25 episodes

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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    • 4.5 • 353 Ratings

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.

    “The banning of TikTok is an attack on the free market”

    “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.

    • 43 min
    "LatinoLand": Complex, resilient and powerful

    "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.

    • 45 min
    The immiseration of the American worker is a bipartisan political scam

    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?

    • 56 min
    Israel does not speak for Jews like us

    Israel does not speak for Jews like us

    On this episode of the Scheer Intelligence podcast, Heyday Books publisher and former LA Times book editor Steve Wasserman and host Robert Scheer commit themselves to this conversation as Jews who have experienced these questions firsthand through their families in addition to having explored and reported on this topic throughout their careers.

    • 1 hr 30 min
    As Palestinians continue to die, the history of their betrayal by the “Free World” tells us why

    As Palestinians continue to die, the history of their betrayal by the “Free World” tells us why

    Juan Cole, a renowned history professor at the University of Michigan and expert on the Middle East and South Asia, joins host Robert Scheer on this episode of the Scheer Intelligence podcast to tackle inconvenient truths ignored by the media in the history of Israel and Palestine. This includes the conflation that criticizing the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is somehow a form of Holocaust denial.

    • 1 hr 1 min
    The Un-Oppenheimer: The story of a teenager who sought to save the world

    The Un-Oppenheimer: The story of a teenager who sought to save the world

    Journalist and filmmaker David Lindorff explores the story of Ted Hall, who, at the age of 18 years old, leaked the secrets of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union in an attempt to secure a balance in the world’s most dangerous arms race.
    His book, “ Spy for No Country: The Story of Ted Hall, the Teenage Atomic Spy Who May Have Saved the World ,” makes the case that due to the courageous work of Hall and fellow Los Alamos scientist Klaus Fuchs, the idea of mutually assured destruction was born and the U.S. lost its monopoly on the deadliest weapon ever made.

    • 1 hr 38 min

Customer Reviews

4.5 out of 5
353 Ratings

353 Ratings

Flacomayes ,

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

JimV 1 ,

Great Pod!!

Great Pod!! Bob does need to let the others speak sometim

King of a ,

Whackadoodle, spiraling downward

This episode with Robin Andersen, rambling w/o stating any specific ‘propaganda’ nor any supporting facts, and Robert, whom I revere, constantly talking and interrupting. Please get it together guys, thanks, macro

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