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Bizarre: Bush Pondered Strike Against Alleged Al-Qaeda Site in Kurdish Controlled Iraq
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Bumbling Bill Simon Could Help the Democrats Sweep to Victory 8/20
No, Bush is Not Really Reading This Book, We Bet. But the White House Propaganda Machine Wants You to Think He's Reading the Book, Which is the Real Scary Part. It's About a President Who Doesn't Listen to "Whiny Generals." Oh My God! 8/20
The "Bush Knew" Bumperstickers, A BuzzFlash Premium
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The New Expanded Post-September 11th Edition of "The Bush Dyslexicon," by Mark Crispin Miller
Israel Pulls Troops Out of Bethlehem 8/20
One Flew Over the "Imus" Nest -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution 8/20
The Bush Doctrine: 2001-2002 - The Angry Liberal 8/19
"Blinded By The Right" by David Brock
Iraq Offensive a Tough Sell for the Bush Cartel 8/20
Ken Starr Raises Money for Bob Barr and Praises His Role in the Attempted Overthrow of the U.S. Government Through Entrapment (read down in article) 8/20
A Highly Recommended Musical Revue Satire on Bush: Get the CD Now! "Hail to the Thief: Songs for the Bush Years"
BuzzFlash's Favorite Topic: The Bush War Hawks are Really Chicken Hawks 8/20
Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute Is Back!
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Report: Fewer Guards At Nuclear Plants 8/20
The BuzzFlash Mailbag for August 19th - Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, And All-american
Russian Copter Crashes, Kills 85 8/20
Court Rules Exxon Must Pay Dealers for Inflating Gas Prices 8/20
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US 'backed Saddam's use of chemical war on Iran' 8/20
BuzzFlash World Media Watch for August 19th, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.)
Lieberman Decides to Get Tough on Corporations After All, Sort Of 8/20
CNN chief claims US media 'censored' war 8/20
"Wealth and Democracy" by Kevin Phillips. A BuzzFlash Premium. The influence of money on government is now, more then ever, a hot political issue.
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.
Republican Senator Loses Half of His Campaign Funds in the Stock Market 8/20
Bush Wages War, But for Whom? -- A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary 8/20
Texas pastor charged in wife's brutal slaying 8/20
The banks that led $365 billion in telecom lending have avoided big losses. The folks they used to offload the risk weren't so lucky. 8/20
Bush May Evaded Taxes on the Sale of the Texas Rangers 8/20
Laugh Riot: Bob Novak Says Ashcroft Has Too Many Liberals Influencing His Decisions. Hey, Mr. Novak, Stop Drinking Those Martinis for Lunch. You're Getting Real Goofy. 8/20
New Candidate for Israeli Premier Seems to Energize the Left 8/20
Another Step Toward Tyranny: Police can now be drafted to enforce immigration law, Raising Concern Among Civil Rights Advocates
America's Shooting Gallery Was Busy This Weekend (Scroll Down) 8/20
Superfund's Last Gasp: "Democrats want to reinstate the corporate taxes that once paid for Superfund cleanups. But the plan will go nowhere fast if a special industry coalition gets its way." 8/20
Airports Seek Bag Screening Delay 8/20
Chapel Hill's summer reading assignment on the Quran is an academic exercise, not religious indoctrination 8/20
Miami Christian Coalition Leader Arrested 8/20
The Oregon Pacific-Green Party Declines to Run a Candidate for Senate 8/20
Child Neglect Cover-up in Jeb Bush's Administration? 8/20
The Bush Trust Deficit: US, Global Problems Require Sense Of Duty, Not Entitlement 8/20
New Airlines Hazard: Don't Board a Plane With a Passenger Who is Having a "Delusional Episode" 8/20
Iraq hawks have Bush's ear. That's Because they Couldn't Find his Brain. 8/20
Houston Police Department Raid on Kmart lot leaves shock, anger 8/20
Barron's Exec's Lewd, Nude & Rude Tale 8/20
Is Our Children Learning? Paul Begala Knows the Answer to That Question
Anti-Abortion Fake Anthrax Mailer Gets 19 Years 8/20
Sinking Pacific states slam US over sea levels 8/20
Revolting: Woman loses stoning death appeal. Outrageous! 8/20
True Confessions of a Media CEO 8/20
A BUZZFLASH.COM INTERVIEW WITH THE CO-AUTHOR OF “Forbidden Truth: U.S. Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy and the Failed Hunt for Bin Laden"
Vinson & Elkins Lawyers proud of role at Enron 8/20
Enron Sues Knight Ridder, Tribune 8/20
Florida DCF won't publicize photos of 500 missing children. They're Concerned About Privacy Issues. Whose Privacy, A Kidnappers? 8/20
Bin Laden Vanished, but Al Qaeda Still Threat, U.S. intelligence experts say. 8/20
Lame duck Armey becomes Bush critic 8/20
G.O.Panic: Blame Clinton and Pass the Ammunition 8/20
U.S., Russia tussle over deadly anthrax sample; U.S. officials have made repeated requests for vaccine-resistant strain 8/20
The Death Convoy of Afghanistan: Witness reports and the probing of a mass grave point to war crimes. Does the United States have any responsibility for the atrocities of its allies? 8/20
Who Owns Water? 8/20
Leading Indicators of Economic Activity Fall 0.4% 8/20
Supreme Court Set for Free Speech Cases 8/20
Jeb Bush Fulfills GOP Promise To Attack African-american Leaders 8/20
Credibility Questions Surround Jeb Bush DCF Appointment 8/20
Split over Iraq grows more public 8/20
UN evidence of Taliban massacre; Leaked report says 960 died in sealed containers 8/20
"Two George Bushes," Sample Song from "Hail to the Thief CD"
Terror Leader Abu Nidal Found Dead 8/20
Nuclear Safety slipped in 1990s, NRC told; FirstEnergy admits rules were ignored 8/20
Indiana GOP Rep Hostettler offends cancer survivors 8/20
The GWB Authoritarian Quote of the Day 8/20
Israel, Palestinians agree to 'Gaza and Bethlehem first' withdrawal plan 8/20
U.S. Testing: Nuclear Testing Will Probably Resume, Pentagon Adviser Says 8/20
U.S. companies sold Iraq the ingredients for a witch's brew 8/19
Iraq: In All But Name, The War's On
Unbelievable: Bush Administration Advocates MORE Tax Breaks! 8/19
CNN Begins Showing al-Qaida Tapes 8/19
Palestinians Promise to Keep Peace 8/19
U.S. Troopers Wounded in Afghanistan 8/19
Iraq war to carry a high tab 8/19
Did the Reagan Administration Supply Saddam Hussein With Anthrax? 8/19
Democrats Worry About Iraq as Issue: Debate on War Seen as Diversion From Economy. Duh! 8/19
Original 1998 Posting On Reagan Administration Authorization of Supplying Anthrax Strain to Iraq 8/19
REPOSTED: A clear and present danger: Ashcroft scheme simply chilling 8/19
"Last November, America's Afghan allies asphyxiated hundreds of surrendering Taliban prisoners by transporting them in sealed cargo containers en route to a prison in Northern Afghanistan and they buried them in a mass grave"
After Reading This Houston Chronicle Editorial, BuzzFlash Realized the Bush Family is Close to the Saudi Family Because They Both Share a Vision of a Family Run Government 8/19
The Bush Cartel Will Wait Until the Last Moment -- and Then Jam a War Against Iraq Down Our Throats, Like It or Not 8/19
Militia Group Targets Ohio Police Officers 8/19
Were the Wargames Rigged? From the Army Times. 8/19
What Were You Doing in 2002 Grandpa? 8/19
"A group of 32 prominent US conservatives wrote to Mr Bush to urge him not to go to Johannesburg" for the World Summit on Sustainable Development 8/19
Economy Stuck in Gridlock 8/19
Wall Street's Mascot, by Molly Ivins 8/19
Of death penalty, politics, presidents 8/19
Democrats Decry Jeb's Florida Child Agency Pick 8/19
"They Hiring Over There?" 8/19
Blockbuster Revelation: Reagan Administration Aided Iraq Against Iran, Aware that Iraq Was Using Chemical Weapons
Deconstructing Recent Supreme Court Decisions: It's Not Very Pretty 8/19
A Satire on Jeb Bush's New Head of the Florida Department of Children and Families 8/19
The president of a counterterrorism consulting firm has been charged with possessing 2,352 unregistered small military missiles.
Forensic Expert Says Anthrax Attacks Were Work of Defense Department Insider 8/19
"Women protesters in Nigeria have again occupied an oil facility belonging to ChevronTexaco to back demands for amenities and jobs, company officials said on Friday" 8/19
Lead roles still rare for Latinos in politics 8/19
Lesbian women display their pride along parade route in Costa Mesa in first event of its kind to hit Orange County 8/19
The Oily Stench from the White House
Bush Administration Squanders Taxpayers' Money in Utah Land Deal 8/19
Daschle does not want to give "this president or any president dictatorial powers that compromise the checks and balances that our founding fathers recognised." Thank You, Tom, Thank You! 8/19
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF, the US general who commanded allied forces during the Gulf War, joined a growing number of senior US military and political figures yesterday who are opposed to a unilateral invasion of Iraq 8/19
Closemouthed at the Justice Department 8/19
Mayor Bush of the Potemkin Village of Economyville, by Molly Ivins 8/19
Don Bates, who proclaimed himself one of the "God guys" in his campaign for School Board, quit the race Friday after the Times confronted him with his having been arrested and charged with masturbating in public 8/19
Simon Trails Davis by 17% Points! 8/19
Dick Gephardt's Mission to be Majority Leader 8/19
John Kerry Website 8/19
U.S., Free of Treaty, Plans Missile Defense Test 8/19
California assembly passes needle sale bill 8/19
"Threats of a U.S. invasion will not help persuade Iraq to allow investigators in to verify whether Baghdad has eliminated its weapons of mass destruction" 8/19
"Regarding Al Gore, Part I: The 2000 Election" -- Southern Style by Rebecca Knight 8/17
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison - Democracy in Iraq, Democracy in America 8/13
Gracie Allen Meets Inquiring Minds, P.M. Carpenter's Fifth Columnist 8/12
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 8/19
More Republicans Come Out Against A War With Iraq, by Bill Mitchell 8/19
The Dubya Chronicles 8/19
Equal Time with Bob Boudelang 8/20
President's Pledge to America's Seniors: Full Medicare Coverage for Preventative Embalming & Cremation 8/20
Bush Professes Profound Gratitude to Pioneer Club 8/20
Proof That We Haven't Strayed Far From Our Simian Ancestry 8/18
These Are Ironic Times 8/20
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