DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET. Today we discuss: • As the Gaza War begins its fourth year, Israel has lost. Israelis are reeling from new revelations in Israeli and U.S. media that the country had been repeatedly warned by its regional allies that Hamas was planning to attack . The war h...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET. Today we discuss: • Trump said the U.S. is willing to help Russia after the State Department announced it was monitoring a reportedly fatal case of "pneumonia of an unknown etiology”— pneumonic plague —linked to a Russian plague research laboratory in Irkut...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET. Today we discuss: • Polls predict a major defeat for Republicans as voters angry about the economy prepare to hand the House and Senate back to Democrats. Yet Trump continues rallying for Republican candidates while visiting Ohio, proposing a defiant outloo...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET. Today we discuss: • Murtaza Hussain , senior national security and foreign affairs journalist at Drop Site News, joins “Deprogram” to discuss the latest reporting on the US massacre of schoolchildren and educators at Minab during the opening days of the Isr...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET. Today we discuss: • Christa Pike is in critical condition and receiving “lifesaving care” at a hospital, after two failed attempts to execute her using the drug Tennessee (tries to) use to kill prisoners. • National protests by French high-school students o...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET. Today we discuss: • Crisis in Romania: After the PSD Socialists joined with the right-wing AUR to bring down Liberal Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan’s coalition, in protest at austerity, Bucharest parliamentarians turned down independent moderate President Nicu...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET. Today we discuss: • Caving to right-wing Zionists, NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani releases a report claiming that American Jews have reported a marked rise in antisemitism in the past decade. It also states that antisemitism, and acts of antisemitic violence, hav...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET. Today we discuss: • A theft by the criminal hacking group ShinyHunters of reams of sensitive personal data involving potentially tens of thousands of former and current F.B.I. employees is emerging as one of the worst breaches of sensitive government inform...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET. Today we discuss: • A growing number of Republicans scramble to disown the costly Iran war . Trump’s conflict has sent the prices of gasoline, diesel and heating oil upward, and cost increases have spilled across the economy. Mortgage rates have also climbe...

Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM Eastern time. Today we discuss: • In an epic display of nerve, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insulted New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani —head of the host city of the UN—in a wild address to the United Nations General Assembly that saw many delegates walk out befo...

Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM Eastern time. \ Today we discuss: • In an indication of how radicalized international relations have become, Prime Minister Mark Carney says that Canada is preparing for the “extreme tail risk” that US President Trump might order military action against Canada . • ICE left a...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET. This week, “Deprogram” expands into two hours Monday, Wednesday, and Friday! Today we discuss: • The podium of the United Nations was an unusual setting for the leader of a global superpower to threaten to “ annihilate the Islamic republic” of Iran or to de...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET. 00:14 Show Open: Ben Moser Interview and Today's Headlines 02:29 Herzl, Colonialism, and the Early Zionist Project 12:48 Religion Versus Ethnicity and Jews in the Muslim World 19:31 Fear, Victimhood, and Why Zionism Feels Like a Prison 28:17 Can Israel Surv...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET. This week, “Deprogram” expands into two hours Monday, Wednesday, and Friday! 00:00 New two-hour schedule and today's rundown 12:35 Iran's terms to end the war 28:48 BRICS, the Gulf, and Fat Tony 37:57 Can you vote your way out of this? 51:03 A sedated publi...

On the Q&A Episode of "DeProgram," Ted Rall, Jamarl Thomas, and guest, Chicago Tribune cartoonist Scott Stantis, confide personal stories of “fighting for love,” the perils of financial tensions in romantic relationships, exotic foreign travel, chess adventures in Azerbaijan, and humorous sexual misadventures. They address viewer questions on Macklemore’s “Free Palestine” remarks, cancel cultu...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET. 00:00 Show Open And Today's Rundown 04:21 Trump And The Kennedy Center 10:06 AI Scraping And Who Pays Artists 20:09 Bone-Crushing Sanctions And China Energy 35:31 Dons, Memes, And Lost Pop Culture 47:58 Hasan Piker And Guilt By Association 01:02 Cuba, Sanct...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET. Today we discuss: • The Wall Street Journal reports that dapper Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth only wants attractive, masculine, troops who meet waist-to-height requirements and have “impeccable” grooming to attend his speeches . This comes after he encouraged...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET. Ted Rall, Jamarl Thomas, and Robby West debate the Lindsay Clancy case: a mother who strangled her three children amid claimed postpartum psychosis, resulting in a hung jury (11-1 for acquittal). They clash over whether planning and method prove guilt or wh...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET. Today we discuss: • The Trump administration approves a $2.8 billion sale of heavy bombs to Israel , in what would be among the largest deliveries of U.S. munitions there even as public support for the country declines. The proposed sale would include 40,00...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET. Today we discuss: • A big win for the gerontocracy as half-dead octogenarian Mitch McConnell returns to the US Senate . • The Supreme Court refuses to let Trump’s U.S. Postal Service tighten the use of mail-in ballots ahead of the midterm elections. Homelan...

Ted Rall, Jamarl Thomas, and Robby West discuss expanding DeProgram into two-hour Monday-Wednesday-Friday shows for better retention and ad revenue after Rumble changes. They debate accountability after a hypothetical one-state solution in Israel/Palestine, historical collaboration and Nuremberg, family Civil War stories, Fed rate hikes amid oil shocks and AI-driven markets, Trump’s character and...

Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM Eastern time. Today we discuss: • Trump stands by his support for a united Ireland . Trump said in Dublin, sitting beside Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin on Saturday, that he'd "love to see" Ireland unified and that it is "going to happen eventually," so it "may as well happen...

Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM Eastern time. Today we discuss: • 9/11 led to legalized torture and wars based on lies. Have we learned anything? Despite WMDs, Trump is lying about Iran. Despite his lies, Bush is an elder statesman. Politicization of national security and patriotism is worse than ever. And...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET. Today we discuss: • 25 years ago, 19 Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked 4 passenger jets and crashed them into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, killing more than 3,000 people. Hasan Piker has taken heat for saying America deserved it. (He has since retracted...

In this episode of DeProgram, Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas sit down with journalist Sonali Kolhatkar to discuss her new book Breaking ICE: Community Defense against State Terror and MAGA Fascism . The conversation covers the on-the-ground reality of intensified ICE operations, workplace raids, surveillance, and detention conditions, then shifts to the organized pushback she documents from Maine to C...