12/05/13 – Jacob Hornberger – The Scott Horton Show

Jacob Hornberger, founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses why the libertarian movement is the best thing going; FFF's current fundraising drive; prioritizing the fight against warfare as the biggest threat to individual liberty; and Obama's crazy flip-flop policy on Syria.

12/04/13 – Nadia Ben-Youssef – The Scott Horton Show

Nadia Ben-Youssef, the international advocacy coordinator for Adalah, discusses the continuing forced displacement of Bedouin communities in Israel; how the Prawer-Begin bill would create a separate and unequal legal system for non-Jews; and why Americans wouldn't be so supportive of Israel if they knew the truth about the Nakba and Palestinian occupation.

12/03/13 – Michael Kelly – The Scott Horton Show

Michael Kelly, a writer for Business Insider, discusses Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan's secret double life as an Israeli spy; how Milchan helped advance Israel's nuclear weapons program; and the damage done to Iran's uranium centrifuges by the Stuxnet virus.

12/01/13 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show

Patrick Cockburn, a journalist with The Independent, discusses Muqtada al-Sadr's warning of Iraq's dark near-future; Sadr's political coming-of-age under Saddam Hussein and the US occupation; the role of al-Qa'ida, Iran and Syria in Iraq; and why the sectarian divide between Sunni and Shia is as strong as ever.

Patrick Cockburn Interviews Muqtada al-Sadr

Patrick Cockburn, author of Muqtada!: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival and the Future of Iraq, interviews the powerful Iraqi kingmaker for the Independent: The future of Iraq as a united and independent country is endangered by sectarian Shia-Sunni hostility says Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia religious leader whose Mehdi Army militia fought the US and British armies and who remains a powerful figure in Iraqi politics. He warns of the danger that 'the Iraqi people will disintegrate, its government...

Happy Thanksgiving Everybody

No offense to my Red Indian friends, but I love Turkey Day with family and all that, and I hope all of yall have a good one too. And I guess you can consider this the rerererere-launch of Stress the blog, and the site altogether. We've got the last of the bugs out of the way, so coming soon will be a new front page, a bookstore, stickers, and all kinds of whoknowswhat. Check out the new article archive: http://scotthorton.org/articles/ That's all of 'em. Also the RSS for the whole show...