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Oil, not drugs, is the focus of a $98m aid package to fund an army brigade to protect a pipeline from sabotage by guerrillas: Update Colombia	Archived 3/22/02 8:00am Help Keep BuzzFlash Buzz'n!
Kenneth Starr to lead legal team challenging campaign finance reform legislation. It figures.


The Most Expensive Exoneration in History 3/22 Middle East Bombings Halt Cease-Fire Attempt 3/22 Minorities Shortchanged When It Comes to Healthcare 3/22 "The Bush administration today proposed dropping a requirement at the heart of federal rules that protect the privacy of medical records." 3/22 Available on BuzzFlash.com, "Blinded By The Right" by David Brock Alabama Coal Company Sued for Allegedly encouraging the assassination of three union leaders at its giant coal mine in Colombia 3/22 ASHCROFT BUDDY GETS FAVORABLE AND UNUSUAL TREATMENT BY JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. CLOSED DISCRIMINATION SETTLEMENT LIKELY CUT SHORT. THIS STINKS! 3/22 Enron Sends California Garbage 3/22 Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute. Check it Out! New Shipment of "Stupid White Men" on BuzzFlash.com, by Michael Moore. #1 On NY Times Best Seller List. The March 21st BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American JUST RELEASED: "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" by Greg Palast, with Foreward by Joe Conason, Now At BUZZFLASH.COM BuzzFlash presents The Angry Liberal: OIC Makes It Official: Whitewater is Now a Republican Scandal 3/21 Bush's Nuclear Threats are Alarming 3/22 BuzzFlash interviews the Legendary Jim Hightower About The Rolling Thunder Down Home Democracy Tour Phil Gramm Defends Administration on Enron Contacts 3/22 Whitman Warms the Bench 3/22 Get News Fast! Sign up for BuzzFlash Alerts, the fastest and easiest way to keep abreast of breaking news and commentary (see bottom of the right column). Click here for the latest alert. Robert Ray Talked with Christie Todd Whitman About New Jersey Senate Race While He Was Independent Counsel, A Clear Ethical if Not Legal Violation 3/21 Providence bishop ignored son's abuse report, mother says 3/22 $7 Million Soft Money Record 3/22 Airline Changes Mind on Rushdie Flying Ban 3/22 It's Official: NTSB Blames EgyptAir Pilot for Crash 3/22 REPOSTED: Why Can't the Democrats Get Tough? 3/22 "Two terror attacks on two continents this week, attributed to groups the authorities thought they had beaten long ago, suggest just how hard it is to win a war against terrorism." 3/22 A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL: Transcripts From a Chicken Hawk 3/20 The Real Whitewater Scandal 3/22 High Noon At Washington Post: What Will Arana Say on Sunday?, N.Y. Publisher's Row in An Uproar, Editor's Job, Book World's Future At Stake 3/22 Dog Owners Guilty on All Counts 3/22 "Saying poverty fuels terrorism, dozens of world leaders launched a U.N. summit Thursday by promising to do more to help the world's neediest and end the cycle of economic chaos that plagues the developing world." 3/22 "As US officials declare Operation Anaconda a success, Al Qaeda is regrouping with fresh recruits and funds" 3/22 CIA removes tracking software: Agency caught using banned ‘cookies’ technology on site 3/22 S&P, Moody's blast Enron: Firm's new president accused of deception 3/22 "Globalization, or the fast-paced growth of trade and cross-border investment, has done far less to raise the incomes of the world's poorest people than the leaders had hoped" 3/22 UNSUBSTANTIATED RUMOR: Taliban bargaining on 18 US soldiers 3/22 For the British, It is perfectly possible to love the ideals of America's founding fathers and to abhor George W's policies 3/22 Sullivan's Travails 3/22 Chip Off the Old Brock 3/22 Bush "may force Canada's government to tax American consumers." "Given its claims to hate taxes, the [Bush] administration is putting on an impressive show of flexibility." 3/22 Oil, not drugs, is the focus of a $98m Colombian aid package to fund an army brigade to protect a pipeline from sabotage by guerrillas 3/22 Political veterans call [Florida] state legislative session the worst ever 3/22 Bad FCC Ruling Lets Cable Shut Out Competition 3/22 Tribunals Would Grant Terror Suspects Only Some Court Rights 3/22 Pope Denounces "Grave" Sex Scandal 3/22	BuzzFlash interviews David Brock, author of Blinded By The Right. A Battle for the Soul of a Forest. The desires of industry usually trump the needs of the land. 3/22 REPOST: Why Missile Defense Won't Work 3/22 "The White House yesterday ordered all federal agencies to scrub their Web sites of sensitive information on weapons of mass destruction and other data that might be useful to terrorists" 3/22 Democrats predict Florida jokes after Florida Republicans banned provisional ballots 3/22 No energy bill might be better than what's shaping up 3/22 Bush's Bono Act 3/22 America's Shooting Gallery: A man with a history of making terroristic threats was arrested after officers raided his home and seized firearms, homemade munitions and anti-government propaganda. 3/22 An Afghan army built from scratch. Wavering international commitment jeopardizes force 3/22 Enron bankruptcy lawyers' fees top $11 million in two months 3/22 Jeb Bush stresses importance of families. Hmmm. Okay. 3/22 Bush May Nix Clinton Pollution Plan 3/22 Political Oscars 2002, by Arianna Huffington 3/22 The former head of the U.N.'s humanitarian program in Iraq says an American invasion would be an international crime -- and would make the U.S. even less safe. 3/22 The Church of Scientology has managed to yank references to anti-Scientology websites from the Google search engine. 3/22 The Taliban fish have swum away 3/22 Study says Georgians filling up prisons fast. 3/22 Sacrificing freedom: THE Supreme Court is on the verge of surrendering another slice of freedom, this time to the war on drugs. 3/22 Even If You Dress It Up, a Kangaroo Is Still a Kangaroo 3/22 "Funded by such conservative groups as the Sarah Scaife Foundation, [the Media Research Center] boasted an income of $15 million in 2000, more than eighteen times as much as Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, the largest liberal media watchdog." 3/22 The INS gave Fuad Hassan Ismail a one-way ticket to Somalia. Business as usual, or one more sign that this agency is out of control? 3/22 Angelfire scrubs Florida prison abuse website 3/22 The world’s biggest banks and multinational corporations have set up a shadowy system to secretly move trillions of dollars—a system that can be exploited by tax evaders, drug runners and even terrorists. 3/22 Vanessa Leggett: Why She Wouldn't Give Up Her Notes 3/22 Castro Exits Development Summit 3/22 From the Archives: BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS: Was EgyptAir Flight 990 the Prelude to September 11th? Big Sugar's Clout Sour to Taxpayers 3/22 Why Bush is Addicted to Perpetual War 3/22 The end of the $73 million witch hunt 3/22 Jim Hightower's Rolling Thunder Tour, Check It Out 3/21 "Confirm no Bush administration nominees with a history of substituting party loyalty and ideology for facts and law," by Gene Lyons 3/21 "Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) urged CIA Director George Tenet to prepare for the consequences of President Bush's determination to act against Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein." 3/21 Robert Ray is Despicable 3/21 The March 20th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia Don't Forget "Too Close to Call," Available at BuzzFlash.com Media Sue Utah Governor Over e-mail 3/21 Justice Department Says More Foreign Nationals Will be Interviewed 3/21 "Buck Up, Suck Up and Come Back When You Foul Up" by James Carville and Paul Begala Greg Palast in Chicago 3/21 About Richard Mellon Scaife 3/21 Greg Palast Schedule 3/21 Senate GOP Continues Its Temper Tantrum in Protest of the Democrats Not Confirming an Objectionable Judge 3/21 Long Live Reba Shimansky! 3/21 Trent Lott Poisons the Work of the Senate: Once Again the Grand Hypocrisy Party Can't Win on the Issues, So It Plays the "Bully" Card 3/21	Final Whitewater report issued: Independent counsel could not prove involvement of the Clintons in any wrongdoing. TRANSLATION: Starr/Ray Entrapment Counsel Wasted 70 Million Dollars of the Taxpayer's Money 3/21 Senate Passes Campaign Finance Reform By A 60-40 Vote. Bush Will Reluctantly Sign It. 3/21 Is the Man Who Made a Fortune off of Monster.com Ruining the Gun Control Movement? It's Hard to Tell His Group from the NRA. 3/21 Mariane Pearl wants justice but says revenge not answer 3/21 "New York District Attorney Robert Morgenthau appeared to challenge key points in Cardinal Edward Egan's statement Tuesday." 3/21 REPOST: Brain Drain by Mark Crispin Miller, author of "The Bush Dyslexicon" 3/21 "For ethnic Pashtuns in northern Afghanistan, it is payback time. They are paying for the sins of the Taliban, simply because most of the Taliban leadership were also ethnic Pashtuns." 3/21 No, he's not King George 3/21 Thunderstruck on the Right, a Good Review of David Brock's Book 3/22 GOP Cabinet duty can be a real killer 3/21 FEC rejects Judicial Watch complaints against Republican committees 3/21 Republican bill would free some PACs from disclosure 3/21 Hil, FDNY in Lovefest: Bravest do about-face and embrace Clinton 3/21 Online Rants Not Always Free Speech. 3/21 Right-Wing Oregon Talk-show host files for GOP bid. His platform? Abolition of the IRS, Elimination of all Fed Agencies Not in Constitution, and Deporting Unmarried Middle-Eastern Men Under 45. Nutcase? Just Asking. 3/21 Orrin Hatch, Gone With the Wind. 3/21 White House, GOP squabble over defense spending. Even Republicans Want to Know What Bush Plans to Do With "a $10 billion slush fund" 3/21 The recession may be over, but not everyone's making out fine. 3/21 Enron Pipedreams Buried in Afghanistan 3/21 Just 17% Say White House Is Telling the Whole Truth on Enron 3/21 How Peggy Noonan Sees Politics 3/21 People with Developmental Disabilities Get the Shaft in Illinois 3/21 Creationism in schools 'leads to more bigotry' 3/21 BuzzFlash interviews Greg Palast, author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. NEW INTERVIEW! BuzzFlash interviews Michael Moore, Filmmaker, TV Host, and author of Stupid White Men . . . And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation. Support Independent News Sources! Another List of GOP Chickenhawks 3/20 Help Keep BuzzFlash Buzz'n! GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! THE CAMPUS VOICE: Moderates turn against Bush's war 3/21 THE LIGHTER SIDE: REMARKS BY PRESIDENT BUSH AT FORMAL DEDICATION OF TOP-SECRET SHADOW WHITE HOUSE 3/20 This Week's Top Ten Conservative Idiots 3/18 Keep 'Em Pouting 3/20 Bush Peace Toons 3/21 Cartoons About Homeland Security Terrorism Color Chart 3/19 Celebrate America's Triumph Over EVIL in Operation Infinite Justice With Your Very Own Victory Trophy! 3/22 Officer Rumsfeld on Operation Anaconda 3/19 Repairing a Shredded Reputation, by Art Buchwald 3/20 Over Mitch's Dead Body? 3/22 Register for BuzzFlash.com email updates

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Kenneth Starr to lead legal team challenging campaign finance reform legislation. It figures.