David Mizner, a novelist and freelance journalist who writes about US foreign policy, discusses his article "The Effort To Exonerate Team USA for the Rise of ISIS."

David Krajicek, a contributing editor of The Crime Report and co-editor of Crime & Justice News, discusses his article "America's Guilt Mill" about the thousands of innocent Americans wrongfully convicted of "lesser" crimes, and why groups like the Innocence Project don't help them get exonerated.

Daniel McAdams, director of the The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, discusses the upcoming Syria peace talks in Geneva, and why the opposition to the Assad government will be represented by Jaysh al-Islam - an ally of Al Qaeda.

David Vine, associate professor of anthropology at American University in Washington, D.C., discusses how the US's "empire of bases," spread across at least 147 countries, are being used by special operations forces to enforce and maintain hegemony across the Middle East and Africa.

Kelley Vlahos, a Washington, D.C.-based freelance reporter and contributing editor for The American Conservative, discusses the wasted billions of dollars the US has spent training Afghanistan's security forces, and why they still aren't capable of fighting the Taliban on their own.

Barry Lando, author of Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, from Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush, discusses the stupid decisions made before, during and after the first Gulf War (1991) and how they started the US on the path toward the current Global War on Terror.