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.

Gareth Porter, an independent investigative journalist and historian, discusses two of his recent articles, "Obama won't admit the real targets of Russian airstrikes [in Syria]" and "The US Could End Saudi War Crimes in Yemen - It Just Doesn't Want To."

Cora Currier, a journalist and reporting fellow at ProPublica, discusses The Intercept's investigation of the Obama administration's kill list of terror suspects in Yemen and Somalia - based on secret military documents.

Eric Margolis, an internationally-syndicated columnist and author of American Raj, discusses President Obama's plan to keep US troops in Afghanistan indefinitely in response to the Taliban's recent military successes.

Ray McGovern, co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity and a former CIA analyst, discusses the completed Dutch investigation of flight MH17 that was shot down over Ukraine, and why the US government undoubtedly knows more about who did it than they admit.

Gareth Porter, an independent investigative journalist and historian, discusses his article “Why the U.S. Owns the Rise of Islamic State and the Syria Disaster.”

Charlotte Silver, an independent journalist in San Francisco, discusses Israel's near-daily killing of Palestinian children since October 1st as Palestinians protest their subjugation and Israelis turn more brutally violent and authoritarian - "we are the masters," says Israeli mayor Eli Dukorsky.