Ramzy Baroud, the founder of PalestineChronicle.com, discusses the mainstream media's wholesale adoption of Israeli rhetoric on the occupied territories, and why the status quo in Gaza is a precursor for war.

Sheldon Richman, now a regular columnist at Antiwar.com, discusses the volatile mixture of Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, free trade policies, and American jobs.

JP Sottile, a freelance journalist, published historian, radio co-host and documentary filmmaker, discusses how NewsVandal.com cuts through the mainstream media's obfuscation and follows the money to get the truth - like in Sottile's article "Hillary Clinton's Pay-for-Play Reality."

Gareth Porter, an award-winning independent investigative journalist, discusses how US policy in Syria has changed since Russian intervention shored up the Assad government's hold on power.

Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), discusses how NATO, under US leadership, has expanded to Russia's borders since the Soviet Union's disintegration; and how we risk nuclear war by meddling in Ukraine - a country most American's couldn't care less about and which has nothing to do with US national interests.

Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, discusses the guest speakers scheduled for his upcoming "Israel's Influence: Good or Bad for America?" conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, March 18, 2016.

Derek Davison, a Washington-based researcher and writer on international affairs and American politics, discusses Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders's foreign policy positions on the Middle East, and how they compare with those of ultra-hawk Hillary Clinton.

Sheldon Richman, now a regular columnist at Antiwar.com, discusses the end to Rand Paul's disappointing Presidential campaign, and who is likely to win the Republican nomination.

Ira Chernus, professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, discusses his TomDispatch article "America's New Vietnam in the Middle East: A Civil War Story About the Islamic State Might Spark a Peace Movement."

John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy in Focus, discusses the "gray zone" - defined as predominately Christian places where Muslims have rejected the "us versus them" mentality of the Islamic State - and how these moderate Muslims are trapped between their increasingly hostile countrymen and the terrorism of ISIS that is designed to push everyone toward radicalism.

Daniel Davis, a retired Lt. Col. in the US Army, discusses his firsthand account of why the 2009 "surge" in Afghanistan was a failure, and why throwing more US troops at it now isn't going to help either.

Jeff Stein, a columnist for Newsweek, discusses why Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders may disappoint his supporters on foreign policy issues.

Rachel Levinson-Waldman, Senior Counsel to the Brennan Center's Liberty and National Security Program, discusses her article "Armed Drones and the Influence of Big Business on Police Surveillance Technology."

Stephen Zunes, a professor of politics and coordinator of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco, discusses Hillary Clinton's apologists and their five lamest excuses for her vote to invade Iraq - the most disastrous foreign policy decision in decades.

Dan Wright, a longtime blogger and writer for Shadowproof.com, discusses why the US Congress lifted a ban on funding Ukraine's neo-Nazis, and how their nonstop warmongering could start an apocalyptic nuclear war with Russia.