03/25/14 – Trevor Timm – The Scott Horton Show

Trevor Timm, executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, discusses the fake reforms in Congress' NSA bills; the millions of innocent people caught in the NSA's practice of collecting phone records two or three "hops" away from the suspect; and why Rep James Sensenbrenner's NSA reform bill is the best of the lot.

03/24/14 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show

Syndicated columnist Eric Margolis discusses the 528 Muslim Brotherhood supporters sentenced to death by an Egyptian judge; continuing US financial support for Egypt despite army chief al-Sisi's purge of political dissidents; the possibility of an armed uprising by Egyptian army defectors; and whether or not Israel will join the war in Syria.

03/24/14 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

Gareth Porter is an award-winning independent journalist and historian. This is the eighth part in a series of interviews on Porter's new book Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. Porter discusses the CIA's flawed assessment of Iran's nuclear program; re-using the "fix the facts around the policy" strategy from the Iraq war; the good guys in the CIA like Paul Pillar; why wrongheaded National Intelligence Estimates go unchallenged; and the high-level coverup of a...

03/23/14 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

Gareth Porter is an award-winning independent journalist and historian. This is the seventh part in a series of interviews on Porter's new book Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. Porter discusses the mystery of the MEK-delivered "smoking laptop" documents, the circumstantial case that the documents were Mossad forgeries based on flawed assumptions on Iran's uranium enrichment and Shahab-3 missile programs; and the German intelligence officials who advised the...

03/22/14 – Robert Blumen – The Scott Horton Show

Robert Blumen, an independent enterprise software consultant based in San Francisco, discusses his article "Say's Law and the Permanent Recession" at Mises.org; the macroeconomic balance of supply and demand; Keynes' thoughts on recessions and stimulus spending; the merits of social support in a kleptocratic economy; and Robert Higgs' "regime uncertainty" theory.

03/21/14 – Sheldon Richman – The Scott Horton Show

Sheldon Richman, vice president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses Robert Kaplan's article "In Defense of Empire" in The Atlantic; why the US uproar over Russia's anti-gay law is only making it worse for gay Russians; how the NED and other "pro-democracy" groups make legitimate opposition parties look like American stooges; and whether team Obama blundered or conspired in Ukraine.

03/21/14 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

Gareth Porter is an award-winning independent journalist and historian. This is the sixth part in a series of interviews on Porter's new book Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. This interview covers the IAEA's failed attempts to "catch" Iran violating the NPT and pursuing nuclear weapons, and debunks the many accusations leveled at Iran's nuclear program over the years by Olli Heinonen, David Albright, and other Iran-hawks.