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By Scott D. Sampson
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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.
Posted on Feb 2, 2012
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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.
Posted on Jan 26, 2012
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Mr. Fish
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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.
Posted on Jan 12, 2012
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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.
Posted on Jan 5, 2012
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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.
Posted on Dec 29, 2011
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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.
Posted on Dec 15, 2011
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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.
Posted on Dec 8, 2011
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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.
Posted on Dec 1, 2011
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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.
Posted on Nov 24, 2011
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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.
Posted on Nov 17, 2011
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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.
Posted on Nov 10, 2011
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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?
Posted on Nov 2, 2011
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AP / Jay Finneburgh
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By Robert Scheer — It is class warfare. But it was begun not by the tear-gassed, rain-soaked protesters asserting their constitutionally guaranteed right of peaceful assembly but rather the financial overlords who control all of the major levers of power in what passes for our democracy.
Posted on Oct 26, 2011
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