Multimedia journalist Carlos Miller discusses his arrest and court ordeal stemming from photographing police in public, cops who use wiretap laws to arrest videographers (because of the audio capability), the use of trumped-up charges (that are dropped or greatly reduced when contested) for intimidation and why the Anthony Graber 'wiretapping' case is so blatantly unjust even the MSM sides against the cops.

Reason columnist Tim Cavanaugh discusses the Georgia/Russia/South Ossetia conflict of 2008 and the Georgia-biased misinformation spewed by the Obama and McCain campaigns, former McCain foreign policy advisor Randy Scheunemann‘s conflict of interest, how the U.S. media continued to get the South Ossetia story wrong for months, evidence that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s attack was a spontaneous 'loose canon' event and not the result of an April Glaspie-style wink and nod and how...

David Bromwich, professor of literature at Yale University, discusses the American style of sleepwalking from one war to another, The Atlantic writer Jeffrey Goldberg‘s effective role as public relations frontman for Israel, the ill-defined and loosely applied terms 'existential threat' and 'breakout capability,' Hillary Clinton’s inadvertent admission of how tenuous are U.S. claims on Iran’s nuclear threat, the fallacy of a limited war with Iran, how the simultaneous counterterrorism and...

Mike Gogulski, founder of the Bradley Manning Support Network, discusses the progress being made on fundraising for Manning's legal defense, another below-the-belt hit piece from the New York Times, the help of partner site Courage to Resist and Manning's knowledge and appreciation of his support network.

Peace activist Cindy Sheehan discusses the still-elusive 'noble cause' soldiers are supposedly dying for, why consumers of mainstream media might reasonably conclude the Iraq War is over, the GI Bill’s under-utilization and why the election of a Democratic president prompts the antiwar movement to take a four year vacation.

Anthony Weller, editor of First Into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War, discusses his father's (George Weller) WWII reporting for the Chicago Daily News, George's defiance of Gen. MacArthur's travel restrictions in post-war southern Japan, firsthand accounts of radiation poisoning (Disease X) in Nagasaki, the severe mistreatment of prisoners in Japanese POW camps and how military censorship and George's haphazard record-keeping kept the...

Jason Zanon, founder of the quirky biographical website Executed Today (in the Find A Death model), discusses the facts behind Antiwar.com columnist Jon Basil Utley‘s father's execution by firing squad in a Soviet gulag, the top 10 executions of the 2000”²s, Thomas Edison's pioneering of the electric chair during his PR campaign against Tesla's alternating current, Cameron Willingham‘s execution in a Texas prison for the questionable arson murders of his three children and how groups of...

Andrew Bacevich, Professor of International Relations at Boston University and author of Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War, discusses the end of (military) history, the bipartisan business of war-making, the destructive patriotism of Washington power elites, why military power is useless at effecting positive social change and how formerly mainstream war skeptics have been relegated to the lunatic fringe.

Jacob Hornberger, founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses the enduring myth of nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki to save the lives of countless U.S. soldiers, how FDR's rejection of conditional surrender prolonged the war in Europe and the Pacific, how the US empire kicked into high gear after WWII, why purposely killing civilians is a war crime unless the Air Force does it, the firebombing of Japan that inflicted more casualties than Fat Man and Little Boy combined,...

Kevin Zeese, Executive Director and co-founder of VotersForPeace, discusses why the Antiwar movement needs to dissociate from the major political parties, how popular pressure really does affect change, the cozy relationship between corporate media and the defense industry and how creating an effective antiwar movement requires rethinking previous failures and realistically assessing the (very formidable) opposition.

Rep. Barbara Lee discusses how how it felt being the only Congressperson (including Ron Paul) to vote against the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force,  how the AUMF continues to be used for justifying all manner of military actions, the Constitutional duty of Congress to declare war, the failure of public schools to teach foreign affairs or geography well and the need to maintain sanctions and reestablish diplomacy with Iran in order to 'play it safe' on their nuclear program.

Glen Ford, founder of Black Agenda Report, discusses the obstacles to a Left-Right antiwar coalition, why pro-peace conservatives remain a marginal faction, irreconcilable differences between black America and the racist elements of the tea party right and how Obama destroyed the Left's ability to dissent against government misdeeds.