It's Our 6-Month Birthday! Look At All We've Done Together.

From a documentary to podcasts, special reporting, prominent interviews, and powerful essays - Zeteo's exclusive content is all thanks to your support.

Dear Zeteo subscriber,

Time flies!

It was six months ago today that Zeteo officially launched, with a fantastic event at the Spy Museum in Washington DC featuring AOC and a live audience of subscribers, and a first episode of ‘Mehdi Unfiltered’ featuring former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert taking my questions on war crimes.

Frankly, and immodestly, I happen to be quite impressed by what we, with your remarkable support, have achieved so far. Having made a decision to avoid advertisers and sponsors, and rely only on you, our subscribers, we have been able to publish original articles and op-eds, exclusive interviews, panel discussions, podcasts, streaming shows, live events, essential reporting, an acclaimed documentary, an exclusive opinion poll, Zoom town halls for subscribers, host live events, and much more!

So thank you! It’s because of our paid subscribers that we have been able to defy the critics and naysayers and build a new media company that is both honest and independent, as well as impactful on the issues that matter. It is thanks to our paid subscribers that we were able to fund a ground-breaking documentary on Israel’s war crimes in Gaza, ‘Israel’s Reel Extremism’; champion good ol’ fashioned adversarial journalism (like with Democratic congressman Dean Phillips); and present diverse and outspoken views and opinions that you won’t find anywhere else in the mainstream media, from Greta Thunberg, Bassem Yousef, Naomi Klein, Owen Jones, Fatima Bhutto, and many others.

And the rest of the mainstream media is paying attention: the Washington Post noted how we are already “the fifth most-popular politics publication on Substack” while New York magazine devoted an entire - and very lengthy - profile piece to the launch of Zeteo.

So, as the birthday boy, may I now make a request? For those of you who are free subscribers, consider signing up as a paid subscriber today. A paid subscription not only gets you past all the paywalls on our exclusive videos and articles, entry to virtual Town Hall discussions where you can ask questions of Mehdi and prominent guests, and early access tickets to special in-person events, but also helps you become part of our Zeteo community (where you can also comment on posts, telling us what you think) and makes you a financial contributor towards a truly independent, non-corporate, anti-establishment media movement. As I have said before, a free press isn’t free! We are though offering a 20% discount on annual subscriptions right now, to mark six months of Zeteo, so it’s a great time to upgrade if you’ve been thinking about it!

And, if you need a reminder of what your subscription gets you, here are just some of the highlights from the past half-year on Zeteo.

Do you remember my world-exclusive interview with Imran Khan in May, from behind bars in Pakistan?

EXCLUSIVE: Imran Khan Talks to Me From Prison

How about Jewish PhD student Jonathan Ben-Menachem’s viral first-person perspective from Columbia University in April, busting some of the pro-Israel misinformation around the college campus protests for Gaza?

I Am a Jewish Student at Columbia. Don’t Believe What You’re Being Told About ‘Campus Antisemitism’

In May, Zeteo broke the story about rightwing Republicans in the US Senate secretly threatening International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Karim Khan and his family, warning him of dire consequences if he dared to request an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu.

EXCLUSIVE: “You Have Been Warned”: Republican Senators Threaten the ICC Prosecutor over Possible Israel Arrest Warrants

We’ve been covering US politics as well, of course.

Is Joe Biden the ‘White Moderate’ that MLK Warned Us About?

Project 2025: Everything You Need To Know In Two Minutes

There were also my exclusive sit-down interviews with some of the world’s most interesting and influential elected leaders, from Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor to London Mayor Sadiq Khan, as well as some of Hollywood’s biggest names, including John Legend and Riz Ahmed.

And, has any other journalist in the US done more to relentlessly and forensically demand accountability from the Biden administration for Israel’s murder of little Hind Rajab in Gaza than Zeteo’s political correspondent Prem Thakker? Surely you’ve seen the viral videos of Prem grilling State Department spokesman Matthew Miller from briefing room, right?

200 Days and Still No Justice for Hind

If you’re already a paid subscriber, please know that you made all of the above happen, and we simply could not have done it without you (and if you can afford it, consider upgrading to Founding member status). Again, thank you.

If you’re a free subscriber, we appreciate you and hope you also appreciate what you are reading and watching from Zeteo, but we do urge you to take the next step and become a paid subscriber today, at a discounted rate. I mean, come on... really… what are you waiting for?

Here’s to the next six months of success for Zeteo – for accountability journalism, critical perspectives, and for our new media movement!

Best,
Mehdi