Jonathan Marshall, an independent researcher living in San Anselmo, California, discusses the Obama administration's failure to broker a peace deal in Syria due to its neocon-like focus on regime change.

Peter Van Buren, a tomdispatch.com regular and author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, discusses why presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is right about the 2003 Iraq War being one of the worst foreign policy blunders in American history.

Jim Lobe, founder of lobelog.com, discusses the public disappearance of neoconservative "prince of darkness" Richard Perle, and his apparent parting-of-ways with the American Enterprise Institute.

Investigative journalist Will Potter discusses the highly-secretive Communications Management Units within US prisons, and why the government doesn't want you to know how prisoners are treated there.

Kelley Vlahos, a Washington, D.C.-based freelance reporter and The American Conservative contributing editor, discusses Egypt's brief, failed bid for democratic reform and its latest US-aided authoritarian regime.

Eric Margolis, an internationally-syndicated journalist and author of American Raj, discusses how George W. Bush's invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq helped derail Turkey's economic and diplomatic success story.