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.

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.

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.

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.”

Bojan Budimac, a Serbian journalist based in Turkey, discusses the possible suspects and likely reactions to the bombing in Ankara, Turkey that killed nearly 100 people. Here's the article he wrote up for us.

Allison Deger, the assistant editor of Mondoweiss.net, discusses the dramatic increase in violence in the West Bank as Palestinians protest in a "day of rage" and Netanyahu declares "all-out war against Palestinian terrorism."

Jason Stapleton, a nationally syndicated libertarian radio host, discusses why the US government uses its resources to build bigger bureaucracies in the Pentagon and State Department rather than fight terrorism.