Jeffrey Tucker, publisher and executive editor of Laissez-Faire Books, discusses why public institutions have no creative capacity or ability to innovate; the poor alternatives to public schools in our crippled free marketplace; how governments severely limit the transit of people and goods across borders in the so-called age of globalism; the boring repetitiveness of US foreign policy; and the millions of blissfully-ignorant Americans.

Retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern discusses the still-disputed question "why do they hate us;" how post-WWII US foreign policy is geared toward maintaining wealth and resource disparity; why a global military empire just doesn't make economic sense; the US's diminishing control of the Middle East; the military's claim that Guantanamo prisoner suicides are "asymmetrical warfare;" Hillary Clinton's mastery of doublethink (recall her "Freedom Speech" during which Ray McGovern is dragged out by...

Jen Marlowe, author of The Hour of Sunlight: One Palestinian's Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker, discusses the mainstream media's blackout of the "secret" revolution in Bahrain; the international human rights activists participating in the Witness Bahrain initiative; how Bahrain's majority Shia population is battling for equal rights against a despotic monarchy - not engaging in sectarian warfare against the Sunni minority; why Jihan Kazerooni gave up her investment banking career for...

IPS News journalist Adam Morrow discusses the protests in Egypt against the movie Innocence of Muslims; rumors that US-based Coptic Christians produced the movie to foment religious strife; the Muslim Brotherhood's extremely cautious approach to politics and current events; the difference between the minority of radical Salafist protesters (the ones singled out by Western media) and Egypt's comparatively moderate population and government; why Muslims around the world are so sensitive to...

Robert P. Murphy, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism, discusses the Federal Reserve's Quantitative Easing program; why the Fed has just decided to buy mortgage-backed securities at a 40 billion/month clip; how businesses are disguising the increased costs they must pass on to customers; Ben Bernanke's devoted service to the big banks; how interest-earning excess reserves are keeping bankrupt banks afloat and discouraging private lending; the argument that defense spending...

Alejandro Beutel, formerly of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, discusses MPAC's exposé on "America's Top 25 Pseudo-Experts on Islam;" Daniel Pipes's 2004 op-ed in which he justifies the WWII internment of Japanese Americans and calls for similar measures against Muslims; the "national security hucksters" who train law enforcement groups on the supposed dangers of Islam; successful anti-Islam propaganda from Danish cartoons to Innocence of Muslims; and how US Middle East hegemony, combined...

Eric Margolis, author of American Raj, discusses the assaults on US embassies in Libya and Egypt; the anti-Islam movie Innocence of Muslims that was apparently financed by an Israeli American; the shared propaganda techniques of Nazi Germany and today's pro-Israel extremists; why Jews should be wary of inciting bigots into Islamophobic rages; Churchill and FDR's coverup of "Uncle Joe" Stalin's massacre of Polish officers in 1940; and why WWII wasn't the "necessary" war we're all led to believe.

Anthony Gregory of the Independent Institute discusses why American conservatives are changing their minds about the War on Drugs; the hypocrisy of drug-warrior presidents (especially Obama) who previously used illegal drugs themselves; why the Democratic Party is no friend to civil liberties and the Bill of Rights; and how unjust drug laws are largely responsible for institutionalized racism and The New Jim Crow in America.