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• Buzzflash Gift Certificate for a Progressive America BuzzFlash
• Turn Off TV! Like, Really. Revolutionary Clicker that will Turn off Any North American Television from 1-20 (possibly as far as 50) Feet Away (As Long as You Can Point Invisible Infra-Red Light at Television). Can't Stand FOX in a Bar? Your Relative Giving You a Headache by Watching CNBC But Hid the Remote? Listening to Hannity in a Laundromat Giving You a Headache? This is a Remarkable, Inexpensive Device! Use It Now. TV B Gone
• Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream (Hardcover): New, The Book That Explains Why We are Under Threat as a Nation from the Enemies Within Our Own Country. To Understand the Holocaust Museum and Tiller Murders, Read This Book. 672 Pages By Leonard Zeskind
• Second Biography of I.F. Stone, the Icon of Internet Investigative Journalism 50 Years Before the Internet. "American Radical: The Life and Times of I. F. Stone" (Hardcover). Released on May 26th. 592 Pages. By D.D. Guttenplan
• "Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free" -- BuzzFlash Gives This Book Four Stars for Its Insights Into Modern American Ignorance. Inscribed to BuzzFlash Readers by Mark Karlin, Editor and Publisher of BuzzFlash. Charles P. Pierce
• All Governments Lie: The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone (Paperback). I.F. Stone is the Patron Saint of "Truth to Power" Journalism. By Myra MacPherson
• "Moyers on Democracy" (5/5/09 Paperback Edition) By Bill Moyers
• The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right (Paperback) -- Fascism on the Airwaves Could be the Downfall of Democracy and a Shooting Rebellion in Which We are the Enemy By David Neiwert
• Banned Cartoons from the New York Times: All the Art That's Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn't) (Hardcover) By Jerelle Kraus, Former Art Editor of the NY Times Op-Ed Page
• Yes We Can: Barack Obama's History-Making Presidential Campaign in Stunning Full-Color Photographs. Photographed by Scout Tufankjian
• White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son (Paperback) Tim Wise
• Why We Hate Us: American Discontent in the New Millennium (Hardcover) -- Fresh from the Colbert Report By Dick Meyer
• State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind By Bryant Welch
• Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age (Hardcover) Maggie Jackson, with a Foreword by Bill McKibben
• The World According to Tomdispatch: America and the Age of Empire (Paperback) Edited by Tom Engelhardt
• Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio: America's Ten Worst Hate Talkers and the Progressive Alternatives (Paperback) By Rory O'Connor, With Aaron Cutler
• The Latest from George Lakoff: The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain (Hardcover) George Lakoff
• Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in America (Paperback) Donna Brazile
• Outright Barbarous: How the Violent Language of the Right Poisons American Democracy (Paperback) Jeffrey Feldman
• Now in Paperback! Al Gore's "The Assault on Reason" Al Gore
• Free Ride: John McCain and the Media (Paperback) David Brock and Paul Waldman of Media Matters
• The Mammoth Book of Cover-Ups: The 100 Most Terrifying Conspiracies of All Time (Paperback) Jon E. Lewis
• Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America (Hardcover) Eric Alterman
• So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits--and the President--Failed on Iraq (Paperback) Greg Mitchell, Preface by Bruce Springsteen, Foreward by Joseph Galloway
• What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics (Paperback) Edited by Andras Szanto, Introduction by Orville Schell
• Truth and Consequences: Special Comments on the Bush Administration's War on American Values (Hardcover) Keith Olbermann
• Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment (Hardcover) By Anthony Lewis
• The Assassination of Hugo Chavez, A New Greg Palast DVD Greg Palast
• Nation of Secrets: The Threat to Democracy and the American Way of Life (Hardcover) Ted Gup
• Shooting War (Hardcover) "The most-anticipated graphic novel of the year." By Anthony Lappe (Author), Dan Goldman (Author)
• Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & 'Project Truth' (Paperback) Robert Parry
• Liberty and the News (The James Madison Library in American Politics) (Paperback) By Walter Lippman, With a Foreword by Ronald Steel, And an Afterword by Sidney Blumenthal
• The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics (Hardcover) By Jonathan Chait
• Censored 2008: The Top 25 Censored Stories (Paperback) By Peter Phillips (Editor), Andrew Roth (Editor), Project Censored (Editor), John Jonik (Illustrator), Dennis Loo (Introduction)
• Soulless: Ann Coulter and the Right-Wing Church of Hate (Hardcover) By Susan Estrich
• Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision (Paperback) By Thom Hartmann, With an Introduction by Jim Hightower
• Media Unlimited, Revised Edition: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives (Paperback) By Todd Gitlin
• The Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right-Wing Ideas Keep Failing (Hardcover) By Greg Anrig
• It's Getting Ugly out There: The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Who Are Destroying America (Hardcover) By Jack Cafferty
• Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State (Hardcover) By Norman Solomon
• Valerie Plame Wilson's "Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House" (Paperback) By Valerie Plame Wilson
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover) By Naomi Klein
• The Hidden Persuaders (Paperback Republication) Vance Packard
• Paul Krugman's "The Conscience of a Liberal" (Hardcover) By Paul Krugman
• The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation (Revised Edition with new preface and afterword) By Tom Engelhardt
• Propaganda (Paperback) By Edward L. Bernays, With an Introduction by Mark Crispin Miller
• Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush (Paperback) By Robert Parry, Sam Parry and Nat Parry
• Mission Al Jazeera: Build a Bridge, Seek the Truth, Change the World (Hardcover) Josh Rushing
• Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy (Paperback) Stephen Duncombe
• 100 Ways America Is Screwing Up the World (Paperback) John Tirman, With a Foreword by Howard Zinn
• The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation (Hardcover) Drew Westen
• A Mighty Heart: Original Audio Book. The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, Danny Pearl. (5 CDs) Read by Mariane Pearl. Mariane Pearl
• Fair and Balanced, My Ass!: An Unbridled Look at the Bizarre Reality of Fox News (Paperback) By Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer
• Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics and Promise of Sports (Paperback) By David Zirin
• The Last Days of Democracy: How Big Media and Power-Hungry Government Are Turning America into a Dictatorship (Paperback) By Elliot D. Cohen and Bruce W. Fraser
• What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running America (Paperback) By Melissa Rossi
• Al Gore's "The Assault on Reason" (Hardcover) -- Now Shipping By Al Gore
• Framing the Debate (Paperback) By Jeffrey Feldman, Introduction by George Lakoff
• Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans--Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild. Expanded Paperback Edition Greg Palast
• Anatomy of Deceit: How the Bush Administration Used the Media to Sell the Iraq War and Out a Spy (Paperback) By Marcy Wheeler
• Bloodthirsty Bitches and Pious Pimps of Power: The Rise and Risks of the New Conservative Hate Culture (Hardcover) Gerry Spence
• Kill the Messenger: How the CIA's Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb (Paperback) Nick Schou, With an Introduction by Charles Bowden
• Thinking Points: Communicating Our American Values and Vision -- A Progressive Handbook (Paperback) by George Lakoff and the Rockridge Institute
• Mission Unaccomplished: TomDispatch Interviews with American Iconoclasts and Dissenters (Paperback) By Tom Engelhardt
• How to Steal an Election: The Inside Story of How George Bush's Brother and FOX Network Miscalled the 2000 Election and Changed the Course of History (Paperback) David W. Moore
• Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media (DVD) Directed by Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick
• Brainless: The Lies and Lunacy of Ann Coulter Joe Maguire
• The Greatest Story Ever Sold: Bush's America from Mission Accomplished to Heckuva Job, Brownie (Hardcover) Frank Rich
• Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back (Hardcover) Amy Goodman, David Goodman
• The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Mess in Iraq (Paperback) Sheldon Rampton, John Stauber
• Censored 2007: The Top 25 Censored Stories (All Copies Will be Signed by the Editor and Publisher of BuzzFlash.com) Peter Phillips and Project Censored
• Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media (Paperback) Jeff Cohen
• Confessions of a Former Dittohead (Paperback) Jim Derych
• How Democrats and Progressives Can Win: Solutions from George Lakoff (DVD) George Lakoff
• Left of the Dial (DVD)
• Bushopedia: A Comprehensive Alphabetical Guide to George W. Bush, the Bush Administration, Other Aspects of the Far Right, and Related Topics. by Bill Potts
• Watchdogs of Democracy? : The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Has Failed the Public (Hardcover) by Helen Thomas
• 101 People Who Are Really Screwing America (And Bernard Goldberg is Only #73) (Paperback) by Jack Huberman
• Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush (Hardcover) by Eric Boehlert
• Orwell Rolls in His Grave (DVD); Updated Re-Release by Robert Kane Pappas
• This Divided State (DVD)
• Tragedy and Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy (Hardcover) by John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney
• Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election & Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them) -- New Expanded Paperback By Mark Crispin Miller
• Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power (Hardcover) by Mary Mapes
• The Death of Media: And the Fight to Save Democracy (Paperback) by Danny Schechter
• Photo of Rupert Murdoch and his Gun, Signed by Director Robert Pappas
• Fog Facts: Searching for Truth in the Land of Spin by Larry Beinhart
• Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O'Reilly (Paperback) by Joseph Minton Amann, Tom Breuer
• Good Night, and Good Luck (Widescreen Edition DVD)