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[Rewind] David Harris on Whatever Happened to Americans’ Moral Compass

February 8, 2023 20 Comments

Journalist and anti-war activist David Harris speaks to Robert Scheer about his resistance to America’s genocide in Vietnam and his education in federal prison.

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Daniel Ellsberg: Putin Is Already Using His Nuclear Weapons

April 22, 2022 34 Comments

Pentagon whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg argues the Russian president may not be deploying his nukes but is using them effectively as a threat.

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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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Chairman Greg Sarris on the Reincarnation of the American Indian

March 4, 2022 11 Comments

On this week's "Scheer Intelligence," Greg 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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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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Obed Silva’s Memoir Is a Transborder Story as Universal as Love and Loss

December 10, 2021 3 Comments

The 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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Joseph Weisberg: Is America’s View of ‘Evil’ Russia Merely Projection?

October 9, 2021 5 Comments

On this week's "Scheer Intelligence," the former CIA officer and creator of the TV show “The Americans” joins Robert Scheer to examine common misconceptions about the Cold War.

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John Kiriakou: A Traitor to Torture

September 10, 2021 27 Comments

Those who invented America's torture program were promoted and protected by presidents of both parties. Only the whistleblower was prosecuted. This is his story.

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Dennis Kucinich: From Sleeping in a Car as a Kid to 16 Years in Congress

June 4, 2021 11 Comments

The 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…

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Gov. Newsom Orders Independent Investigation Into Kevin Cooper Case

May 28, 2021 0 Comments

Kevin Cooper was convicted of a 1983 quadruple murder and sentenced to death in a trial in which evidence that might have exonerated him was withheld from the defense.

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Jonathan Taplin: Capitalism Killed the Rock-and-Roll Star

April 16, 2021 9 Comments

The music industry veteran joins Robert Scheer to discuss his new memoir about the time he spent among rock-and-roll royalty like Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin.

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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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Ferlinghetti: From Normandy and Nagasaki to Ginsberg and City Lights

February 23, 2021 1 Comments

The poet and co-founder of famed City Lights Bookstore talks about his life and work publishing writers of the Beat Generation on "Scheer Intelligence."