Robert Scheer

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

Robert Scheer | The High Price of Patriotism

It's over for the U.S. in Afghanistan, but that doesn't mean the death and destruction are about to stop. Quagmires don't just go away. The signs are everywhere, however, …

By: Robert Scheer ,; Truthdig|Op-Ed

October 28, 2010

Robert Scheer | Invasion of the Robot Home Snatchers

The Titanic that is the U.S. housing market has just sprung its biggest leak, and even some of the largest banks responsible for this mess, like Bank of America …

By: Robert Scheer ,; Truthdig|Op-Ed

October 13, 2010

Robert Scheer | The Big Guy Is on Our Side

Paul Volcker, or the "big guy," as President Barack Obama refers to the former Federal Reserve chair who heads his Economic Recovery Advisory Board, nailed it in a series …

By: Robert Scheer ,; Truthout

October 1, 2010

Robert Scheer | So Long, Summers

Finally! The announced departure of Lawrence Summers as the president's top economic adviser is welcome news. Harvard's loss in taking back its $586,996-a-year professor and "president emeritus," who is …

By: Robert Scheer ,; truthdig.com|Op-Ed

September 22, 2010

Robert Scheer | After Summers Comes the Fall

When will the president give Lawrence Summers his pink slip? He can thank him for his years of service and use the excuse that his top economic adviser wants …

By: Robert Scheer ,; Truthdig|Op-Ed

September 15, 2010

Robert Scheer | It’s the Mortgages, Stupid (2)

This week's proposals by the Obama administration to deal with the persistent economic crisis will be, as with previous plans that involved trillions of taxpayer dollars, little more than …

By: Robert Scheer ,; Truthdig|Op-Ed

September 10, 2010

Robert Scheer | It’s the Mortgages, Stupid

This week’s proposals by the Obama administration to deal with the persistent economic crisis will be, as with previous plans that involved trillions of taxpayer dollars, little more than …

By: Robert Scheer ,; Truthdig|Op-Ed

September 8, 2010

Robert Scheer | They Go or Obama Goes

Barack Obama and the Democrats he led to a stunning victory two years ago are going down hard in the face of an economic crisis that he did nothing …

By: Robert Scheer ,; Truthdig|Op-Ed

August 26, 2010

GOP Backslide Finds Suitable Nemesis: It’s the Constitution, Stupid!

Haven't we seen this barefaced sideshow before? The GOP sabotages another Democratic president "to save America." Predictably, racism has made wary, less culpable Obama an easier mark than wayward …

By: Robert S Becker &; Robert Scheer ,; Truthout

August 22, 2010

Robert Scheer | Ground Zero for Tolerance

Are the Republicans terminally stupid, or are they just playing the dangerous fool? In either case, the irrational attack on Muslims everywhere by the GOP's leadership is not only …

By: Robert Scheer ,; Truthdig

August 18, 2010

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