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My Island, My Country - A BuzzFlash Guest Commentary from Novelist John Westermann
Bush Makes Baby Cry 8/8
Bogota hit by deadly blasts as president sworn in 8/8
Vets blast Gramm on Viet Memorial 8/8
A Highly Recommended Musical Revue Satire on Bush: Get the CD Now! "Hail to the Thief: Songs for the Bush Years"
"Two George Bushes," Sample Song from "Hail to the Thief CD" (See Above, Requires Audio)
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison - Full Frontal 8/6
Karen Hughes and George Bush Couldn't Stay Apart! What Will Laura Say? 8/8
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Saudis Tell Boy "Oil" George. Don't Attack Iraq from Here. 8/8
Another CEO Who Fleeced Shareholders. It's an Epidemic of Harken/Halliburton/Enronomics in Corporate America and in the White House. 8/8
The Gun Guys are Waiting for You at GunGuys.com! 8/8
Cheney Visits Ca. and Shuns Tainted Simon 8/8
The New Texan: Why George Bush is scared of Ron Kirk. 8/8
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.
Cheney Called "Corporate Crook" by Protestors in N. Calif.; Also Sets Conditions for 2nd Term. Um, That Would Be IF We Don't Impeach The Whole Bunch Before Then. There's Still Two Years Left, Unfortunately. 8/8
Joe Lieberman's Home City Paper Excoriates him for Supporting the Stalinist TIPS Program. Is Joe "Republican Lite?" He Heads a Senate Committee that Could Have Blown the Lid off Corporate Malfeasance, But Only Went Through the Motions. 8/8
An internal investigation has cleared Interior Secretary Gale Norton of misconduct. Internal? Okay, How About a Real Investigation Next. 8/8
A "Widening" Enron Probe. When We See Ken Lay in Handcuffs, We'll Believe It. 8/8
Cheney Praises Halliburton, Won't Discuss Probe 8/8
Military Loses Two Laptops At Afghan War Center, "including one with classified information" 8/8
From the Rumsfeld Office of Disinformation and Confusion Department 8/8
Rumsfeld's coup d'intel: One small step for DOD, one giant misstep for the USA 8/8
Mr. Corporate Reform? Dems have to hit the president in his ideology. 8/8
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The BuzzFlash Mailbag for August 7th - Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, And All-american
Top Execs Slide Away From Mess: "Surely Lay and the other chieftains at Enron ought to be charged with criminal malfeasance of some sort" 8/8
IMF Announces $30B Loan for Brazil 8/8
15 Die as Afghan Army Base Attacked 8/8
BuzzFlash World Media Watch for August 7th, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.)
Whether or Not You Agree with the Premise of This Site, It Has Great Details About September 11th 8/8
Bush Faces Criticism from Lawyers 8/8
Oreilly-Sucks.com Gets a Letter from a FOX Lawyer 8/8
Lessons from Sri Lanka, by Thomas Friedman 8/8
Bill Simon insists his role in ill-fated partnership was limited, but court papers show he was involved in every phase. 8/8
The Grand Hypocrisy Candidate for Governor in Tennessee Live Up to His Party's Name 8/8
ImClone's Founder Waksal Indicted 8/8
The Karl Rove Soften Up Bush's Image by Having Him Carry a Dog Down the Steps of the Plane Shot 8/8
A BUZZFLASH.COM INTERVIEW WITH THE CO-AUTHOR OF “Forbidden Truth: U.S. Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy and the Failed Hunt for Bin Laden"
Saudi Arabia Won't Allow U.S. Troops For War with Iraq. 8/7
"For this kind of thing to happen you have to have politicians who have no qualms about playing Big Brother; officials whose partisan loyalty trumps their professional scruples; and a press corps that ... lets the people in power get away with it."
Bush's Cuban conflict 8/8
The New Expanded Post-September 11th Edition of "The Bush Dyslexicon," by Mark Crispin Miller
Court Rules that D.C. Mayor Will Not be on the November Ballot 8/8
Don't Forget About the Shooting Adventures of Bob Bonehead Barr! 8/8
A Big LOL for FBI Alert 8/8
Bush Readies To Block a Strike. Anything He Can For Big Business, He Will. Remind Me Again Why People Voted For This Putz? 8/8
Is Our Children Learning? Paul Begala Knows the Answer to That Question
Widespread Water Violations Decried 8/8
Federal judges escape ethical punishment 8/8
Disillusioned Latin America shifts to left; Poor economies breed opposition to free market 8/8
The Florida Election Mess and Katherine Harris 8/8
FBI subcontracts war on terror to Fox TV show. (Salon Premium, but the blurb is worth a visit) 8/8
Female travelers object to N.C. airport search 8/8
Double standard on bankruptcy 8/8
Vt. Election Spending Limit Upheld 8/8
Don't let Florida "Dream Team" go to waste 8/8
Bombs and speed kill in Afghanistan: U.S. pilots using uppers and downers to pull 8/8
Feds Argue Against Opening Hearings: Government Argues Deportation Hearings for Co-Founder of Islamic Charity Should Remain Closed 8/8
More Civics Lessons for Justice 8/8
Bush Signs Trade Bill, Restoring Broad Presidential Authority 8/8
US military 'readies for Iraq action' 8/8
U.S. Asks Court to Dismiss ABM Pact Withdrawal Suit 8/8
Conflict could soon be nuclear 8/8
Bush Makes Six Recess Appts, Including Dorr as Undersecretary of Agr., who "lacked the judgement, outlook and temperament for this very important post for rural America," said Sen Agriculture Committee Chairman Harkin, D-Ia. 8/8
Two Charged With Stealing Donations, "including donations to a fund for Afghan children." 8/8
A survivor's tale: The bomb dropped on Nagasaki killed 74,000 people, injured as many again and left millions homeless. Poet Fumiko Miura, who was then a 16-year-old resident of the city, remembers that apocalyptic day 8/8
Shadows and fog: The new American way? 8/8
Bush raises money for Mississippi congressman 8/8
The Rush to War 8/8
Was that an election in 2000 (in which, if you recall, the loser won)? Or was it a coup d'etat?
Bush Administration Defies Our Court System on Defining "Enemy Combatant": Declares Executive Branch to Have Complete Police State Powers Over Such Matters
New Detainees flown into Guantanamo 8/8
Bush Administration May Actually Help Some Cold War-era nuclear weapons workers exposed to toxic chemicals. Isn't that Compassionate? 8/8
Bush Administration Defies Order on U.S. Detainee 8/7
Chicago Tribune Editorial: Insufficient Evidence on Iraq
What are We Fighting For When the Bush Administration Continually Suppresses Our First Amendment Rights? 8/7
"Some Republicans in Congress have begun to rebuff the White House on foreign policy, posing an unexpected obstacle for President Bush" 8/6
F.B.I. Faces Inquiry on a False Confession From an Egyptian Student 8/7
Weighing a Just War or Settling an Old Score? 8/7
Bush Uses Congressional Recess to Appoint Another Incompetent Boob to Serve Our Nation 8/7
China Warns of Potential Military Action Against Taiwan 8/7
Fudging the Economy 8/7
In the intelligence wars, a pre-emptive strike by the Pentagon surprises many in Congress 8/7
Even if Joe Lieberman Doesn't Know He Was Elected Vice President, The GOP Does 8/7
The Ashcroft and Bush Master Plan to Make America a Stalinist State of Spies 8/7
In Michigan, Democratic Primary Voters Give the Nod to First Female Candidate in State History. Bonior Loses Bid for Top Job. 8/7
MUST READ! Excellent Analysis of the Failure of the Democratic Party to Mount an Aggressive Attack on the Bush Administration 8/7
Bush's Fancy Financial Footwork: "for four years in the early 1990s, Bush was a director of a company that ultimately collapsed under the weight of its junk-bond financing and management mistakes." 8/7
UPDATED! The Dangers of Hypocrisy - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary 8/7
"Blinded By The Right" by David Brock
Cuomo Takes on Counter-Productive New York Drug Laws 8/7
The Saudi PR Campaign 8/7
Starbucks Vs. Childcare in Seattle 8/7
Dow Gains 230 After Three Day, 692-point losing streak. 8/7
Doubleday accuses baseball of attempting to manufacture 'phantom losses' 8/7
Hundreds of Steel Workers Protest Bush in Downtown Pittsburgh, Separated by a Fence, of Course. After All, this is George "Franco" Bush's Country, Not Ours. 8/6
Charges of Ethical Lapses by Federal Judges Rarely Lead to Discipline 8/7
Brazil warns US it must lower trade barriers 8/7
September 11th Attack Inadvertently Caught on Wiretap Recording 8/7
Cheney vacationing in Jackson Hole for Most of August. Must Be Nice to Have So Few Responsibilities. 8/7
2000 Olympic fixing charges raised 8/7
Green candidate for New Mexico governor certified, placed on ballot 8/7
Covert Action in Iraq Seen As Dicey 8/7
Gore Isn't Anti-Business. He's Anti-Corrupt, Greedy Business Practices. Makes Sense to Us. 8/7
Florida Democrats Win New Primary Ballot Language: State Drops The Word "Pair" From Ballot; Democrats Drop Legal Action 8/7
W. and the Coal Miners: Photo-op Cover for Anti-worker Policies 8/7
For Bush, Perils of Golf-Cart Diplomacy Resurface 8/7
Texas Border town fights for cleanup of pesticide plant's leftovers 8/7
John Nichols: Where's the debate over continued stop bombing of Afghanistan? 8/7
Montana GOP's Offshore Banking Is a Bust 8/7
Public Citizen calculates that potential IRS fines for the Bush-Cheney recount fund’s disclosure omissions could reach $850,000 – 35 percent of the total "to which a failure relates." 8/7
Palestinians Lose Their Lifelines: West Bank Villagers Cut Off From Jobs, Doctors, Shops 8/7
Oil Instead Of Blood: "The word "war" is delusional. It's the word we use when we want to kill others and justify it." 8/7
Democrats fear use of terror war for political gain 8/7
Ending Secret Detentions 8/7
More fraud: Haunting the GOP 8/7
Bush Wants ABM Treaty Case Tossed; Rep. Kucinich, the lead plaintiff, has said the president must first seek the consent of Congress before pulling the United States from the treaty. 8/7
Government Is Slow to Offer Safety Plans: Local, National Offices Have Yet to Disclose Advice People Could Use in a Terrorist Attack 8/7
In Surreal Development, Bush Administration Routes TIPS Calls to TV Show "America's Most Wanted" 8/7
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The Angry Liberal - The Angry Liberal's Interview with Katherine Harris 8/5
The "Bush Knew" Bumperstickers, A BuzzFlash Premium
Read if You Haven't Already: "Call Me Liberal" -- Southern Style by Rebecca Knight
The Quackery of Bipartisanship, P.M. Carpenter's Fifth Columnist 7/31
A BuzzFlash Interview with Mark Crispin Miller, Author of "The Bush Dyslexicon" 7/19
A BuzzFlash Interview with Joe Conason, columnist with the New York Observer and Salon, and co-author of The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton
Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute. On Vacation This Week!
THE LIGHTER SIDE:
This Week's Top Ten Conservative Idiots 8/5
President Bush Awards Posthumous Blue Ribbon of Integrity to Richard Milhous 8/8
Habitually Drunk Bush? An Odd Story Placement. 8/8
Bush Shows Everyone Where He Keeps His Talking Points. 8/8
Conquer and Confuse in Florida 8/8
Mansion for Free 8/8
These Are Ironic Times 8/6
Placebo -- The Bipartisan Prescription Drug Plan, by Bill Mitchell 8/6
Equal Time with Bob Boudelang 8/5
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