02/26/14 – Alex Kane – The Scott Horton Show

by | Feb 26, 2014 |

Alex Kane, AlterNet's New York-based World editor and assistant editor for Mondoweiss, discusses the US's violent meddling in Syria's civil war; the radical rebel groups that make Al Qaeda look like moderates; and why the Assad government is principally to blame for the large number of civilian casualties.

02/25/14 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

by | Feb 25, 2014 |

Gareth Porter, an independent journalist and historian, discusses the newest US (and Israeli) demands that could halt an Iran nuclear deal; the Iranian equivalent of Iraq's war-enabling "curveball" informant; and the media's failure to provide fair and balanced reporting on Iran issues.

02/25/14 – Ivan Eland – The Scott Horton Show

by | Feb 25, 2014 |

Ivan Eland, Antiwar.com columnist and senior fellow at the Independent Institute, discusses the free market/ international trade alternatives to "war for oil;" the disadvantages of fighting counterinsurgencies - even with the most powerful military in world history; and why there's nothing "defensive" about current US national defense.

US Adopts Israeli Demand to Bring Iran’s Missiles Into Nuclear Talks

by | Feb 24, 2014 |

by Gareth Porter, February 22, 2014 The Barack Obama administration’s insistence that Iran discuss its ballistic missile program in the negotiations for a comprehensive nuclear agreement brings its position into line with that of Israel and senators who introduced legislation drafted by the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC aimed at torpedoing the negotiations. But the history of the issue suggests that the Obama administration knows that Iran will not accept the demand and that it is not necessary...

US Investigates Illegal Military Equipment Shipments from Israel to Iran

by | Feb 24, 2014 |

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

by | Feb 24, 2014 |

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

by | Feb 23, 2014 |

[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,...