Eric Margolis, an award-winning syndicated columnist, discusses how Ukraine war-fever resembles pre-WWI militarism; the American and British banks that benefit from an IMF bailout; Israel's connection to Ukraine's large Jewish population and ruling class; Russia's ability to cause supply-chain problems for US troops in Afghanistan; and why the top Afghan presidential candidates all look like CIA assets.

John Glaser, editor of Antiwar.com, discusses John Kerry's surprising admission that Israel is to blame for sabotaging Israel-Palestine peace talks; how Jewish settlements in the West Bank hurt Israel's security and make a Palestinian state untenable; and the Likud Party's commitment to "the realization of Zionist values."

Jonathan Landay, a national security and intelligence reporter for McClatchy Newspapers, discusses the Senate report exposing the CIA's lies about the effectiveness and severity of their enhanced interrogation techniques (EIT) program; the shaky foundations of Justice Department legal opinions authorizing torture; the neoconservative group that pushed the Saddam-9/11 theory, leading to false confessions of prisoners under torture; and the Senate report's controversial declassification...

Daniel Larison, a senior editor at The American Conservative, discusses the pro-Russian protests in eastern Ukraine; the thousands of Russian troops gathered at Ukraine's border, poised for invasion; US benevolent global hegemony vs. the real world; and NATO's mission of "keeping the Germans down, the Russians out, and the Americans in."

Jason Leopold, author of News Junkie, discusses what the Senate Intelligence Committee report says about CIA black sites; the secret CIA prisons in Poland, Guantanamo, Diego Garcia and Afghanistan; the experimental torture on Abu Zubaydah conducted before John Yoo's infamous torture memos; and the huge increase in FOIA requests since the Snowden leaks.

Clive Stafford Smith, the founder and Director of Reprieve, discusses Shaker Aamer's continued detention in Guantanamo despite being cleared for release by the Bush and Obama administrations; Aamer's physical and psychological damage from severe torture and confinement; why the UK doesn't want him back; and how Guantanamo has damaged the US's reputation worldwide.

Jacob Hornberger, founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses his "Freedom vs. the State" college speaking tour with FFF vice president Sheldon Richman; the merits of Michael Swanson's The War State; and why JFK was indeed serious about reigning in the CIA after the near-cataclysmic Cuban missile crisis.