Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer and Executive Director of The Council for the National Interest, discusses the CIA's probably-illegal book that preemptively defends their torture program and officials from criticism and possible prosecution.

Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses the imminent release of Guantanamo's last British prisoner, Shaker Aamer, who was already cleared twice in 2007 and 2009 under presidents Bush and Obama.

Jason Ditz, news editor for Antiwar.com, discusses America's role in Yemen's war and humanitarian crisis.

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.

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

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.