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Senate Panel Passes Bill to Force Ridge Testimony 5/24
When Will a Democratic Leader Stand Up and Denounce the Bush Administration for Scaring the Country Half-to-Death in a Strategy that the White House Acknowledges is Political? Now It's Trains. 5/24
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A Bloody Primary Season in Rural Kentucky (read down headlines) (5/24)
House "Secretly" Increses Debt Limit Ceiling, As Tom DeLay Pulls a Dick Cheney "Don Corleone" Bullying Act 5/24
Whopper of the Week: Robert Mueller - He knew more than he said about 9/11. 5/24
White House Tries To Evade Questions 5/24
Senate Hands Bush Major Trade Victory 5/24
Treasury Department Denies that It Was Notified of a Suspicious Bank Transaction by Atta 5/24
America the Scofflaw, by Paul Krugman 5/24
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison 5/22
A Year at the Helm Of the U.S. Senate: Daschle Rejects Obstruction Criticism 5/24
Here's What Bush Knew, A BUZZFLASH READER NEWS ANALYSIS 5/23
Will Enquiring Minds Get to Know the Truth? 5/24
Informant Claims He Warned FBI About Hijacker 5/24
Bomb Explodes in Tel Aviv 5/24
The Smell Test, A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY 5/23
Another Attempted Suicide Bombing in Israel 5/24
Liars, Morons, or Both? 5/24
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Israeli security issued urgent warning to CIA of large-scale terror attacks 5/24
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Halliburton Says Aggressive Accounting Practices Under Cheney's Command Were Normal. Isn't That What Enron Said? Just Asking. 5/24
The 'Talibanization' of Bangladesh 5/24
The Pentagon Spokesperson is Lying, A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY 5/23
Backlash against book cookers: "a disillusionment among investors" 5/24
House Republicans yesterday yanked a bill providing death benefits to survivors of firefighter chaplain Mychal Judge and nine other Sept. 11 heroes 5/24
Voteless U.S. Capital Takes Plight to Senate 5/24
WHITE HOUSE ADMITS TERROR WARNINGS USED TO "FEND OFF CRITICISM FROM THE DEMOCRATS." IT'S NO LONGER THE WHITE HOUSE; IT'S AMERICA'S HOUSE OF SHAME.
Genuflecting Before the Bush Throne, by Gene Lyons 5/24
Study: Oil runoff worse than spills 5/24
Leader of Short-Lived Venezuelan Coup Seeks Asylum 5/24
Washington 'too quick to raise alarm on attacks' 5/24
"Blinded By The Right" by David Brock
Priest Pleads Guilty to Making Date-Rape Drug 5/24
White House Battles Congress Over Enron 5/24
FBI stock fraud alleged: Agents allegedly passed confidential information on investigations to Internet stock analyst. 5/24
James Carville, Quick on the Drawl 5/24
What Really Did Happen Aboard the Hijacked Planes? 5/24
A Chandra Levy Suspect? 5/24
Whether or not they emerged politically better off from the week-long debate about what President Bush knew before September 11, many Democrats feel as though they have blunted the White House's ability to use the war as a political issue. 5/24
U.S. was warned that Moussaoui had close ties to al-Qaida, analyst says 5/24
Bush Banned From RNC Fundraising Materials. "Bush is not to be mentioned — at all," the RNC Souce Tells the Wash. Times 5/24
THE BUZZFLASH GRAND HYPOCRISY PARTY MONTANA GOVERNOR JUDY MARTZ: GOVERNOR ONLY TAKES WRITTEN QUESTIONS FROM THE PRESS BECAUSE SHE'S SO DIMWITTED AND HYPOCRITICAL 5/24
Security for Bush Restores Cold War Feel to Berlin 5/24
Accused Shoe Bomber Had Outside Help - U.S. 5/24
BuzzFlash Perspectives: Bush & Enron, Bush's Accomplishments, Carlyle Group, Chickenhawks, Etc., Etc., Etc.
'Planted' candidates has Michian GOP leaders ducking 5/24
"Government agencies had several clues that might have triggered alarms in the months before Sept. 11. But no one put them together." 5/24
Bush Asks Europe If He Can Attack Iraq To Expand His Terror War and the Profits of the Defense Industry 5/24
The U.S. ignored foreign warnings, too 5/24
Enron: What Did The Administration Know? SEC Commissioner Pitt in (more) Hot Water 5/24
Bush's Nuke Policy Treats The Public As A Pawn 5/24
Indian Warships Go Toward Pakistan 5/24
"A president who heard almost nothing to make him believe he was on the wrong course and who saw his critics only as political opportunists." 5/24
Germany's Bush Protests, A Slide Show 5/24
Patriot Act's supposed justification is gone 5/24
Bush's Elastic Principles 5/24
Don't Do Drug Ads: "This is a big story, one of many recent signs that the drug war is a failure" 5/24
"George W. and George H.W., his father, were very much involved in the whole rise of Enron's influence and power in this country." 5/24
Mechanic Says He Was "Pawn in political scheme engineered by Republicans to hurt Democratic candidates in the Michigan primary." 5/24
Water district probing deal with Gov. Bush's former partner 5/24
The Phoenix Memo Was Much More Detailed About Possible Osama bin Laden Connections than the Bush Administration Has Revealed 5/23
Why Warnings Fell on Deaf Ears: For the Bush administration, the Cold War never ended -- so al-Qaeda had to get in line behind more serious enemies. 5/23
Devil in the Details: Don't Look! It's a War! 5/23
BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: What Bush Could Have Done
A Question of Ethics: D. Brooks Smith Should NOT Be Confirmed 5/23
Bush Fled 'Harm's Way' With 9/11 Flights. He Makes up Bogus Excuse that Flight 93 Was Headed to White House. But He Was Flying Away from D.C. Well After Flight 93 Crashed. At that Time, the White House Also Lied about Threats to the W.H. 5/22
White House Acknowledges More Contacts With Enron 5/23
Congress Subpoenas White House Contacts on Enron 5/22
Gun Policy Foes Unite on Background Record Bill 5/23
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
"[Bush] adopted the classic conservative strategy for undermining agencies that regulate business: Underfund them, and when that doesn't work, replace government regulation with Herbert Hoover-style business self-regulation." 5/23
Agent Linked Pilot Trainees, Bin Laden 5/23
As Bush visits Russia, we can expect him to embarrass his "buddy" Vladimir Putin -- again. 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
Poll: Democrats Want Louder Leaders 5/23
The May 23rd 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
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
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
Enron's Other Strategy: Taxes. Internal Papers Reveal How Complex Deals Boosted Profits by $1 Billion 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
9/11 and the Other Bin Ladens 5/22
The bin Laden Family Archives 5/22
Afghan families sell daughters for food 5/24
BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Sauce for the Gander 5/21
BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: How W. Bush and His Administration Failed Us 5/21
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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:
MUST SEE Mark Fiore Cartoon 5/24
Bush Knew: Steal This Graphic 5/19
A Message from the Office of Homeland Security 5/24
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 Top Ten Conservative Idiots 5/20
The Whiff of Politics 5/21
FBI Issues Warning Of Peal Harbor Attack Over Half A Century Late 5/22
Hindsight 5/21
Men of Enron Bare Their Assets 5/21
A Chorus of Terror Warnings 5/23
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