
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

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

Oct 14, 2022 • 45min
Eduardo Carreon: Adopting the mindset of the oppressor
Indigenous Los Angeles psychology graduate student Eduardo Carreon analyzes the mindset of disgraced former LA City Council leader, a Latina whose racist bile scorned Black and gay colleagues and others, including indigenous members of her own Latinx community.

Oct 7, 2022 • 43min
Fake journalism is only the first draft of fake history
35-year teaching veteran Jim Mamer explores the uncomfortable areas of history most schools fail to teach and what it means about the state of the world today.

Sep 30, 2022 • 39min
Zachary Karabell: China Is not the enemy - it is America’s indispensable economic ally
Author Zachary Karabell pleads that despite the militaristic noise, China and the U.S. share an economic dependency that would rupture the domestic economy of both nations if severed.

Sep 23, 2022 • 39min
Biden’s peace for Afghanistan is a humanitarian disaster
The U.S. withdrew its troops and with them all humanitarian aid while freezing Afghanistan’s foreign reserves, leading to mass deprivation for Afghanistan’s innocent civilian population.

Sep 17, 2022 • 46min
A Somali boy’s escape from Somalia’s harrowing genocide leads him to his dream paradise—and the brutality of American racism.
On this week’s Scheer Intelligence, Boyah Farah, a young refugee from Somalia’s hellish civil war describes his family’s narrow escape from death and their arrival in the placid suburbs of Boston. But life was more a nightmare than the dream he had imagined.