Scheer Intelligence
243 episodes - English - Latest episode: 28 days ago - ★★★★★ - 352 ratingsScheer 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.
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What role has the US played in the Ukraine crisis?
March 11, 2022 08:00 - 53 minutesAs 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-Co...
Chairman Greg Sarris on the reincarnation of the American Indian
March 04, 2022 08:00 - 34 minutesGreg Sarris, Tribal Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, explores the urgent need for an American future rooted in indigenous knowledge.
Chairman Greg Sarris is the reincarnation of the American Indian
March 04, 2022 08:00 - 34 minutesGreg Sarris, Tribal Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, explores the urgent need for an American future rooted in indigenous knowledge.
A “deep moral rot" is at the heart of the Navy SEALs
February 25, 2022 08:00 - 46 minutesJournalist 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.
Is It too late to protect our privacy in the internet age?
February 18, 2022 08:00 - 43 minutesLeading 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.
American exceptionalism is on deadly display in Ukraine
February 11, 2022 08:00 - 43 minutesOliver Stone, creator of the Showtime documentary series “The Putin Diaries,” speaks to Robert Scheer about the escalating crisis in Ukraine.
America gets Islam all wrong. Muslim Americans pay the price
February 04, 2022 08:00 - 35 minutesMiddle East expert Juan Cole talks about lesser known peaceful Muslim movements and how the U.S. maligns a Muslims at home and abroad.
Michael Ratner was a revolutionary lawyer unlike any other
January 28, 2022 08:00 - 46 minutesThe 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.
Meet the real Hunter S. Thompson, one of the most distinctive American voices of the past century
January 14, 2022 08:00 - 42 minutesPeter Richardson joins Robert Scheer to discuss his latest book, “Savage Journey,” on the legendary Gonzo journalist.
Remembering Joan Didion, a "singular" California writer and a "helluva lot of fun"
December 31, 2021 08:00 - 34 minutesOn 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.
A come to Jesus sermon from the Rev. Chris Hedges
December 24, 2021 08:00 - 33 minutesDuring 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.
This whistleblower is a decades-long thorn in the U.S. government’s side
December 17, 2021 08:00 - 1 hourJoseph 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.
Obed Silva’s memoir delivers a transborder story as universal as love and loss
December 10, 2021 08:00 - 47 minutesThe 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.
It’s time to free Leonard Peltier, America’s longest serving political Prisoner
December 03, 2021 08:00 - 59 minutesThe 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.
California’s grim genocidal past implicates the University of California
November 19, 2021 08:00 - 41 minutesTony 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.
New indictments expose Democrats’ Russiagate obsession as a historic hoax.
November 12, 2021 08:00 - 1 hourAaron 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.”
Why did a jury of seven US military officers blast the CIA for “torture performed by the most abusive regimes in modern history”?
November 05, 2021 07:00 - 41 minutesTorture victim Majid Khan’s lawyer J. Wells Dixon joins Robert Scheer to discuss his client’s shocking testimony about the CIA’s so-called “enhanced interrogation tactics.”
Daniel Hale and America’s unending persecution of whistleblowers
October 29, 2021 07:00 - 44 minutesJohn Kiriakou joins Robert Scheer to discuss the plight of the whistleblower, sentenced to 45 months in prison for revealing how often drone strikes kill civilians.
God “caged” in Jersey
October 22, 2021 07:00 - 42 minutesChris Hedges on his 10 years as a teacher and pupil creating theater in the U.S. prison plantation system.
The brave boys who helped end the Vietnam War
October 15, 2021 07:00 - 32 minutesDocumentary filmmaker Judith Ehrlich joins Robert Scheer on this week’s “Scheer Intelligence” to discuss “The Boys Who Said No,” a documentary about the Vietnam War draft resisters.
Is America’s view of ‘evil’ Russia merely projection?
October 08, 2021 07:00 - 55 minutesJoseph Weisberg, a former CIA officer and the creator of the TV show “The Americans,” joins Robert Scheer to examine common misconceptions about the Cold War.
War is a multi-trillion-dollar racket and the Pentagon knows it
October 01, 2021 07:00 - 42 minutesAndrew Cockburn brilliantly documents the motivations behind the U.S. military’s war lust in his new book, “Spoils of War.”
The British-American lie that started 30 years of carnage in the Middle East
September 24, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutesJournalist Stephen Davis documents in detail the lead up, cover up and aftermath of a 1990 hostage crisis that few recall.
A traitor to torture
September 10, 2021 07:00 - 1 hourIn this week’s installment of Scheer Intelligence, host Robert Scheer hears from Kiriakou the inside story of how the the program started as part of a cynical power struggle between the CIA and FBI, why torture does not save lives or secure better intelligence, and how, while the program was started under Republican President George W. Bush, it was a top appointee of President Obama, himself a key architect of the torture program, who chose to prosecute him five years after his interviews wi...
Paradoxical past, present and future of China's "socialist market"
September 03, 2021 07:00 - 42 minutesIn this week's Scheer Intelligence podcast, host Robert Scheer discusses the paradoxical past, present and future of China's "socialist market" economic model with Nathan Gardels, author of "It Is No Longer Glorious to Get Rich in China," published this week by Noema, a magazine of the Berggruen Institute.
America’s war machine refuses to let Afghanistan go
August 27, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutesMaj. Danny Sjursen weighs in on the U.S. exit from Afghanistan and Gen. David Petraeus’ dangerously false narrative about our country’s longest war.
Democrats’ destruction of America’s welfare system is coming back to haunt them
August 20, 2021 07:00 - 39 minutesPeter Edelman examines how Americans are still tormented by the specter of President Bill Clinton’s worst domestic policy failure.
Prisons are an enabler of America’s obscene wealth
August 13, 2021 07:00 - 57 minutesPrisoner-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
August 06, 2021 07:00 - 37 minutesDr. 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
July 30, 2021 07:00 - 50 minutesActivist Achal Prabhala speaks to Robert Scheer about the wealthy countries’ reluctance to end global vaccine apartheid.
The West is keeping the COVID-19 pandemic from ending
July 30, 2021 07:00 - 50 minutesActivist 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
July 23, 2021 07:00 - 33 minutesJournalist Richard Silverstein has been sounding the alarm bells about the private surveillance spyware sold by Israel’s NSO for years.
The man who exposed Pegasus long before mainstream media
July 23, 2021 07:00 - 33 minutesJournalist 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
July 16, 2021 07:00 - 42 minutesMarion Nestle’s book “Unsavory Truths” contains shocking revelations about how the science that influences what we eat is corrupted by corporate interests.
Something’s rotten in the science of food
July 16, 2021 07:00 - 42 minutesMarion 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
July 02, 2021 07:00 - 43 minutesJohn 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.
Julian Assange’s father and brother on the public and personal urgency of his case
July 02, 2021 07:00 - 43 minutesJohn 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?
June 25, 2021 07:00 - 40 minutesIn 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.
What has Silicon Valley done to our food?
June 25, 2021 07:00 - 40 minutesIn 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
June 18, 2021 07:00 - 59 minutesThe second American Revolution: A work in progress
Has Silicon Valley made it impossible for us to listen?
June 11, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutesXimena 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
June 04, 2021 07:00 - 52 minutesThe 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
May 28, 2021 07:00 - 40 minutesSherry 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
May 21, 2021 07:00 - 57 minutesJohn 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
May 14, 2021 07:00 - 37 minutesMaj. 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
May 07, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutesPulitzer 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?
April 30, 2021 07:00 - 42 minutesJournalist 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”
April 23, 2021 07:00 - 47 minutesAs 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
April 16, 2021 07:00 - 52 minutesJonathan 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
April 09, 2021 07:00 - 46 minutesWriter-director Oliver Hermanus discusses his new film and the complex history of his native South Africa on this week’s “Scheer Intelligence.”