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.
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It’s time to get rid of big agriculture
Food & DrinkAny urban street in America is guaranteed to be lined with popular fast food chains, the readily available nature of their products being the main attraction, with people barely giving…
Juan Cole: Where is the Middle East Heading?
PoliticsIn the 365 days following the events of Oct. 7, the situation in the Middle East is as complicated as ever.
Everything your kids won’t learn in school about our democracy: Can parents fill the void?
Child developmentAt a time of book bans and the withholding of critically important struggles in our history, our education system has increasingly failed to provide our young with the tools to become…
How deep does the 'Deep State' go?
PoliticsIn the midst of election season, conversations revolving around the levers of power become more frequent, and in the case of a U.S.
Can Israel decide who qualifies as Jewish?
PoliticsThe genocide in Gaza has brought the issue of Israel — and what it represents for Jewish people — into the forefront of Jewish communities worldwide.
Richard Silverstein: Israel, ‘The far right extremist state that I can no longer identify with’
PoliticsIsrael and its lobby today try to conflate the state with Jews around the world, that it speaks for Jews and encompasses the entire diaspora.
The CIA: The world’s first secret empire
PoliticsThe CIA’s destructive role in world politics since the end of World War II as a secret rogue spy agency controlled by unelected intelligence officers has become so ubiquitous that it…
The real decision makers will make sure your vote doesn’t challenge the dominance of the U.S. dollar that strangles the world economy
PoliticsThe “big club” that “you ain’t in,” as George Carlin famously put it, is increasingly visible as the presidential election rolls on toward November.
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