Gareth Porter, an award-winning investigative journalist, discusses his recent Truthout articles debunking the Israeli government's justifications for bombing Gaza.

Roy Gutman, a McClatchy foreign staff journalist, discusses the Iraqi government's shakeup and its chances of improving sectarian relations and successfully fighting the Islamic State.

Jeffrey Tucker, founder of Liberty.me, discusses why the state is just not that into you; the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing; and the six-year-long financial crisis.

Adam Morrow, an IPS News journalist based in Cairo, discusses the latest events in Egypt where the noose is still tightening around freedom.

Jeffrey Miron, director of economic studies at the Cato Institute, discusses an economic and moral case for legalizing cocaine and heroin.

Ray McGovern, a retired CIA officer turned political activist, discusses the World Russia Forum 2014 - "Advancing a Constructive Agenda for U.S.-Russia Relations;" why it's time for Germany to declare independence from US influence; and how NATO expansion betrays the agreement reached between George H.W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev at the Malta Summit.

Jonathan Landay, a national security and intelligence reporter for McClatchy Newspapers, discusses his article "Obama strategy to beat Islamic State likely to draw U.S. into years of conflict;" and the marked philosophical differences between Al Qaeda and ISIS.

Dan Sanchez, Director of the Mises Academy, discusses his article "Squandered Lives and Snuffed Out Genius: Mises, Tolkien, and World War I."

Eric Margolis, an internationally syndicated columnist and author of American Raj, discusses the ceasefire deal in Ukraine and the reasons for US intervention there.

Sheldon Richman, vice president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses his rebuttal to Daniel McCarthy's article in The American Conservative that asserts that a liberal democratic society requires empire.

Jack Matlock, a career diplomat and author of Superpower Illusions, discusses the Neo-Nazi forces being deployed by Kiev to fight in eastern Ukraine; and NATO's seeming intent to start a war with Russia.

Brian Burghart, editor and publisher of the Reno News & Review, discusses his Fatal Encounters project to research and document how many people are killed by law enforcement, since the government doesn't track this statistic for some reason.

Ramzy Baroud, author of My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story, discusses why Gazans are celebrating a "victory" over Israel despite sustaining heavy losses in life and property from Operation Protective Edge.

Gareth Porter, author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, discusses the rise of The Islamic State and what the US should (and shouldn't) do about it.

Robert Naiman, Policy Director at Just Foreign Policy, discusses the failure of Liberal Zionism to apply political pressure on Israel's government to force a change on Palestinian issues.