This has been an information war

1. You’ve shown an intense interest in Ukraine over the past few days as have many other, reporters, correspondents, communications, politicians an hackers. What is your book about and what has it got to do with Ukraine or Russia?

2. Which last conflict did you watch closely - how did it roll out compared to this one? Did you watch ARAB SPRING?

4. Communicating on platforms, porn, social media (In 2010 it was facebook) has the world moved on from facebook since the January 6th protesters were arrested?

5 What would be your advice to Yemen, AFghanistan, Nigeria, Armenian grassroots activists be?

INTERVIEWEE: Author, journalist, broadcaster (ex-BBC, Telegraph, writer of BBC books) Matt's first book tracked post-Soviet pilots running arms, drugs and worse from Afghanistan to Somalia. Hailed as a "dazzling" book of history and first-person reportage, 'Outlaws Inc: Flying with the World's Most Dangerous Smugglers' became a Top 10 WHSmith bestseller, now published in 29 languages through Bloomsbury, Pan MacMillan, Ullstein, Einaudi, Reader's Digest and others. 'Outlaws Inc' is now in production as a Hollywood movie through Thunder Road Studios, the team behind 'The Expendables'.

Matt's story tracking these merchants of death became part of the 2014 Sundance Festival Award-winning documentary feature film 'The Notorious Mr Bout', by Tony Gerber and Maxim Pozdorovkin. The film won acclaim, and became part of the BBC 2 Storyville 2015 season, 'Arms Dealer: The Notorious Mr Bout'. Matt now works consulting with monitoring and investigative groups tracking arms and crime across borders.

His second book, an alternate history of the world as it has been shaped by entropy and the force of quitting, was published in 2015, entitled 'F**k You & Goodbye: The Dark & Hilarious History of the Resignation'. In it, Matt examined the phenomenon of quitting as a historical force, from the Berlin Wall and the American Civil War to Iraq, Thatcher and neoliberalism. It became a Waterstone's bestseller, and was republished in expanded format, with new material as 'The Last Goodbye: A History of the World in Resignations', in the UK, Commonwealth, USA and internationally.

INTERVIEWER: Samantha Asumadu is a crisis campaigner, radical organiser, writer, publisher, former documentary filmmaker and breaking news reporter. She founded Media Diversified in 2013 as a vehicle to foreground the voices of people of different ethnicities all over the world 

She has written for the Guardian, Telegraph, Open Democracy, Black Ballad, Media Diversified, Ceasefire Magazine and New Statesman and been interviewed on Radio 4 Womans Hour, LBC, BBC World and other BBC programmes including BBC World Service, BBC London and the Victoria Derbyshire show.

Her decades long commitment to grassroots activism led to her campaigning about women’s representation in Theatre, child abuse in war zones, media equity, the Nationality and Borders Bill, Indeterminate Sentence for Public Protection (IPP) and Sickle cell anemia. As a journalist she was based in East Africa, where she covered stories such as Acid Attacks, Blood Minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Kampala bombings of 2010 for news outlets including CNN, Deutsche Welle, Sky News, France 24 and Agence France Presse.

As a journalist she was based in East Africa, where she covered stories such as Acid Attacks, Blood Minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Kampala bombings of 2010 for news outlets including CNN, Deutsche Welle, Sky News, France 24 and Agence France Presse.

She directed, scripted and co-produced her first film for Aljazeera English in 2009. The Super Ladies is about three Ugandan women rally drivers and a race with a dramatic outcome. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and in 2016 Samantha was a judge at the Editorial Intelligence UK Comment Awards and was on the advisory panel for the British Film Institute's Black Star Season

PART 1. The Information War - Samantha Asumadu interviews author and broadcaster Matt Potter

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Galaxy phone bought for, taken back under warranty as it doesn't work. CEX said it passed 2 warranty tests.  We're neither willing to swap phone or refund. just insist it works. The phone was left at CEX as it doesn't work. And they now can sell it to some other unsuspecting person either. 

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Currently in the UK, Fatima Olodo is missing. So are Aisher Gibril, Lan Pham, Jasvinder Kaur, Reneisha Brown, Ramla Malo, Gina Lander, Aaya Al-Saedi Aqueel Abdulwahi, Tiana Medaini, Fatima Mohamed-Ali, Safia Abdi, and Payera Begum. Elizabeth Chau remains missing since 1999, in a case that was linked to serial rapist, Andrzej Kunowski and has since been re-opened by the police. Others are noted on website missingpeople.org.uk for all UK based missing people, and also missingkids.co.uk. You can circulate information and photographs of missing women, children, and men of colour on your social networks and contact your local and national media directly with any information you may have. 

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