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McCain Joins in Call for Pitt's Resignation 7/9
A TRUE AMERICAN HERO WAS REMEMBERED BY A TRUE AMERICAN ZERO, A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION 7/8
It's Back! Get Your Copy of "Fortunate Son." The Original Expose on George W. that the Bush Family Had Temporarily Banned Before the Election. 7/8
KEEP YOUR EYES ON HARKEN OIL, A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION 7/8
"Blinded By The Right" by David Brock
Justice Antonin Scalia Should be Impeached for Twisting the Constitution Into the Image of a Man Who Believes in a Theocracy. He's America's Rasputin Supreme Court Judge. 7/8
Daschle Calls for Release of Bush's SEC File 7/8
REPOSTED MUST READ: Bush's Insider Trading Revealed. Hat's Off to the Center for Public Integrity Who Broke This Story in 2000! (BuzzFlash Linked to it then.) It Only Took the Mainstream Media Two Years to Catch Up.
MUST READ: A 1992 Mother Jones Article on the Highly Questionable Business Practices of the Busy Family 7/7
WHY ALL HARD-WORKING AMERICANS HAVE BEEN BETRAYED BY GEORGE W. BUSH: THE TRUTH ABOUT HARKEN OIL
If the Democrats Let Bush Get Away With This Crock of B.S., It Will be Political Malfeasance, With No Excuses Allowed for the Dems. If CEO's Should Go to Jail for Corporate Hanky Panky, Put the Cuffs on George and Dick Right Now. 7/8
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From Canada: Dubya losing the benefit of the doubt 7/8
Do as President Bush says, not as he did 7/8
Merck Revenues Doubted 7/9
REPOSTED MUST READ: Bush Violated Security Laws Four Times, SEC Report Says. A Buzz Flashback
A Tsunami of Scandal 7/8
A Rebellion of True Patriots May Be Brewing 7/8
Corporate Piety and the Bush Boomerang (read down) 7/8
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Joe Conason on the Shady Financial History of One George W. Bush 7/8
Hold the Candy: Scanners can mistake chocolate for bombs 7/8
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July's Dubious Achievement Award: California School District to be First in Nation to Name an Elementary School for Boy George 7/8
Like Almost Every Newspaper in the Country, the Baltimore Sun Dodged the Harken Oil Story Before Waking Up 7/8
After the Bombing, Unspeakable Horror 7/8
A Laugh Riot: A Kinder, Gentler Bob "Bonehead" Barr 7/8
Oh Sure, Harvey Pitt's Going to Get Tough on Dick Cheney's Halliburton Enron-Style Management. Yeah, Right. How do You Spell Whitewash? 7/7
"When polluters are allowed to run amok by a permissive administration, the environment and the American people wind up paying the price." Why I Quit the EPA. 7/8
No Wedding and Too Many Funerals 7/8
Special: Get a Copy of "The Hunting of the President" Signed by Co-Author Gene Lyons with a Contribution (not tax-deductible) of $60 or More to BuzzFlash. Only 10 Gene Lyons' Autographed Copies Available!
The Republican Chickenhawks Beat the Drums of War 7/8
Official: AIDS Not Leveling Off 7/8
Any Veteran in Georgia Who Votes for Saxby Chambliss in Georgia is UnAmerican and Should Ask For Forgiveness Before God 7/8
The "Bush Knew" Bumperstickers , A BuzzFlash Premium
Report: Powell Says "Bastards Won't Drive Me Out" 7/7
Is Our Children Learning? Paul Begala Knows the Answer to That Question
Doesn't This Story Have An All Too Familiar Ring? 7/7
Bush "War on Terror" Embarassment # 10,358: U.S. approved Hussein kin's training 7/7
"An advertising agency criticized for overcharging the government for ineffective anti-drug ads has won a $152 million contract to run the ad program for at least another year." 7/7
What's at Stake 7/7
Wendy Gramm Knew What Was Going on at Enron Because She Sat on the Board of Directors 7/8
Curiosity Department: Boy, 4, killed by device blast near Fort Benning 7/8
President Bush picks judges based on ideology--so why shouldn't senators reject them for it? 7/7
''How to be a right wing pundit in 12 easy lessons'' 7/8
Saturday's mysterious assassination of an Afghan vice president raises concerns about stability. 7/8
White House Defense Department War Hack Get His Scare Tactics All Mixed Up. Jacksonville, Florida, Officials are Not Laughing. 7/7
AOL Time Warner on the Ropes? 7/8
McBride Faces Reno, History 7/8
U.S. to Vaccinate 500,000 Workers Against Smallpox 7/8
The fifth annual Muzzle Awards 7/8
The Ashcroft Follies, a Satire 7/7
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Report: US 'to attack Iraq via Jordan' 7/7
Craven Politics: Bush Says Pledge of Allegiance at Church Service and Then Goes Fishing 7/7
Holier Than Thou 7/7
A Declaration of Independence from Boy George 7/7
The New Expanded Post-September 11th Edition of "The Bush Dyslexicon," by Mark Crispin Miller
Advice from BuzzFlash: Buy an E-Ticket 7/7
Halliburton’s Home Court Gives Workers the Shaft 7/7
Bush Administration Supports Afghan Pipeline. Isn't That What We're Fighting For? 7/7
The Democratic Primary for Governor in Florida: An Analysis 7/8
FROM THE 2000 ARCHIVES: Why The Media Silence On Bush’s Shaky Business Ethics? 7/6
Under Cover of Garment Bags, Jenna Bush Makes a Run for It 7/7
Something's Always Fishy with the Bush Family 7/7
"If George W. Bush wasn?t fighting an ongoing war, his presidency would be in tatters." 7/7
From the Archives: Bush's No Good Trade 7/7
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Cheney Led HalliburtonTo Feast at Federal Trough 7/7
Karl Rove's Legal Tricks 7/7
Changing the Subject, by Mary McGrory 7/7
U.S. Military Admits Afghan Deaths 7/7
Yankee Doodle, Do or Die 7/7
Redefining Patriotism 7/7
FEC: The Worst Enemy of Campaign Finance Reform 7/7
Has Bush Ever Accepted Personal Responsibility for Anything? 7/6
"The Democrats have been intimidated by Mr.Bush's high approval ratings, but if they are unable to place these recent corporate scandals on the Republicans' doorstep this fall, then they deserve to be relegated to a permanent minority party status." 7/7
Something is Definitely Rotten in the White House 7/7
Despite assertions they knew little, Enron directors ignored repeated warnings about problems, Senate report says 7/7
GWBUSH.COM 7/7
Remembering Why We are Americans, by Nat Hentoff 7/7
The Power to Imprison 7/7
Sleepwalking past the corporate crime wave 7/6
Bush and Cheney face scrutiny in financial scandals 7/7
Guess Who Was Auditor for Harken Oil? Andersen, Of Course. (Read Down) 7/6
If You're a Corporate Pirate, You Get to Keep the Booty 7/6
Accepting the Unacceptable: Our Anthrax Terrorist Maybe a Rogue Agent of the Bush Government Bioterror Program. Anyone Have Another Explanation? 7/6
Harken Energy - Bush’s No Good Trade
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Bush's Good Fortune, by Joe Conason 7/6
DID YOU KNOW THAT ON JULY 3RD, BUSH DECLARED "THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY" IN RESPECT TO THE TALIBAN OVER?
Bush Denounces Judicial Activism, Except When It's Done on Behalf of the Right Wing 7/6
Becoming a Christian Nation Under God and the Bush Regime 7/6
Didn't Boy George, Who Evaded Service in Vietnam, Promise to Get bin Laden Dead or Alive? 7/6
HELD OVER: A BuzzFlash Interview With David Brock, Author Of "Blinded By The Right," On The Role Of The Judiciary In The Right-Wing Agenda
Is That a Beretta in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy to See Me? (read down) 7/6
Throw the Bums in Jail! 7/6
The Justice Department Should Start Investigating the Officials in the Bush Regime, as in Enron/Harken/Halliburton/Etc. 7/6
Bush's Grand Hypocrisy Party Politics Are Expensive for the Taxpayer 7/5
HELD OVER: INDEPENDENCE!
The Daily Enron 7/6
Unanswered Questions 7/6
Sandra Bernhard on Boy George. Ouch! 7/6
Grand Hypocrisy Party Crazies in Tennessee Threaten Family of Democrat Who Supported a State Income Tax to Keep the State from Going Bankrupt 7/6
How About Giving the Supreme Court Urine Tests for Drug Use? 7/6
Count the Right to Dissent as a Victim of the War on Terror 7/6
Real patriots must act or symbolic gestures will be irrelevant 7/6
Ignorance isn't bliss for clueless executives: The know-nothing defense has been getting a workout 7/6
Bush Saves A Saudi Princess from Criminal Prosecution by Not Allowing the Indonesian Maid She Allegedly Abused Back in the U.S. to Testify. This is Totally Disgusting. 7/5
REPOSTED: Bush and the Imperial Presidency, by Helen Thomas 7/5
"They Were Shooting at People Running Away" 7/5
Life, Liberty, Ashcroft 7/5
BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison -- "July 4th"
Laugh of the year from the Right Wing NewsMax Archives: Bush Urges High Ethical Standards 7/5
Everyone is Outraged in the Bush Administration, by Paul Krugman 7/2
The Incorporated State of America 7/5
Running the Country Like a Business, By Gene Lyons 7/5
Bush: When Attacked, Blame the Hired Help 7/5
Bush Does Not Measure Up to His Own Administration's "Standards" for Business Conduct 7/5
White House Defends the Indefensible: Bush Ain't the Leader of the Grand Hypocrisy Party for Nothing! 7/4
BUSH CHANGES STORY ON HIS ENRON/WORLDCOM-LIKE CORPORATE CAREER AT HARKEN. HIS DADDY'S FRIEND SAVED HIM FROM TROUBLE ONCE AGAIN. HOW COULD ANY SELF-RESPECTING WORKING PERSON VOTE FOR THIS WEALTHY BRAT/FRAT BOY WHO ALWAYS BLAMES "IT" ON THE SERVANTS?
As Texas Oil Man, Bush's Business Practices Resembled Those of the Companies He Now Criticizes 7/4
UNSAVORY IN TEXAS
More B.S. from the White House About Bush's Enron/WorldCom/Harken Oil Business Practices, in Which Ari Contradicts His Own Boss. 7/4
Bush's Business Practices Examined 7/4
Bush Snappishly Tells Nation, More or Less, I am Not a Crook. That's Because the SEC, Under His Daddy, Let Him Beat the Rap. As Usual for George, Daddy Pulled His Butt Out of the Frying Pan. 7/3
Crooks in the White House 7/5
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S ENRONS, BY FRANK RICH
Remember When Bush Claimed, With a Straight Face, That He Didn't Know Ken Lay Well. Well, He's Lying Again. 7/3
Bush Wants the Hired Enron Help to Take the Heat 7/5
LIBERTY!, By Rebecca Knight. Reposted for the Fourth of July. 7/4
REPOSTED: Bush Did Try and Save Enron 7/4
Where Are Burton and DeLay on Haliburton? Administration Mauled by Own Dog 7/3
Bush appointee to Texas environmental program resigns after it was reported that she owed $10,000 in pollution fines. 7/4
BUZZFLASH WORLD MEDIA WATCH FOR JULY 5th
A BuzzFlash Interview With Greg Palast-- Cruella's Letter, Venezuela, and Dan Rather
Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute. Get the Buzz!
"In any other administration, Bush's scandal-plagued Army secretary would be history." 7/5
The July 3rd BuzzFlash Mailbag - Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, And All-american
The July 3rd 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 Angry Liberal - Leave our Pledge of Allegiance Alone! 7/3
The Angry Liberal - School Vouchers: Can't We Just Teach School Stuff at School? 7/1
"One-Track Minds" - P.M. Carpenter's Fifth Columnist 7/1
Monkeys With Potatoes, Afoot In The Land... -- A Media Watch Special Report 7/1
Press Conference: UnansweredQuestions.Org - A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY 7/2
"From Sublime To Ridiculous" -- Southern Style by Rebecca Knight 6/28
THE LIGHTER SIDE:
What About that Plan to Invade Iraq? 7/6
Dubya's Dayly Diary 7/6
US and THEM 7/6
The Evil GOP 7/7
Minority Report 2 7/8
Enron Eyes Wide Shut 7/8
Curious George W. 7/8
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