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.
Republicans are running it as a shell game to distract from their misdeeds -- don't play along.
Posted on Aug 12, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Whether you are united in "holy matrimony" or simply trying to build a lasting relationship should be of no concern to the state.
Posted on Aug 5, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Even censored, 9/11 report shows the focus was on the wrong nation.
Posted on Jul 30, 2003, Source: AlterNet
In England, they're shooting the messengers.
Posted on Jul 24, 2003, Source: AlterNet
With lies and finger-pointing mounting, a Senate trial is called for.
Posted on Jul 18, 2003, Source: AlterNet
An ex-ambassador the CIA sent to Africa to investigate the now-infamous Niger forgery says Cheney knew the document was a hoax long before Bush used it in his State of the Union speech.
Posted on Jul 8, 2003, Source: AlterNet
California Gov. Gray Davis is taking the fall for the Republican led deregulation that preceded him and subsequently bankrupted the state.
Posted on Jul 1, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The Republicans now want us to believe that any distortions of the truth should have been forgotten once we took Baghdad.
Posted on Jun 26, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The Case of the Phantom Uranium raises questions about the president that could lead to legitimate calls for impeachment.
Posted on Jun 18, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Americans were duped: Evidence of administration manipulation and mendacity just keeps rolling in.
Posted on Jun 10, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Iraq -- the pet project of a band of neocon missionaries -- turned out to be a lie. And now heads should roll for the breach of trust.
Posted on Jun 4, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The Pentagon won't admit that the rescue of Pvt. Lynch, an attack on an unguarded hospital, was spun into the stuff of Hollywood heroics.
Posted on May 29, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The rescue was pure Hollywood. In other words, it was a well-marketed fiction. Now Bill O'Reilly and other war cheerleaders want the story to go back in the can.
Posted on May 20, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The deadly weapons of mass destruction have proved phantom in Iraq, but the Bush administration is now doing its best to ensure that the world becomes increasingly unstable and armed to the teeth.
Posted on May 13, 2003, Source: AlterNet
If, in the end, Iraq is not shown to have had truly threatening weapons, it will be Bush who stands exposed as one who didn't know how to tell the truth.
Posted on May 6, 2003, Source: AlterNet
We now live easily with lies, accepting far-fetched rationalizations for war and falsehoods that erode our freedoms.
Posted on Apr 29, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Now the pressure is on for Bush to find or plant those alleged weapons of mass destruction fast or stand exposed as a bullying fraud.
Posted on Apr 22, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The destruction of Baghdad's museums is a fit metaphor for current U.S. foreign policy, which causes more serious damage through carelessness than calculation.
Posted on Apr 15, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Winning in Iraq is the easy part. Soon we'll have to try to run the place.
Posted on Apr 8, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The word is being used by the U.S. and its enemies to condone savagery.
Posted on Apr 1, 2003, Source: AlterNet
If the U.S. fails to unearth weapons of mass destruction, the imperial designs of this administration will stand exposed.
Posted on Mar 25, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Sadly, Bush has made the U.S. the 21st century's first colonizer.
Posted on Mar 18, 2003, Source: AlterNet
By the standards of any great civilization or religion, this war is unjust and morally indefensible.
Posted on Mar 11, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Contrary to his own advice, Colin Powell will transparently lie to a skeptical Security Council to justify our cobbled-together rationale for going to war.
Posted on Feb 5, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Most Americans view war as just another sport that costs less than playoff tickets and evokes less angst over the outcome.
Posted on Jan 10, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Humiliating those with nothing to lose -- be it Iraq or North Korea -- is always a recipe for disaster.
Posted on Jan 2, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
An inspection of U.S. corporations and facilities may reveal that it is we who produced the arsenal of chemical and nuclear weapons that terrorize the world.
Posted on Dec 11, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
President Bush is playing to the extreme right but endangering the globe by threatening a bold U.N. accord on world population.
Posted on Nov 7, 2002, Source: AlterNet
It's time to forgo the biblical allegories of good and evil and recognize the fact that our greatest enemies are often monsters of our own creation.
Posted on Aug 30, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
President Bush is intent on avenging his father and saving his poll numbers rather than serving the American people.
Posted on Aug 7, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
It's time for Yasser Arafat to step aside and make room for a moderate leadership that lead Palestinians from violence to self-governance.
Posted on Jun 12, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Perhaps it's too difficult for a stern, God-fearing fundamentalist like the attorney general to fully anticipate the dark side of religion's wrath.
Posted on Jun 3, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
The Bush administration now admits there is no connection between Saddam Hussein and the Sept. 11 attacks -- but is still bent on attacking Iraq.
Posted on May 9, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
President Bush is endorsing Ariel Sharon's bloody campaign against the Palestinians as a fight against terrorism -- and abdicating his responsibility to wage peace.
Posted on Apr 2, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
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