US Investigates Illegal Military Equipment Shipments from Israel to Iran

The Telegraph: US Homeland Security says Israeli arms dealers have been sending spare military jet parts to Iran in breach of sanctions  Israeli arms dealers twice tried to send spare parts for fighter planes to Iran, The Telegraph has established, flouting an international arms embargo and openly contradicting the bitter enmity between the Jewish state and the Islamic regime. The illegal shipments are now being investigated by the US Homeland Security Department after they were intercepted...

02/24/14 – Mike Maharrey – The Scott Horton Show

Mike Maharrey, the Communications Director for the Tenth Amendment Center, discusses progress in state-level legislation to nullify the NSA's spying programs; the unusual rhetoric of Democrats defending Obama's surveillance state; and how you can join the fight or donate to the cause.

Keynesian Myths, Monetary Central Planning and The Triumph of The Warfare State

[This is the single best treatment of the subject of central banking and war over the last 100 years that I've ever seen. It's a speech by former Reagan administration budget director David Stockman, author of The Great Deformation. -Scott] Flask in hand, Boris Yelstin famously mounted a tank outside the Soviet Parliament in August 1991. Presently, the fearsome Red Army stood down””an outcome which 45 years of Cold War military mobilization by the West had failed to accomplish. At the time,...

02/21/14 – Greg Palast – The Scott Horton Show

Greg Palast, an investigative reporter and bestselling author, discusses the (non-CNN) version of what's really going on in Venezuela; the Koch brothers' interest in reducing the price of Venezuela's crude oil exports; and the National Endowment for Democracy's role in aiding and abetting "democratic" regime change in countries without a US sock puppet in charge.

02/21/14 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show

Eric Margolis, an award-winning, internationally syndicated columnist, discusses the EU-brokered compromise deal to avoid civil war in Ukraine; State Department official Victoria Nuland's condescending attitude toward Europe; and why the US media now rivals the old Soviet media on spewing out government propaganda.

02/19/14 – Kade Crockford – The Scott Horton Show

Kade Crockford, Director of the Technology for Liberty Project (ACLU), discusses the PrivacySOS blog that keeps tabs on government spying; how legislation has failed to keep pace with surveillance technology; and why people who claim to have "nothing to hide" should still care about privacy rights.

02/19/14 – Trita Parsi – The Scott Horton Show

Trita Parsi, President of the National Iranian American Council, discusses his article "US-Iran deal: Compromise is key," and the possibility Iran won't have a normalized nuclear program or be completely free from sanctions for 25 years.

02/19/14 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show

Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the March 7th National Summit to Reassess the U.S.-Israel "Special Relationship;" the nonexistent US national interest in Ukraine; avoiding unnecessary conflict with Russia; and why John McCain is delusional about supporting the "good guys" in Syria.