Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses British resident Shaker Aamer's reunion with his family in the UK after his long-delayed release from Guantanamo, and how he survived being locked away for 14 years without charge or trial, often in solitary confinement.

Andrew Cockburn, author of Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins, discusses his classic 1980s book The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine that told the truth about poorly designed and unreliable Soviet weapons systems, while mainstream analysts hyped the Soviet menace - driving sales for US defense contractors.

Jason Ditz, news editor for Antiwar.com, discusses the ongoing Saudi-led, US-supported, war against Yemen.

Patrick Cockburn, a Middle East correspondent for The Independent, discusses the internal and external factors dividing the Turkish nation, and why its presidential system is only a few steps away from a dictatorship.

Philip Weiss, founder of mondoweiss.net, discusses columnist Jeffrey Goldberg's assertion that Palestinian anti-Semitism - not the Israeli occupation - is to blame for the conflict; and why American Jews that vigorously defend civil rights in America turn a blind eye to Jim Crow style institutional discrimination in Israel.

Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer and Executive Director of The Council for the National Interest, discusses Senator Dianne Feinstein's husband's campaign to outlaw free speech for University of California students who dare to discuss the BDS movement or criticize Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land.

Jonathan Marshall, an independent researcher living in San Anselmo, California, discusses the Obama administration's failure to broker a peace deal in Syria due to its neocon-like focus on regime change.

Peter Van Buren, a tomdispatch.com regular and author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, discusses why presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is right about the 2003 Iraq War being one of the worst foreign policy blunders in American history.

Investigative journalist Will Potter discusses the highly-secretive Communications Management Units within US prisons, and why the government doesn't want you to know how prisoners are treated there.

Jim Lobe, founder of lobelog.com, discusses the public disappearance of neoconservative "prince of darkness" Richard Perle, and his apparent parting-of-ways with the American Enterprise Institute.

Kelley Vlahos, a Washington, D.C.-based freelance reporter and The American Conservative contributing editor, discusses Egypt's brief, failed bid for democratic reform and its latest US-aided authoritarian regime.

Eric Margolis, an internationally-syndicated journalist and author of American Raj, discusses how George W. Bush's invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq helped derail Turkey's economic and diplomatic success story.

Keegan Stephan, a writer and political organizer in New York City, discusses the latest incidents of police violence and the coverups of their crimes against Americans.

Gareth Porter, an independent investigative journalist and historian, discusses two of his recent articles, "Obama won't admit the real targets of Russian airstrikes [in Syria]" and "The US Could End Saudi War Crimes in Yemen - It Just Doesn't Want To."

Eric Margolis, an internationally-syndicated columnist and author of American Raj, discusses President Obama's plan to keep US troops in Afghanistan indefinitely in response to the Taliban's recent military successes.