Sinopsis
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.
Episodios
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Outgrowing Men: Jane Fonda’s Rebuke of Male Hegemony in Life and Politics
21/09/2018 Duración: 27minFilm veteran Susan Lacy discusses her latest documentary, Jane Fonda in Five Acts. Lacy stresses that celebrated actress and political activist Fonda has been shaped by four “acts —the four men in her life—her father and actor Henry Fonda, and husbands, film director Roger Vadim, political activist Tom Hayden and media mogul Ted Turner. The last act is Fonda’s alone, on her lifelong journey to personal liberation.
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Silicon billionaires are the lethal monkey on the back of the American public
14/09/2018 Duración: 32minAuthor Anand Giridharadas discusses the distorted libertarian ideology that they use to subvert the American experiment in democracy. They have done so by denying the legitimacy of government intervention into the economy on the side of fairness and justice, including decent working conditions, fair wages, regulation of the economy, and the right to form unions to represent them and fight for their interests.
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Bill Clinton Enabled Trumps Immigration Policy
07/09/2018 Duración: 30minHelen Sklar, immigration attorney for more than 33 years, discusses the basis of the immigration family separation under Trump and how former President Clinton laid the groundwork for this.
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American Middle Class: The Rise of the Precariat
31/08/2018 Duración: 29minAlissa Quart discusses her latest book, Squeezed, on living in a middle-class that is being crumpled by meritocracy and converted into what Quart terms the “Precariat,” which Scheer describes as “people who think they’re in the middle class, and they have the education, very often they find themselves living paycheck to paycheck.”
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ReKognition: The Face Of Surveillance, Useful or Dangerous?
24/08/2018 Duración: 28minJacob Snow discusses Amazon’s Rekognition program, which is being promoted for use at the state and federal level to use facial recognition to fight crime.
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Zeiad Abbas: 'God is not a real estate agent'
17/08/2018 Duración: 32minJournalist and filmmaker Zeiad Abbas, a Palestinian refugee, describes living conditions of Palestinians under the state of Israel, which he calls “ethnic cleansing,” and discusses a toxic water crisis in Gaza and more.
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The Rise and Fall of Women Moviemakers in Hollywood
10/08/2018 Duración: 28minHollywood historian, film critic and writer Carrie Rickey discusses the lack of women behind the cameras in Hollywood; it wasn’t always so.
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Generation Wealth: The Loss of the Self
03/08/2018 Duración: 29minA deep look at how the accumulation of money has become the greatest goal, even at the peril of the self.
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Nick Goldberg: Veteran Journalist and Editor
27/07/2018 Duración: 30minNick Goldberg, the editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times, discusses print journalism, its financing, and the challenges it faces.
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Seymour Hersh: Reporter
20/07/2018 Duración: 36minThe Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist assesses his career reporting on some of most significant stories of the past 50 years.
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Howard Bryant: The Heritage
13/07/2018 Duración: 33minThe sports journalist discusses his new book on the conflicted progress of black athletes.
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Kimberley Reed and John S. Adams: Dark Money
06/07/2018 Duración: 33minThe documentary director and Montana journalist discuss their film about how so-called dark money entered politics in the big sky state.
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Nomi Prins: Collusion
29/06/2018 Duración: 32minThe former Wall Street banker turned journalist and author returns to Scheer Intelligence to critique the actions of international central banks.
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Jennifer Rothman: The Right of Publicity
22/06/2018 Duración: 32minThe Loyola Law professor discusses her new book about the history and evolution of the right of publicity.
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Eon McLeary and Manuel Ruiz: The Work
15/06/2018 Duración: 29minThe documentary filmmaker and a former prisoner discuss the film about a group therapy program in one of the most infamous prisons in the United States.
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Nate Cardozo: A Golden Age of Surveillance
08/06/2018 Duración: 31minThe attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation discusses the fight for privacy online.
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Sara Driver: 'Boom for Real'
31/05/2018 Duración: 32minThe independent film director discusses her documentary about the early career of the late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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Wim Wenders: A Man of His Word
25/05/2018 Duración: 30minThe Oscar nominated director discusses his documentary about the current pope.
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Adam Winkler: We The Corporations
18/05/2018 Duración: 33minThe UCLA Law professor discusses his newest book about the rights of corporations.
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Sasha Abramsky: Jumping at Shadows
11/05/2018 Duración: 32minThe journalist and professor discusses his latest book about how fear has contributed to demagoguery.