Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), discusses how NATO, under US leadership, has expanded to Russia's borders since the Soviet Union's disintegration; and how we risk nuclear war by meddling in Ukraine - a country most American's couldn't care less about and which has nothing to do with US national interests.

Gareth Porter, an award-winning independent investigative journalist, discusses how US policy in Syria has changed since Russian intervention shored up the Assad government's hold on power.

Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, discusses the guest speakers scheduled for his upcoming "Israel's Influence: Good or Bad for America?" conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, March 18, 2016.

Derek Davison, a Washington-based researcher and writer on international affairs and American politics, discusses Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders's foreign policy positions on the Middle East, and how they compare with those of ultra-hawk Hillary Clinton.

Sheldon Richman, now a regular columnist at Antiwar.com, discusses the end to Rand Paul's disappointing Presidential campaign, and who is likely to win the Republican nomination.

Daniel Davis, a retired Lt. Col. in the US Army, discusses his firsthand account of why the 2009 "surge" in Afghanistan was a failure, and why throwing more US troops at it now isn't going to help either.

Ira Chernus, professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, discusses his TomDispatch article "America's New Vietnam in the Middle East: A Civil War Story About the Islamic State Might Spark a Peace Movement."