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.

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.

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.

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.

Independent journalist John Knefel discusses the Taliban-Bergdahl prisoner swap aftermath and the troubling US drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen.

Grant F. Smith, director of IRMEP, discusses the very different obituaries for two spies - one, John Hadden, a former CIA station chief in Tel Aviv during the 1967 War; the other, Israeli Shin Bet Chief Avraham Shalom.

Peter van Buren, author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, discusses the blowback (from the government) for writing his book and the 10 reasons that airstrikes in Iraq are a terrible idea.

Trevor Timm, executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, discusses Congress's change of heart on passing legislation mandating real reforms for the NSA (if the Senate cooperates).

Blogger Marcy Wheeler discusses the just-released Awlaki memo that justifies the Obama administration's drone strike assassination of a US citizen in Yemen.