
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

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.

Sep 9, 2022 • 42min
Russian and western leaders squandered Mikhail Gorbachev’s legacy. Now we’re all paying the price.
Katrina vanden Heuvel, editorial director and publisher of The Nation, remembers the Russian leader—whom she called a friend—as a committed pro-peace thinker, on this week’s “Scheer Intelligence.”

Sep 2, 2022 • 39min
What killed America’s peace movement?
CODEPINK founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans are rare voices of conscience confronting the bipartisan warmongers.

Aug 26, 2022 • 38min
The terrifying research nuclear powers don’t want you to see
Climate scientist Alan Robock, one of the authors of a groundbreaking Nature Food paper on the little-discussed impacts of nuclear war, talks to Robert Scheer about his work.

Aug 19, 2022 • 33min
The menace that is Amazon and Walmart
Columbia Law School professor Kathryn Judge talks to Robert Scheer about the exploitation of monster behemoth retail companies revealed in her new book “Direct.”

Aug 5, 2022 • 33min
That time the KKK tried to kill Paul Robeson
Joel Whitney, the author of “Finks,” joins Robert Scheer to discuss a little-told episode in the socialist actor and singer’s life and why it’s seemingly been erased from our collective memory.