Mehdi Hasan
Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
- “The actions are the latest purge by Gabbard, who has said she is fighting politicization of the intelligence community but has removed or sidelined officials perceived to not support Trump’s political agenda.” Imagine. If. Biden. Had. Done. This.
- The War on Terror, per Brown Uni, killed over 4 million & cost $8 trillion over 24 years. It ramped up Islamophobia & shredded civil liberties. And here we are today with a Republican president meeting a former Al Qaeda leader. If only some of us had been listened to in 2001.
- I literally made this joke throughout Trump’s first term: that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi could have avoided being killed by the US if he’d offered to build a Trump Tower in Raqqa. I was joking. And yet:
- If Barack Obama had appeared in a photo like this, Republicans would have impeached him and then someone would have assassinated him.
- A reminder that if this same headline and subhed was published somewhere else with Qatar changed to Israel, the same Free Press that published this piece would scream that it was antisemitic.
- Zeteo is on fire right now zeteo.com/subscribe
- The man who wanted to ban all Muslims from entering the United States because of terrorism is meeting this week with the former head of Al Qaeda in Syria.
- Cue multiple op-eds and editorials in our leading newspapers questioning the President's age and fitness for off-.... oh. Wait.
- "why can’t timid Democrats call for the abolition of Ice, which was created only in 2003 by George W Bush, making it even younger than Leonardo DiCaprio’s current girlfriend?" My latest for the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- This NBC News story is about my interview with Ms. Rachel. The headline to the piece is fair (‘doubles down support for children in Gaza). This tweet language though is embarrassing, shameless even. Racist too. Watch my full interview with her btw, she’s amazing: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...
