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.
What Dick is, and has always been, is the most bald-faced of the administration's war hustlers.
Posted on Nov 23, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The president's latest speeches about the war show Bush at his most defensive, and most Nixonian.
Posted on Nov 16, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The lessons of Tuesday's election is that Lincoln was right -- the American people will not forever be fooled.
Posted on Nov 11, 2005, Source: AlterNet
A declassified document shows yet again how Bush abused facts to sell war.
Posted on Nov 8, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Judith Miller was an eyewitness to the scene of a crime; and as a reporter she betrayed her first duty by not telling the public.
Posted on Nov 1, 2005, Source: AlterNet
A law shielding gun makers from lawsuits was a reward for the NRA and gun industry's political support for Republican candidates.
Posted on Oct 25, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The New York Times used its resources to back reporter Judith Miller, tarnishing itself in a case that wasn't about the 1st Amendment.
Posted on Oct 18, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Will Bush's nominee impose her personal religious views on the nation?
Posted on Oct 11, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Faced with a historic civil rights opportunity, Schwarzenegger chose to stick his head in the sand.
Posted on Oct 10, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The Bush adminstration has turned the government into a glorified ATM machine for well-connected corporations.
Posted on Sep 27, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The president still seems to believe that the severe poverty exposed by the storm is an anomaly, not a national reality he should have long since confronted.
Posted on Sep 21, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The administration's response to Katrina has awakened the public and the press to Bush's perpetual incompetence.
Posted on Sep 13, 2005, Source: AlterNet
New Orleans was laid to waste in part because Republicans don’t want the government to interfere in citizens’ lives.
Posted on Sep 6, 2005, Source: AlterNet
No amount of crowing over a fig leaf Iraqi constitution by President Bush can hide the fact that the region's autocrats, theocrats and terrorists are stronger than ever.
Posted on Aug 31, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Before she set out to report, Judy Miller should have seen Tim Robbins' new play, 'Embedded/Live,' about journalistic corruption in times of war.
Posted on Aug 23, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Bush is not content to rattle his saber at Tehran's hard-liners; he also wants to ensure that he infuriates and publicly embarrasses even moderate Iranians.
Posted on Aug 19, 2005, Source: AlterNet
We are deeply entwined with Saudi Arabia even though it shares none of our values and supports our enemies.
Posted on Aug 9, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The abysmal cases of slave labor in the U.S. are both shocking and terribly mundane.
Posted on Aug 2, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Both sides of Congress are forgetting that a prosperous China is good for us all.
Posted on Jul 26, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Since the much-lauded Iraqi elections, Bush has had little choice but to embrace the country’s mostly Shiite, mostly fundamentalist leaders as the saviors of a free Iraq. Now those leaders are in turn embracing Iran.
Posted on Jul 19, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Rove's leak exposed the depravity of the administration's deliberate use of a false WMD threat and its willingness to go after anyone willing to tell the truth about it.
Posted on Jul 12, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Did those wily ayatollahs give us the purple finger again? It sure looks like it.
Posted on Jun 28, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Our military occupation fuels nationalist and religious insurgents and we should begin a phased withdrawal as soon as feasible, while increasing aid.
Posted on Jun 22, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The specter that the military's shameful treatment of Pat Tillman, his family and the American public does raise is what the White House knew as it played the Tillman story for maximum political benefit.
Posted on Jun 14, 2005, Source: AlterNet
What is really reprehensible is the detention of hundreds of people for years without granting them prisoner-of-war status or charging them with a crime.
Posted on Jun 7, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Once again it has taken grieving relatives to point out that the Bush administration will exploit even a heroic death for its own partisan purposes.
Posted on Jun 1, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The pope has minimized priests' crimes while wagging a finger at gays.
Posted on May 24, 2005, Source: AlterNet
U.S. presence in Iraq is the fuel for the conflagration it claims to be stamping out.
Posted on May 17, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Even decent people can be swept along by barbarism when a nation gets sick.
Posted on May 10, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Sometimes it is better to lose.
Posted on May 3, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Has the U.S. become like ancient Rome, in love with costly conquest?
Posted on Apr 26, 2005, Source: AlterNet
There are reasons to feel optimistic about the granting of full civil rights to people who have chosen a life partner of the same sex.
Posted on Apr 19, 2005, Source: AlterNet
It's conveniently ignored that Pope John Paul II strongly opposed Bush over Iraq.
Posted on Apr 12, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Unfortunately for the American people, we were to an embarrassing extent persuaded to go to war based on the fantasies of this known liar.
Posted on Apr 5, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Trying to follow the U.S. policy on the proliferation of nuclear weapons is like watching a three-card monte game on a city street corner. Except the stakes are higher.
Posted on Mar 29, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Although Terri Schiavo's relatives on both sides of the issue are assuredly acting in good faith, national politicians certainly are not.
Posted on Mar 22, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Lesson No. 1: Campaign cash is worth more than family values.
Posted on Mar 15, 2005, Source: AlterNet
As George W. Bush continues to flail at Social Security, even in the face of increased public opposition, you have to wonder: "Why?"
Posted on Mar 8, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The sad fact is that Bush's irrational policies and rhetoric have left the mostly fundamentalist leaders of Iran defending a more logical position than that of our own government on three counts.
Posted on Mar 1, 2005, Source: AlterNet
What is so phony about the much ballyhooed tort reform is that it aims not at overzealous lawyers but only at those who happen to represent poorer plaintiffs.
Posted on Feb 22, 2005, Source: AlterNet
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