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Bush's "Corporate Accountability" Speech Panned. If Bush Wants to End "the days of cooking the books and shading the truth," Then He and His Cabinet Should Resign! Daschle/Gephardt Throw Some Punches at Bush, Debut "Investor's Bill of Rights" 7/10
In his attempt to explain away his own actions twelve years ago at Harken Energy, all Bush accomplished was to contradict his own "get tough" rhetoric on corporate scofflaws. 7/10
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Vice President Cheney Sued Personally For Alleged Stock Fraud 7/10
Tommy Thompson Hooted Off AIDS Stage 7/10
"A Sad State of Affairs" -- Southern Style by Rebecca Knight 7/10
A BuzzFlash Plantation Politics Alert: Bush and His Token Negroes, A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution 7/10
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.
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"The U.S. stock market has declined more during George W. Bush's first 17 months as president than at any time since Richard Nixon took office in 1969." 7/10
Things Fall Apart: "The mythically masterful, all-powerful, organized, motivated Bush administration appears more and more in disarray as one episode gives way to the next." 7/10
Bush and Harken Energy: The Dog Ate My Homework? - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary 7/8
"Blinded By The Right" by David Brock
A MUST READ: "Why are they shooting our women and children?" A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
Is Our Children Learning? Paul Begala Knows the Answer to That Question
When It Comes to Practitioners of Phony Bookkeeping and Insider Trading, the Bush Administration is Rotten from the Top Down 7/9
Bush Jibe Angers Black Leaders 7/10
The Bush-Enron Collection. Updated 7/9
The Talk Show That Didn't Happen 7/10
HAIL ME, FOR I AM CAESAR, A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION 7/10
When Bush was on the Harken Energy Board of Directors and on the company's Audit Committee, the company cooked the books by using a phony transaction similar to Enron's Raptor scheme to conceal losses from investors. 7/9
A Fox Is About to Reassure Us Hens: Can Bush scold Wall Street with a straight face? 7/10
Congress Okays Dumping Nuclear Waste in Nevada (Yucca Mountain) 7/10
Contribute $5000 to the Republican Party or lose your job. Campaign Finance's New Face: CEO Taps Employees To Build Powerful PAC 7/10
Business As Usual For Boy George: Divert With Fear And Deny Personal Responsibility 7/9
RNC is Up to Its Usual Pond Scum Tactics in Its Fight to Rollback Campaign Finance Reform 7/10
And They Called Willie Slick, by Mollie Ivins 7/10
Don't Cop a Plea Until You've Read This 7/10
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Isn't It Sad that Larry Klayman is Doing what the Democrats and the Progressives Should be Doing? 7/10
The July 9th BuzzFlash Mailbag - Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, And All-american
The "Bush Knew" Bumperstickers , A BuzzFlash Premium
Bush, Lay Shielded Errant TX Businesses From Lawsuits 7/10
Another Bush FOX to Guard the Stockholder's Chicken Coop. This is Outrageous! 7/10
Enough is Enough. About How He Made Out Like a Bandit at Harken Oil, Bush Says, "I still haven't figured it out completely." There is Not a Shred of Dignity or Honesty Left in the White House. 7/9
$100 Million More for SEC Not Enough, Ex-Officials Say. And Then, of Course, There's the Problem of Mr. Pitt and Mr. Bush. It's Like Having the Convicts Run the Courts. 7/10
It's Not Upatriotic to Demand Honesty 7/10
Nitwit Scion Plays the Karl Rove Scripted Role of Avenger, But Wants to Make Sure the CEOs Reaping Fraudulent Pocket Cash Keep Contributing to the GOP 7/10
Wall Street Cold to Bush Remarks 7/10
There ARE Some Extremely Low-Life Democrats Out There, Just Take a Look at Michigan State Representative William Callahan. He Must Really be a Republican. 7/10
Bush Delivers Too Little, Too Late 7/10
THE BUSHES AREN'T REAL MEN: THEY LET THE HIRED HELP TAKE THE BLAME
Gun Guys Decide to Heist the Names of Gun Control Groups. (Read Down in GunGuys.com) 7/10
The Rise and Fall of WorldCom 7/10
Cheney Led Halliburton To Feast at Federal Trough: State Department Questioned Deal With Firm Linked to Russian Mob 7/10
Cokie is WRONG: Bush Was Never "Cleared" by SEC - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary 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!
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
FBI Raids Immigrants' Stores 7/10
FROM ELECTION 2000 ARCHIVES: The Five Worst Republican Outrages 7/10
A Business Man Named George W. Bush, By Paul Krugman 7/9
"The Washington Post raised eyebrows by revealing Bush's former personal attorney was the SEC general counsel at the time the commission cleared him of wrongdoing in the stock sale" 7/9
In Illinois, Grand Hypocrisy Party Attorney General and Gubernatorial Candidate Calls on Current Grand Hypocrisy Governor to Resign! Holy Charlton Heston! 7/10
George & Martha: On America's first couple of playing by ruling-class rules 7/10
The Bush Family's Bloody Pals: Florida a Sanctuary for Terrorists 7/10
The Tarantula Tango: Despair & Hope in the Body Politic 7/10
Bush, the Taliban, and the Death of John O’Neill 7/10
The Fourth of something: Call panic tactics what they are—propaganda 7/10
From the Archives: Governor Deadbeat - Bush Makes a Killing While Arlington Stuck With Fee 7/10
Economy Poll at a Glance 7/10
J.C. Watts’ Exodus From Congress: Is GOP’s “Big Tent” Move Losing Steam? 7/10
Settlement Reached in Florida Vote Lawsuit 7/10
Crime And The President's Restatement of Yearnings 7/10
The Last Defender of the American Republic? An interview with Gore Vidal 7/10
"AMERICA is as wide open to terrorist attack today as it was on September 11 despite billions of dollars spent on heightened security and the establishment of an entirely new government department tasked with defending the American homeland." 7/10
Bush on corruption / Will he get tough, or punt? 7/10
Auditing Reform, Do or Die 7/10
Who Let Terrorists Attack America? 7/10
Clearing the Air: Why I quit Bush's EPA 7/10
Squaring Off Over Nominee: As hearings on Bush's pick for surgeon general near, there are many allies and critics. 7/10
‘Extremely Disturbing’ - Multiple Investigations Into Police Conduct After Videotaped Arrest of Teen 7/10
Investors blast government, see ominous signs in charts 7/10
Family planning clinic shot during off hours. Wanna Bet Ashcroft Never Goes After These Domestic Terrorists? Despicable. 7/10
Cops, FBI lied about probe, juror says; Woman speaks out on Earth First trial after gag order lifted 7/10
Did Bush Just Say, "I Did Not Have Sexual Relations with those Shares of Stock"? 7/9
REPOSTED: Beyond the Corporate Malfeasance of Bush and Cheney, There's the Completely Irresponsible Appointment of Thomas "Enron" White as Our Secretary of the Army. Just Run the War on Terror the Enron Way. We are Betrayed. 7/9
NAACP Rates Election Reform 7/9
Institute for Policy Studies uncovers $7 billion in public assistance for Enron's global operations 7/9
"We have to clean out the misguided conservative politicians who helped create the conditions in which the corrupt could thrive." 7/9
Is the Harken Oil Scandal Dead in the Water? A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary 7/9
Lie Father, Lie Son: With the Bushes, Lying is a Family Tradition, a BuzzFlash Reader Commentary 7/9
"US soldiers stormed the homes of Afghan villagers after they were bombed in a US air-raid last weekend and barred people from treating their wounded relatives, outraged Afghans said here." 7/9
Halliburton, Here We Come. Of Course, the Setup is Pitt Clears Cheney, Just As Poppy Bush's SEC Chairman Buddy and Junior's Personal Lawyer (SEC General Counsel) Did Not Indict Boy George When Poppy Was Prez. It's the Bush Way! 7/9
Washington, D.C., Registers Domestic Partners for the First Time 7/9
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Greg Palast, Media Hero. Give the Man a Round of Applause! 7/9
When In Doubt, Stamp Your Feet and Yell, "I'm Going to Take Care of Saddam Because My Daddy Told Me Too" 7/9
Republicans Won't Ask the Question. Most Democrats Won't Ask the Question. But Forbes Will: "Where are the Indictments"? 7/9
WorldCom Execs, Ex-Auditors Clash 7/9
MUST READ: A 1992 Mother Jones Article on the Highly Questionable Business Practices of the Busy Family 7/7
Bigotry in Islam — And Here 7/9
Text of Dim Son's Monday "I'm Not a Crook" News Conference 7/9
Paul Krugman in the Guardian 7/9
A Brit Journalist Gets Slimed by the Right 7/9
Pious Pledgers All 7/9
Anthrax Suspect Worked with Right Wing South African Party 7/9
KEEP YOUR EYES ON HARKEN OIL, A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION 7/8
Company Man: Frank Carlucci, chairman of the Carlyle Group 7/9
Senators reject Enron excuses 7/9
A TRUE AMERICAN HERO WAS REMEMBERED BY A TRUE AMERICAN ZERO, A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION 7/8
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
The message is that "everyone is accountable," he said. Everyone in America but Boy George, the Dim Son. 7/9
Right Wing Media Guru Brent Bozell Gets Taken to the Cleaners by World Wrestling Entertainment. Bozell Will Fork Up $3.5 Million (of his right wing contributors?) Money and Apologize. 7/9
John Ashcroft, "J'Accuse" But We Have No Emile Zolas in America, Just Rich Journalists Happy that the Frat Boy is Giving Them Upper Income Tax Breaks. 7/9
The New Expanded Post-September 11th Edition of "The Bush Dyslexicon," by Mark Crispin Miller
The July 8th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.)
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.
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Defence failure keeps US in firing line 7/9
The Christian Right Flexes Its Muscle at the Texas Republican Convention 7/9
US fails to tackle Bermuda loophole 7/9
From the Archives: Crony Capitalism (The Carlyle Group) Goes Global 7/9
Pennies an Hour, and No Way Up: The Conditions of Sweatshop Workers 7/9
Mirror's Bush attack angers US shareholder 7/9
NAACP chairman again assails Bush administration 7/9
The Pol and The Pendulum: How A Republican Used His Personal Connections to Influence Newspaper Coverage and The Editor Who Quit Over The Matter 7/9
After the Bombing, Unspeakable Horror 7/8
Daschle Calls for Release of Bush's SEC File 7/8
A Laugh Riot: A Kinder, Gentler Bob "Bonehead" Barr 7/8
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Joe Conason on the Shady Financial History of One George W. Bush 7/8
Many African-Americans view GOP as enemy 7/9
DASCHLE SAYS HARVEY PITT IS THE PITS: BUSH DEFENDS HIS PITT MAN "FOR DOING A GREAT JOB"
BOY GEORGE AND DICK CHENEY SHARE CORPORATE CORRUPTION STORIES TO CHEER EACH OTHER UP
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
Tom Ridge tipped to be Cheney's successor 7/9
Al Qaeda Figure Hidden by U.K. Intelligence-Report 7/9
Young HIV Carriers Unaware of Virus 7/9
Yucca Mountain protesters rally 7/9
Bush's Appointments Mostly Retreads 7/9
The Anthrax Attacks: Questions Nobody Wants To Ask 7/9
A Pledge to Establish Religion 7/9
Offshore firms like Tyco free of SEC order-WSJ. Is This How Harvey Pitt Gets Tough? They Should Throw Harvey Pitt in Jail. 7/9
A Black Republican Wises Up and Opts Out 7/9
Judge's Ruling Indicates Part of PATRIOT Act Is Unconstitutional 7/9
The Ugly Lie About Vouchers 7/9
TV Ads Question Bush/Cheney on Corp. Responsibilty 7/9
REPOSTED MUST READ: Bush Violated Security Laws Four Times, SEC Report Says. A Buzz Flashback
The Role Of The Board Of Directors In Enron's Collapse, Prepared By The Permanent Submcommittee On Investigations Of The Committee On Governmental Affairs United States Senate 7/9
A Rebellion of True Patriots May Be Brewing 7/8
WHY ALL HARD-WORKING AMERICANS HAVE BEEN BETRAYED BY GEORGE W. BUSH: THE TRUTH ABOUT HARKEN OIL
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
Any Veteran in Georgia Who Votes for Saxby Chambliss in Georgia is UnAmerican and Should Ask For Forgiveness Before God 7/8
Report: Powell Says "Bastards Won't Drive Me Out" 7/7
BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison -- "July 4th"
A BuzzFlash Interview With Greg Palast-- Cruella's Letter, Venezuela, and Dan Rather
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
THE LIGHTER SIDE:
BUSH VOWS CRACKDOWN ON CORPORATECORRUPTION UNLESS IT HAPPENED IN 1990 7/10
These Are Ironic Times 7/9
It's Arthur Andersen Night at the Ball Park 7/9
Stonewalling Pigs, by Bill Mitchell 7/10
How Dare Your Company.... 7/10
Minority Report 2 7/8
Enron Eyes Wide Shut 7/8
Curious George W. 7/8
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