Robert Scheer
GRITtv: Robert Scheer: Appetites for Wealth
"Wall Street was blackmailing us," says Robert Scheer of the bank bailouts, "And we got nothing in return." It's not news to any viewers of GRITtv that Wall Street's tentacles ran throughout our election, but now that the election is over, we turn again to the running of government.Scheer joined us in the studio recently to discuss his new book, The Great American Stickup, and we asked him to give us some thoughts for after the election as well. Most pressing of all, he asks if either bankers or politicians are capable of thinking in anyone's long-term interests.
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Barack Obama hit the Daily Show on Wednesday night, and made the unfortunate comment that Larry Summers had done a "heckuva job" running the economy. Robert Scheer of Truthdig notes that Summers was the chief architect of Clinton-era policies that created the economic crisis in the first place, and that Obama's appointment of him to get us out of it was never going to result in anything but more money being thrown at Wall Street. Scheer visited the GRITtv studios to talk about Summers, Bill Clinton, Obama, and why there are a few Tea Party candidates he wouldn't mind seeing win this election cycle.
Democracy Now!: Wed. Sept. 22 2010
"A departure to be welcomed," says Robert Scheer on the resignation of White House economic adviser and deregulation proponent Lawrence Summers; Chilean economist Manfred Max-Neef says the US is becoming an "underdeveloping nation"; as competing films offer differing views on the Faulkner killing, Mumia supporters claim that new evidence undermines the key witness's testimony. Democracy Now! is a daily independent newshour.
Democracy Now!: Nov. 19, 2009: Obama China Trip
President Barack Obama’s first official trip to China resulted in no firm agreements and has been criticized as being tightly scripted by Beijing. British journalist Martin Jacques, author of “When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order,” discusses Obama’s visit and the future of US–Chinese relations. Iraqi political analyst Raed Jarrar talks about plans for Iraq to hold elections in January which are now up in the air after Iraq’s vice president vetoed part of an election law over the allocation of seats to Iraqis displaced by the U.S. invasion and occupation. And as Wall Street posts record profits and U.S. hunger rate grows, Robert Scheer asks: "Where is the community organizer we elected?" "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour.
Keynote: Robert Scheer
