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BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

Now that BuzzFlash has passed 13,000 followers on Twitter and is one of the largest liberal communities on Twitter, we've seen a few progressive range wars shoot back and forth.  As one of our colleagues, Brent Budowsky, wrote us earlier, however, for the progressives of Massachusetts it's time to bury the hatchet between the incremental pragmatists and passionite idealists and get out the vote for Martha Coakley.

There will be plenty of time to armchair quarterback Coakle ...

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BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

After 10 years (in May) of being the feisty, tenacious progressive online publication, BuzzFlash is facing a decimating financial shortfall.

By now -- to many of our readers -- BuzzFlash appears to be a street beggar always hat in hand.  But at this point, our existence is at stake, ironically on the year of our 10th anniversary.

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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.

What makes BuzzFlash different and worthy of your financial support?

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A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

May 11, 2009, marks the 9^th anniversary of BuzzFlash.com, which began as an impassioned, feisty progressive news and commentary site out of disgust.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.)

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