Islamophobia In The UK, Gaza On Fire & Inside ISIS

"Many people had to die in Europe because we said we don't exchange information about terrorism with Assad. ...There is no doubt ISIS is the baby of GW Bush." Jurgen Todenhofer. Afshin Rattansi with England's first Muslim MP on the Chilcot Inquiry; Jurgen Todenhofer’s bestseller "My Journey Into The Heart of Terror: Ten Days in the Islamic State" and the failure of UK-backed NATO wars & IMF/World Bank policies in Libya. Plus Nobel Peace Prize nominee Jeff Halper about Jewish bulldozers and drones destroying Gaza.

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 Mayhem in Libya, Marx in the City and Bombs in Kabul

Afshin Rattansi on the toppling of Gaddafi, the global power of finance and the week’s news. From African oasis to ISIS hotbed, how neocolonial war games brought an African nation to its knees, we talk to a former British ambassador to Syria, Peter Ford about the meaning of David Cameron this week sending his foreign secretary to Libya. Ain't no tax in the heart of the city, we speak to Tony Norfield who has nearly thirty years banking experience about offshore banking, the Panama papers and his new book. Plus Afshin is joined once again by broadcaster and former MP Lembit Opik to review the week’s news.

Mayhem in Libya & the Fragile Syrian Ceasefire

Peter Ford, former Ambassador to Syria talks about the geopolitical landscape from Washington to Downing Street, as disastrous foreign policy in the Middle East has lead to the creation of ISIS/Da’esh. Plus is Bahrain still a hotbed of human rights violations?