Robert Scheer

Wall Street's Fat Cats Are Still In Charge

Robert Scheer | Posted 12.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Robert Scheer, Vikram Pandit, Robert Rubin, Larry Summers, Bailout, Wall Street Bonuses, Wall Street, Recession, Citigroup, Business News
Robert Scheer

Obama's stern rhetoric apparently did not move the top banking honchos who failed to show up for this week's White House meeting with the president.

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Still Doing God's Work On Wall Street

Robert Scheer | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Robert Scheer, Tarp, Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, Goldman Sachs, Clinton, Lawrence Summers, Aig, Lloyd Blankfein, Business News
Robert Scheer

Why is Summers once again running the show with Geithner when both have made careers of exhibiting total contempt for the public interest? Because there's no accountability for the high rollers of finance.

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Who Are You and What Have You Done With the Community Organizer We Elected President?

Robert Scheer | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, Barack Obama, Federal Reserve, Neal Wolin, Lawrence Summers, Austan Goolsbee, Robert Rubin, Chris Dodd, Politics News
Robert Scheer

The fatal hallmark of this president's financial policy is that it is being designed by the very people who created the mess that enriched them while impoverishing the nation, and they now want more of the same.

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Gorbachev's Sermon on the Mount

Robert Scheer | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Robert Scheer, Angela Merkel, Berlin Wall, Mikhail Gorbachev, Cia, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Germany, Anniversary, Stanley McChrystal, Soviet Union, World News
Robert Scheer

When Gorbachev came to power he, like Obama, inherited a war that was not in the interest of his nation. If the response of a Soviet dictator was to end it, might we not be justified in doing the same?

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Keeping Afghanistan Safe from Democracy

Robert Scheer | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

Read More: Robert Scheer, Insurgency, David Axelrod, Lyndon Johnson, Afghanistan, Matthew Hoh, Al-Qaida, Vietnam, Democracy, Hamid Karzai, Stanley McChrystal, Soviet Union, World News
Robert Scheer

The most idiotic thing being said about America's involvement in Afghanistan is that the best way to protect the 68,000 U.S. troops there now is by putting an additional 40,000 in harm's way.

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Lieberman Twists the Knife

Robert Scheer | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Olympia Snowe, Senate, Public Option, Ron Paul, Health Care Reform, Filibuster, Medicare, Joe Lieberman, Libertarian, Health Care, Politics News
Robert Scheer

Is there a more hypocritical figure in American politics than Joe Lieberman? His threat to thwart a vote on health care legislation should be the last straw that ends his Democratic caucus connection.

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Zooming In On the Year's Biggest Hoax

Robert Scheer | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Robert Scheer, Tarp, Timothy Geithner, Bailout, Goldman Sachs, Balloon Boy, Robert Rubin, Dick Gephardt, Business News
Robert Scheer

If only we could get one of the banking lobbyists or a Goldman Sachs executive to float away in a duct-taped flying saucer balloon, Wolf Blitzer and the rest of cable news might cover the real hoax.

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Public Health Before Wall Street Wealth

Robert Scheer | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Olympia Snowe, Baucus, Timothy Geithner, Senate Finance Committee, Bailout, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Wall Street, Health Care, Politics News
Robert Scheer

The health care debate has become a convenient distraction, for both political parties, from the far more pressing issues surrounding the banking meltdown.

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A War of Absurdity

Robert Scheer | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

Read More: Robert Scheer, Cia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Terrorism, Al-Qaida, 9/11, James Jones, Taliban, Afghan Election, World News
Robert Scheer

It's time to declare victory and begin to get out of Afghanistan rather than descend deeper into an intractable civil war that we neither comprehend nor in the end will care much about.

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Exorcising America's Diplomatic Demons

Robert Scheer | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Communism, Islamist, Afghanistan, Terrorist, Cold War, Iran, Red Scare, China, Politics News
Robert Scheer

What we need is for Obama to pull a Nixon and attempt to cut a deal with Tehran as well as with competing forces in Afghanistan that meets their nationalist aspirations and our security interests.

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Left, Wrong and Center

Steven Weber | Posted 11.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Robert Scheer, Birthers, Deathers, Barack Obama, Left-Right-and-Center, Matt Miller, Neo-Conservatives, Glenn Beck, Arianna Huffington, Tom Blankley, Media News
Steven Weber

At the core of the rapidly spreading division in the body politic is the fungibility of facts and the emergence of a veritable alternate reality based solely on the preservation of one's ideology.

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Obama's Presidency Isn't Too Big to Fail

Robert Scheer | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Henry Paulson, Bush, Bailout, Goldman Sachs, Afghanistan, Health Care Reform, Obama, Socialist, Wall Street, Politics News
Robert Scheer

A president has only so much capital to expend, both in tax dollars and public tolerance, and Barack Obama is dangerously overdrawn.

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A 9/11 Reality Check

Robert Scheer | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Afghanistan, Interrogation, Hiroshima, Dick Cheney, 9/11, Vietnam, Anniversary, World War II, World Trade Center, Politics News
Robert Scheer

What if eight years ago the World Trade Center had been leveled by a small nuclear bomb that took out most of lower Manhattan as well? How many millio...

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UBS Money Laundering: What Did Phil Gramm Know?

Robert Scheer | Posted 09.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Robert Scheer, Money Laundering, Ubs, Phil Gramm, Commodity Futures Modernization Act, Gramm-Leach-Biley Act, Business News
Robert Scheer

Given the widespread involvement of UBS in what the Justice Department alleges were efforts to violate U.S. tax laws, it must be asked: Did Gramm have no inkling about what was going on?

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Letting the Banking Rats Out of the Bag

Robert Scheer | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Robert Scheer, Treasury Department, TARP Money, Merrill Lynch Bonuses, Economy, Merrill Lynch Buyout, Bank of America, Obama Administration, BofA Bonuses, Bofa, Judge Jed Rakoff, BofA CEO, Merrill Lynch, Wall Street, Merrill BofA, Merrill Lynch Bank of America, Sec, Securities and Exchange Commission, Wall Street Bonuses, Business News
Robert Scheer

Why has it been left to one stellar judge to sound the alarm on Bank of America and Merrill Lynch, and why is Congress and the Obama administration looking the other way?

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Banking Bandits Get Their Reward

Robert Scheer | Posted 09.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Robert Scheer, Geithner, Deficit, Mortgages, Bailout, Bank of America, Recession, Citigroup, Business News
Robert Scheer

The $33 billion in taxpayer money that executives paid themselves speaks volumes about the inefficiency of a system of rewards that has nothing to do with performance.

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The Chinese Come Calling

Robert Scheer | Posted 08.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Robert Scheer, Deficit, Geithner, Clinton, Communist, Economy, Treasury, Marxist, China, Business News
Robert Scheer

The Chinese Communists invaded Washington on Monday demanding not that we sacrifice our freedoms but rather that we balance our budget.

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Deep-Sixing the F-22

Robert Scheer | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Barack Obama, Terrorism, Cold War, F-22, Defense Spending, Robert Gates, George H.W. Bush, Politics News
Robert Scheer

There are 187 F-22s that have yet to fly a single combat mission. The news that Congress might stop production of this high-profit weapons system is a considerable victory for logic.

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'Government Sachs' Strikes Gold ... Again

Robert Scheer | Posted 08.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Robert Scheer, Henry Paulson, Bailout, Goldman Sachs, Economy, Lehman Brothers, Aig, Timothy Geithner, Obama, Treasury Secretary, Glass-Steagall, Business News
Robert Scheer

The federal government works for Goldman and not for us. Indeed, when it comes to the banking bailout, Goldman Sachs is the government.

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McNamara's Evil Lives On

Robert Scheer | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vietnam War, Robert Scheer, Cambodia, Robert McNamara, Lyndon Johnson, Holocaust, Richard Nixon, Iraq War, Politics News
Robert Scheer

Whatever his better nature, it was the stark evil he perpetrated as secretary of defense that must indelibly frame our memory of him.

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Stuff the Bankers, Starve the Kids

Robert Scheer | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Banking, Robert Scheer, Education, Poverty, California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Budget, Politics News
Robert Scheer

Bail out the banks, but not the 500,000 poor families with children served by the CalWorks program, which will be dismantled, or the 928,000 children covered by the Healthy Families program, slated for oblivion.

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Our Loss is BlackRock's Gain

Robert Scheer | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Robert Scheer, Freddie Mac, Morgan Stanley, Bailout, Bank of America, Countrywide, Aig, Toxic Assets, Blackrock, Business News
Robert Scheer

How much do you know about the BlackRock hedge fund? Better bone up fast, now that the folks at BlackRock are calling the shots in the government's trillion-dollar bailout program.

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Pelosi The Enabler

Robert Scheer | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Cheney, Bush, Zubaydah, Nancy Pelosi, 9/11, Waterboarding, Torture, Politics News
Robert Scheer

By acquiescing to the cover-up of unpleasant truths in the treatment of prisoners, Pelosi contributed to the betrayal of the ideal of public accountability that is the bedrock of our system of governance.

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Cashing in on 'Government Sachs'

Robert Scheer | Posted 06.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Robert Scheer, Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Fed, Stephen Friedman, Treasury, Business News
Robert Scheer

We are so inured to tales of business corruption that even a devastating exposé in The Wall Street Journal no longer shocks us.

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IndyCar's Danica Patrick Makes Time's 100 Most Influential People

Steve Parker | Posted 06.02.2009 | Media

Read More: The Car Nut Show, Miley Cyrus, Honda, Cars, Kcrw, Pope Benedict XVI, Michael Phelps, Kobe Bryant, World Racing Roundup, Formula 1, Tiger Woods, Indycar Racing, Shape, Robert Scheer, Dalai Lama, John McCain, Www.TalkRadioOne.Com, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Bloomberg, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, President Barack Obama, Monaco, NASCAR Support, Jim Nabors, Danica Patrick, Bernie Madoff, Christopher Poole, Jim Cramer, Twin Ring Motegi, Rafael Nadal, Oprah Winfrey, Indy 500, Rahm Emanuel, Sarah Palin, Dallara, Bill O'Reilly, Media News
Steve Parker

Here's some good automotive news for a change: The Danica Patrick IndyCar racing juggernaut keeps rolling along. And just in time for the biggest auto race of the year.

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