Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer and Executive Director of The Council for the National Interest, discusses why the US foreign policy establishment still wants regime change in Syria even though the Islamic State is as likely as anyone to fill the void.

Mark Weisbrot, author of Failed: What the "Experts" Got Wrong about the Global Economy, discusses why Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is being impeached; and the IMF's weakening influence in "middle income" countries across Latin America.

Sam Husseini discusses his article on Noor Zahi Salman, the wife of Orlando shooter Omar Mateen, and her claim that the media (and anonymous government officials) are lying about her complicity in the mass murder of 50 people.

Reuters journalist Jonathan Landay discusses his article "U.S. sees no major Islamic State links to Boko Haram, despite claims."

Andrew Cockburn, author of Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins, discusses the Pentagon's real strategy in the Middle East: namely, keeping the money flowing to the military-industrial-Congressional complex, even if it means sending the incredibly effective A-10 Warthog to the dustbin and risking the lives of US soldiers.

Aubrey Fox, Executive Director of the United States office of the institute for Economics and Peace, discusses his organization's methodology for calculating a "global peace index," ranking 162 countries according to their levels of peace and assessing the economic impacts of violence at the national level.

Kade Crockford, Director of the ACLU of Massachusetts Technology for Liberty Project, discusses the FBI's greatly expanding surveillance power in three key areas: their Next Generation Identification (biometric) database; warrantless access to the internet records of Americans; and their ability to hack and install malware on computers - all potentially without any public oversight.

Gilbert Doctorow, a professional Russia watcher and actor in Russian affairs going back to 1965, discusses the lack of a real debate in Western media on US-Russia relations; and why we are more in danger of nuclear annihilation now than at any point in the Cold War since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Nick Turse, the associate editor of TomDispatch.com and author of The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives, discusses Sudan's long and bloody history of civil war from 1955 onward as South Sudan has repeatedly sought independence; and why Hillary Clinton gave South Sudan's military a pass on child soldiers when she was Secretary of State.

Ramzy Baroud, an internationally syndicated columnist and founder of The Palestine Chronicle, discusses why the French-hosted Israel-Palestine peace conference (not attended by Israel) is a total sham; the increasingly fascistic Israeli people and government; and why all apartheid states must come to an end eventually - even Israel.

Mark Wilkerson, a US Army veteran and author of Tomas Young's War, discusses the life of Tomas Young, an Iraq War veteran who was shot and paralyzed only five days after being deployed in Baghdad in 2004. He then spent the next 10 years as an antiwar activist, during which he wrote a memorable "last letter" to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney while in hospice care in 2013.

Former Congressman Ron Paul discusses the libertarian alternative to bigger government and authoritarian presidential candidates; why mass deportation of hard-working immigrants is a bad idea; and how to have free trade without so-called free trade agreements.

Rannie Amiri, an independent commentator on Middle East affairs, discusses why the US government supports Saudi Arabia's ongoing crackdown on Bahrain's reform protestors, even though their demands should appeal to a pro-democracy Western audience.

Muckraking journalist Ken Silverstein discusses the "Shaky Foundations" of the Clinton Foundation, and why it seems more focused on influence peddling than actual charitable works.

Peter Van Buren, author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, discusses why the Hillary Clinton email scandal is a big deal, and not just a boring technical oversight or a vast right wing conspiracy out to ruin her presidential campaign.