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The Phoenix Memo Was Much More Detailed About Possible Osama bin Laden Connections than the Bush Administration Has Revealed 5/23
Congress Subpoenas White House Contacts on Enron 5/22
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison 5/22
THE WASHINGTON TIMES CONFIRMS IT: "The Bush administration issued a spate of terror alerts in recent days to mute criticism that its national security team sat on intelligence warnings." Now Will the Democrats Get Some Backbone and Stand up for America?
Bush comes face to face with Europe's distrust 5/23
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
The discovery of Chandra Levy's skeletal remains will reinvigorate a police and grand jury investigation that had floundered for lack of physical evidence 5/23
Agent Linked Pilot Trainees, Bin Laden 5/23
Follow the Money: Bush, 9/11, and Deep Threat 5/23
Justice asks court to dismiss GAO suit against Cheney 5/23
Bush Says No to Independent Commission: Fears They Might Find Out the Truth 5/23
Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute. Get the Buzz!
Poll: Democrats Want Louder Leaders 5/23
The May 22nd BuzzFlash Mailbag - Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, And All-american
Operating from Behind a Blur of Spin 5/22
The May 22th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.)
"Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, a former top U.S. military leader, told nearly 400 business people on Tuesday that he believes the U.S. will attack Iraq in the next year" 5/23
Berlin Bush Protests Become a Bit Rowdy 5/23
'Big Coal' Swayed Bush. Imagine That! 5/23
Probe Deep, and Fairly -- John McCain Call for An Independent Commission 5/23
"We might have a dictator in America, Dicktator Cheney, but we don't have a Dictatorship. Yet." 5/23
Condoleezza Rice’s Chevron Service Could Pose Conflicts 5/23
White House provides summaries of contacts with Enron after Senate panel issues subpoenas 5/23
Israeli Fuel Deport Bombed 5/23
A Ready-Made Excuse List for Bush 5/23
America The Fearful: America Is Being Led By Cowards 5/22
Ex-Klansman Guilty in Church Bombing 5/23
Good News on House Bill to Protect the Wrongfully Convicted 5/23
Ireland announces new William Jefferson Clinton Centre for American Studies 5/23
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George Will Wants a Commission to Investigate 9-11 5/23
House OKs $4.6B to Counter Bioterror 5/23
At Cannes, off-screen Bush bashing 5/23
Israeli Embassy in Paris Burns Down 5/23
Bush Brothers Suck-Up to Anti-Castro Extremist Cuban-Americans For Their Vote 5/23
Cuba Lashes Back at Bush Speech 5/23
Newsmax: "Dan Rather: Bush Issued Bogus Terror Alert to Cover Up 9-11 Bungle" 5/23
Time Shows Georgia Rep's No 'Wacko' 5/23
Berlin, City of Protest 5/23
Carter Briefs Bush on Cuba. 5/23
Here's How Bush's "The Sky is Falling" Tactic is Causing Harm: Appearance of Turkish men causes alarm at schools 5/23
Everyone's In Florida For the Elections, Even George Bush. He Must Not Have Anything Else More Pressing. 5/23
Report mum on Cuba's bio-threat. Was Bush Lying, Again? 5/23
Mich. Dems Say Some Candidates Fake 5/23
Indian Prime Minister Tells Troops "to ready for 'decisive battle'" 5/23
White House hides behind veil of executive privilege 5/23
Dubya fans flames of Florida's Cuban-American community 5/23
"There is a red alert going on now, but it's only in Karl Rove's office. (There is a severe risk of political damage to the Bush administration.)," by Maureen Dowd. Just Call It "The Ministry of Fear." 5/22
Democrats, GOP Leaders Call for Full Independent Investigation Into September 11 5/23
Bill Press: Don't ask what went wrong, it's unpatriotic! 5/23
IMF-World Bank Anthrax Response Causes Furor 5/23
FROM THE ARCHIVES: ""We've known for some time that some group has been planning" such an assault, he told CNN, adding that "obviously, we didn't do enough" to prepare for one." Retired Gen. Clark on the Pentagon Attack. 5/23
NRA Loses Again. Rendell Wins Democratic Primary for Governor in Pennsylvania. NRA Paid for Ads for His Opponent. (Read Down for Article) 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
Thousands Protest on Eve of Bush Visit 5/22
"Blinded By The Right" by David Brock
Bush Brothers Have Crucial Lapses 5/22
BuzzFlash Message to Joe Lieberman: Issue the Subpoenas 5/22
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
9/11 and the Other Bin Ladens 5/22
The bin Laden Family Archives 5/22
The Word In Washington: Cover Your Butt 5/22
Republican "Dollars for Districts" Scandal in Florida 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
"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."
IMF Mail Tests Positive for Anthrax 5/22
BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Sauce for the Gander 5/21
SENATOR GRAHAM SAYS SEPTEMBER 11TH MIGHT HAVE BEEN PREVENTED
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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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 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
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
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
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
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. They're Political Life Vests. 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
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
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
Riddle of the Spores: What is the Bush Administration Hiding About Our Homegrown Domestic Anthrax Terrorist? 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
Is the Price Finally Catching on that the White House is Playing on the Fears of Americans to Escape Their Own Responsibility? 5/21
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 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
Fundraising in Florida: AKA Preaching to the Choir, Cartoon by Bill Mitchell 5/23
The Whiff of Politics 5/21
Men of Enron Bare Their Assets 5/21
A Chorus of Terror Warnings 5/23
Senor Bush, I'll Hold Free Elections When You Count All the Votes in Florida 5/20
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