DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas

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...

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: • In the harrowing months that followed the attacks on the World Trade Center, New Yorkers were repeatedly assured that the air around the fallen towers was safe to breathe. But 10 months later, health officials were still finding evidence...

Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM Eastern time. Today we discuss: • There are major anxieties about interference in the 2026 midterm elections . Will the Trump administration use executive orders or declare a national emergency to sow confusion? Will there be federal agents at polls, ballot seizures, and rest...

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: • US Vice President JD Vance blurts “sometimes things happen” when asked whether an American bombing attack was responsible for killing four people, including a child, at a wedding celebration in southern Iran. The strike has been independ...

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: • For 24 hours after Army Secretary Dan Driscoll told Trump the US has lost to Iran and a US bomb attack killed at least 5 guests at a wedding party and wounded at least 67 , Trump’s familiar playbook for his war for/with Israel was on ful...

Ted Rall, Jamarl Thomas, and producer Robby West host an unscripted Q&A, discussing a viral clip about former co-host John Kiriakou’s abrupt departure for CAA, which they describe as transactional rather than personal. They cover immigration enforcement, Pete Hegseth’s fitness as Defense Secretary, Ukraine’s strategy and civilian threats, evangelical end-times theology versus a plain reading 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: • Far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos said he is “very ashamed” for supporting Trump after ICE thugs deported him back to the UK. Yiannopoulos called his experience “humiliating and disorienting.” He said he experienced “brutality.” “I...

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: • NBC correspondent Matt Bradley says his team is “recovering well” after they “all took hits” from Israeli settler-terrorists during an interview the day before with elderly Palestinian woman Aida Ahmed Abdullah, who was knocked unconscio...

"DeProgram" co-hosts Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas host a birthday Q&A that covers capitalism’s inherent incompatibility with democracy due to money in politics, the reasons for Nixon’s gold standard exit in 1973 and inflation as a hidden tax, war lies from Lincoln to Trump, and a lack of consequences for warmongers. They discuss oligarchy versus republic, the need for public consent for wars, th...

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: • “Too Much, Too Long” : Top generals warn in the the Aug. 14 edition of the Secretary of Defense Orders Book (SDOB) to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that prolonged large-scale operations against Iran are unsustainable and risks weakening...

Have a question for Ted and/or co-host Jamarl Thomas? Join the hosts of "DeProgram" for a full hour of nothing but LIVE Q&A! Any topic, any question, goes—it's up to you. Q&A extras are every Monday and Wednesday at 12 noon Eastern time. Ted Rall and Robby West handle Friday Q&A after Jamarl’s absence, covering subscriptions, STEM versus liberal-arts prestige, last-meals, Israel’s Barr...