10/21/09 – Gabriel Kolko – The Scott Horton Show

Gabriel Kolko, author of the article 'Israel: A Stalemated Action of History' at Counterpunch.org, discusses post WWII immigration restrictions that encouraged many European Jews to settle in Israel, the limited tolerance of Israeli citizens toward unrelenting state militarism, how Jews are more culturally defined by nationality than religion and the end of the U.S.-dominated unipolar world.

10/20/09 – Kelley B. Vlahos – The Scott Horton Show

Kelley B. Vlahos, contributing editor at The American Conservative magazine, discusses the indirect U.S. and NATO funding of the Taliban, David Kilcullen's mixed bag of Afghanistan policy assessments, Obama's lack of allies in the State Department, the military's seizing of initiative from the indecisive Obama administration and how the U.S. embrace of India prompts Pakistan to increase support for the Taliban.

10/20/09 – Will Grigg – The Scott Horton Show

Will Grigg, author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses media indifference to police violence, the failed experiment in prosperity via incarceration in Hardin, Montana, the Constitutionalist principles of 'Oath Keepers' members, the final looting of America by the rich and the fetishism of government uniforms.

10/16/09 – Cindy Sheehan – The Scott Horton Show

Peace activist Cindy Sheehan discusses plans for continuous civil disobedience in Washington D.C. until the Iraq and Afghanistan wars end, lessons learned from the Pittsburgh G-20 protests, how Obama's Nobel Peace Prize was awarded soon after he refused to meet with peace groups and why much of the Left can't wrap their heads around a pro-war Democratic Party.

10/16/09 – Daniel Luban – The Scott Horton Show

Daniel Luban, writer for IPS news via Jim Lobe’s blog, discusses John Bolton’s cagey endorsement of a nuclear strike on Iran, how staking out an extreme position can redefine what constitutes 'moderate,' the provocative nature of Iran sanctions and the neoconservatives’ disdain for the casualties of war.

10/16/09 – Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show

Glenn Greenwald, former constitutional lawyer and current Salon.com blogger, discusses the Republican brouhaha about the Islamic non-profit CAIR, the ease of tarnishing reputations with 'unindicted  co-conspirator' designations, vitriolic anti-Islam bigotry in Congress and the pervasive fear of an Islamic takeover of the U.S.

10/14/09 – Charles Pena – The Scott Horton Show

Charles Peña, author of Winning the Un-War: A New Strategy for the War on Terrorism, discusses the difficult task of preventing domestic terrorism in a free society, the unwise U.S. decision to treat 9/11 as a paradigm-shifting existential threat, the Obama administration's change in Iran strategy (but not policy) and how dubious terrorism prosecutions make the FBI even less trustworthy.

10/14/09 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show

Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent, discusses the greatly diminished news coverage of Iraq, the al-Maliki regime's authoritarian behavior, the fate of Iraq's ethnic and religious minorities and indications that Iraq's national culture — if not the country itself — is dying.

10/13/09 – Debra Sweet – The Scott Horton Show

Debra Sweet, National Director of World Can't Wait, discusses the post-Obama antiwar movement collapse, the strange confluence of The Feminist Majority and the Bush administration in selling the War in Afghanistan, the laughable notion that the Pentagon can be used to secure human rights, Afghan warlords allied with the Karzai government whose human rights records are no better than the Taliban's and how activists can make their voices heard on antiwar issues.

10/09/09 – Aaron Emery – The Scott Horton Show

Aaron Emery, member of the Campaign for Liberty, discusses the war-weary recalled soldiers who must choose redeployment or jail, how stop-loss acts as a backdoor draft, recruiting campaigns that play on a 'coming of age' mythology and how an indoctrinated culture of combat defines a soldier’s self-worth.

10/09/09 – David T. Beito – The Scott Horton Show

David T. Beito, professor of history at the University of Alabama and editor of the HNN blog Liberty and Power, discusses his book Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard's Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power (co-authored with his wife Linda Royster Beito), how a Howard speech probably inspired Rosa Parks' catalyzing civil disobedience, his beginnings as a Seventh Day Adventist advocate for prohibition, how Howard and Booker T. Washington's advocacy of economic  self-sufficiency helped the...

10/08/09 – Jonathan M. Kolkey – The Scott Horton Show

Jonathan Kolkey, creator of the World Wide War Project, discusses his research project that anthologizes over 300 wars, the common link all wars have in common, the correlation of election cycles and war making decisions and how the Soviet empire differed from its contemporaries.