Eric Margolis, an internationally syndicated columnist, discusses Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's tenuous hold on power; the dispute in Kashmir; and the forgotten war in Afghanistan.

Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the militarized police response to protests against Officer Darren Wilson's fatal shooting of Michael E. Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

Jason Ditz, editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the ceasefire in Gaza and the flimsy humanitarian justification for US intervention in Iraq/Kurdistan.

Sheldon Richman, vice president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses the "watershed event" that was WWI, ushering in an era of severely curtailed civil liberties and a nationalized economy, both of which persist 100 years later.

Karel Van Wolferen, a Dutch journalist and retired professor at the University of Amsterdam, discusses how big Western media outlets control the world's information and distort the facts about Ukraine and Russia.

Nebojsa Malic, a regular columnist at Antiwar.com, discusses the glaring double standard on US and Russian intervention in Ukraine; and why the MH-17 crash has disappeared from the mainstream media.

Patrick Cockburn, an award-winning journalist at The Independent, discusses ISIS's advances in Syria and Iraq; the poor performance of the Kurdish Peshmerga; and why the Yazidi humanitarian crisis looks to be another propaganda stunt to restart US intervention in Iraq.

Sandy Tolan, a TomDispatch regular, discusses how Israel and the US blew many chances to avoid war in Gaza.

Ted Snider, a writer on US foreign policy and history, discusses the US's hands-off approach to ISIS as long as the fighting is against Iran-allied Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.