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.

Playing Politics With the Fate of the Humanity Playing Politics With the Fate of the Humanity

To placate its powerful allies on the extreme right, the Bush Administration is once again playing political games with the fate of our planet.

Nov 7, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

War Hero McGovern Still Standing War Hero McGovern Still Standing

Call me a McGovern wimp, but it was refreshing to run into the man himself and be reminded by this genuine patriot and war hero of just how thoughtless is the current rush to war...

Oct 29, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Mr. Bush, Heed Carter and Learn Mr. Bush, Heed Carter and Learn

Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize for a career of successfully waging peace, beginning with the launching of a historic Mideast peace effort that President Bush is bent on s...

Oct 17, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Truth on Iraq Seeps Through Truth on Iraq Seeps Through

In a speech intended to frighten the American people into supporting a war, the President Monday again trotted out his grim depiction of Saddam Hussein as a terrifying boogeyman ...

Oct 8, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

The Sun Can’t Set on This Empire Too Soon The Sun Can’t Set on This Empire Too Soon

It sure smells like imperialism. That's the word historians use when powerful nations grab control of desired resources, be it the gold of the New World or the oil of the Middle ...

Oct 3, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Bush Jumps the Gun With Preemptive Strikes Bush Jumps the Gun With Preemptive Strikes

President Bush's recently announced strategic global doctrine, which for the first time justifies a preemptive US strike against any regime thought to possess weapons of mass des...

Sep 26, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Dick Cheney’s Nightmare of Peace Dick Cheney’s Nightmare of Peace

In the dreams of Dick Cheney, to which I am not privy, I imagine there are boldly contrasting scenes of victory and despair.

Sep 4, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Business Is Safe but Baseball Strikes Out Business Is Safe but Baseball Strikes Out

Everyone, from President Bush on down, seems to agree that major league baseball players are overpaid prima donnas who don't deserve the huge paychecks they get, let alone have a...

Aug 28, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Simplistic Hunt for Evil in a Complex World Simplistic Hunt for Evil in a Complex World

Doomed by the incoherence of a foreign policy defined largely by biblical notions of the struggle between good and evil, the Bush Administration thrashes about in its hunt for th...

Aug 21, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Weighing a Just War, or Settling an Old Score? Weighing a Just War, or Settling an Old Score?

In a column from 2002, Robert Scheer takes a look back at the Bush Administrations's real motivation to go to war.

Aug 6, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

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