Jeffrey Kaye, a psychologist and writer on torture, discusses the latest developments in the ACLU’s lawsuit (on behalf of former Guantanamo detainees) against James Elmer Mitchell and John “Bruce” Jessen, the psychologists who designed the CIA’s post-9...

James Carden, a contributing writer for The Nation and former advisor on Russia at the US State Department, discusses how the Washington DC foreign policy consensus, locked down by neoconservatives and Wilsonian liberal interventionists,

Liza Goitein, Co-Director of the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National Security Program, discusses her report on “The New Era of Secret Law” in the US, including the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel’s secret interpretations of existing laws ag...

Daniel Lazare, author of The Frozen Republic: How the Constitution is Paralyzing Democracy, discusses Hillary Clinton’s bifurcated policy on ISIS, as she proposes fighting the group in Iraq and supporting it in Syria; and why Obama’s greatest fear is t...

Max Blumenthal, author of Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, discusses his two-part investigative series on the organizations running a sophisticated PR campaign to win Western public support for Syrian regime-change,

Grant F. Smith, director of research at the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, discusses the longstanding US government policy of feigning ignorance of Israel’s nuclear weapons program, why the new $38 billion US pledge to Israel is unconst...

Eric Schuler, author of The Daily Face Palm, discusses whether Hillary Clinton’s Syria policy is due to stupidity or “something worse;” and how the terrible presidential debates have made libertarian ideas on immigration and foreign policy an appealing...

Jason MacLeod, author of Merdeka and the Morning Star: Civil Resistance in West Papua, discusses the brutal 50-year Indonesian occupation of West Papua; motivated by racial superiority, natural resources and political identity – and helped by US milita...

Retired US Army colonel Daniel L. Davis discusses his article “Why the Battle for Mosul Could Become a Total Disaster;” and how US military intervention is paving the way for Al Qaeda/ISIS control of an actual state – not the pseudo state currently hel...

Gilbert Doctorow, the European Coordinator of The American Committee for East West Accord, discusses why the US-Russia confrontation in Ukraine and Syria is far more serious than generally understood, and could easily lead to a shooting war – especiall...