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The invasion and occupation of the country undermined the moral standing of the western powers empowered Iran and its proxies heightened the threat from al-Qaeda at home and abroad and sent a clear signal to 'rogue' regimes that the best (the only?) means of deterring a pre-emptive, US-led attack was to acquire weapons of mass destruction. The Iraq war was a strategic disaster – or, as the Tory minister Kenneth Clarke put it in a recent BBC radio discussion, 'the most disastrous foreign policy decision of my lifetime. In a 14 February 2013 article for the New Statesman, Hasan wrote: He is also the fill-in host on MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes, The Rachel Maddow Show, The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle and The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell. In March 2021, Hasan launched the same show on MSNBC every Sunday evening. Notable guests on The Mehdi Hasan Show have included Mark Ruffalo, Jon Stewart, John Bolton, Keith Ellison, Ro Khanna, John Legend, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Hasan currently hosts The Mehdi Hasan Show on the online service Peacock since Oct 2020 airing weeknights at 7 pm Eastern. Hasan became a naturalized citizen of the United States on 9 October 2020, in time to vote in the 2020 United States presidential election.
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On 2 October 2020, Hasan announced that he would no longer host the show as part of his move to host The Mehdi Hasan Show on NBC's new streaming service, Peacock. Notable podcast guests have included Noam Chomsky, Ilhan Omar, and Bernie Sanders. Notable topics covered on the podcast include police brutality, inequality, QAnon, and President Donald Trump's activity on Twitter.
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On air, Hasan would discuss recent news topics and host guests. Hasan began a podcast in 2018 entitled Deconstructed, produced by the investigative journalism website The Intercept. Since 2015, working full-time for the network in Washington, D.C., Hasan has hosted a weekly interview and discussion programme.
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Recorded at the Oxford Union, Head to Head was a programme on Al Jazeera English in which Hasan interviewed public figures it had run for three series by December 2014. The video of the debate remains one of the most viewed videos on Oxford Union's YouTube channel. In the vote on the motion, the house affirmed with Hasan and the other proposers that Islam is a religion of peace with 286 votes in favor and 168 votes against. Hasan, who is an Ithna’Asheri Shia Muslim, vouched for Islam as a religion of peace, citing political and cultural reasons for violence in Muslim majority countries, as opposed to holding the religion of Islam responsible. In 2013, Hasan took part in a debate at the Oxford Union to consider whether Islam is a peaceful religion. Hasan has appeared (six times) on the BBC's Question Time programme, and the Sunday morning programmes The Big Questions and Sunday Morning Live. Hasan became a presenter on Al Jazeera's English news channel in May 2012. He was appointed senior editor for politics at the New Statesman in late spring of 2009, where he stayed until May 2012, then becoming political director of The Huffington Post website. Following this, he became deputy executive producer on Sky's breakfast show Sunrise before moving to Channel 4 as their editor of news and current affairs. Hasan worked as a researcher and then producer on LWT's Jonathan Dimbleby programme, with a brief period in between on BBC One's The Politics Show. He then attended Christ Church, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), and graduated in 2000. Hasan was privately educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, a day independent school for boys at Sandy Lodge in the Three Rivers District of Hertfordshire, near the town of Northwood in North West London. Mehdi Raza Hasan was born in Swindon to immigrant Indian Hyderabadi Shia Muslim parents from the city of Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh, South India (now in Telangana).