06/16/10 – Robert Parry – The Scott Horton Show

Robert Parry, founder of ConsortiumNews.com, discusses the mainstream media's persecution of journalist Gary Webb for daring to investigate the CIA/contra 1980s drug trafficking connection, how the empowered right wing media and associated personal-attack groups have created a generation of self-censoring and timid journalists, alternative media that can contest conventional wisdom but can't compete with the MSM budget-wise and the recent hit pieces on classified documents leaker SPC. Bradley...

06/16/10 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show

Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the lies and half truths in Israel’s propaganda campaign against the Gaza aid flotilla, the media’s narrative change from 'Israel attacks aid ship' to 'Terrorists ambush Israeli soldiers,' how outlandish Israeli accusations capture media attention while rebuttals are mostly ignored, military censorship of news stories in Israel proper and evidence that the Gaza blockade is intended as collective punishment and not to 'keep the weapons...

06/15/10 – Kelley B. Vlahos – The Scott Horton Show

Featured Antiwar.com columnist Kelley B. Vlahos discusses her coverage of the mainstream Democratic interventionist CNAS conference, the unprecedented politicization of military policy, public relations stunts disguised as war strategy initiatives and why think tanks that function only as echo chambers are not part of the reality-based community.

06/15/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses the impending 'Iraq 2006 moment' Gen. McChrystal faces in Afghanistan, the political 'fix' discussed at the June CNAS conference: Republican pressure on Obama to scrap the 2011 withdrawal timetable, the dogged American determination to continue unwinnable wars and the difference between Iran’s NPT comprehensive safeguards obligations and its temporary voluntary compliance with the much-ballyhooed Additional...

06/14/10 – Pierre Tristam – The Scott Horton Show

Pierre Tristam, editor of Flaglerlive.com, discusses his article 'From Times Square to Jacksonville: When Terrorism Is a Double-Standard,' scant press coverage of the firebombing outside a Jacksonville, FL mosque, bigotry and ignorance at work in local government and the lucrative business of Islamic terrorism fearmongering.

06/14/10 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show

Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the brief and unproductive first session of Iraq's new parliament, Muqtada al-Sadr's feud with Nouri al-Maliki, Iran's considerable influence in Iraqi politics and why US efforts to export democracy often end in disaster.

06/09/10 – Daniel Ellsberg – The Scott Horton Show

Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, discusses Specialist Bradley Manning’s arrest for passing classified information to Wikileaks, the unfortunate negative connotations of the 'whistleblower' moniker, how Obama has decriminalized torture, 260,000 possible sources of embarrassment for the State Department and the Obama administration’s eager prosecution of whistleblowers.

06/08/10 – Lew Rockwell – The Scott Horton Show

Lew Rockwell, founder and Chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, discusses the American cultural acceptance of torture, Ron Paul's ability to instill libertarian ideals in young people and the uphill battle to convince Americans that Iran is not a threat.

06/08/10 – Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show

The Other Scott Horton (no relation), international human rights lawyer, professor and contributing editor at Harper’s magazine, discusses Israel’s failure to uphold the mark of a (somewhat) benevolent state: a high threshold for using deadly force against civilians, Israel’s purposeful destruction of  Gaza’s economy to encourage deserters, the ignoble end of Helen Thomas’s estimable career in journalism, the 'good faith' defense for CIA torturers dreamed up by Dick Cheney and justified by...

06/07/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses the CIA drone operators who believe their own jobs are counterproductive, how the Obama administration caters to domestic public opinion by extending policies that sound tough even though they are ineffective, US intelligence gathering on Iran that focuses on worst-case scenarios rather than plausible outcomes and why US military expansionism can't keep pace with the newly radicalized populations it...