Warning: Program may contain strong or potentially offensive language, including possible FCC violations.
Second Hour: Round up of international news stories with Martin Summers: Fallujah (Iraq), Syria, Al Qaeda, 'Doctors without Borders' kidnappings, 'Islamic State Of Iraq And The Levant' (ISIL) or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Sunni and Shia Muslims. World War One is discussed as this year is the 100th anniversary: Tory Education Secretary Michael Gove and Boris Johnson defending WWI as a 'Noble cause'; Guardian columnist Seumus Milne's article: First world war: an imperial bloodbath that's a warning, not a noble cause. the British and French carving up the Middle East - Is this World War Three? A row has erupted between Sir Tony Robinson and Michael Gove after the education secretary said programmes like Blackadder were being used to feed "myths" about World War One. Richard Attenborough's 1969 film: Oh! What A Lovely War (A movie about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing on the members of one royal family that start it all and a poor family who go off to war. Much action revolves around the words and music of hymns and songs of the soldiers. Infamous incidents of the war are portrayed, including the assassination of Duke Ferdinand, the Christmas 1914 truce between British and German soldiers in no-mans-land, and the wiping out by their own side of a force of Irish soldiers newly arrived at the front.) and Miranda Carter's book 'George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm - Three Royal Cousins On The Road To World War 1' The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One Tory Chancellor George Osborne and his 2014 economy speech on Monday: is this a 2015 election speech for activists and funders? The national debt is so big cuts are going to hardly make a difference; bankers, Quantitative Easing (QE) or Printing Money, personal debt, asset prices, and rich people running off with all the money like bandits; Tony Blair's profits boosted by £13 in 'bumper year' 2013 so was he promised riches to start an illegal war etc. while he was Prime Minister? Welfare cuts - economic illiteracy. US journalist Edwin Black's book: IBM and the Holocaust which explains mass survillance by the Nazis and how they were helped by greedy US corporation IBM and their Hollerith machines, leased via Switzerland.