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Robert Scheer: Enron’s Enablers Go Unpunished

“Kenny Boy” Lay and Jeffrey Skilling would have remained small-time crooks were it not for the energy industry deregulation measures they effectively purchased from Bush I and II.

Posted on Oct 24, 2006 READ MORE  | 194 READS


Robert Scheer: The Killing Fields of Iraq

A top medical journal’s report that the killing of innocents in Iraq is 10 times higher than a year ago completely contradicts Bush & Co. contentions that U.S. troops are stabilizing the country.

Posted on Oct 17, 2006 READ MORE  | 370 READS


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Robert Scheer: Dear Leader Brings It On

Right-wingers want to blame Bill Clinton for North Korea’s nuclear provocation, but it was the wannabe cowboy in the Oval Office who goaded the Hermit Kingdom’s leader into a Cold War-style bout of nuclear brinkmanship.

  • UPDATE: Jimmy Carter,  former emissary to N. Korea, calls for resumption of negotiations with Pyongyang
  • McCain rips Clinton’s N. Korea policy (read or watch)

  • Posted on Oct 10, 2006 READ MORE  | 576 READS


    Robert Scheer: Rice More Sordid Than Foley

    Rep. Mark Foley’s predations might be evidence of a Republican Party gone to seed, but don’t let it obscure the fact that Condoleezza Rice appears to have lied under oath about Al Qaeda attack warnings she received in advance of Sept. 11.

    Posted on Oct 3, 2006 READ MORE  | 1002 READS


    Robert Scheer: A War on Intelligence

    All 16 U.S. intelligence services have concluded that Bush’s war in Iraq “has become the ‘cause celebre’ for jihadists” worldwide, but that won’t deter a president who puts no stock in intelligence.

    Posted on Sep 26, 2006 READ MORE  | 110 READS


    Robert Scheer: Rendering Unto Syria

    A day before Bush paid lip service to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in his U.N. address, a Canadian government commission accused the U.S. of “rendering” a Canadian to Syria for almost a year of torture.

    Posted on Sep 19, 2006 READ MORE  | 127 READS


    Robert Scheer: Subverting Democracy With the Big Lie

    Bush was correct in saying Monday night that “Our nation is being tested in a way that we have not been since the start of the Cold War.” Unfortunately, it’s Bush’s administration that is testing us—with its relentless incompetence, attacks on our civil liberties and inability to acknowledge the bankruptcy of its policies.

    Posted on Sep 12, 2006 READ MORE  | 191 READS


    Robert Scheer— Afghanistan: High on Opium, Not Democracy

    While Bush was distracted with Iraq, the patrons of terrorism were very much in business back where the 9/11 attack was hatched, turning Afghanistan into a narco-state that provides a lucrative source of cash for the “evildoers” Bush forgot about.

    Posted on Sep 5, 2006 READ MORE  | 439 READS


    Robert Scheer: Clinton Ended Welfare, Not Poverty

    Bill Clinton doesn’t seem to know the difference between getting mothers and their children off the welfare rolls and getting them out of poverty.

    Posted on Aug 29, 2006 READ MORE  | 448 READS


    Robert Scheer: Warring Over the Heart of the Party

    Democrats must transcend all their intraparty squabbles over the war in Iraq and focus on the obligation of politicians to be honest with the public.

    Posted on Aug 22, 2006 READ MORE  | 176 READS


    Robert Scheer: Spinning Old Threats Into New Fears

    Investigators have known for a decade about terrorist plots to bring down passenger jets with liquid explosives. So why, all of a sudden, did Bush ban most liquids on flights?

    Posted on Aug 15, 2006 READ MORE  | 118 READS


    Robert Scheer: Why We Don’t Know Our Enemy

    A new book by the former co-chairs of the 9/11 commission tells the inside story of how the White House has systematically endeavored to squelch any real examination of the enemy whose actions kicked off the so-called war on terror.

    Posted on Aug 8, 2006 READ MORE  | 448 READS


    Robert Scheer: Israel’s Dependency on the Drug of Militarism

    The Jewish state’s die-hard supporters in the White House, Congress and the media seem unable to understand that Israel will never be able to bomb its way to security.

    Posted on Aug 1, 2006 READ MORE  | 495 READS


    Robert Scheer: Labor Pains of a Stillborn Foreign Policy

    By saying that the Israel-Lebanon crisis simply represents the “birth pangs of a new Middle East,” Condoleezza Rice underscored the Bush administration’s blindness to the disastrous effects its foreign policy has wrought.

    Posted on Jul 25, 2006 READ MORE  | 166 READS


    Robert Scheer: What Bush’s Open Mike Revealed

    In the midst of a Middle Eastern crisis that threatens to destabilize the entire region and perhaps beyond, it was unnerving that what most seemed to interest President Bush at the G8 summit is that China is a long flight from western Russia.

    Posted on Jul 18, 2006 READ MORE  | 347 READS


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