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Archived 4/8/02 8:27am

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Elizabeth Dole Insists That She is No Hillary Clinton. You Got That Right! 4/8

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Israelis' Hope for the Future Yields to Fear of the Past 4/8

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Vouchers Incorporated 4/8

Climate Change and the U.S. Corporate 100 4/8

Grand Hypocrisy Party Session of Chaotic Consistency in Florida 4/8

The Twilight Zone in Jeb Bush's Florida 4/8

Fiasco in Tallahassee 4/8

Patients Press Pleas For Cancer Drugs 4/8

U.N. Council Insists on Cease-Fire 4/8

Energy Deregulation, Jeb Style 4/8

U.S. Catholics See Priest Scandal as Testing Faith and the Vatican 4/8

Six NY Priests Asked to Step Down 4/8

Sinking Ship of Fools 4/8

Northern China Water Crisis Deepens 4/8

Service Providers as Speech Police? 4/8

U.N. Investigating Reports of Mass Graves in Afghanistan 4/7

I.R.S. Hunts Down Average Americans, While Going Light on Increased Tax Cheating Among the Rich 4/7

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Israel Says It Will Expedite Military Operation 4/7

Obliterating Clean Water 4/7

U.S. Finds No Trace of Bin Laden in Cave Network. Imagine That. 4/7

Bush Asked About His Daddy's Policies Toward Iraq 4/7

Amtrak Backs Away from Threatened Cuts 4/7

Grand Hypocrisy Party Arkansas Governor Huckabee Sues to Halt Investigation of His Own Ethics. A Metaphor for the Entire Republican Party. 4/7

Congress is Crossing the Line with Religion 4/7

Guess What the Head of the FEC Thinks About Campaign Finance Reform? 4/7

"The terrorists have definitely contaminated the water system of the [Florida] state House and Senate" 4/7

Friends of the CIA 4/7

Murder Report Set to Fuel Taiwan Navy Scandal 4/7

"The U.S. travel ban on Cuba is robbing American travel agents of some $100 million a year in revenues, according to ASTA, the American Society of Travel Agencies" 4/7

Gale Norton Has Report Critical of ANWR Drilling Rewritten to Reflect Pro-Oil Company Drilling Bias 4/7

"Venezuela's largest union federation has called a 24-hour general strike in a show of support for striking managers from the country's state oil company." 4/7

This Is Your Prison on Drugs 4/7

Zimbabwe Government Breaks-up Anti-Government Demonstrations 4/7

Specially-Trained Dogs Sense Seizures, Protect Owners 4/7

Agent: Man Tried 'Economic Jihad.' Can Someone Explain "Economic Jihad" to Us? 4/7

Powell Talks to Controversial Trilateral Commission 4/7

Secret Evidence Permitted: Critics Fear Rights at Risk 4/7

SHAMEFUL! OBSCENE! BUSH BLAMES CLINTON FOR MIDEAST VIOLENCE! WHAT A RECKLESS EVASION OF RESPONSIBILTY!

George W. Welcomes Tony Blair to the Bush Family Grudge Match Against Saddam Hussein 4/7

Jeb Bush Wants Guns N' Religion in Schools 4/7

Now Bush Claims He Wasn't Criticizing Clinton. What a Doofus. 4/7

Bush's So-called "Job Safety Plan" (aka, the "Screw the Workers: They Can't Donate Big Bucks" Plan) Faces Criticism. No Kidding. 4/7

"Cold Mountain" Author Gets $8 Million Advance for New Book, Reports Say 4/7

Federalist Judge David Sentelle, Who Engineered the Appointment of Ken Starr, is up to No Good Again 4/7

Is the FBI a Leaky Sieve? 4/7

More Battles Loom Over Bush's Nominees for Judgeships 4/7

Vinson & Elkins to be added to Enron fraud case 4/7

Bush Mulls "Unsigning" Treaty for International Criminal Court 4/7

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"Behind Congress' Back While Capitol Hill was empty, Bush slipped a foe of affirmative action and the Americans With Disabilities Act into an important civil-rights post." 4/7

"A suspected Islamic militant planned to hijack a plane and crash it into Singapore's Changi Airport, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said in a shocking disclosure to parliament." 4/7

"Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the Hamas founder, said the group would not stop attacks on Israelis, and he accused the United States of trying to weaken the Palestinians' resolve by renewing truce efforts." Say What? 4/6

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Cash Offered for Dead Westerners 4/6

Kathleen Willey, Go Away! 4/6

We Check Teddy Bears for Safety, Why Not Guns? 4/6

The April 5th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.) 4/5

Labor Department to Offer "Voluntary" Workplace Injury Guidelines. Any Volunteers? 4/6

The Jeb Bush Scandals Page 4/6

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Unemployment Rate Up to 5.7 Percent. Geez, Wasn't It Paul O'Neill Who Just Said That The Recession Didn't Really Happen? Just Asking. Hey, But What Does The Bush Administration Care, They HAVE Millions AND Jobs. 4/6

America's Shooting Gallery: Two Students Shot Outside Vocational School In Newark 4/6

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Allegations of Sexual Abuse Hit the Los Angeles Archdiocese 4/6

Christian Coalition and Republican-Led Teens Join Fight Against Campaign Finance Reform 4/6

Iraq Cuts Oil Exports to Support Palestinians 4/8

Dear Walt Isaacson... 4/6

BuzzFlash Florida "Hootergate" Watch: Feeney's wrong answer on state phone records 4/6

The state Democratic Party chairman called yesterday for the FBI to take over the investigation into possible wiretapping of two Democratic conference calls by a Republican official. 4/6

Judges Blast Library Filtering: "The U.S. Congress' third assault on Internet pornography appears likely to meet the same ignoble end as the previous two." 4/6

So Much for Justice! "A federal judge refused Friday to rule out secret evidence presented by the government in a lawsuit brought by an Islamic charity suspected of ties to terrorism." 4/6

"The war on terrorism is far from over, and American remains under threat, Vice President Dick Cheney said Thursday as he stumped for freshman Congressman Sam Graves and tried to drum up support for President Bush's new military spending plan." 4/6

A C-Span discussion with Greg Palast, author of (as C-Span puts it) "a new book critical of globalization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)." 4/5

Fresh row over Bush's links to gas companies 4/6

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"If you've been laid off or think you might be and plan to raid your 401(k) or other retirement account to cover emergencies, you'd better come up with a contingency plan." 4/6

Australia green-lights stem-cell research 4/6

The Pentagon's appalling record on "friendly fire." 4/6

Handicapping McCain-Feingold 4/6

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

Right Wing Website Helps White House Try to Trash Paul Krugman 4/7

Navy Uses Gas on Puerto Rico Protesters 4/7

New CNN 'Crossfire' has GOP turning the channel 4/7

Bush Admin Wants To Oust Head of Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. BuzzFlash Wonders Which Company is Pulling Bush's Strings This Time? 4/6

U.S. Intensifies Demands for Israeli Pullout and for Arafat to Halt Terrorist Attacks 4/7

Last Summer, Ariel Sharon Presented Bush with Israel's Terms for Peace, But Bush Wanted to Play the Tourist Instead of the Peacemaker. Clinton Took Risks for Peace; Bush Only Knows How to Take Risks for War. 4/7

Enron plaintiffs to sue Wall St. 4/6

Your Cell Phone Is Watching You 4/6

FL State Univ. President Won't Give 1% of Licensing Sales to Help Sweatshop Workers. Students Arrested While Protesting. 4/6

Judiciary Complains Bush Won't Meet Security Needs. Has He Met Anyone's Needs Yet? Well, Anyone Other Than Corporations? 4/6

Ridge Plans to Issue Sweeping Safety Guidelines. Anyone Know What They Are or How Much He's Spending on Them? Just Asking. 4/6

"Supporters of campaign finance reform may want to hold off before popping those corks." The McConnell and Starr "case was assigned to newly minted conservative Judge Richard Leon -- a recent George W. Bush appointee." 4/6

Israel: Mastermind of Passover Massacre is Killed 4/6

KEN LAY PROBED FOR ALLEGED INSIDER TRADING 4/6

China Asks Bush Why He Called Taiwan a Country. Because, He's a Dim Bulb, That's Why. Don't Take It Personally, China. 4/6

The Masters of Mean 4/6

Blair's Ties to Bush: Partner, or 'Poodle'? 4/6

"Grand Theft 2000: Media Spectacle and a Stolen Election"

Army Secretary Thomas E. White Plugs For the Carlyle Group's Weapons. Despicable. 4/5

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BuzzFlash interviews Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich, Author of The Popular "Prayer for America" and Advocate for Creating A Department Of Peace.

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Part Two of the BuzzFlash interview with Paul Begala, Famed Democratic Political Strategist and Co-author of Buck Up, Suck Up, and Come Back When You Foul Up.

BuzzFlash Media Watch Special: The New Crossfire Debuts 4/2

Part One of the BuzzFlash interviews Paul Begala, Famed Democratic Political Strategist and Co-author of Buck Up, Suck Up, and Come Back When You Foul Up.

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