Sinopsis
Scheer Intelligence features thoughtful and provocative conversations with "American Originals" -- people who, through a lifetime of engagement with political issues, offer unique and often surprising perspectives on the day's most important issues.
Episodios
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Craig McNamara reveals the truth behind the lies of his father, Robert McNamara
17/06/2022 Duración: 43minThe author of “Because Our Fathers Lied” lays bare agonizing truths about America his father helped to shape.
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Ralph Nader: Is there any hope left for Democrats?
10/06/2022 Duración: 41minThe former presidential candidate speaks to “Scheer Intelligence” host Robert Scheer about the shreds of democracy left in America.
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Can the U.S. handle a multi-polar world?
03/06/2022 Duración: 55minA veteran foreign correspondent returns from three decades covering the rise of the East to grapple with an America that is more dangerously parochial than ever.
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Immigrants are still building America, no matter what our lawmakers say
27/05/2022 Duración: 32minA new book documents the extent to which American prosperity is founded on immigration—and raises questions about how we treat immigrants today.
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It’s scoundrel time in the good ol’ USA
20/05/2022 Duración: 52minCritics of the West’s role in the Ukraine war, such as CIA veterans Ray McGovern and John Kiriakou, are being ostracized from the American media landscape.
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Will the Ukraine war end without destroying all life on the planet?
13/05/2022 Duración: 40minVeteran award-winning journalists Patrick Cockburn and Robert Scheer, who met in Moscow in 1987 when Mikhail Gorbachev optimistically promised peace, now fear a descent into nuclear war hell.
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No such thing as dissent in the age of big tech
06/05/2022 Duración: 49minLifelong journalist Joe Lauria joins Robert Scheer to discuss how companies like PayPal, YouTube and Facebook are quashing non-stream reporting and opinions on Ukraine.
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The American women and children we all conveniently forget
29/04/2022 Duración: 38minJorja Leap joins Robert Scheer to discuss the plight of women who have been incarcerated and their struggles to reenter society.
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Putin is already using his nuclear weapons
22/04/2022 Duración: 01h03minPentagon whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg argues the Russian president may not be deploying his nukes but is using them effectively as a threat.
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American dissent on Ukraine is dying in darkness
15/04/2022 Duración: 58minWhen it came to the Ukraine conflict, Professor Michael J. Brenner did what he’s done his whole life: question American foreign policy. This time the backlash was vitriolic.
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Sanctions on Russia may overturn the world economy as we know it
08/04/2022 Duración: 37minEconomic expert Ellen Brown talks to Robert Scheer about the financial revolution Vladimir Putin has started and what the global economic future could look like as a result.
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Biden denies CIA torture victims their day in court
01/04/2022 Duración: 44minCIA whistleblower John Kiriakou comments on the legal case of five Guantanamo Bay torture victims and what its outcome could say about the US.
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What you really need to know about the threat of nuclear war
25/03/2022 Duración: 58minFor decades after the Cold War ended, the threat of nuclear war seemed to fade into the global background. Climate change took center stage as the existential crisis of our time, and it seemed for a few brief years that treaties and diplomacy, however flawed, had led nuclear powers to set aside the possibility of using nuclear weapons again. (To date, it is only the U.S. that has detonated nuclear weapons—both in Japan—and it continues to be the country with the largest nuclear arsenal by far.)
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The man who turned America’s economy into a literal casino
18/03/2022 Duración: 40minMary Childs, the co-host of NPR’s “Planet Money,” joins Robert Scheer to discuss her new book, “The Bond King.”
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What role has the US played in the Ukraine crisis?
11/03/2022 Duración: 53minAs Russia’s attack on Ukraine wages on, and Ukrainian civilians die daily, the fog of war has seemingly been clouding more nuanced analysis in the United States, argues “Scheer Intelligence” host Robert Scheer. To get more perspective on the historical context of the current conflict, Scheer invites former CIA analyst Ray McGovern to discuss the role the U.S. and NATO have played in Ukraine. McGovern has long been an outspoken critic of what he’s coined as the American Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank (MICIMATT) for leading the world ever closer to a nuclear war.
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Chairman Greg Sarris on the reincarnation of the American Indian
04/03/2022 Duración: 34minGreg Sarris, Tribal Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, explores the urgent need for an American future rooted in indigenous knowledge.
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A “deep moral rot" is at the heart of the Navy SEALs
25/02/2022 Duración: 46minJournalist Matthew Cole joins Robert Scheer to discuss his hard-hitting book, “Code Over Country,” about SEAL Team 6, the most celebrated unit in the Navy SEALs elite special forces unit.
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Is It too late to protect our privacy in the internet age?
18/02/2022 Duración: 43minLeading privacy lawyer Neil Richards joins Robert Scheer to discuss his new book “Why Privacy Matters” and whether we can still claw back some control over our personal data.
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American exceptionalism is on deadly display in Ukraine
11/02/2022 Duración: 43minOliver Stone, creator of the Showtime documentary series “The Putin Diaries,” speaks to Robert Scheer about the escalating crisis in Ukraine.
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America gets Islam all wrong. Muslim Americans pay the price
04/02/2022 Duración: 35minMiddle East expert Juan Cole talks about lesser known peaceful Muslim movements and how the U.S. maligns a Muslims at home and abroad.