Hey Obama, Read WikiLeaks Hey Obama, Read WikiLeaks
After a good start, the Obama administration’s response to the democratic revolution in Egypt has begun to exude the odor of betrayal.
Feb 9, 2011 / Robert Scheer
Hogwash, Mr. President Hogwash, Mr. President
What is the state of the union? You certainly couldn’t tell from that platitudinous hogwash that the president dished out.
Jan 26, 2011 / Robert Scheer
Obama Pulls a Clinton on Deregulation Obama Pulls a Clinton on Deregulation
Bill Clinton embraced the corporate money guys in an effort to purchase a second term. On Tuesday, Barack Obama veered sharply down that same course.
Jan 19, 2011 / Robert Scheer
Perps in the White House Perps in the White House
It is amazing that folks like Gene Sperling and William Daley, the very people who created this banking meltdown, are rewarded with ever more important positions in our governmen...
Jan 12, 2011 / Robert Scheer
Lanny Davis Puts Dems to Shame Lanny Davis Puts Dems to Shame
The value of the Davis example, as with the parade of Wall Street hustlers so prominent among the Clintonistas, is that his greed has broken his cover.
Jan 5, 2011 / Robert Scheer
In Money-Changers We Trust In Money-Changers We Trust
Two years into the Obama presidency, with the economic data looking grim, the revolving platinum door linking the White House with Wall Street keeps swinging.
Dec 29, 2010 / Robert Scheer
Speaking Ill of ‘The Best and the Brightest’ Speaking Ill of ‘The Best and the Brightest’
One of “the best and the brightest” died last week, and in Richard Holbrooke we had a perfect example of the dark mischief to which David Halberstam referred when he au...
Dec 22, 2010 / Robert Scheer
Return of the Great Triangulator Return of the Great Triangulator
The sight of Bill Clinton back at the White House podium defending tax cuts for the super-rich was more a sick joke than a serious amplification of economic policy.
Dec 15, 2010 / Robert Scheer
From Jefferson To Assange From Jefferson To Assange
It is outrageous for any journalist, or respecter of what every American president has claimed is our inalienable, God-given right to a free press, not to join in Assange’s d...
Dec 8, 2010 / Robert Scheer
Hillary Clinton Gets Wiki-Served Hillary Clinton Gets Wiki-Served
Hillary Clinton should confront the unpleasant truths the cables reveal about US foreign policy and her own troubling directive that our diplomats should spy on their foreign colle...
Dec 1, 2010 / Robert Scheer