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In Karl Rove Sham Economic "Forum," Bush Tries to Reassure Americans About the Economy: Dow Closes Down 206; Nasdaq Falls 38 8/14

"Wealth and Democracy" by Kevin Phillips. The influence of money on government is now, more then ever, a hot political issue.

Bush Budget Director Says U.S. Revenues Slipping 8/14

"Blinded By The Right" by David Brock

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The Real Bush and Cheney in Texas 8/14

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Democrats Say Bush Forum Empty, Vow Tax Cut Debate 8/14

Gray Davis Calls FERC Report a Whitewash, Saying It Doesn't Go Far Enough in Pursuing Enron. Remember When Dick Cheney Told California Its Energy Problems Were Its Own Fault. Say What Dick? 8/14

Here We Go: "U.S. Spots Activity at Iraq Weapons Plant - Report" 8/14

Jobless workers say Bush's forum overlooked them 8/14

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There are Always Bodies in America's Shooting Gallery 8/14

Feds Leave Interest Rates Unchanged 8/14

Report: Tobacco industry pressured drug makers 8/14

The Cheney Factor 8/13

Jeb's Florida Child Welfare Chief Resigns 8/14

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Amtrak Halts High Speed Service 8/14

IBM to Cut Over 15,000 People from Payroll 8/14

Operation Citizen Snitch sniffs out America's most unpatriotic 8/14

Playing a Name Game with Justice 8/14

The Rush to War 8/14

Why should your health issues be an open book for corporate America? 8/14

Bubble Capitalism 8/14

Ashcroft Plays the Rating Game 8/14

Study points to acid rain in decline of songbirds 8/14

Dirty Dealings? Bush Is Shocked ... Shocked! 8/14

Nepotism Charges May Force Disney Board Shake Up 8/14

American Citizen Held as "Enemy Combatant" Turns Out to be, Basically, a Bush Cartel Propaganda Tool 8/14

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Blind Workers Allege Bias at Firm 8/14

Tighter Airport Security Targets Toys 8/14

The New Expanded Post-September 11th Edition of "The Bush Dyslexicon," by Mark Crispin Miller

U.N. Report Says Planet in Peril 8/14

Bush Assures Americans on Economy 8/14

Strike against Iraq counters U.S. values 8/14

Bush's Lost Continent: The President promised South America close friendship, no bailouts. Why he switched on both 8/14

Repost: Who is Dick Cheney? 8/13

Iraqi Rebels' Discordant History 8/14

President Bush's Economic Forum in Waco Should Forego Public Relations And Examine the Real "Fundamentals" of the Economy, Which Are Not Sound. 8/14

Soldier Arrested For Allegedly Stealing Blocks Of C-4 8/14

12th Par. of Story: "Vice President Dick Cheney warned him the United States might consider seizing the oil fields if the Saudis persisted in their evil ways." 8/14

Ore. Measure Aims at Modified Foods 8/14

Bush risks isolating US, cautions Kissinger 8/14

Swiss decline U.S. deal to dodge war crimes court 8/14

U.S. Navy Retracts Denial of Arms Shipment to Gulf 8/14

A Site to Despise Untrained Spies 8/14

US Iraq Campaign Has Its First Engagement (halfway down in right column) 8/14

Executive Privilege: The CEO moral compass Bush ignored 8/14

The Fundamentals Of the Economy "Are Not Sound" 8/14

Judge: Navy must cover woman's abortion 8/14

Up from the Underground: The Strange and Disturbing Dick Cheney 8/14

Bush the Idiot or Bush the Fiend 8/14

Law keeps election allegations secret 8/14

US considers assassination squads; Pentagon said to be discussing use of units to work abroad 8/14

FBI Sources: Former Govt. Scientist Not Cleared Yet 8/14

Filmmaker and author Michael Moore will be on MSNBC’s Donahue. To coincide with George W. Bush’s “Economic Forum” in Waco, Texas, Moore will be hosting his own “Forum” live from Flint, Michigan. Spread the word and tune in! 8/14

NRA Attacks Illinois Democratic Nominee for Governor 8/14

John Ashcroft crowed over the arrest of alleged ‘dirty bomber’ Jose Padilla. But do the Feds have a case? 8/13

Seniors Explore the Internet 8/14

A Seismic Event in Pennsylvania: Flight 93 8/14

Armed with the Constitution, the Bible and a Gun 8/13

Gracie Allen Meets Inquiring Minds, P.M. Carpenter's Fifth Columnist 8/12

Novak: Bush hears war naysayers 8/13

The "Bush Knew" Bumperstickers, A BuzzFlash Premium

Some GOP Candidates Resist Partial Privatization of Social Security 8/13

If John Derbyshire and Ann Coulter Were to Conceive a Child, Surely It Would be the Anti-Christ. 8/13

Professor W's Welfare 101 8/13

Tacky Use of September 11th for Bush Political Gain: U.S. to Begin Fingerprinting "Aliens" on September 11th 8/13

From the Archive: Green Party Candidate in Washington State Found Himself to be a Republican Pawn 8/13

Amazing: Some Prominent Republicans are Expressing More Concern About Iraq Than Democratic Presidential Hopefuls 8/13

Florida Gov. Bush chokes up when talking about daughter on campaign trail. Who is Praying for all the Drug Users that Jeb and George W. are Putting in Jails? 8/13

BuzzFlash World Media Watch for August 12th, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.)

Ashcroft Lackey Defends TIPS, Even While Admitting It Will Produce Little of Value 8/12

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight 8/13

Making Execs Give Back the Cash 8/13

Five former Enron executives who reaped millions seek extra pay 8/13

Nat. Review says, "Don’t Start the Second Gulf War" 8/13

Krugman, "Clueless in Crawford" 8/13

Senator Carl Levin Says Going to War With Iraq Might End Up Putting Us at Risk for Weapons of Mass Destruction Being Used Against Us 8/13

Meet the 25 companies with the greediest executives 8/13

The Anthrax Files: New York Times Claims Hatfill Has Failed Three Successive Polygraph Tests

Are the Feds Closing in on Enron 8/13

Bush May Withhold Anti-Terror Funds 8/13

Must Read Letter: Analysis of Bush presidency suggests a nation overthrown 8/13

Iraq is Defiant on Weapons' Inspectors Returning 8/13

ABA Examines Selection of Judges 8/13

Two scribes finally admit that the corps borked Gore. But where were these scribes in real time? 8/13

Base Instincts: Servicing G.I.s With Women Sold Into Sexual Slavery 8/13

State Republicans keep tainted cash 8/13

Democratic Primary Foes of Katherine Harris Say They Have a Shot at Winning 8/13

Jeb Bush: If He Can't Change the Facts, He Changes the Subject 8/13

Federal mine official resists call for hearing 8/13

You Bought. They Sold. All over corporate America, top execs were cashing in stock even as their companies were tanking. Who was left holding the bag? You. 8/13

Poll: Politics, Money Erode U.S. Trust in Judiciary 8/13

Bush's snoopers plan hits backlash 8/13

Tom Paine.com Wants Your Best 300 Words 8/13

Social Security Shell Game, by Bob Kerrey and Warren Rudman 8/13

Florida pressured to do better job of finding missing children 8/13

Perot Systems sued over activities in California 8/13

SONICblue chief ousted after challenging insider loans 8/13

The Man Who Came From Nowhere: Van Hilleary's résumé is light, but his ambition is high 8/13

Bush Team Is Divided Over Getting Tougher With Saudis 8/13

Rights group: Yahoo! risks complicity with Chinese government if it keeps to Internet pledge 8/13

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A BuzzFlash Interview with Anti-Jeb "Caravan of Cause" Organizer, Suni Haught 8/8

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