Matthew Hoh, a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy, discusses the Obama administration's decision to train 5000 "moderates" to fight both the Assad government and Islamic rebel groups in Syria; and the consequences of deposing secular dictators in the Middle East.

Blogger Marcy Wheeler discusses how the USA Freedom Act could effect the NSA's ability to spy on Americans' phone records, and why she doesn't support the legislation.

M.J. Rosenberg, a commentator on Israel and the Middle East, discusses Israel's departure from anything resembling democracy, and why Republican super-donor Sheldon Adelson doesn't see any problem with that.

Independent journalist Charlotte Silver discusses Rasmea Odeh's guilty verdict for immigration fraud in a Detroit federal court. The fraud charge was based on her failure to disclose her 1969 conviction on terrorism charges in Israel. However, the Detroit judge wouldn't allow the jury to hear that Odeh was tortured for 25 days before she signed a false confession.

Jim Powell, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, discusses his article "What We Can Learn From Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder: The Case for Staying Out of Other People's Wars."

Eric Margolis, journalist and author of American Raj, discusses why the US and Russia are headed toward a new Cold War on the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's destruction.

McClatchy Foreign Staff journalist Mitchell Prothero discusses reports that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was critically injured in US airstrikes; why Iran would make a much better US ally than Saudi Arabia; and "what if" scenarios in Syria.