03/29/2002
The Death of Conservatism and Thus Liberalism's Demise ...
Please respond to P.M.'s commentary by leaving comments below and sharing them with the BuzzFlash community. For personal questions or comments you can contact him at fifthcolumnistmail@gmail.com. THE FIFTH COLUMNIST by P.M. Carpenter ...
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02/26/2002
McConnell and Republican's feelings on those out of work are, "I ...
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 07/27/2010 - 2:32pm. Guest Commentary. Colonel Colin J. N. Chauret, USAF Retired for BuzzFlash. Senator Mitch McConnell's answers to Candy Crowley, "CNN's State of the Union", 18 July 2010, made me angry ...
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11/28/2001
Is BP Funding Oil-Company Biased "Climate Change" Education in ...
BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH. A new report from PR Watch maintains that BP has close ties to the Alliance for Climate Education, Inc., the 'nation's largest provider of climate change education in public schools' ...
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11/28/2001
FOX Fraudcasting is a Racist Network that is the Unofficial ...
FOX Fraudcasting deserves to be named BuzzFlash Media Putz of the Decade. But then, of course, how could you deny Rush Limbaugh the honor, a man for whom racism isn't even coded; it's as blatant as a Confederate Flag at a Tea Party ...
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12/28/2001
Cut, Paste, and Waste --The GOP and Their Right Wing's Idea of ...
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Sun, 07/25/2010 - 11:57am. Shirley Smith. SHIRLEY SMITH FOR BUZZFLASH. In other words, US law in US government and elections free from the burdens of having to be rich or wealthy in order to be heard. ...
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11/28/2001
No to Oligarchy, By Senator Bernie Sanders | BuzzFlash.org
Decades ago, the corporate oligarchy clearly recognized this threat posed to their plan to destroy the middle class (so perfectly explained by Dr. Green in his article http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributors/3310) and spent a fortune ...
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12/29/2001
Not all Conservatives are Stupid, But Most Stupid People Tend to ...
STEPHEN PIZZO FOR BUZZFLASH. Okay, so it was a bad week for the race baiters on the right. After a series of successful “Obama is a racist” attacks -- Rev. J. Wright, the beer summit, and such -- they hit a sinkhole with the Shirley ...
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03/29/2002
GOP, "The Party Of No (Ideas)," Wants To Continue Saying No To The ...
General Disclaimer: Guest and Reader Contributions, News Releases and Mailbag Letters posted on BuzzFlash are the opinions of the authors and do not necessarily represent the opinions of BuzzFlash or its editors. ...
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11/27/2001
Dr. J.'s BF Commentary No. 149: Alternate Reality: McCain Wins ...
In addition to being a columnist for BuzzFlash, Dr. Jonas is also Managing Editor and a Contributing Author for TPJmagazine; a Featured Writer for Dandelion Salad; a Senior Columnist for The Greanville POST; a Contributor to ...
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02/27/2002
The Right, the Left, the Media, the Money, the Whole Damned Thing ...
This Friday as you know will hold my last column on BuzzFlash, because of the latter's melding into Truthout.org, but with my last scribbling breath I'll insist -- although likely to no avail -- that the movement left start appreciating ...
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10/30/2001
What I'd Love to See: Obama vs. Limbaugh & Co. in a Nationally ...
A family emergency called me away in this, my penultimate week with BuzzFlash, however the upside was that a few dial-turning hours on the straight open road also commanded one my semi-annual updates on the peculiar mental workings of ...
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08/29/2001
Andrew Breitbart is a Character Assassin Just as if He Were ...
More than 10 years ago, we started BuzzFlash in large part due to the unwarranted influence of the sleazebag Drudge. Now 10 years later, his protege, Breitbart, has risen in the firmament and the corporate mainstream media and the Dems ...
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12/29/2001
Are the Teachers Unions and the Democrats Headed for Divorce Court ...
SHAMUS COOKE FOR BUZZFLASH. It's best to quickly recognize the red flags in any failing relationship. This way, ties can be severed instead of allowing things to linger forever in dysfunction. For Democrats and teachers' unions, ...
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03/30/2002
Haggard's Latest Explanation For His Sins | BuzzFlash.org
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Wed, 07/28/2010 - 8:02am. Guest Commentary. TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH. Regarding his meth-gay-prostitute crisis. Ted says he “over-repented.” With that new comment, his loon status. Is now and forever cemented. ...
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10/29/2001
Shirley Sherrod, a Common American of Uncommon Courage, Shows the ...
BuzzFlash Honors. w. SHIRLEY SHERROD. As one of our readers and commentators pointed out in an e-mail to us, the Obama White House has, in the past, been highly critical of FOX Fraudcasting for its bias and even boycotted the station ...
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07/30/2001
Obama's Wam! Bam! Batman Moment, Again | BuzzFlash.org
As ever, I believe that it is the moral obligation of Buzzflash, the Huff, Truthdig, the Kos, etc., to endorse a call to arms toward the creation of a viable third party over the next two years consisting of progressives + independents ...
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09/28/2001
Right Wing Front Organizations Use Progressive Sounding Names to ...
BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH. Just released Center for New Community report charges "Apply the Brakes" and The Weeden Foundation with supporting hard-core anti-immigration agenda. If over the years you haven't paid all that much ...
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02/25/2001
Progressive News Site Truthout Welcomes BuzzFlash to Its Community ...
July 15 (Sacramento, CA) – As of August 1st, BuzzFlash.com, its long-time editor, Mark Karlin, and all BuzzFlash content will be joining the Truthout nonprofit community. Karlin will continue to serve as editor of Buzzflash, ...
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10/29/2001
The Eleven Pens Of Barack Obama: Signing Financial Reform Is ...
DANNY SCHECHTER FOR BUZZFLASH. Author of The Crime Of Our Time. With eleven pens for souvenirs, President Obama signed the financial reform bill in a rare celebratory moment. Significantly, the ceremony did not take place in the Oval ...
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09/27/2001
Message to the EPA: To Insist That Certain Areas Along the Gulf ...
JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH. It's important for the public to review what was reported yesterday (7-20-10) on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! Ask yourself if you can count on the Government and mainstream media to tell you the truth ...
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09/28/2001
A Government That is a Secrecy State is Not a Democracy ...
ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH. Under the I-hate-government, let's-drown-it-in-the-bathtub administration of George Bush and Dick Cheney, the Secrecy State swelled to such enormous proportions it required more than a dozen ...
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10/28/2001
Scotland Insists There Was No BP-Related Conspiracy In The Release ...
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Fri, 07/23/2010 - 6:51am. Tony Peyser. TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH. This sweeping denial is hardly a surprise. I somehow doubt they'd say, “We were smitten. To set free this mass murderer in order to ...
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07/30/2001
Labor Fights Back for Living Wages and Jobs For All | BuzzFlash.org
SHAMUS COOKE FOR BUZZFLASH. If the U.S. economy eventually recovers and current trends continue, U.S. workers won't be celebrating in the streets. The corporate establishment has made it clear that a “strong recovery” depends on U.S. ...
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06/28/2001
The GOP Excels at One Thing For Sure: Faking Sincerity to Hide ...
MARC PERKEL FOR BUZZFLASH. The National Tea Party Federation expelled the Tea Party Express this week over how to handle racist views. Tea Party Express leader Mark Williams decided that it was time for them to be honest about their ...
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04/29/2001
Elizabeth Warren Should be a Role Model in the Obama ...
BuzzFlash Honors. w. ELIZABETH WARREN. If virtue is bestowed by judging from one's enemies, then Elizabeth Warren may be our consumer protection Joan of Arc. After all, Timothy Geithner -- a Zelig of Wall Street appeasement and failure ...
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11/27/2000
Defense Budget Wrecks Middle Class Economy. Permanent War ...
It's interesting that Buzzflash takes a strong stand on the problem of paying for the military-industrial complex without any willingness to go at the root of these two wars. The evidence is irrefutable that the destruction of the World ...
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09/28/2001
You Just Can't Make the Audacity, Illogic, Lies, and Propaganda of ...
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Thu, 07/22/2010 - 1:33pm. Guest Commentary. READER COMMENT FOR BUZZFLASH. you can't make it up.... a right wing obama hater puts out a phony tape to stir up white people's anger. fox runs with it ...
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07/28/2001
Crude Contains about 40 Percent Methane which May Suffocate Marine ...
NIKOLAS KOSLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH. As I discovered in the course of researching my book, No Rain in the Amazon: How South America's Climate Change Affects the Entire Planet (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010), the oil industry has had a poor record ...
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01/28/2001
The Ruth Institute: Anti-Gay Public Policy Institute Stepping Out ...
In the piece titled “San Diego Anti-Gay Religious Zealots Launch Judicial Crusade” (http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributors/3245), I pointed out that Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, the founder and president of Ruth Institute appeared on the ...
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08/30/2001
To All Those Cheeky 'EMPLOYED' Republican Senators: Try Being ...
A DESPERATE UNEMPLOYED AMERICAN IN TEXAS FOR BUZZFLASH. To all those cheeky 'EMPLOYED' Republican Senators: I keep hearing the folks in Government talk about the lazy unemployed people not even trying to find a job. ...
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03/29/2001
George Lakoff: Conservatism's Death Gusher | BuzzFlash.org
GEORGE LAKOFF FOR BUZZFLASH, PART III. This is the third in a series of commentaries by George Lakoff, the master at understanding the power of language, messgaing and framing for progressives. It is a tragedy that the White House ...
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03/30/2001
Querying Obama's Troubled Success | BuzzFlash.org
I am beginning to believe that Buzzflash keeps this corporate flack (Carp) on their payroll just to rile readers like myself to check in on their website to see if he is spill spouting this so-called centrist bullshit. ...
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05/29/2001
The Tea Party Does a Striptease and It Turns Out to be the ...
STEPHEN CROCKETT FOR BUZZFLASH. The Tea Party movement has started to come unglued over a series of internal contradictions that amount to an identity crisis. The Tea Party is caught in a “Catch 22” position that has largely been ...
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09/28/2000
Right Wing Understands Saul Alinsky; Why Doesn't the Left? Thom ...
Each month or so, BuzzFlash is privileged to have nationally syndicated progressive talk show host Thom Hartmann review a progressive book or DVD exclusively for BuzzFlash. See other progressive premiums at The BuzzFlash Progressive ...
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01/29/2002
Racist Comments On His Blog Forces Tea Party Chairman To Quit ...
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 6:40am. Tony Peyser. TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH. It's the right thing for Mark Williams to do;. Many have given their upward thumbs to it. Will he ever be able to return to the party? ...
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05/28/2001
If Democrats Repeal Bush Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, We Could Bring ...
STEPHEN PIZZO FOR BUZZFLASH. Most days, these days, I am torn over which party to be more upset with, the Dumbacrats or the Repuglicans. But, when November rolls around and I have chose which chad to punch, I pick the least of evils and ...
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05/28/2001
Progressive Programs on MSNBC are in Danger. Comcast is Probably ...
Joe Scarborough, BuzzFlash doesn't know what happened to cause the death of Lori Klausitis, but we do know that you are the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week, along with Phil Griffin, President of MSNBC who banned Markos at your ...
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10/30/2001
Is Buzzflash out of material? Reader comments are now posts ...
A Buzzflash reader who commented on another post this anti-Fox screed got the surprise of a lifetime today. I can't tell if Buzzflash either liked the comment so much or if they hate Fox News even more that the editors decided to run it ...
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01/29/2001
Exciting BuzzFlash Announcement About Its Future: Moving Into Its ...
I am extremely pleased that BuzzFlash, with its more than 10 year record of progressive journalism and advocacy on the Internet, will be entering a positive new phase as of August 1. At that time, I will be joining the prominent voice ...
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06/29/2001
'Soul Of A Citizen': Village Politics -- Rebuilding Engaged ...
PAUL ROGAT LOEB FOR BUZZFLASH. How do we respond to a political landscape where Meg Whitman can spend $80 million on her primary candidacy alone? Or where, aided by the ghastly Citizen's United Supreme Court decision, right-wing groups ...
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01/29/2001
The Republican Party is Dead; Only the Name Survives the Deceased ...
MARC PERKEL FOR BUZZFLASH. People are talking about how the Republicans might do in the elections this November. I say they can't win because the Republican party no longer exists. Those who claim to be the Republicans aren't. ...
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07/30/2001
Senator Bernie Sanders Urges President to Name Elizabeth Warren to ...
BuzzFlash couldn't agree more with the following news release from the office of Senator Bernie Sanders, a BuzzFlash reader. WASHINGTON, July 20 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) urged President Obama to pick Elizabeth Warren to be the ...
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02/28/2000
Dr. J.'s BF Commentary No. 146: It Ain't Gonna Happen, Frank ...
See an earlier BuzzFlash column of mine. Heaven help the DLC-Democrats, both Obama and Harry Reid, to at least make the GOPers actually filibuster items, much less challenge the whole undemocratic system. ...
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07/28/2000
The Lies We Live By in Politics | BuzzFlash.org
SHIRLEY SMITH FOR BUZZFLASH. "I lie, therefore I am, The existentially Ambiguous Image in Politics "Lies We live By," Carl Hausman, 2000. Throughout his book, Hausman gives ten lists of ten guidelines for becoming better informed about ...
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02/27/2001
It Comes Down to This: We Can't Go On Like This. | BuzzFlash.org
ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH. Today's big news stories — the wars, the eco-disasters — all seem to have the same gaping hole in them. This hole is lack of awareness, and its thrum, once you begin to hear it, soon becomes deafening: ...
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12/30/2001
"Oilpocalypse" in Canada or Vampire Blues: Suckin' Blood From the ...
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Sun, 07/25/2010 - 6:01pm. Guest Commentary. CHRIS GENOVALI FOR BUZZFLASH I'm a vampire, babe, suckin' blood from the earth. I'm a vampire, baby, suckin' blood from the earth. Well, I'm a vampire, babe, sell you ...
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02/28/2000
We Have a Corporate Media That Covers up the Truth Instead of ...
Okay, BuzzFlash started in May of 2000 because of disgust with two things: 1) the lack of a backbone in the D.C. Democratic poobah leadership, and 2) the stenographic regurgence of Republican talking points by the corporate mainstream ...
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01/28/2000
Larry Flynt Urges Sen. Vitter (R-Louisiana) to Donate "Diapers and ...
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Fri, 07/02/2010 - 6:53am. Alerts. Larry Flynt Urges Sen. Vitter to Personally Contribute to BP Oil Spill Clean-Up. Hustler Publisher requests Senator to donate “diapers and other personal items” to control ...
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01/30/2001
Yes Republicans Could Retake Congress--And Democrats Should Be ...
DEE EVANS FOR BUZZFLASH. Okay, this is the kind of backwards thinking that has the Democrats in the constant turmoil that they frequently find themselves in. Now, Nancy Pelosi and other leaders in the Democratic Party are blasting ...
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10/30/2000
In Torrential Rain, Protesters Confront AZ Gov. Brewer at National ...
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Sat, 07/10/2010 - 7:10pm. Alerts. BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT. The following is a July 10th news alert from the ANSWER Coalition: Today, a dramatic protest took to the streets of Boston to protest the presence of ...
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02/26/2001
Right Wing Rallies Around Tea Party After NAACP Calls Them Racists ...
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Thu, 07/15/2010 - 5:33pm. Tony Peyser. TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH. The protesters pictured in this TPM link. In my mind a single thought produces: They've gathered together but all forgot ...
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12/30/2001
We Thought That We Were Electing a Prius, and Got a Tank Instead ...
MARK KARLIN FOR BUZZFLASH, EDITOR'S BLOG. If you value this BuzzFlash commentary, please help us keep the lights on by contributing at the BuzzFlash Progressive Marketplace. It's tragically ironic that while Obama appropriately fired ...
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08/28/2001
After “Refudiate” Gaff, Palin Compares Herself To Shakespeare ...
I have a little Shakespeare "Quote of the Day" app on my iGoogle page next to BuzzFlash's… Today's quote is below: randomly selected! We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind. —W.S. ...
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02/26/2002
Afghanistan, America's Longest War, and the Perfect Arc of Failure ...
MARK KARLIN FOR BUZZFLASH, EDITOR'S BLOG. When the invasion of Afghanistan occurred not long after 9/11, there were repeated stories -- if one looked deeply enough -- of both speculative and proven involvement of a pro-Taliban, ...
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11/27/2000
Republicans are Really Free Loader Advocates of Something for ...
But as BuzzFlash noted in its "Media Putz" Award this week, the media and the Republicans, in particular, all want it done for free, basically, including all the government services at the local, state and federal level that they ...
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01/29/2001
The Death Gusher in the Gulf Should Tell Us to End Offshore ...
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Wed, 07/14/2010 - 7:30am. Guest Commentary. GEORGE LAKOFF FOR BUZZFLASH. SAVE, BABY, SAVE! A barrel saved is a barrel not needed — ever! The Death Gusher in the Gulf should tell us to end offshore drilling ...
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05/30/2002
"In Guns We Trust": New Supreme Court Motto for U.S. | BuzzFlash.org
And the death toll mounts as a result. BuzzFlash doesn't think Jesus would walk around shoulder holstered and locked and loaded. The Supreme Court has just changed one of our nation's mottos from "In God We Trust" to "In Guns We Trust." ...
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06/27/2000
Civil Rights and Super Bowls: Ronald Reagan Rides Again ...
Whether he should be honored with a day (http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributors/3294) is another question being asked. Earlier this year, with his tongue firmly planted in cheek, the Los Angeles Times' Tony Pierce threw out some ...
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05/29/2002
From the 1953 CIA Overthrow of Democracy in Iran, to the Iraq War ...
MARK KARLIN FOR BUZZFLASH, EDITOR'S BLOG. If you were to draw an oily line from the first exploitation of oil in the Middle East by the British in 1901 (they were in the process of converting their then world dominating naval fleet from ...
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03/28/2002
Look Out: The Gloves are Off and as Usual the New York Times is ...
NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH. Look out: the gloves are off and as usual the New York Times is determined to destroy Hollywood filmmaker Oliver Stone. On Friday, the paper published not one but two critical articles about the director's ...
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07/28/2000
For Obama, 2012 Is in the Bag | BuzzFlash.org
So when are Buzzflash and other so-called progressive websites going to begin to serve as a focal point for a serious discussion regarding a **real** third party to prevent someone like Palin (or Beck, et al) from getting the nuclear ...
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06/29/2000
Our Strange Tyranny of "the Majority" | BuzzFlash.org
Honestly Buzzflash, why do you continue to allow Carpy to post his convoluted, obtuse lies and propagnada on your so called "Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude" website? Either get rid of Carpy or stop calling this a ...
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07/29/2000
Disaster Messaging by the Democrats: It Could be Fatal to ...
So when is Buzzflash going to begin to serve as a focal point for a discussion regarding a **real** third party, not a 4% party but one that has the gravitas to prevent someone like Palin (or Beck, et al) from getting the access codes ...
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05/29/2000
Republicans are Seriously Funny, or Are They? | BuzzFlash.org
So when is “Buzzflash” going to begin to serve as a focal point for a discussion of a **real** third party, not a 4% party but one that has the gravitas to prevent someone like Palin (or Beck, et al) from getting the access codes to the ...
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08/29/2000
From the Hall of Fame of Hypocrisy, The Heritage Foundation ...
In a recent BuzzFlash piece about the Reagan administration, the BP oil spill and deregulation (http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributors/3266), I wrote: “During the 1980 presidential campaign, the Heritage Foundation burst onto the ...
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10/29/2000
"Class Warfare" Was Created by the GOP with Unconscionable Tax ...
BuzzFlash Honors. r. CNN. When, according to “punditry conventional wisdom,” CNN is referred to as the “balanced” cable news network by the corporate mainstream media, you know that we have a problem America. ...
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08/30/2001
BuzzFlash Media Putz - The Corporate Press | Scoop News
For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than the citizens of America.
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10/29/2000
Former Bush DOJ Attorney Allowed to Spread Lies on CNN | BuzzFlash.org
Buzzflash these days is swamped by DLC and RNC astroturfers pushing this kind of junk. This was supposed to be a progressive site but Mark has allowed it to degenerate into a corporate party astroturf site. ...
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12/29/2001
Mission Accomplished: The Reagan Occupation and the Destruction of ...
DAVID MICHAEL GREEN FOR BUZZFLASH. If you value this BuzzFlash commentary, please help us keep the lights on by contributing at the BuzzFlash Progressive Marketplace. Eighty years ago, something occurred in America that was never ...
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01/28/2001
ACORN Vindicated But At What Cost?
The right-wing radicals, aided and abetted by mainstream corporate media, will lie, cheat and steal to try and eliminate left leaning voters, but the truth will win in the end: "The ACORN story falls apart. ...
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03/29/2001
BP: Eco-Terrorism Inc. They Should be Prosecuted, Tried and ...
In fact, BuzzFlash just a short time ago awarded our coveted "Wings of Justice Award" to 7 Greenpeace Activists who -- during the height of the BP oil Gulf catastrophe -- were arrested and threatened with being charged as eco-terrorists ...
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01/28/2002
Jonathan Westminster: "The 15% Solution," Serialization, 6th ...
The trade paperback version of the original edition of The 15% Solution is available on BuzzFlash.com. Both the trade paperback and hardcover versions of the original edition can also be found on Amazon.com and on BarnesandNoble.com. ...
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03/30/2001
Hurricanes and the Warming Effect of Our Fossil Fuel Economy ...
NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH. As the dreaded hurricane season starts to ramp up, many wonder what kind of impact a perfect storm might have upon the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The first hurricane of the Atlantic season, Alex, ...
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04/28/2000
The Glory of White-Wing Politics: The Racism That Never Goes Away ...
SHEILA SAMPLES FOR BUZZFLASH. "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress...but then, I repeat myself." --Mark Twain. Much has been written -- argued heatedly by ideological TV pundits -- over the past several ...
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09/27/2000
The Founder of Greenpeace Knew that Aggressive Advocacy and Civil ...
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Sat, 07/10/2010 - 8:56am. BuzzFlash Honors. w. JIM BOHLEN. As we become more used to protesting electronically on a variety of technological marvels, it's worth honoring and remembering Jim Bohlen who founded ...
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10/29/2001
Terminating a Runaway General? Yes. But the Crying Need is to ...
NORMAN SOLOMON FOR BUZZFLASH When the wheels are coming off, it doesn't do much good to change the driver. Whatever the name of the commanding general in Afghanistan, the U.S. war effort will continue its carnage and futility. ...
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08/30/2001
BP Oil Catastrophe Unleashes a Hidden Toxic Killer of Life and ...
NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH. If you value this BuzzFlash commentary, please help us keep the lights on by contributing at the BuzzFlash Progressive Marketplace. In surveying the environmental damage unleashed from the BP oil spill, ...
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05/29/2000
State-Owned Banks: Putting Money Back in the Hands of the People ...
LORENZO A. CANIZARES FOR BUZZFLASH. Michigan has an unemployment rate of 14 percent, and has been particularly hard hit by the economic downturn. Verg Bernero, Mayor of Lansing, the state's capital, and a leading democratic candidate ...
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09/28/2001
The Sliming Of Shirley Sherrod | BuzzFlash.org
TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH. The guy behind this, Andrew Breitbart,. It's fairly easy to see. Got his start with Drudge and basically. Was Matt's Mini-Me. If he's behind a story, the mainstream press. Should open up their eyes ...
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05/30/2000
The Reliability of Human Ignorance | BuzzFlash.org
Donalee King, writing for the San Diego Examiner, shouts more truth from a bastion of Republican political strength than I see coming even from "progressive" BuzzFlash lately. "We are hard working Americans that you let down," she ...
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08/29/2000
Russian Spies Get Quick "Justice" While Wall Street Criminals ...
DANNY SCHECHTER FOR BUZZFLASH. 1500 Bankers went to Jail After the S&L Crisis. Almost None Today. By Danny Schechter, author of The Crime of Our Time. We just witnessed justice on steroids. Ten Russian “spies”—even if we still don't ...
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09/27/2001
A Government That is a Secrecy State is Not a Democracy ...
A Government That is a Secrecy State is Not a Democracy BuzzFlash (blog) A 22-year-old Army intelligence analyst, Pfc. Bradley Manning, the apparently conscience-stricken whistleblower who passed the video on to WikiLeaks, . ...
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06/29/2000
The War Drones On, Ceaselessly Without End | BuzzFlash.org
BOB KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH. “Complaints about civilian casualties have also stirred concern among human rights advocates.” The problem is that a sentence like this — arguably a dead sentence, with a few quasi-facts entombed in an inert ...
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04/29/2000
If Bill Clinton Can Solve the BP Oil Leak, Why Can't Obama ...
We occasionally get E-mails and comments from readers criticizing BuzzFlash for posting articles or commentaries that they disagree with. BuzzFlash tries to represent a range of progressive views. Our editorials and editor's blogs state ...
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08/30/2000
Progressives: Divided We Fall. Keep Your Eye on the Prize of ...
When I started BuzzFlash in May of 2000, before Bush was put in the White House by the Supreme Court, progressives and Democrats in general were looking for a voice to call out the Republicans for what they are: Bullies, Liars, ...
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01/29/2001
How the Reagan Revolution Succeeded: Strangling Government in a ...
MARK KARLIN FOR BUZZFLASH, AN EDITOR'S BLOG. As President Obama pleads for a measly $50 billion to prevent teachers, fire men and women and police from being laid off, any frank analysis of trends in U.S. economic policy -- despite the ...
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03/30/2002
Inner Beauty: The Enterprising Kitchen Cooks up Employment ...
The innovative nature of The Enterprising Kitchen is what convinced us at BuzzFlash that they'd be a perfect fit in our Progressive Marketplace. Of course, it didn't hurt that they make great stuff. The high-quality, all-natural soap ...
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01/28/2002
Texas Nationalist Movement Wants the Lone Star State to Become an ...
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Sat, 06/26/2010 - 8:45am. Alerts. BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT. The following E-mail BuzzFlash received merits our wackiest news release of the week award. Only Sarah Palin could fully appreciate it. ...
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11/29/2000
Obama Needs to Decide Which Side He's On: Corporatist or Populist ...
Can Buzzflash be used in some way to give that legs? Can we even communicate with one another any longer by email on Buzzflash? If the latter is true, please write me and let's chat in private on how we can get this going. ...
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10/29/2000
Reagan's Legacy of Deregulation Goes Haywire in the Gulf ...
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Fri, 06/11/2010 - 4:38am. Guest Commentary. BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH. The oil spill in the Gulf is the product of decades of conservatives pounding for deregulation, Cheney-era manipulation of federal ...
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08/29/2001
Below the Radar: HUD is Trying to Privatize and Mortgage Off All ...
GEORGE LAKOFF FOR BUZZFLASH. The Obama Administration's move to the right is about to give conservatives a victory they could not have anticipated, even under Bush. HUD, under Obama, submitted legislation called PETRA to Congress that ...
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06/27/2000
Courageous, Fierce, Brazen: 3 Words You'll Never Hear Applied to ...
As BuzzFlash has noted over 10 years, form often supercedes content in American politics, and many Americans will respect courageous and bold political leadership, even if they are somewhat in disagreement about the politician's ...
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01/28/2000
Global Corporations Now Eclipse the Power of Sovereign States: We ...
Ten years ago BuzzFlash was started by me with the vision of progressive socialism, but now i feel the strength of grassroots populism where people create the change and force the corporate puppets in D.C. to flee office if they don't ...
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11/29/2001
Hypocrites and Dangerous Phonies
Body. As if further proof were needed, the final vote on the Senate Judiciary Committee and the brouhaha surrounding a speech current USDA employee, Shirley Sherrod, delivered twenty-four years ago at a Georgia NAACP event served to ...
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12/30/1999
Corporations Wanted Personhood: The Supreme Court Gave it to Them ...
Any BuzzFlash reader knows that we have praised and promoted Thom Hartmann's prescient (and now updated) "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became 'People' -- And You Can Fight Back." That is because Hartmann long ago foresaw the ...
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04/27/2001
Is There a 'Ronald Reagan Day' in Our Future? God help Us ...
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Thu, 06/17/2010 - 8:49am. Guest Commentary. BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH. February 6, 2011 is the 100th anniversary of the birth Ronald Reagan. While the official Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission is planning ...
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12/29/2001
The Myth of a Liberal Break from Obama | BuzzFlash.org
Every time I am about ready to break down and buy a "premium" from buzzflash...that I can neither afford nor do I need, I mistakenly click on yet another column by buzzflash's resident corporatist...and put my trusty wallet back in my ...
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09/27/2001
BP: The Anti-Democracy Corporation of Corruption | BuzzFlash.org
LAWRENCE S. WITTNER FOR BUZZFLASH The offshore oil drilling catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico brought to us by BP has overshadowed its central role over the past century in fostering some other disastrous events. ...
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04/28/2002
Protest Big Oil and Get Arrested; BP Pollutes the Earth with 100s ...
But, as I have stated elsewhere on BuzzFlash.com, there have been five oil state presidents since the assassination of John F. Kennedy: Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, Bushes I and II. And as has been documented by Robert Parry of ...
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07/28/2001
Limbaugh Represents a Deep and Serious Pathology in our Society ...
If you value this BuzzFlash Weekly Edition of Our Media Putz Award, please help us keep the lights on by contributing at the BuzzFlash Progressive Marketplace. Basically, the entire Limbaugh “Satan is Insinuating Your Basest Thoughts in ...
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