M.J. Rosenberg, former Senior Foreign Policy Fellow at Media Matters Action Network, discusses AIPAC's loss of support from American Jews, even while it maintains a choke-hold on Congress.

Dahr Jamail, an investigative journalist and author, discusses the incomprehensible 180 degree turn in US foreign policy as Obama talks of a new Iraq War that could easily spread into Syria - this time on the side of the Assad government.

Journalist Thomas C. Mountain picks up where he left off in last week's interview, discussing the genocide of Somalis; how the US creates instability in Africa to maintain political and economic control; and the virtually unknown Gayle Smith - President Obama's "quiet consigliere" on Africa affairs.

Justin Pavoni, an Air Force pilot and conscientious objector, discusses why post-occupation Afghanistan will look much like Iraq does now.

Mitchell Prothero, a foreign staff journalist with McClatchy DC, discusses the rash of new abductions in Syria including the kidnapping and execution of American journalist James Foley; why US airstrikes can't defeat the Islamic State; and how the massacre of Sunnis in an Iraq mosque could renew the deadly civil strife of 2006-2007.

Eric Margolis, an internationally-syndicated columnist and author of American Raj, discusses the accusations that Russia has invaded Ukraine with an aid convoy, and whether the US's Russia policy is a result of careless stupidity or devious malice.