Philip Giraldi, executive director of the Council for the National Interest, discusses the Anti-Defamation League's inclusion of CNI in their top-10 anti-Israel group list; Benjamin Netanyahu's blatant attempts to break up a US-Iran peace deal; and the US-Saudi rift on Syrian policy.

Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRMEP), discusses ten explosive U.S. government secrets about Israel and why the Department of Justice is unable and unwilling to prosecute Israeli spies.

Letta Tayler, Senior Researcher for Human Rights Watch, discusses her article "The Price of War" about the HRW report "Between a Drone and Al-Qaeda: The Civilian Cost of US Targeted Killings in Yemen."

Jason Leopold, investigative journalist and author of News Junkie, discusses his latest Freedom of Information Act victory, this time exposing the NSA review group as an oversight fraud perpetrated by the highly secretive Obama administration.

Arlo Pignotti, creator of QR code Commodity Discs, discusses his efforts to popularize silver medallions as an alternative currency to dollars, and how you can get a free silver medallion by donating $100 to the Scott Horton Show.

Charles Featherstone, a seminary student and former journalist based in New York, Washington D.C. and the Middle East, joins Scott live in the studio and shares his insights on Saudi Arabia, Libya, Syria, Al Qaeda and other topics.

Michael Swanson is the author of The War State: The Cold War Origins Of The Military-Industrial Complex And The Power Elite, 1945-1963. This is the second interview in a series of in-depth discussions about the book.

Journalist Mel Frykberg discusses the Libyan government's involvement in kidnapping their own prime minister; the Egyptian military's large scale operation in Sinai; the Muslim Brotherhood's limited political options; and Al Qaeda's involvement in nearly every Middle East-North Africa armed conflict.

Amy Hagopian, Associate Professor at the University of Washington's School of Public Health, discusses the Public Library of Science's (PLOS) study on mortality in Iraq from the 2003-2011 war and occupation; the results of other comparable studies done by different groups since 2007 or so; and the public's gross underestimation of the human costs of war.

Barbara Slavin, a journalist with Al-Monitor, discusses the centerpiece of Iran's new nuclear proposal; the concessions Iran is willing to make in exchange for seeing an "endgame" plan from the US; the unhappy hardliners on both sides; and why Iran's uranium enrichment serves little purpose other than as a bargaining chip.