“US Diplomacy, a Dangerous Proposal”, by Conn Hallinan from Foreign Policy in Focus is discussed on this episode of the Scott Horton Show. The United States’s so called “Responsibility to Protect” and the Doctrine of Humanitarian intervention,

“Obama DOJ drops charges against alleged broker of Libyan Weapons”, Kenneth Vogel’s new article about Mark Turi, an arms dealer that was the target of a DOJ case with alleged links to the Clinton State Department and the CIA.

Jordan Smith, an award-winning investigative journalist with The Intercept, discusses why the FBI and DOJ are determined to continue using certain controversial forensic practices like bite-mark analysis – even though they are based on “junk science” a...

Mario Murillo, Professor and Chair of the Radio, Television, Film department in the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University, discusses why the FARC peace agreement failed a popular vote in Colombia,

“The Return of Torture: the CIA and Congress oppose Trump’s push but the public may not.” is a new The American Conservative article by Kelley Vlahos, Scott’s guest on today’s episode. The Senate’s report on torture, the CIA’s response,

Andrew Bacevich talks about his new article for tomdispatch.com,  “The National Security Void”. During the first presidential debate, Donald Trump’s answer regarding the concept of first use of nuclear weapons revealed lack of depth of knowledge on the...

“The Washington Post is Wrong”, but Scott asks: about what this time? Trevor Timm, The Guardian writer, lawyer, and Executive Director of Freedom.press, talks about his new article subtitled “Edward Snowden Should be Pardoned”. PardonSnowden.org,

David Noriega, reporter for Buzzfeed News, talks about Act for America and Brigitte Gabriel, and his new article: “Meet the Charming, Terrifying Face of the the Anti-Islam Lobby”. David talks about Gabriel and Act for America’s organization efforts in ...

Veteran journalist and UN correspondent Joe Lauria updates Scott on the latest from Syria and Iraq. The attack on Mosul is likely to begin in mid October, and Islamic state may have deserted large portions of the city. If true,

Daniel Lazare at consortiumnews.com and author of “The Frozen Republic” talks about Hillary Clinton’s new ISIS fighting scheme with Scott. Daniel talks about Clinton’s nondescript and undefined “intelligence surge” and her desire to kill al-Baghdadi in...