Scheer Intelligence
by KCRWScheer 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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Episodes
“Never Again” must apply to the the genocide of the Palestinians
42m · PublishedJordan Elgrably reminds people of the crucial stories behind those being bombarded dailyin Gaza.
US traffic of guns turns productive Mexicans into desperate refugees
45m · PublishedThe solution to Trump's exploitable border crisis is to end the US trafficking of guns for drugs that turns productive Mexicans into desperate refugees.
An establishment scholar’s indictment of the West’s ‘blind support for Israel’s slaughter in Gaza’
40m · PublishedThe recent missile exchanges between Iran and Israel stirred fears of World War III, and while the action has cooled down, the uncertain path still looms with tension. Esteemed author and Middle East scholar Trita Parsi joins host Robert Scheer on this episode of Scheer Intelligence to discuss what these attacks could mean going forward.
Ray McGovern: One more presidential briefing with “President Scheer”
46m · PublishedRay McGovern, the 27-year CIA veteran who counseled seven presidents, joins host Robert Scheer in a "Theatre of the Absurd" reenactment of McGovern's historic role.Scheer plays a stern and uncompromising president receiving an uncomfortable briefing from McGovern on the most pressing issues of the day, from Ukraine to Israel to China.
Is an American parliament the answer to our rotting democracy?
44m · PublishedOn this episode of the Scheer Intelligence podcast, host Robert Scheer welcomes Maxwell L. Stearns, a constitutional lawyer and professor at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law, to discuss his book, “Parliamentary America: The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing Our Broken Democracy.”
It’s a secret only when Uncle Sam says it is
45m · PublishedIn light of recent developments in the Julian Assange extradition case, former CIA officer John Kiriakou joins host Robert Scheer on this episode of the Scheer Intelligence podcast, to delve deeper into the contradictions within the United States government and intelligence agencies regarding the disclosure of classified information and the veil of secrecy they maintain.
Does Zionism lead to genocide?
1h 32m · PublishedIn this episode of the Scheer Intelligence podcast, host Robert Scheer and The Grayzone editor-in-chief Max Blumenthal contextualize the events of Oct. 7 and afterward in relation to the history of Israel and Palestine.
“The banning of TikTok is an attack on the free market”
43m · PublishedOn this episode of Scheer Intelligence, David Greene, the Civil Liberties Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, joins host Robert Scheer to discuss the new bill that would ban the massively popular online social media platform, TikTok, in the U.S. In their conversation, they point out the hypocrisy of singling out one Chinese company for mass data collection, when there’s no evidence that TikTok collects data in any different way, or for any other purpose, than other social media companies.
"LatinoLand": Complex, resilient and powerful
45m · PublishedAuthor Marie Arana, former book editor and columnist for theWashington Postand the inaugural literary director of the Library of Congress, joins today’s episode of Scheer Intelligence with host Robert Scheer to discuss her new book,LatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority,to answer the question — what does it mean to be Latino? Whilemany know that Latinos often come to America, many forget that they have, in fact, always been inAmerica.
The immiseration of the American worker is a bipartisan political scam
56m · PublishedOn this episode of Scheer Intelligence, host Robert Scheer and Les Leopold discuss Leopold’s new book, “Wall Street's War on Workers: How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying the Working Class and What to Do About It” that describes how both political parties created the economic suffering that Trump feeds on. The critical question the book asks is: Did the nightmare of the world economy have to go this way? Or is it really a failure of capitalism? Or is it a failure of people manipulating capitalism?
Scheer Intelligence has 112 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 95:23:52. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 12th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 17th, 2024 05:48.