Peter Van Buren, a regular contributor at TomDispatch.com, discusses how the balance of power in the Middle East is changing as US-Iran relations emerge from a 30-year cold war.

Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer and Executive Director of The Council for the National Interest, discusses why Turkey would rather fight the Kurds than help the US against ISIS; and Israel's "$100 Million Gamble" on lobbying Congress to defeat approval of the Iran nuclear agreement.

Grant F. Smith, founder of IRMEP.org, discusses the poll showing that most Americans oppose compensating Israel for the Iran nuclear deal; and why Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard should not be released from prison.

Patrick Cockburn, a Middle East correspondent for The Independent, discusses the joint assault on Fallujah, as Shia militias join Iraqi army units in an attempt to retake the ISIS-held city.

Marjorie Cohn, a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, discusses her article, "The U.S. Aids and Abets War Crimes in the Philippines."

Sheldon Richman, chairman of the Center for a Stateless Society, discusses why "hate crimes" are simply Orwellian thought crimes; and how the politicized definition of "terrorism" protects the US and its allies while vilifying its enemies.

Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst, discusses how the Iran nuclear agreement (JCPOA) effectively takes a US or Israeli attack on Iran off the table - much to the disappointment of the Washington Post's neoconservative editorial writers.