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Robert Scheer

A campaign driven by fear

Robert Scheer • published July 31, 2008 12:15 am Barack Obama is betraying his promise of change and is in danger of becoming just another political hack. Obama has one-upped McCain’s bluff to win in Iraq by raising the...

Banking Expertise We Don't Need (Robert Scheer)

This is a time to condemn the bankers, not to embrace them. Republican candidate John McCain even appointed as his campaign co-chairman Phil Gramm, who went from being chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, where he...

The dangers of privatizing intelligence and military functions

The Vast and Dangerous Transfer of American Spying to Mercenary CompaniesBy Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com. Posted July 28, 2008.http://www.alternet.org/audits/92933/the_vast_and_dangerous_transfer_of_amerJohnson considers...

The Pornography of Power: Lust for Empire Has Weakened America

Veteran journalist Robert Scheer on the media's complicity in war, the rise of the neocons and how even Nixon got some things right. Dahr Jamail, Ali Al-Fadhily Robert Scheer has been a journalist for 30 years, over which time...

Hear This Barack - NO Bush, NO Baker, NO Corporate War Maker. We've Had Enough!

Some men sacrificed their sons for their nation. George Herbert Walker Bush sacrificed his nation for his son. In a July 15th appearance on CNN's Larry King Live, Barack Obama announced that as President he would seek the...

A Campaign Driven by Fear (Robert Scheer)

Barack Obama is betraying his promise of change and is in danger of becoming just another political hack. Nor does the battle of the warmongers that has dominated the discussion of foreign policy in the past week. Obama has...

Escondido Library hosts two author events

By North County Times | Wednesday, July 23, 2008 7:17 PM PDT ESCONDIDO ---- A refugee from Sudan and a political journalist will highlight a pair of events featuring authors at the Escondido Library. Benjamin Ajak, one of three...

How about 'tough love' for bankers?

Robert Scheer • published July 24, 2008 12:15 am Sen. John McCain’s campaign co-chair Phil Gramm is right: We have “become a nation of whiners.” As chair of the powerful Senate Banking Committee, Gramm engineered passage of...

Today in The Nation: Obama on the Brink

Barack Obama is betraying his promise of change and is in danger of becoming just another political hack. Tom Hayden: In a huge setback for John McCain and the Bush Administration, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki endorses...

Biotech Fund Makes First Acquisition

biotech fund formed last month between Scheer Partners and JBG Cos. has made its first acquisition: a $8.6 million, 53,000-sf, two-story flex building in Gaithersburg--the heart of the life sciences market. The Greater...