Eli Clifton, a reporting fellow with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute, discusses the Islamophobia madness infecting the Republican presidential candidates, and why the problem is getting worse 14 years after 9/11.

Julian Borger, the diplomatic editor for The Guardian, discusses his article "West 'ignored Russian offer in 2012 to have Syria's Assad step aside.'"

Gareth Porter, an award-winning journalist and historian, discusses the IAEA inspections of Iran's Parchin nuclear site which have failed to find anything incriminating - while the MSM fearmongering continues unabated.

Bojan Budimac, a Serbian journalist based in Turkey, discusses the recent history of Turkey's Kurdish problems; the failure of peace talks with PKK; and the pipeline politics at the heart of the Syrian conflict.

Adam Johnson, an associate editor at AlterNet and frequent writer for FAIR.org, discusses his article "Down the Memory Hole: NYT Erases CIA’s Efforts to Overthrow Syria’s Government."

McClatchy journalist Jonathan Landay discusses the potential for US-Russia military cooperation in Syria against the Islamic State, as the Obama administration slightly backs down from its "Assad must go" stance.

Mike Swanson, founder of Wall Street Window and author of The War State, discusses his new book The Stock Market Bubble Bust Of 2015 And Beyond (the Kindle version is free at Amazon.com for a limited time).

Stephen Zunes, professor of politics and international studies at the University of San Francisco, discusses the military coup in Burkina Faso.

Eric Margolis, author of American Raj: Liberation or Domination, discusses why Republican presidential candidates and the mainstream media want Americans to hate and fear Russia; and why the US doesn't pressure its Middle East allies to stop supporting Islamic State.

Brad Hoff, the managing editor of Levant Report, discusses the battlefield prowess of ISIS leader Omar "the Chechen" al-Shishani, who received US backing until 2013 while he transformed the demoralized Syrian rebels into a formidable fighting force.

Mitchell Prothero, a McClatchy special correspondent, discusses how he met top Islamic State military commander Tarkhan Batirashvili (a.k.a. Abu Omar al Shishani), who was trained in part by US special forces.

Ramzy Baroud, editor of The Palestine Chronicle, discusses the Israeli government's efforts to limit Palestinian entry to Al-Aqsa, the third holiest mosque in Islam; and his article "How Yarmouk Came About: Israel’s Unabashed Role in the Syrian Refugee Crisis."

M.J. Rosenberg, a former Congressional aide and AIPAC staffer, discusses his article "AIPAC Spent Millions of Dollars to Defeat the Iran Deal. Instead, It May Have Destroyed Itself."

Lauren Walker, a staff writer for Newsweek, discusses how a botched translation landed Yemeni Emad Hassan in Guantanamo for 13 years; his years-long hunger strike; and how he finally got released.

Chris Woods, a London-based investigative journalist and author, discusses the Airwars.org project that monitors the international coalition's airstrikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, in an attempt to verify civilian deaths and bring accountability to the US and its allies.