Christopher Scheer

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Christopher Scheer is the co-author, with Robert Scheer and Lakshmi Chaudhry, of The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq[1] (ISBN 1-58322-644-3) 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].
A graduate of Berkeley High School (1985) and UC Santa Barbara (1990), he co-founded and edited an English-langauge newspaper in Prague called Prognosis (1990-1994), which was featured in the L.A. Times[3], Details[4] magazine and elsewhere. Later, he worked with Oliver Stone as a creative consultant on the Academy-award nominated script for "Nixon,"[5] as well as several unproduced scripts.
After working as an editor at the San Francisco Examiner[6] for several years, as well as writing for The Nation, The Los Angeles Times[7] 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[8]. Currently, he teaches debate, history and English Language Development at Skyline High School in Oakland, California