10/10/13 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show

Patrick Cockburn, a journalist with The Independent, discusses why the media doesn't cover the chaos and violence in post-Gaddafi Libya; how Libyan sovereignty has been degraded by the abduction of terrorist suspect Anas al-Liby in a US commando raid; and the cascading failures of US foreign policy in the Middle East since the Iraq War.

10/10/13 – Mark Thornton – The Scott Horton Show

Mark Thornton, Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, discusses Ron Paul's plan for an instant $1.6 trillion reduction in the national debt; why we need to lower, not raise, the debt ceiling; the dangers of a depreciating dollar; why the NSA's spy data is more useful for blackmail than fighting terrorism; the Fed's money creation shell game; and why empire is a money-losing proposition.

10/09/13 – Jim Lobe – The Scott Horton Show

Jim Lobe, chief of the Washington bureau of Inter Press Service, discusses the neoconservative ideology and its prominent practitioners; the opposition to US-Iran detente; and Obama's weak-kneed consensus-building approach to bitter policy disputes.

10/09/13 – Jason Leopold – The Scott Horton Show

Jason Leopold, a writer for Al Jazeera, discusses the human rights groups criticizing Obama's failure to close Guantanamo prison; the just-released documents on prisoner genital searches that the DOJ claimed could help Al Qaeda attack Guantanamo; and the media's failure to cover the still-ongoing hunger strike.

10/06/13 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show

Eric Margolis, journalist and author of American Raj, discusses Iran's unwelcome peace offerings; John Kerry and Hillary Clinton's political maneuvering ahead of the 2016 election; the Syria debacle that has embarrassed Obama and boosted Putin's international standing; and Israel's likely involvement in the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist.