Democracy Now! "Instrument of Vengeance": Mehdi Hasan on How Trump & Kash Patel Could Weaponize FBI against Critics

Dec 2, 2024 | We speak with journalist Mehdi Hasan, founder and editor-in-chief of _Zeteo_, about the incoming U.S. administration and President-elect Donald Trump's picks for key roles, including lawyer Kash Patel to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Trump reportedly considered Patel for FBI deputy director during his first term but dropped the idea after pushback from within his own administration. Hasan describes Patel as a "toady" whose threats against political opponents and journalists should be disqualifying, but that he aligns with Trump's goals of further politicizing the FBI. "He wants to use it as an instrument of vengeance."

Americans and their use of that disgusting word “freakin”! What they mean, of course, is f*****g! Both words are typical of American English. Nobody in his right mind would ever accuse Americans of being ‘refined’. That was the least important part of my criticism, of course. The important part is that American politics, which is both disgusting and corrupt, is coming over here. Keep American politics over there, across the Pond, where it belongs! – © Mark Alecander

Is Donald Trump a Fascist Threat to America? Mehdi and Steve Schmidt Discuss

Oct 29, 2024 | “In what world do you see a Donald Trump leaving office? Just going, ‘Yeah, I’m done. See you later, people.’ That he doesn't try and stay on, that he doesn't try and install a family member or a corrupt acolyte. This idea that there will be free and fair elections in 2028 — after four more years of Republican Trump rule — is delusional.”

Mehdi and Steve Schmidt, veteran Republican strategist and ardent ‘Never Trumper,’ talk Donald Trump and his 2024 campaign — and they agree that American democracy is at existential risk from a fascist movement led by the former president. Watch the full discussion on why even House Republicans fear a second Trump term, and why the media is turning a blind eye to fascism – again – when it comes to Trump.


WARNING! This video contains some very strong language. Discretion is advised. – Mark

Cenk Uygur Explains Why He Thinks MSNBC Canceled Mehdi Hasan's Show

Dec 1, 2023 | Mehdi Hasan's MSNBC show will replaced by an ensemble program called The Weekend. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks.

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Blowback: How Israel Helped Create Hamas

Feb 20, 2018 | Did you also know that Hamas — which is an Arabic acronym for “Islamic Resistance Movement” — would probably not exist today were it not for the Jewish state? That the Israelis helped turn a bunch of fringe Palestinian Islamists in the late 1970s into one of the world’s most notorious militant groups? That Hamas is blowback?

Former Israeli official Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who was the Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s, told a New York Times reporter that he had helped finance the Palestinian Islamist movement as a “counterweight” to the secularists and leftists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Fatah party, led by Yasser Arafat. Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009 that Hamas is “Israel’s creation.” Hamas was the result of this, as Mehdi Hasan explains. First, the Israelis helped build up a militant strain of Palestinian political Islam, in the form of Hamas and its Muslim Brotherhood precursors; then, the Israelis switched tack and tried to bomb, besiege, and blockade it out of existence.

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Donald Trump’s Extremely Fascist Week

Sep 28, 2023 | Calling for the execution of Mark Milley, America’s top general; threatening critical media outlets with punishment; visiting a gun shop connected to a white supremacist mass shooter. Mehdi says it’s high time Trump’s fascist playbook got at least as much media attention as Biden’s age.

‘The Hard Truth’: Mehdi Grills Vivek Ramaswamy on His Record and Past Statements

Sep 6, 2023 | Mehdi Hasan’s full interview with GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, ranging from what qualifications he has for the most powerful office in the world, how he squares his past criticism of Trump with his lavish praise today, and why he has made truth the centerpiece of his campaign when his statements are littered with contradictions.

Steve Schmidt Reacts to Vivek Ramaswamy's Embarrassing Interview on MSNBC | The Warning

Sep 7, 2023 | Steve Schmidt reacts to Vivek Ramaswamy's embarassing interview with Medhi Hasan. Steve explains why holding Donald Trump imitators like Ramaswamy to account is essential to saving our democracy.

"Are You an ATHEIST?"- Mehdi Hasan Asks Prof. Richard Dawkins | #shorts

Click here to listen to Professor Dawkins’ amusing answer.

Richard Dawkins Talking about Isra and Mi'raj – Prophet Muhammad’s Night Journey to Jerusalem from Mecca and Then Up to the Heavens and Back, Flying on a Winged Horse by the Name of Buraq | #shorts

Click here to listen to Richard Dawkins telling Mehdi Hasan what he thinks about this mythological journey.
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Forget Hunter Biden, What about Jared and Ivanka’s Grift?

Jun 29, 2023 | If Republicans are truly worried about members of the first family improperly benefitting from their name, Mehdi says there are two people besides Hunter Biden that they should be looking at: Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.

"You Can Find Contradictory Verses in Holy Books"- Richard Dawkins

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Mehdi Hasan Introduces You to Putin’s Favorite Fascist Philosopher

Mar 21, 2022 • MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan walks viewers through the life of Russian philosopher Ivan Ilyin and what his work reveals about the mindset of Vladimir Putin on his invasion of Ukraine.

Richard Dawkins on Religion

May 16, 2013 • An interview with renowned atheist Richard Dawkins on whether religion is a force for good or evil.

Fanaticism, fundamentalism, superstition and ignorance. Religion is getting a bad press these days. Much of the conflict in the world, from the Middle East to Nigeria and Myanmar, is often blamed on religion.

But how are things from a different perspective? Defenders of religion claim Adolf Hitler was an atheist. Communism under Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot or Mao Zedong banned religion, but also massacred millions. And science brought incredible and amazing advances, but also pollution and the atomic bomb.

A critic of religious dogmatism, Professor Richard Dawkins revolutionised genetics in 1976 with the publication of The Selfish Gene, which explained how evolution takes place at the genetic level. He has since written 12 more bestsellers, including The God Delusion which sold millions of copies, was translated into more than 30 languages, and catapulted him to the position of the world's foremost atheist.

Mehdi Hasan interviews evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins at the Oxford Union and asks: Is religion a force for good or evil? Can it co-exist with science? Is science the new religion? And why if god does not exist, is religion so persistent?

USA: Conspiracy Theories Pose a Real Threat

Mehdi explains the nonsense and dangerous conspiracy theories Trump's allies and former White House officials have been pushing. Then, Rep. Adam Smith joins to discuss just how dangerous they could be to the future of the republic.

How the Richest Get Richer in the Pandemic While Americans Struggle | The Mehdi Hasan Show

Anand Giridharadas joins Mehdi Hasan to detail how America's richest few have grown their wealth amid the pandemic, often at the expense of the poor and middle class.

CC Ivanka Trump: How the President Has Stoked Unrest | The Mehdi Hasan Show | The Choice on Peacock

Two minute drill: Mehdi Hasan sums up almost everything Ivanka's father, the president, has done to incite violence and terror here in the U.S. since 2015.

Fmr. MI GOP Exec: I'm "Not Confident That They'll Certify the Election" | The Mehdi Hasan Show

Despite that lack of confidence, fmr. longtime Republican Jeff Timmer says his ex-colleagues in the Michigan GOP "have an obligation to certify the election results. A court will likely tell them to certify the election results."

Mary Trump: The President is Not Going to Concede | The Mehdi Hasan Show

Mary Trump, a psychologist and President Trump's niece, joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss how the GOP has enabled Trump's unwillingness to concede, delaying critical information sharing with the incoming Biden administration.

Islam and Democracy: What's the Problem? | UpFront

In a special edition of UpFront, recorded before Ennahda's announcement, Mehdi Hasan speaks to a panel of experts, analysts and activists about whether there can be a balance between Islamic and democratic values.

Blackwater's Erik Prince: Iraq, Privatising Wars, and Trump | Head to Head