Stories by Robert Scheer
Robert Scheer is Editor in Chief of Truthdig, where he publishes a weekly column, and author of a new book, The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America.
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
It moves from dumb to evil to claim that politicians who dare tell the truth -- like Ned Lamont -- are giving aid to the enemy.
Posted on Aug 23, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Investigators have known for a decade about terrorist plots to bring down passenger jets with liquid explosives. So why now has Bush banned most liquids on flights?
Posted on Aug 16, 2006, Source: AlterNet
A new book by the former co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission tells the inside story of how Bush has tried to squelch examination of our actual enemies.
Posted on Aug 9, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The abandonment of the peace process and reliance on bombs will prove very costly for Israel.
Posted on Aug 2, 2006, Source: AlterNet
In calling the Israel-Lebanon crisis 'birth pangs of a new Middle East,' Condoleezza Rice underscores Bush's blindness to the disastrous effects of his foreign policy.
Posted on Jul 26, 2006, Source: AlterNet
It was unnerving that what most seemed to interest President Bush at the G8 summit is that China is a long flight from Western Russia.
Posted on Jul 19, 2006, Source: Truthdig
Go for it, George; butter Kim up with some of that frat boy charm.
Posted on Jul 12, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Democrats like Joe Lieberman and Hillary Clinton who are unwilling to strongly oppose Bush's war on Iraq are playing right into Karl Rove's election-year scheming.
Posted on Jul 5, 2006, Source: Truthdig
Attacks on the
New York Times aren't about national security, they're about muting criticism.
Posted on Jun 28, 2006, Source: Truthdig
Sen. Clinton seems determined to revive the Cold War liberalism that gave us the Vietnam War.
Posted on Jun 21, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Tom DeLay was not at a loss for pious words -- none of them contrite -- during his farewell speech to applauding GOP-ers.
Posted on Jun 14, 2006, Source: AlterNet
There's nothing noble about the media joining the government in paying a bribe to maligned Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee.
Posted on Jun 7, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Once Bush the father got rid of key energy industry regulations, Lay was a made man and Enron's fortunes soared.
Posted on May 31, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Bush was back in form Monday, claiming that Iraq's latest head honcho has the right stuff, and that the terrorists are quaking in their sandals.
Posted on May 24, 2006, Source: AlterNet
What's different is that the president is, at long last, dealing with a subject he actually knows something about.
Posted on May 17, 2006, Source: Truthdig
Remaining unflappably confident while getting it all wrong is a vital credential for the head of the CIA under this administration.
Posted on May 10, 2006, Source: AlterNet
My mother always lived with fear of deportation -- but she was eventually granted amnesty. If only all immigrants could be so lucky.
Posted on May 3, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Comparing Richard Nixon and George W. Bush reveals not only two often-compared but very different men, but two very different ages of media and politics.
Posted on Apr 28, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The shocking account of Tyler Drumheller, former top CIA spy in Europe, aired Sunday on '60 Minutes.' So why isn't anyone talking about it?
Posted on Apr 26, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The quandary in which Bush finds himself regarding Iran and nuclear weapons is only the latest in a series of national security blunders.
Posted on Apr 19, 2006, Source: AlterNet
On Monday, Colin Powell said he never believed that Iraq posed an imminent threat -- and that Bush followed Cheney's misleading advice instead.
Posted on Apr 12, 2006, Source: AlterNet
DeLay bids Congress adieu, insisting that he's being persecuted for his Christianity, not his corruption.
Posted on Apr 5, 2006, Source: Truthdig
The current debate on Capitol Hill is the result of the latest in a long history of scare tactics. But as millions protest nationwide, has the ploy backfired?
Posted on Mar 30, 2006, Source: Truthdig
On the third anniversary of the war, an agitated Cleveland audience wasn't buying the president's lies.
Posted on Mar 22, 2006, Source: AlterNet
If violence and constant mayhem is a sign of progress three years post-invasion, then Bush will be thrilled by what the future holds.
Posted on Mar 16, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The news of a fourth investigation into the former NFL star's death in Afghanistan is a clear rebuke for the Army.
Posted on Mar 8, 2006, Source: Truthdig
It's a farce, with pompous Bush officials and their mass media courtiers asserting absurd but hilarious positions.
Posted on Mar 1, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Sentencing a Holocaust denier to prison -- and the lack of protests in response -- should raise alarms among everyone who values free speech.
Posted on Feb 24, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The rise of an anti-American like Moqtada al-Sadr shows how wide a defeat pro-Western forces have had in Iraq.
Posted on Feb 15, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Our response to Sept. 11 has been almost completely military in nature. Without terrorism, where would Bush be?
Posted on Feb 9, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The trial of Enron's head honchos, Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, will reveal how Republican politicians made the scandal possible.
Posted on Feb 2, 2006, Source: Truthdig
The guys in Bush's administration are obsessed voyeurs, whether the excuse is squelching pornography or preventing terrorism.
Posted on Jan 25, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Bush was never serious about Afghanistan, and it shows.
Posted on Jan 18, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Yesterday's Reagan-era Republicans have grown into today's liars and schemers.
Posted on Jan 11, 2006, Source: AlterNet
What we are now witnessing is the death throes of the GOP 'revolution.'
Posted on Jan 4, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The U.S. media vilified two Iraqi female scientists. So why isn't the press protesting their quiet release from prison?
Posted on Dec 28, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Tehran's rogue regime now looms larger than ever over the region and especially over its oil.
Posted on Dec 21, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The legal loophole for torture is too handy a tool for the Bush administration to give up.
Posted on Dec 14, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The rip-off of Native American tribes by a top Republican lobbyist proves his party's lack of ethics.
Posted on Dec 7, 2005, Source: AlterNet
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