Dahr Jamail, an investigative journalist and author, discusses Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's fight for his political and physical life, and the intervention of US and Iranian forces.

Elizabeth Goitein, co-director of the Brennan Center for Justice's Liberty and National Security Program, discusses the bipartisan privacy board's endorsement of NSA internet spying as both legal and effective.

Max Blumenthal, author of Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, discusses how the Israeli government purposefully withheld information about the three dead Israeli teenagers in order to whip the public into a frenzy and turn what should have been a limited police action into a military reprisal against Hamas.

David Stockman, author of The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America, discusses his articles "Sarajevo Is The Fulcrum Of Modern History: The Great War And Its Terrible Aftermath" and "Keynesian Myths, Monetary Central Planning and The Triumph of The Warfare State."

Jason Ditz, editor for Antiwar.com, discusses Israel's collective punishment of Palestinians who may or may not have been responsible for the death of three Israeli teenagers.

Gareth Porter, an award-winning investigative journalist and historian, discusses why the US is demanding Iran reduce its number of centrifuges, and the Iranian desire to shake off sanctions and join the world economy.

Gene Healy, vice president at the Cato Institute, discusses how the "successful" first Gulf War in 1991 led to the ongoing crisis in Iraq today.

Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the "no refusal" sobriety checkpoints for the Fourth of July weekend in Oregon, where motorists who refuse a Breathalyzer test will forcibly have their blood removed for testing.

Conn Hallinan, a columnist for Foreign Policy in Focus, discusses the imperial divide-and-conquer strategy at play in the Middle East, from the Ottoman empire's dissolution to the present ISIS-led civil war in Iraq.