03/20/14 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

by | Mar 20, 2014 |

Gareth Porter is an award-winning independent journalist and historian. This is the fifth part in a series of interviews on Porter's new book Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. Porter discusses the blown opportunity to reconcile with Iran after 9/11 and work together against the al-Qaeda and Taliban common enemies; the incredibly naive, magical thinking of the neocon gang that planned and executed the Iraq invasion/occupation; Iran's doomed-to-failure nuclear...

03/20/14 – J.P. Sottile – The Scott Horton Show

by | Mar 20, 2014 |

J.P. Sottile, journalist and founder of NewsVandal, discusses whether Ukraine's revolution is about democracy and EU integration or the corporate pillaging of Ukraine's resources; Chevron's 50-year shale gas lease and Big Agribusiness' plans to make Ukraine Europe's breadbasket; and how a small, incestuous neocon cabal fomented Ukraine's conflict and stands to profit from the aftermath.

03/19/14 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

by | Mar 19, 2014 |

Gareth Porter is an award-winning independent journalist and historian. This is the fourth part in a series of interviews on Porter's new book Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. Porter discusses how Israeli Prime Minister Yizhak Rabin created an Iranian nuclear bogeyman to give himself political cover for negotiations with the PLO; Iran's long-range (conventional) missile development program for deterring an Israeli attack; Netanyahu's initial dovishness on Iran...

Edward Snowden: The Biggest Revelations Are Yet to Come

by | Mar 18, 2014 |

Mashable: Edward Snowden on Tuesday said the biggest revelations have yet to come out of the estimated 1.7 million documents [try 20,000, myna bird] he acquired from the National Security Agency. In a surprise appearance via satellite robot at the 2014 TED conference in Vancouver, Snowden said there is still a lot of reporting to be done, including diving deeper into the accusation that the NSA tricks companies into building backdoors into their systems that make data vulnerable to hackers...

03/18/14 – Jack Matlock – The Scott Horton Show

by | Mar 18, 2014 |

Jack Matlock, a former US ambassador to the Soviet Union, discusses some diplomatic lessons Obama should learn from Ronald Reagan in the Cold War era; why the US continues to pick a fight with Russia when there's no need for hostility; and resisting calls that "something ought to be done" about conflicts in foreign countries.