Podcast
Mehdi Unfiltered
A weekly show that delivers unfiltered news, bold opinions, and challenging interviews you won't find elsewhere.
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- #28
- Episodes
- 254
- Releases
- Twice a week
- Typical length
- 30 min
- On air since
- 2024
- Latest episode
- 1 day ago
Episodes
254 episodes, newest first
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15 min
This Progressive is Vying to Become Florida's First Black Senator on Tuesday
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In this week's segment from Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by Florida Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon to discuss Laura Loomer's racist attacks against her, why she might leave the Democratic Party if it doesn't change, and how CBS News misrepresented her remarks on Cuba.
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44 min
'Zionists Are the Enemies of the Jews': Jewish Author of Provocative New Book on Anti-Zionism
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In this week's segment from Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Benjamin Moser, who makes the case for why Zionism isn't Judaism, and how it is being used to replace Judaism while oppressing and displacing Palestinians.
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1 hr 13 min
Progressive vs Moderate: Mehdi Debates Centrist, Contrarian Pundit Matthew Yglesias on Gaza, El-Sayed, and More
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Mehdi has never backed down from a good ol' Twitter feud, especially with centrist, contrarian pundit Matthew Yglesias – the author of 'Slow Boring', one of the most popular political Substack newsletters, and one of the most-read writers inside of the Biden transition team. In this 'Mehdi Unfiltered' segment, the two finally take each other on, in-person, for the very first time.
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52 min
How Did October 7 Happen? Mehdi Asks a Former Israeli Intelligence Official
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Three years ago, the world was left stunned by Hamas's brutal and horrific surprise attack on Israel, in which the militant group killed over 1,000 Israelis and kidnapped over 250 people.
Yet, as details emerged about warnings that went ignored and the military's slow response to the October 7 attack, many began to ask – how much of a surprise attack was this?
In this 'Mehdi Unfiltered' interview, Mehdi asks Avi Melamed – who has served in various intelligence and counterterrorism positions for the Israeli government – some of the most crucial questions that have come out about Israel's apparent lack of preparation around the October 7 attack.
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43 min
This Filmmaker Exposed Benjamin Netanyahu. Now, He's Taking On Elon Musk
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Alex Gibney sits down with Mehdi to discuss his nearly four-hour long exposé on the world's richest man.
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49 min
The 'End Times' Fascists Want Doomsday. Can They Be Stopped?
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Genocidal wars framed as holy missions. Government agents shooting people on the streets. Robots that threaten extinction.
Those scenarios should just be the plot of another end-of-the-world movie. Instead, it's the reality we're living in, as Zeteo contributor Naomi Klein and documentarian Astra Taylor, describe in their newest book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World.
In this interview, Klein and Taylor join Mehdi to discuss how this reality is bringing us closer to the kind of doomsday we see in movies, and how the rich and powerful – and the systems that uphold them – are accelerating that destruction.
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37 min
Is This the 'Defining Political Emotion of Our Time'? A Best-Selling Author Makes the Case
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Acclaimed writer Anand Giridharadas talks to Mehdi about what the chokehold death of a man on an NYC subway car reveals about Americans' collective political anxieties and deep partisan division.
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30 min
Is Chris Van Hollen Running for President? Here's What He Is Saying to Mehdi
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In this week's segment from Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by Maryland senator Chris Van Hollen, who discusses Israeli war crimes and the threat of AI, as well as his own 2028 presidential ambitions and Chuck Schumer's future as Dem leader in the Senate.
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26 min
She's Gen Z. She's an Immigrant. And She's Going to Congress!
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In this week's segment from Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by Melat Kiros, the democratic socialist insurgent who defeated a sitting Democrat from Colorado, and whose path to Congress started after being fired for opposing Israel's genocide in Gaza.
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25 min
Trump, Putin, and the Ongoing Plot to Undermine Our Elections
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In this week's segment from Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by David Corn to discuss his new book, 'How Russia Won: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America,' and whether or not he has any regrets about breaking the news of the now-infamous Steele dossier.
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34 min
Abdul El-Sayed Hits Back Against His Critics
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In this week's segment from Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed to discuss not sending money to Israel, being a girl-dad, and the never-ending questions about Hasan Piker.
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17 min
Noura Erakat On Why She Was Arrested for Protesting Israeli Bond Investments
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In this week's segment from Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by US-Palestinian academic and human rights lawyer Noura Erakat and the executive director of the Internationalist Law Center, Lydia Ghuman. Erakat joins Mehdi after she was arrested at a budget hearing in Palm Beach, Florida, for trying to speak out on the county's enormous investments in Israel.
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16 min
Two 9/11 Mothers Remember Their Children Killed 25 Years Ago
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In this week's segment from Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by the mothers of two victims of the Twin Towers attack to reflect on their loss and the culture of fear and Islamophobia that has proliferated since.
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48 min
Are Democrats Turning Against Israel - or Jews? Two Leading Jewish Voices Debate Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism
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Joel Rubin and Peter Beinart go head-to-head on dwindling Democratic Party support for Israel as well as the conflation of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiment in this 'Mehdi Unfiltered' debate.
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23 min
He Lost His Father on 9/11. 25 Years Later, He Is Part of a Lawsuit Against Saudi Arabia
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In this week's segment from Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by Brett Eagleson to discuss the alleged 'cover up' of Saudi Arabia's role and calls to ban NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani from the 9/11 commemoration.
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23 min
How Islamophobia Was Built Into U.S. Policy and Law Even Before 9/11
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Constant surveillance, anti-immigration policies, and open hatred… Has Islamophobia in the U.S. gotten worse since 9/11? And did anti-Muslim bigotry in America exist long before then?
In this 'Mehdi Unfiltered' conversation, Rozina Ali, journalist and the author of a new book on Islamophobia, joins Mehdi to examine the manufacturing of anti-Muslim hatred in America, and its dangerous amplification in the Trump and post-Oct. 7 eras.
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24 min
Here's How You Tax the Billionaires
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In this week's segment from Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by economist Gabriel Zucman to discuss why opponents of California's billionaire tax are wrong, how to get Bezos and Musk to pay their fair share, and whether the UK's Andy Burnham should opt for a wealth tax.
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19 min
Pakistanis 'Massively Disappointed' in Trump and the U.S., Says Top Imran Khan Adviser
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Zulfi Bukhari gives Mehdi an update on the former Pakistani prime minister's health, the crackdown on his party, and whether Trump conned Pakistani supporters.
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30 min
Meet the Former Trump White House Lawyer Who Says Our Democracy Could Be 'Screwed' in 2026
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Ty Cobb, who represented the Trump White House during the Mueller investigation, questions whether democracy will survive the midterms and accuses Trump of 'unprecedented' corruption.
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1 hr 6 min
Mehdi Challenges Hunter Biden on Gaza, the 2024 Election, Democrats, and His Own Regrets
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In a no-holds-barred, hour-long, in-person conversation in LA, Hunter Biden talks to Mehdi about his addiction, corruption allegations, the Trumps, Gaza, his father's disastrous reelection campaign, and more.
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