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.

03/18/14 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

by | Mar 18, 2014 |

Gareth Porter is an award-winning independent journalist and historian. This is the third part in a series of interviews on Porter's new book Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. This interview focuses on the US political origins of the Iranian nuclear scare; how the post-Cold War peace dividend was thwarted by the military-industrial complex; and why Martin Indyk's dual-containment policy on Iraq and Iran served only to benefit Israel.

Fuck Facebook

by | Mar 17, 2014 |

That's it. I'm done. Feels great. I'll leave the page up at facebook.com/scotthortonshow just like my old myspace page, but no more wasting another minute there. They're now trying to charge to show my posts to anyone at all. How about no? Maybe now I can get some books read. If you want me, stop by here at Stress, or follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/scotthortonshow.

03/17/14 – Nicolas J.S. Davies – The Scott Horton Show

by | Mar 17, 2014 |

Nicolas J.S. Davies, author of Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq, discusses the 35 countries where the US has supported fascists, drug lords and terrorists; the quest for global hegemony over all nations from Afghanistan to Zaire; and why the big three state sponsors of terrorism (Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan) are all US allies.