05/24/16 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show

Patrick Cockburn, an award-winning journalist with The Independent, discusses ISIS’s military setbacks in Syria and Iraq as government forces and Shia militias converge on Fallujah – an ISIS stronghold only 40 miles from Baghdad that was captured in 2014....

04/21/16 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show

Patrick Cockburn, journalist and author of Chaos and Caliphate, discusses the permanent stalemate within the Iraqi government; the incentive of national and rebel forces to exaggerate their numbers; and why the US can’t hope to win a war on terrorism without...

01/12/16 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show

Patrick Cockburn, a Middle East correspondent for The Independent, discusses the Arab Spring’s hopeful beginning and disastrous outcome in every country (except Tunisia) where a democratic uprising threatened the established autocracy. Podcast: Play in new...

09/11/15 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show

Patrick Cockburn, a Middle East correspondent for The Independent, discusses how ISIS gained control of half of Syria’s territory; rumors that Russia is building a military presence to support Assad; and why war will continue in Iraq and Syria for the...

02/19/15 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show

Patrick Cockburn, a columnist and author of The Rise of Islamic State: Isis and the new Sunni Revolution, discusses the Islamic State’s fight to the death in Mosul; why Iraqi Sunnis fear Shia militias even more than Isis’s draconian rule; and the publicity...