Author: Robert Scheer

Our country’s foreign policy is generally a well-mannered affair that’s been known to mask truly bizarre events as reasonably tidy. But every once in a while the absurdity of it all is revealed for even the must gullible to comprehend. Such a moment occurred in Saudi Arabia when Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, an outspoken clerical leader...

Shit happens, okay, extremely evil shit like a lunatic couple in San Bernardino, California, deciding to turn the husband’s office holiday party into a killing-field bloodbath. The Revenge of the Crazy Muslim Health Inspector would be the title if some mindless screenwriter made it up. Of course the avenging hero who rights this wrong would...

For nearly half a century the United States has driven much of the world bat shit crazy with its insane War on Drugs. That undertaking even trumped the other obsession of waging war on terrorism when, in May 2001, President George W. Bush authorized a payment of $43 million to the Taliban regime in Afghanistan...