Stories by Robert Scheer
Robert Scheer is Editor in Chief of Truthdig and author of a new book, The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America.
By undercutting the widespread support for getting out of Iraq, General Petraeus betrayed the American public.
Posted on Apr 9, 2008, Source: Truthdig
The government has invested trillions in weapons that are completely useless in the fight against stateless terrorists.
Posted on Apr 3, 2008, Source: Truthdig
Many religious leaders prophesy divine retribution for America's bad behavior. I wonder what we would be punished for.
Posted on Mar 26, 2008, Source: Truthdig
Iraq is in shambles and our economy is crumbling. But at least George Bush is still in good spirits.
Posted on Mar 19, 2008, Source: Truthdig
Wall Street crooks cheer the downfall of the man who tried to check their criminal greed.
Posted on Mar 12, 2008, Source: Truthdig
The folks who call America the "Great Satan" now hold the high cards.
Posted on Mar 6, 2008, Source: Truthdig
McCain was one of the few politicians brave enough to oppose a 1996 telecom bill that opened the way for large-scale media consolidation.
Posted on Feb 27, 2008, Source: Truthdig
The Cuban people have suffered under an arrogant and idealistic revolutionary whose vision floundered on the rocks of cynical U.S. foreign policy.
Posted on Feb 20, 2008, Source: Truthdig
Clearly, what's good for big oil isn't good for most Americans. So why are the interests of oil companies mistaken for those of the nation?
Posted on Feb 13, 2008, Source: Truthdig
Will your favorite Dem challenge the bloated military budget Bush proposed for 2009?
Posted on Feb 6, 2008, Source: Truthdig
We should pay attention to Sen. Ted Kennedy's endorsement for president -- he was a rare sane voice among Dems in opposing the Iraq war.
Posted on Jan 30, 2008, Source: Truthdig
No Dem candidate will say what Kucinich would have said: Bankers will steal from the public unless the government holds them accountable.
Posted on Jan 23, 2008, Source: Truthdig
Even Osama bin Laden and Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad scored higher in a poll last month.
Posted on Jan 16, 2008, Source: Truthdig
As long as Hillary Clinton and Gloria Steinem have chosen to play the women's card against the race card, let's throw in a third one: the class card.
Posted on Jan 9, 2008, Source: Truthdig
Have Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats been keeping waterboarding a secret for years?
Posted on Dec 12, 2007, Source: Truthdig
Bush is either a liar or out to lunch on the most important issue he faces.
Posted on Dec 5, 2007, Source: Truthdig
The U.S. government fears that Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan's "president-in-exile" who just returned, will be soft on Muslim fanatics. Those fears are well founded.
Posted on Nov 28, 2007, Source: Truthdig
How damning is that it takes a libertarian Republican to remind the leading Democratic candidates of the costs of the Iraq war?
Posted on Nov 21, 2007, Source: Truthdig
Bush continues to bail out Gen. Musharraf under the pretense that he's an ally in the war on terror.
Posted on Nov 14, 2007, Source: Truthdig
So General Musharraf has turned out to be just another crummy dictator, but at least he was George Bush's dictator.
Posted on Nov 7, 2007, Source: Truthdig
What a boondoggle 9/11 has been for the merchants of war, who this week announced yet another quarter of whopping profits made possible by George Bush.
Posted on Oct 31, 2007, Source: Truthdig
In the name of our troops, Bush demanded another $46 billion from Congress to finance the war in Iraq -- and the Democrats will probably give it to him.
Posted on Oct 24, 2007, Source: Truthdig
The Iraq war has produced brilliant messages of dissent from the ranks that should cause us to stop in our tracks and reconsider what we have wrought.
Posted on Oct 17, 2007, Source: Truthdig
Let's dispel some common myths and misconceptions about Che.
Posted on Oct 10, 2007, Source: Truthdig
Why did the U.S. State Department tolerate -- and pay to conceal -- the wanton murder of Iraqis committed by Blackwater?
Posted on Oct 3, 2007, Source: Truthdig
Why is Sen. Joe Biden introducing legislation to spend $23.6 billion on armored vehicles in Iraq when President Bush only asked for $12 billion?
Posted on Sep 26, 2007, Source: Truthdig
Why doesn't the Iraqi government have the explicit legal power to expel or adjudicate the U.S.-contracted troops that are killing its citizens?
Posted on Sep 19, 2007, Source: Truthdig
Once again, we have a general repeatedly promising to save Western civilization by turning the corner in yet another intractable and unnecessary foreign war.
Posted on Sep 12, 2007, Source: Truthdig
The dog and pony show continues as the Democrats, wanting Bush to hang himself with his own rope, will deny him nothing.
Posted on Sep 5, 2007
The resignation of the torturer in chief was noted by his patron, the president, as an unfortunate day for American democracy.
Posted on Aug 29, 2007, Source: Truthdig
The parade of political tourists to Iraq in recent weeks probably ensures that this murderous adventure will continue well into the next presidency -- even if the Democrats win.
Posted on Aug 22, 2007, Source: Truthdig
So what if Clinton is pro-choice and a woman if the price of proving her capacity to be commander in chief is that we end up with an American version of Margaret Thatcher.
Posted on Aug 15, 2007, Source: Truthdig
What can we learn by recalling that the week that terrorists targeted schoolchildren in Iraq, is the 62nd anniversary of the U.S. attack on Japan that killed thousands of children?
Posted on Aug 8, 2007, Source: Truthdig
George Bush wants to sell $20 billion in high-tech military equipment to Saudi Arabia -- the source of most of the financing, and 15 of the 19 hijackers, for the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks.
Posted on Aug 1, 2007, Source: Truthdig
As Bush’s poll numbers plummet and public support to end the war continues to build, when Bush will finally turn on the neo-conservatives who betrayed his presidential legacy?
Posted on Jul 25, 2007, Source: Truthdig
In 1795, James Madison wrote of war's far-reaching and corrosive effect on public liberty. He could well have been warning us about our own King George, just the sort of imperial president that Madison and other founders of our nation feared most.
Posted on Jul 18, 2007, Source: Truthdig
One of the biggest obstacles to defeating al-Qaida may be Bush's friendship with Pakistan -- parts of which are "havens for the terrorist network."
Posted on Jul 11, 2007, Source: Truthdig
Whatever happened to "don't do the crime if you can't do the time," which allows tough-love conservatives to cheerfully sentence petty criminals to incarceration?
Posted on Jul 4, 2007, Source: Truthdig
As the Iraq war that Vice President Dick Cheney created continues to shred American -- and many more Iraqi -- lives, further documentation has emerged proving that, even during failed wars, the merchants of death profit.
Posted on Jun 27, 2007, Source: Truthdig
The only hope of solution for the current fighting in the Gaza Strip is for the United States, the EU and Israel to recognize that the Palestinian people need to make their own history. At this point, that must include Hamas.
Posted on Jun 20, 2007, Source: Truthdig
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