McClatchy Foreign Staff journalist Mitchell Prothero discuses the modern Iraqi state's dissolution; Obama's request for $500 million in aid for the "moderate" Syrian opposition; why the Kurd's won't keep control of oil-rich Kirkuk easily; and the possibility that the US will provide air support for an Iranian invasion of Iraq.

Kara Dansky, Senior Counsel with the ACLU's Center for Justice, discusses the ACLU's report on police militarization; why multi-juristictional task forces think they are above the law and not subject to public records requests; and the "threat matrix" automated decision making for SWAT deployments.

Patrick Cockburn, an award-winning journalist with The Independent, discusses why a unity government in Iraq is very unlikely to succeed; why the Sunni rebellion will be very sorry they enlisted the help of radical jihadist shock troops; and how the new Iraqi civil war, as bad as it is, could get much worse.

Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses how the high desert highwaymen (a.k.a. High Desert Drug Enforcement Task Force) are terrorizing motorists along a stretch of I-84 in western Idaho, all in the name of fighting the war on drugs.

Independent journalist Rania Abouzeid discusses her article "The Jihad Next Door: The Syrian roots of Iraq's newest civil war."

Blogger Marcy Wheeler discusses the US Supreme Court's unanimous decision that cops need a warrant to search phone data, and the possible legal problems facing the NSA's phone dragnet if the SCOTUS decision is applied to them as well.

Michael Schwartz, author of War Without End: The Iraq War in Context, discusses how US intervention in Iraq has been, and continues to be, influenced by a desire to control Iraq's oil production.

Dahr Jamail, an investigative journalist and author, discusses Kurdistan's possible independence from Iraq; ISIS's attempt to isolate Baghdad; and the total lack of cohesion in US foreign policy.

Jason DItz, editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the stepped-up involvement of Syria and Iran in Iraq's civil war and the latest news in the Middle East.