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Israeli Troops Pull Out of Bethlehem 3/19
Katherine Harris, "Welcome to the Right Wing Conspiracy" 3/19
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MUST READ: Interview with Julie Hiatt Steele in USA Today 3/19
BAD MEDICINE FROM THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION 3/19
Bartcop is Holding a Fundraiser for the Victim of Ken Starr's Entrapment Squad: Julie Hiatt Steele 3/19
Campaign for a Living Wage, by Jim Hightower (BuzzFlash Will be Posting an Interview with Jim Hightower Later This Week) 3/19
FDA Suspends Drug-Testing Rule on Adult Medicines Commonly Given to Children 3/19
U.S Military on the Defensive Over Body Count 3/19
Bush has pledged to eliminate weapons of mass destruction. He should start at home. 3/19
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The March 18th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American
"Congressman Bob Clement said Monday he will seek the Democratic nomination to succeed U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson, one day after Tipper Gore decided she would not run for her husband's old seat." 3/19
WIDOW OF GUATEMALAN REBEL ARGUES HER CASE BEFORE SUPREME COURT 3/19
The March 18th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia
Missile Defense Support Tapering Off 3/19
A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL REPOSTED: Of All The Republican Chicken Hawks, Tom Delay Takes The Cake, from 3/12
War on Terrorism Threatens Free Press 3/19
US starts work on nuclear 'bunker-buster' bomb 3/19
New Shipment of "Stupid White Men" on BuzzFlash.com, by Michael Moore. #1 On NY Times Best Seller List.
"Congresswoman Barbara Lee, the lone vote against war following the Sept. 11 attacks, continued to sound a drumbeat of dissent as she spoke Monday at the University of California." 3/19
The Enron Saga Continues... 3/19
Top Al Qaeda Official Reportedly Captured in Sudan 3/19
Novak asks "What's Bush up to on Iraq?" and Some Conservative Republicans Are Saying That Bush's Saber-Rattling "is dangerous." 3/18
Human Rights and Aid in Colombia 3/19
Bill Moyers on the Domestic War Against Terrorism 3/19
Saudis Come to Texas 3/19
Trent Lott Behaving Badly 3/19
Why the Rich Get Richer 3/19
A Punt in the Senate 3/19
'Virtual strip search' testing provokes outcries 3/19
Experts: Airline Bailout Was Wrong 3/19
Supreme Court Rejects Unabomber Bid for New Trial 3/19
The Rolling Thunder Democracy Tour, Coming to Austin on March 23rd 3/19
Dr. Strangelove Meets the Bush Administration 3/19
Daschle: Campaign Finance Will Pass 3/19
The Media is Obsessed With Al Gore's Beard, Not the Fact that He Should be Sitting in the White House Instead of the Great Usurper 3/19
News from the Bizarre: Authorities try to determine if airlines passenger died BEFORE he boarded plane 3/19
Don't Forget "Too Close to Call," Available at BuzzFlash.com
Senate May Subpoena Ridge
Karl Rove's Wedges: "Some doctrinaire conservatives are growing a bit cranky over the ideological impurities of George W. Bush." 3/19
Slinging a racial slur? Oh, where is thy sting. The "Fightin' Whities" Get Plenty of Media Attention. 3/19
The 2002 Senate Election Landscape 3/19
McCarthyism Watch: Are you now, or have you ever been, in disagreement with President Bush? 3/19
Trouble At High Levels: Mountain warfare is not the only thing slowing down the U.S. Army. 3/19
"Global Crossing spreads pain far and wide in telecom sector." 3/19
"[Conn.] State trash authority executives and staff received more than $220,000 in bonuses last year after the signing of a $220 million deal with Enron." 3/19
Congressman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) Will Lead the Fight Against Media Mergers in Congress 3/19
Sept. 11 leaves same-sex partners adrift. Laws bar benefits, even recognition. 3/19
Photo Showing Bush and Ken Lay at An "Economic Forum" in January 2001. Documents released in February "show a close personal relationship between the two men." 3/19
LePore's degree of blame debated 3/19
Biden Bugged During Late '80s 3/19
Congress Is Giving Carmakers a Free Ride 3/19
Bush-Senate fight brews over extent of U.S. secrecy 3/19
Nuclear Policy is a dangerous return to anxieties of the Cold War 3/19
Public is seen, but not heard. Floridians visiting the Capitol to address lawmakers at committee meetings are finding themselves routinely squelched. 3/19
Q&A: Governor of California Gray Davis 3/19
U.N. Rights Chief Not Seeking New Term 3/19
Stars, Stripes & Gas Guzzlers: "Do these leaders, Democrats and Republicans, want us to believe that making a sport-utility vehicle get more miles per gallon would force mothers to drive their shin-guard-clad darlings around in golf carts?" 3/19
'Chicken Hawks' defend the roost. Great Mention of BuzzFlash Editorial and BuzzFlash Contributor Articles about Chicken Hawk Delay 3/19
Who's Right? Franks: Operation Anaconda was "an unqualified and absolute success." Afghan allies: "Most people escaped. You can't call that a success." 3/19
High-Wire Dreamin’: Enron's role in California's energy crisis of 2001 3/19
Propagandist turned penitent, David Brock will be discussing his new book, Blinded by The Right, on Working Assets Radio with Laura Flanders on Tuesday, 3/19
Denied Press Credentials, Conservative Web Site Bombards Senate Daily Gallery Staff 3/19
Someone take Tom Ridge's crayons away 3/19
"Nine states urged a federal judge on Monday to impose stiff antitrust sanctions against Microsoft, saying the software giant is still using its monopoly power to bully potential competitors" 3/19
Editorial: Stolen votes. Wrongly listing citizens as felons likely cost Gore election 3/19
Hopes Rise for a Mideast Truce, Despite Attacks 3/18
The Rove/Bush/Cheney Machine in Full Campaign Mode 3/18
Politically Incorrect Gets the Ax 3/18
Tipper Gore Won't Run for U.S. Senate 3/18
What color is my parachute? "I AM STILL a little unclear about what this new color-coded homeland security warning system is supposed to mean." 3/19
U.S. to Resume Vieques Training 3/18
A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Back At The Ranch 3/18
Ashcroft Gags Lawyers at Justice Department 3/18
As Scandal Keeps Growing, Church and Its Faithful Reel 3/18
"As a lobbyist, Mark Weinberger was paid millions by corporations to win tax breaks and keep loopholes open. He says that won't influence him in his new Treasury job." 3/18
Washington Post Hides Past of Hatchet Job Reviewer of David Brock's Fine Book "Blinded by the Right." The Post "Reviewer" is Even Mentioned in Brock's Book (pages 166-7), but Doesn't Reveal that in the Review! 3/18
The Washington Post Also Had Someone from the American Spectator Review "The Hunting of the President," by Conason and Lyons! 3/18
FAT KING COAL: Polluters Rewrite the Clean Water Act 3/18
THE BUZZFLASH MONTANA GOP GOVERNOR JUDY MARTZ WATCH 3/18
"Air Canada has banned British author Salman Rushdie from its flights because the extra security required for him to fly could mean long delays for other passengers" 3/18
The Republicans Try to Redefine "Balanced Budget" 3/18
Firm turning SUVs into covert weapons for anti-terror fight 3/18
"Florida's Retirement System shows no inclination of backing off its strategy of investing two-thirds of its money in American and foreign stocks despite losses over the past two years." 3/18
First Punch in the Revived Bench-Tipping Brawl 3/18
Palestinian and Israeli generals meet 3/18
Dumb and Scary: U.S. may resume shooting down suspected drug planes in Amazon, drug policy chief says 3/18
""Probably no modern vice president has spoken with more authority than Dick Cheney,'' says Rutgers political scientist Ross K. Baker. "He's almost like a family inheritance, a human legacy of the first Bush administration." 3/18
Case of Bisexual Soldier Reveals Army Untenable on Gays in the Military 3/18
Bizarre Bush Initiative and We're Paying for It 3/18
Senate GOP Discusses "Retaliation" for the Democrats Rejecting an Unworthy Nomination for the Federal Bench 3/18
"Up to 300,000 people joined a final protest march against the EU economic summit in Barcelona, according to first estimates by organizers." 3/18
Terror War Veering Out of Control 3/18
Public Schools May Unwittingly Be Part of Cyberspace 'Holy War' 3/18
"Republican businessman Bill Simon hired a key figure from the Traditional Values Coalition, a conservative religious group that lobbies to outlaw abortion and block gay-rights laws, to help him win the GOP nomination for governor." 3/18
Upcoming Greg Palast Appearances 3/18
Favorable Review of David Brock's Book: " Brock has the decency to come clean and apologize, but his onetime allies ride unrepentant and high." 3/18
Progressive Radio Programs 3/18
Bush "Anti-Drug" are Despicable Grandstanding and Driven by Politics 3/18
Enron's grab for Florida's water was factor in collapse 3/18
"A successful U.S. missile defense system test completed this week did not realistically duplicate conditions of an actual attack, a top U.S. defense official said Saturday." 3/18
The Secret Afghan War 3/18
Creative Budgeting 3/18
"Senate Democrats say they'll pass campaign finance legislation next week over Republican efforts to block it." 3/18
U.S. Tobacco Companies Accused of Terrorist Ties and Iraqi Sanctions-Busting 3/18
West Must Say "No" to Nuclear Option 3/18
MUST READ BBC REPORT ON THE ANTHRAX ATTACKS
BuzzFlash interviews Michael Moore, Filmmaker, TV Host, and author of Stupid White Men . . . And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation.
BuzzFlash interviews Greg Palast, author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. NEW INTERVIEW!
"Buck Up, Suck Up and Come Back When You Foul Up" by James Carville and Paul Begala
A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Tom Delay, Cluck Cluck 3/13
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Liberal media bias may be a figment of the conservative imagination, Bill Press of CNN’s “Crossfire” told a Brown University audience, from the Brown Daily Herald 3/19
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Bush Aerobics 3/18
This Week's Top Ten Conservative Idiots 3/18
Keep 'Em Guessing About the Nukes 3/17
If Washington Were Casablanca 3/18
Cartoons About Homeland Security Terrorism Color Chart 3/19
These are Ironic Times 3/18
Tom Ridge is About to Reveal Today's Terror Alert Code 3/17
A Senior Birthday Greeting from President Bush 3/17
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