06/23/09 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show

Internationally syndicated columnist Eric Margolis discusses the Western media's hyping of a new color-coded revolution in Iran, the recent history of the U.S. rigging elections abroad, cultural and political divides in Iran exacerbated by a youthful population, U.S. mission creep from Afghanistan into Pakistan, hypocritical U.S. complaints about Iran's crackdown while Middle East allies don't allow elections at all and how Kabul is becoming the new Saigon.

06/23/09 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show

Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent, discusses the emphatically relative phrase 'Baghdad is better,' imminent U.S. withdraw from Iraqi cities, former Sunni insurgents — gone mainstream — that can’t go back again, the status of Kurdish post-invasion land grabs and the awarding of Iraqi oil contracts to foreign corporations.

06/22/09 – Daniel Ellsberg – The Scott Horton Show

Daniel Ellsberg, author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, discusses the events leading to the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, earlier CIA attempts to provoke N. Vietnam retaliation, Robert McNamara's role in hiding evidence that the second Tonkin Gulf incident never happened, the possibility an earlier leak of the Pentagon Papers would have prevented the Vietnam War and saved millions of lives, the sociological explanation of how government secrects are kept and the U.S....

06/22/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses evidence that Robert McNamara never told LBJ the August 4, 1964 Tonkin Gulf attack on the USS Maddox and Turner Joy never happened, information revealed in recorded phone conversations between LBJ and McNamara released in 2006 and Gareth Porter's own phone conversation with McNamara. (Note: recorded on June 22, 2009)

Curious About Iran

Most on this blog are familiar with the work of Stephen Kinzer and his book on the 1953 overthrow of the popular Iranian government to restore the dictator and thug Reza Shah who oppressed and murdered 10's of thousands who opposed his rule and loss of freedom. Presidential decendent and CIA spy Kermit Roosevelt orchestrated the event out of the US embassy in Tehran, staging violent riots against a forewarned police, playing the middle against the ends until chaos forced a decision toward the...

Ron Paul: Best Congressman Ever.

For making the Federal Reserve an issue. May it cease to exist. What an amazing article. Pelosi poses as for transparency, but claims to have never heard of Ron Paul's audit the Fed bill (which has more than half of the entire House signed on as co-sponsors), some nobody from the "libertarian" Cato institute complains that the Fed could lose its "independence," and Lamar Alexander compares auditing the Federal Government's central bank to taking over the auto industry. Love the picture...

06/19/09 – Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show

Glenn Greenwald, former constitutional lawyer and current Salon.com blogger, discusses the firing of Washington Post journalist Dan Froomkin, the dominance of mainstream Democrat vs. Republican talking points in the media, maverick illegal actions of the Bush administration codified into law under Obama and how governmental secrecy enables all other abuses of power.

06/19/09 – Joshua Frank – The Scott Horton Show

Joshua Frank, regular writer at Counterpunch.org, discusses the Democratic Party's love for war, Obama's LBJ moment as the war in Afghanistan becomes his own, how the fugitive status of Osama bin Laden remains a useful propaganda tool and the antiwar common ground that makes allies of political opponents.

06/18/09 – Walter Block – The Scott Horton Show

Walter "Moderate" Block, professor of economics at Loyola University and scholar at the Mises Institute, explains why mankind should abolish governments, why we don't need them to protect us from foreign countries or from each other and why the problems of overfishing and ocean pollution would best be solved with free markets and property rights.

06/18/09 – Michael Boldin – The Scott Horton Show

Michael Boldin of the 10th Amendment Center discusses how the doctrine of enumerated powers has become quaint, how the Constitution provides persuasive talking points for a strictly limited government for those otherwise undisposed, why activist priorities should be on limiting federal power as it is the most expansive and potentially destructive and how the states are, in some cases, resisting federal laws and asserting their own.