Douglas Lucas, a writer at WhoWhatWhy.org, discusses "hacktivist" journalist Barrett Brown's sentencing hearing, that could get him 8 1/2 years in prison for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act among other questionable charges. Transcript: SH: Hey Douglas how are you doing? DL: Hey I'm fine. The Government has claimed - I mean prosecutor Heath has claimed quote 'The Government did not prosecute Mr Brown for political purposes', the judge has stated quote, 'What took place is not going...

Peter Van Buren, author of We Meant Well and a frequent TomDispatch contributor, discusses how the US military-industrial complex profits from resupplying Iraq's army with equipment that is too expensive to maintain and of little operational utility - essentially corporate welfare for General Dynamics, producer of M1 tanks.

Kathy Kelly, coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, discusses her impending 3-month prison sentence for carrying a loaf of bread across a line while protesting the US drone war at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri.

William Hartung, Director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy, discusses the extensive list of problems with the "overpriced, underperforming and unnecessary" F-35 combat aircraft.

Nebojsa Malic, a regular columnist for Antiwar.com, discusses President Obama's claim that the US is upholding "the principle that bigger nations can't bully the small" regarding Russia and Ukraine; and why Ukraine might be deliberately losing military offenses in a bid to gain more US aid and intervention.

Gareth Porter, an award-winning investigative journalist and historian, discusses the suspicious death of an Argentinian prosecutor who claimed Iran was involved in the 1994 Jewish community center bombing in Buenos Aires; and what the trial of CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling has revealed about Operation Merlin and the CIA's assessment of Iran's nuclear program.

Sheldon Richman, vice president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses how to retain individual freedoms while being vigilant against terrorist attacks in his article "The Open Society and its Worst Enemies."

Dan Sanchez, director of the Mises Academy, discusses Ludwig von Mises's lectures on how capitalism empowers people to rise above poverty and servitude through private ownership of the means of production.