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Scheer Intelligence

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.

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34:54

Is Dennis Kucinich the last Democrat for peace?

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2022/10/28

For 16 years the former Democrat congressman from Cleveland advocated for peaceful alternatives to the madness of war, but now members of his party in Congress are permitted only the voice of the warmonger.

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36:33

How the Federal Reserve and allied central bankers...

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2022/10/21

Former Goldman Sachs managing director Nomi Prins exposes the role of the Federal Reserve and other western central banks in creating a world economy for the superrich while enabling the impoverishment of much of the world’s population

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46:25

Eduardo Carreon: Adopting the mindset of the oppressor

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2022/10/14

Indigenous Los Angeles psychology graduate student Eduardo Carreon analyzes the mindset of disgraced former LA City Council leader, a Latina whose racist bile scorned Black and gay colleagues and others, including indigenous members of her own Latinx community.

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44:11

Fake journalism is only the first draft of fake history

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2022/10/07

35-year teaching veteran Jim Mamer explores the uncomfortable areas of history most schools fail to teach and what it means about the state of the world today.

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39:36

Zachary Karabell: China Is not the enemy - it is...

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2022/09/30

Author Zachary Karabell pleads that despite the militaristic noise, China and the U.S. share an economic dependency that would rupture the domestic economy of both nations if severed.

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39:56

Biden’s peace for Afghanistan is a humanitarian disaster

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2022/09/23

The U.S. withdrew its troops and with them all humanitarian aid while freezing Afghanistan’s foreign reserves, leading to mass deprivation for Afghanistan’s innocent civilian population.

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46:35

A Somali boy’s escape from Somalia’s harrowing...

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2022/09/16

On 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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42:35

Russian and western leaders squandered Mikhail...

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2022/09/09

Katrina 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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40:08

What killed America’s peace movement?

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2022/09/02

CODEPINK founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans are rare voices of conscience confronting the bipartisan warmongers.

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39:12

The terrifying research nuclear powers don’t want you...

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2022/08/26

Climate 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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33:44

The menace that is Amazon and Walmart

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2022/08/19

Columbia 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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34:30

That time the KKK tried to kill Paul Robeson

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2022/08/05

Joel 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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39:19

Katie Halper: ‘Trump broke liberals’ brains’

Scheer Intelligence ·

2022/07/29

The comedian and host of two popular progressive podcasts offers her take on why the American left keeps getting things wrong.

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47:22

Fist bumping the dictator we pretend to love

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2022/07/22

Former 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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40:17

Saving broke and broken America, one town at a time.

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2022/07/15

Michelle 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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44:43

Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic, author of “Born on the...

Scheer Intelligence ·

2022/07/01

At 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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36:42

Has America lost the key to democracy?

Scheer Intelligence ·

2022/06/24

The 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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44:03

Craig McNamara reveals the truth behind the lies of...

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2022/06/17

The author of “Because Our Fathers Lied” lays bare agonizing truths about America his father helped to shape.

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42:57

Ralph Nader: Is there any hope left for Democrats?

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2022/06/10

The former presidential candidate speaks to “Scheer Intelligence” host Robert Scheer about the shreds of democracy left in America.

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56:28

Can the U.S. handle a multi-polar world?

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2022/06/03

A 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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