Gareth Porter, an award-winning journalist and historian, discusses the IAEA's renewed focus on a long-ago-debunked document that supposedly provides evidence of a clandestine Iranian nuclear weapons program.
10/20/14 – Gene Healy – The Scott Horton Show
Gene Healy, a vice president at the Cato Institute, discusses his article "The Forever-War President: Obama's 'Transformational' War Powers Legacy."
10/17/14 Gareth Porter: the Ayatollahs’ Fatwas Against WMD
Gareth Porter, author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, discusses his article "When the Ayatollah Said No to Nukes."
10/17/14 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Ditz, news editor for Antiwar.com, discusses the latest events in Libya.
10/17/14 – Jonathan Landay – The Scott Horton Show
Jonathan Landay, a McClatchy Foreign Staff journalist, discusses the New York Times report about chemical weapons found in Iraq between 2004-2011; and why the Bush administration is still wrong about active WMD programs - the supposed reason for invasion.
10/16/14 – Peter Van Buren – The Scott Horton Show
Peter Van Buren, a TomDispatch regular and author of We Meant Well, discusses the Seven Worst-Case Scenarios in the Battle with the Islamic State.
10/16/14 – Scott McConnell – The Scott Horton Show
Scott McConnell, a founding editor of The American Conservative, discusses why the Middle East doesn't matter very much to American security and shouldn't dominate our foreign policy.
10/15/14 – Anand Gopal – The Scott Horton Show
Anand Gopal, author of No Good Men Among the Living, discusses the psychological damage of US drone strikes in Pakistan; and the depraved warlords preparing to take power in Afghanistan once US forces depart.
10/15/14 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Ditz, news editor of Antiwar.com, discusses ISIS's takeover of Iraq's Anbar Province, including a key air base.
10/13/14 – Dahr Jamail – The Scott Horton Show
Dahr Jamail, a Truthout staff reporter, discusses Baghdad's vulnerability to an ISIS siege; why the US can't get its Middle East allies to cooperate in the fight against the Islamic State; and his article "Iraqi Doctors Call Depleted Uranium Use 'Genocide.'"
10/10/14 – Will Grigg – The Scott Horton Show
Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses his article "'Crush the Seed of Ishmael': A 'Final Solution' to the 'Muslim Problem.'"
10/09/14 – Clive Stafford Smith – The Scott Horton Show
Clive Stafford Smith, founder and Director of Reprieve, discusses the annual World Day Against the Death Penalty; the 70 year old man on death row in Pakistan for blasphemy; and the Guantanamo force-feeding trial.
10/09/14 – Michael Klare – The Scott Horton Show
Michael Klare, a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College, discusses his article "Obama's New Oil Wars: Washington Takes on ISIS, Iran, and Russia."
10/07/14 – Mitchell Prothero – The Scott Horton Show
Mitchell Prothero, a McClatchy Foreign Staff journalist, discusses the allegations that US air strikes in Syria targeted a French agent who defected to al Qaida; and why Turkey and Saudi Arabia aren't helping to fight the Islamic State.
10/07/14 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Eric Margolis, an internationally syndicated columnist and author, discusses the crisis in the "Hermit Kingdom" of North Korea; the Hong Kong protests; and why the Obama administration still hasn't put together a coherent policy on Iraq and Syria.















