02/28/14 – Marcy Wheeler – The Scott Horton Show

Blogger Marcy Wheeler discusses her work with the Greenwald/Scahill/Poitras media project The Intercept; the extent of NSA data mining, which tech firms/telecoms are cooperating, and the maze of legal justifications; and why, if a government agency must spy on everyone to no good effect, it might as well be the CIA instead of the NSA.

02/28/14 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show

Eric Margolis, an award-winning, internationally syndicated columnist, discusses the quick demise of the EU-brokered compromise deal for Ukraine; tracing Ukraine's civil conflicts back to WWII atrocities committed by the USSR and Germany; and Russia's so-far moderate response to the crisis.

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The Iranian Threat and the Neo-Con War Lobby

Part of being an American today is being trained to be afraid all of the time and to want people all over the world killed for us in order to feel save. Our TV tells us to be scared of the entire world and that we live under constant danger. This fear is the glue that now holds our system of government together. It makes us loyal to the government and also enables the military-industrial complex to make a lot of money. It is this fear that makes so many of us willing to sit there as the Bill...

02/26/14 – Alex Kane – The Scott Horton Show

Alex Kane, AlterNet's New York-based World editor and assistant editor for Mondoweiss, discusses the US's violent meddling in Syria's civil war; the radical rebel groups that make Al Qaeda look like moderates; and why the Assad government is principally to blame for the large number of civilian casualties.