Philip Giraldi, executive director of the Council for the National Interest, discusses Ehud Barak's bogus intel, the danger of Israel getting us into a war with Iran, supporting al Qaeda-ish rebels in Syria, parallels to the disasters in Libya and Iraq and the pathetic weakness of Barack Obama.

Thomas C. Mountain , American journalist in Eritrea, discusses the empire's economic interest in the Horn of Africa, the dying sock-puppet tyrant and tyranny in Ethiopia, the CIA's scramble to find a replacement for the reportedly-comatose Meles Zenawi, Gayle Smith's warmongering from the White House, Plan B, the new naval installations to be put in in Djibouti, the US-Ethiopian-AU proxy war in Somalia and the major nationalist rebel army massing in Ethiopia.

Muhammad Sahimi, USC professor and writer for PBS and Antiwar.com, discusses the widespread effects of the "targeted" U.S. sanctions against Iran, massive shortages in vital medicines due to central bank sanctions, massive dislocations due to oil sanctions, the resulting benefits for the IGRC and comparisons to the anti-Iraq sanctions of the 1990s.

Sheldon Richman, senior fellow at the Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses his article "Obama, Romney Are Reckless on Iran," Obama's sabotage of his own possible Iran deals, and why Romney is probably even worse.

Ali Winston from ColorLines.com discusses brutality and murder inflicted on Californians by their police "protectors," from Aneheim to Oakland.

John Glaser, assistant editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the Bush Jr. administration's decision to turn against Iran and Syria instead of allying with them against al Qaeda after 9/11, the stupidity of the Israel-first neocons in and out of government, U.S. support for al Qaeda in Syria, and the complete lack of any real vetting of which rebels are getting the arms.

Karen Kwiatkowski, Pentagon whistleblower and LewRockwell.com regular, discusses the lack of veteran support for the militarist Tea Party, the march to war in Syria, hard times coming for Americans after having blown all their money on empire, how terrible Bob Goodlatte is, the bureaucrat's fatal conceit, the wisdom of individual voters versus the stupidity of the ubiquitous opinion poll.

Naomi Roht-Arriaza, professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, discusses her article "Deadly Aid," about the unintended consequences of American foreign aid passed out without care as to who will receive it, from Colombia to Ethiopia, and whether or not we should just stop.

Marcy Wheeler, AKA "emptywheel," discusses the Obama administration's unprecedented war against whistleblowers, the government's admission that keeping secrets from the American people is more important to them than keeping it from the Chinese or any other foreign state actor as revealed by its pretension that whistleblowing to the newspaper is even worse than leaking secrets to a foreign government, the renewed internal clampdown on secrets in the government,