by Mark Crispin Miller. Support BuzzFlash.com by Buying This New Premium. Just Published.
Bush On the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President, by Justin A. Frank, M.D. Now Available from BuzzFlash.com.
Iran Says It May Pre-empt Attack Against Its Nuclear Facilities 8/20
"Ownership Has Its Privileges," Episode 19 of The Last Chance Democracy Café, by BuzzFlash Columnist Steven C. Day
David Kay told Congress on Wednesday that the National Security Council led by Condoleezza Rice had botched intelligence information before the war and was "the dog that did not bark" over Iraq's weapons program. 8/20
Bush Campaign Hit Over Church Political Outreach 8/20
Effort to Push McGreevey Out Is Collapsing 8/20
Repost: Retiring GOP House Intelligence Vice Chairman Says War in Iraq Unjustified and a 'Costly Mess' 8/20
Is Our Commander-in-Chief a Deserter? You Decide! -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
Paul Waldman: Mad as Hell: How I got a disturbing view of Brent Bozell's undying rage 8/20
Kerry Takes Job Creation Message to North Carolina 8/20
Unwilling participants: Iraqi Olympic soccer players angered by Bush campaign ads 8/20
US Army Doctors Had Role in Abu Ghraib Abuse. Professor Steven Miles, the report's author, cites evidence that some doctors falsified death certificates to cover up killings and hid evidence of beatings. 8/20
John Kerry Fights Back Against the Bush GOP Swift Liars: The Ad 8/20
Unfit for bookstores: The Kerry campaign calls on a conservative publisher to withdraw book after the Washington Post torpedoes the veracity of a Swift boat veteran. 8/20
America’s Workers Set to Protest Bush Overtime Pay Take-Away 8/20
What Would You Do If Someone Told You "America Is Under Attack"? -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
Clashes Wrack Najaf After Ultimatum Nixed 8/20
Private Armies and Winning Elections -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
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Open Mouth, Insert Bush: Bush speaks of 'Soviet dinar' in speech about Iraq 8/20
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On August 6, 2001, Bush was Given a Security Briefing Entitled, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike In U.S." Yet, Come September 11th, He Ended Up in a Second-Grader's Chair, Having Failed to Protect the Nation, as America Was Under Attack.
Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency, by Senator Robert C. Byrd. Now Available for BuzzFlash.com.
Sen. Zell "Benedict Arnold" Miller to Be GOP Keynote Speaker 8/20
The Joker's Wild Playing Cards (Oversized) from Greg Palast, with Illustrations by Robert Grossman
US planes bomb Najaf 8/20
2004 Campaign Edition "Unprecedented": The 2000 Presidential Election" DVD
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Free Speech Stifled; In America, planning to protest isn't a crime 8/20
U.S. Poverty Likely Rose in 2003, Income Gap Wider 8/20
Garrison Keillor Gets to the Soul of the Democratic Party in "Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts From the Heart of America."
Bush's 9/11 Silence, A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
The Cynical Stench of a National Sales Tax 8/20
Minutes of Silence That Should Live in Infamy: As Americans Leapt to Their Deaths from the WTC, Bush Sat Cluelessly in a Florida Classroom, Endangering the Lives of the Children Around Him, Until His Handlers Could Figure Out What to Do With Him
What Would Jefferson Do? A Return to Democracy by Thom Hartmann
The Bush Cartel Learned from "Wag the Dog." The Classic DVD is Now Available from BuzzFlash. Learn Bush's Game Plan from a Hollywood Film!
Sorry, Our Bad. The Washington Post still doesn’t get it. "I had to laugh at [Howard Kurtz's] 3000-word "We F**ked Up on Iraq" piece" 8/20
Antiwar Group Asks Court to Allow Central Park Protest 8/20
Letters from Ethan - Mr. Bush, "Harming Our Country and Our People"?
Rich Religious Right politician sues illegal immigrant maid for custody of her child because she is too poor to take care of it. 8/20
THE Booker School Video Showing Bush Sitting for More Than Five Minutes After Being Notified of the SECONDTerrorist Plane Hitting the Twin Towers. He Didn't Seem to Have a Care in the World, Even Though He Was Warned in August 2001 About Planned Attacks.
From the Archives, The REAL Zell Miller: Democratic senator under fire for 'lynching' comment 8/20
FBI expects violent protests in New York; But says it lacks evidence to move against any group 8/20
This year’s general election campaign is taking on the trademark stamp of every Bush national campaign since 1988: attack politics that tear down the Bush opponent while a compliant Washington press corps is asleep at the wheel.
GunGuys.com: Where Everyone's a Straight Shooter 8/19
Liberal, Liberal, Liberal: Debunking the Myth that Kerry is the Most Liberal Senator 8/20
Rep. Anthony Weiner: NYC Left Vulnerable by Bush 8/20
Asylum-seeker now John Ashcroft 's prisoner 8/20
Reprising a War With Words 8/20
Dirty Campaign Tricks Now Serious Crimes 8/20
In Bush's America: Up to 250,000 apply for 3,000 temp jobs in California 8/20
Myths and Facts on the Bush Administration’s New Overtime Regulation 8/20
Judge Accused of Masturbating Resigns; "used a device for enhancing erections under his robes during trials" 8/20
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Kerry Takes on Swift Boat Liars: Speech to the International Association of Fire Fighters 8/20
Bush "Living In the Past" On Missile Defense 8/20
Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. Now Available from BuzzFlash.com. Support the New Media.
Bill Berkowitz: Bush's dubious terror alerts; Is administration's political agenda driving warnings of terrorism? 8/20
Survey: Foreign affairs top issue; Worries about war, terrorism may be pivotal on Election Day 8/20
Is the world's oil running out fast? 8/20
'Martyrdom Or Victory' For Cleric 8/20
Why George Bush is a sneaky greedy liar, Part 746: Missile Defense 8/20
Judge's Ruling May Chill Newsgathering. Um, do the major media outlets still "gather" news or are they simply press release and talking points regurgitators? Just Asking. 8/20
Fahrenheit FBI: A new U.S. government decision extending wiretapping regulations to the Internet raises far more questions than it answers. 8/20
Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died. A BuzzFlash List of Casualty Resources.
Florida Could Suffer From Cuts in Disaster Aid 8/20
Patriot Act ineffective and needlessly tosses aside constitutional protections 8/20
Border Patrol union says new rules 'muzzle' critics of the agency 8/20
Campaign Game Mimics Real Life 8/20
The Rude Pundit: Why Bill O'Reilly Ought To Be Sodomized With a Microphone (Part 72) 8/20
The Bitter Reality Brought by the Swift Boat Veterans 8/20
Bush is a Coward: His Q&A's Are All on the Same Side; Pep Sessions Keep Protesters Out of Sight 8/20
The Progress Report: Report Blasts Bush On Ground Zero Cleanup; The Situation So Far; and Misleading the Guard and Reserves 8/20
Guest Opinion: A guide to the Bush administration's environmental doublespeak 8/20
Voters Worried About America's Global Image 8/20
Group says Jesus Christ would vote Democrat 8/20
Bush to spend vacation without access to top intelligence briefings? 8/20
Kerry Responds to Smear -- And It's Good! 8/20
Gov. of Texas Speeds When He Wants. Everyone Else Gets a Ticket. 8/20
Former Sen. Gary Hart: The new Caesars; The Bush administration's empire building is trampling on who we are and were always meant to be -- a republic. 8/20
U.S. Poll Firm in Hot Water in Venezuela for Predicting "Major Defeat for Chavez"; in fact, the opposite was true — Chavez ended up trouncing his enemies and capturing 59 percent of the vote. 8/20
A Veteran's Purple Heart, A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
Deal W. Hudson, publisher of the conservative Catholic journal Crisis and architect of a Republican effort to court Catholic voters, said he is resigning as an adviser to the Bush campaign because of an investigation into accusations of sexual misconduct
Another Stalinesque Bush Appearance."Bush campaign staffers tore up the 55-year-old social studies teacher's ticket and refused her admission because she sported a small sticker on her blouse that touted the Democratic ticket." In Michigan. 8/19
Crying Wolf in the War Against Terror; The feds face a STUNNING BLOW TO CREDIBILITY by releasing a long-jailed U.S. citizen. 8/19
A Most Remarkable Book To Explain How the GOP Has Used Wedge Issue Class Warfare to Remold American Politics, While Pick Pocketing the Middle Class and Working Poor. "What's the Matter with Kansas?" Simply Brilliant.
A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq: 946 8/19
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Maureen Dowd: "The president who promised a humble foreign policy ended up with a foreign policy inflated by hubris - which is, after all, a Greek idea." 8/19
Sidney Blumenthal: Neurotic control lies at the heart of the Republican campaign 8/19
"Wag the Dog," A Review by The Film Fan Man
Bush Cancels Funding for Important Weather Satellite Program, A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
Premature - BuzzFlash Editorial Cartoon by Thomas Burns
Citizens For Honest Fighter Pilots May Have Answer To AWOL Questions. The Fourth Article in an Ongoing Series.
How I Came to Write "What Would Jefferson Do?" by Thom Hartmann
Bush's "Popular Uprising" -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
Maureen Farrell -- Conventional Facades: Why the Republicans Have to Hide their Agenda
Update! The Angry Liberal: What Did the Joint Resolution on Iraq Really Say?
Citizens for Honest Fighter Pilots Ask Bush To Get Honest: Part III
Newly obtained military records of one of Sen. John F. Kerry's most vocal critics, who has accused the Democratic presidential candidate of lying about his wartime record to win medals, contradict his own version of events as in lying. 8/19
Citizens for Honest Fighter Pilots Ask Bush To Get Honest
Quotes and Opinions From Vets Who Served With Bush -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution from the Citizens for Honest Fighter Pilots
Molly Ivins Tells BuzzFlash.Com Who Let the Dogs In!
Remember You Can Read AND Listen to the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrites of the Week. Well Worth Listening to!
Citizens For Honest Fighter Pilots Call On Bush To Explain His Military Record
BuzzFlash Interviews Paul Krugman, Witness to the Great Unraveling of America
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This Week's Top Ten Conservative Idiots: Alan Keyes Edition 8/16
Pee Wee Bush's Big Re-Election Adventure 8/17
Hurricane Charley Declared Enemy Combatant 8/21
Bush Inspires A New Generation of Existentialists 8/19
The Dubya Chronicles 8/16
It's a Lie. A Flash. 8/16
These Are Ironic Times 8/17
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