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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American dissent on Ukraine is dying in darkness
15/04/2022 Duração: 59minWhen 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 Duração: 38minEconomic 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 Duração: 45minCIA 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 Duração: 59minFor 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 Duração: 41minMary 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 Duração: 54minAs 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 Duração: 35minGreg 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 Duração: 47minJournalist 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 Duração: 44minLeading 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 Duração: 44minOliver 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 Duração: 36minMiddle East expert Juan Cole talks about lesser known peaceful Muslim movements and how the U.S. maligns a Muslims at home and abroad.
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Michael Ratner was a revolutionary lawyer unlike any other
28/01/2022 Duração: 47minThe late human rights lawyer took on some of the most important cases of our time, including defending Guantanamo Bay detainees and representing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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Meet the real Hunter S. Thompson, one of the most distinctive American voices of the past century
14/01/2022 Duração: 43minPeter Richardson joins Robert Scheer to discuss his latest book, “Savage Journey,” on the legendary Gonzo journalist.
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Remembering Joan Didion, a "singular" California writer and a "helluva lot of fun"
31/12/2021 Duração: 35minOn this week’s “Scheer Intelligence,” Wasserman joins host Robert Scheer to talk about the larger-than-life writer they both greatly admired, but also the flesh-and-bones woman they both knew personally: Joan Didion.
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A come to Jesus sermon from the Rev. Chris Hedges
24/12/2021 Duração: 34minDuring another pandemic holiday season when everyone could use a little faith, the Pulitzer prize-winning journalist talks to Robert Scheer about putting Christ back into Christmas.
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This whistleblower is a decades-long thorn in the U.S. government’s side
17/12/2021 Duração: 01h03minJoseph Carson has spent most of his career as a federal employee challenging everything from the country’s nuclear weapons program to its whistleblower adjudication infrastructure.
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Obed Silva’s memoir delivers a transborder story as universal as love and loss
10/12/2021 Duração: 48minThe Mexican-American author opens the wounds his father inflicted in a eulogistic debut that is as much about the U.S.-Mexico border as it is about healing.
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It’s time to free Leonard Peltier, America’s longest serving political Prisoner
03/12/2021 Duração: 01h16sThe Native American activist’s attorney Kevin Sharp tells Robert Scheer why Peltier’s imprisonment is one of the worst miscarriages of justice this country has ever seen.
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California’s grim genocidal past implicates the University of California
19/11/2021 Duração: 42minTony Platt’s recently re-released book, “Grave Matters” digs into the Golden State’s dark history of not only massacring Indigenous Peoples, but later desecrating their graves and excavating their remains without their descendants' consent.
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New indictments expose Democrats’ Russiagate obsession as a historic hoax.
12/11/2021 Duração: 01h01minAaron Maté joins Robert Scheer to discuss the damning new Justice Department evidence that the Hillary Clinton campaign conspired to finance and promote the totally fraudulent “Steele dossier.”