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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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Is an American parliament the answer to our rotting democracy?
On 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.”
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It’s a secret only when Uncle Sam says it is
In 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.
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Does Zionism lead to genocide?
In 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.
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“The banning of TikTok is an attack on the free market”
On 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.
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"LatinoLand": Complex, resilient and powerful
Author 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 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? While many know that Latinos often come to America, many forget that they have, in fact, always been in America.
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The immiseration of the American worker is a bipartisan political scam
On 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?
Customer Reviews
1 of r favs but….
We rank this as one r top pc yet we turn off many times bc audio is insufferable IRHO. BOB’s voice to soft then guest voice 2 loud. Fix this pls
A meaningful, worthwhile, and essential news podcast
Bob Scheer is a journalistic legend, treasure, and rarity — he speaks plainly and directly, asks questions that listeners and readers want answered, and asks them of guests with relevant and timely knowledge and expertise. Every discussion on Scheer Intelligence is substantially (really, by light years) more informative and compelling than consuming hundreds upon hundreds of hours of the highly propagandistic slop served to us by the so-called mainstream or legacy media. We need many many more people like Bob Scheer, Caitlin Johnstone, Chris Hedges, Max Blumenthal, and far fewer of the lackeys of power who use near-limitless resources and access to daily launder the many lies upon which this fascistic empire is built to the beleaguered American people. There will be no progress and no change until our eyes are opened, and programs like Scheer Intelligence cast so much light that many eyes cannot help but open. Thanks Bob and team for a great and essential program, and for all your contributions to the truth over a distinguished career.
Great Pod!!
Great Pod!! Bob does need to let the others speak sometim