Andrew Cockburn, author of Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins, discusses his classic 1980s book The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine that told the truth about poorly designed and unreliable Soviet weapons systems, while mainstream analysts hyped the Soviet menace - driving sales for US defense contractors.

Jason Ditz, news editor for Antiwar.com, discusses the ongoing Saudi-led, US-supported, war against Yemen.

Patrick Cockburn, a Middle East correspondent for The Independent, discusses the internal and external factors dividing the Turkish nation, and why its presidential system is only a few steps away from a dictatorship.

Philip Weiss, founder of mondoweiss.net, discusses columnist Jeffrey Goldberg's assertion that Palestinian anti-Semitism - not the Israeli occupation - is to blame for the conflict; and why American Jews that vigorously defend civil rights in America turn a blind eye to Jim Crow style institutional discrimination in Israel.

Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer and Executive Director of The Council for the National Interest, discusses Senator Dianne Feinstein's husband's campaign to outlaw free speech for University of California students who dare to discuss the BDS movement or criticize Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land.