Jason Ditz, news editor for Antiwar.com, discusses why the "moderate" US-backed Free Syrian Army threatened to slaughter US special forces advisors on the ground in Syria; why Donald Trump thinks 38 billion in US aid to Israel isn't enough; and the continuing wars in Libya and Yemen.

Yakov Hirsch, a professional poker player and writer at Mondoweiss.net, discusses preeminent American Jewish journalist/activist Jeffrey Goldberg's strange silence on Israel's recent negative news coverage; and how Netanyahu's shameless antisemitism propaganda is poisoning Israeli society.

Gareth Porter, an award-winning journalist and historian, discusses the US-Russia agreement on a ceasefire in Syria; the Pentagon's bureaucratic opposition to friendly Russia relations; and why there aren't any moderate "good guys" in Syria for the US to support - never mind the interventionists claiming otherwise.  

Todd Gitlin, a professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University, discusses the very real risks of nuclear war and why nobody's finger - least of all Donald Trump's - should be on the nuclear trigger.

Shashank Bengali, South Asia correspondent for the LA Times, discusses why the Iranian nuclear agreement reached early this year hasn't created the economic and jobs recovery promised by President Rouhani; and the likely return of anti-American hard-line politicians like Ahmadinejad if conditions don't improve before elections in 2017.

Jacob Hornberger, founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses the terrible presidential choices we have in Trump and Clinton; why we need to keep pushing the libertarian agenda of ending the war on drugs and foreign interventionism; and Jacob's many upcoming speaking events in September.

Patrick Cockburn, journalist and author of Chaos & Caliphate: Jihadis and the West in the Struggle for the Middle East, discusses the possibility of a peace agreement in Syria or further-escalating war as Turkey enters the fray in an effort to stop a Kurdish state from taking hold, and the US, Russia, and Iran back proxy forces in pursuit of their own agendas.

Gareth Porter, an award-winning journalist and author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, discusses the Obama administration's support for Syrian regime change even though they knew it would become a disastrous sectarian war; and the gaggle of ideologues, defense contractors and military officials intent on starting new wars and escalating old ones for fun and profit.

Nasser Arrabyee, a Yemeni journalist based in Sanaa, discusses why the war in Yemen is likely to worsen after Secretary of State John Kerry's visit to Saudi Arabia, where he pledged US support for the kingdom and gave the Saudis an implicit pass on war crimes.

Rick Sterling, an investigative journalist and member of Syria Solidarity Movement, discusses the propaganda campaign to keep Syrian regime change policy on the table long enough for Hillary Clinton to get elected president and get a real war started; and how Bernie Sanders can help get deluded leftists off the Clinton bandwagon and focused on stopping the neocons and liberal hawks running US foreign policy.

Andrew Cockburn, author of Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins, discusses how the US is aiding and abetting Saudi Arabia's brutal war in Yemen by supplying planes, bombs and missiles in a $60 billion arms sale - the largest in US history.

Reuters journalist Jonathan Landay discusses the US's inability to stop Shi'ite militias from massacring Sunni civilians when Falluja was retaken from the Islamic State in June; and why a future campaign to take Mosul could result in the sectarian-cleansing of Sunnis from the city.