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: • CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s mysterious trip to Moscow this week was preceded by fresh U.S. intelligence indicating that the Kremlin sees the US as weakened by the Iran war , offering Russia an opportunity to escalate action against Ame...

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: • Canadian trade officials acknowledge that their retaliatory tariffs of up to 50% on $20 billion in American goods are intended to exert pressure on key U.S. states. The tariffs could hit states in the Midwest and Northeast particularly h...

Robby West and Jamarl Thomas host a Q&A-style “DeProgram” episode without Ted Rall. They discuss technical issues with Rumble, Trump’s alleged ownership by Israeli interests due to paid legal bills and lawfare, comparisons to Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, America First immigration policies favoring mass deportations, government data manipulation, institutional collapse risks, interfaith cul...

Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM Eastern time. Today we discuss: • At least one in four NFL players will probably get chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE ). Should football be banned ? At least 215 of 878 players who died from 2016 to 2021 — 24.5% — had CTE. The actual prevalence could be far higher. This...

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: • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims Iran tried to kill one of his sons , but gave no details about ​when the alleged plot took place, which son was targeted or how ‌close it came to being carried out. Netanyahu's oldest son,...

Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas discuss Robby West’s 17-year-old son enlisting in the Marines without parental consent, exploring recruiter deceptions, military as indentured servitude, parental anguish, blank-check loyalty risks, and American mythology versus reality. They share personal stories of abuse, suicide considerations, and veteran disillusionment, then field audience comments on anger, colla...

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: • President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said this weekend that his former defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov was wrong to call for national elections and that holding a vote in the middle of war could divide Ukraine. “Elections right now...

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. "DeProgram" hosts Ted Rall, Jamarl Thomas, and producer Robby West host the first Friday Q&A, Gen Z’s rejection of capitalism due to economic insecurity, personal stories including Jamarl’s long-term kidney dialysis, bike...

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: • Nathan Cofnas , the U.S. professor who raised plagiarism concerns over ‌ Cambridge professor Jason Arday , who then committed suicide, has been suspended by Belgium's Ghent University and is under investigation for discrimination. Arday,...

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: • America’s gross national debt topped $40 trillion , after decades of borrowing to pay for the rising costs of the military, social safety net programs and Trump’s tax cuts. This year, the United States is on track to borrow more than $2...

"DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas" hosts, with producer Robby West, delve into another wild and wooly Q&A show in which they answer anything and everything! This time, Ted and Jamarl discuss the reliability and lack thereof of political polls, share their favorite music genres and artists, plus guilty-pleasure movies, recount their personal arrest stories and youthful misadventures, e...

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 task force created to combat “antisemitism” pushed for settlements with Ivy League universities despite government investigations that were rushed and incomplete or that failed to establish legal violations by the schools, a fo...

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 Palestinian-American whose home in the occupied West Bank has been besieged by Israeli settlers for over a week travels to his property to join family members who have been defending it. The standoff, in the village of Qusra, has see...

Have a question for Ted and/or co-host Jamarl Thomas? Join the hosts of "DeProgram" for a full hour of LIVE Q&A! Any topic, any question, goes—it's up to you. Also, Ecuadorian journalist, geopolitical analyst Esteban Carrillo joins Ted and Jamarl to discuss and analyze President Trump's threat to bomb Oman. “If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the shit out of them," Trump rants. Q&A extras...

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: • Centrist Democrats keep pressuring progressive Democrats to cut ties with their most strident allies, like streamer Hasan Piker . “Well look, you know, it certainly makes sense to get rid of this Hasan Piker affiliation,” Haley Stevens t...

Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM Eastern time. Today we discuss: • Help is on the way—but it’s a slow boat coming further away than China. The USS George Washington , based in Japan, will replace the USS Abraham Lincoln . 5,000 crew members have been at sea for more than 260 days—causing a mental health cris...

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 if the Middle East War wasn’t bad enough for the environment, a massive oil slick from a leaking Russian tanker has fouled 2,000 square miles of ocean off the coast of Oman. Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln , 5,000 sailors are enduring...

"DeProgram" hosts Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas offer a wild-and-crazy Q&A episode. Ted recounts auctioning dinners on eBay and a bizarre encounter with an incestuous brother-sister couple who were fans and requested a threesome, sparking debate on taboos, “love is love,” and personal boundaries. Conversation expands into incest themes in porn, media like “Game of Thrones,” cultural practices suc...

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: • Iran has become a more skilled adversary as the war has progressed , learning how to evade U.S. air defenses as it widened the battlefield to include most of the Middle East and enlisted allies like the Houthis in Yemen and militias in 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: • Iran seeks war reparations from the US. Trump flips the table, demanding compensation from Iran , citing attacks and atrocities stretching back decades allegedly backed or perpetrated by Iran. He also claimed compensation for the October...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas analyze the Middle East conflict and Trump's attempts to extract the U.S. from his war with Dr. Seyed Mohammad Marandi is an Iranian-American academic, professor of English literature and Orientalism at the University of Tehran, and a prominent political analyst. Son of physician and former Iranian Health Minister Ali...

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 civil war in the Democratic Party moves to Wisconsin tomorrow. State Rep. Francesca Hong is the front-runner to become the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, fueled by a populist campaign tapping into voters’ cost of living concerns....

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: • When there’s a problem, what do you do—fix it? Or blame the person who points it out? Trump threatens to hunt down “leakers” after news reports detailed a depletion of munitions stockpiles . The military has burned through nearly all of...

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: • We almost got a new president! The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating why an American Airlines jet came dangerously close to a helicopter carrying President Donald Trump —an incident taking place as the presidential helicop...

In this Q&A episode of "DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas," hosts Ted and Jamarl ponder the surprisingly narrow Michigan primary victory of Abdul El-Sayed over AIPAC-backed Haley Stevens, questioning polling accuracy and possible machine influence or irregularities. They review Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States,” how cultural exposure affects attraction, honeypot s...