Mehran Khalili

What are the sources you actually rely on to stay informed right now?

This piece was originally published in Waging Nonviolence.

A friend just told me he can’t listen to Radiohead anymore over Palestine.

This piece was originally published in Waging Nonviolence.

Hello!

Much of the damage in our organising is done by things we never agreed to do.

The world is militarising, and conscription is back.

I wouldn’t normally be sitting in the cramped first-floor office of a camera shop in Athens city centre on a Saturday morning, but there we were, 10 of us, wannabe Leica shooters and the merchandise on the desk, laid out like weapons in an illicit handove…

Earlier this week I sat down with Yanis Varoufakis and Grace Blakeley on a livestream to ask a question I’ve been circling for weeks now – why is there so little resistance to this war in Iran, and what would it take to actually build it?

A version of this piece was also published in Waging Nonviolence.

Let me be blunt: I’m tired of reading these big “end of capitalism” articles.

This piece was originally published in Waging Nonviolence.

Update 20/01/26: I turned this article into a video.

2025 was the year politics truly went off the rails.

There’s this idea that won’t go away — that the reason the far right1 are rising in many countries is because people are racist.