Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, discusses why he is optimistic that an agreement on Iran's nuclear program can be reached soon; and why the calls for war will intensify if the deal falls apart.

Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer and Executive Director of The Council for the National Interest, discusses the Israeli government's shift to the far right after elections, during which Benjamin Netanyahu denounced a two-state solution and shamelessly pandered to racists.

Trevor Aaronson, author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism, discusses how the FBI created a terrorist out of Sami Osmakac; a mentally ill, broke Florida man who was provided money and weapons by at least one FBI informant in an elaborate counterterrorism sting operation.

Mandy Smithberger, Director of the Straus Military Reform Project at POGO, discusses why the $1.4 trillion F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program isn't ready for prime time and won't be anytime soon.

Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), discusses President Obama's foreign policy advisers who are actively trying to sabotage the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine; and why the media can't seem to remember that Victoria Nuland orchestrated the Ukrainian coup.

Gareth Porter, an award-winning independent journalist, discusses the remaining obstacles to an Iranian nuclear deal; why Israel's Likud government and its supporters are trying so hard to sabotage a deal; and the history of bad intelligence assessments about Iran's (non-existent) nuclear weapons program.

James Ostrowski, author of Progressivism: A Primer on the Idea Destroying America, discusses the muddied meanings of political ideologies like liberal, progressive, and libertarian; the welfare state's perverse incentive structure; and how liberty-loving liberals were tricked into becoming government-worshiping progressives.