Sheldon Richman, vice president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses his article "The War of 1812 was the Health of the State;" the origins of American empire; and why libertarians often wear rose-colored glasses when they look back at the nation's founding.

John Mueller, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, discusses the overblown threats to the American people since WWII - from a supposedly imminent Japanese land invasion after Pearl Harbor, to the current "existential" threat of terrorism.

Michael Schwartz, professor of sociology and author of War Without End, discusses his TomDispatch article "The Great Game in the Holy Land: How Gazan Natural Gas Became the Epicenter of An International Power Struggle."

David Hardy, author of This Is Not An Assault: Penetrating the Web of Official Lies Regarding the Waco Incident, discusses the passing of Mike McNulty, who doggedly pursued the truth about Waco and disproved the government's official narratives.

Philip Giraldi, Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest and a former CIA officer, discusses how Benjamin Netanyahu's highly-contentious speech before Congress on March 3rd could put the US-Israel "special relationship" to the test; and Phil's joint discussion titled "The Courage to Speak Out: How Can the US get AIPAC out of US Politics," at 7:00 pm, March 1st, at Busboys and Poets at 5th and K in Washington DC.

Daniel Haqiqatjou, a writer and lecturer on Muslims and modernity, discusses why Graeme Wood's attention-grabbing article in The Atlantic, "What ISIS Really Wants," is dangerously flawed about Islam and conveniently ignores the role of US foreign policy in creating ISIS to begin with.

Eli Clifton, a reporting fellow with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute, discusses how the MEK successfully lobbied its way off the State Department's Foreign Terrorist Organization list in 2012; and the group's continuing efforts to regime-change Iran's government.

Musa al-Gharbi, a research fellow with the Southwest Initiative for the Study of Middle East Conflicts, discusses his article "ISIL's barbaric acts are highly effective propaganda," and why a US ground invasion would be playing right into the Islamic State's hands.