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.

Jim Lobe, Washington Bureau Chief of IPS News, discusses the split between hard-line neoconservatives and AIPAC on the tactics of opposing an Iranian nuclear agreement.

Michael Gould-Wartofsky, author of The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement, discusses his Tomdispatch article "The Wars Come: A Five-Step Guide to the Police Repression of Protest from Ferguson to Baltimore and Beyond."

Charles Goyette, author of The Dollar Meltdown, discusses how Ron Paul's 2008 presidential campaign turned a new generation on to the liberty movement; and Goyette's documentary-in-progress on Ron Paul, titled "Empire of Lies."

Mitchell Plitnick, Program Director at the Foundation for Middle East Peace, discusses his article "Debunking the Opposition to the Iran Framework."

Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer and Executive Director of The Council for the National Interest, discusses the shooting deaths of two gunmen who attacked Pamela Geller's anti-Muslim event in Garland, Texas.

Eric Margolis, an internationally syndicated columnist and author of American Raj, discusses his article "The Ghosts of Vietnam Should Haunt US - but Don't."