08/12/14 – Mitchell Prothero – The Scott Horton Show

by | Aug 12, 2014 |

McClatchy Foreign Staff journalist Mitchell Prothero discusses the imminent replacement of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki; US intervention to help the Kurds and Yazidi refugees; and why the Islamic State crisis wouldn't have happened if Saddam Hussein was still running Iraq.

08/12/14 – Daniel McAdams – The Scott Horton Show

by | Aug 12, 2014 |

Daniel McAdams, Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, discusses why the US isn't going to solve the Iraq mess by dropping more bombs; how the US helped create ISIS in the first place; and the politicians poised to profit from the spoils of war.

The Man Who Sold the War by James Bamford

by | Aug 11, 2014 |

The road to war in Iraq led through many unlikely places. One of them was a chic hotel nestled among the strip bars and brothels that cater to foreigners in the town of Pattaya, on the Gulf of Thailand. On December 17th, 2001, in a small room within the sound of the crashing tide, a CIA officer attached metal electrodes to the ring and index fingers of a man sitting pensively in a padded chair. The officer then stretched a black rubber tube, pleated like an accordion, around the man’s chest...

Summer Fundraiser: Help Support the Scott Horton Show

by | Aug 11, 2014 |

Okay everyone I hate doing this ever at all. Year in and year out I would rather just barely get by eating peanut butter crackers and smoking dirt weed than ask any of yall for money. But it's a strange business I'm in where I give away everything I produce. I don't work for any foundation or entity. LRN is great for giving me a platform, but the show itself is not a paying gig. I've got some great sponsors for the show, but I only charge a pittance, hint, hint, and sometimes I've got to come...