Julian Borger, the diplomatic editor for The Guardian, discusses his article "West 'ignored Russian offer in 2012 to have Syria's Assad step aside.'"

Eli Clifton, a reporting fellow with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute, discusses the Islamophobia madness infecting the Republican presidential candidates, and why the problem is getting worse 14 years after 9/11.

Gareth Porter, an award-winning journalist and historian, discusses the IAEA inspections of Iran's Parchin nuclear site which have failed to find anything incriminating - while the MSM fearmongering continues unabated.

Bojan Budimac, a Serbian journalist based in Turkey, discusses the recent history of Turkey's Kurdish problems; the failure of peace talks with PKK; and the pipeline politics at the heart of the Syrian conflict.

McClatchy journalist Jonathan Landay discusses the potential for US-Russia military cooperation in Syria against the Islamic State, as the Obama administration slightly backs down from its "Assad must go" stance.

Adam Johnson, an associate editor at AlterNet and frequent writer for FAIR.org, discusses his article "Down the Memory Hole: NYT Erases CIA’s Efforts to Overthrow Syria’s Government."

Mike Swanson, founder of Wall Street Window and author of The War State, discusses his new book The Stock Market Bubble Bust Of 2015 And Beyond (the Kindle version is free at Amazon.com for a limited time).