Scheer Intelligence
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Sinopse
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.
Episódios
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A Somali boy’s escape from Somalia’s harrowing genocide leads him to his dream paradise—and the brutality of American racism.
16/09/2022 Duração: 46minOn this week’s Scheer Intelligence, Boyah Farah, a young refugee from Somalia’s hellish civil war describes his family’s narrow escape from death and their arrival in the placid suburbs of Boston. But life was more a nightmare than the dream he had imagined.
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Russian and western leaders squandered Mikhail Gorbachev’s legacy. Now we’re all paying the price.
09/09/2022 Duração: 42minKatrina vanden Heuvel, editorial director and publisher of The Nation, remembers the Russian leader—whom she called a friend—as a committed pro-peace thinker, on this week’s “Scheer Intelligence.”
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What killed America’s peace movement?
02/09/2022 Duração: 40minCODEPINK founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans are rare voices of conscience confronting the bipartisan warmongers.
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The terrifying research nuclear powers don’t want you to see
26/08/2022 Duração: 39minClimate scientist Alan Robock, one of the authors of a groundbreaking Nature Food paper on the little-discussed impacts of nuclear war, talks to Robert Scheer about his work.
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The menace that is Amazon and Walmart
19/08/2022 Duração: 33minColumbia Law School professor Kathryn Judge talks to Robert Scheer about the exploitation of monster behemoth retail companies revealed in her new book “Direct.”
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That time the KKK tried to kill Paul Robeson
05/08/2022 Duração: 34minJoel Whitney, the author of “Finks,” joins Robert Scheer to discuss a little-told episode in the socialist actor and singer’s life and why it’s seemingly been erased from our collective memory.
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Katie Halper: ‘Trump broke liberals’ brains’
29/07/2022 Duração: 39minThe comedian and host of two popular progressive podcasts offers her take on why the American left keeps getting things wrong.
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Fist bumping the dictator we pretend to love
22/07/2022 Duração: 47minFormer Mideast CIA operative John Kiriakou discusses his recent trip covering Biden in Saudi Arabia and what he’s learned about America’s “special relationship” with the country.
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Saving broke and broken America, one town at a time.
15/07/2022 Duração: 40minMichelle Wilde Anderson speaks to Robert Scheer about how four working class towns struggling with poverty and broke governments still managed to progress.
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Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic, author of “Born on the Fourth of July” and subject of Oliver Stone’s iconic Vietnam War film, will mark his 76 th birthday watching a war that portends the end of civilization
01/07/2022 Duração: 44minAt a time when the war that could end civilization escalates, peace activist Ron Kovic marks his July 4 birthday sounding the alarm about the true costs of war, a sentiment shared by his girlfriend of 16 years, TerriAnn Ferren.
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Has America lost the key to democracy?
24/06/2022 Duração: 36minThe authors of “Let’s Agree to Disagree” offer a guide to fostering critical thinking and dialogue in a society that seems to have forgotten how to engage in either.
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Craig McNamara reveals the truth behind the lies of his father, Robert McNamara
17/06/2022 Duração: 44minThe 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 Duração: 42minThe 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 Duração: 56minA 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 Duração: 33minA 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 Duração: 53minCritics 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 Duração: 41minVeteran 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 Duração: 50minLifelong 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 Duração: 39minJorja 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 Duração: 01h04minPentagon whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg argues the Russian president may not be deploying his nukes but is using them effectively as a threat.