Trevor Timm, executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, discusses the fake reforms in Congress' NSA bills; the millions of innocent people caught in the NSA's practice of collecting phone records two or three "hops" away from the suspect; and why Rep James Sensenbrenner's NSA reform bill is the best of the lot.

Syndicated columnist Eric Margolis discusses the 528 Muslim Brotherhood supporters sentenced to death by an Egyptian judge; continuing US financial support for Egypt despite army chief al-Sisi's purge of political dissidents; the possibility of an armed uprising by Egyptian army defectors; and whether or not Israel will join the war in Syria.

Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the belligerent Americans itching for conflict with Russia and Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan's increasingly desperate behavior ahead of elections.

Gareth Porter is an award-winning independent journalist and historian. This is the eighth part in a series of interviews on Porter's new book Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. Porter discusses the CIA's flawed assessment of Iran's nuclear program; re-using the "fix the facts around the policy" strategy from the Iraq war; the good guys in the CIA like Paul Pillar; why wrongheaded National Intelligence Estimates go unchallenged; and the high-level coverup of a...

Gareth Porter is an award-winning independent journalist and historian. This is the seventh part in a series of interviews on Porter's new book Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. Porter discusses the mystery of the MEK-delivered "smoking laptop" documents, the circumstantial case that the documents were Mossad forgeries based on flawed assumptions on Iran's uranium enrichment and Shahab-3 missile programs; and the German intelligence officials who advised the...

Robert Blumen, an independent enterprise software consultant based in San Francisco, discusses his article "Say's Law and the Permanent Recession" at Mises.org; the macroeconomic balance of supply and demand; Keynes' thoughts on recessions and stimulus spending; the merits of social support in a kleptocratic economy; and Robert Higgs' "regime uncertainty" theory.

Sheldon Richman, vice president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses Robert Kaplan's article "In Defense of Empire" in The Atlantic; why the US uproar over Russia's anti-gay law is only making it worse for gay Russians; how the NED and other "pro-democracy" groups make legitimate opposition parties look like American stooges; and whether team Obama blundered or conspired in Ukraine.

Gareth Porter is an award-winning independent journalist and historian. This is the sixth part in a series of interviews on Porter's new book Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. This interview covers the IAEA's failed attempts to "catch" Iran violating the NPT and pursuing nuclear weapons, and debunks the many accusations leveled at Iran's nuclear program over the years by Olli Heinonen, David Albright, and other Iran-hawks.

J.P. Sottile, journalist and founder of NewsVandal, discusses whether Ukraine's revolution is about democracy and EU integration or the corporate pillaging of Ukraine's resources; Chevron's 50-year shale gas lease and Big Agribusiness' plans to make Ukraine Europe's breadbasket; and how a small, incestuous neocon cabal fomented Ukraine's conflict and stands to profit from the aftermath.

Gareth Porter is an award-winning independent journalist and historian. This is the fifth part in a series of interviews on Porter's new book Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. Porter discusses the blown opportunity to reconcile with Iran after 9/11 and work together against the al-Qaeda and Taliban common enemies; the incredibly naive, magical thinking of the neocon gang that planned and executed the Iraq invasion/occupation; Iran's doomed-to-failure nuclear...

Gareth Porter is an award-winning independent journalist and historian. This is the fourth part in a series of interviews on Porter's new book Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. Porter discusses how Israeli Prime Minister Yizhak Rabin created an Iranian nuclear bogeyman to give himself political cover for negotiations with the PLO; Iran's long-range (conventional) missile development program for deterring an Israeli attack; Netanyahu's initial dovishness on Iran...

Gareth Porter is an award-winning independent journalist and historian. This is the third part in a series of interviews on Porter's new book Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. This interview focuses on the US political origins of the Iranian nuclear scare; how the post-Cold War peace dividend was thwarted by the military-industrial complex; and why Martin Indyk's dual-containment policy on Iraq and Iran served only to benefit Israel.

Jack Matlock, a former US ambassador to the Soviet Union, discusses some diplomatic lessons Obama should learn from Ronald Reagan in the Cold War era; why the US continues to pick a fight with Russia when there's no need for hostility; and resisting calls that "something ought to be done" about conflicts in foreign countries.

Nicolas J.S. Davies, author of Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq, discusses the 35 countries where the US has supported fascists, drug lords and terrorists; the quest for global hegemony over all nations from Afghanistan to Zaire; and why the big three state sponsors of terrorism (Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan) are all US allies.

Gareth Porter is an award-winning independent journalist and historian. This is the second part in a series of interviews on Porter's new book Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. Porter discusses Iran's unknown internal politics, the post-1979 Islamic government's fatwa on WMD; common-sense reasons that oil-rich Iran would want nuclear power; and Iran's latent deterrent effect.