Robert Scheer Quotes
Boycotts don't work. They work in certain isolated situations, where you have some potential. But in the main, the best way to bring about freedom in a society is to normalize, have tourism, have trade, have contact.
Scheer, Robert. Interview with Brian Lamb. Q&A, C-SPAN, 28 May 2006.
According to William Safire, this is the first use of the term: warlord.
This was a very prescient prediction. Russia and China as well as lesser communist states have followed his prediction.
The Navaho were at constant war with their neighbors—the Mexicans and other Indian Tribes who often would capture Navaho women and children and make slaves of them. This is one of the earliest examples of the United States acting as a peacemaker.
In China, the religious activities of the Missionaries never really lead to the many troubles between the missionaries and the Chinese. It was their activities in the non-religious arenas articulated here by Denby.
Robert Scheer is an American journalist who has written for Ramparts, the Los Angeles Times, Playboy, Truthdig, Scheerpost and other publications as well as having written many books. His column for Truthdig was nationally syndicated by Creators Syndicate in publications such as The Huffington Post and The Nation. He is a clinical professor of communications at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. Scheer is the former editor in-chief for the Webby Award-winning online magazine Truthdig. For many years, he co-hosted the nationally syndicated political analysis radio program Left, Right & Center on National Public Radio (NPR), produced at public radio station KCRW in Santa Monica. The Society of Professional Journalists awarded Scheer the 2011 Sigma Delta Chi Award for his column.
