Nathaniel Penn, a correspondent for GQ, discusses his article "The Untold Story of the Texas Biker Gang Shoot-Out," and the ridiculous court process playing out for the 177 bikers jailed afterward.

Greg Grandin, an author and history teacher at New York University, discusses Henry Kissinger's disastrous foreign policy legacy in the Middle East and beyond.

Eric Margolis, author of American Raj: Liberation or Domination, discusses the "inevitable" and "perfectly predictable" US blundering in Syria, and how Russia is taking action to support the Assad government.

James Bamford, author of several books on the NSA, discusses how authorized NSA eavesdropping on Greece's Vodafone telecom, supposedly to prevent terrorism during the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, morphed into a massive spying operation that targeted top Greek government officials for 10 years afterward, and may have cost a Greek telecom employee his life.

Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer and Executive Director of The Council for the National Interest, discusses the neocon foreign policy agenda; Charlie Rose's interview of Putin on Syria; and West Point professor William Bradford's inflammatory article on executing antiwar Americans and declaring total war on Muslims.

James North, a writer for Mondoweiss.net, discusses the New York Times' non-coverage of the "extrajudicial execution" of 18-year old Palestinian Hadeel al-Hashlamoun at an Israeli checkpoint in Hebron.