Ramzy Baroud, a US-Arab journalist, media consultant, and author, discusses Israel's different excuses over the years for their never-ending blockade on Gaza - which has nothing to do with radical Islam or Hamas.

Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), discusses former CIA deputy director Michael Morrell's suggestion that the US military should engage in state-sponsored terrorism to make Russia, Iran, and Assad amenable to a US-approved regime change in Syria.

Daniel Lazare, author of The Frozen Republic: How the Constitution Is Paralyzing Democracy, discusses the US's imposition of a no-fly zone in northern Syria to protect Kurdish allies fighting Syrian government-allied forces; and how this marks a dangerous escalation in the war.

Daniel Davis, a retired Lt. Col. in the US Army, discusses his firsthand account of life in Iraq from Irbil in Kurdistan, where the people want an end to war and sectarian strife; and why the supposedly imminent attack on Mosul could be delayed by refugee concerns and a lack of operational agreement between the many factions involved.

Bette Dam, a Dutch journalist and author of A Man and A Motorcycle: How Hamid Karzai Came to Power, discusses her work on a biography of Taliban leader Mullah Omar; how the US can spend 15 years in Afghanistan without making any progress on a military or political resolution; and the media's overblown estimation of the Taliban's strength and unity.

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.