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.

What Did He Know and When Did He Know It? What Did He Know and When Did He Know It?

The Case of the Phantom Uranium raises questions about the President that could lead to legitimate calls for impeachment.

Jun 18, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer

Bad Iraq Data From Start to Finish Bad Iraq Data From Start to Finish

Americans were duped: Evidence of Administration manipulation and mendacity just keeps rolling in.

Jun 11, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer

How Their Big Lie Came to Be How Their Big Lie Came to Be

Leave it to a Marine to be blunt. When Lieut. Gen.

Jun 3, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer

Pentagon Aims Guns at Lynch Reports Pentagon Aims Guns at Lynch Reports

It is one thing when the talk-show bullies who shamelessly smeared the last President, even as he attacked the training camps of Al Qaeda, now term it anti-American or even treas...

May 30, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer

Saving Private Lynch: Take 2 Saving Private Lynch: Take 2

In the 1998 film Wag the Dog, political operatives employ special editing techniques to create phony footage that will engender public sympathy for a manufactured war.

May 21, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer

The WMD Follies The WMD Follies

It turns out the threat is not from Iraq but from us.

May 13, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer

The Only Law West of the Tigris The Only Law West of the Tigris

"We have ways to make you talk."

May 6, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer

Are We Numb or Dumb? Are We Numb or Dumb?

Forget truth. That is the message from our government and its apologists in the media who insist that the Iraq invasion is a great success story even though it was based on a lie...

Apr 29, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer

Did Bush Deceive Us in His Rush to War? Did Bush Deceive Us in His Rush to War?

Now that the war has been won, is it permissible to suggest that our emperor has no clothes?

Apr 23, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer

History? What History? History? What History?

Allowing the looting of Iraq's museums is another indication of our contempt for the Mideast -- and our unfitness to rule it

Apr 16, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer

x