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.

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.

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.

Keegan Stephan, a writer and political organizer in New York City, discusses the latest incidents of police violence and the coverups of their crimes against Americans.