Mehdi Hasan

Mehdi Hasan

I had an absolutely fascinating and wide-ranging conversation with former CIA agent turned whistleblower and now podcaster @johnkiriakou.bsky.social about Trump, Epstein, Israel, Iran, abolishing the CIA, Dems to watch in 2028, and more. Full interview: zeteo.com/p/former-cia...

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"Trump's Vision of Perpetual Imperial War" Pulitzer Prize-winning Vietnamese-American novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen reflects on how the war in Iran shows, yet again, that the U.S. has learned the wrong lessons from Viet Nam.

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Sheesh, it never ends with Trump and his revenge tour and actual weaponization of the DOJ.

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Eid Mubarak!

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"They Thought Trump Would Help Free Imran Khan – But They Were Terribly Wrong" The former Pakistani leader remains behind bars, prompting those Pakistani-American groups that backed Trump and Republicans in 2024 to now worry they got 'played' by the president and his team.

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“Self defense strikes”

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I have been saying for years that Democrats should run against Republicans on the issue of corruption. Make fighting corruption the centerpiece of their hopefully populist campaigns. Well, if they don’t run on corruption this year, against Trump, then they deserve to lose.

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Re the claims circulating online about Iran having agreed to get rid of its stockpile of highly enriched uranium: A well-placed Iranian source tells me there is “no agreement” on the “nuclear issue” and the two sides are focused on “ending the war and the crisis of Hormuz.”

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How did I only just discover that Don Jr is marrying the daughter of a prominent Epstein enabler? Her late dad, a banker, wrote Epstein a reference letter calling him "a gentleman of the highest integrity" to help get him tax breaks &… his island. Can’t make this stuff up.

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"First Draft: Has the Democratic Party Learned Nothing From 2024?" The Democratic National Committee’s embarrassing 2024 'autopsy,' finally published, didn’t even mention Gaza. Read/share/subscribe to First Draft from Zeteo:

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“Inside Trump’s War on Late-Night Comedy – and Why It Matters” Tonight, Stephen Colbert’s show will end. Trump’s deeply corrupt and autocratic efforts to harass and censor late-night TV hosts who mock or criticize him... will not.

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"The 9 Most Insane Things About Trump's $1.8 Billion Slush Fund" For Zeteo, a constitutional law professor breaks down the illegality and absurdity of a corrupt president's settlement with... himself. Read/share/subscribe:

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"Is Bari Weiss Getting Demoted?" Rumors swirl that the CBS News editor-in-chief’s role may be scaled back. Plus, Fox’s coverage of the horrific San Diego mosque shooting was worse than you could have imagined. Read this week's 'Ragebait' media column from Zeteo:

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"When a mosque is attacked in the US, Republican politicians are silent... and there is no one on the Democratic side talking like Laura Loomer... Republicans get away with this stuff." I was on Piers Morgan today talking San Diego. Full show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXth...

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"The 7 Most Islamophobic Things That Republicans Have Said Just This Year Alone" In the wake of a horrific shooting at a San Diego mosque, Zeteo takes a look back at the GOP’s most bigoted rhetoric of 2026 – so far.

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Republican voters in Kentucky who presumably spent much of 2024 banging on about Epstein just ejected from Congress their own Republican congressman, who helped get the Epstein files out, in order to please the close friend of Epstein, Donald Trump.

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The US-Israeli plan for regime change in Iran at the start of this war was apparently to replace Khamenei with… Mahmoud Ahmadinejad! The most insane-sounding story you will read today:

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BREAKING: Thomas Massie Loses Primary in Big Win for Trump and AIPAC

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“First Draft: Islamophobes Can't Shut Up Even as Muslims Are Murdered at a California Mosque” 3 people were shot dead at the Islamic Center of San Diego, amid rising GOP anti-Muslim invective that has been left largely unchecked by the mainstream media.

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It should be a huge scandal that a close confidante of, and adviser to, President Trump and Secretary Rubio reacted to a deadly terrorist attack at a mosque by calling the mosque "evil" and calling for the deportation of all Muslims from America. But it isn't. *sighs*

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"Scott Jennings, the Most Annoying Man on Cable News" Speaking to insiders, Justin Baragona looks at how Jennings evolved from his 'aw shucks' Bush-era conservatism to WWE-style pro-Trump pugilism, and what his recent on-air outburst says about CNN.

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