What Dems Can Learn From Richard Nixon About Campaigning During a Stupid War
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
The conflicts in Iraq and Vietnam have been increasingly compared for their growing similarities. Both are unnecessary failures leading to the deaths of thousands of Americans and innocent people, among other things.
Bill Clinton Is Campaigning For Joe Lieberman - Verse-Case Scenario
by Tony Peyser
The first time I got wind of this
I thought that it might be a hoax:
It's not and I'm so mad I might
Start telling some Monica jokes.
Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for July 21, 2006
BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE
Today's war in Iraq is reminiscent of another war in which a rag-tag bunch of militia men, fighting for their cause, whipped the greatest super power existing in the world at the time--The American Revolutionary War!
Who Will Prosecute Bush for a Double Felony?
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
We just wanted to repeat again -- because the mainstream press, with few exceptions, is letting it pass, as are the Democratic leaders on the Hill -- that Bush has now committed a double felony.
World Media Watch for July 21, 2006
WORLD MEDIA WATCH
WORLD MEDIA WATCH FOR JULY 21, 2006
1//The Financial Times, UK--ANTI-WEST BACKLASH IS GATHERING PACE, WARNS TURKISH MINISTER (Hesitation over Turkish membership of the European Union and US policies in the Middle East are causing an anti-western backlash in Turkey, the foreign minister warned yesterday. … "Moderate liberal people [in Turkey] are becoming anti-American and anti-EU," he said. "If our young, dynamic, educated and economically active people become bitter, if their attitudes and feelings are changed, it is not good. Their feeling has changed towards these global policies and strategic issues. This is dangerous.")
Greg Palast: They Don't Call it The "White" House for Nothing; Bush at the NAACP Convention
God lost this time. I counted: Bush mentioned God only six times in his speech to the NAACP today. The winner was "faith" -- which got seven mentions, though if you count "The Creator" as God, well, then the Lord tied it.
BuzzFlash Mailbag for July 19, 2006
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Bush's Free Trade Agreement with Oman Will Endanger Port Security and Worker Conditions
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
The Oman Free Trade Agreement (OFTA) was passed today by the House, 221-205. The Senate passed it last month in a 60-34 vote. Americans should be troubled by two important aspects of OFTA: it endangers our autonomy over port security and it provides little protection against slave labor conditions.
U.N. Says 14,000 Iraqis Have Been Killed In 2006 - Verse-Case Scenario
U.N. Says 14,000 Iraqis Have Been Killed In 2006
by Tony Peyser
Bush doesn't care and never wished them well
The only life he wants to save is a stem cell.
DeLay's PAC Pays FEC $115,000 for Breaking Campaign Finance Laws
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT
The Federal Election Commission identified numerous violations of the law by Tom DeLay's Americans for a Republican Majority political action committee (ARMPAC), prompting a $115,000 civil penalty, one of the largest in FEC history. ARMPAC failed to report and improperly used hundreds of thousands of dollars during the 2002 election.
