Nick Pinto, reporter for the Village Voice, discusses Chris Hedges, Dan Ellsberg, et al.'s lawsuit asking the court to enjoin the president from exercising the powers in the National Defense Authorization Act to detain Americans indefinitely with military power, the judges defiant tone toward the government's position and preliminary temporary injunction, Obama's argument that a simple Boumediene habeus hearing will be good enough for you, the Milligan case after the Civil War, and the lack of...

Philip Weiss of the MondoWeiss blog discusses his recent trip to Israel and Palestine where he spoke with Sheldon Adelson, Romney's bomb at the King David Hotel, the spectacle of American presidential candidates bowing and scraping before the leaders of a foreign state, the martial law atmosphere in East Jerusalem, the impossibility of a two-state solution now, and the leading "intellectuals" like Thomas Friedman and David Brooks who were never held accountable for their role in the Iraq...

Philip Giraldi, executive director of the Council for the National Interest, discusses Ehud Barak's bogus intel, the danger of Israel getting us into a war with Iran, supporting al Qaeda-ish rebels in Syria, parallels to the disasters in Libya and Iraq and the pathetic weakness of Barack Obama.

Thomas C. Mountain , American journalist in Eritrea, discusses the empire's economic interest in the Horn of Africa, the dying sock-puppet tyrant and tyranny in Ethiopia, the CIA's scramble to find a replacement for the reportedly-comatose Meles Zenawi, Gayle Smith's warmongering from the White House, Plan B, the new naval installations to be put in in Djibouti, the US-Ethiopian-AU proxy war in Somalia and the major nationalist rebel army massing in Ethiopia.

Sheldon Richman, senior fellow at the Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses his article "Obama, Romney Are Reckless on Iran," Obama's sabotage of his own possible Iran deals, and why Romney is probably even worse.

Muhammad Sahimi, USC professor and writer for PBS and Antiwar.com, discusses the widespread effects of the "targeted" U.S. sanctions against Iran, massive shortages in vital medicines due to central bank sanctions, massive dislocations due to oil sanctions, the resulting benefits for the IGRC and comparisons to the anti-Iraq sanctions of the 1990s.