Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the media's spin of witness statements in the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; Alejandro Natividad's brave non-violent resistance to police bullying in La Quinta, California; and how social media is effecting the public's perception of law enforcement.

Peter Hart, the activism director at Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, discusses the latest media hit piece on journalist Gary Webb, who reported on the links between the CIA, the Contras, and the crack epidemic in the 1980s.

Attorney and author John Whitehead discusses his article "Hollow Justice and Courts of Order in an Age of Government-Sanctioned Tyranny."

Robert A. Pape, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, discusses what motivates terrorism against the US; Obama's forward-looking strategy in Iraq; why ISIS appeals to ordinary Sunnis; and the Chicago Project on Security & Terrorism.

Shane Bauer, a reporter in Mother Jones' San Francisco bureau, discusses his investigation of a SWAT team training competition in the San Francisco area and his article "The Making of the Warrior Cop."

Patrick Cockburn, an award-winning journalist with The Independent, discusses the US airdrop to resupply Kurdish fighters battling ISIS for control of the Syrian border town of Kobani; Turkey's reluctance to help the Kurds; and the US's ridiculous anti-ISIS coalition.

Andrew Cockburn, author of Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy, discusses his article "Flying Blind: The U.S. air-power lobby, botched bombing missions, and bootless combat."