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."

Will Grigg, a blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the Baltimore police killing of Freddie Gray; the surprising announcement that six officers will be arrested and charged with serious crimes; and the immediate pushback by the Fraternal Order of Police and cop-apologists in the media.

John W. Whitehead, founder of The Rutherford Institute and author of Battlefield America: The War on the American People, discusses how the massive military training exercise "Jade Helm" is acclimating Americans to martial law.

Doug Williams, author of From Cop to Crusader: My fight against the dangerous myth of "lie detection," discusses why the Feds are prosecuting him for teaching how to beat the polygraph.

Andrew Cockburn, author of Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins, discusses how US high-tech drones and flawed intelligence - often based on unreliable phone tracking - combine to kill civilians and promote terrorism.

Philip Weiss, founder of Mondoweiss.net, discusses the precarious Iranian nuclear agreement; the future of a Palestinian state after Netanyahu's reelection; and how support for Israel is finally becoming a divisive partisan issue in the US.