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Trita Parsi, President of the National Iranian American Council, discusses the continued attacks by war hawks on the Iran nuclear deal and the whole idea of diplomatic give-and-take. Politico writer Josh Meyer’s recent article makes a big deal about the American-Iranian prisoner swap that happened at the same time the nuclear deal was implemented, and implies that the Obama administration made undisclosed and excessive concessions to secure it.

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Trevor Aaronson, a contributing writer at The Intercept, discusses his 4-part series on the nearly 800 people prosecuted by the US government on terrorism-related charges since 9/11, supposedly for serious crimes endangering the lives of Americans. However, most of them didn’t commit a violent act, more than 400 have been released, and others were the victims of entrapment by informants working for law enforcement agencies.

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Gareth Porter, an award-winning investigative journalist and author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, discusses why the entire war on terror since 2001 has been a “bait-and-switch” operation wherein the US pretends to fight terrorism while sacrificing the safety of Americans to back the interests of regional allies like Saudi Arabia.

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Sheldon Richman, Executive Editor of The Libertarian Institute and author of many books, discusses The Libertarian Institute’s future without co-founder William Norman Grigg, who recently passed away; the slate of new up-and-coming libertarian writers and the general expansion of the movement; the upcoming release of Grigg’s book on the wrongful imprisonment of Christopher Tapp and Scott Horton’s book on Afghanistan; and why North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is rightfully concerned about US-backed regime change against non-nuclear armed states.

Theodore Postol, Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology, and National Security Policy at MIT, discusses his critique of the White House Intelligence Report claiming that the Syrian government was responsible for a chemical weapons attack in Khan Shaykhun on April 4th. Postol debunks claims that photos of a metal tube inside a crater are evidence of a Syrian air attack that released sarin gas. A more plausible scenario is that a Russian air strike on an ammunition dump created a large explosion, dispersing toxic chemicals over a large area that could have caused the mass casualties seen on video.

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Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, DC, discusses how difficult it is to get any information out of US intelligence agencies by using a Freedom of Information Act request, especially when it relates to CIA-budgeted aid to Israel or Israel’s nuclear weapons program.

Philip Giraldi, executive director of the Council for the National Interest and a former CIA officer, discusses the intelligence community’s anger at the White House’s politically-motivated assessment of the Syrian chemical weapons attack, which places all the blame on the Syrian government and offers little hard evidence to support the claim.

Joey Lawrence, a professional photographer and war documentarian, discusses Obama’s initial military intervention in Syria to save the Yazidis from a massacre on Mount Sinjar in 2014; why Turkish President Erdogan dares attack the Kurdish YPG militia with embedded US troops nearby; and whether the US will turn its back on its Kurdish allies once the war against ISIS is over.

Yakov Hirsch, a writer for Mondoweiss.net, discusses how “hasbara culture” has infected the minds of Israelis with a “macho victimhood” ideology and tilted media coverage (led by Jeffrey Goldberg, the “most toxic person in American culture”) so Americans are misled into thinking Palestinians are the aggressive occupiers of Israeli land, instead of the other way around.

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Eric Margolis, a journalist and author of American Raj, discusses the signs of an impending US troop surge in Afghanistan to finally “win” the war after 16 years; and the potentially disastrous consequences if Trump’s bellicosity on North Korea ever turns into military action.

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