Robert Scheer

Robert Scheer is editor of truthdig.com, where this column originally appeared. E-mail Robert Scheer at [email protected].

Op-Ed

China Benefits From Bush’s Folly

As America's hunger to dominate foreign policy puts the country at financial risk, other countries benefit from our arrogance.

By: Robert Scheer ,; Truthdig

June 5, 2013

News Analysis

Robert Scheer | Crime of the Century

Forget Bernie Madoff and Enronu2019s Ken Layu2014they were mere amateurs in financial crime.

By: Robert Scheer ,; Truthdig

July 6, 2012

Op-Ed

Halfway Through the Lost Decade

Does anyone care that the economy is floundering and that we are not getting out of this crisis anytime soon? Housing values are in the cellar, the Fed foresees …

By: Robert Scheer ,; Truthdig

April 27, 2012

Op-Ed

You’re on Your Own, Kids

Who will speak for the rights of the unborn now that Rick Santorum is gone from the race? Let me give it a whirl from the perspective of one …

By: Robert Scheer ,; Truthdig

April 13, 2012

Op-Ed

The Supreme Court’s Five Hypocrites

The Supreme Court is so full of it. The entire institution, as well as its sanctimonious judges themselves, reeks of a time-honored hypocrisy steeped in the arrogance that justice …

By: Robert Scheer ,; Truthdig

March 29, 2012

Op-Ed

At Last, Some Decency on Wall Street

By the time you read this, the PR hacks of Goldman Sachs will be vigorously pressing their efforts to destroy the reputation of whistle-blower Greg Smith, a former Goldman …

By: Robert Scheer ,; Truthdig

March 16, 2012

Dennis Kucinich: Conscience of the Congress

(Photo: SEIU / Flickr) “Dennis will be back, you can count on it; he’s on the right side of things.” I recall those words from a printer …

By: Robert Scheer ,

March 9, 2012

Op-Ed

The Ayatollah Is Right About One Thing: Nuclear Weapons Are Sinful

Given my own deep prejudice toward religious zealotry, it has not been difficult for me to accept the conventional American view that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme theocratic ruler …

By: Robert Scheer ,; Truthdig

March 2, 2012

Op-Ed

War & Peace

The Gang That Couldn’t Bomb Straight

From left: Texas Rep. Ron Paul, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich before taking part in a Republican presidential …

By: Robert Scheer ,; Truthdig

February 26, 2012

Op-Ed

There’s Hope for Republicans Yet

There is a full-blown debate going on in, of all places, the Republican Party about the failings of the governing, corporate-sponsored kleptocracy. Not so on the Democratic side. Spared …

By: Robert Scheer ,

January 12, 2012

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