Adam Morrow, a Cairo-based reporter for IPS News, discusses the instability of Egypt's new quasi-democratic military dictatorship; increasing popular discontent about Egypt's terrible economy and the government's inability to fix it; and the Muslim Brotherhood's demotion to its familiar role as opposition party.

Ashley Gorski, the Nadine Strossen Fellow in the ACLU's National Security Project, discusses how a New Jersey federal judge wrongly legitimatized NYPD discrimination against Muslims and why the NYPD's exaggerated record on preventing terrorism doesn't compensate for the loss of our Constitutional rights.

Brendan O'Neill, editor of Spiked-online, discusses why Ukraine's conflict is better described as regime change than revolution; the media's characterization of Russian "meddling" versus Western "mediation;" and the dangerous precedent of overturning democratic elections with protests by a Western-backed vocal minority.

Ray McGovern, co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), discusses Chelsea Manning's award for the Sam Adams Integrity Prize of 2014; the Russian response to the US-backed coup in Ukraine; incremental NATO incursion up to Russia's borders; and Obama's hollow warnings of "consequences" for Russian actions that have already occurred.

Eric Margolis, an award-winning, internationally syndicated columnist, discusses the quick demise of the EU-brokered compromise deal for Ukraine; tracing Ukraine's civil conflicts back to WWII atrocities committed by the USSR and Germany; and Russia's so-far moderate response to the crisis.

Blogger Marcy Wheeler discusses her work with the Greenwald/Scahill/Poitras media project The Intercept; the extent of NSA data mining, which tech firms/telecoms are cooperating, and the maze of legal justifications; and why, if a government agency must spy on everyone to no good effect, it might as well be the CIA instead of the NSA.