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John Kiriakou: Biden Is Denying CIA Torture Victims Their Day in Court

April 1, 2022 17 Comments

CIA 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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Neil Richards: Is It Too Late to Protect Our Privacy in the Internet Age?

February 18, 2022 14 Comments

Leading 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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Michael Smith and Zachary Sklar: Michael Ratner Was a Revolutionary Lawyer Like No Other

January 28, 2022 4 Comments

The 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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Tony Platt: California’s Grim Genocidal Past Implicates the University of California

November 19, 2021 3 Comments

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…

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J. Wells Dixon: Why 7 U.S. Military Officers Just Blasted the CIA

November 5, 2021 6 Comments

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.”

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Oliver Hermanus: ‘Moffie’ Links White Supremacy and Homophobia as Macho Perversions

April 9, 2021 6 Comments

The South African writer-director discusses his new film and the complex history of his native country on this week’s “Scheer Intelligence.”

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Larry Gross: Israel Has Always Been a Contradiction

March 12, 2021 6 Comments

The Communications professor, who grew up in Israel shortly after it was founded, talks about the racism he witnessed in the young nation long before it occupied the West Bank…

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Amelia Pang on the Human Cost of America’s Addiction to Cheap Goods

March 5, 2021 39 Comments

The investigative journalist joins Robert Scheer to discuss the story of a Chinese prisoner at the heart of her gripping new book, “Made in China.”

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Juan Cole on the Clearest Example of Israeli Apartheid Yet

February 19, 2021 12 Comments

The Middle East scholar joins Robert Scheer on "Scheer Intelligence" to discuss what the COVID-19 pandemic revealed about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Fisher Stevens: Confronting Homophobic Bullying in ‘Palmer’

February 12, 2021 0 Comments

On this week's "Scheer Intelligence," the director explores how films like “Palmer" are redefining how global audiences understand gender constructs in previously unthinkable ways.

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Joel Whitney: The Egregious Price America Exacts for Integrity

February 5, 2021 3 Comments

The "Finks" author joins Robert Scheer to talk about the lives of poets George and Mary Oppen, two admirable Americans persecuted for their leftist ideals.

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Sam Pollard: The FBI’s Crusade Against MLK Was Darker Than You Think

January 29, 2021 11 Comments

The film director discusses his documentary “MLK / FBI” on J. Edgar Hoover’s sickening surveillance of the civil rights hero.

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Ronald Goldfarb: America’s Prized Legal System Only Works for the Rich

October 23, 2020 5 Comments

On this week's "Scheer Intelligence," the attorney offers a scathing indictment of American law and lawyers in his new book, "The Price of Justice."

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Steve Donziger: How Big Oil Weaponized Our Judicial System Against Him and the Indigenous People He Represented

October 16, 2020 5 Comments

The epic battle by Steve Donziger to get Chevron to pay a $9.5 billion judgment he won in 2011 for its “mass industrial poisoning” of Indigenous Amazonian tribes in Ecuador…

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[rewind] Dolores Huerta: A Tireless Voice for Workers

October 13, 2020 0 Comments

The 87-year-old labor icon and co-founder of the United Farm Workers (UFW) with Cesar Chavez discusses her life and career as well as a new film about her.