Chase Strangio, an ACLU staff attorney representing whistleblower Chelsea Manning, discusses why Manning is facing indefinite solitary confinement during her 35 year sentence in a military prison for such infractions as using expired toothpaste and possessing magazines.

Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst, discusses the revived tensions between the US/NATO and Russia as both sides prepare for war in Ukraine, where the proto-fascist Right Sector is gaining power.

Robert Higgs, Senior Fellow in Political Economy for the Independent Institute, discusses how the current extended period of Fed-induced low interest rates have encouraged risky investor behavior and a "false recovery" from the last recession in 2009.

David Bromwich, Professor of Literature at Yale, discusses how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his "marionettes" are intervening in US politics to an unprecedented degree by demanding the obedience of Congress to Israel in their effort to undermine Obama and destroy the Iran nuclear deal.

Brad Hoff, Managing Editor of Levant Report, discusses former DIA director Michael Flynn's confirmation that the White House deliberately backed the radical Islamic factions within the Syrian insurgency, including Al Qaeda - which amounts to treason at the highest level of US government.

Scott Paul, Oxfam America's senior humanitarian policy advisor, discusses the desperate humanitarian crisis in Yemen where an intense bombing campaign by a Saudi-led coalition has left the country in ruins.

Christian Appy, an author and professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, discusses the powerfully enduring myth of the US's "merciful ending to the good war," culminating in the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 70 years ago.