Peter Lee, editor of China Matters, discusses the possibility of a nuclear arms race in East Asia where Japan, South Korea and Taiwan could easily become nuclear powers and create their own deterrent to Chinese dominance, hastening the end of US hegemony.

Gareth Porter, an award-winning journalist and historian, discusses the agreement between Turkey and Iran to make peace in Syria, and why the Kurds will get the short end of the stick as usual.

Kelley Vlahos, a contributing editor for The American Conservative, discusses the bellicose warmongers sure to be appointed to Hillary Clinton's incoming war cabinet; and the prevailing myth that COIN doctrine and the surges in Iraq and Afghanistan were successful.

Michael Bell, a retired Air Force pilot and activist-father of a police shooting victim, discusses how he found common cause with police union boss Jim Palmer to enact a Wisconsin state law mandating independent investigations of police violence.

Jeffrey Carr, a cyber intelligence expert and CEO of Taia Global, Inc., discusses the hack of an NSA server containing powerful hacking tools and malware used to infect computers around the world; the vulnerabilities in computer and networking hardware made by US tech companies like Cisco; and how cyber warfare between the US and Russia could escalate.

Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the July 2016 Turkish coup and its aftermath; President Erdogan's purge of political opponents with no connection to US-exile and supposed coup-plotter Fethullah Gulen; and why he doesn't believe the CIA was involved.

Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses former CIA Acting Director Michael Morell's New York Times op-ed wherein he endorses Hillary Clinton for president and accuses Donald Trump of being an unwitting recruit of Vladimir Putin.

Grant F. Smith, author of Big Israel: How Israel's Lobby Moves America, discusses the Obama administration's proposal to greatly increase US aid to Israel; and Grant's federal lawsuit claiming that any such aid should be illegal since Israel is a nuclear-armed state that hasn't signed the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty.

Eric Margolis, a journalist and author of American Raj, discusses the seemingly endless and pointless US war in Afghanistan, exacerbated by the "bumbling, stumbling" Obama administration foreign policy team of Susan Rice, Samantha Power and Hillary Clinton.

Alastair Crooke, a former British diplomat and founder of the Conflicts Forum, discusses how Washington's foreign policy hawks are trying to stall an Obama-Putin agreement on Syria until Hillary Clinton is (presumably) elected so the new Cold War with Russia can proceed unabated.

Marcy Wheeler, an independent journalist and blogger who covers national security and civil liberties, discusses the just-released Presidential Policy Guidance rule book on the Obama administration's drone airstrikes, and why it doesn't provide enough congressional oversight of what still amounts to an extrajudicial assassination program.

Chris Woods, an investigative journalist and leader of the Airwars project, discusses the hundreds of Syrian civilians killed by Western coalition airstrikes in Syria, and why it's only going to get worse as the battle against ISIL moves to larger cities.

Trevor Aaronson, author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism, discusses the just-discovered evidence that the FBI had an undercover agent at Pamela Geller's 2015 "Draw Muhammad" event in Garland, Texas that was attacked by two men with assault rifles; and why it now appears the FBI should have known about the attack beforehand, and may have even instigated it.

Murtaza Hussain, a journalist with The Intercept, discusses the arrest of Washington, D.C. police officer Nicholas Young on trumped-up terrorism charges for sending $245 worth of gift cards to an FBI informant; and the FBI's years-long effort to get Young to commit an illegal act.

Jordan Smith, an award-winning investigative journalist with The Intercept, discusses why the state of Texas is about to execute Jeff Wood for a murder he didn't commit in 1996, through use of the so-called law of parties.