Stories by Robert Scheer

The veteran senator is too much of a gentleman to point out the elephant in the room.

With friends like these, Israel doesn't need enemies.

Refusal to recant war vote plays into president's hands.

John Kerry showed true patriotism, integrity and prescience in his opposition to the Vietnam War. He should draw on that background now rather than echoing Bush's militarism.

During a swing through Michigan, Bush promised to protect homeland values from the latest big threats: gays and Hollywood entertainers who support Democrats.

If the U.S. believes, as most of the world does, that Hussein committed crimes against humanity, then he is entitled to the same international standards of due process that the U.S. and its allies applied to past war criminals.

With the Saddam-Al Qaeda link debunked, the administration and its spinmeisters are reduced to playing semantic tricks to justify their bait-and-switch operation.

Though Reagan the man was hardly mean-spirited, Reagan the politician betrayed the social programs and trade unionism he once believed in so fiercely.

Just weeks before the hand-over, we discover the lackey that the Pentagon bet on for the future of Iraq is suspected of being a con artist.

High-ranking U.S. military intelligence officers established abusive conditions that were condemned by the Red Cross in a complaint to U.S. authorities well before the horrid incidents that recently shocked the nation.

Former war hero and protester John Kerry has to stop angling for position and confront Bush directly on the war.

Fixation on the drug war led the administration to praise the Taliban even though it was harboring Bin Laden.

Anti-terrorism expert Richard Clarke says Bush failed the country in its hour of greatest need.

A hypocritical Bush uses 9/11 images but resists an accounting of the truth.

Nader's bid for office shifts the country closer to one-party Republican domination. Does he have no sense of accountability or shame?

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.

Are there to be no real repercussions for what would be the greatest scandal in U.S. history?

Despite Bush's rhetoric of 'nation building' and 'freedom' for the Iraqi people, the U.S. opposes true democratic voting.

When the televangelist gloated about a Bush 'blowout' delivered by God, perhaps it was a heaven-sent warning.