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AP / Haraz N. Ghanbari
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By Robert Scheer — Bribes from billionaires? Let’s just dip our fingers in purple ink and pose for photos.
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AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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By Robert Scheer — That Lawrence Summers and Bill Clinton, the president he served as treasury secretary, can still get away with disclaiming responsibility for our financial meltdown is an insult to reason.
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AP / Saul Loeb
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By Robert Scheer — I get angry because betrayal by the “good guys” for whom I have ended up voting has become the norm.
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Robert Scheer’s weekly column will resume next Thursday. In the meantime, read up on the classics or tune in to this week’s Truthdig Radio (Thursday at 4 p.m. Pacific on 90.7 KPFK Los Angeles—livestream here) for Scheer in conversation with Chris Hedges.
Posted on Jan 19, 2012
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AP / Charles Krupa
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By Robert Scheer — GOP candidates are embracing populism, but as the presidential election is now shaping up, voters will not be given a choice to rebuke Wall Street by either major party.
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AP / Gerald Herbert
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By Robert Scheer — Barack Obama will be re-elected not as a vindication of his policies but because the Republicans are incapable of providing a reasonable challenge to his flawed performance.
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AP / Charlie Riedel
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By Robert Scheer — Paul is being denigrated as a presidential contender even though on the vital issues of the economy, war and peace, and civil liberties, he has made the most sense of the Republican candidates.
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AP / Keystone / Peter Schneider
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By Robert Scheer — New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s tortured obit this week on the official end of the neocolonialist disaster that has been the Iraq occupation reminds one that the three-time Pulitzer Prize winner often gets it wrong.
Posted on Dec 22, 2011
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AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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By Robert Scheer — What’s alarming is the ease with which an otherwise deadlocked Congress that can’t manage minimal funding for job creation passes a bill that threatens the foundations of our republican form of government.
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AP / Winslow Townson
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By Robert Scheer — Newt Gingrich’s hypocrisy concerning economic matters will prove more troubling than his sexual affairs as his chances of becoming president increase.
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AP / Dan Steinberg
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By Robert Scheer — Count the liberal mayor of Los Angeles as one of those apologists for suppressing truth in the name of civic order.
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AP / Matt Rourke
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By Robert Scheer — On this Thanksgiving we have been cheated of the bounty of the harvest as one in three Americans descends into poverty.
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AP / Julia Xanthos
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By Robert Scheer — In the pantheon of billionaires without shame, Michael Bloomberg, the Wall Street banker-turned-business-press-lord-turned-mayor, is now secure at the top.
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AP / Damian Dovarganes
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By Robert Scheer — There is no three-strikes law for crooked bankers, who usually get off with a fine and a promise not to do it again, and again and again.
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AP / J. Scott Applewhite
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By Robert Scheer — Can we all agree that a $1 billion swindle represents a lot of money? So why isn’t former Citigroup Chairman Robert Rubin breaking a sweat?
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