Stories by Robert Scheer
Robert Scheer is Editor in Chief of Truthdig, where he publishes a weekly column, and author of a new book, The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America.
Posted on Mar 30, 2012, Source: Truthdig
The Roberts Court invariably sides with the powerful over the weak.
Posted on Apr 27, 2011, Source: Truthdig
Why are mainstream news outlets so quick to publish news unearthed by WikiLeaks, but wary of reporting the truth about Manning?
Posted on Apr 20, 2011, Source: Truthdig
Tax breaks over the past decade that left corporations paying little or no taxes were supposed to lead to job creation. But just the opposite has occurred.
Posted on Mar 17, 2011, Source: Truthdig
After the Japanese nuclear disaster, cavalier dismissals of the problems with nuclear power are no longer acceptable.
Posted on Feb 17, 2011, Source: Truthdig
Obama should be punishing the banks that sabotaged the American dream of home ownership -- instead he's giving them the whole enchilada.
Posted on Jan 26, 2011, Source: Truthdig
Obama was mealy-mouthed in avoiding the tough choices that a leader should delineate in a time of trouble.
Posted on Dec 30, 2010, Source: Truthdig
Unemployment is dismal, housing prices have fallen for four months in a row, but Obama's former budget director is having no problems cleaning up on Wall St.
Posted on Oct 27, 2010, Source: Nation Books
For Wall Street, the holy grail was not cash handouts but a deconstruction of the complex public-private partnership ushered in by Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.
Posted on Sep 7, 2010, Source: Democracy Now!
With so much opportunity, why has Obama presided over such an economic disaster?
Posted on Aug 19, 2010, Source: Truthdig
Are the Republicans terminally stupid or are they just playing the dangerous fool?
Posted on May 12, 2010, Source: Truthdig
Government regulation of multinational corporations needs to be made respectable once again with adequately funded agencies pursuing an uncompromised public interest agenda.
Posted on Mar 10, 2010, Source: Truthdig
The Academy liked this Iraq film for being "apolitical." In fact it's the opposite: an endorsement of the politically chauvinistic view that the world is a stage for Americans.
Posted on Dec 31, 2009, Source: Truthdig
There is no "war" against terrorism. What George W. Bush launched and Barack Obama insists on perpetuating does not qualify.
Posted on Dec 10, 2009, Source: Truthdig
Obama’s faux populism is beginning to grate, and I finally came unglued when one of his "we the people" e-mails from him landed on my screen.
Posted on Nov 13, 2009, Source: Truthdig
On the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, it's worthwhile to remember that ending a stupid, harmful war is the most admirable thing a great leader can do.
Posted on Oct 22, 2009, Source: Truthdig
If we could get one of the banking lobbyists to float a duct-taped flying saucer balloon, Wolf Blitzer might cover the real hoax.
Posted on Oct 16, 2009, Source: Truthdig
The 13 Dems on the Senate Finance Committee get one faintly rational GOPer to join them in a meaningless stab at health care reform, and it throws them into a tizzy.
Posted on Sep 11, 2009, Source: Truthdig
The way he's headed on Afghanistan, Barack Obama is threatened with a quagmire that could bog down his presidency.
Posted on Aug 26, 2009, Source: Truthdig
In a political world dominated by bipartisan cynicism, there are few touchstones of integrity for the common folk -- Kennedy was one of them.
Posted on Jun 27, 2009, Source: Truthdig
Americans are now $14 trillion poorer. Many who thought they were middle class have now joined the ranks of the poor.
Posted on Jun 18, 2009, Source: Truthdig
Summers and Geitner finally condemned the Wall Street shenanigans they once abetted. But will this mean any real change in Obama's policy?
Posted on May 15, 2009, Source: Truthdig
Nancy Pelosi is no Dick Cheney, nor a George Bush. But her failure to fight the Bush Administration's torture policies is a betrayal of public trust.
Posted on Mar 19, 2009, Source: Truthdig
Those who stole billions in 401(k)s of innocent victims were rewarded handsomely, rarely needing to break the laws their lobbyists purchased.
Posted on Jan 26, 2009, Source: Truthdig
As Obama gets down to work, can he really break with the past?
Posted on Jan 7, 2009, Source: Truthdig
There is a widespread acceptance, beginning with the apologetic arguments of President Bush, that whatever Israel does is always justified.
Posted on Dec 11, 2008, Source: Truthdig
If tough love is good enough for financially strapped families, why have a poverty program for troubled corporations?
Posted on Nov 12, 2008, Source: Truthdig
Why are Obama's closest advisers inveterate hawks who needlessly provoked tension with the Russians during the Cold War?
Posted on Oct 23, 2008, Source: Truthdig
Let's hope Obama continues to rely on economic advisers whose vision for the country extends beyond their own bank accounts.
Posted on Oct 8, 2008, Source: Truthdig
McCain is not a perfect replica of George W. Bush. But neither man seems to have any sense of how we actually live or what we need from government.
Posted on Oct 1, 2008, Source: Truthdig
Instead of applauding representatives who, for once, heeded the public, the pundits blasted those who dared get out of line.
Posted on Sep 25, 2008, Source: Truthdig
Smell a rat if Congress approves the Paulson plan without major modifications that might help Main Street as well as Wall Street.
Posted on Sep 18, 2008, Source: Truthdig
McCain voted for abolishing all of the significant rules put in place at the time of the Great Depression designed to prevent a repeat.
Posted on Sep 3, 2008, Source: Truthdig
We're all part of one nation. So why do the people of Alaska get a cut of oil company profits when the rest of us don't?
Posted on Aug 27, 2008, Source: Truthdig
In order to win, McCain needs a new Cold War. Lucky for him that Republicans are so good at whipping up false international threats.
Posted on Aug 20, 2008, Source: Truthdig
McCain's campaign is an irrational mix of patriotic swagger and blindness to reality that's proving scarily successful with uninformed voters.
Posted on Aug 13, 2008, Source: Truthdig
Yes, it sounds diabolical, but that may be the most accurate way to assess the designs of the McCain campaign in matters of war and peace.
Posted on Aug 6, 2008, Source: Truthdig
The deadliest biological assault on the United States may have been perpetrated by a church-going white man, with anthrax from our own weapons labs.
Posted on Jul 30, 2008, Source: Truthdig
Both candidates are scrambling to enlist the expertise of the geniuses who helped spur our economic meltdown.
Posted on Jul 23, 2008, Source: Truthdig
Like McCain, Obama seems to embrace the fundamental irrationality of Bush's "war on terror."
Posted on Jul 16, 2008, Source: Truthdig
Greedy corporations expect government hand-outs and deregulation at the same time.
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