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Christopher Scheer (born September 8, 1968) is an American writer, and the co-author, with Robert Scheer and Lakshmi Chaudhry, of The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq,^[1] published in 2003 in the U.S., England and Australia. The book appeared on the Los Angeles Times bestseller list and was a part of the national debate in 2004 about the then still popular Iraq War.^[2] In 2010, he received co-author credit, with his father, on The Great American Stickup, which also appeared on the Los Angeles Times bestseller list. In 2016, he received co-author credit for "How a 'Failed State' Became a Model for the Nation," with Narda Zacchino.

Biography

Scheer was born in Berkeley, California. His parents are Anne Butterfield Weills and journalist Robert Scheer.^[3]

A graduate of Berkeley High School (1985) and UC Santa Barbara (1990), he co-founded and edited Prognosis, an English-language newspaper in Prague.^[4]^[5] Later, he worked with Oliver Stone as a creative consultant on the Academy-award nominated script for Nixon,^[6] as well as several unproduced scripts.

After working as an editor at The San Francisco Examiner^[7] for several years, as well as writing for The Nation, the Los Angeles Times^[8] and other publications, he launched the news/activism website Workingforchange.com for Working Assets, then moved on to become the managing editor of the alternative news site, Alternet.^[9] Currently, he teaches debate, mock trial, and journalism^[10] at Skyline High School in Oakland, California. He is the advisor for Skyline's national award winning student newspaper The Oracle.

References

1. ^[https://www.amazon.com/Five-Biggest-Lies-Bush-About/dp/1583226443 https://www.amazon.com/Five-Biggest-Lies-Bush-About/dp/1583226443] ({{ISBN|1-58322-644-3}})
2. ^http://www.democracynow.org/2004/2/9/mark_green_v_robert_christopher_scheer
3. ^{{cite web |url= http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/a/l/Derek-Walter-/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0039.html |title= My Genealogy - Information about Anne Butterfield Weills |publisher= Ancestry.com |accessdate= 2011-11-15}}
4. ^{{cite news |title= For some young Americans, Prague is the place to wait out recession. It's a `Left Bank of the '90s,' a . . . Land of Opportunity |first= Charles T. |last= Powers |authorlink= Charles T. Powers |url= https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/61557207.html?dids=61557207:61557207&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jan+13%2C+1992&author=CHARLES+T.+POWERS&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&edition=&startpage=1&desc=For+some+young+Americans%2C+Prague+is+the+place+to+wait+out+recession.+It%27s+a+%60Left+Bank+of+the+%2790s%2C%27+a+.+.+.+Land+of+Opportunity |newspaper= Los Angeles Times |page= E-1 |date= 1992-01-13 |accessdate= |quote= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |deadurl=}}
5. ^http://www.pressflex.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/33/Wild,_Wild_EAST.html
6. ^[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0770453/ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0770453/]
7. ^http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1999/12/19/STYLE10411.dtl&hw=christopher+scheer&sn=001&sc=1000
8. ^{{cite news |title= Thailand to L.A., a Life of Debasement Thai slaves: The women found in a garment sweatshop were conditioned by their culture to accept fate. |first= Christopher |last= Scheer |url= https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/21436985.html?dids=21436985:21436985&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug+14%2C+1995&author=CHRISTOPHER+SCHEER&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&edition=&startpage=5&desc=Thailand+to+L.A.%2C+a+Life+of+Debasement+Thai+slaves%3A+The+women+found+in+a+garment+sweatshop+were+conditioned+by+their+culture+to+accept+fate. |newspaper= Los Angeles Times |page= B-5 |date= 1995-08-14 |accessdate= 2011-11-16 |archiveurl= |archivedate= |deadurl=}}
9. ^http://www.alternet.org/authors/5675/
10. ^http://bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/rethinking-high-school-education-in-oakland/