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.
Lieberman provides a cautionary tale for folks who talk of backing "any Democrat" who can win.
Posted on Jun 13, 2007, Source: Truthdig
President Bush's modeling America's presence in Iraq upon the 54-year-old stationing of U.S. troops in South Korea is as outlandish as it is alarming.
Posted on Jun 6, 2007, Source: Truthdig
If it is right for Mary Cheney and her partners of 15 years to be entrusted with raising of a child, then how is it logical, as this White House has insisted, to deny the legal status of marriage to same-sex couples seeking to have their commitment legally acknowledged?
Posted on May 30, 2007, Source: Truthdig
While Gonzales has been associated with a pernicious assault on our freedoms, he has never been the independent actor, but rather a dutiful toady carrying out the wishes of a tightly monitored White House with the blessings of the president.
Posted on May 23, 2007, Source: Truthdig
Tehran's religious fanatics have moved closer to the potential for nuclear conflagration and what can bully-boy Bush do about it? Nothing.
Posted on May 16, 2007, Source: Truthdig
Add Wolfowitz to the rapidly growing list of Bush alums whose career trajectory suddenly plummets upon the disclosure of a pattern of lying obvious to most observers but not to the president himself.
Posted on May 9, 2007, Source: Truthdig
Blame it on the military but make it look like you're supporting the troops. That's been the convenient gambit of failed emperors throughout history.
Posted on Apr 25, 2007, Source: Truthdig
It seems that the decadent cronyism and malignant imperial stance of the Bush administration have been extended to one of the world's leading international institutions.
Posted on Apr 18, 2007, Source: Truthdig
For the fourth anniversary of Saddam's overthrow, Iraqis held an anti-American protest and the White House's "latest news" featured their annual Easter egg hunt.
Posted on Apr 11, 2007, Source: Truthdig
The legal shenanigans at Guantanamo show that the point is not to get at the truth about 9/11 but rather to make George Bush look vigilant, despite the facts, in fighting his phony war on terrorism.
Posted on Apr 5, 2007, Source: Truthdig
A congressional investigation into the administration's cynical exploitation of Cpl. Pat Tillman's sacrifice is long overdue.
Posted on Mar 28, 2007, Source: Truthdig
Congrats, George. Mission accomplished. You managed to make Saddam's tyranny look good in comparison with "liberated Iraq."
Posted on Mar 21, 2007, Source: Truthdig
Cheney has played right into al-Qaida's plans, heightening tension between the U.S. and the Arab and Muslim worlds by evoking an image of U.S. imperial conquest of Mideast oil resources.
Posted on Mar 14, 2007, Source: Truthdig
The Bush administration came to its senses about North Korea five years too late. Now other "rogue nations" know that the best way to make peace with the U.S. is to test their own nuclear weapons.
Posted on Feb 28, 2007, Source: Truthdig
Clinton refuses to admit her mistakes about Iraq and proceeds to make the same ones with Iran.
Posted on Feb 21, 2007, Source: Truthdig
How the scheming of Douglas Feith created the illusion of an Iraq-Al Qaeda partnership and led the U.S. into war.
Posted on Feb 14, 2007, Source: Truthdig
Bush's outrageous military budget is a betrayal of the public trust. Will the Dems have the guts to stop it?
Posted on Feb 7, 2007, Source: AlterNet
The Libby case testimony, centered on the chicanery of the vice president, certainly suggests that impeachable offenses occurred at the highest level of the White House.
Posted on Feb 1, 2007, Source: Truthdig
President Bush has accomplished what Osama bin Laden only dreamed of by disgracing the model of American democracy in the eyes of the world.
Posted on Jan 24, 2007, Source: AlterNet
If it ever narrows down to a choice between Hagel and some Democratic hack who hasn't the guts to fundamentally challenge the president on Iraq, then Hagel will have my vote.
Posted on Jan 18, 2007, Source: Truthdig
Bush's talk of escalating the war is nothing more than a desperate strategy for salvaging what remains of his reign.
Posted on Jan 10, 2007, Source: Truthdig
Bush's talk of escalating the war is nothing more than a desperate strategy for salvaging what remains of his reign.
Posted on Jan 10, 2007, Source: Truthdig
The hanging of Saddam Hussein was an act of barbarism that makes a mockery of President Bush's claim it was "an important milestone on Iraq's course to becoming a democracy."
Posted on Jan 3, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Did Saddam die because he knew too much about the United States' real role in Iraq?
Posted on Jan 1, 2007, Source: AlterNet
The Bush Administration is hooked on the drug of military might, with Gates calling for sending more troops to a war we can't win.
Posted on Dec 21, 2006, Source: Truthdig
If Bush dares to move militarily against Iran, we will become mired in a bloody conflict that knows no borders.
Posted on Nov 30, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Iraq and Vietnam are not the same country, yet both have long experience with imperial meddling and fiercely resist it.
Posted on Nov 22, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Murtha, a leftist? Maybe on Iraq, but his record on everything from abortion to gun control to Pentagon budgets makes him an old-school conservative Democrat.
Posted on Nov 15, 2006, Source: AlterNet
How convenient, for Saddam to be convicted two days before the elections.
Posted on Nov 8, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The dire predictions President Bush is making about 'cutting and running' from Iraq are almost identical to the ones Johnson and Nixon made about Vietnam.
Posted on Nov 1, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Why were the dots between the Enron swindlers and their government sponsors never connected?
Posted on Oct 25, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Staying the course in Iraq is a prescription for disaster -- and it's becoming increasingly clear that Bush's critics were right all along.
Posted on Oct 18, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Sensible Republicans must rein in the Bush administration and demand that progress take precedence over empty threats.
Posted on Oct 11, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The Foley cover-up should not be allowed to obscure the latest evidence of administration deceit: that Rice was briefed before 9/11.
Posted on Oct 5, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The news that terror threats against the U.S. have increased since 9/11, largely thanks to the Iraq invasion, hasn't budged Bush's "what me worry" attitude.
Posted on Sep 27, 2006, Source: AlterNet
For those, like Bush, who view torture as a variant of fraternity hazing, it would be instructive to consider the fate of Canada's Maher Arar.
Posted on Sep 20, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Bush was right on Monday when he said that 'our nation is being tested.' Unfortunately, it's his administration that's testing us.
Posted on Sep 13, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Five years out from the attacks, why do we still know so little about what really happened that day?
Posted on Sep 11, 2006, Source: AlterNet
In Bush-liberated Afghanistan -- which has just harvested its biggest opium crop ever -- billions in drug profits are financing the Taliban.
Posted on Sep 6, 2006, Source: AlterNet
You'd think Bill Clinton doesn't know the difference between getting single mothers off the welfare rolls and getting them out of poverty.
Posted on Aug 30, 2006, Source: AlterNet
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