Sam Husseini, the communications director for the Institute for Public Accuracy, discusses Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders's "screwy Mideast strategy" and the rest of his barely-articulated foreign policy.
08/26/15 – Sheldon Richman – The Scott Horton Show
Sheldon Richman, chairman of the Center for a Stateless Society, discusses the historical roots of libertarian class analysis and why it shouldn't be conflated with Karl Marx's well known writings on class conflict.
08/25/15 – Michael Swanson – The Scott Horton Show
Mike Swanson, author of The War State and founder of Wall Street Window, discusses the recent stock market turmoil and why the Fed might not be able to bail out investors this time around.
08/25/15 – Reese Erlich – The Scott Horton Show
Reese Erlich, author of Inside Syria: The Back Story of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect, discusses his recent visit to Iran where he learned that most Iranian Jews support the nuclear deal and disagree with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's denunciations.
08/24/15 – Sonali Kolhatkar – The Scott Horton Show
Sonali Kokhatkar, the founder, host, and producer of KPFK's radio program "Uprising," discusses the US government's deep involvement in the Saudi-led war on Yemen; the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe and imminent starvation of Yemenis; and why the usual countries that proclaim themselves "defenders of human rights" are remaining silent.
08/24/15 – Yousaf Butt – The Scott Horton Show
Yousaf Butt, Senior Scientific Adviser to the British-American Security Information Council in London, discusses why an Iran nuclear inspections process at Parchin whereby Iranians collect samples (under close IAEA supervision) isn't that big of a deal, despite what the AP and Republicans think.
08/21/15 – Tariq Rauf – The Scott Horton Show
Tariq Rauf, Director on the Board of Atomic Reporters, Director of the Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Program at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), former Head of Verification and Security Policy Coordination, Office reporting to the Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency, discusses the reality of the IAEA's procedures for inspecting managed-access sites such as the Parchin military facility in Iran, why he believes the AP relied on a...
08/20/15 – Katie Taylor – The Scott Horton Show
Katie Taylor, coordinator of Reprieve's Life after Guantanamo Project, discusses the fate of Shaker Aamer, a UK resident who has been held in Guantanamo for 14 years without charge or trial even though he has been cleared for release twice.
08/20/15 – Tyler Cullis – The Scott Horton Show
Tyler Cullis, a policy associate with the National Iranian American Council, discusses AP reporter George Jahn's very misleading article about the IAEA's method of investigating Iran's Parchin facility, and AP's questionable journalistic practices on the story.
08/19/15 – Philip Giraldi vs. Michael Pregent – The Scott Horton Show
Philip Giraldi and Michael Pregent argue about whether or not Iran was responsible for the explosively formed penetrators (EFPs) that allegedly killed 500 US soldiers in Iraq, and the consequences of lifting sanctions on Iran as part of the nuclear agreement. Philip Giraldi is a former CIA officer and Executive Director of The Council for the National Interest. Michael Pregent is a former intelligence advisor to Gen. David Petraeus and Executive Director of Veterans Against the Deal.
08/19/15 – Brandon George Whitehill – The Scott Horton Show
Brandon George Whitehill, an intern at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, discusses the foreign policy views of the 2016 presidential candidates.
08/18/15 – Gene Healy – The Scott Horton Show
Gene Healy, a vice president at the Cato Institute and author of The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power, discusses why Donald Trump was lying when he proclaimed himself "the most militaristic" of the presidential candidates.
08/18/15 Gareth Porter: the Iran Nuclear Agreement
Gareth Porter, an award-winning investigative journalist and historian, discusses why the Iran nuclear agreement won't usher in a new era of sensible US foreign policy in the Middle East, and how Obama's occasional anti-Iran rhetoric limits his administration's diplomatic flexibility.
08/17/15 – Patrick Smith – The Scott Horton Show
Patrick Smith, author of Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century, discusses his article "The U.S.-Russia “phony war”: How Washington warmongers could bring us from stalemate to catastrophe."
08/17/15 – Yousaf Butt – The Scott Horton Show
Yousaf Butt, Senior Scientific Adviser to the British-American Security Information Council in London, discusses why, in the hypothetical case of Iran scrubbing clean suspected illicit nuclear sites before inspectors can arrive, "it’s impossible to hide nuclear work in 24 days – or 24 years."















