03/23/10 – Michael Hastings – The Scott Horton Show

Michael Hastings, author and contributor to True/Slant.com, discusses the backlash against religious political parties in Iraq, why Ayad Allawi's thuggish past has increased his popularity, the massive security apparatus that enables an Iraqi Prime Minister to act like a strongman and why Iraqi Kurdistan is likely to become an independent state in the not-too-distant future.

03/23/10 – Grant F. Smith – The Scott Horton Show

Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C., discusses the unusual US/Israel public dispute following Israel's snub of Joe Biden, credibility problems for US Middle Eastern client states that must pretend to care about the plight of Palestinians, the increasingly fragile fiction that the US and Israel have identical interests, the failure of the US to enforce the 1938 Foreign Agents Registration Act and how AIPAC seeks to control US trade...

03/23/10 – Ivan Eland – The Scott Horton Show

Ivan Eland, Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute, discusses the US contribution to violence and political instability in Somalia, how al Qaeda affiliate groups are primarily concerned with local issues and simply use the moniker for prominence and fundraising, nationalist movements that are mislabeled 'Islamic' because mosques are often the only available forum for political dissent and how the US government characterizes Osama bin Laden as irrational in order to dismiss his stated...

They’re not here…

Evil people are using fear of a “Terrorist” boogie man to stampede our friends and neighbors into a police state, promising “safety” and “security” against a threat that is far less dangerous to you than the freeway traffic you brave routinely.

03/19/10 – Jon Basil Utley – The Scott Horton Show

Jon Basil Utley, director of Americans Against World Empire, discusses the insular and ignorant world views of pro-Israel evangelical Americans, how the strong outward appearance of the US empire belies the rotten core, gerrymandering's deleterious effects on representative government and how rising interest rates threaten the US government's ability to finance debt.