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The Justice Department has rebuffed House Judiciary Committee efforts to check up on its use of new antiterrorism powers in the latest confrontation between the Bush administration and Congress 8/15
Firefighters Vote to Boycott Bush Sept. 11 Tribute Because Bush Cut Back Funding of Fire Departments In Order to Put Many in the Pockets of the Wealthy Through Rip-off Tax Cut 8/15
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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison - Democracy in Iraq, Democracy in America 8/13
Who Will Fight the War Against Iraq? - A BuzzFlash Editorial
President Says Economy Will Overcome 'Problems'. Does That Mean He's Quitting? 8/15
BuzzFlash's Cartoonist, Eric Harrison, Makes the Media News, Part I: Houston Press 8/14
Bush Tack on Budget is Off, by Hillary Rodham Clinton 8/15
Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute Is Back!
BuzzFlash's Cartoonist, Eric Harrison, Makes the Media News, Part II: Poynter.com (second article) 8/14
Conason: Bush’s TV Show Lacking in Reality 8/15
Bush Wants to Continue to Consolidate Power in the Executive Branch (Think Dictatorship) in the Guise of Homeland Security. Will the Democrats in the Senate Have the Spine to Stand up for the Constitutional Separation of Powers? 8/15
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BuzzFlash World Media Watch for August 14th, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.)
Israel-Palestinian Talks to Resume 8/15
ABA Picks First Black President 8/15
Back by Popular Demand, "Money" (req. Flash) 8/15
Texas GOP Goes Negative on Kirk 8/15
Mention of Large Group of Bush Protestors in Milwaukee at END of article 8/15
Dowd: Surfing the Economy 8/15
Kurd's Shunning of U.S. Meeting Seen as Blow to the White House 8/15
Two Pages are Not Enought 8/15
Giving the Country the Business 8/15
Democrats in the Senate Should Follow the Example of Senator Kerry and Start Slamming the Bush Administration for Its Shoddy, Shoot-from-the-Hip Isolationist Foreign Policy 8/15
South Dakota Farmers Should Have Known What They Were Getting Into When They Voted for Bush 8/15
A Battle Brews in North Carolina 8/15
An Imaginary Homicide 8/15
Mayor of D.C. Finds Itself in a Bit of Pickle 8/15
United Says May File for Bankruptcy 8/15
The Press and Al Gore, by Gene Lyons 8/15
'If attacked, Israel might nuke Iraq' 8/15
Homeland Dept. Could Take Years 8/15
Texas Executes Man Despite Pleas 8/15
Texas U.S. Senate Race a Dead Heat; Cornyn and Kirk Separated By Less Than One Percentage Point In New Poll 8/15
Bush's neighbors offer a reality check 8/15
At 80, Fritz Hollings Will Finally Become South Carolina's Senior Senator 8/15
WeAllCount.org 8/15
A Sunny Thing Happened at the Bush Forum: Tough Economic Issues Get Little Attention 8/15
Maybe the Republican Congressman from California Can Explain Why He Was Meeting with the Taliban Just Prior to 7/11? And What About Grover Norquist, Karl Rove's Evil Double? 8/15
GOP-Picked Token of "Inclusion" Loses in Colorado Primary 8/15
Deputy Attorney General Larry D. Thompson Sued Personally For Alleged Stock Fraud Involving Abuse Of Official Position 8/15
Neo-Nazi Leader in Germany Was British Agent. Say What? 8/15
Group Accuses DOJ Official of Securities Fraud 8/15
Liberalism And The Prevent Defense 8/15
Broward County, Florida election chief scrambles to find 3,000 poll workers 8/15
A court has barred the Federal Election Commission from releasing files on dozens of investigations to groups suing to try to overturn the nation's new campaign finance law. 8/15
Bush Denies Millions In Funding To Fight Wasting Disease 8/15
Transgender Teens Killed On D.C. Street 8/15
Koreas Reach Agreement on Reunions 8/15
Yeoman Service on Homeland Security 8/15
"This is one of those startling turns of events that, upon reflection, surprises no one — FBI Assistant Director John Collingwood has announced his retirement." 8/15
Propaganda office won't win over the world 8/15
A dangerous disregard: The Bush administration's defiance of the Constitution in dealing with Americans labeled enemy combatants may have finally met resistance in the courts. 8/15
A Long Road of Broken Promises for Black Farmers 8/15
Avista, Enron and El Paso Electric Under Federal Probe 8/15
Global warmth for U.S. after 9/11 turns to frost 8/15
Michigan Legislature Overrides Republican Gov. John Engler's Veto 8/15
From Stars and Stripes Letters: "It’s time for leadership the military can trust. It’s time for the gang of four to go!" (4th letter from 8/7) 8/15
"Two George Bushes," Sample Song from "Hail to the Thief CD"
Report: Climate Change Threatens the Future of Marine Ecosystems 8/15
Jeb Bush's effect on crime not good 8/15
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
Bob NRA Barr Has His Thugs Rough Up Yosemite Sam 8/14
Bush Says U.S. Needs Medical Malpractice Reform. We Think The U.S. Needs Bush Reform. 8/14
Latest Anthrax "Investigation" Twist 8/14
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A BUZZFLASH.COM INTERVIEW WITH THE CO-AUTHOR OF “Forbidden Truth: U.S. Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy and the Failed Hunt for Bin Laden"
Princeton New Jersey Mailbox from Last Fall Just Tested Positive for Anthrax? No, BuzzFlash Can't Explain Why It Took So Long. 8/14
The Real Bush and Cheney in Texas 8/14
A Highly Recommended Musical Revue Satire on Bush: Get the CD Now! "Hail to the Thief: Songs for the Bush Years"
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
Smog Cloud in Asia Threatens Millions 8/14
Poll Shows Public Divided On Iraq
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
The BuzzFlash Mailbag for August 14th - Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, And All-american
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
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
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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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
Hatfill's Novel: Bioterrorism Attack in D.C. Leads to War Against Iraq. Now That's Quite a Coincidence, Wouldn't You Say? 8/14
The Confidence Game 8/14
Judge Skewers U.S. Curbs on Detainee 8/14
Bush's Fake Economic Forum
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
Gracie Allen Meets Inquiring Minds, P.M. Carpenter's Fifth Columnist 8/12
The "Bush Knew" Bumperstickers, A BuzzFlash Premium
A BuzzFlash Interview with Anti-Jeb "Caravan of Cause" Organizer, Suni Haught 8/8
The Angry Liberal - The Angry Liberal's Interview with Katherine Harris 8/5
Read if You Haven't Already: "Call Me Liberal" -- Southern Style by Rebecca Knight
A BuzzFlash Interview with Mark Crispin Miller, Author of "The Bush Dyslexicon"
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
THE LIGHTER SIDE:
This Week's Top Ten Conservative Idiots 8/12
The Dubya Chronicles 8/12
Equal Time with Bob Boudelang 8/12
These Are Ironic Times 8/13
When Asked How Ignorant He Is, Bush Was Only Able to "Show" Reporters Using His Golf Clubs 8/14
Clueless in Waco 8/15
Bush's Mother of All Sandtraps, by Bill Mitchell 8/10
Who's Going to Tell Me How to Fly This Turkey? 8/12
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