Jeffrey Miron, director of economic studies at the Cato Institute, discusses an economic and moral case for legalizing cocaine and heroin.

Adam Morrow, an IPS News journalist based in Cairo, discusses the latest events in Egypt where the noose is still tightening around freedom.

Ray McGovern, a retired CIA officer turned political activist, discusses the World Russia Forum 2014 - "Advancing a Constructive Agenda for U.S.-Russia Relations;" why it's time for Germany to declare independence from US influence; and how NATO expansion betrays the agreement reached between George H.W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev at the Malta Summit.

Jonathan Landay, a national security and intelligence reporter for McClatchy Newspapers, discusses his article "Obama strategy to beat Islamic State likely to draw U.S. into years of conflict;" and the marked philosophical differences between Al Qaeda and ISIS.

Sheldon Richman, vice president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses his rebuttal to Daniel McCarthy's article in The American Conservative that asserts that a liberal democratic society requires empire.

Dan Sanchez, Director of the Mises Academy, discusses his article "Squandered Lives and Snuffed Out Genius: Mises, Tolkien, and World War I."

Eric Margolis, an internationally syndicated columnist and author of American Raj, discusses the ceasefire deal in Ukraine and the reasons for US intervention there.

Ramzy Baroud, author of My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story, discusses why Gazans are celebrating a "victory" over Israel despite sustaining heavy losses in life and property from Operation Protective Edge.

Jack Matlock, a career diplomat and author of Superpower Illusions, discusses the Neo-Nazi forces being deployed by Kiev to fight in eastern Ukraine; and NATO's seeming intent to start a war with Russia.