Category : Robert Scheer

14 Oct

If a Republican Were President…

by Robert Scheer

If a Republican were president, there would be millions of properly coiffed middle-class Democrats and independents at those Occupy Wall Street marches, and no questions asked as to what they really want. With 25 million Americans unable to find full-time work, 50 million whose homeownership dream has turned into the nightmare of foreclosure, and an [...]

06 Oct

What Do They Want? Justice

by Robert Scheer

How can anyone possessed of the faintest sense of social justice not thrill to the Occupy Wall Street movement now spreading throughout the country? One need not be religiously doctrinaire to recognize this as a come-to-Jesus moment, when the money-changers stand exposed and the victims of their avarice are at long last offered succor. Not [...]