Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses his article "Deep State America," about the secret, permanent government actually in power behind the scenes that is unaffected by elections or the democratic will of the people.

Trevor Thrall, a senior fellow for the Cato Institute's Defense and Foreign Policy Department, discusses the "restraint constituency" of Americans who are generally non-interventionist in foreign policy, and how they can rein in the interventionist tendencies of America's political leaders.

Dan Grazier, a journalist and former Marine Corps captain, discusses why the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter may never be ready for combat, even though it is the most expensive procurement program in Pentagon history.

Jeffrey Kaye, a psychologist and writer on torture, discusses his new book Cover-up at Guantanamo: The NCIS Investigation into the "Suicides" of Mohammed Al Hanashi and Abdul Rahman Al Amri.

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.

Stanley L. Cohen, a lawyer and human rights activist who has done extensive work in the Middle East and Africa, discuses why the US government sabotaged his negotiations with the Islamic State to free humanitarian aid worker Peter Kassig, who was executed in 2014; and why a Hillary Clinton presidency would be bad news for Palestinians.

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.

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.

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.