06/19/09 – Joshua Frank – The Scott Horton Show

Joshua Frank, regular writer at Counterpunch.org, discusses the Democratic Party's love for war, Obama's LBJ moment as the war in Afghanistan becomes his own, how the fugitive status of Osama bin Laden remains a useful propaganda tool and the antiwar common ground that makes allies of political opponents.

06/19/09 – Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show

Glenn Greenwald, former constitutional lawyer and current Salon.com blogger, discusses the firing of Washington Post journalist Dan Froomkin, the dominance of mainstream Democrat vs. Republican talking points in the media, maverick illegal actions of the Bush administration codified into law under Obama and how governmental secrecy enables all other abuses of power.

06/18/09 – Michael Boldin – The Scott Horton Show

Michael Boldin of the 10th Amendment Center discusses how the doctrine of enumerated powers has become quaint, how the Constitution provides persuasive talking points for a strictly limited government for those otherwise undisposed, why activist priorities should be on limiting federal power as it is the most expansive and potentially destructive and how the states are, in some cases, resisting federal laws and asserting their own.

06/18/09 – Walter Block – The Scott Horton Show

Walter "Moderate" Block, professor of economics at Loyola University and scholar at the Mises Institute, explains why mankind should abolish governments, why we don't need them to protect us from foreign countries or from each other and why the problems of overfishing and ocean pollution would best be solved with free markets and property rights.

06/17/09 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show

Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses how the Iranian election news is dominated by state-run media, Iran's high voter turnout that was thought to favor opposition candidates - who had surprisingly poor showings - and Ahmedinejad's pronouncement in Russia that the U.S. empire is economically unsustainable.

06/17/09 – Philip Weiss – The Scott Horton Show

Investigative journalist Philip Weiss discusses Netanyahu's right-wing biblical rhetoric in response to Obama's groundbreaking Cairo speech, the U.S. media's long-awaited questioning of Israeli settlements, Israel's accelerating departure from Western values and the sub-human living conditions forced on Gaza residents.

06/16/09 – Robert Murphy – The Scott Horton Show

Robert P. Murphy, Mises Institute scholar and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal, explains how FED monetary policy created speculative bubble that led to Great Depression, the historical basis for doubting Milton Friedman's "the FED didn't do enough" theory of the Depression, negative results of government purchasing "excess" agricultural production, Hoover's undeserved reputation as a laissez faire "hand's off" president and how cherry-picking...

06/16/09 – Patrick Doherty – The Scott Horton Show

Patrick Doherty, Deputy Director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, discusses the Iranian government crackdown that reinforces the perception of electoral fraud, the popular Iranian discontent with autocracy, the dearth of legitimate polling in Iran that increases uncertainty and how Ahmedinejad's tough negotiating with the U.S. is seen by some as the Persian equivalent of Nixon going to China.

US News’ Hate Speech Kills One Million-Plus

So, the Brownshirts at U.S. News and World Report want to ban "hate speech" and have the state "round up" any American deemed to cross that line. (Never-you-mind the 1st, 5th and 10th amendments. The Constitution, far from being the basis of all law in our society, is a joke of a long-dead letter, and we all know it.) Well I just wanted to get a head start here and recommend to any federal prosecutors out there wishing to make their stripes and move up in the world that there is an open and...

06/12/09 – Daniel Luban – The Scott Horton Show

Daniel Luban, writer for IPS news via Jim Lobe’s blog, discusses the neocon preference for Ahmadinejad over his moderate rivals, the aborted attempt by congressional leaders to fast-track sanctions just prior to Iran’s election, the continuance of 'Obama is a secret Muslim' as a staple of right-wing propaganda and how a viable Palestinian state requires the dismantling of Israeli settlements.

06/12/09 – Winslow T. Wheeler – The Scott Horton Show

Winslow T. Wheeler, Director of the Straus Military Reform Project, discusses the fight between Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Congress over the Pentagon budget, the neglect of U.S. combat training in favor of expensive weapons systems, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst study of military spending and job creation and how Congress would rather chase Pentagon pork than perform its oversight obligations.