Gabriel Schivone, a writer and humanitarian volunteer in Tucson, discusses his article "Gaza in Arizona: How Israeli High-Tech Firms Will Up-Armor the U.S.-Mexican Border."

Jim Lobe, chief of the Washington bureau of IPS News, discusses Republican House Speaker John Boehner's protocol-breaching invitation for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress - conveniently timed to bolster Netanyahu's reelection chances and sabotage an Iranian nuclear deal.

Eric Margolis, journalist and author of American Raj, discusses Charlie Hebdo and the free speech double standard; French President Hollande's popularity-gaining (and blowback-generating) invasions all over the Muslim world; and what comes after the death of Saudi King Abdullah.

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.

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...

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.