Matthew Hoh, a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy, discusses the Pakistani Taliban's killing of over 130 children in an attack in Peshawar, and how the US drone war upset relations between Pakistan's military and the northwest tribal regions - ultimately leading to the Peshawar attack.

Douglas Lucas, a writer, researcher, and journalist based in Texas, discusses "hactivist" writer Barrett Brown's sentencing hearing in a Dallas federal court, where he faces up to 8.5 years in prison on a plea deal. He was arrested in September 2012 after posting YouTube videos threatening an FBI agent, and a litany of charges was then added by prosecutors who accused Brown of colluding with the Anonymous hacker collective in criminal acts, rather than just covering their findings as a...

Jeffrey Kaye, a psychologist active in the anti-torture movement, discusses the CIA-contracted psychologists who largely designed the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" torture program, and their link to the same CIA department that brought us MKULTRA.

Andrew Cockburn, author of Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy, discusses the unholy merger of the Israel lobby and the military-industrial complex; how NATO expansion enriches Lockheed; and his article "Game On: East vs. West, again," about the renewing Cold War with Russia.

Tyler Cullis, a Policy Associate with the National Iranian American Council, discusses his article on the Iranian nuclear talks, "A Cautionary Tale: How the Mistaken Claims of One Hawkish Think-Tank Put at Risk the Prospects for a Nuclear Deal."