Robert Scheer

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

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Robert Scheer | Home Sweet Wall Street

A most dastardly deed occurred last Friday, when the Obama administration issued a 29-page policy statement totally abandoning the federal government’s time-honored role in helping Americans achieve the…

by: Robert Scheer,; Truthdig | Op-Ed

February 17, 2011

Hey, Obama, Read WikiLeaks

After a good start, the Obama administration’s response to the democratic revolution in Egypt has begun to exude the odor of betrayal. Now distancing itself from the essential…

by: Robert Scheer,; Truthdig | Op-Ed

February 9, 2011

Robert Scheer | Obama Pulls a Clinton

Here we go again. When Bill Clinton suffered an electoral reversal after his first two years in office, he abruptly embraced the corporate money guys who had financed…

by: Robert Scheer,; Truthdig | Op-Ed

January 19, 2011

In Money-Changers We Trust

Two years into the Obama presidency, and the economic data is still looking grim. Don’t be fooled by the gyrations of the stock market, where optimism is mostly…

by: Robert Scheer,; Truthout

December 29, 2010

Robert Scheer | From Jefferson to Assange

All you need to know about Julian Assange’s value as a crusading journalist is that The New York Times and most of the world’s other leading newspapers have…

by: Robert Scheer,; Truthdig | Op-Ed

December 8, 2010

Robert Scheer | Hillary Gets Wiki-Served

Hillary Clinton should cut out the whining about what the Obama administration derides as “stolen cables” and confront the unpleasant truths they reveal about the contradictions of U.S.…

by: Robert Scheer,; Truthdig | Op-Ed

December 2, 2010

Fail and Grow Rich on Wall Street

Welcome to the brave new world of post-bailout capitalism. The Commerce Department announced Tuesday that corporate profits are at their highest level in U.S. history, and the Fed…

by: Robert Scheer,; Truthdig | Op-Ed

November 24, 2010

Robert Scheer | The Man Who Shattered Our Economy

Rejoice, the housing market is back. Sandy Weill just picked up a humdinger of a wine vineyard estate in Sonoma, Calif., for a record $31 million, so the…

by: Robert Scheer,; truthdig.com

November 17, 2010

Robert Scheer | The Life and Times of Bush the Clueless

It takes a Harvard MBA to raze an economy. Perhaps that is too narrow a judgment given that a law degree from that institution or from Yale University…

by: Robert Scheer,; Truthdig | Op-Ed

November 10, 2010

Robert Scheer | Payback at the Polls

Let’s not shoot the messenger. Yes, the tea party victors are a mixed bag espousing often contradictory and at times weird positions, the source of their funding is…

by: Robert Scheer,; Truthdig | Op-Ed

November 3, 2010