Daniel Larison, senior editor at The American Conservative, discusses the folly and futility of arming Ukraine - even though the anti-Russia hawks think its a great idea.

Dennis Edney, a defense lawyer representing former Guantanamo prisoner Omar Khadr, discusses Khadr's near-death battlefield capture in Afghanistan at 15; the torture he endured for years at Guantanamo; the US and Canadian governments' disdain for fair trials and justice; and the current effort to free Khadr from his Canadian prison.

Mike Maharrey, the Communications Director for the Tenth Amendment Center, discusses the 200 state bills seeking to block or limit federal power, ranging from laws bypassing the FDA to allow terminal patients access to experimental drugs and treatments, to laws addressing Second Amendment and militarized police issues.

Kelly Riddell, an investigative reporter for The Washington Times, discusses the secret tapes revealing that top Pentagon officials and a senior Democrat in Congress opened their own diplomatic channels with Moammar Gadhafi to stop Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from lying us into war with Libya in 2011.

Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), discusses his possible imprisonment for criminal trespass and resisting arrest (for using a paid ticket to see David Petraeus speak at a New York YMCA); and the neocons trying to provoke a military confrontation with Russia by supplying US armaments to Ukraine.

Kade Crockford, Director of the ACLU of Massachusetts' Technology for Liberty Project, discusses the government's secret surveillance programs going back to the 1990s, from vehicle license plate tracking to wholesale collection of telephone metadata.

Trevor Timm, a columnist and executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, discusses his article "Barrett Brown's sentence is unjust, but it may become the norm for journalists;" and how Obama's proposed expansion of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act would make it even easier to jail journalists.

Katherine Hawkins, the National Security Fellow at OpenTheGovernment.org, discusses the lies hidden inside the Senate report on CIA torture; the Office of Legal Council's memos authorizing the program; and the CIA's lies to the credulous Department of Justice.

Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, discusses the IRmep commissioned poll showing Americans believe Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be investigated for nuclear weapons tech smuggling before he is allowed to visit the US.

Giorgio Cafiero, founder of Gulf State Analytics, discusses how Sunni-Shia sectarian tensions could be inflamed across the Middle East if Saudi Arabia carries out its death sentence on popular Shi'ite cleric and political dissident Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr.

Muhammad Sahimi, professor of chemical engineering at USC, discusses his article "Washington's Hawks Provide Ammunition for Tehran's Hawks;" and why a failed Iran nuclear deal would probably cause Iran's moderate President Rouhani to be replaced by an Ahmadinejad clone.  

Blogger Marcy Wheeler discusses the government's persecution of CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling, who faces 80 years in prison on unproven, circumstantial evidence under the Espionage Act, related to his communication with journalist James Risen about the CIA's Merlin operation against Iran.

Gareth Porter, an award-winning independent journalist and historian, discusses the Obama administration's change of heart on Syria policy, where they are no longer entertaining the fantasy that "moderates" will depose President Assad and defeat the radical Islamists also.

Mitchell Prothero, a McClatchy Foreign Staff journalist, discusses the Islamic State's apparent overreach in Kobani (Syria) where Kurdish fighters backed by US airstrikes forced their retreat.

Gabriel Schivone, a writer and humanitarian volunteer in Tucson, discusses his article "Gaza in Arizona: How Israeli High-Tech Firms Will Up-Armor the U.S.-Mexican Border."