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By Keith Gessen
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By Orville Schell, Michael Massing
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AP / Earl Gibson III
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By Robert Scheer — In defense of Arianna Huffington. Not that the lady needs one, having been a leader in undermining the right-wing dominance of Internet reporting.
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AP / Mark Lennihan
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By Robert Scheer — A most dastardly deed occurred last Friday when the Obama administration issued a 29-page policy statement totally abandoning the federal government’s time-honored role in helping Americans achieve the goal of homeownership.
Posted on Feb 16, 2011
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AP / Tara Todras-Whitehill
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By Robert Scheer — After a good start, the Obama administration’s response to the democratic revolution in Egypt has begun to exude the odor of betrayal, falling back on the sordid option of backing a new and improved dictatorship. But this time the Egyptian street will not meekly go along.
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White House / Chuck Kennedy
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By Robert Scheer — What is the state of the union? You certainly couldn’t tell from that platitudinous hogwash that the president dished out.
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AP / Charles Dharapak
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By Robert Scheer — Here we go again. When Bill Clinton suffered an electoral reversal after his first two years in office, he abruptly embraced the corporate money guys who had financed his congressional opposition in an effort to purchase a second term.
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AP / Carolyn Kaster
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By Robert Scheer — While it is widely recognized that the banking meltdown has left enormous economic pain and political upheaval in its wake, it is amazing that the folks who created this mess are rewarded with ever more important positions in our government.
Posted on Jan 12, 2011
96 COMMENTS
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AP / Manuel Balce Ceneta
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By Robert Scheer — The value of the Davis example, as with the parade of Wall Street hustlers so prominent among the Clintonistas, is that his greed has broken his cover.
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AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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By Robert Scheer — Two years into the Obama presidency and the economic data is still looking grim. Don’t be fooled by the gyrations of the stock market, where optimism is mostly a reflection of the ability of financial corporations—thanks to massive government largesse—to survive the mess they created.
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AP / Fradioon Pooya
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By Robert Scheer — One of “the best and the brightest” died last week, and in Richard Holbrooke we had a perfect example of the dark mischief to which David Halberstam referred when he authored that ironic label.
Posted on Dec 22, 2010
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AP / J. Scott Applewhite
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By Robert Scheer — The sight of Bill Clinton back at the White House podium defending tax cuts for the super-rich was more a sick joke than a serious amplification of economic policy.
Posted on Dec 15, 2010
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AP / Lennart Preiss
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By Robert Scheer — It is outrageous for any journalist, or respecter of what every American president has claimed is our inalienable, God-given right to a free press, not to join in Assange’s defense.
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AP / Evan Vucci
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By Robert Scheer — Hillary Clinton should cut out the whining about what the Obama administration derides as “stolen cables” and confront the unpleasant truths they reveal about the contradictions of U.S. foreign policy and her own troubling performance.
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AP / Seth Wenig
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By Robert Scheer — Welcome to the brave new world of post-bailout capitalism. The Commerce Department announced Tuesday that corporate profits are at their highest level in U.S. history, and the Fed released minutes of an early November meeting in which officials predicted a stagnant economy and continued high unemployment.
Posted on Nov 24, 2010
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AP / Louis Lanzano
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By Robert Scheer — Rejoice, the housing market is back. Sandy Weill just picked up a humdinger of a wine vineyard estate in Sonoma, Calif., for a record $31 million, so the foreclosure crisis must be over.
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AP / LM Otero
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By Robert Scheer — The Harvard MBA is the degree that George W. Bush and his last treasury secretary, Henry Paulson, had in common, and their shared ignorance as they presided over the collapse of the U.S. economy is on full display in the former president’s newly published memoir.
Posted on Nov 10, 2010
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‘Losing’ the World: American Decline in Perspective, Part 1
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