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Will Somebody Please Stand up to the Bush Administration and Say, "Have You No Decency, Have You No Shame About Scaring America Half to Death to Protect Your Poll Numbers?" This is Truly Orwellian. A State of Permanent Rule by Permanent Fear. 5/22
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THE WORD IN WASHINGTON: COVER YOUR BUTT 5/22
Bush Brothers Have Crucial Lapses 5/22
Feds to File Lawsuits Over 2000 Vote. The Suits Allege Voter Rights Violations in Three Florida Counties and Cities in Missouri and Tennessee. 5/22
BuzzFlash Message to Joe Lieberman: Issue the Subpoenas 5/22
9/11 and the Other Bin Ladens 5/22
Failure of the top brass: "The best thing you can say about these explanations is that they show political ineptitude. The worst is that they point to a colossal intelligence failure."
Are the Democrats Being Intimidated by the Bullying, As Usual? 5/22
NRA Loses Again. Rendell Wins Democratic Primary for Governor in Pennsylvania. NRA Paid for Ads for His Opponent. (Read Down for Article) 5/22
The bin Laden Family Archives 5/22
Republican "Dollars for Districts" Scandal in Florida 5/22
"A former employee of a U.S. consulate in Saudi Arabia where most of the Sept. 11 hijackers got their visas admitted Tuesday that he took money and gifts to provide fraudulent visas to foreigners."
Thousands Protest on Eve of Bush Visit 5/22
"Blinded By The Right" by David Brock
Reject Another One of Bush's Insulting Judicial Appointments. It Takes a Truly Partisan, Cynical Mind to Nominate Such Mediocrity to Serve on Our Federal Bench. 5/22
IMF Mail Tests Positive for Anthrax 5/22
BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Sauce for the Gander 5/21
Bush Administration Ignored Foreign Warnings Too 5/22
Bush's Bankrupt Cuban Policy 5/22
Under Cheney, Halliburton Altered Policy on Accounting 5/22
BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: How W. Bush and His Administration Failed Us 5/21
Senate Leader Backs Independent 9/11 Probe 5/22
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Arizona Memo Author Testifies Behind Closed Doors 5/22
Feds Decide Not to Allow Handguns in Cockpits 5/22
Embarrassing Army Secretary Makes Enron Almost Disappear From His Resume 5/22
IT'S THE BUSH "SAVE MY BUTT SCARE OF THE DAY" -- TERRORISTS WITH NUKES, NUKES, NUKES!
When W. Came In, Our Luck Ran Out 5/22
It's Back! Get Your Copy of "Fortunate Son"
Bush Moves To Create An Imperial Presidency, Or Is It The Dictatorship He Has Pined For? 5/21
Faith program challenged over use of taxpayer funds 5/22
NYC Warned on Possible Terror Threat. More "Chatter" From the Government? Anyone Remember That Just a Couple of Days Ago There Was Bipartisan Support of a Complete 9-11 Investigation? Just Asking. 5/22
Rush Limbaugh Wants A Full Investigation of 9/11. Or He Did Want One. BuzzFlash Thinks We Should Give It To Him! 5/22
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Actor James Woods observed and reported four hijackers making a trial run on an airline flight before the September 11 terrorist attacks on America. 5/22
Phoenix Memo Went To Frustrated NYC Patriot-Martyr: John O'Neill, FBI Hero, Got Word in July, Was Rebuffed, "Retired" In Anger 5/22
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Thousands join anti-war protests ahead of Bush visit 5/22
Bush Will Use Berlin Stage to Demand War on Saddam 5/22
The May 21st BuzzFlash Mailbag - Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, And All-american
THE TRUTH WILL OUT: A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY. FOUR STARS. 5/21
Revelations of Pre-September 11 Warnings Require PATRIOT ACT Repeal 5/22
Polling and the Bush "Terror" Alerts 5/22
Three Reviews of French-Authored Book, "Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth" 5/22
Gephardt favors bill creating independent 9/11 panel 5/22
An Afghan aide to Osama bin Laden was paid nearly $50,000 to report on the Saudi dissident's organization, Al Qaeda 5/22
Bush's Afghan Plan Questioned: Legislators Fear Poor Security Will Impede Democracy 5/22
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Enemies of Reform 5/22
Army Wants Noncitizens for Military 5/22
Plan to charge Internet broadcasters royalties for each listener scrapped 5/22
Linda Lay is Open for Business 5/22
House OKs Bill Targeting Molesters 5/22
Dallas workers accuse Coke of reselling nearly expired soda in minority neighborhoods 5/22
Pa., Ore., Ark. Choose Gov. Nominees 5/22
The Whistleblower #26 -- Exposing Corporate and Government Abuse 5/22
The "Oh Really?" Factor: Bill O'Reilly spins facts and statistics 5/22
Friend of Ill. Republican Governor George Ryan Indicted "on charges of using his influence over leases and contracts in the Illinois secretary of state's office" 5/22
US Plans Leadership of Post-Hussein Iraq. Perhaps They Should First Find Better Leadership for Post-Clinton U.S. 5/22
Lieberman Decries Bush Tax Cuts 5/22
B.S. Alert. The New York Times Thinks This is Some Sort of Exclusive, But It's More of "Protect the President Leaking": "Ashcroft Learned of Agent's Alert Just After 9/11 but Bush Was Not Told" 5/21
TWO BUZZFLASH READERS EXPOSE THE NEW YORK TIMES DOING SOME MORE P.R. WORK FOR THE WHITE HOUSE 5/21
Did the Cheney Task Force Aid Energy Fraud in California 5/22
Why Has the FBI Investigation into the Anthrax Attacks Stalled? The Evidence Points One Way 5/22
Just When You Think Bush Can't Look Any Dumber . . . 5/22
Bowing to White House pressure, Haley Barbour, a former RNC chairman and well-connected GOP lobbyist, Abruptly Drops Crusader Contract. Hmmm. Did Poppy Make Enough Money on the Deal? 5/22
John Ashcroft, Guilty As Charged Of Neglecting The War On Terrorism Prior To September 11th, As He Flew Around America On A Private Jet For "Security" Reasons 5/21
House Passes Bill Eliminating "Marriage Penalty" Two Years Earlier. How They'll Pay For Goes Unanswered. 5/22
Forgotten victims: The full human cost of US air strikes will never be known, but many more died than those killed directly by bombs 5/22
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
Cheney's Fear Mongering Spooks Markets 5/21
Florida "Hootergate" Figure Stored Campaign Files on State Computer 5/22
Scandalmongering: Hit the panic button enough and no one will read the real news 5/22
Laura Tries Her Hand at Foreign Policy 5/22
Has the patent expired on the pharmaceutical industry's invincibility? 5/22
Bush's love of Pootie-Poot Putin 5/22
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
Bush's Afghan Plan Questioned 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
BUSH IS LYING: A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
ARI IS LYING 5/18
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
"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
Paint Bush as the Incompetent Slacker He Is: A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION 5/21
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
INS Staff Shortage Undercuts the War on Terrorism, But You Got Your Bush Tax "Cut" Right? 5/21
Tom Ridge: Just Another Bush Administration Public Relations Tool 5/21
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
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Pandering to America's Fears is a Betrayal of Our Nation 5/21
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT ACCUSES BUSH'S FOREIGN POLICY TEAM OF HAVING "UNTREATED BIPOLAR DISORDER"
Does This 1996 Heritage Position Paper Ring a Bell? 5/22
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.)
The fraudulence of the Bush presidency 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
Bush's Game of Politics with the War on Terror 5/20
A Quiet War on Women 5/21
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
Clinton Targeted Terrorism 5/20
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
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
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
Bush Throws a Creepy Temper Tantrum That Went Unreported by the Mainstream Press. Also Good Photo of Boy George on His Throne. 5/19
The Bi-polar Bush and Jim Hatfield's Warning (Just Before He Committed Suicide) About Suicide Hijackers 5/20
THE BUZZFLASH REMEDIAL CLASS FOR BUSH: Connecting the Dots (REPOSTED) 5/16
World Bank Chief in Talks on Afghanistan Pipeline 5/20
WHAT'S A PRESIDENT TO DO: TAKE A VACATION 5/19
The Gore Report on Aviation and Security: FROM THE ARCHIVES
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:
Grateful for My Sweatshop, from the Daily Illini 5/22
THE LIGHTER SIDE:
The Top Ten Conservative Idiots 5/20
Hindsight 5/21
FBI Issues Warning Of Peal Harbor Attack Over Half A Century Late 5/22
Bush Knew: Steal This Graphic 5/19
Ignorance is Us -- the Bush/Cheney Ticket 5/20
I’m warning you, George! A letter to Bush from the caves at Tora Bora. 5/22
Dubya's Dayly Diary 5/20
The Whiff of Politics 5/21
Men of Enron Bare Their Assets 5/21
Bush Faces Terrorist Warning Backlash 5/20
Senor Bush, I'll Hold Free Elections When You Count All the Votes in Florida 5/20
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