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.
With immoral U.S. leadership, is it so shocking to find torturers in the ranks?
Posted on May 4, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Former war hero and protester John Kerry has to stop angling for position and confront Bush directly on the war.
Posted on Apr 27, 2004, Source: AlterNet
By invoking a higher power, Bush sidestepped pesky constitutional issues on the path to war.
Posted on Apr 20, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Fixation on the drug war led the administration to praise the Taliban even though it was harboring Bin Laden.
Posted on Apr 13, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The more we try, the worse it gets in Iraq.
Posted on Apr 6, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Anti-terrorism expert Richard Clarke says Bush failed the country in its hour of greatest need.
Posted on Mar 23, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The president should return to the wisdom of his father and rid his administration of the unilateralist adventurers who have left the nation isolated from world opinion.
Posted on Mar 16, 2004, Source: AlterNet
A hypocritical Bush uses 9/11 images but resists an accounting of the truth.
Posted on Mar 9, 2004, Source: AlterNet
'The Passion' is a blood libel against the Jewish people that should have every prominent Christian minister and priest speaking out in opposition.
Posted on Mar 2, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Nader's bid for office shifts the country closer to one-party Republican domination. Does he have no sense of accountability or shame?
Posted on Feb 24, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has again made a mockery of the enormous responsibility the Constitution places on our highest court.
Posted on Feb 17, 2004, Source: AlterNet
As the transcript of the Tim Russert interview shows, it is not entirely clear that our 'war president' knows for sure what is what anymore.
Posted on Feb 10, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Using the ends to justify the means repeats the folly of Vietnam.
Posted on Feb 3, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Are there to be no real repercussions for what would be the greatest scandal in U.S. history?
Posted on Jan 27, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The administration's own chief weapons inspector's admission that Iraq never possessed WMD is yet more damning evidence of the greatest political scandal in recent history.
Posted on Jan 26, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Despite Bush's rhetoric of 'nation building' and 'freedom' for the Iraqi people, the U.S. opposes true democratic voting.
Posted on Jan 20, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Scripted campaign over, Arnold now aims to balance budget on backs of those who can least afford it.
Posted on Jan 15, 2004, Source: AlterNet
When the televangelist gloated about a Bush 'blowout' delivered by God, perhaps it was a heaven-sent warning.
Posted on Jan 6, 2004, Source: AlterNet
New documents detail how Rumsfeld and Reagan let Iraq know it was just fine to keep using chemical weapons against Iran, Kurds.
Posted on Dec 30, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Protecting the government sources that maligned Wen Ho Lee is wrong.
Posted on Dec 23, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The capture of Saddam Hussein is being treated as a celebratory occasion, but it is one that the Bush administration might come to regret.
Posted on Dec 16, 2003, Source: AlterNet
That's why Ronald Reagan voted for Roosevelt and became
an active Democrat. Even after his conservative transformation, Reagan often insisted that he never left the party of Roosevelt.
Posted on Dec 9, 2003, Source: AlterNet
As Bush and others enjoyed photo ops on Thanksgiving, the carnage went on.
Posted on Dec 2, 2003, Source: AlterNet
A new ad questioning the patriotism of Democratic candidates is dirty politics.
Posted on Nov 25, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Private Lynch's effort to hold on to the truth of her story in the face of Pentagon spin and a media feeding frenzy is a heroic act in the Age of Hype.
Posted on Nov 19, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Echoes of Vietnam emanating from Iraq are all too clear.
Posted on Nov 18, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Bush now wants us to believe the Iraq war was about spreading freedom by force, but liars can't be liberators.
Posted on Nov 11, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Unless we are willing to trade the lives of U.S. troops and Iraqis for the obsessions of empire, we must end the occupation now.
Posted on Nov 5, 2003, Source: AlterNet
As long as firms are willing to hire them, immigrants will come.
Posted on Oct 28, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Lockyer looks past the allegations against Schwarzenegger.
Posted on Oct 21, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Let's hope Limbaugh emerges from this experience more tolerant of the weaknesses of others.
Posted on Oct 14, 2003, Source: AlterNet
I think of retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark as potentially another Eisenhower, a leader for tense times who is properly cautious about the deadly follies of war.
Posted on Oct 7, 2003, Source: AlterNet
We're all familiar with Arnold the actor, but who writes the script if he wins?
Posted on Sep 30, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The recall is back and Arnold is armed with support from the Republican Women's Caucus -- a relationship clearly at odds with Republican claims to traditional family values.
Posted on Sep 23, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Bush and company are using the cynical ploy of "misspeak" first, "correct" later, in a continuing effort to put out misinformation about Iraq.
Posted on Sep 16, 2003, Source: AlterNet
How can the president tell us with a straight face that we taxpayers have a patriotic duty to cough up $87 billion more to enable him to sink us deeper into the Iraq quagmire of his making?
Posted on Sep 9, 2003, Source: AlterNet
American experts urged the White House to be skeptical, but they hit a stone wall.
Posted on Sep 2, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Whoever wins the election, the task of improving California's economy will make or break the new governor.
Posted on Aug 26, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Thanks to Proposition 13 in 1978 -- an initiative no less stupid than the current recall and also put on the ballot by Republican conservatives -- California lost its most reliable tax base.
Posted on Aug 19, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Republicans are running it as a shell game to distract from their misdeeds -- don't play along.
Posted on Aug 12, 2003, Source: AlterNet
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