08/18/15 Gareth Porter: the Iran Nuclear Agreement

Gareth Porter, an award-winning investigative journalist and historian, discusses why the Iran nuclear agreement won't usher in a new era of sensible US foreign policy in the Middle East, and how Obama's occasional anti-Iran rhetoric limits his administration's diplomatic flexibility.

08/18/15 – Gene Healy – The Scott Horton Show

Gene Healy, a vice president at the Cato Institute and author of The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power, discusses why Donald Trump was lying when he proclaimed himself "the most militaristic" of the presidential candidates.

08/17/15 – Charles Goyette – The Scott Horton Show

Charles Goyette, a New York Times bestselling author and national radio commentator, discusses the American people's disgust for the mainstream political establishment, and how they are being misled by the false populism and economic solutions promised by Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.

08/17/15 – Yousaf Butt – The Scott Horton Show

Yousaf Butt, Senior Scientific Adviser to the British-American Security Information Council in London, discusses why, in the hypothetical case of Iran scrubbing clean suspected illicit nuclear sites before inspectors can arrive, "it’s impossible to hide nuclear work in 24 days – or 24 years."

The Truth About Iraqi EFPs by Philip Giraldi

Iranian Involvement in Iraq by Philip Giraldi (Originally written back in 2008) Introduction: The United States government has been arguing since 2005 that Iran is “interfering” in neighboring Iraq. At a political level, the interference is alleged to involve supporting Shi’ite surrogates groups, frequently incorporating militias, who are not cooperating in the development of a pluralistic democracy in Baghdad. Iran is also allegedly making more difficult the establishment of security inside...

08/14/15 – John Kiriakou – The Scott Horton Show

John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer and torture whistleblower, discusses his earlier erroneous defense of the CIA's torture program; his 30 month prison sentence for violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act; and how former CIA Director George Tenet's secrecy kept the FBI out of the loop on terrorist cells in the US - and possibly allowed 9/11 to happen.

08/14/15 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show

Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer and Executive Director of The Council for the National Interest, discusses Turkey's betrayal of the US on ISIS and the Kurds; and the Iran nuclear deal opponents who are rehashing long-ago debunked claims that Iranian EFPs killed US soldiers in Iraq.