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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.
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Nov 19, 2021 • 42min
California’s grim genocidal past implicates the University of California
Tony 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.
Nov 12, 2021 • 1h 1min
New indictments expose Democrats’ Russiagate obsession as a historic hoax.
Aaron 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.”
Nov 5, 2021 • 41min
Why did a jury of seven US military officers blast the CIA for “torture performed by the most abusive regimes in modern history”?
Torture 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.”
Oct 29, 2021 • 45min
Daniel Hale and America’s unending persecution of whistleblowers
John 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.
Oct 22, 2021 • 42min
God “caged” in Jersey
Chris Hedges on his 10 years as a teacher and pupil creating theater in the U.S. prison plantation system.
Oct 15, 2021 • 33min
The brave boys who helped end the Vietnam War
Documentary 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.
Oct 8, 2021 • 56min
Is America’s view of ‘evil’ Russia merely projection?
Joseph 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.
Oct 1, 2021 • 42min
War is a multi-trillion-dollar racket and the Pentagon knows it
Andrew Cockburn brilliantly documents the motivations behind the U.S. military’s war lust in his new book, “Spoils of War.”
Sep 24, 2021 • 37min
The British-American lie that started 30 years of carnage in the Middle East
Journalist Stephen Davis documents in detail the lead up, cover up and aftermath of a 1990 hostage crisis that few recall.
Sep 10, 2021 • 1h 3min
A traitor to torture
In 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 with ABC which should have made him a national hero instead of a disgraced felon.
