08/25/14 – Thomas Mountain – The Scott Horton Show

Journalist Thomas C. Mountain picks up where he left off in last week's interview, discussing the genocide of Somalis; how the US creates instability in Africa to maintain political and economic control; and the virtually unknown Gayle Smith - President Obama's "quiet consigliere" on Africa affairs.

08/22/14 – Mitchell Prothero – The Scott Horton Show

Mitchell Prothero, a foreign staff journalist with McClatchy DC, discusses the rash of new abductions in Syria including the kidnapping and execution of American journalist James Foley; why US airstrikes can't defeat the Islamic State; and how the massacre of Sunnis in an Iraq mosque could renew the deadly civil strife of 2006-2007.