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Above photo: 2015 DC Rally And March To Protest The 14th Year Of Guantanamo Torture And Indefinite Detention. Stephen Melkisethian/Flickr. Those who invented America’s torture program were promoted and protected by presidents of both parties. Only the whistleblower, John Kiriakou, was prosecuted. This is his story. Once upon a time, a keystone of American exceptionalism was […]
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Scheer Intelligence: What Democrats Did To Welfare Haunts Them
August 27th, 2021 
Awake Goy Above photo: Lawyer and former member of the Clinton administration, Peter Edelman. Georgetown University Law. On this week’s “Scheer Intelligence,” the former Clinton administration official examines how Americans are still tormented by the specter of President Bill Clinton’s worst domestic policy failure. A recent piece in the Washington Post titled “Welfare rolls decline during the […]
Scheer Intelligence: Prisons Enable America’s Obscene Wealth
August 14th, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: Eddie Conway. J.M. Giordano/City Paper. On this week’s “Scheer Intelligence,” prisoner-turned-journalist Eddie Conway talks about how the immorally cheap labor of those caught in the prison industrial complex is the shame of the U.S. economy. The story of Marshall “Eddie” Conway, a military veteran and former Black Panther who was imprisoned for 43 […]
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No Comments »Scheer Intelligence: What Has Silicon Valley Done To Our Food?
June 26th, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: Journalist, Larissa Zimberoff. Photo by Winni Wintermeyer, courtesy of Larissa Zimberoff. In a new book, the investigative journalist examines how companies have changed the way we eat in the name of climate change without always considering their products’ health impacts. Companies such as Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods have started to become household names, producing […]
Scheer Intelligence: Governor Orders Independent Investigation Into Kevin Cooper Case
May 30th, 2021 Awake Goy Above image: ‘Free Me’ painting by Kevin Cooper. 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. Today, Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered an independent investigation into the case of Kevin Cooper, a death row inmate who writes regularly […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Governor, independent, INTELLIGENCE, investigation, kevin, orders, scheer No Comments »Scheer Intelligence: The Ruling Class’ Revenge Against Julian Assange
May 8th, 2021 Awake Goy Above image: Mr. Fish. Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges joins Robert Scheer to discuss the WikiLeaks founder’s plight as he languishes in a British prison. The mistreatment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over the past decade has been defined as “psychological torture” by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer. Yet, there is still no real […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: against, class, INTELLIGENCE, julian, revenge, ruling, scheer No Comments »Scheer Intelligence: “Moffie” Links White Supremacy And Homophobia As Macho Perversions
April 10th, 2021 Awake Goy White sypreAbove photo: Oliver Hermanus, director of ‘MOFFIE.’ Photo courtesy of Daniel Rutland Manners. An IFC Films Release. The South African writer-director discusses his new film and the complex history of his native country on this week’s “Scheer Intelligence.” “Moffie,” a new South African movie billed as an apartheid-era “queer war film,” tells the story […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: homophobia, INTELLIGENCE, links, moffie, scheer, supremacy, white No Comments »Scheer Intelligence: What Is It About The Democrats’ Love Of War?
April 3rd, 2021 Awake Goy Above image: Danny Sjursen. The retired army major discusses Biden’s stalling on Trump’s commitment to end the US-Afghanistan war on this week’s installment of “Scheer Intelligence.” Nearly two full decades into the Afghanistan War, with just a month left before the United States under President Trump had agreed to withdraw its remaining troops from Afghanistan […]
Scheer Intelligence: Israel Has Always Been A Contradiction
March 13th, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: Professor Larry Gross. USC Annenberg School for Communication. 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 and Gaza. Just five years after the state of Israel was founded in 1948, the […]
Scheer Intelligence: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
February 27th, 2021 Awake Goy Scheer Intelligence: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Above photo: A poetry reading with Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights Books, October 24, 2007 (voxtheory). From Normandy and Nagasaki to Ginsberg and City Lights. 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.” Editor’s Note: In […]
Scheer Intelligence: Jimmy Carter’s Foreign Policy Record Reveals Hope And Cynicism
January 23rd, 2021 Awake Goy Scheer Intelligence: Jimmy Carter’s Foreign Policy Record Reveals Hope And Cynicism Above image: Jimmy Carter by Mr. Fish. NOTE: Listen to Part I of this interview here. When the Carter presidency comes up, so does a dark moment in American history: the Iran hostage crisis of 1979-1981. This was, however, not the only significant moment in Jimmy […]
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December 12th, 2020 Awake Goy Above image: By Mr. Fish. The historian, who wrote “Conspiracy in the Streets” on the subject of the Netflix film, sets the record straight on this week’s “Scheer Intelligence.” “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” an Aaron Sorkin film that recently aired on Netflix, brought an important chapter in the history of American activism to […]
Scheer Intelligence: The California Genocide No One Talks About
November 28th, 2020 Awake Goy Above image: Benjamin Madley, left, and Robert Scheer. Alex Pieros. UCLA history professor Benjamin Madley’s book details the killing of tens of thousands of Native Americans as the state was being settled in the 19th century. This edition of the Scheer Intelligence podcast was first broadcast in September, 2016. UCLA history professor Benjamin Madley’s book An […]
Scheer Intelligence: Don’t Believe Anything You Were Told About Populism
November 21st, 2020 Awake Goy Above image: A portrait of Thomas Frank by Mr. Fish. On this week’s episode of “Scheer Intelligence,” the journalist examines the history of American populism, and how it was distorted by Democrats and co-opted by Republicans. The word “populism” gets a bad rap these days as corporate media warns of its alleged dangers and President […]
Scheer Intelligence: Justice Ginsburg’s Life And Legacy
September 26th, 2020 Awake Goy Above photo: Christopher Ho. The documentary filmmakers discuss their film “RBG” on the life and career of the legendary Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Eds. Note: With the tragic passing of feminist and progressive icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg, we highlight here a May 2018 conversation between Robert Scheer and the filmmakers of the excellent documentary […]
Scheer Intelligence: How Today’s Uprisings Compare To The 1960s Rebellions
September 19th, 2020 Awake Goy Above image: “Los Angeles Revolution.” By Mr. Fish. The movements of the sixties, which are captured in detail in “Set the Night on Fire,” are seen as wildly successful. Is it possible Black Lives Matter will be even more so? The 1960s live on in U.S. memory as an era of counterculture rebellions and the civil […]
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September 12th, 2020 Awake Goy Above image: By Mr. Fish. The journalist examines how the greatest danger to American society doesn’t come from the White House, but from a few obscenely powerful corporations. Over the past several decades, the largest corporations have absorbed and destroyed all opposition–big and small–and slowly come to play a role in every aspect of Americans’ […]
Posted in white house Tags: armpit, Capitalism, INTELLIGENCE, monopoly, scheer, sweaty, Trump No Comments »Scheer Intelligence: The Revolt Of The Black Athlete
August 29th, 2020 Awake Goy Above photo: Howard Bryant. Brittany Martin. The ESPN writer’s book explores the responsibilities placed upon professional black athletes from Jackie Robinson to LeBron James to be role models for social justice. Editor’s Note: We’re reposting this episode of “Scheer Intelligence,” with full transcript, which originally aired on July 13, 2018, apropos the Black Lives Matter work stoppages shaking […]
Scheer Intelligence: The Revolt Of The Black Athlete
August 29th, 2020 Awake Goy Above photo: Howard Bryant. Brittany Martin. The ESPN writer’s book explores the responsibilities placed upon professional black athletes from Jackie Robinson to LeBron James to be role models for social justice. Editor’s Note: We’re reposting this episode of “Scheer Intelligence,” with full transcript, which originally aired on July 13, 2018, apropos the Black Lives Matter work stoppages shaking […]
Scheer Intelligence: The Revolt Of The Black Athlete
August 29th, 2020 Awake Goy Above photo: Howard Bryant. Brittany Martin. The ESPN writer’s book explores the responsibilities placed upon professional black athletes from Jackie Robinson to LeBron James to be role models for social justice. Editor’s Note: We’re reposting this episode of “Scheer Intelligence,” with full transcript, which originally aired on July 13, 2018, apropos the Black Lives Matter work stoppages shaking […]
Scheer Intelligence: The Revolt Of The Black Athlete
August 29th, 2020 Awake Goy Above photo: Howard Bryant. Brittany Martin. The ESPN writer’s book explores the responsibilities placed upon professional black athletes from Jackie Robinson to LeBron James to be role models for social justice. Editor’s Note: We’re reposting this episode of “Scheer Intelligence,” with full transcript, which originally aired on July 13, 2018, apropos the Black Lives Matter work stoppages shaking […]
Scheer Intelligence: Something’s Rotten In The Corporate States Of America
August 22nd, 2020 Awake Goy Above image: “Punch the Clock” by Mr. Fish. A new book by Barbara Freese explores eight stories about the unfettered corporate greed that has corrupted modern society and led to an astounding loss of life. Beginning with the slave trade and leading all the way up to the climate crisis, author Barbara Freese’s “Industrial Strength […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: america, corporate, INTELLIGENCE, rotten, scheer, something, states No Comments »Scheer Intelligence: Questioning Corporate Media’s Thirst For Scandal In The Age Of #MeToo
August 15th, 2020 Awake Goy 
Above image: By Mr. Fish. Journalist JoAnn Wypijewski’s latest book, “What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo: Essays on Sex, Authority and the Mess of Life” issues a blistering challenge to “scandal media,” which she dismisses as a distorted Cliff Notes version of reality. The Times Literary Supplement in a rave review […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: corporate, INTELLIGENCE, Media, questioning, scandal, scheer, thirst No Comments »Scheer: ‘Fake News’ Label Is Used to ‘Whitewash American History’ (Video)
August 5th, 2017 Awake Goy Scheer: ‘Fake News’ Label Is Used to ‘Whitewash American History’ (Video) Editor’s note: The following video is a clip from a 19-part series filmed at a Truthdig and KPFK co-sponsored event in Los Angeles recently. The discussion features Oliver Stone, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director, and Robert Scheer, Truthdig’s editor in chief. The two […]
