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BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Sauce for the Gander 5/21
THE TRUTH WILL OUT: A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY. FOUR STARS. 5/21
BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: How W. Bush and His Administration Failed Us 5/21
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Ashcroft Flying High: "Fishing rod in hand, Attorney General John Ashcroft left on a weekend trip to Missouri Thursday afternoon aboard a chartered government jet" NOW WE KNOW WHY! HE WAS WARNED! 5/16
"Let me just spend a couple of minutes on the domestic side. And why are we concerned about the domestic side?" A Speech by John O'Neill, the Man the Bush Administration Ignored. 5/20
The New Wave of Bush Incoporated Vague "Alerts" Have Karl Rove Written All Over Them. Remember Their Little Color Thing is Still at Yellow. These Aren't Terrorism Alerts. Their Political Life Vests. 5/21
YOU MUST LISTEN TO THIS. YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO THIS: Here is Bush's "Trifecta Joke." Disgusting and Inexcusable. (Requires Audio Player) 5/18
No Reason for Heightened Alert, Except for the Bush Administration to Try and Weasel Our of Its Failure to Protect Us. We Are Curious Yellow. 5/21
Bush Just Loves His Pootie-Poot (And We're Not Talking About Some Part of a Woman's Anatomy). 5/21
The May 21st BuzzFlash Mailbag - Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, And All-american
Cheney's Fear Mongering Spooks Markets 5/21
Bush's Afghan Plan Questioned 5/21
A Must Read: At the End of This Article, The Exchange Between Illinois Senator Dick Durbin and FBI Director Mueller 5/21
In 2000, Pentagon Simulated Plane Crash. (NOTE TO BUZZFLASH READERS. BECAUSE OF THE LARGE VOLUME OF 9/11 ARTICLES, WE HAVE POSTED, WE ARE LEAVING SOME OF THEM UP FOR SEVERAL DAYS. WE HAVE MORE THAN 150 HEADLINES AND ORIGINAL CONTENT PIECES TODAY) 5/20
BUSH IS LYING:A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
ARI IS LYING 5/18
FAA KNEW OF MOUSSAOUI ARREST, BUT DIDN'T ASK AIRLINES TO TIGHTEN SECURITY. INCOMPETENCE REIGNS SUPREME IN THE RULE OF BOY GEORGE AND HIS "REGENT" DON CORLEONE CHENEY
BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: What Bush Could Have Done UPDATED
Ashcroft Was Asleep at the Wheel on Counter-Terrorism 5/21
The Head of the FBI Should be Ashamed to be Running Diversionary Tactics for the Bush White House. These Men are Shameless. 5/21
There's Big Money in Fear 5/21
Riddle of the Spores: What is the Bush Administration Hiding About Our Homegrown Domestic Anthrax Terrorist? 5/21
Latest Washington Post Bush Poll Ratings 5/21
George "I'll Get Osama Dead or Alive" Hasn't Gotten Him Either Way. In Fact, the U.S. Admits Knowing Nothing About His Whereabouts or Health. 5/21
"Democracies do not fear accountability, and their leaders do not hold themselves above answering challenges from the opposition." But Then Again, There's the Bush Administration. 5/21
OUR MAILBAG IS SO FULL THAT WE HAVE A SECOND EDITION OF THE MAY 20th SPECIAL "BUSH KNOWS" BUZZFLASH MAILBAG: OUR READERS SPEAK OUT
The Washington Post Notices Bush's Administration of Secrecy 5/21
Is the Price Finally Catching on that the White House is Playing on the Fears of Americans to Escape Their Own Responsibility? 5/21
Lieberman Urges Congress to Delay Future Tax Cuts 5/21
Laura Bush Misspoke (Well, Blame the Script from Karl Rove) 5/21
CARLYLE GROUP SUBSIDIARY WILL GET $520 MILLION FOR NOT BUILDING THE CRUSADER! BUSH BUDDIES, INCLUDING POPPY BUSH, WILL MAKE OUT LIKE BANDITS AGAIN.
Paint Bush as the Incompetent Slacker He Is: A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION 5/21
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On GunGuys.com: Husband Asks Wife to Use Shotgun to Shoot Him in the Scrotum. (Read Down Headlines) 5/21
It's So Simple Even a Child Could Understand, But Then Again, There's Bush and His Band of Merry Corporate Pranksters 5/21
Bush Knew of Terrorist Plot to Hijack Planes 5/20
INS Staff Shortage Undercuts the War on Terrorism, But You Got Your Bush Tax "Cut" Right? 5/21
Bush Administration Will Finally Get Around to Giving Lie Detector Tests to Fort Dietrick Anthrax Workers. What's Taken Them So Long? Just Asking. 5/21
Tom Ridge: Just Another Bush Administration Public Relations Tool 5/21
(REPOSTED)FROM THE BUZZFLASH NO EXCUSES DEPARTMENT: Bush Claims He Really Knew Nothing Much, So Didn't Do Anything Much, Which is His Standard Operating Procedure After All. 5/18
REPOSTED: But Bush, We've Got You Caught Lying: "U.S. and Italian officials were warned in July that Islamic terrorists might attempt to kill President Bush and other leaders by crashing an airliner into the Genoa summit of industrialized nations" 5/18
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Israeli security issued urgent warning to CIA of large-scale terror attacks 5/21
HOW TRENT LOTT AND ORRIN HATCH HELD UP CLINTON'S EFFORTS TO PASS ANTI-TERRORISM LAWS. HATCH WAS DOING THE DIRTY WORK OF THE NRA, WHICH OPPOSED TAGGANTS.
A 9/11 Widow Passes Up Settlement Money to Seek Answers for Us All 5/21
Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute. Get the Buzz!
Pandering to America's Fears is a Betrayal of Our Nation 5/21
As BuzzFlash Predicted -- and GOP Shill Robert Novak Confirms -- the Bush Protectors Plan to Make the FBI the Fall Guy to Save Boy George's and Dick "Don Corleone" Cheney's Butts 5/20
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT ACCUSES BUSH'S FOREIGN POLICY TEAM OF HAVING "UNTREATED BIPOLAR DISORDER"
IS SHELBY BEING USED TO SET UP THE FBI AS THE FALL GUY, SO BOY GEORGE COULD CONTINUE HIS REIGN OF INCOMPETENCE?
William E. Simon is Sinking Fast in California 5/21
BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: The Twilight Zone (UPDATED)
BOMBSHELL: FEINSTEIN ASKED CHENEY'S STAFF LAST SUMMER TO REFORM OUR TERRORISM PREVENTION STRATEGY AND WAS BLOWN OFF
The May 20th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.)
Arms-for-oil Deal in Angola? 5/21
Business Week Presents Five Questions Bush Must Answer 5/20
WHAT I KNOW NOW: A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION 5/19
Cheney, Who was the Bush Administration Point Person on Anti-Terrorism Efforts Prior to September 11th, Tries to Scare Americans Away from the Truth with New Fright Tale 5/20
One Texas Governor is Just Like Another: Special Privileges for Their Families 5/21
Enron Has Link to Global Crossing 5/21
NOTE CNN REPORT FROM SEPTEMBER 11th. BUSH WAS SUPPOSED TO RETURN TO WASHINGTON RIGHT AWAY (BUT HE RAN FOR COVER INSTEAD, EVEN THOUGH THE EXCUSE THAT THERE WAS A THREAT TO AIR FORCE ONE WAS LATER DISPROVEN). FROM ARCHIVES. 5/20
Bush's Game of Politics with the War on Terror 5/20
Bush administration Responsibility for the September 11 Terrorism Attacks 5/21
REPOSTED: Explosive New Book Published in France Alleges that U.S. Was in Negotiations to Do a Deal with Taliban 5/20
GOP TEAM LEADER ALERT QUOTES THE SO-CALLED LIBERAL PRESS 5/18
Bush Refuses to Lift Cuban Embargo, Courts Extremist Exile Vote for Jeb in 2002 5/20
Message to Dick Cheney: Go Back Into Your Rabbit Hole. 5/20
BUSH INCORPORATED WAGS THE DOG AND LEAKS STORY ABOUT POTENTIAL NEW AL-QAEDA ATTACK, ALTHOUGH, IN THEIR NEED TO DIVERT ATTENTION FROM 9/11 FAILURE, THEY ADMIT THEY STILL DON'T KNOW MUCH OF ANYTHING 5/19
Proud Member of the Grassy Knoll Society: A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary 5/21
Jeb Bush Forces Himself Upon the School Children of Florida 5/21
A Quiet War on Women 5/21
An Alternative Alert System 5/20
Cheney is Simply Disgusting. He Ran from the Vietnam War with a Cover Story. Now He's Got a Sudden Warning to Keep America from Pointing Fingers at Him as Bush's Pre-Semptember 11th Anti-Terror Czar. 5/20
Rice Basically Says, Why Would We Want Any American to Know How Badly We Goofed While George Was Taking a Month's Vacation in Texas? 5/20
The Training Wheel President 5/20
Clinton Targeted Terrorism 5/20
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Read What BuzzFlash Readers are Saying. SPECIAL 9/11 Betrayal BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American --- The Bush 9/11 Edition, Part II
The Bush Lie Gets Deeper: "Federal regulators did not ask airlines to tighten security, and the FBI's regional office in Miami said it received no advisory from headquarters to check out any Middle Eastern students in flight schools before the attacks."
Who Could Have Saved Eddie? 5/20
Cheney's Pawns 5/20
In Ari Vs. Hillary, We'll Bet on Hillary. She's the One with the Cojones. Ari's Just a Toy Terrier on a Tight Leash. 5/19
"Blinded By The Right" by David Brock
Dick Cheney on FOX News Sunday 5/21
We are Paying for Bush's Fundraising for Himself and the Grand Hypocrisy Party 5/20
The President Who Was Up in the Air on September 11th 5/20
U.S. Soldier Killed in Afghanistan 5/20
Another Report that U.S. Marines were "Used" to Take Sides in a Local Warlord Dispute, Resulting in an Attack on a Wedding 5/20
W's Mind Was on Vacation 5/20
Bush Believes the Buck Never Stops With Him. Let the Servants (FBI) Take the Blame, or the Rulers Not Born of Royal Lineage (Clinton). 5/20
The CIA Army Accountable to Whom? 5/20
Boy George is Working REAL Hard to Pander to the Florida Cuban Exile Vote so Jeb Can Get Their Money and Votes 5/20
Homeland Security Warnings, a Cartoon 5/20
Message to the Democrats: Don't Let the Bullies Force You to Back Down. Show Some Backbone and Fight for the Truth and for America! 5/19
F.B.I. Knew for Years About Terror Pilot Training: But, Like Bush, They Are Claiming They Were Too Slow to Connect the Dots. If You're an Employer, Don't You Fire People Like Bush and the the People Who Led Our "Intelligence" Efforts? 5/19
Bush Throws a Creepy Temper Tantrum That Went Unreported by the Mainstream Press. Also Good Photo of Boy George on His Throne. 5/19
White Supremacist Rally Set for Memorial Day in Missouri 5/20
News Blackout on Afghan Battle 5/20
The Hierarchy of Decency, by Jimmy Breslin. Excellent Take on the Sexual Abuse Crisis in the Church. 5/20
The Bi-polar Bush and Jim Hatfield's Warning (Just Before He Committed Suicide) About Suicide Hijackers 5/20
An American Who Was Murdered Under the Pinochet Regime. The Story Finally Emerges. 5/20
THE BUZZFLASH REMEDIAL CLASS FOR BUSH: Connecting the Dots (REPOSTED) 5/16
A contingent of Green Beret trainers landed in this ex-Soviet republic Sunday, adding Georgia to the list of countries where U.S. troops have deployed in the 8-month-old counter-terror campaign. 5/20
Some Airport Workers Bypass Security: There's a Hole in the System Bigger Than a Barn Door 5/19
World Bank Chief in Talks on Afghanistan Pipeline 5/20
This is What Passes for Diplomacy in the Bush Administration: Tommy Thompson Gets Into a Fight with a Chinese Diplomat 5/19
WHAT'S A PRESIDENT TO DO: TAKE A VACATION 5/19
The "If I Had Not Been on Vacation" Excuse 5/19
Remember Those Republican Chickenhawks, Beginning with Bush, Cheney and Ashcroft, Who Are Such Fairweather "Patriotic Warriors" Now. 5/19
BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: What Bush Knew In July, 2001 5/16
The U.S. Bomb that Nearly Killed Karzai 5/20
FEDERAL REPORT WARNED OF SUICIDE HIJACK PLANE ATTACKS 5/18
THE REPORT:"Suicide bomber(s) belonging to al-Qaida's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives (C-4 and semtex) into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), or the White House."
Feeling the Pain of History: A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION 5/19
"Look," Fleischer said, "you know I don't say anything unless I hear it from his mouth. Ever." Ho Kurtz Interviews Ari -- and Ari Admits He's Just a Dummy with W. as His Ventriloquist 5/19
A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: It's Time for a Commission to Tell the Truth 5/18
ABC said the memo claimed "the purpose of this communication is to advise the bureau and New York of the possibility of a coordinated effort by Osama bin Laden to send students to the United States to attend civil aviation universities and colleges."5/18
The Bush Administration Plays Politics With America's National Security. When are the Democrats Going to Get a Real Backbone and Stand up to the Bullying Tactics of the Bush Team for the Long Haul? This is a War for the Future of Democracy. 5/19
"While Democrats demanded answers, the Bush administration sought to put criticism of how the president handled advance information out of bounds" Out of Bounds? This Isn't a Monarchy, Little Prince George! 5/18
Who Was the Bush Point Person on Security? Dick Cheney. No Wonder He Doesn't Want An Investigation. 5/18
To Please the Little Havana Cuban Exile Vote, Bush Shortchanges Cuban Citizens and America 5/19
Why September 11th Was No Surprise 5/18
A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: I Hit the Trifecta 5/15
FROM THE BUZZFLASH ARCHIVES: Investigate The Non-Evacuation of Booker Elementary School 5/16
F.B.I. Knew for Years About Terror Pilot Training 5/18
The Mystery of the Trifecta 5/18
Scenario of Suicide Plane Crashes Was Nothing New 5/18
How the Bush Administration Stymied the Hart-Rudman Anti-Terrorism Recommendations by Putting Dick Cheney in Charge of Doing Nothing 5/18
Despite Ari's and Condoleezza's Misleading Statements, the August Memo Indicated bin Laden was Determined to Strike IN the U.S., Not Overseas as They Implied 5/18
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Greg Palast: Bush Blocked bin Laden Probes (needs video player) 5/18
REPOSTED: "Notes from the Grassy Knoll," by BuzzFlash Guest Writer William Rivers Pitt 5/18
FROM THE ARCHIVES: "President Bush personally asked Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle Tuesday to limit the congressional investigation into the events of September 11, congressional and White House sources told CNN." 5/17
BUZZFLASH.COM PRESENTS THE FIFTH COLUMNIST: "One can imagine the blistering conservative outrage, the foaming right-wing oral cavities, the high Falwellian cynicism and sarcasm to erupt were Bill Clinton or Al Gore..." 5/18
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak says he warned the United States that "something would happen" 12 days before the Sept. 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington. 5/17
Grand Hypocrisy Party Won't Stop Selling Photo of Bush Running Like a Yellow Streak Away from D.C. on September 11th and Barely Saying a Word to a Nation in Crisis. Thinking of Saving His Own Butt First Makes Him a Hero to the GOP. 5/17
A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION: The Middle East Conflict Arrives at San Francisco State University 5/18
Bush, According to Peggy Noonan. A Withering Satire. 5/18
BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Bush Vacationed While They Planned 5/16
Knowing Much, Bush Did Little To Protect America 5/17
A Newly Recaptioned Bush 911 Photo 5/16
Despite the statements that U.S. officials had no warnings of suicide attacks with airplanes, The Associated Press reported in March that Filipino police turned over just such a warning to the U.S. 5/17
U.S. warned in 1995 of plot to hijack planes, attack buildings 5/17
Agent: Moussaoui 'could fly ... into the WTC' 5/17
FROM THE ARCHIVES: The Bush Administration was advised in August of 2001 that as many as 200 terrorists were coming to U.S. as part of plot
FROM THE ARCHIVES: BUSH ADMINISTRATION TOLD U.S. AGENTS TO BACK OFF BIN LADENS 5/16
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Newspaper: Echelon Gave Authorities Warning Of Attacks 5/16
The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex by Dr. Helen Caldicott
A BuzzFlash Interview With U.S. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, Democrat and Progressive
REPOSTED: BuzzFlash interviews David Brock, author of Blinded By The Right.
THE CAMPUS VOICE:
Own a Piece of History? from the Hoosier Review 5/17
THE LIGHTER SIDE:
The Top Ten Conservative Idiots 5/20
Hindsight 5/21
Buy This Parchment from King George! 5/19
Bush Knew: Steal This Graphic 5/19
Ignorance is Us -- the Bush/Cheney Ticket 5/20
Has Bush Crossed the LIne? A BuzzFlash Eric Harrison Cartoon. 5/17
Barnabas the toy poodle has been a registered Republican for two years but never got a chance to vote. 5/18
Dubya's Dayly Diary 5/20
The Whiff of Politics 5/21
Men of Enron Bare Their Assets 5/21
That Quacking Sound You Hear is from Elizabeth Dole 5/17
Bush Faces Terrorist Warning Backlash 5/20
Senor Bush, I'll Hold Free Elections When You Count All the Votes in Florida 5/20
Bush Moves To Create An Imperial Presidency, Or Is It The Dictatorship He Has Pined For? 5/21
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