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A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
Buzzflash isn't just celebrating 9 years of feisty online progressive journalism this year, we are celebrating a reader-supported, corporate advertising free model of a pro-democracy, sustainable, liberal community.
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On May 11th, BuzzFlash Celebrates Nine Years of Pro-Democracy Journalism. It's Our Birthday!
A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
May 11, 2009, marks the 9th anniversary of BuzzFlash.com, which began as an impassioned, feisty progressive news and commentary site out of disgust.
'They're rioting in Africa' -- And What Else Is New?
A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
by Christine Bowman
Most Baby Boomers probably remember a song that captured the widespread, out-of-control feelings that for many defined the Sixties. The anthem was about the nuclear threat hanging over the world (then as now):
Merry Minuet
They're rioting in Africa (whistling)
They're starving in Spain (whistling)
There's hurricanes in Flo-ri-da (whistling)
And Texas needs rain
This Holiday Season BuzzFlash Needs Your Financial Support, Just Buy Progressively
A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
Begun in May of 2000, BuzzFlash was among a lonely group of progressive Internet sites agressively challenging the then seemingly invincible right wing juggernaut.
Shortly before and then after 2004, other large sites, some such as the Huffington Post with big investors and brand identity, came online. And, of course, there is the incredible progressive mansion of blogs known as Daily Kos.
But for years, BuzzFlash was out there alone, at first living on nothing but the adrenalin of its editor and publisher.
Christmas 2007: Amazing Grace
William Wilberforce Advocates for the Abolition of the British Slave Trade in the Film "Amazing Grace"
A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
It might come as a surprise to non-history majors that American slavery was a legacy of our nation's years as a colonial outpost of the British Empire.
Burma, Darfur and Democracy -- The Bush Betrayal
A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
None other than Alan Greenspan, touting his recent book, said once again what we all know: the Iraq War – as the Iran War will be – is primarily about oil.
Throwing Congressional Tantrums Won't Keep the Bush Administration from Its Domestic Spying for Political Purposes
It hasn’t taken much courage to go out on a limb, as we did in our BuzzFlash editorial yesterday, to claim that the Bush Administration is almost certainly amassing its illegal and legal domestic spying powers for primarily partisan purposes.
No, it’s not courage. It’s just common sense.
We recently laid out the Bush Administration/Rovian three-pronged game book for firmly controlling election outcomes and unilaterally determining the law in the United States -- and don’t think Rove’s long-term strategy for one-party rule is going away, even if he has officially resigned from the White House (remember that this is the crew that openly and brazenly stole the 2000 election, and Rove hasn’t resigned from being a strategist for the Republican Party.)
Bush Administration Has Been Using Illegal Wiretapping and Spying Activity for Political Purposes. Doubt It?
A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
In an under covered trial in a California courtroom, a Constitutional drama of major significance is unfolding.
Is Mitt Romney Brainwashing Us?
A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
According to the headline on an AP story, Mitt Romney claims that his Iowa "straw poll victory" wasn’t "hollow," which would distinguish a turnout so low that it wouldn’t fill a megachurch from the hollow candidate himself.
When Will America Awaken from "The Bush Ultimatum"?
A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
If you don’t like a thinking-person’s action film or don’t want to know some of the details of the just-released "The Bourne Ultimatum," then stop reading here.
