Patrick Smith, author of Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century, discusses his article "The U.S.-Russia “phony war”: How Washington warmongers could bring us from stalemate to catastrophe."

Yousaf Butt, Senior Scientific Adviser to the British-American Security Information Council in London, discusses why, in the hypothetical case of Iran scrubbing clean suspected illicit nuclear sites before inspectors can arrive, "it’s impossible to hide nuclear work in 24 days – or 24 years."

Charles Goyette, a New York Times bestselling author and national radio commentator, discusses the American people's disgust for the mainstream political establishment, and how they are being misled by the false populism and economic solutions promised by Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.

John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer and torture whistleblower, discusses his earlier erroneous defense of the CIA's torture program; his 30 month prison sentence for violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act; and how former CIA Director George Tenet's secrecy kept the FBI out of the loop on terrorist cells in the US - and possibly allowed 9/11 to happen.

Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer and Executive Director of The Council for the National Interest, discusses Turkey's betrayal of the US on ISIS and the Kurds; and the Iran nuclear deal opponents who are rehashing long-ago debunked claims that Iranian EFPs killed US soldiers in Iraq.

Chase Strangio, an ACLU staff attorney representing whistleblower Chelsea Manning, discusses why Manning is facing indefinite solitary confinement during her 35 year sentence in a military prison for such infractions as using expired toothpaste and possessing magazines.

Robert Higgs, Senior Fellow in Political Economy for the Independent Institute, discusses how the current extended period of Fed-induced low interest rates have encouraged risky investor behavior and a "false recovery" from the last recession in 2009.