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.

Jordan Smith, an award-winning investigative journalist with The Intercept, discusses Rodney Reed's stay of execution in Texas as evidence of his innocence mounts - even though the state is still eager to kill him.

Alan J. Kuperman, Associate Professor of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, discusses how Samantha Power, Susan Rice, and Hillary Clinton embroiled the US in a bogus humanitarian war in Libya with disastrous consequences.

Alfred McCoy, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discusses his TomDispatch.com article "The Real American Exceptionalism: From Torture to Drone Assassination, How Washington Gave Itself a Global Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card."

Grant F. Smith, director of research at the Institute for Research, Middle Eastern Policy, discusses IRMEP's lawsuit seeking disclosure of CIA files on Israel's covert nuclear weapons program, including the illegal diversion of weapons-grade uranium from the NUMEC nuclear plant in Pennsylvania. American taxpayers are currently on the hook for a half-billion dollar cleanup effort at NUMEC - presumably Israel should pick up part of the tab.

Jeffrey Tucker, Chief Liberty Officer and founder of Liberty.me, discusses his new monthly interview show "Eye on the Empire" with Scott Horton starting Feb. 24th; how the behemoth Department of Homeland Security could be broken up into smaller bureaucracies; and the Liberty.me global liberty community.

Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses how the dismissal of David Hicks' terror conviction could end Guantanamo's military commission trial system; and how Congress's "Detaining Terrorists to Protect America Act of 2015" is designed to keep Guantanamo operating forever.