Robert Scheer

Contributing Editor

Robert Scheer, a contributing editor to The Nation, is editor of Truthdig.com and author of The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street (Nation Books), The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America (Twelve) and Playing President (Akashic Books). He is author, with Christopher Scheer and Lakshmi Chaudhry, of The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq (Akashic Books and Seven Stories Press.) His weekly column, distributed by Creators Syndicate, appears in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Articles

What's God Got to Do With It? (Religion, Law, Society)

God again!

Robert Scheer

Making Money, the Bush Way (Banking Predatory Lending, Political Figures)

You have to hand it to George Bush the senior for hustle. Back in 1998, he took at least $80,000 in stock from Global Crossing in return for speaking for the company in Tokyo.

Robert Scheer

Enron Flew Under the Radar (Corporations, White-Collar Crime, Society)

Is the Enron story one of outrageous mendacity or stupefying ignorance?

Robert Scheer

An Orgy of Defense Spending (Politics)

Now we get to see just how cowardly the Democrats in Congress can be.

Robert Scheer

A Walk in the Valley of Greed (Bush Administration Enron Connections, Religion, Law, Society)

What would Jesus do? It's a no-brainer; he would leave the Christian Coalition, take a consulting job with Enron and then use his divine power to make George W. Bush president.

Robert Scheer

Enron Got Its Money's Worth (Environmental Issues, Bush Administration Enron Connections, Law, Environment, Society)

One of the major falsehoods being bandied about by apologists for the Bush Administration is that while Enron may have bankrolled much of the President's political career it got nothing for those

Robert Scheer

Bush to Lay: What Was Your Name Again? (Bush Administration Enron Connections, Campaign Finance, Law, Politics, Society)

If you believe President Bush, Kenneth Lay--one of his top financial backers and his "good friend"--was merely an equal-opportunity corrupter of our political system, buying off Democrats and Rep

Robert Scheer

Let Down His Rich Pals? Over His Dead Body (George W. Bush, Taxes)

Talk about the politics of class struggle. George W. Bush now is apparently willing to give his life to make the rich richer.

Robert Scheer

Enron Is a Cancer on the Presidency (Bush Administration Enron Connections, Law, Society)

Finally, a reporter had the temerity to question Bush on Friday regarding the ignominious collapse of Enron Corp. run by Kenneth L. Lay, a Bush family intimate and top campaign contributor.

Robert Scheer

Secularism Unlocks the Door to Stability (Religion, Regions and Countries, Society)

While we wait out the good riddance to bad rubbish that is Osama bin Laden, troubling questions remain.

Robert Scheer