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.

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.