The solution to Trump's exploitable border crisis is to end the US trafficking of guns for drugs that turns productive Mexicans into desperate refugees.

An establishment scholar’s indictment of the West’s ‘blind support for Israel’s slaughter in Gaza’

8 days ago 40m 12s

The recent missile exchanges between Iran and Israel stirred fears of World War III, and while the action has cooled down, the uncertain path still looms with tension. Esteemed author and Middle East scholar Trita Parsi joins host Robert Scheer

Ray McGovern: One more presidential briefing with “President Scheer”

15 days ago 46m 8s

Ray McGovern, the 27-year CIA veteran who counseled seven presidents, joins host Robert Scheer in a "Theatre of the Absurd" reenactment of McGovern's historic role. Scheer plays a stern and uncompromising president receiving an uncomfortable br

Is an American parliament the answer to our rotting democracy?

22 days ago 44m 39s

On this episode of the Scheer Intelligence podcast, host Robert Scheer welcomes Maxwell L. Stearns, a constitutional lawyer and professor at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law, to discuss his book, “Parliamentary America: The Least

It’s a secret only when Uncle Sam says it is

Mar 29th, 2024 45m 45s

In light of recent developments in the Julian Assange extradition case, former CIA officer John Kiriakou joins host Robert Scheer on this episode of the Scheer Intelligence podcast, to delve deeper into the contradictions within the United Stat

Does Zionism lead to genocide?

Mar 22nd, 2024 1h 32m

In this episode of the Scheer Intelligence podcast, host Robert Scheer and The Grayzone editor-in-chief Max Blumenthal contextualize the events of Oct. 7 and afterward in relation to the history of Israel and Palestine.

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

Mar 15th, 2024 43m 24s

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

"LatinoLand": Complex, resilient and powerful

Mar 8th, 2024 45m 19s

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, LatinoLan

The immiseration of the American worker is a bipartisan political scam

Mar 1st, 2024 56m 50s

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 p

Israel does not speak for Jews like us

Feb 9th, 2024 1h 30m

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 thro

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

Feb 2nd, 2024 1h 1m

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 i

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

Jan 26th, 2024 1h 38m

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 bo

The kidnaping of the century: How Patty Hearst became a revolutionary

Jan 19th, 2024 1h 4m

One of the biggest stories of the twentieth century, big enough to displace Watergate from the front pages of newspapers nationwide, takes the form of a novel in an attempt to use fiction as a vehicle to expose the truth of this media spectacle

Ray McGovern: The Imprisonment of the Palestinian People Was Not an Act of God

Jan 5th, 2024 59m 4s

Israel’s current war on Gaza and the Palestinians draws pessimism and hopelessness, reminding two veterans of its origin in another such war in the region in 1967, The Six Day War, which resulted In Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza

Four Deaths That Shaped Modern American History

Dec 29th, 2023 47m 39s

The 1960s represented a pivotal time in American history, one that embodied vast change and influence in shaping what the country has become. From the Civil Rights movement to the Vietnam War to the moon landing, society was in a period of stea

Netanyahu’s Palestinian Genocide Is Also a Betrayal of the Jews

Dec 22nd, 2023 1h 7m

Apart from the death, destruction and suffering bestowed upon the Palestinian people in Gaza by the hands of the Israeli government, an ideological battle is taking place around the world, especially in the United States, where Jewish people fa

The Never Ending War on Terror

Dec 15th, 2023 40m 4s

The revelations of people like Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and John Kiriakou have allowed the world to know about the sly and insidious turn Western governments took following 9/11. From torture programs to mass surveillance to extrajudicial

‘If I was to be buried, I would want that on my stone’

Dec 8th, 2023 1h 5m

Norman Lear, who died this week at the age of 101, visited the KCRW studio in Santa Monica, CA six years ago to sit down and talk with host Robert Scheer in this two-part interview about Lear’s life through his autobiography, “Even This I Get t

An Autopsy on Israel’s Historic Assault on the Palestinians

Dec 1st, 2023 1h 28m

This week’s episode of Scheer Intelligence welcomes someone with extraordinary courage and experience not only in Palestine but the Middle East as a whole. Dr. Tarek Loubani, a Kuwait-born, Canada-based Palestinian doctor, who also serves as th

Settler Colonialism, Thanksgiving and Gaza

Nov 24th, 2023 56m 43s

American historian, writer, professor and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz uses her studies on indigenous peoples’ history and her work with Palestinian diplomats and the United Nations to show how historic “settler colonialism” like in the United

Humanity Has Failed Gaza

Nov 17th, 2023 1h 9m

Amidst the carnage and political debacle surrounding Gaza and Israel, it can be easy to discuss the conflict with a macro view, where families, hospital workers, UN workers and journalists become statistics and political perspectives dominate.

Abortion Pills Go Global

Nov 10th, 2023 35m 53s

After Ohio’s recent vote to enshrine the right to have an abortion into the state’s constitution, host Robert Scheer dives deeper into one of the underappreciated and underreported aspects of the fight for abortion rights on this episode of the

Palestine’s Obituary

Nov 3rd, 2023 1h 6m

Historian Juan Cole minces no words in offering a grave and sobering account of the conflict in Palestine and Israel on this episode of the Scheer Intelligence podcast. In a comprehensive reflection of the history and current day situation in t

The Palestinians play David to Israel’s Goliath

Oct 27th, 2023 48m 50s

“There's no room for complexity in the American media when it comes to Israel and Palestine,” said Robin Andersen, the award-winning author and professor emerita of communication and media studies at Fordham University, to host Robert Scheer on

What About the One State Solution With an Equal Vote for Every Palestinian and Israeli?

Oct 20th, 2023 59m 5s

Palestinian American journalist Mnar Adley makes the case for one democratic nation with each Palestinian and Israeli having the equal right to vote on their governance on this episode of the Scheer Intelligence podcast.