Jason Ditz, editor at Antiwar.com, discusses President Obama's efforts to change the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) so he can dramatically broaden the war on terror.

Joshua Hughes, an American expat living in Costa Rica, discusses why he is going on a hunger strike until Israel's siege of Gaza ends.

Nebojsa Malic, a regular columnist at Antiwar.com, discusses the US media's immediate conclusion that Vladimir Putin was responsible for downing Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 despite a lack of proof and the possibility that the Ukrainian government shot it down.

Jonathan Landay, a national security and intelligence reporter for McClatchy Newspapers, discusses why the Obama administration knew the Islamic State was growing but did little to counter it.

Peter Van Buren, author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, discusses the Obama administration's asserted authority to assassinate American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, and the death of due process and the Fifth Amendment.

McClatchy Foreign Staff journalist Mitchell Prothero discusses ISIS's war on holy shrines in the cradle of civilization.

Sheldon Richman, vice president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses the proper historical context to view Israel's war on Gaza and why the media ignores the Hamas ceasefire proposal.

Michael Scheuer, former Chief of the CIA's Bin Laden Issue Station, discusses the one-sided US-Israel relationship; why Israel's "right to exist" is meaningless rhetoric; and what motivates Al Qaeda and other Muslim extremists.

Grant F. Smith, director of IRMEP, discusses the many organizations that lobby the US government on behalf of Israel.

Gareth Porter, author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, discusses the latest developments in US-Iran nuclear negotiations.

David Stockman, author of The Great Deformation, discusses how US intervention in WWI led to a century of American interventionist foreign policy and the adoption of Keynesian economics.

Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the police killing of Staten Island resident Eric Garner, who dared to assert his self-ownership to an NYPD officer after breaking up a fight.

Ray McGovern, a retired CIA officer turned political activist, discusses the anti-Russian propagandists working to pin the Malaysian airlines disaster on Vladimir Putin - whether he was responsible or not. Transcript: Alright you guys welcome back to the show, The Scott Horton Show, I'm Scott Horton. You know that hardly ever happens, it's on a random kind of thing on the playlist, the computer picks, but so that's kinda nice playing Stiff Little Fingers for our Irish friend Ray McGovern on...

Maria McFarland, Deputy US Program Director for Human Rights Watch, discusses the HRW report on human rights abuses in US terrorism prosecutions.

Eric Margolis, author of American Raj, discusses Israel's slaughter of Palestinian civilians in another "mowing the lawn" operation, and Israel's role in creating Hamas in the first place.