The West Has Islam Dangerously Wrong
University of Michigan professor and author Juan Cole explores our biggest misconceptions about the world's second-largest religion.
Jan 18, 2019•31 min
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The Opioid Crisis: Made in the USA
Writer Chris McGreal and host Robert Scheer zero in on the book American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts in this week’s episode of Scheer Intelligence. McGreal, the book’s author and a correspondent for The Guardian and other news sources, discuss how the opioid addiction crisis is largely an American epidemic.
Jan 11, 2019•34 min
How Corporate Corruption Fuels Terrorism – and Why It Goes Unpunished
Here’s a pop quiz: How long has corporate corruption existed? Answer: As long as corporations as we know them have been in business. Thanks to journalist David Montero’s meticulously sourced survey, Kickback: Exposing the Global Corporate Bribery Network , the consumer public now has access to a wealth of details about the astonishingly shady antics in which multinationals have been engaging since the retro-imperialist heyday of the British East India Company. And this malignant strain of corpor...
Jan 04, 2019•34 min
The ‘Highest Danger of the Cold War’ Isn’t Behind Us
The odds were stacked against the two authors of “The Kremlinologist: Llewellyn E. Thompson, America’s Man in Cold War Moscow” when it came to treating their subject with anything resembling journalistic precision or objectivity. That’s primarily because they resembled their subject a little too closely -- in addition to being the book’s co-writers, Jenny and Sherry Thompson are also Llewellyn Thompson’s daughters.
Dec 28, 2018•34 min
Another Christmas on Death Row
This is part two of a two-part interview. To listen to part one, click here .
Dec 21, 2018•32 min
Is California About to Execute an Innocent Man?
In part one of a two-part interview, 33-year death row inmate Kevin Cooper—also an artist of exhibited works and a published author—describes his fight to prove his innocence of a heinous murder and asks why Gov. Brown refuses testing that could prove his innocence, identify the real killer and prove he was framed.
Dec 14, 2018•35 min
Wall Street's Corruption Runs Deeper Than You Can Fathom
"Noncompliant" author Carmen Segarra sounds off on Goldman Sachs, deregulation and the dangerous ways our culture rewards bad behavior.
Dec 07, 2018•35 min
The Center Is Not Holding, and Trump Is Our Proof
Digital DNA co-author Jonathan Aronson on the "hollowing out" of American workers and the elected officials that claim to represent them.
Nov 30, 2018•33 min
The Future of the Planet Looks Like 'WALL-E'
Dianna Cohen of the Plastics Pollution Coalition reveals how our dependence on the material threatens the health of future generations.
Nov 23, 2018•29 min
The Biggest Threat to Free Speech No One Is Talking About
FAIR co-founder Jeff Cohen dissects the midterm elections, the failures of the mainstream media and the future of the Democratic Party.
Nov 16, 2018•34 min
An Urgent Call for Humanity in the Age of Trump
Filmmaker Alexandria Bombach discusses her new documentary, "On Her Shoulders," and the challenges of telling Nadia Murad survivor's story and the Yazidi people.
Nov 09, 2018•28 min
We're in a New Age of McCarthyism
Comedian Lee Camp explores the legacy of Lenny Bruce, big tech's capacity to strangle independent media and the freedom of working for a network like RT America.
Nov 02, 2018•27 min
Who Loves War? You Guessed Wrong
Lyle Jeremy Rubin, a five-year marine veteran of the war in Afghanistan, member of About Face: Veterans Against the War, and PhD candidate in history has developed considerable authority and wisdom to speak on US foreign policy, truth about war veterans, and the role liberal and progressive media celebrities play as “cheerleaders” of the “forever war” the United States seems unwilling to end. Rubin and Scheer talk about the relationship of war-fighting, patriotism and the American people. About ...
Oct 26, 2018•31 min
Spying in LA
Has the CIA taken over local policing? Activist Jamie Garcia discusses how technologies launched by the CIA, NSA and the Pentagon to spy on terrorists are radically altering crime-fighting in Los Angeles and local communities in a “predictive policing” program that ends up targeting black and brown communities.
Oct 19, 2018•32 min
NAFTA 2.0, Trump Got It Right?
Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch and a 25-year veteran of congressional trade battles, discusses NAFTA 2.0, the Trump Administration’s newly negotiated trade agreement between Mexico, Canada and the United States that, improbable as it may seem, could actually give Mexican workers a living wage and end corporate control of trade courts.
Oct 12, 2018•36 min
America the Great and Its Fascist Reality
Jason Stanley, Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, discusses his latest book, How Fascism Works, the Politics of Us and Them, and why the United States is especially vulnerable to certain elemental features of fascist policies. Our history with actual fake news, patriotism, racism, and the lack of a true liberal democracy has led us to the rise of Trump, Stanley asserts.
Oct 05, 2018•30 min
Justice and Liberty for Some
California’s only elected public defender Jeff Adachi, of the City and County of San Francisco, discusses why he opposes California’s new bail reform bill, his views on preventive detention, immigration, and how the Japanese internment camps led him to a career as a public defender.
Sep 28, 2018•30 min
Outgrowing Men: Jane Fonda’s Rebuke of Male Hegemony in Life and Politics
Film veteran Susan Lacy discusses her latest documentary, Jane Fonda in Five Acts. Lacy stresses that celebrated actress and political activist Fonda has been shaped by four “acts —the four men in her life—her father and actor Henry Fonda, and husbands, film director Roger Vadim, political activist Tom Hayden and media mogul Ted Turner. The last act is Fonda’s alone, on her lifelong journey to personal liberation.
Sep 21, 2018•28 min
Silicon billionaires are the lethal monkey on the back of the American public
Author Anand Giridharadas discusses the distorted libertarian ideology that they use to subvert the American experiment in democracy. They have done so by denying the legitimacy of government intervention into the economy on the side of fairness and justice, including decent working conditions, fair wages, regulation of the economy, and the right to form unions to represent them and fight for their interests.
Sep 14, 2018•32 min
Bill Clinton Enabled Trumps Immigration Policy
Helen Sklar, immigration attorney for more than 33 years, discusses the basis of the immigration family separation under Trump and how former President Clinton laid the groundwork for this.
Sep 07, 2018•30 min
American Middle Class: The Rise of the Precariat
Alissa Quart discusses her latest book, Squeezed, on living in a middle-class that is being crumpled by meritocracy and converted into what Quart terms the “Precariat,” which Scheer describes as “people who think they’re in the middle class, and they have the education, very often they find themselves living paycheck to paycheck.”
Aug 31, 2018•30 min
ReKognition: The Face Of Surveillance, Useful or Dangerous?
Jacob Snow discusses Amazon’s Rekognition program, which is being promoted for use at the state and federal level to use facial recognition to fight crime.
Aug 24, 2018•29 min
Zeiad Abbas: 'God is not a real estate agent'
Journalist and filmmaker Zeiad Abbas, a Palestinian refugee, describes living conditions of Palestinians under the state of Israel, which he calls “ethnic cleansing,” and discusses a toxic water crisis in Gaza and more.
Aug 17, 2018•33 min
The Rise and Fall of Women Moviemakers in Hollywood
Hollywood historian, film critic and writer Carrie Rickey discusses the lack of women behind the cameras in Hollywood; it wasn’t always so.
Aug 10, 2018•28 min
Generation Wealth: The Loss of the Self
A deep look at how the accumulation of money has become the greatest goal, even at the peril of the self.
Aug 03, 2018•30 min
Nick Goldberg: Veteran Journalist and Editor
Nick Goldberg, the editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times, discusses print journalism, its financing, and the challenges it faces.
Jul 27, 2018•31 min
Seymour Hersh: Reporter
The Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist assesses his career reporting on some of most significant stories of the past 50 years.
Jul 20, 2018•37 min
Howard Bryant: The Heritage
The sports journalist discusses his new book on the conflicted progress of black athletes.
Jul 13, 2018•34 min
Kimberley Reed and John S. Adams: Dark Money
The documentary director and Montana journalist discuss their film about how so-called dark money entered politics in the big sky state.
Jul 06, 2018•34 min
Nomi Prins: Collusion
The former Wall Street banker turned journalist and author returns to Scheer Intelligence to critique the actions of international central banks.
Jun 29, 2018•32 min
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