Ramzy Baroud, editor of The Palestine Chronicle, discusses Israel’s attempt to ban the Islamic call to prayer in Palestinian communities, on the grounds that the 1400-year old tradition creates “noise pollution.”

Mark Thornton, Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute, discusses what president-elect Donald Trump’s economic and monetary policies are likely to be, considering his Reagan-like promises to increase government spending on the military and infrastructure,...

Patrick Cockburn, an award-winning writer with The Independent, discusses the imminent battles for Tal Afar and Mosul in Iraq – as senior Isis leaders leave for Syria, Turkey threatens to intervene on behalf of Sunni Turkmen,

Andrew Cockburn, author of Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins, discusses his article “The New Red Scare: Reviving the art of threat inflation;” and how the military-industrial-congressional complex is likely to derail Trump’s efforts to de...

Historian and author Jim Powell commemorates Armistice Day by discussing how Woodrow Wilson’s intervention in WWI gave rise to Hitler, Stalin, and WWII; then summarizes the 2,000 year history of the triumph of liberty – led by 65 revolutionary men and ...

Gareth Porter, author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, discusses the similarities between the Russian/Syrian bombing of Aleppo, the 2003 US bombing of Iraq, and Israel’s 2014 bombing of Gaza; and Obama’s apparent chan...

David Swanson, author of War is a Lie, discusses his article “How Drone Pilots Talk;” and the RootsAction.org initiative to tell the next president “No more war!”

Ted Snider, a writer on US foreign policy and history, discusses his article “The End of Obama’s Term: A Report Card on Latin America;” and why the lone bright spot, despite Obama’s promise to change the way America does business with Latin America,

Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses how Turkey has become a destabilizing force in the Near East under increasingly-authoritarian president Erdogan, creating a risk of military entanglement for the US and NATO.

Sandy Tolan, author of Children of the Stone, discusses why Native Americans and activists across the country are demonstrating against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, and the crackdown against them by militarized police.