07/11/13 – Nathan Fuller – The Scott Horton Show

Nathan Fuller of the Bradley Manning Support Network discusses Manning's defense team resting their case after three days and ten witnesses; Harvard Law Professor Yochai Benkler's testimony in defense of WikiLeaks's journalistic credentials; the defense motions to dismiss most major charges against Manning; and why the NY Times still attributes Manning's whistleblowing motives to some kind of gay identity crisis.

07/10/13 – Pepe Escobar – The Scott Horton Show

Globetrotting Asia Times journalist Pepe Escobar discusses Qatar's risky support for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Syria; why the Middle East's balance of power is tilting toward Saudi Arabia; Vladimir Putin's warning to President Obama that weapons given to Syrian rebels could be used for terrorist attacks in Europe; and Edward Snowden's tricky path to political asylum in South America.

07/10/13 – Karim Sayad – The Scott Horton Show

Karim Sayad, legal officer for the Swiss-based human rights organization Alkarama, discusses the Rolling Stone article "New report Documents the Human Cost of U.S. Drone Strikes in Yemen;" the difficulty of sorting civilians and combatants from drone strike victims; debunking the typical US excuses for using drones instead of arresting terrorism suspects; how drones help Al Qaeda's recruitment efforts; and why the US would better combat terrorism by rebuilding Yemeni infrastructure instead of...

07/10/13 – Trevor Timm – The Scott Horton Show

Trevor Timm, an activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, discusses the progress of the EFF's 2008 lawsuit against NSA mass spying; reforming the FISA court so the government can't act on secret interpretations of so-called public law; and how the Freedom of the Press Foundation helps donors contribute to WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning's defense fund, even when other methods of funding have been cut off due to political pressure.

07/09/13 – Adam Morrow – The Scott Horton Show

IPS News journalist Adam Morrow discusses the dozens of pro-Morsi demonstrators killed in Egypt; why the pro-military Egyptian media can't be relied on for accurate reporting; the proxy fight between Qatar and the other Gulf states; which side the US government is on; and the diminishing relevance of democratic elections in the Middle East/North Africa.

07/09/13 – Lawrence S. Wittner – The Scott Horton Show

Lawrence S. Wittner, Professor of History emeritus at SUNY/Albany, discusses why the US is "Still Preparing for Nuclear War" decades after the Cold War ended; President Obama's empty promises on nuclear disarmament; why, contrary to popular opinion, the MAD doctrine does not lead to peace; and the catastrophic global effects of nuclear war.

07/08/13 – Ben Swann – The Scott Horton Show

Ben Swann, an award winning broadcast journalist, discusses the tough questions he asked President Obama about aiding Syria's terrorist-associated rebels; why YouTube provides better Syria news coverage than mainstream American media; wising up to government lying us into war; the terrible consequences of the US drug war in Mexico; the national security case for legalizing pot; and the Kickstarter fundraiser for Swann's "Liberty is Rising: Truth in Media" project.

07/08/13 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show

Eric Margolis, journalist and author of American Raj, discusses the US contribution to Egypt's military coup; the engineered economic and security collapse that proceeded President Mohammed Morsi's ouster; the throngs of unemployed young people protesting in Turkey; and why liberals now prefer military dictatorships to democratic elections.

07/05/13 – Muhammad Idrees Ahmad – The Scott Horton Show

Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, a sociologist and editor of Pulsemedia.org, discusses his article "Obama won't end the drone war, but Pakistan might;" why Pakistan's newly elected prime minister Nawaz Sharif is empowered to say no to Washington's demands; and the daily bombings in Pakistan that are blowback from US drone killings.

07/05/13 – The Other Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show

The Other Scott Horton, human rights lawyer and blogger for Harper's Magazine, discusses how Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz wrested control of one of Africa's biggest prizes; the corruption in Western financial centers that facilitates the looting of third world nations; why George Soros recommended Horton to investigate Steinmetz for Guinea's new government; and the test for whether corruption and bribery laws apply to billionaires.

Thomas Jefferson First Inaugural Address March 4, 1801

Friends and fellow citizens, Called upon to undertake the duties of the first executive office of our country, I avail myself of the presence of that portion of my fellow-citizens which is here assembled to express my grateful thanks for the favor with which they have been pleased to look toward me, to declare a sincere consciousness that the task is above my talents, and that I approach it with those anxious and awful presentiments which the greatness of the charge and the weakness of my...

James Madison: The Most Dreaded Enemy of Liberty April 20, 1795

Of all the enemies of true liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds,...

Washington’s Farewell Address 1796

Friends and Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the United States being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed, to decline being considered among the...

John Quincy Adams on U.S. Foreign Policy 1821

And now, friends and countrymen, if the wise and learned philosophers of the elder world, the first observers of nutation and aberration, the discoverers of maddening ether and invisible planets, the inventors of Congreve rockets and Shrapnel shells, should find their hearts disposed to enquire what has America done for the benefit of mankind? Let our answer be this: America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights...