Joe Nickell with the Center for Inquiry and Mack Maloney, author of UFO’s and Wartime differ on the existence of unidentified flying objects.

Fred A. Wilcox has spent most of his career investigating the effects of Agent Orange/dioxin on its victims, who continue to fight for official recognition of and compensation. Scorched Earth is the first chronicle of the effects of chemical warfare on the Vietnamese people and their environment and Waiting for An Army to Die tells the stories of hundreds who have been affected by the agent.

An era ended with the  repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and professor Aaron Belkin talks about what finally brought the policy down in How We Won. Then, was an innocent man executed last week in Georgia? Diann Rust-Tierney with the National Coalition Against the Death Penalty joins us.

Debunking 9/11 Myths expands on an article published in Popular Mechanics in March 2005, which deconstructs many of the myths surrounding the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Co-author,  David Dunbar responds to the conspiracy theories.

In Top Secret America, award-winning reporter Dana Priest shows that a secret government was created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks which has become so enormous, so unwieldy, and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs or exactly how many agencies duplicate work being done elsewhere. Then, Nikki Stern whose husband died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. She is the author of Because I Say So.

Stephen Glain‘s State vs. Defense characterizes all the great figures who crafted American foreign policy, from George Marshall to Robert McNamara to Henry Kissinger to Don Rumsfeld with this underlying theme: America has become increasingly imperial and militaristic.

Martin Marty provides a compelling new perspective on religious and secular life in the postwar era with Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers From Prison. A Lutheran pastor and theologian, Bonhoeffer spent two years in Nazi prisons before being executed at age thirty-nine, just a month before the German surrender, for his role in the plot to kill Hitler.

The official spin on numerous government programs is flat-out bull, according to Jesse Ventura. In 63 Documents, he walks readers through 63 of the most incriminating programs to reveal what really happens behind the closed doors.

Bill Zimmerman recounts the radicalization via beatnikism, the civil rights movement, and antiwar protests that led him in 1969 to renounce a promising psychology professorship and become a full-time antiwar activist in Troublemaker.

President Obama has lifted the ban on military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay and Hina Shamsi with the ACLU tells us why she’s not happy with that decision. Then, Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States, unveils the deep links of the human-animal connection, as well as the conflicting impulses that have led us to betray this kinship through widespread and systemic cruelty to animals in The Bond.