Gun Industry Caught Lying for Profit in an Illinois Mailer. They are Addicted to Their Blood Money
A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
In the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, the media has placed the tragedy in a fatalistic frame. It’s as though nothing can be done, they would have us think, to stop America’s fascination with gun violence.
Bush Embraces the Culture of Death
A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
The other day, Bush read one of his pandering anti-choice, anti-stem cell research scripts glorifying the "culture of life."
How hypocritical for a man who has come to exemplify the culture of death.
One Potato, Two Potato, Hot Potato…No One Wants to be “Blamed” for Ending the Iraq War
A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
While John McCain, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney boast about the success of the "surge," April is turning out to be the deadliest month of the armed conflict in Iraq.
The Bushevik Importance of Embracing Failure
A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
Perhaps some BuzzFlash readers are right in asserting that the goal of Bushevism is chaos, because that allows them to argue for more dictatorial powers to tame the beast that they created.
Communism Ended Its Disastrous Run as a Police State with the Berlin Wall Falling. Will We See the Curtain Fall on Bushevism?
A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
Last night we saw the gripping Academy Award winning best foreign film, "The Lives of Others." It’s an absorbingly bleak movie about how individuals in East Germany were under a 100,000 person police-state apparatus known as the Stasi.
And the Bushevik Band Played On
In case you didn’t notice, Alberto Gonzales is still Attorney General (although that may change soon, with the even more unctuous and repellent Orrin Hatch possibly replacing him) – and those political hacks who were "temporarily" appointed as partisan U.S. Prosecutors are going to do their dirty work unimpeded.
Why Bush Will Pardon Libby If He Has To: Because Otherwise George and Dick Would Face Impeachment and Jail Time
A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
BuzzFlash has had a personal interest in the Libby case, since we were the second online – and for that matter journalistic source of any sort – to report on the importance of the outing of Valerie Plame in the infamous Bob Novak column.
What Does the Phrase "Support Our Troops" Mean To You? Tell Us
A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
Please use the comment section below to tell us what "support our troops" means to you.
As Professor Ira Chernus points out in an incisive commentary on TomDispatch.com, for him the phrase "support our troops" represents a holy, inviolable mantra in the American narrative.It is a phrase so hot wired into Americans, and feared to hold an omnipotent power by those on Capitol Hill, that it cannot be understood through the lens of common sense and reason: Why send more American GIs to die in a war without mission or purpose, whose only apparent definition of "victory" appears to be that the U.S. will not be perceived as losing? But no one in power can even define what not losing would be at this point.
From Little Rock to Baghdad
Little Rock Central High School: Desegregated in 1957 with the Protection of the U.S. Military
Gaper’s Block
A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
A February 16 article in the Washington Post once again revealed that the Bush-Cheney wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran are just three of their wars. (You can be sure that covert activity is underway in Iran already through surrogates or through elite U.S. military units).
