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Bush's (Karl Rove's) Handpicked Candidate to Run Against California Governor Gray Davis Loses to "Conservative" Bill Simon. That Should Tell You Something. 3/6

JUST RELEASED: "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" by Greg Palast, Now At BUZZFLASH.COM 3/5

Bush Administration Backing Return to Slave Wages for Welfare Mothers: "'Workfare' Participants Could Be Paid Below Minimum Wage" 3/6

Bush Joined Unit of Enron in '86 Venture to Seek Oil 3/6

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"Tensions over the Bush administration's sharing of information with Congress flared anew yesterday as the White House excluded the House Democratic leader from a confidential briefing" 3/6

Kerry Fires Back At G.O.P. Snipers, by Joe Conason 3/6

The Sordid Tale of GOP "Uber" Hypocrite and Grand Hypocrisy Shill John Fund Continues (Read Down) 3/6

Seeking retribution for Enron's losses won't be easy 3/6

Get "Germs" AND "Grand Theft 2000" as a "Twofer"!

"Shovelful by shovelful, the Bush administration is digging itself a deeper hole in its relations with Congress by playing the executive privilege and secrecy cards." 3/6

U.S., Afghan forces press attack on al Qaeda 3/6

Condit is History as He is Easily Defeated in Democratic Primary 3/6

Study Ties Pollution, Cancer Risk 3/6

The March 5th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American

Justice Department to Hijack Authority Over Media Mergers and Other Areas from FTC. Watch Out for this One! 3/6

Final Action on Voting Overhaul Measure Stalls Again in Senate 3/6

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AS MIDDLE EAST CAREENS OUT OF CONTROL, WHITE HOUSE
SITS ON ITS BUTT 3/6

FBI Warned of Hijack Risks Years Ago 3/6

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS: Like a Stripteaser, the Right Wing GOP Has to Have a Gimmick 3/5

Accounting Firms to Fight Post-Enron Reform 3/6

Disinformation Follies 3/6

ABC News Division is Plunged Into Disarray 3/6

"The Securities and Exchange Commission, demoralized by budget constraints imposed by Congress and the Bush and Clinton administrations, says it will be unable to handle a record number of enforcement cases spawned by the collapse of Enron Corp." 3/6

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Bush Won't Seek Bailout for Steel Retirees 3/6

Why Did the Washington Post Go Soft on the Pentagon? 3/6

World Threatens Reprisals Over U.S. Steel Tariffs 3/6

Documentary shows Bush at frat-boy best 3/5

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"The Environmental Protection Agency wants to let power plants and other industrial facilities pay to replace fish sucked into their cooling water intakes as an alternative to installing equipment to keep them out." 3/6

BUSH IMPOSES COSTLY STEEL TARIFFS 3/6

UN, agencies fight sexual abuse 3/6

Everything's Coming up Shell Oil in Afghanistan 3/6

Bush's Little Shop of Horrors 3/6

Saynonara Cokie 3/6

"The Bush administration wants to overhaul the nation's unemployment insurance system by shifting administrative costs to the states while cutting payroll taxes that businesses pay." 3/6

"The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has applied for a wetlands permit with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to begin construction on a portion of the nation's new missile defense system at Eareckson Air Force Station on Shemya Island." 3/6

Daschle Left in the Dark 3/6

The Shadow Government and the Single Party System 3/6

MUST READ: Who Served Their Country -- A List of Top Democrats and Republicans 3/5

Bush, Who Avoided Service in Vietnam, Says We Should Prepare for More Military Casualties 3/5

The political fallout from a nuclear-waste decision 3/6

New Inspector General for the CIA to be Nominated. Hmmm. 3/6

Selma marchers salute past: Civil rights figures, others remember Pettus Bridge heroes 3/6

Judge Halts An Army Policy on Promotion. Affirmative Action Takes Another Punch in the Gut. 3/6

Office of Strategic Lying: A classic Rumsfeld maneuver 3/6

"Funeralgate" Now Involves Georgia, Too 3/6

America's Shooting Gallery: Teen is charged in shotgun death 3/6

BackOffJohn.com 3/6

The pseudo-patriotic hypocrisy of Trent Lott and Tom DeLay 3/6

Afghan recruits paid £140 a month by US troops 3/6

"It's been more than a month now since the Justice Department pulled off the Great Aluminum Boob Caper" 3/6

Credibility is ammunition in wartime, by Helen Thomas 3/6

Officials Question if Recession Was Real. Wanna Bet Those Officials Are Millionaires (Can Someone Say "Bush and Friends"?) and Haven't Had to Look For a Job in the Last Six Months? 3/6

The Patriot Act: Last Refuge of a Scoundrel 3/6

War On The Third World: An insidious result of September 11 is that the US treats many non-whites as terrorists 3/6

"[T]he U.S. government is drafting a plan that would give Florida officers the federal authority to arrest illegal immigrants deemed threats to national security." 3/6

New York Nuclear Weapon Plot Deemed Not Credible, Said "Official Sources." How Come They Couldn't Find a SINGLE Person to Go On The Record for This Story? 3/6

California Supreme Court Decision Narrows 4th Amendment Rights Against Unreasonable Search. Somewhere, Hunched Over In a Dark Closet, John Ashcroft Shrieks In Delight. 3/6

Bully Brigade: Limbaugh, Novak and Hannity smack down dissenters: Dare to disagree? You're helping the enemy! 3/6

Can We Stop the Next Attack? 3/6

Wanna Know What Motivates The Bush Administration? Follow the Oil: "US seeks Pakistan’s oil nod" (from Jan.) 3/6

Bush's Social Security is Both Voodoo Economics and Fuzzy Math 3/6

President Assures Voters: Shadow Rulers Bred Exclusively From Blue-Ribbon 3/6

The Supreme Court's decision to intervene in a 4-year-old dispute between the FCC and wireless carrier NextWave Telecom could have a heavy impact on how the government administers sales of valuable telecommunications spectrum 3/6

Bush's bunker presidency 3/6

WEDDING BELLS: JEFFREY SKILLING Takes a Bride 3/6

A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: So It's Just Going To Be 2000 Acres, Eh? ANWR and Horizontal Directional Drilling 3/5

7 Americans Die During Raid on Afghan Mountains 3/5

A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: New Wine in Old Bottles 3/5

A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Two Quite Different Stories about Cheney's Daughter's New Job 3/5

General's Gaffe Evokes Vietnam Era, In More Ways than One 3/5

Middle East Continues to Spiral Downward, as Bush Administration Does Little, If Anything But Blame Clinton 3/5

Just Call Ashcroft the Vain Music Man 3/5

Was Jack Welch Caught with His Pants Down, So to Speak? 3/5

Bush's Bait and Switch on Social Security, by Paul Krugman 3/5

LICENSE TO LIE 3/5

NY Times also duped by Ken Lay/Lincoln Bedroom myth 3/5

One-Liner is Doubling Back on Bush 3/5

"The executive branch conducts itself not only with an air of privileged preppiedom, but with a firm inclination toward manifest and at times laughable lies--even when the simple truth would be far more effective" 3/5

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Norton in Full Damage Control Mode 3/5

BuzzFlash presents The Angry Liberal - Social Security Reform, Part I: Bush is Lost in Des Moines 3/4

"Can You Forgive Him?" The New Yorker Reviews David Brock's book, "Blinded by the Right" (BuzzFlash Will be Posting an Interview with David Brock Next Week) 3/5

Bush Guantanamo Policy Endangers American Troops 3/5

Prominent Right Wing Texas "Christian" Advocate Allegedly Uses Deceit in Signing up Voters 3/5

"The Republican insiders, exaggerating every real flaw and exploiting every cockamamie angle ... were after one thing only: power for themselves and for the right-wing social and economic interests they represented." 3/5

GAO: Pentagon Fudged Missile Test 3/5

The Angola Mirror 3/5

Can the U.S. Tolerate Casualties? 3/5

The March 4th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia

Enron Still Pursuing Its Supreme Court Case Against FERC 3/5

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Hate Groups Use Freely Available Software to Make Racist Games 3/5

"New Yorker" Investigative Reporter talks to Paula Zahn about Bush and Co.'s Iraq Plans 3/5

Bush's Family Plan (or the Un-Family Plan) 3/5

"Buck Up, Suck Up and Come Back When You Foul Up" by James Carville and Paul Begala

How Enron Execs See Themselves: "[A]ll three of the chief villains are playing the same game as defendants that they did as businessmen. Their strategies are to public relations what Enron's books were to investor relations." 3/5

Candidate: Spam in Every Pot - "A supposedly Internet-savvy Republican candidate for governor of California, one of the few states with an anti-spam law, isn't campaigning against unsolicited e-mail -- he's sending it." 3/5

Hay fever? Air pollution may be partly to blame 3/5

W.'s First Enron Connection: Bush and Company Were Oil Partners 3/5

Achilles' heel in terror war by Patrick Leahy (in the Wash. Times?) 3/5

Enron still has foothold on Florida: A power struggle illuminates Enron's lasting influence on the state's power industries. 3/5

Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, vowed to take legal action against the National Republican Congressional Committee and GOP leaders for the "shameful sale of public office for private gain." 3/5

Families Can't Live on Wedding Rings Alone 3/5

Editorial: Flight 93's secrets / It's time to treat the American people as adults 3/5

Ridge says arming pilots 'doesn't make a lot of sense' 3/5

Don't charge taxpayers for waste site cleanup 3/5

Environmentalists Sue Energy Dept 3/5

One More Time: Congressman Dennis Kucinich's Prayer for America 3/5

Pataki Avoids Pledge to Serve a Full Third Term, IF RE-ELECTED 3/5

Someone May Finally Get Their Day in Court Against G. Gordon Liddy 3/5

In Ashcroft's Justice Department, You Have to Sing for Your Job 3/4


MUST READ: A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: WHY DID BUSH SIT NEXT TO SASHA COHEN AT THE OLYMPICS? Just Ask "Where's the Beef"?

Media Watch Special Report: The Daily Show with Guest Michael Moore 2/22

BuzzFlash Interview with Douglas Kellner, Author of "Grand Theft 2000: Media Spectacle and a Stolen Election."


THE CAMPUS VOICE:

America's Shadow Government, from the University of Texas Daily Texan 3/5

THE LIGHTER SIDE:

The Dubya Chronicles 3/4

This Week's Top Ten Conservative Idiots 3/4

We Dodged Service in Vietnam, But Now We are on a Mission from God 3/4

What Gives Democrats The Right to Ask Questions? 3/5

Watch John Aschroft Sing A Song He Wrote About America. Really. We're Not Kidding. 3/6

Your Horoscope, by Tom Ridge 3/5

Applications Are Now Being Accepted for Feeney's Assistant 3/6

"I Helped Kill A Poet in Nigeria!" 3/5

Bush, The Cheerleader 3/5

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