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."

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.

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.

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.