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By Robert Scheer — How astonishing to have a public servant who actually cares to inform the public about the inner workings of the system of crony capitalism that has wedded big government with big business.
Posted on May 14, 2013
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AP/Carolyn Kaster
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By Robert Scheer — The president has chosen to fill two key Cabinet positions dealing with business practices with people who specialized in financial rip-offs.
Posted on May 7, 2013
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By Robert Scheer — There is a growing acceptance and indeed a demand for additional surveillance cameras, cellphone eavesdropping, location checks and biometric identifiers.
Posted on Apr 29, 2013
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By Robert Scheer — The horror of Boston should be a reminder that the choice of weaponry can be in itself an act of evil.
Posted on Apr 23, 2013
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By Robert Scheer — For all of the strident attacks on Stockman’s column, I have yet to read a serious critique of his most brazen claim.
Posted on Apr 2, 2013
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AP/Baz Ratner
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By Robert Scheer — Sorry to be such a nudge, but as I write this before heading off to yet another in a long lifetime of Seders, I still can’t get my head wrapped around this business of the plagues.
Posted on Mar 25, 2013
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By Robert Scheer — A majority of Americans now believe the Iraq War was a mistake, but memories fade. Most 18-29-year-olds say sending U.S. troops to Vietnam was not a mistake.
Posted on Mar 19, 2013
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By Robert Scheer — The U.S. government exists primarily to make the world safe for multinational corporations, but those firms feel no obligation to pay for that protection in return.
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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AP/Osamu Honda
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By Robert Scheer — Where is the Occupy movement now that the depravity of the super rich is on full display?
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
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By Robert Scheer — What was Michelle Obama thinking? What if the card for “Zero Dark Thirty” had been lurking in that best picture envelope Sunday?
Posted on Feb 26, 2013
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By Robert Scheer — It is bizarre that Chuck Hagel, a war hero with a long record of sensible views on the deployment of military power, gets blocked as the president’s nominee to run the Pentagon, while Jack Lew, steeped in Wall Street greed, sails through as Treasury secretary.
Posted on Feb 14, 2013
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AP/Jacquelyn Martin
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By Robert Scheer — When it comes to torture in the post 9/11 era, the record of the United States is so appalling that one must question our claimed abhorrence of the barbarism of other nations.
Posted on Feb 7, 2013
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AP/Charles Dharapak
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By Robert Scheer — Here’s a get-out-of-jail-free card, and while we’re at it, take this obscenely huge bonus for having wrecked the economy.
Posted on Feb 1, 2013
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By Robert Scheer — Why aren’t film director Kathryn Bigelow’s claimed government sources, including employees of the CIA, in jail like Pfc. Bradley Manning?
Posted on Jan 18, 2013
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White House/Pete Souza
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By Robert Scheer — I suppose that he can’t be much worse than Timothy Geithner, but that should be scant cause for cheer over the news that the president has nominated Jack Lew as Treasury secretary.
Posted on Jan 11, 2013
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