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.

Chalabi’s Long, Costly Charade Chalabi’s Long, Costly Charade

Can it get any more bizarre?

May 25, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

Scandal’s Shame, Massachusetts’ Pride Scandal’s Shame, Massachusetts’ Pride

What a wonderful image of democracy and tolerance the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has presented to the world by allowing same-sex marriages.

May 19, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

Thread of Abuse Runs to the Oval Office Thread of Abuse Runs to the Oval Office

Someone's lying--big-time--and neither Congress nor the media have begun to scratch the surface.

May 11, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

When We’re the Evildoers in Iraq When We’re the Evildoers in Iraq

President Bush is again refusing to take responsibility for any of the horrors happening on his watch.

May 5, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

Face the Iraq Fiasco, Senator Face the Iraq Fiasco, Senator

"How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"

Apr 29, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

With God on His Side… With God on His Side…

So, it was a holy war, a new crusade. No wonder George W. Bush could lie to Congress and the American public with such impunity while keeping the key members of his Cabinet in th...

Apr 21, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

Drug War Led Bush Astray Before 9/11 Drug War Led Bush Astray Before 9/11

Why won't they just admit they blew it? It is long past time for the President and his national security team to concede that before the Sept.

Apr 14, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

The More We Try, the Worse Iraq Gets The More We Try, the Worse Iraq Gets

It is the beginning of the end for the United States in Iraq. No amount of glib optimism from Bush Administration soothsayers can conceal that reality.

Apr 6, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

Bush Puts ‘a Cancer on the Presidency’ Bush Puts ‘a Cancer on the Presidency’

Watergate insider calls this White House "scary."

Mar 30, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

Blowing a Whistle on Bush’s 9/11 Failures Blowing a Whistle on Bush’s 9/11 Failures

President Bush failed the country in its hour of greatest need, according to his administration's top anti-terrorism advisor during the crisis.

Mar 23, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

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