Stephen Zunes, professor of politics and international studies at the University of San Francisco, discusses why Israel still wants regime change in Syria, even if the Islamic State takes over; and US efforts to eliminate all nationalist Arab governments.

Eric Schuler, a blogger at The Daily Face Palm, discusses Rand Paul's pushback against the belligerent warmongers among the Republican presidential candidates; and how Donald Trump has somehow managed to get rank and file Republicans to accept the Iraq War was a mistake.

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 Gulf States, the Kurds, the Turks, the Sunnis, and the Shia Won't Fight America's War" against the Islamic State.

Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer and Executive Director of The Council for the National Interest, discusses the special interests pushing for a renewed US-Russia Cold War; and Turkey's dealings with ISIS and Syria.

Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, discusses how Donald Trump's "master persuader" skills are helping him dominate the other Republican presidential candidates and confound the media's attempts to knock him down.

Todd E. Pierce, a retired Major in the US Army JAG Corps, discusses the Israeli-trained Chicago cops who are implementing totalitarian law enforcement and acting like a military occupation army.

Daniel McAdams, director of The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, discusses why Israel has been providing medical aid to al-Qaeda fighters in Syria for three years - directly helping the supposed greatest enemies of the United States.

Andrew Cockburn, author of Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy, discusses his Harper's Magazine article "A Special Relationship: The United States is teaming up with Al Qaeda, again."

Mark Thornton, Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute, discusses the government's stealthy method of financing wars, and why the gold standard is good for peace.

Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, a legal analyst for The Washington Times, discusses the DNA extracted from an unknown severed leg from the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, and whether new evidence will get the case reopened for investigation.

Jon B. Carroll, co-founder of the Alabama Justice Project and a member of Reporters Without Borders, discusses the leaked documents showing that the Dothan, Alabama police department routinely planted drugs and weapons on young black men over a decade, and that the district attorney was complicit in getting nearly 1000 wrongful convictions as a result.

Chris Woods, an investigative journalist and leader of the Airwars project, discusses the growing coalition of Western countries bombing Syria after the Paris terrorist attacks; and Donald Trumps declared intention to kill the families of terrorist suspects.

Gareth Porter, an award-winning journalist and historian, discusses the IAEA's final report on Iran's nuclear program, and the agency's refusal to admit past mistakes about bomb-testing at Parchin.

Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer and Executive Director of The Council for the National Interest, discusses his article "How to Counter Violent Extremism" in the wake of the San Bernardino terrorist attack.

Andrew Napolitano, a former Superior Court judge and contributor to The Washington Times and Fox News, discusses how the federal government used the Patriot Act to divert attention from its failure to prevent 9/11, in the process degrading Constitutional protections against warrantless searches - and why the new USA Freedom Act is even worse.