Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), discusses the 42-month prison sentence for whistleblowing former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling, and the new details about the CIA's Operation Merlin inadvertently revealed at the trial.

Seymour Hersh, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and author, discusses his article "The Killing of Osama bin Laden," detailing the Obama administration's lies about the 2011 assassination of bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Avner Gvaryahu, the Director of Public Outreach at BreakingTheSilence.org, discusses his organization's gathering of candid testimony from Israeli soldiers who witnessed the mass destruction and killing of Palestinian civilians in Israel's Operation "Protective Edge" in 2014.

Patrick Smith, author of Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century, discusses the New York Times' biased coverage of US troops operating on Ukrainian soil, and the risk of getting into a war with Russia.

Zoe Russell, the Assistant Executive Director for RAMP (Republican Against Marijuana Prohibition), discusses the surprising legislative progress Texas is making toward legalizing marijuana, and RAMP's attempt to get cops and conservatives behind House Bill 2165.

Blogger Marcy Wheeler discusses her continuing coverage of the 2015 USA Freedom Act and the bill's major flaws that still won't prevent the government from abusing civil liberties in their mass-surveillance activities.

Abdi Ismail Samatar, a Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota, discusses the history of US intervention in Somalia and that country's continuing struggle with tyranny and world-leading political corruption.

Doug Bandow, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, discusses the 100-year anniversary of the RMS Lusitania's sinking and the unrelenting propaganda campaign that got America embroiled in the disastrous first World War.

Jim Lobe, Washington Bureau Chief of IPS News, discusses the split between hard-line neoconservatives and AIPAC on the tactics of opposing an Iranian nuclear agreement.

Michael Gould-Wartofsky, author of The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement, discusses his Tomdispatch article "The Wars Come: A Five-Step Guide to the Police Repression of Protest from Ferguson to Baltimore and Beyond."

Charles Goyette, author of The Dollar Meltdown, discusses how Ron Paul's 2008 presidential campaign turned a new generation on to the liberty movement; and Goyette's documentary-in-progress on Ron Paul, titled "Empire of Lies."

Mitchell Plitnick, Program Director at the Foundation for Middle East Peace, discusses his article "Debunking the Opposition to the Iran Framework."

Gareth Porter, an award-winning investigative journalist, discusses his recent articles on why Iran must remain a US enemy and the Israel Lobby's push for nuclear deal-killing inspections in Iran.

Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer and Executive Director of The Council for the National Interest, discusses the shooting deaths of two gunmen who attacked Pamela Geller's anti-Muslim event in Garland, Texas.

Eric Margolis, an internationally syndicated columnist and author of American Raj, discusses his article "The Ghosts of Vietnam Should Haunt US - but Don't."