Scheer 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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An establishment scholar’s indictment of the West’s ‘blind support for Israel’s slaughter in Gaza’
PoliticsThe 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.
Ray McGovern: One more presidential briefing with “President Scheer”
PoliticsRay 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.
Is an American parliament the answer to our rotting democracy?
PoliticsOn this episode of the Scheer Intelligence podcast, host Robert Scheer welcomes Maxwell L.
It’s a secret only when Uncle Sam says it is
PoliticsIn 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…
Does Zionism lead to genocide?
PoliticsIn this episode of the Scheer Intelligence podcast, host Robert Scheer and The Grayzone editor-in-chief Max Blumenthal contextualize the events of Oct.
“The banning of TikTok is an attack on the free market”
PoliticsOn 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…
"LatinoLand": Complex, resilient and powerful
Race & EthnicityAuthor Marie Arana, former book editor and columnist for the Washington Post and the inaugural literary director of the Library of Congress, joins today’s episode of Scheer…
The immiseration of the American worker is a bipartisan political scam
Business & EconomyOn 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…
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