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 Robert Scheer, Editor in Chief
Robert Scheer has built a reputation for strong social and political writing over his 30 years as a journalist. His columns appear in newspapers across the country, and his in-depth interviews have made headlines. He conducted the famous Playboy magazine interview in which Jimmy Carter confessed to the lust in his heart and he went on to do many interviews for the Los Angeles Times with Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and many other prominent political and cultural figures. Between 1964 and 1969 he was Vietnam correspondent, managing editor and editor in chief of Ramparts magazine. From 1976 to 1993 he served as a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, writing on diverse topics such as the Soviet Union, arms control, national politics and the military. In 1993 he launched a nationally syndicated column based at the Los Angeles Times, where he was named a contributing editor. That column ran weekly for the next 12 years and is now based at Truthdig. Scheer can be heard on the political radio program “Left, Right and Center” on KCRW, the National Public Radio affiliate in Santa Monica, Calif. He has written eight books, including “Thinking Tuna Fish, Talking Death: Essays on the Pornography of Power”; “With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush and Nuclear War” and “America After Nixon: The Age of Multinationals;” with his son Christopher and Lakshmi Chaudhry, “The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us about Iraq;” and “Playing President: “My Close Encounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I and Clinton—and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush.” Most recently, he wrote “The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America.” Scheer was raised in the Bronx, where he attended public schools and graduated from City College of New York. He studied as a Maxwell fellow at Syracuse University and was a fellow at the Center for Chinese Studies at UC Berkeley, where he did graduate work in economics. Scheer is a contributing editor for The Nation as well as a Nation Fellow. He has also been a Poynter fellow at Yale, and was a fellow in arms control at Stanford.
Truthdig Articles200911/03 Keeping Afghanistan Safe From Democracy 10/27 Lieberman Twists the Knife 10/20 Zooming In on the Year’s Biggest Hoax 10/13 Public Health Before Wall Street Wealth 10/06 A War of Absurdity 09/29 Exorcising America’s Diplomatic Demons 09/22 Saving the Obama Revolution 09/15 Obama’s Presidency Isn’t Too Big to Fail 09/08 A 9/11 Reality Check 09/01 Obama’s Meaningless War 08/25 Remembering the Real Deal 08/18 UBS Money Laundering: What Did Phil Gramm Know? 08/11 Letting the Banking Rats Out of the Bag 08/05 Truthdig Classic: The Terror America Wrought 08/04 Banking Bandits Get Their Reward 07/28 The Chinese Come Calling 07/21 Deep-Sixing the F-22 07/14 ‘Government Sachs’ Strikes Gold ... Again 07/07 McNamara’s Evil Lives On 07/06 Remembering McNamara 07/01 The Root of Madoff’s Evil 06/24 Foreclosure Fiasco 06/17 Obama’s Economic Misfits Finally Get It 06/10 A Republican to Save Us 06/03 Reagan Didn’t Do It 05/26 Stuff the Bankers, Starve the Kids 05/19 Our Loss Is BlackRock’s Gain 05/12 Pelosi the Enabler 05/05 Cashing In on ‘Government Sachs’ 04/28 The Clinton Bubble 04/22 Thievery Under the TARP 04/14 Endgame for Gramm? 04/07 Living Large and in Charge 03/31 In for a Penny, In for $2.98 Trillion 03/24 Obama’s Toxic Advisers 03/17 Perp Walks Instead of Bonuses 03/10 Socialism Without a Soul 03/03 Billions Dished Out in the Shadows 02/25 Getting Warmer 02/18 Good Money After Bad 02/10 No Tough Love for Wall Street 02/04 Runaway Wall Street 01/27 Economic Policy Could Scuttle Obama’s Good Start 01/20 Time to Get to Work 01/13 Wall Street Robber Barons Ride Again 01/06 Why Do So Few Speak Up for Gaza? 200812/30 Gaza Clouds Obama’s Prospects 12/23 Cheney’s Legacy of Deception 12/16 President Bush and the Flying Shoes: A Cautionary Tale 12/09 Republicans Bring Socialism to America 12/02 Will Obama Stay the Course? 11/25 Obama Chooses Wall Street Over Main Street 11/18 Change We Can Bank On 11/11 Cold War Hawks Nesting With Obama 11/04 Morning Again in America 10/28 Just How Dumb Are White Males? 10/21 The Battle for Obama’s Economic Soul 10/14 The Hoover-Palin Ticket 10/07 A Plague Upon the White House 09/30 Boston Tea Party, 2008 09/23 A Fox to Protect the Henhouse? 09/19 Economic Meltdown: Don’t Say We Weren’t Forewarned 09/16 Earth to McCain: It’s a Crisis 09/09 She’s Clueless, He’s Worse 09/02 Palin’s Alaska Reaps the Windfall Profits McCain Decries 08/26 Running for War President at Any Cost 08/19 McCain’s Warped Worldview 08/12 Georgia War a Neocon Election Ploy? 08/05 Terror From the Inside 07/29 Sucking Up to the Bankers: A Bipartisan Lovefest 07/22 Obama on the Brink 07/15 The Real Legacy of the ‘Reagan Revolution’ 07/08 Taiwan Declares Peace on China 07/01 Happy Oil Dependence Day 06/24 Wasteful Weapons and the Politicians Who Love Them 06/17 Is Clinton the Ticket for Obama? 06/14 Empire or Republic? 06/10 Blame Rising Oil Prices on Bush 06/03 What Makes McCain Tick? 06/01 Indefensible Spending 05/27 Where Is the Outrage? 05/20 Paying for War at the Pump 05/13 The Tortured Law on Torture 05/06 Battle of the Hawks 04/29 No Country for Old Men 04/22 Clinton Threatens to ‘Obliterate’ Iran 04/15 The Man Who Would Be Bush 04/08 Everything His President Wants to Hear 04/01 A Submarine to Fight al-Qaidas Navy 03/25 War of the Word 03/18 Bush’s Legacy of Failure 03/12 Spitzer’s Shame Is Wall Street’s Gain 03/04 ‘Great Satan’ Gets Struck Out 02/26 What the Times Didn’t Tell About McCain 02/19 Castro and the Colossus 02/12 Aboard the Condoleezza Rice 02/05 The Legacy of Bush II 01/29 Obama, Clinton and the War 01/22 Who Will Take On the Banks? 01/15 Those Ungrateful Saudis Contact.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) AffiliationsTo subscribe to Scheer’s regular column please visit robertscheer.com. Scheer can be heard on the political radio program “Left, Right and Center” on KCRW, the National Public Radio affiliate in Santa Monica. Scheer is also clinical professor at The University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication. Publications
The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About IraqBy Robert Scheer, Christopher Scheer and Lakshmi Chaudhry “The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq” “Thinking Tuna Fish, Talking Death: Essays on the Pornography of Power” “With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush and Nuclear War” “America After Nixon: The Age of Multinationals”
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