Scheer Intelligence

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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

  • Prisons are an enabler of America’s obscene wealth

    13/08/2021 Duración: 57min

    Prisoner-turned-journalist Eddie Conway talks about how the immorally cheap labor of those caught in the prison industrial complex is the shame of the U.S. economy.

  • Christianity is the linchpin in America’s war machine

    06/08/2021 Duración: 37min

    Dr. Kelly Denton-Borhaug, a professor of religious studies, examines how Christian rhetoric is used to justify endless wars and the “moral injury” they inflict.

  • The West is keeping the COVID-19 pandemic from ending

    30/07/2021 Duración: 50min

    Activist Achal Prabhala speaks to Robert Scheer about the wealthy countries’ reluctance to end global vaccine apartheid.

  • The man who exposed Pegasus long before mainstream media

    23/07/2021 Duración: 33min

    Journalist Richard Silverstein has been sounding the alarm bells about the private surveillance spyware sold by Israel’s NSO for years.

  • Something’s rotten in the science of food

    16/07/2021 Duración: 42min

    Marion Nestle’s book “Unsavory Truths” contains shocking revelations about how the science that influences what we eat is corrupted by corporate interests.

  • Julian Assange’s father and brother on the public and personal urgency of his case

    02/07/2021 Duración: 43min

    John and Gabriel Shipton talk to Robert Scheer about the WikiLeaks founder’s grueling struggle to be freed from a London prison as the Biden administration demands his extradition.

  • What has Silicon Valley done to our food?

    25/06/2021 Duración: 40min

    In a new book, journalist Larissa Zimberoff examines how companies have changed the way we eat in the name of climate change without always considering their products’ health impacts.

  • The second American Revolution: A work in progress

    18/06/2021 Duración: 59min

    The second American Revolution: A work in progress

  • Has Silicon Valley made it impossible for us to listen?

    11/06/2021 Duración: 34min

    Ximena Vengoechea wants to teach us how to listen again with her new book “Listen Like You Mean It,” but is that even possible in a capitalist world?

  • Dennis Kucinich: From sleeping in a car as a kid to 16 years in Congress

    04/06/2021 Duración: 52min

    The former Congress member talks to Robert Scheer about his life and the dramatic events surrounding his political rise, as told in his new book “The Division of Light and Power.”

  • The Women Warriors Who Stopped the American War in Vietnam

    28/05/2021 Duración: 40min

    Sherry Buchanan, author of “On the Ho Chi Minh Trail,” discusses what she learned about the Vietnam War from the Vietnamese women who survived its frontlines. 

  • A former CIA mideast expert’s view of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis

    21/05/2021 Duración: 57min

    John Kiriakou, a CIA torture whistleblower, offers expert insight into Israel’s most recent attacks on the Palestinian territories on this week’s “Scheer Intelligence”

  • The Russian bounty story is a deadly example of fake news

    14/05/2021 Duración: 37min

    Maj. Danny Sjursen weighs in on U.S. intelligence agencies’ recent admission that a report that the Taliban had been paid by Russia to kill Americans is most likely false. 

  • The Ruling Class’ Revenge Against Julian Assange

    07/05/2021 Duración: 36min

    Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges joins Robert Scheer to discuss the WikiLeaks founder’s plight as he languishes in a British prison. 

  • Whatever Happened to Americans’ Moral Compass?

    30/04/2021 Duración: 42min

    Journalist and anti-war activist David Harris speaks to Robert Scheer about his resistence to America’s genocide in Vietnam and his education in federal prison. 

  • Black Lives Matter: “When We Fight, We Win”

    23/04/2021 Duración: 47min

    As the jury was deliberating its verdict in George Floyd’s murder by former police officer Derek Chauvin, BLM co-founder Melina Abdullah spoke with Robert Scheer about the movement’s enormous impact and the work that remains.  

  • Capitalism Killed the Rock-and-Roll Star

    16/04/2021 Duración: 52min

    Jonathan Taplin joins Robert Scheer to discuss his new memoir about the time he spent among rock-and-roll royalty like Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin. 

  • “Moffie” links white supremacy and homophobia as macho perversions

    09/04/2021 Duración: 46min

    Writer-director Oliver Hermanus discusses his new film and the complex history of his native South Africa on this week’s “Scheer Intelligence.”

  • What Is It About the Democrats’ Love of War?

    02/04/2021 Duración: 44min

    Maj. Danny Sjursen, ret. discusses Biden’s stalling on Trump’s commitment to end the US-Afghanistan war.

  • The Cartoon is Dead: Long Live the Cartoonist

    26/03/2021 Duración: 52min

    Political cartoonist Mr. Fish joins Robert Scheer to talk about the death of his art form and his most recent book, “Nobody Left.” 

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