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Posts By: Mehran Khalili

Radiohead concert

I still listen to Radiohead… and I think Israel is committing genocide

Opinion

27.06.2026

Afriend just told me he can’t listen to Radiohead anymore over Palestine. As the death toll in Gaza climbed, the band stayed mostly quiet. And ...

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Warplanes fly over Athens

The left needs better answers for scared people

Opinion

17.06.2026

By separating our immediate demands from end goals, the left can speak to the real fears people are living with today. These are insecure times. ...

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Palestine resistance

Institutionalising resistance

Opinion

12.05.2026

Much of the damage in our organising is done by things we never agreed to do. It was 2008 and I’d arrived in Brussels six months earlier, the ...

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Yurii Sheliazhenko

Refusing to kill: A conversation with Ukrainian pacifist Yurii Sheliazhenko

30.04.2026

What happens when you refuse to fight? As militarisation accelerates across Europe and beyond, Mehran Khalili spoke with Yurii Sheliazhenko, a ...

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Iran: How we oppose this war

23.03.2026

Earlier this week I sat down with Yanis Varoufakis and Grace Blakeley on a DiEM25 livestream to ask a question I’ve been circling for weeks now ...

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Iran war

Where’s the resistance to the Iran war?

Opinion

13.03.2026

A majority of Americans already oppose the war in Iran, but the bombs won’t stop until public opinion is converted into real pressure

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Left wing activists

The two reflexes that are breaking the left

Opinion

4.02.2026

Values keep movements honest, while a material approach gets results, and there’s a time and place for both.

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The US dropped the mask: Use it

Opinion

20.01.2026

If we want to confront power, we need to know how it works. This week I sat down with Yanis Varoufakis and the commentator Arnaud Bertrand to ...

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2025’s most ridiculous political moments

19.12.2025

It was the year politics truly went off the rails. And when that happens, satire turns into a basic necessity.

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