Avner Gvaryahu, the Director of Public Outreach at BreakingTheSilence.org, discusses his organization's gathering of candid testimony from Israeli soldiers who witnessed the mass destruction and killing of Palestinian civilians in Israel's Operation "Protective Edge" in 2014.

Patrick Smith, author of Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century, discusses the New York Times' biased coverage of US troops operating on Ukrainian soil, and the risk of getting into a war with Russia.

Zoe Russell, the Assistant Executive Director for RAMP (Republican Against Marijuana Prohibition), discusses the surprising legislative progress Texas is making toward legalizing marijuana, and RAMP's attempt to get cops and conservatives behind House Bill 2165.

Blogger Marcy Wheeler discusses her continuing coverage of the 2015 USA Freedom Act and the bill's major flaws that still won't prevent the government from abusing civil liberties in their mass-surveillance activities.

Abdi Ismail Samatar, a Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota, discusses the history of US intervention in Somalia and that country's continuing struggle with tyranny and world-leading political corruption.

Doug Bandow, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, discusses the 100-year anniversary of the RMS Lusitania's sinking and the unrelenting propaganda campaign that got America embroiled in the disastrous first World War.