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@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." scheerpost.com/2020/06/15/chr…

"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/pat… via @Robert_Scheer

@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 buff.ly/2R43XSS

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/…

.@nberggruen and Nathan Gardels have a plan to try to revamp democracy as we know it. #RenovatingDemocracy Listen to @scheercast #podcast. kcrw.co/2VFSK11

This Is the Only Way White Supremacists Lose | Scheer Intelligence kcrw.com/culture/shows/…

@jricole on his latest #book from @BoldTypeBooks " #MUHAMMAD Prophet of #Peace Amid the Clash of Empires." "The #Quran is an argument for tolerance, at least of the monotheistic religions, of #Christianity and #Judaism." listen to the interview @kcrw buff.ly/2R43XSS

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. buff.ly/2TjxYzw

"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/s…

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

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. buff.ly/2VbHBCj

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

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 #DueProcess buff.ly/2QzuQCI

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

@robert_scheer n #KevinCooper on how his struggle is part of a continuum that stretches from the #Genocide of #indigenouspeople through #chattelslavery to #massincarceration and #capitalpunishment of the present day. @kcrw @Truthdig @FREEKEVINCOOPER buff.ly/2GjGmxv

@USCAnnenberg Prof. Jonathan Aronson "If we don’t get our act together and improve things for everybody—including #workers, #middleclass, #poor, and not just the one percent—we could really descend into chaos..." w/ @Robert_Scheer via @kcrw buff.ly/2AFPmGV

buff.ly/2Sidt5W @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

buff.ly/2SfrscO 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." via @kcrw #ClimateChange #environment

@JeffAdachi, elected public defender of @sfgov, discusses his opposition to California’s new #bailreform bill, his views on #preventivedetention, #immigration, and how the #Japaneseintermentcamps led him to a career as a public defender w/ @Robert_Scheer buff.ly/2QNI1fC

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 buff.ly/2PyvKPj