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16 Jun 2020
@ChrisLynnHedges on Americans: "We are trapped in an abusive relationship [with elites]. When we finally have enough, when we cry out in pain and walk out, our abuser comes after us with flowers and apologies and promises to change. Back we go for more."
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16 Jun 2020
"Iraq is a place–Lebanon is the same–it looks very easy to invade, and is easy to invade. Or at least, you can overthrow the state . . .but then your problems begin."
Patrick Cockburn: The Cynical Forces Behind America’s Forever Wars scheerpost.com/2020/06/12/pa… via @Robert_Scheer
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21 Jan 2019
@jricole and @scheercast on how the #West has #Islam wrong: "Any time you single out a group of people as different from others, and as posing a ... danger to society, that leads in very bad directions." Listen to the interview @kcrw and @Truthdig
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25 Jan 2019
LISTEN & share pls! TODAY dropped our convo w legendary @Truthdig editor & @NPR podcaster @Robert_Scheer, recording from @USCAnnenberg School of Journalism, about our book #Watchdogs. A great, tight 30-min convo. @ScheerCast kcrw.com/culture/shows/schee…
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3 May 2019
.@nberggruen and Nathan Gardels have a plan to try to revamp democracy as we know it. #RenovatingDemocracy Listen to @scheercast #podcast. kcrw.co/2VFSK11
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12 Apr 2019
This Is the Only Way White Supremacists Lose | Scheer Intelligence kcrw.com/culture/shows/schee…
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3 Jan 2019
The 10 Best 'Scheer Intelligence' Episodes of 2018, incl interviews w/ @DLanceBlack on #LGBT Rights to @HB_ESPN on Revolt of the #BlackAthlete, and of course looking into @nomiprins on #Banks That #RuntheWorld, closing with @FREEKEVINCOOPER.
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29 Dec 2018
"I think people don’t really realize that #Russia today is not the #SovietUnion. It doesn’t profess an ideology. Obviously it has nationalist interests. And because... kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/…
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26 Dec 2018
Kevin Cooper has been in #SanQuentin Prison for 33yrs, the last 8 waiting for @JerryBrownGov to grant him a new hearing and advanced DNA test to support what Judge Fletcher has said: “Kevin Cooper is on Death Row because the @sbcountysheriff framed him.”buff.ly/2VbHBCj
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26 Dec 2018
In the 2nd part of this interview, death row inmate Kevin Cooper details how he copes with the daily torment of impending death as his legal team fights to prove his innocence with new exonerating evidence @JerryBrownGov has finally allowed to be examined.
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19 Dec 2018
1/2 Judge "Kim Wardlaw, stated that 24 years of flawed proceedings in my case was like not having no proceedings at all... I had no due process. None. I was rubber-stamped through the system..." #kevincooper w/ @Robert_Scheer #justicesystem #dueprocess buff.ly/2QzuQCI
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19 Dec 2018
2/2 "...all I’m asking for is what they said they would give me when they put it on paper all those centuries ago. Due process. A trial free of governmental interference... Where is mine?" #KevinCooper w/ @Robert_Scheer via @kcrw and @Truthdig
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15 Dec 2018
Is @California About to #Execute an #InnocentMan? #KevinCooper reveals how he has maintained his sanity after 33 years in a cell that's 4 1/2ft wide and 11 ft long, waiting for a justice that never seems to arrive. Listen to the full interview... buff.ly/2GjGmxv
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28 Nov 2018
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@AnandWrites discusses “how #richpeople and #philanthropists and others are engaged in this well-meaning attempt to make the world better … but upholding through their actions an indecent system.” via @KCRW with @Robert_Scheer
#newbook #BILLIONAIRE
27 Nov 2018
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Dianna Cohen from @PlasticPollutes explains why #recycling alone can't save us. "Recycling rates for plastic in the US will be only 4.4% by the end of 2018. And they potentially could sink as low as 2.9% in 2019."
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#ClimateChange #environment
17 Nov 2018
2/2 "The biggest #FreedomOfThePress issue is that #Trump is working with @comcast and AT&T and @verizon to end #NetNeutrality... the fact that these big internet providers... also produce content—it’s very, very dangerous."
Listen to full interview
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17 Nov 2018
1/2 This week in @jeffcot discusses with @Robert_Scheer, The Biggest Threat to #FreeSpeech No One Is Talking About.
Listen to the full interview @kcrw and @Truthdig
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22 Oct 2018
1/2@jasonintrator w/@Robert_Scheer via @kcrw discusses failures of democratic governance to become "the society that is closest to what Germany was” just preceding Hitler. "Whenever you see the dominant group feeling, yearning for a past that never was..." buff.ly/2q6ANYh
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22 Oct 2018
2/2 "...It creates this mythic past so that the dominant group feels like they’re the world’s greatest victims. When you see #whiteChristians in the #USA saying they’re the most discriminated group, then you know that #fascist politics has taken hold." buff.ly/2q6ANYh
Palestinian journalist Zeiad Abbas on @scheercast: 'God is not a real estate agent' tdig.it/2vU3RFI
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18 Aug 2018
Zeiad Abbas: ' #God is not a real estate agent' on @scheercast Abbas a #Palestinian refugee, describes living conditions under the state of #Israel, which he calls #ethniccleansing, and discusses a #toxicwater crisis in #Gaza and more. buff.ly/2nNmAOA
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