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CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATORS DOUBT SKILLING'S TESTIMONY -- AND SO DOES HIS MOTHER!
Like His Pal Bush, Kenny Trots Out God When He's In a Tight Spot 2/11
COULD THE OIL ADMINISTRATION BE ANY MORE BLATANT? More U.S.Military Aid to Colombia Possible for Defend Oil Pipeline 2/11
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Cheney Should Stop Stalling, by John Dean 2/12
"Cardinal Bernard F. Law, faced with polling indicating that nearly half of Boston-area Catholics want him to quit over his handling of clergy sexual abuse, yesterday said that he respects those who want him out, but he does not intend to resign." 2/12
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Ken Lay's sister's business receives Enron money 2/12
Experts say law firm that worked for Enron could be sued 2/12
Battling Over Records of Bush's Governorship 2/12
A NATIONAL DISGRACE: "Several of the 27 former prisoners, who were released Wednesday, said U.S. soldiers treated them so harshly that two men lost consciousness during the beatings while others suffered fractured ribs, loosened teeth and swollen noses."
Unanswered Questions Deep In The Heart Of Texas 2/12
Former Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay to Invoke Fifth Amendment at Senate Hearing Tuesday 2/11
Daschle Will Likely Oppose Pickering 2/11
ENRON EXECS KNEW THEIR SHIP WAS SINKING AT THE TIME OF BUSH'S INAUGURATION
Florida Redisticting Delay Could Cause Another Vote Debacle 2/12
Afghanistian: Oil Execs Revive Pipeline From Hell 2/12
Ground Hog Day in Washington, by Gene Lyons 2/12
The February 11th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia
Afghan Victims of CIA Missile Strike Described as Peasants, Not Al Qaeda 2/11
Isn't Rush Like One of Those Poor Psychotic Guys You Pass on a New York Street Corner. He Gets More Demented Everyday. 2/12
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Race, Politics Blamed for U.S. Death Penalty Errors 2/11
He's All Hat and No Cattle, As They Say in Texas 2/11
Released Afghans Tell of Beatings 2/11
Agency With Most Need Didn't Get Anthrax Data 2/11
Cameras helping tell the true story at Camp X-ray 2/11
"Lawmakers preparing to battle over long-stalled campaign finance reform predicted Sunday a contentious partisan debate with frequent references to the unfolding Enron Corp. debacle" 2/11
Executives Beyond Enron Took Months to Report Insider Sales 2/11
Enron's last-minute bonus orgy 2/10
Betrayed by Enron 2/11
While Many Democrats Tread Lightly on Enron, the Republicans are Up to Their Old Character Assassination Games with Dissenting Legislators 2/11
Will the Justice Department Seek Justice Against a French Bank Represented by a Bush Crony? 2/11
Will the Bush Administration Lose Us Another U.N. Position? 2/11
The Fawning Houston Chronicle is as Slow as Molasses in Covering the Enron Misdeeds 2/11
"President Bush will receive a formal Energy Department recommendation Monday to store all the nation's high-level radioactive nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, administration officials said Sunday." 2/11
Report: British press watchdog chief advised Enron 2/11
America's Shooting Gallery: 3 die in apparent double murder, suicide in Montana 2/11
Credit card lenders raise rates on financially strapped consumers 2/11
Targeted Republicans Wary of Bush Coattails 2/12
Florida State Investment Advisers to be Scrutinized 2/11
Hun Sen Urges U.N. to Reconsider Decision to Abandon Khmer Rouge Tribunal 2/12
Hundreds of Thousands of Iranians Take to Street in Anti-U.S. Rally 2/12
Enron took role in Florida state policies 2/12
Putin Complains About Criminals Roaming Free in Russia 2/12
The Status of the Free Republic Case 2/11
New Remarks Suggest Falwell Unrepentant 2/11
Arab Americans Call on President to Insist Ashcroft Clarify Offensive Remarks 2/11
The Newtster Says Let's Get Iraq! 2/11
Can Bush Accept a $2500 Cowboy Hat as a Personal Gift? Just Asking. 2/11
THE WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL CONNECTION TO ENRON 2/10
"The N.C. Republican Party spent more than $117,000 on former Mayor Paul Coble's unsuccessful re-election bid last fall, party officials said Friday" 2/11
BIG FARMS MAKING A MESS OF U.S. WATERS
Theresa LePore Gets a Posh New $4.4 Million Headquarters 2/11
Key Senators Believe bin Laden is Still Alive 2/11
Is an Algerian Member of Al-Qaeda Finally Providing a Breakthrough in Our Intelligence Gathering on the Terrorists? 2/11
Breach of Promise 2/11
Now a Word from the Disapproving 15% 2/10
How U.S. Strategy in Tora Bora Failed 2/11
China Bible "Smuggler" Freed 2/11
Remains of Police Officers Found at WTC Site 2/11
Free Republic Members are Downright Offensive to Civilized Society! 2/11
And You Too, Alan Dershowitz? 2/11
Bush's Axis of Evil Comments Provoke Backlash Among Iran's Reform Movement 2/11
Antagonisms did not always exist between Jews and Muslims 2/11
Crowd Rallies Behind Lesbian Couples Who Were Victims of Arson in Montana 2/11
Ventura Rating Dips Below 50 Percent 2/11
Poultry Industry Quietly Cuts Back on Antibiotic Use 2/11
George Will Writes Favorably of Joe Lieberman: That's the Kiss of Doom for a Democrat 2/11
The Gramms and Enron: A Mutual Aid Society 2/11
"Bush, who gets generally positive treatment from Bruni in the book, nonetheless comes off in parts as a stranger to America outside his own upper-class WASP background" 2/11
It's Hard to Order a Drink in Mormon Utah, But You Can Pack Heat Just About Anywhere 2/11
Violence Continues to Flare in the Middle East 2/11
"The Labor Department announced yesterday that it is seeking to remove, through court action if necessary, the Enron Corp. officials who oversee the company's retirement plans and replace them with independent experts" 2/11
Meet the President as the Cut-up in Chief 2/11
We Couldn't Have Said it Better Ourselves 2/11
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Says Oregonians Should Decide on Assisted-Suicide Law 2/12
Back to Deficit Spending 2/11
Cheney tour lays ground for military strike on Iraq 2/12
"The Heritage Foundation (virtually an extension of the Republican National Committee) believes in two things: that the rich need more tax cuts and that the poor need more lectures on what's wrong with them." 2/10
Rumsfeld Suggests that Photographers Must Use Captions Provided by the Military, Then Claims They Aren't Allowing Photos of Prisoners Due to the "Geneva Convention." Hypocrite Censor. 2/10
"During a tussle with Congress last summer, President Bush cracked that ''a dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier'' than negotiating the maze of American democracy." 2/12
John Dean on the First Step in the Enron Cover-up 2/10
"The budget includes full funding for the $475 million system, which is built by United Defense Industries Inc., a defense contractor controlled by the Carlyle Group Inc." 2/10
THE ANGRY LIBERAL: WEEKEND EDITION 2/10
West Bank Refugee Camp Surrounded 2/10
Democracy Corps.Com 2/10
FROM THE ARCHIVES: ENRON WAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST BENEFICIARIES OF CALIFORNIA ENERGY CRISIS
Our "Wartime" President Supported the Vietnam War, But Let Other Young Men Die in His Place. That's the Plain Truth, for Bush -- and for Cheney and Ashcroft Too. 2/10
Bungling on the 9-11 Prisoners 2/10
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FROM ARCHIVES: "US Energy Giant Enron Corp. chairman Kenneth Lay has said that the Indian Government could be subject to US sanctions unless the top energy trader and its partners recover $1 billion dollar they invested in Dabhol" (Read Down) 2/10
Some Enron Players in Florida 2/10
Is the White House Really Being "Quiet" on Campaign Finance Reform? We Doubt It. 2/10
His master's voice: The press laps up the White House war scare political strategy 2/12
The February 8th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American. The BuzzFlash Mailbag Is On Vacation Until Valentine's Day.
Enron, Oil, the Bush Administration and Central Asia 2/10
US Commandos Kill Innocents, CIA Pays Off Kin--A Model Program? 2/12
A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL: Bush Incorporated, In Bed With the Enron Bandits from Day One 2/8
BuzzFlash Interview with Greg Palast, an investigative reporter for the BBC and the Observer
Katherine Harris is Getting Sued by Her Kinfolk! 2/10
UNCONSCIONABLE: RIGHT WING RAG SAYS WHITE HOUSE TO REVIVE "TRASHING STORY," WHICH BUZZFLASH SHOWED WAS A LIE AND FABRICATION! GUTTER POLITICS FROM BUSH "BIG LIE" INCORPORATED. 2/10
UNDER JEB, ENRON PLAYED A KEY ROLE SHAPING FLORIDA'S ENERGY POLICY
National Enquirer Says: "JEB BUSH CAUGHT IN ILLEGAL DRUG COVER-UP SCANDAL" 2/9
Any Democratic Senator Who Votes for Pickering Isn't Worth a Bucket of Warm Spit 2/10
FROM THE RECENT ARCHIVES: GAO V. CHENEY IS BIG-TIME STALLING:The Vice President Can Win Only If We Have Another Bush v. Gore -like Ruling, by John Dean 2/10
"The Boston Archdiocese late Thursday turned over to authorities the names of 49 priests it says have been accused of sexual abuse of children, bringing the number of priests whom the church has named to as many as 87" 2/10
"A top Revolutionary Guards commander has warned that his forces will destroy Persian Gulf oil fields if the United States threatens Iran." 2/10
Bigger than Bioterror 2/10
Will the Right Wing Push McCain Into Independent Status? We Hope So. Here is One of the Spiteful, Loony Right Wing Sites Against McCain. 2/10
European Fury at Bush's "Axis of Evil" Speech 2/10
Coalition Forms to Reverse Rising Trend of Uninsured Americans 2/10
Bush heating cuts draw fire in Mass. 2/10
A Guantanamo Gulag 2/10
Enron's Operations in Argentina 2/10
Ashcroft Asked to Explain Remarks Offensives to Followers of Islam 2/10
TIME FOR A SPECIAL COUNSEL, SENATOR ERNEST HOLLINGS
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Stunning Palast Indictment of Bush-Bin Laden Complicity (9 min. video, req. Real Video Player) Palast's New Book Will Soon Be Available As A BuzzFlash Premium. 2/7
BuzzFlash Interviews Congressman Henry Waxman on Enron: Part II, Conducted January 30th by BuzzFlash.com
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BuzzFlash Interviews Congressman John Conyers, Jr., About the Justice Department Investigation of Enron
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Disabled student lawsuit: Beyond the letter of the law: From the UC Davis "California Aggie" 2/9
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The Top Ten Conservative Idiots for the Week 2/11
This Modern World 2/12
A Reference for Confused Americans 2/11
Dubya's Dayly Diary 2/11
Bush Tips His Hat to New Campaign Finance Reform Package 2/10
Equal Time with Bob Boudelang 2/11
These are Ironic Times 2/11
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