http://www.truthdig.com/robert_scheer Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2009 2009-12-02T10:40:38+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/here_we_go_again_20091202/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/here_we_go_again_20091202/ 911, afghanistan, barack obama, carter, election, government, history, iraq, jimmy carter, military, obama, robert scheer, scheer, speech, taliban, war, Robert Scheer's Columns

After 30 years of failure, and thanks to the political opportunism of the current commander in chief, the Afghanistan war is still without end or logical purpose.

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Jail, anyone? Perhaps that’s too harsh, and at any rate premature, but is anyone ever going to be held accountable for the behind-the-scenes sweetheart deals that passed tens of billions of taxpayer dollars through the AIG shell game to the very banks that caused the financial meltdown?

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]]> 2009-11-25T08:34:05+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/who_are_you_and_what_have_you_done_with_the_community_organizer_we_elected_/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/who_are_you_and_what_have_you_done_with_the_community_organizer_we_elected_/ barack obama, christopher dodd, clinton, economy, law, lawrence summers, neal wolin, obama, politic, regulation, robert rubin, robert scheer, scheer, senate, timothy geithner, wall street, white house, Robert Scheer's Columns

What’s up with Barack Obama? Finally someone has a good idea about how to deal with Wall Street and the White House condemns it. 

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]]> 2009-11-18T08:51:48+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091111_gorbachevs_sermon_on_the_mount/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091111_gorbachevs_sermon_on_the_mount/ afghanistan, angela merkel, barack obama, berlin, berlin wall, cia, germany, gorbachev, history, mikhail gorbachev, military, obama, politics, robert scheer, russia, scheer, soviet union, terrorism, war, Robert Scheer's Columns

Mikhail Gorbachev is not honored enough for the example he set. His past practices and recent cautions about Afghanistan should be heeded by Barack Obama.

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]]> 2009-11-11T09:02:31+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091103_keeping_afghanistan_safe_from_democracy/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091103_keeping_afghanistan_safe_from_democracy/ abdullah abdullah, afghanistan, al-qaida, civil war, democracy, election, fraud, hamid karzai, insurgency, lyndon johnson, matthew hoh, stanley mcchrystal, Robert Scheer's Columns

The most idiotic thing being said about America’s involvement in Afghanistan is that the best way to protect the 68,000 U.S. troops there now is by putting an additional 40,000 in harm’s way. 

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]]> 2009-11-04T07:00:58+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091027_lieberman_twists_the_knife/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091027_lieberman_twists_the_knife/ 911, connecticut, defense budget, filibuster, health care reform, joe lieberman, medicare, olympia snowe, public option, robert scheer, senate, social security, trigger, Robert Scheer's Columns

Is there a more hypocritical figure in American politics than Joe Lieberman? The Connecticut senator declared Tuesday that he would support a filibuster of any health care reform bill that has a public option—even the version with the “trigger” compromise accepted by Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe—because it might cost money.

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]]> 2009-10-28T06:17:15+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091021_zooming_in_on_the_years_biggest_hoax/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091021_zooming_in_on_the_years_biggest_hoax/ aig, bailout, balloon boy, dick gephardt, goldman sachs, house financial services committee, robert rubin, tarp, timothy geithner, wolf blitzer, Robert Scheer's Columns

Who are these people? I am not referring to the pathetic parents of “Balloon Boy,” whose fake drama I have been unable to escape while on the treadmill this week, thanks to my gym’s insistence on tuning its flat-screen TVs to Wolf Blitzer’s nonstop self-parody.

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]]> 2009-10-21T06:45:15+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091013_public_health_before_wall_street_wealth/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091013_public_health_before_wall_street_wealth/ aig, bailout, federal reserve, health care, health insurance, max baucus, olympia snowe, robert scheer, timothy geithner, wall street, Robert Scheer's Columns

There is an odd disconnect between the furious public debate over health care reform, with its emphasis on the cost of an increased government role, and the nonexistent discussion about the far more expensive and largely secretive government program to bail out Wall Street.

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]]> 2009-10-14T06:24:15+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091007_a_war_of_absurdity/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091007_a_war_of_absurdity/ afghanistan, al-qaida, cia, defense industry, drones, james jones, john mccain, robert scheer, taliban, terrorism, Robert Scheer's Columns

There is no indication that any of the contending forces in Afghanistan, including the Taliban, are interested in bringing al-Qaida back. On the contrary, all the available evidence indicates that the Arab fighters are unwelcome and that it is their isolation from their former patrons that has led to their demise. 

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]]> 2009-10-07T07:36:07+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090929_exorcising_americas_diplomatic_demons/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090929_exorcising_americas_diplomatic_demons/ al-qaida, china, communism, demonology, foreign policy, islamist, nixon, red scare, robert macnamara, robert scheer, terrorism, vietnam, Robert Scheer's Columns

Communism once was, as the Islamic terrorist threat is today, presented as an undifferentiated revolutionary impulse that could never be diplomatically accommodated without sacrificing our own security or, indeed, our freedom. The various communist nations and movements, like those currently led by a polyglot collection of Islamist radicals, were stripped of any complexity, be it in their national identity or ideology. 

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