Robert Scheer

Contributing Editor

Robert Scheer, a contributing editor to The Nation, is editor of Truthdig.com and author of The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street (Nation Books), The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America (Twelve) and Playing President (Akashic Books). He is author, with Christopher Scheer and Lakshmi Chaudhry, of The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq (Akashic Books and Seven Stories Press.) His weekly column, distributed by Creators Syndicate, appears in the San Francisco Chronicle.

An Oscar for America’s Hubris An Oscar for America’s Hubris

What a shame that the one movie about the Iraq war that has a chance of being viewed by a large worldwide audience should be so disappointing.

Mar 10, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Robert Scheer

Don’t Blame Bunning Don’t Blame Bunning

How convenient that seemingly everyone in the liberal blogosphere, and even at many points to the right, got to use Senator Jim Bunning as a scapegoat.

Mar 3, 2010 / Robert Scheer

No Banker Left Behind No Banker Left Behind

Banks do have a license to steal. There is no other way to read Tuesday's report from the New York state comptroller that bonuses for Wall Street financiers rose 17 percent to $20....

Feb 24, 2010 / Robert Scheer

It’s Greek to Goldman Sachs It’s Greek to Goldman Sachs

"What is this Goldman Sachs and why has it caused us so much grief?" is a question they must be asking in even the most remote of Greek villages, as they are throughout much of thi...

Feb 17, 2010 / Column / Robert Scheer

Wall Street Wants a Refund Wall Street Wants a Refund

"Buyer's remorse" is the way John Cornyn, the Senate Republicans' fundraiser, gleefully refers to Wall Street moguls' current disenchantment with the US president they th...

Feb 10, 2010 / Column / Robert Scheer

Volcker Rules Volcker Rules

Obama's endorsement of what he calls the 'Volcker Rule' for once puts him squarely on the side of ordinary Americans as opposed to the banking bandits who have so thoroughly fleece...

Feb 3, 2010 / Column / Robert Scheer

The Sorry State of the Union The Sorry State of the Union

The state of the union is just miserable, no matter how President Obama sugarcoats it.

Jan 27, 2010 / Column / Robert Scheer

What Massachusetts Got Right What Massachusetts Got Right

Obama's opportunistic search for win-win solutions to our healthcare concerns and our larger economic problems is leading to a lose-lose outcome for the president and the country.

Jan 20, 2010 / Column / Robert Scheer

Don’t Blame China Don’t Blame China

In the great American tradition of finding foreign scapegoats for our problems, the hunt is on to somehow hold China responsible for the misery that Wall Street financiers inflicte...

Jan 13, 2010 / Column / Robert Scheer

McCain Gets It, Obama Doesn’t McCain Gets It, Obama Doesn’t

Although Obama has blasted "fat cat bankers on Wall Street," it is time for those who elected him to ask for more than rhetoric.

Jan 6, 2010 / Column / Robert Scheer

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