Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the government's persecution of middle-aged quilt maker Rita Hutchens in supposedly Constitution-loving Idaho; local police acting like an army of occupation in a foreign country; and how you can donate to support Will's continuing efforts to chronicle police brutality and corruption.

Eric Margolis, journalist and author of American Raj, discusses the results of Pakistani elections; the relatively poor showing of cricket star and anti-corruption champion Imran Khan; the Pakistani army's heavy losses while fighting a US proxy war in the northwest tribal areas; probable US influence on key Pakistani appointments under new prime minister Nawaz Sharif; why Muslims really want Sharia law; and the US retreat from Afghanistan.

Jim Bovard, author of Public Policy Hooligan, discusses the IRS's targeting of conservative nonprofit groups; a brief history of presidential administrations that used the IRS to combat political opponents; the terrible tax laws written by Congress; and why the earned income tax credit is a fraud-riddled, stealth-welfare abomination.

Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern discusses the scores of Guantanamo prisoners being denied the right to "escape" by starving themselves to death; how Obama could close Guantanamo - if he really wanted to; using civil disobedience to effect political change; why Americans remain almost completely ignorant of Israel's attack on the USS Liberty in 1967; and Mearsheimer and Walt's incomplete analysis of the Israel lobby.

Blogger Marcy Wheeler discusses the DOJ's surreptitious collection of Associated Press phone records after two reporters scooped the White House on the foiled "UndieBomb 2.0" plot; the Saudi undercover infiltrator (on the payroll of the British and Saudis) at the center of the alleged AQAP terrorism plot; the Obama administration's war on (unflattering) leaks and confidential media sources; and the biometric ID proposal in the new immigration bill. (Transcript below) Scott Horton interviews...

Ralph Hutchison, coordinator of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, discusses the three nuclear weapons protestors facing long prison sentences for symbolically defacing a building at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge; the incredibly poor security at nuclear weapons facilities; why the US still has thousands of weapons on hair-trigger alert decades after the Cold War; and the judge's refusal to accept the protestors' "Nuremberg defense," that citizens must prevent their...