Gareth Porter is an award-winning independent journalist and historian. This is the seventh part in a series of interviews on Porter's new book Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. Porter discusses the mystery of the MEK-delivered "smoking laptop" documents, the circumstantial case that the documents were Mossad forgeries based on flawed assumptions on Iran's uranium enrichment and Shahab-3 missile programs; and the German intelligence officials who advised the...

Robert Blumen, an independent enterprise software consultant based in San Francisco, discusses his article "Say's Law and the Permanent Recession" at Mises.org; the macroeconomic balance of supply and demand; Keynes' thoughts on recessions and stimulus spending; the merits of social support in a kleptocratic economy; and Robert Higgs' "regime uncertainty" theory.

Sheldon Richman, vice president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses Robert Kaplan's article "In Defense of Empire" in The Atlantic; why the US uproar over Russia's anti-gay law is only making it worse for gay Russians; how the NED and other "pro-democracy" groups make legitimate opposition parties look like American stooges; and whether team Obama blundered or conspired in Ukraine.

Gareth Porter is an award-winning independent journalist and historian. This is the sixth part in a series of interviews on Porter's new book Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. This interview covers the IAEA's failed attempts to "catch" Iran violating the NPT and pursuing nuclear weapons, and debunks the many accusations leveled at Iran's nuclear program over the years by Olli Heinonen, David Albright, and other Iran-hawks.

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.

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...

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...