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Editor and CEO, Zeteo Author, ‘Win Every Argument’ British-American

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The Iran war puts Asia in an energy panic Stranded Gulf supplies are choking off the region’s economies

“It is up by 42% since hostilities began. American motorists are already paying over $3.40 for a gallon of petrol on average, around 50 cents more than on February 27th. In Europe prices of natural gas, of which the Gulf normally ships lots in liquefied form, are 92% higher than before the war.”

09.03.2026 10:06 — 👍 434    🔁 151    💬 31    📌 6
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Seven US Regime Change Wars, Ranked by Disastrousness Trump has killed Iran's supreme leader and is demanding 'unconditional surrender.' But history tells us that US-led regime change efforts abroad almost never bring positive results.

"Many Americans seem to have forgotten just how catastrophic US regime change wars have been in the past. So, with the risk of history repeating itself once again, here is Zeteo’s list of seven of the US’s most disastrous attempts at regime change, ranked"

09.03.2026 04:21 — 👍 1229    🔁 451    💬 40    📌 13

"DHS insists they are targeting criminals. But all I see here are mothers, sisters, daughters, grandmothers...they are transferred from detention center to detention center. It is human trafficking, by another name...Listen to our words. Demand accountability."

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On this International Women's Day, please don't forget all the women in this detention facility. This is Leqaa Kordia, a NJ resident:

"An Immigration judge has now twice ordered my release on bond, but ICE used procedural loopholes each time to keep me confined."

Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121

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On March 8, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Six male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear
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On March 8, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Six male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear UNCLASSIFIED

We’re still murdering people in “drug boats” even as we start a new war in Iran. Six people today.

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Thanks

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Beheaded Babies? Trump White House Attacks Me for Calling Out Its Anti-Iran, Anti-Palestinian Propaganda Do please support Zeteo as the US government pushes pro-Israel, pro-war lies that very few other journalists are bothering to rebut, refute or debunk.

“Beheaded Babies? Trump White House Attacks Me for Calling Out Its Anti-Iran, Anti-Palestinian Propaganda”

My response:

08.03.2026 21:02 — 👍 614    🔁 132    💬 16    📌 5
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EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year Don't forget us on International Women's Day, writes Leqaa Kordia.

“EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year”

Writing for Zeteo from inside of prison on International Women’s Day, Leqaa Kordia asks us not to forget the female detainees being held and mistreated in ICE detention camps.

08.03.2026 20:10 — 👍 2452    🔁 977    💬 13    📌 20
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I know a bunch of groypers run the administration’s Twitter accounts but just in terms of basic facts: 1) Iran or Iranians didn’t carry out Oct 7, & 2) no babies had their heads cut off on Oct 7. Just total atrocity propaganda that was long ago debunked but still pushed by Trump

08.03.2026 02:17 — 👍 2042    🔁 420    💬 58    📌 8
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Sources: Trump Is Dangerously Close to Sending Troops to Iran Advisers are urging the president ‘to go bigger to end this once and for all.’

Trump Is Dangerously Close to Sending Troops to Iran: Sources Tell Zeteo

07.03.2026 23:23 — 👍 1085    🔁 348    💬 157    📌 52
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Nothing to see here. Just GOP Senator and arch-hawk Lindsey Graham treating, and speaking to, Donald Trump like a six-year-old child to manipulate him into a war of aggression against Iran that Netanyahu and Graham have long wanted. Beyond parody:

07.03.2026 18:40 — 👍 1443    🔁 413    💬 73    📌 18
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Seven US Regime Change Wars, Ranked by Disastrousness Trump has killed Iran's supreme leader and is demanding 'unconditional surrender.' But history tells us that US-led regime change efforts abroad almost never bring positive results.

“Seven US Regime Change Wars, Ranked by Disastrousness”

07.03.2026 18:32 — 👍 539    🔁 152    💬 17    📌 7
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"You don't liberate people at the barrel of a gun. Have we learned nothing from Iraq or Afghanistan? All we seem to have learned is from Gaza. Israel has learned that you can bomb hospitals & schools with impunity."

Me on MSNOW with @chrislhayes.bsky.social

Full intv: youtube.com/watch?v=u7LU...

07.03.2026 05:00 — 👍 3534    🔁 971    💬 74    📌 29
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Trump’s White House Posts Fascist Memes As It Wrecks the Economy The president’s extremely online staff is posting ‘Grand Theft Auto’ memes and cracking jokes about his Iran war as energy prices explode.

“Trump’s White House Posts Fascist Memes As It Wrecks the Economy”

The president’s extremely online staff is posting ‘Grand Theft Auto’ memes and cracking jokes about his Iran war as energy prices explode.

07.03.2026 11:11 — 👍 1424    🔁 416    💬 76    📌 23
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This Week in Democracy – Week 59: An Illegal War Abroad, More Madness at Home Zeteo's weekly round-up, documenting the growth of authoritarianism in Trump's second term.

"From launching an illegal war with no clear strategy to obstructing a DHS inspector general, here’s what Trump and his allies did this week that harm democracy, undermine the Constitution, and hurt societies worldwide"

From Zeteo's 'This Week in Democracy':

07.03.2026 05:14 — 👍 776    🔁 185    💬 15    📌 4
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"You don't liberate people at the barrel of a gun. Have we learned nothing from Iraq or Afghanistan? All we seem to have learned is from Gaza. Israel has learned that you can bomb hospitals & schools with impunity."

Me on MSNOW with @chrislhayes.bsky.social

Full intv: youtube.com/watch?v=u7LU...

07.03.2026 05:00 — 👍 3534    🔁 971    💬 74    📌 29

I’ll be on @msnownews.bsky.social with @chrislhayes.bsky.social talking about the US strike on the Iranian elementary school and the rising civilian casualties in this war. Live at 8.40pm Eastern.

Join us.

07.03.2026 00:35 — 👍 701    🔁 101    💬 24    📌 2
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Subscribe to Zeteo Zeteo is a new media organization that seeks to answer the questions that really matter, while always striving for the truth. Founded by Mehdi Hasan, Zeteo is a movement for media accountability, unfi...

Want to know how broken our media is? We are in an illegal war, & reporters/anchors are getting on the phone with Trump daily & just…relaying his words to their viewers, like stenographers. No challenging questions or follow-ups, no discomforting of Trump.

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06.03.2026 14:30 — 👍 908    🔁 224    💬 32    📌 10
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✝️ A Holy War Against Iran? Mehdi on the Republican religious nutjobs pining for Armageddon in the Middle East. Plus: the latest on the Iran school bombing and, for once, a disgraced Republican is shamed into quitting politics.

"The Real Religious Fanatics Behind the Iran War"

They're not in Tehran, they're in Washington DC. I bring receipts in my lede piece for today's First Draft morning newsletter from Zeteo.

Check it out/share/subscribe:

06.03.2026 13:24 — 👍 1386    🔁 417    💬 74    📌 23

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.

Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.

We live in Orwellian times.

06.03.2026 13:15 — 👍 7493    🔁 2537    💬 178    📌 56
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U.S. Military Joins Drug War in Ecuador: “It Wasn’t Going to Be Just Boat Strikes Forever” Two government officials told The Intercept that the joint U.S.–Ecuador military action won’t just be a one-off raid.

The US under 'antiwar' Trump has now also launched military operations in Ecuador too:

05.03.2026 21:22 — 👍 1064    🔁 430    💬 80    📌 40
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BREAKING: Trump Axes His Puppy Killer Kristi Noem is out at the Department of Homeland Security, partly for a very silly reason. The department will remain under the control of Stephen Miller.

Trump axes his puppy killer

05.03.2026 20:35 — 👍 1432    🔁 214    💬 118    📌 21
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This ghoul has finally been fired. But make no mistake, Stephen Miller is still in charge of DHS and especially ICE.

05.03.2026 18:52 — 👍 4767    🔁 1067    💬 255    📌 55
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There Are 47,635 Epstein Files Offline for Review, DOJ Says Among the unreleased documents are a woman’s unverified allegations against President Trump.

While we all watch Iran…

05.03.2026 16:29 — 👍 1827    🔁 708    💬 65    📌 16
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First Draft: 🤬 Is This the Worst-Run War in US History? Trump and his administration are improvising a major conflict in the Middle East, as Democrats keep winning in the 2026 redistricting war that is immensely backfiring on the GOP.

“privately, Trump has voiced extreme unease about how the rising American body count “looks,” and few officials close to him believe he has tolerance for a protracted quagmire, sources with knowledge of the matter tell me” - Swin for Zeteo’s First Draft morning newsletter. Have you subscribed yet?

05.03.2026 13:18 — 👍 867    🔁 224    💬 123    📌 64

I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them.

I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.

05.03.2026 13:07 — 👍 9556    🔁 2759    💬 472    📌 112

It could be worse, John Fetterman could have chased after me with a gun.

05.03.2026 02:29 — 👍 3347    🔁 622    💬 366    📌 49
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Bari Weiss Is Going Full ‘Propaganda-Palooza’ With the Iran War The CBS News war coverage is going exactly as we thought it would. Plus, Gayle King goes 'all in' on Weiss, while CNN commentator Scott Jennings sucks up to her.

“Bari Weiss Is Going Full ‘Propaganda-Palooza’ With the Iran War”

Read our media columnist ⁦Justin Baragona’s latest scoops from inside pro-Israel, pro-war CBS News:

05.03.2026 02:22 — 👍 749    🔁 185    💬 26    📌 1
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Trump Blurts Out Damning Iran Admission as MAGA Turns Harshly on Him As Trump accidentally reveals too much about his failure to plan for his war against Iran, a reporter who covers Trumpworld explains the real reasons MAGA is in such a fury over this developing fiasco...

"A lot of people in MAGA are thinking: You were supposed to be making war on the Twin Cities and Minnesota and Mexico! What are you doing with this invading Iran bullshit?"

On the pod, @swin24.bsky.social skewers the myth of antiwar MAGA. It's great stuff. Listen:
newrepublic.com/article/2073...

04.03.2026 14:10 — 👍 565    🔁 156    💬 21    📌 5
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First Draft: The Vote to Stop the War? Congress has a chance this week to block further US military action in Iran. Gavin Newsom says the A-word about Israel. And a clear victory for Democrat James Talarico in the Texas Senate primary.

“The Vote to Stop the War?”

Congress has a chance this week to block further US military action in Iran. Gavin Newsom says the A-word about Israel. And a clear victory for Democrat James Talarico in the Texas Senate primary.

Today’s First Draft:

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