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MUST READ: "The "vast right-wing conspiracy" is not an overheated metaphor but a straightforward reality, and that it works a lot like a special-interest lobby," by Paul Krugman 3/29
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How the Bush Administration Will Undermine the Enforcement of Campaign Finance Laws, Through the F.E.C. 3/29
Zinni's Real Mission is the War on Iraq 3/29
About that White House Polling that the Bush Administration Doesn't Admit to.... 3/29
Judge orders Enron to produce documents in energy crisis probe 3/29
Bush Scores Big on Fund-Raising Trip. The Country Runs Itself While Bush Flies Around, On OUR Dime, Helping Republicans Get Elected. 3/29
An Evening with Julie Hyatt Steele: A Benefit for a Victim of Ken Starr's Entrapment Squad, Organized by Bartcop 3/29
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Who's Company Sold Goods to Iraq in Violation of U.S. Sanctions? Cheney's Halliburton. 3/29
Greg Palast Visits Chicago April 5 & 6
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Wants to Know What Really Happened to Flight 93 3/29
The bill signing that never was 3/29
G.O.P. Lawmakers and White House Cite a Growing Rift 3/29
Don't Forget "Too Close to Call," Available at BuzzFlash.com
Quiz Tom Ridge, for a Price 3/29
Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute. Check it Out!
"In a rebuke to the Attorney-General, John Ashcroft, a judge in New Jersey ordered disclosure of basic information about detainees in two state jails" 3/29
"Stupid White Men" on BuzzFlash.com, by Michael Moore. #1 On NY Times Best Seller List.
Berlusconi Plays Down U.S. Warning, "defense chief criticized the U.S. government" 3/29
Pharmaceutical Spending Continues Steady Increase 3/29
The Heritage Foundation buffs up: Readying a twenty-first century attack on 'liberal' social programs 3/29
The March 28th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American
The Bush Administration's Hypocrisy on Free Trade 3/29
NAACP Skeptical of NJ Profiling Study 3/29
Even the Cato Institute is Against Weaponizing Space 3/29
Transcripts with Bill Kristol Spilling His Beans About the Upcoming War with Iraq 3/29
Norman Mailer Bites George Will 3/29
The Conservative Think Tank-Taiwan-Bush Connection 3/29
Why Arafat's in No Hurry 3/29
Just Hour of TV a Day Leads to Violence, Study Says 3/29
Revolt of the wronged: Argentina was a model IMF student. And it's still suffering as a result 3/29
Speaking Freely: Mitch McConnell's strangely inconsistent defense of the First Amendment 3/29
Andersen Grand Jury Should Proceed 3/29
IRS brings back the dreaded random audit under the guise of conducting research 3/29
Canadians Angry at 'Bad Neighbor' Lumber Sanctions 3/29
Former U.S. senator and 1972 presidential candidate George McGovern received thunderous applause at a Univ. of Florida speaking engagement. Said he's not sorry he ran for president in 1972 despite his overwhelming defeat. 3/29
"Buck Up, Suck Up and Come Back When You Foul Up" by James Carville and Paul Begala
Bird Watching with the Navy 3/29
Whitewash Alert 3/29
"Titled the "Racial Privacy Initiative" or RPI, it would stop California state and local governments from gathering information needed to identify racial and ethnic disparities in public education, health, contracting and employment." 3/29
Whoops, Former GOP Arizona Governor Commits a Flub 3/29
America's Shooting Galery: 3 People Found Dead on Calif. Beach 3/29
[Republican John] Barley Vote Selling Alleged 3/29
For Chilean Coup, Kissinger Is Numbered Among the Hunted 3/29
US nuclear plant was close to disaster. All 68 plants in the US that are of similar design have been ordered by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to inspect their lids as soon as possible. 3/29
Job undercount culprit may be sampling methods 3/29
REPOST: "Earth shattering" Interview with Greg Palast 3/29
The Truth About Bush's Accomplishments 3/29
From Little Boy To Big Brother In 180 Days 3/29
Energy Task Force Documents and Top Contributors From the Energy Sector, 1999-2002. Notice How Heavy It Is on the Republican Side. How Can Anyone Other Than Companies Feel Represented by the Republicans? Just Asking. 3/29
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"[M]ore American soldiers may have died than the Pentagon is prepared to admit." 3/29
How does Paul O'Neill keep his job? 3/29
Three major contractors are in a bidding battle for a multi-billion dollar contract to manage a central Pacific missile testing range that is key to US President George W. Bush's missile defense plans. 3/29
Florida Supreme Court Justice Major B. Harding has decided to hang up his judicial robes, saying 34 years on the bench "is long enough." 3/29
Russia planing to counter US missile shield: defence minister 3/29
Think the flap over the Bush administration and Enron is winding down? Think again. 3/29
A Bush Job-Creation Program: US hires 400 Filipinos to build prison for al-Qaeda fighters: reports 3/29
Florida Black water: Test results trickle in; researchers not yet drawing conclusions 3/29
"For all the sophisticated electronic tools the United States government has at its investigative disposal, tracking the activities of suspected terrorist groups online has proved to be not unlike the search for Osama bin Laden" 3/29
Lead U.S. interrogator describes Camp X-ray captives as lost souls or ideologues 3/29
Bush declines invitation to speak at FAMU. "I have to say I'm happy, to say the least," Student Government Association President Andrew Gillum said 3/29
Domestic politics skews U.S. view of fair trade 3/29
Activists Asked for Energy Meetings "but were rebuffed by an aide who cited Abraham's busy schedule." 3/29
Federal Judge OKs Crossover Primary Voting In Washington State 3/29
Drug Company Finds Smallpox Vaccine 3/29
Hollywood Sends A Message: Sign the Mine Ban Treaty 3/29
Jeb Bush Steals McBride's Email List and Spams His Supporters 3/29
"If the government finds the right loophole, it can use the concept of guilt by association to run whole families, including innocent families, out of public housing." 3/29
Breeding a press of water carriers, or the Age of Aquarius. Epilogue: Octopussies 3/29
Bush wants Navajo land rights ruling reversed in the Supreme Court 3/29
"[T]he President has repaid that loyalty by not threatening, but promising to lead us down a path that is more dangerous and foolhardy than any we have tread before." 3/29
"Have you noticed that the health-care system is not working? In fact, it's falling apart," by Molly Ivins 3/29
Seeking Approval of The Yucca Mtn Deal, "Dozens of congressional aides and a few of their bosses got two or three days in Las Vegas — at the nuclear industry's expense." 3/29
US to Seek Death Penalty for Moussaoui 3/29
Gore rips administration's energy policy and secrecy 3/28
Arab Leaders Reportedly Okay Draft of Their Peace Plan 3/28
Preferential Treatment Of Hotel Bias Suit Gets Put On Hold By Hotel, Because, Get This, the Hotel Is Worried About How It Will Make Ashcroft Look. Yeah, Right. This STILL Smells Like Another Bush Administration Insider Scam 3/28
THE NRA Vs. Campaign Finance Reform 3/28
Army Secretary Says He'll Resign if....Well, What are You Waiting for? 3/28
BUSH EXECUTIVE ORDER FOLLOWED DRAFT WRITTEN BY OIL LOBBY 3/28
Don't Count on the Bush Administration to Vigorously Back Up the Finance Reform Bill in the Courts 3/28
"Calling Precedent Clinton" or Harlem on My Mind 3/28
The Scaife-Starr Chart 3/28
Read 9:55 am Account and You Decide if Flight 93 Was Shot Down. Sure Looks Like It. (Thanks to Democrats.com for the tip) 3/28
FROM THE BUZZFLASH ARCHIVES: Was Flight 93 Shot Down? 3/28
The March 27th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia
Earn Exciting Prizes from the Republicans! 3/28
Energy Department Says Plutonium is Missing 3/28
"Grand Theft 2000: Media Spectacle and a Stolen Election"
The Army Secretary's Business 3/28
UNBELIEVABLE IN ALABAMA: "The federal government will pay for gas mask-like safety gear for thousands of people who live near an incinerator where the Army will burn deadly nerve agents" 3/28
''U.S. armed forces surrounding Iraq under veil of secrecy'' 3/28
A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION: A Conflict of Interest Waiting to Happen? - NIH Nominee, Dr. Zerhouni 3/27
"The potential for Florida's top GOP official to profit from a business deal (re: Enron) that must be approved by Gov. Jeb Bush and two other Republican elected officials drew fire Tuesday from Democrats, who allege a conflict of interest." 3/28
Black Women Spur Change 3/28
Former Labour Prime Minister David Lange has shocked US diplomats with claims that New Zealand's anti-nuclear stance once made him an assassination target. 3/28
3 Groups Added to U.S. Terror List 3/28
Try Suing Saddam: Whether or not we invade Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein, let's go about this the American way. Let's sue him. 3/28
Waste Management denies charges. Accountant Arthur Andersen had hand in scheme, SEC says 3/28
Reno quick on her feet on Tonight Show (third story) 3/28
BuzzFlash Interviews: Moore, Brock, Palast, Waxman, Conyers, Hightower, Lyons. Read them all! Coming Soon: Paul Begala.
Bush's crony capitalism 3/28
Enron exec Watkins says capitalist system failed in Enron case because it didn't recognize Enron was in trouble. So, how does greed of Enron/Andersen execs and the Bush Admin friends play into that scenario? Just asking. 3/28
New Column! BuzzFlash presents Fifth Columnist: "Close, But No Havana" 3/26
BuzzFlash presents The Angry Liberal: America's Energy Policy Question: Did Big Oil Leave a Twenty on Cheney's Nightstand? 3/27
BuzzFlash interviews the Legendary Jim Hightower About The Rolling Thunder Down Home Democracy Tour
BuzzFlash interviews David Brock, author of Blinded By The Right.
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.
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'Granny D' makes local stop, from The Daily Texan 3/28
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President To NRA's Heston: "I Shall Forever Pine For Your Tender Financial Embrace" 3/29
A BUZZFLASH READER SATIRE: A Memo To The Academy From Tom Ridge 3/28
U.S. Supreme Court Evicts Jeb Bush 3/28
REPOST: Watch Bush Follow the Money 3/28
Who is on the Denver Police Spy List? 3/29
President Bush Offers Warm Wedding Day Congratulations To The Shell-Pennzoil Family 3/28
Can't Get Enough of Those Krispy Kremes! 3/29
While This Shouldn't Be in the Lighter Side, It's Really Funny When You Compare It to How the Bush Administration Has Conducted Itself Since Bush Released This "Standards of Official Conduct" 3/26
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