Mehdi Unfiltered

After the first round of US-Iranian peace talks in Pakistan collapsed last weekend, Vermont Democratic Senator Peter Welch joins Mehdi to discuss Trump's illegal war in Iran, the Democratic Party's shift away from Israel, and the Justice for Hind Rajab Act.    SUBSCRIBE TO ZETEO TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENT AND UNFILTERED JOURNALISM:  https://zeteo.com/subscribe   WATCH 'MEHDI UNFILTERED' ON SUBSTACK: h...

Recorded in New York City in front of a live audience, Palestinian-American activist, academic, and author  Noura Erakat, of Rutgers,  and Iranian-American writer, filmmaker, and professor  Narges Bajoghli ,  of Johns Hopkins, join Mehdi for a wide-ranging and fascinating conversation on the US-Israeli war on Iran, the ongoing genocide in Palestine, and the future of the Middle East. SUBSCRIBE TO...

As the tragic anniversary of Sudan's forgotten genocide sadly appears to go unnoticed amidst escalation in Iran, Mehdi discusses with two experts what the situation currently is on the ground, what might happen next, and why Sudan is not getting the attention it deserves.   SUBSCRIBE TO ZETEO TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENT AND UNFILTERED JOURNALISM:  https://zeteo.com/subscribe   WATCH 'MEHDI UNFILTERED'...

On this episode of 'Mehdi Unfiltered,' California Rep. Ro Khanna talks to Mehdi about the child sex abuse allegations against Donald Trump in the Epstein files, and his fears over an escalating war in Iran. SUBSCRIBE TO ZETEO TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENT AND UNFILTERED JOURNALISM:  https://zeteo.com/subscribe   WATCH 'MEHDI UNFILTERED' ON SUBSTACK:  https://zeteo.com/s/mehdi-unfiltered   FIND ZETEO: Twi...

In this week's segment from Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi presses YouTube personality 'Professor' Xueqin Jiang on his viral predictions about Trump and Iran, his conspiracy theories about 'secret societies,' and whether he is a 'useful idiot' for the Chinese government.   SUBSCRIBE TO ZETEO TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENT AND UNFILTERED JOURNALISM: https://zeteo.com/subscribe   WATCH 'MEHDI UNFILTERED' ON SUBSTA...

In this exclusive and wide-ranging Zeteo interview, Mehdi presses a senior Iranian official – Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei , who was involved in last month's nuclear meetings in Geneva – on the state of the war, the future of negotiations, Iran's human rights record, and more. SUBSCRIBE TO ZETEO TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENT AND UNFILTERED JOURNALISM: https://zeteo.com/subscribe WATCH 'MEHD...

In this episode of 'Mehdi Unfiltered,' Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey talks to Mehdi about becoming a target of the Trump administration, her calls to abolish ICE, and why she believes some of her Republican colleagues are 'disgusting humans.' SUBSCRIBE TO ZETEO TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENT AND UNFILTERED JOURNALISM:  https://zeteo.com/subscribe WATCH 'MEHDI UNFILTERED' ON SUBSTACK:  https://zeteo.c...

15 months ago, Syria finally saw an end to the nearly 14 years of civil war after the ousting of Syrian Dictator Bashar Al-Assad. Now, as the US and Israel's war on neighboring Iran only escalates while they continue calls for Iranian civilians to "take over" their government, the question remains: could a Western-backed, civilian-led uprising come to fruition in Iran? And how much more difficult...

In this episode of 'Mehdi Unfiltered,' Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen slams the US and Israel's illegal war with Iran, calls out the weaponization of antisemitism, and denies rumors that Benjamin Netanyahu is dead. SUBSCRIBE TO ZETEO TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENT AND UNFILTERED JOURNALISM: https://zeteo.com/subscribe WATCH 'MEHDI UNFILTERED' ON SUBSTACK:  https://zeteo.com/s/mehdi-unfiltered FIND ZETEO:...

In this week's segment from Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by Turkish journalist and author Ece Temelkuran to discuss her new book, Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century , what it means to be physically and politically 'unhomed,' and the rapid steps the US has taken towards fascism.   SUBSCRIBE TO ZETEO TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENT AND UNFILTERED JOURNALISM: https://zeteo.com/subsc...

In this episode of 'Mehdi Unfiltered,' acclaimed author and historian Ibram X. Kendi joins Mehdi to debunk a neo-Nazi conspiracy theory that Donald Trump and MAGA have latched onto, and his new book, 'Chain of Ideas.' SUBSCRIBE TO ZETEO TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENT AND UNFILTERED JOURNALISM:  https://zeteo.com/subscribe WATCH 'MEHDI UNFILTERED' ON SUBSTACK:  https://zeteo.com/s/mehdi-unfiltered FIND ZET...

Ben Rhodes  served as deputy national security adviser in Barack Obama's White House for eight years. He was working with President Obama as Benjamin Netanyahu continued to pressure the US, time and time again, to attack Iran. Obama, says Rhodes, resisted the Israeli prime minister's pressure campaign, but now under President Donald Trump's second term, it's clear that  "Netanyahu essentially bull...

In this week's segment from Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by congressional candidates Junaid Ahmed, Kat Abughazaleh, and Robert Peters to discuss the influence of AIPAC in their election races in Illinois.   SUBSCRIBE TO ZETEO TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENT AND UNFILTERED JOURNALISM: https://zeteo.com/subscribe   WATCH 'MEHDI UNFILTERED' ON SUBSTACK: https://zeteo.com/s/mehdi-unfiltered   FIND ZETEO:...

Very few people have the credibility to speak on Iran's nuclear capabilities like Mohamed ElBaradei can. As the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1997 to 2009, who tried to prevent the illegal invasion of Iraq on spurious WMD grounds in 2003, ElBaradei joins Mehdi to discuss the biggest and most concerning aspects of the Israel-American war with Iran , the credibility of i...

In the wake of the US's assassination of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, many are asking – will Iran actually see regime change, as President Donald Trump has  called  for? What would that take? And is the real goal to engineer a civil war inside of Iran and leave it as a failed state? In this 'Mehdi Unfiltered' interview,  Mehdi  gets straight down to the facts with one of the top I...

"This isn't a war! It was a preemptive strike! " That's the ludicrous and false narrative the Trump administration and the GOP have been touting since the US and Israel launched their illegal attack on Iran less than a week ago. But in his latest monologue,  Mehdi brings the receipts to show how we've heard this story before – just look at Putin's war in Ukraine. The parallels, he says, are as cle...

In this week's segment from Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by Rep. André Carson to discuss the latest on the Israeli-US attack on Iran.   SUBSCRIBE TO ZETEO TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENT AND UNFILTERED JOURNALISM: https://zeteo.com/subscribe   WATCH 'MEHDI UNFILTERED' ON SUBSTACK: https://zeteo.com/s/mehdi-unfiltered   FIND ZETEO: Twitter: https://twitter.com/zeteo_news Instagram: https://www.instagra...

In this 'Mehdi Unfiltered' interview,  Mohsen Mahdawi  – a Columbia student who was infamously  detained  by ICE last year at his citizenship interview – describes to  Mehdi  the  "chilling effect"  taking place on campus, after the arrest of him and other pro-Palestine students, and the university's $221 million  settlement with the Trump administration. SUBSCRIBE TO ZETEO TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENT...

In this episode of Mehdi Unfiltered, former DNC rising star David Hogg talks to Mehdi about being ousted as DNC vice chair, his Leaders We Deserve PAC, and why younger progressives are the key to the Democratic Party's future. SUBSCRIBE TO ZETEO TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENT AND UNFILTERED JOURNALISM:  https://zeteo.com/subscribe FIND ZETEO: Twitter: https://twitter.com/zeteo_news Instagram: https://www....

Attorney, trial lawyer, and former MSNBC anchor  Katie Phang  joins her former colleague and good friend  Mehdi on set in DC, to unpack the latest in the Epstein saga and Donald Trump's ongoing violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and more.  SUBSCRIBE TO ZETEO TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENT AND UNFILTERED JOURNALISM: https://zeteo.com/subscribe WATCH, LISTEN AND SUBSCRIBE TO 'WE'RE NOT KIDDING...

Democrats should be doing victory laps right now, after President Donald Trump's rambling State of the Union address is already polling as the least popular SOTU speech of the century. Yet, the party still appears to be in worse shape than ever before, suffering from their own record-low approval ratings. Perhaps that's why people like Rep. Seth Moulton, a 47-year old Iraq War veteran, are calling...

The US Senate may vote soon on one of Donald Trump's most dangerous plots against our free and fair elections yet – the SAVE America Act. Although the Trump White House and its Republican allies in Congress are trying to brand it as a simple set of voter ID laws, Mehdi explains in this monologue why the bill is far more sinister than its name leads on, and why it could threaten everyone from marri...

In this week's segment from Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by Israeli human rights lawyer and executive director of the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, Sari Bashi, who co-authored a memoir about love under apartheid and the consequences of an Israeli falling in love with a Palestinian. SUBSCRIBE TO ZETEO TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENT AND UNFILTERED JOURNALISM: https://zeteo.com/subscribe W...

Since being named CBS News's Editor in Chief in October, Bari Weiss has turned the network into a soft-MAGA mouthpiece – just take a look at its latest roster of contributors, which is a who's who of at best, centrist pundits, and at worst, right-wing hacks. While it's easy to dunk on Bari Weiss, CBS's rightward shift is indicative of a larger problem in our media ecosystem: across so-called "libe...

In  part two of his wide-ranging 'Mehdi Unfiltered' interview, the Financial Times ' US editor and veteran columnist Edward Luce unpacks the state of geopolitics in the era of Trump 2.0 and whether Trump will actually use military force to annex Greenland. SUBSCRIBE TO ZETEO TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENT AND UNFILTERED JOURNALISM: https://zeteo.com/subscribe WATCH 'MEHDI UNFILTERED' ON SUBSTACK: https://...