
Scheer Intelligence
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.
Latest episodes

Dec 23, 2022 • 46min
Fact-Checking Jesus
The Rev. Madison Shockley discusses the historical, political and controversial misconceptions of the Christmas story.

Dec 16, 2022 • 35min
You know gay rights are mainstream when Biden picks up the Rainbow flag
Larry Gross, author of the LGBTQ civil rights treatise, “Up From Invisibility,” honors the achievement of the new same-sex marriage law with only feint appreciation for the president who signed the bill.

Dec 9, 2022 • 44min
Who’s crazy, you or your nation?
Dr. Gabor Maté’s new book strips back the realities of the neoliberal system that has been plaguing the health of US and the world citizens.

Dec 2, 2022 • 1h 18min
Peace Candidate Matthew Hoh: War is a cancel culture
How Democrats, their pro-war Republican cohorts and the media canceled the U.S. Senate campaign of ex Marine and US foreign policy official Matthew Hoh.

Nov 25, 2022 • 46min
The US spends almost as much on healthcare as the rest of the world combined and has one of the worst outcomes
Esteemed physician Dr. Stephen Bezruchka explains why spending the most in the midst of inequality and flawed politics produces an unhealthy prognosis.

Nov 18, 2022 • 52min
Joel Beinin: Israel’s Elections Spell More of the Same for the Country, Only With an Even Uglier Face
Historian Joel Beinin uses his personal experiences to paint a picture of Israel, past and present, as a country and an idea.

Nov 12, 2022 • 46min
Highly regarded poet Javier Zamora tells the riveting story of his hellish nine-week journey as a nine-year old child
In this week's Scheer Intelligence interview, as in his New York Times bestselling book, “Solito: A Memoir,” celebrated poet Javier Zamora cuts through the nasty dehumanization about undocumented immigrants with the focused memory of his perilous journey as a child refugee attempting to join his family under the most vulnerable of circumstances. With their lives overturned by the U.S.-sponsored war in El Salvador, Zamora's parents had found refuge in California, but it took eight years and the risky efforts of a paid smuggler to open the possibility for their child to join them.

Nov 4, 2022 • 38min
Is Elon Musk the best or the worst for Twitter?
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Legal Director Corynne McSherry discusses with host Robert Scheer the internet control issues raised by Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter and what may lie ahead for it and other social media giants.

Oct 28, 2022 • 34min
Is Dennis Kucinich the last Democrat for peace?
For 16 years the former Democrat congressman from Cleveland advocated for peaceful alternatives to the madness of war, but now members of his party in Congress are permitted only the voice of the warmonger.

Oct 21, 2022 • 36min
How the Federal Reserve and allied central bankers wrote the obituary for competitive capitalism
Former Goldman Sachs managing director Nomi Prins exposes the role of the Federal Reserve and other western central banks in creating a world economy for the superrich while enabling the impoverishment of much of the world’s population