02/27/15 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show

Philip Giraldi, Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest and a former CIA officer, discusses how Benjamin Netanyahu's highly-contentious speech before Congress on March 3rd could put the US-Israel "special relationship" to the test; and Phil's joint discussion titled "The Courage to Speak Out: How Can the US get AIPAC out of US Politics," at 7:00 pm, March 1st, at Busboys and Poets at 5th and K in Washington DC.

02/26/15 – Musa al-Gharbi – The Scott Horton Show

Musa al-Gharbi, a research fellow with the Southwest Initiative for the Study of Middle East Conflicts, discusses his article "ISIL's barbaric acts are highly effective propaganda," and why a US ground invasion would be playing right into the Islamic State's hands.

02/26/15 – Daniel Haqiqatjou – The Scott Horton Show

Daniel Haqiqatjou, a writer and lecturer on Muslims and modernity, discusses why Graeme Wood's attention-grabbing article in The Atlantic, "What ISIS Really Wants," is dangerously flawed about Islam and conveniently ignores the role of US foreign policy in creating ISIS to begin with.

02/26/15 – Eli Clifton – The Scott Horton Show

Eli Clifton, a reporting fellow with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute, discusses how the MEK successfully lobbied its way off the State Department's Foreign Terrorist Organization list in 2012; and the group's continuing efforts to regime-change Iran's government.

02/25/15 – Grant F. Smith – The Scott Horton Show

Grant F. Smith, director of research at the Institute for Research, Middle Eastern Policy, discusses IRMEP's lawsuit seeking disclosure of CIA files on Israel's covert nuclear weapons program, including the illegal diversion of weapons-grade uranium from the NUMEC nuclear plant in Pennsylvania. American taxpayers are currently on the hook for a half-billion dollar cleanup effort at NUMEC - presumably Israel should pick up part of the tab.