Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg discusses his recent arrest during Hiroshima Day protests at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; why land-based nuclear weapons have no good reason to exist; the effects of nuclear winter; and how ICBMs equipped with conventional warheads (so the US can kill anyone in the world in 1/2 an hour) could start a nuclear war.

Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the US embassy closures in the Middle East due to some vague Al Qaeda terrorism threat; allegations that the White House is threatening the families of CIA officers to shut up about the Benghazi incident; and John McCain's new lows on kowtowing to the Israel lobby in the US Senate.

Ted Snider, a writer for Znet and Counterpunch, discusses how the Obama administration uses the trappings of democracy to effect "silent coups" abroad; the manufactured popular protests designed for regime change, from Iran in 2009 to Egypt today; and how WikiLeaks revealed that the State Department was well aware the 2009 Honduran "constitutional crisis" was nothing but a coup d'état endorsed by Washington.

Nuclear physicist Yousaf Butt discusses the Wall Street Journal's fearmongering on Iran's nuclear program; why the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty needs replacing; how Iran's moderate President Rouhani is frustrating the neoconservatives; and the obvious outlines of a US-Iran nuclear agreement.

Daniel McAdams, Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute For Peace and Prosperity, discusses John McCain's eagerness to go to war with Russia; how "pro democracy" NGOs manufacture regime change in other countries; the US's role in Egypt's military coup; and the ins and outs of the Benghazi scandal.

Greg Mitchell, blogger for The Nation and author of Atomic Cover-up, discusses his revisionist history on President Truman's decision to nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the US's longstanding nuclear first strike policy; the top military figures against dropping the bomb on Japan in WWII; the government's decades-long suppression of facts on radiation sickness and civilian casualties; and why Russia's entry in the war was the real tipping point to Japan's ultimate surrender.

Reza Marashi, Research Director for the National Iranian American Council, discusses the latest inflammatory mistranslation of an Iranian president's comments about Israel; how moderate Hassan Rouhani could help mend Iran's relations with the West; and the Obama administration's bad-faith negotiating style.