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White House / Pete Souza
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By Robert Scheer — Barack Obama and the Democrats he led to a stunning victory two years ago are going down hard in the face of an economic crisis that he did nothing to create but which he has failed to solve.
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AP / Mark Lennihan
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By Robert Scheer — The irrational attack on Muslims everywhere by the GOP’s leadership is not only deeply subversive with regard to the American ideal of religious tolerance but also poses a profound threat to our national security.
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AP / J. Scott Applewhite
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By Robert Scheer — The corruptions of journalism were on full display when CNN’s Fareed Zakaria turned to Robert Rubin this past Sunday for advice on how to fix the financial crisis that he, as much as anyone, caused.
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Posted on Aug 10, 2010
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AP / Mary Altaffer
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By Robert Scheer — Out of respect for privacy, even concerning famous people, I wasn’t going to write about the marriage of Chelsea Clinton to a Goldman Sachs alum and budding hedge-fund hustler with the resources to buy a $4 million loft so soon after graduating from Stanford.
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AP / Maya Alleruzzo
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By Robert Scheer — What WikiLeaks did was brilliant journalism, and the bleating critics from the president on down are revealing just how low a regard they have for the truth.
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AP / J. Scott Applewhite
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By Robert Scheer — Thanks to the defection of the two relatively enlightened Republican senators from Maine and the quick replacement of the late Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd, unemployment checks that had been stalled for millions of American families since early June will soon resume. But for Republicans, it has been a defining issue that will haunt the party.
Posted on Jul 21, 2010
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AP / Carolyn Kaster
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By Robert Scheer — The flight from reason that now marks American public discourse came home for me last Friday when I found myself on public radio debating whether Barack Obama is anti-business.
Posted on Jul 13, 2010
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AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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By Robert Scheer — It’s not working. Time for the president to concede that the economy is at best stagnating and at worst about to take another steep nose dive.
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By Robert Scheer — Peace has descended on the most contentious point of conflict between East and West for the past six decades—but don’t expect the folks at the Pentagon or their military contractors to celebrate.
Posted on Jun 29, 2010
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U.S. Army / Staff Sgt. Thomas Dow
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By Robert Scheer — Rolling Stone’s definitive piece on the “Runaway General” establishes the man in charge of the Afghanistan misadventure as an egotistical flake whose half-baked Afghan war-fighting strategy should never have been endorsed in the first place.
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AP / Eric Gay
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By Robert Scheer — What’s with the president’s war analogy on the oil spill? It’s as if some alien force, “The Invasion of the Slippery Sludge,” suddenly attacked us. What nonsense.
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AP / Charles Dharapak
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By Robert Scheer — The media tirade against Helen Thomas is as illogical as it is hysterical. The few sentences uttered by her were, as she quickly acknowledged, wrong—deeply so, I would add. But they cannot justify the road-rage destruction of the dean of the Washington press corps.
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AP / Drew Angerer
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By Robert Scheer — If nothing else, this assault on decency by the Israeli government was clearly intended to derail the peace talks that President Barack Obama has encouraged. But instead of calling Israel on its savagery, the U.S. is virtually alone in the world in its embarrassingly mild rebuke.
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AP / Jessica Hill
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By Robert Scheer — What is so great about our bloated federal government that when a libertarian threatens to become a senator, otherwise rational and mostly liberal pundits start frothing at the mouth? What Rand Paul thinks about the Civil Rights Act, passed 46 years ago, hardly seems the most pressing issue of social justice before us.
Posted on May 25, 2010
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AP / Ed Reinke
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By Robert Scheer — Tuesday’s election results were pretty good for progressives. The retirement of that windbag chameleon Sen. Arlen Specter is long overdue, and pro-labor forces were able to push Sen. Blanche Lincoln into a runoff in Arkansas. Even the big tea party win in Kentucky has its bright side.
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‘Losing’ the World: American Decline in Perspective, Part 1
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