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BuzzFlash Reported This 2 Days Ago: CIA officer is first U.S. combat death in Afghanistan 11/28

U.S. Attacks Taliban Leadership Compound 11/28

Afghan Factions Press Ahead with Talks 11/28

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Uncle Bush Wants You as a Guinea Pig for Pesticides! Be Patriotic! Help the Pesticide Industry Out! Swallow Hard! Remember Tom DeLay Was an Exterminator BEFORE He Was a Congressman. 11/28

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Senate Republicans Propose a Payroll Tax Holiday. How About a Sales Tax Holiday? 11/28

The U.S. Army Doing Domestic Police Force Duties! Egad! 11/28

Two Israelis Killed as U.S. Peace Efforts Get Underway 11/28

Former Iraq Inspector Scoffs at Bush One-Liner 11/28

Taliban Claims Mullah Omar is Still Alive 11/28

What are the Russians Building in the Middle of Kabul? 11/28

Liberties be Damned, by Richard Cohen 11/28

Why Isn't the Bush Administration Trying to Emancipate Women in Saudi Arabia? Could It be Papa Bush's Chummy Ties with the Kingdom that Benfit His Carlyle Group? Or Junior's Oil Baron Supporters? Just Asking. 11/28

"But if more people intended to vote for Gore than for Bush in Florida -- as they surely did -- then it is a crime against democracy that he did not win the state and thus the presidency." FOR $35.00, RECEIVE JEFFREY TOOBIN'S "TOO CLOSE TO CALL."

Papa Bush Pardoned a Terrorist 11/28

Maryland's Anti-Gay Ballot Drive Implodes 11/28

"Shortly after the first anthrax case appeared last month, the F.B.I. said it had no objections to the university destroying spores it had collected over more than seven decades and kept in more than 100 vials." Say What? 11/28

Ashcroft Now Says 600 are Detained 11/28

The Press vs. Al Gore 11/28

New York Sen. Charles Schumer announced hearings next week on whether the president has the authority to call for tribunals without congressional approval. 11/28

Taliban Prison Revolt is Suppressed. No Taliban Survivors Expected. 11/28

The Case of John Ashcroft Vs. the Constitution 11/28

Consumer Confidence Falls Again in November 11/28

Lloyd's Raises World Trade Center Loss Estimates 11/28

This is America, Not a Banana Republic 11/28

The BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American

Back by Popular Demand: Clinton's Speech at Georgetown University 11/28

Civil Rights Groups Actually Praise a Supreme Court Decision 11/28

Is Somalia Next? (Read to End of Article) 11/28

Any Working Class Individual or Union Member Who Votes for a Bush Deserves What They Get: Pickpocketed by the Republican Party. 11/28

Woman helping to teach economic diversity in former Soviet republic 11/28

Court Dismisses Major Affirmative Action Case 11/28

Stymied Stimulus 11/28

Arlen Specter Decides to Question the President's Authority 11/28

The Case Against Torture 11/28

U.S. Government Details Smallpox Outbreak Plan 11/28

Rumsfeld: Despite Gains, Situation Still Dangerous 11/28

Ex-pastor sentenced for having sex with stepdaughter 11/28

Eternal Vigilance Needed Now 11/28

Laura Bush, Stealth Candidate 11/28

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Many People Saying "Bad" Things 11/28

George Harrison, May God be With You. 11/28

Italy's Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Converts to Islam 11/28

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL COMMENTARY: THE ORWELLIAN WORLD OF JOHN ASHCROFT 11/27

Exclusive: DOJ papers show terrorist hunt 11/28

Protect Our Liberties 11/28

When the Towers Fell, Homeless People Disappeared. Their Friends Are Still Searching. 11/28

American Zoo Association to Help Struggling Kabul Zoo 11/28

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Palestinian pleads guilty in Houston to weapons charge 11/28

Amnesty Calls for Prison Revolt Inquiry 11/28

"The problem is organized business as a political force--how it corrupts our politics, skews priorities, disdains workers, and blocks democracy from carrying out the wishes of ordinary citizens." 11/28

The Real War 11/28

AFL-CIO Mobilizes for Coming Political Fights 11/28

"Federal inmates housed in private prisons or halfway houses cannot sue the operating companies for money if they think their civil rights were violated." 11/28

Vast Lost of Forests Forecast for the South 11/28

Health bill endangers civil rights; Bush pushes plan to expand control in bioweapon attack 11/28

Unless You're Attacking Clinton, the Conservative Websites Don't Want to Hear from You 11/28

Kids and Internet Porn Case Reaches Supreme Court 11/28

Another Journalist Killed in Afghanistan 11/28

Private Social Security Accounts Seen as No Panacea. Duh! 11/28

Pakistani Intelligence Hunting for Bin Laden 11/28

George F. Will's Bow Tie Must Have Been Too Tight and Cut Off Oxygen to His Head and He Lost a Whole Lot of Brain Cells 11/28

Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta said the department is unlikely to meet a congressionally imposed deadline for screening all checked baggage for bombs. 11/28

INDEFENSIBLE: THE CASE AGAINST MILITARY TRIBUNALS, FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL? 11/27

Senate Not Likely to Rush Cloning Ban 11/28

Widow of Flight 93 Passenger Presses FBI to Release Hijack Cockpit Tape 11/28

Oil, Bush and the Taliban 11/28

Anthrax mailing evidence continues to show pattern 11/28

Leahy Blasts White House Over Terror Probe Practices 11/29

"Light Cigarettes" No Safer, Report Says 11/28

Liberties Be Damned 11/27

Taliban's surrender is too big a job to handle: UN 11/28

"Since it was Enron management's greed that ran the company into multibillion-dollar debt, why should we citizens pay for its irresponsibility?" 11/28

... But tribunals are wrong, illegitimate 11/28

Hollywood gung ho on war effort 11/28

In addition to the economic stimulus measure, Congress must first complete action on spending bills for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1 and resolve disputes over issues ranging from trade, farm policy and bioterrorism to cloning of human embryos. 11/28

DOT Unlikely to Meet Screening Deadline 11/28

MUST READ: BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW WITH GENE LYONS, A Media Hero 11/26

Bush Reveals How He Got Caught Up in a Fog of War 11/27

 The November 28th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia

Daschle Puts Off Energy Bill Until Next Year. Good for You Tom. It Will Keep the Oil Licking GOP From Drilling for a Few Barrels in the Arctic a Little While Longer. 11/28

Afghanistan is Only the Beginning, Bush Declares 11/27

Powell is Now Calling the Iraqi Regime "Evil." Guess What's Coming Down the Pike. 11/27

BUZZFLASH IS NOT MAKING THIS UP: First Lady Thought President's Macho Talk of Wanting Bin Laden 'Dead or Alive' Made Him Look Like A Hot Tempered Cowboy; 'Bushie, You Gonna Git 'Im?' 11/27

Waking up in Another Country, Not Our Own 11/27

Lynne Cheney Must Have Admired Soviet Professors. You Were Either with the Communist Party or You Weren't Teaching. You're Either With the Grand Hypocrisy Party's Right Wing Faction or You Shouldn't be Teaching. One in the Same. 11/27

Maybe the Feds are Keeping Vanessa Leggett in Jail Because of What She Knows About Law Enforcement Officials. What a Waste of Prosecution and Jail Resources. What a Waste of Our Tax Dollars. 11/27

One of America's Internal, Domestic Grown Terrorists 11/27

Head of Southern Baptists is Praying for Muslims to Convert. Well, Bush Has Falwell, Robertson, Billy Graham Junior and the Head of the Southern Baptists All Playing the Religious Card Against the Muslims. They're Your Buds, George. Handle It! 11/27

Bush Says Human Cloning 'Morally Wrong.' We're Only Worried if They're Thinking of Cloning Bush. 11/27

"Recent actions by the Bush administration show a fundamental lack of respect for the tradition in the United States of trusting in the Constitution and the laws that derive from it." 11/27

All the Presidents' Words Hushed 11/27

"Federal officials in Michigan sent letters Monday to more than 500 young, mainly Middle Eastern men, asking that they report within a week to answer questions." The Ghost of McCarthy? 11/27

The Orwellian World of John Ashcroft: He Won't Disclose Identities of Detainees Because He Claims He Doesn't Want to Violate Their Rights and Privacy. Then He Says That They are Not Being Held in Secret. Excuse Me! 11/27

"A corrosive battle between Bush's top budget advisor and powerful members of Congress could complicate the crucial year-end budget negotiations." 11/27

Campaign for Afghan women seems insincere 11/27

Lawsuit Against Enron Seen as a Wake-up Call To Protect Company Pension Plans. And Bush Still Wants People to Invest Their SOCIAL SECURITY Funds in the Stock Market. Is He Nuts? No, Just Rich. 11/27

Elizabeth Dole: Another Republican With Easily Disposable Principles 11/28

Cheney, Shrinking From View, Still Looms Large 11/27

Lynne Cheney's "Think Tank" is Trying to Impose Policitcal Correctness on College Campuses by Acting Like a Bully 11/27

Bombs Over Baghdad, by Bill Berkowitz 11/27

Who Pays for Nuclear Power? We Do. And We are at Risk as a Result. 11/27

Federal authorities said Monday that nearly 650 Middle Eastern men living in Michigan will be contacted for interviews as part of the federal terrorism investigation. 11/27

Re-posted: A Year Later, It's Still a Sham, by Joe Conason 11/27

Ashcroft's Meddling 11/27

Saudis Balk at U.S. Pleas to Freeze Terror Assets 11/27

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The Next Great Novel, from the University of Indiana Daily Student 11/28

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These are Ironic Times 11/26

FOR REAL, FOR LAUGHS: Commentary by Rush Limbaugh in the Washington Post Comparing Bush to FDR and Shilling for GOP Efforts to Pack the Courts 11/28

"Pig in a Blanket" by Bill Mitchell 11/28

People Magazine Names Bin Laden Sexiest 11/27

Dubya's Dayly Diary 11/28

The Latest in Northern Alliance Designer Vehicles 11/27

The Political Humor Top 25 11/27

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