Scheer Intelligence

  • Author: Vários
  • Narrator: Vários
  • Publisher: Podcast
  • Duration: 335:10:48
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Synopsis

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.

Episodes

  • The extraordinary film that will change your mind about refugees

    04/10/2019 Duration: 46min

    “Midnight Traveler” tells the harrowing story of Afghani director Hassan Fazili and his family’s displacement as filmed on their cell phones.

  • There’s Only One Superpower Left and It’s Not America

    27/09/2019 Duration: 41min

    In a world in which global opinion reigns, public diplomacy rooted in nationalism and propaganda will not save us from pressing crises. 

  • America Keeps Getting China All Wrong

    20/09/2019 Duration: 44min

    The two international giants are linked in inextricable ways, and yet Americans’ understanding of China consistently lacks nuance. 

  • The solution to homelessness is staring us all in the face

    13/09/2019 Duration: 41min

    People like Becky Dennison are working to address to one of America’s most urgent crises with a straightforward approach. 

  • The Most Consequential Whistleblower Who Wasn't

    06/09/2019 Duration: 40min

    In the run-up to the Iraq War, Katharine Gun, the subject of the film “Official Secrets,” nearly changed the course of history with one corageous decision.

  • White Supremacy Is as American as Apple Pie

    30/08/2019 Duration: 37min

    A documentary about a black woman’s reunion with relatives who have been passing as white gets to the heart of one of the nation’s founding wounds.

  • The Latest Victim in the Crucifixion of Julian Assange

    23/08/2019 Duration: 51min

    The mysterious arrest of a Swedish data privacy activist with links to the WikiLeaks founder raises important questions about government surveillance.

  • Democracy Dies Without Alternative Media

    16/08/2019 Duration: 42min

    Where would America be without the muckraking journalists and the publications that champion their work?

  • Is Trump Building a White Ethnostate?

    09/08/2019 Duration: 41min

    Author and University of Michigan professor Alexandra Minna Stern traces the origins of America's burgeoning white nationalist movement.

  • America Has Gulags In Its Own Backyard

    02/08/2019 Duration: 31min

    In a groundbreaking series, Shoshana Walter reveals the work camps operating all over the country under the guise of rehab centers.

  • We Could Solve the Israel-Palestine Conflict Tomorrow

    26/07/2019 Duration: 50min

    Filmmakers Abby Martin and Mike Prysner discuss the war crimes being committed in Gaza and how a resolution could be reached in the Middle East. 

  • New Low in Greed: Care Home Operators Rake in Millions, Pay Workers $2 an Hour for 24/7 shifts

    19/07/2019 Duration: 42min

    A new investigative report uncovers rampant exploitation of caregivers at residential care homes across the nation, many of them poor immigrants who work for a pittance around the clock with no days off, often sleeping on floors, couches, or in garages while the care home owners get rich, breaking several labor laws.

  • The Media Is Complicit in Julian Assange’s Torture

    12/07/2019 Duration: 44min

    A United Nations expert finds the WikiLeaks founder has been subjected to psychological torture, and media around the globe played a part.

  • The Homegrown Crisis California Refuses to Own

    05/07/2019 Duration: 40min

    One of the wealthiest and most liberal states in America has created a humanitarian emergency that only those who caused it can truly fix. 

  • The Sordid Story Behind the Mass Extinction of Languages

    28/06/2019 Duration: 44min

    Languages along with the world views they contain are dying out at an alarming rate. Sadly, this is by no means an accident, argues Lena Herzog.

  • Elon Musk Is Gaslighting America

    21/06/2019 Duration: 33min

    Journalist Will Evans exposed Tesla’s flagrant labor violations, but all the company’s founder did was shrug him off and cry "fake news."

  • The Lies Liberals Tell Themselves About the Second Amendment

    14/06/2019 Duration: 40min

    A deep-seated denial of the racist, colonial roots of gun rights in the U.S. underlies the left’s flawed approach to domestic arms control.

  • Can We Learn Anything From Our Forever Wars?

    07/06/2019 Duration: 33min

    In a brutally honest exit interview, recently retired U.S. Army Maj. Danny Sjursen opens up about his 18 years as a witness to the carnage of America’s forever wars.

  • Did the Left Get Zionism and Israel Totally Wrong?

    31/05/2019 Duration: 37min

    Susie Linfield traces the history behind what she views as a leftist abandonment of Zionism by Jewish intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky and Hannah Arendt.

  • The Americanization of Popular Culture Should Terrify Us All

    24/05/2019 Duration: 34min

    Hollywood's triumph in the global culture wars is a serious cause for concern at a time in which conglomerates and uniformity reign, argues French scholar Violaine Roussel.

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