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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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Dec 24, 2021 • 33min
A come to Jesus sermon from the Rev. Chris Hedges
During 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.
Dec 17, 2021 • 1h 2min
This whistleblower is a decades-long thorn in the U.S. government’s side
Joseph 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.
Dec 10, 2021 • 47min
Obed Silva’s memoir delivers a transborder story as universal as love and loss
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.
Dec 3, 2021 • 59min
It’s time to free Leonard Peltier, America’s longest serving political Prisoner
The 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.
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.
