Daniel McAdams, Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute For Peace and Prosperity, discusses John McCain's eagerness to go to war with Russia; how "pro democracy" NGOs manufacture regime change in other countries; the US's role in Egypt's military coup; and the ins and outs of the Benghazi scandal.

Greg Mitchell, blogger for The Nation and author of Atomic Cover-up, discusses his revisionist history on President Truman's decision to nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the US's longstanding nuclear first strike policy; the top military figures against dropping the bomb on Japan in WWII; the government's decades-long suppression of facts on radiation sickness and civilian casualties; and why Russia's entry in the war was the real tipping point to Japan's ultimate surrender.

Patrick Cockburn, a journalist for The Independent, discusses the increasing violence in Iraq; Kurdistan's progress towards independence; the lesser-evilism of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki; why the US continues to aid the floundering Syrian rebels; and what really happened during the Libyan and Egyptian regime changes.

Sheldon Richman, vice president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses his decidedly not-boring article "Frédéric Bastiat and Subjective Marginal Utility;" why economics is really all about human interaction; and why the minimum wage argument misses the point.

Reza Marashi, Research Director for the National Iranian American Council, discusses the latest inflammatory mistranslation of an Iranian president's comments about Israel; how moderate Hassan Rouhani could help mend Iran's relations with the West; and the Obama administration's bad-faith negotiating style.

Philip Giraldi, executive director of the Council for the National Interest, discusses the Feds raiding ordinary Americans doing web searches for pressure cookers and backpacks; sabotaging a US-Iran deal on Iran's nuclear program; why government is a racket; why Bradley Manning did the right thing but deserves (some) prison time anyway; and his latest article "Spinning Yarns in the Mainstream Media."

Alexa O'Brien, the unofficial transscriptionist of Bradley Manning's trial, discusses the sentencing phase after Manning's conviction on 20 charges; the government's three classified damage assessments being used against him; the appearance that Judge Lind (who was promoted during the trial) works for the prosecution; and the controversy on just who leaked the Garani airstrike video, and when.