Prem Thakker

3 days ago | zeteo.com | Mehdi Hasan |Prem Thakker

In this breaking news livestream, Mehdi and Prem react to Zohran Mamdani’s big win in the New York City mayoral primary and what it means for the general election in November. Be sure to check out Prem’s latest reporting on the story:

4 days ago | zeteo.com | Prem Thakker

In a Substack and YouTube Live joined by thousands of viewers around the world, Zeteo’s Prem Thakker and Matt Duss – Executive Vice President of the Center for International Policy and former foreign policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders – cover all the stakes of Iran’s retaliatory strike on a US airbase in Qatar. The strikes followed the US bombing Iranian nuclear sites on Sunday.

4 days ago | zeteo.com | Prem Thakker

“I hope that you will interview him soon.” That’s what Mapheze Saleh told me a few weeks ago at a Zeteo DC event, about her detained husband, Badar Khan Suri. And now, we have made it happen. Suri, a Georgetown scholar, was released from ICE detention in Texas after a federal judge ordered him to be freed on bail.

1 week ago | zeteo.com | Prem Thakker

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has requested $30 million from the now beleaguered USAID – a request sources say the agency is being “forced” by higher-ups to quickly approve. The request comes after Israeli forces killed hundreds of Palestinians at or near the GHF aid sites since the chaotic operation began late last month. On Friday morning, the same day the request came in, Israeli tanks and drones fired at thousands of people near a distribution site, reportedly killing at least 23 people.

1 week ago | open.substack.com | Prem Thakker

On Friday, a federal judge in New Jersey ordered Palestinian Columbia University student protest leader Mahmoud Khalil to be released from ICE detention on bail. Khalil, a green card holder, was detained by masked immigration agents in the lobby of his Columbia-owned housing in March. Khalil’s arrest was the first in a string of abductions that expanded into a muchlarger operation against student protesters and international students generally.