06/30/10 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show

Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses Iraqi factional divisions that have prevented a Prime Minister from being seated from the March elections, the regained prominence of former PM's Ayad Allawi and Ibrahim al-Jaafari, violent popular protests against Iraq's incompetent government, persistent rumors of Saudi airspace authorization for an Israeli attack on Iran and CIA director Leon Panetta's misleading claim that Iran has enough uranium for 2 nukes.

06/30/10 – Ray McGovern – The Scott Horton Show

Ray McGovern, former senior analyst at the CIA, discusses the hype surrounding a seemingly benign Russian spy ring in the US, the sorely needed FBI public relations boost from their apparent counter-espionage success, CIA director Leon Panetta's disincentive for changing the 2007 Iran National Intelligence Estimate and why Iran really was pursuing a nuclear weapons program prior to 2003.

06/29/10 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show

Internationally syndicated columnist Eric Margolis discusses the cultural meaning of WWII for Americans, nostalgia in Russia for Soviet times, the US and British capitulation to Stalin at the Yalta Conference, why FDR was a senile fool and/or a communist and how the Security Council nations use the UN as a fig leaf for their aggressive actions.

06/29/10 – Fred Branfman – The Scott Horton Show

Fred Branfman, author of the article '5 Million Iraqis Killed, Maimed, Tortured, Displaced ”” Think That Bothers War Boosters Like Christopher Hitchens?' discusses the demonstrably false assertion that Iraqis are 'better off' now than under Saddam Hussein, why liberal warhawks like Hitchens bear a moral burden for Iraqi civilian deaths, the ongoing class war in America (that the billionaires are winning) and why holding elections does not qualify Iraq as a democracy.

06/29/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses how Gen. David Petraeus's political skills and reputation could enable a compromise settlement in Afghanistan, speculation that Gen. Stanley McChrystal got fired on purpose, the August deadline for significant US troop reduction in Iraq and why even war boosters aren't talking about victory in Afghanistan anymore.

06/28/10 – Anand Gopal – The Scott Horton Show

Independent journalist Anand Gopal discusses his interview with Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar about peace talks with the Karzai government, the probable short tenure of whatever political entity (including the Taliban) fills the void after US departure, why COIN-inspired night raids that succeed in killing Taliban commanders are still counterproductive and why Hamid Karzai’s dominion is even less than his derogatory 'Mayor of Kabul' title suggests.

06/28/10 – Jacob Hornberger – The Scott Horton Show

Jacob Hornberger, founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision that will end Chicago's handgun ban, the Slaughterhouse cases in 1873 that set legal precedent on the Fourteenth Amendment's limitations, the common interpretation of the Second Amendment as the right to armed self defense rather than protection from government tyranny, open questions on what gun rights limitations the SCOTUS will find reasonable and why the radicalism of the...

06/25/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses Afghanistan policy with Gen. David Petraeus in charge, how the military has achieved ideological hegemony in the US, Obama's window of opportunity to deflect blame for failure in Afghanistan and why Petraeus was close to declaring defeat in Iraq before his 2007 testimony to Congress.

06/25/10 – Larry Siems – The Scott Horton Show

Larry Siems, principal author on the ACLU project The Torture Report, discusses his effort to summarize the thousands of Bush administration torture documents obtained through FOIA requests, the dozens of US citizens targeted for extrajudicial assassination by the Obama administration, John Durham's long investigation into the CIA's destruction of torture tapes and the massive opposition within the FBI and other agencies against torture.

06/25/10 – Will Grigg – The Scott Horton Show

Will Grigg, author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the police assault on bedridden 86-year old Lona Varner, the dissolution of the chronically-troubled Maywood CA police department and the trend toward military-style civilian law enforcement.

06/24/10 – Bruce Schneier – The Scott Horton Show

Internationally renowned security technologist Bruce Schneier discusses Joe Lieberman’s proposal for an internet 'kill switch,' why shutting down the internet during a crisis would cause more harm than good and how controversial websites like WikiLeaks use data redundancy spread out in different countries to prevent being shut down.

06/24/10 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show

Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses the nearly 75% success rate of Guantanamo detainee habeas hearings, why Gitmo inmate Mohammed Hassan Odaini — despite winning his habeas case and being cleared for release by the Bush and Obama administrations — remains in custody, the government’s incredibly flimsy evidence against the so called 'worst of the worst' and how Washington political games and moral cowardice prevents justice from being served.