DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! • House Republicans derail the impeachment of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth . They vote 211-204 to bury the resolution in committee, refusing accountability for unauthorized wars against Iran, Yemen and Venezuela, civilian murders, and free-speech retaliation. Behind the story is a bombshell r...

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET. • French officials blast Iran’s IRGC for a brazen cyber-assault that hijacks supermarket freezers, cranks temperatures past 50°C, spoils tons of food, a...

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET. • President Trump sounds dazed and in denial about election results that send a harsh signal: Americans are finished with him . Now the nation enters a...

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! N.B. Due to a technical glitch, this episode is audio-only. Nevertheless, it's well worth listening to even though you can't watch the participants. So we're releasing it now, in the hope of inviting Prof. Zenkus back soon for the full audio-visual experience of "DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jam...

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! • Here are the receipts on America’s decades-long schemes and plots to leverage Ukraine against the USSR and now Russia. Join “DeProgram” for a live conversation with Stephen Kinzer, veteran foreign correspondent, author, and senior fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute. A former New Yo...

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET. • Positioning himself for the 2028 presidential campaign, Vice President JD Vance published a shockingly blunt statement blaming Trump’s war against Ira...

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET. • In a dramatic repudiation of President Trump, Democrats seize both the House and Senate , flipping seats in traditionally red states such as Texas and...

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! • Finally—it’s Election Day in the US Midterm Elections. Most Americans have already voted early, and analysts expect Democrats to sweep the House, Senate and local races in an historic Blue Wave. Republican candidates and supporters are privately furious at Trump over his oblivious style, inat...

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! • Loser Haley Stevens betrays her party at the last moment by endorsing Trump Republican Mike Rogers over Democrat Abdul El-Sayed for the Senate. At stake: which party controls the U.S. Senate for the next two years. Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thom...

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! • Sir Patrick Stewart, the distinguished British actor, dies at age 86 in Los Angeles from Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia.⁠ He rose from a working-class childhood to become a leading Shakespearean stage performer before achieving global fame as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek:...

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! • In an echo of the Cold War, right-wing presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro flees to exile in Miami with his family after losing to Lula. He defies a Brazilian court order to surrender his passport, proclaims himself the nation’s true leader, and thanks Trump for the warm welcome amid poli...

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! • Alex Pretti’s parents slam the US government for staying silent and misleading them about the investigation into their son’s fatal shooting by immigration agents in Minneapolis last January. Michael and Susan Pretti say officials ignore their questions, refuse to share basic facts, and shield...

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! • Catholic bishops accuse the White House of conning them and then secretly filming them praying over Trump in the Oval Office and turning a private meeting into a political stunt. Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream med...

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! • Voting has begun in the US midterm elections . With 8 days left until Nov. 3rd, Democrats are heavy favorites for the House (85–95% across models, projecting ~230 seats) and slight favorites for the Senate (55–75%). A generic-ballot lead of roughly 8–11 points and Trump’s ~37% approval create...

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! • Youth protests erupt in Albania , torching buildings and clashing with police over corruption and a Kushner-backed resort, while similar fury flares in Italy, France and beyond as citizens demand that governments deliver for them. Meanwhile, Kushner blasts a Vanity Fair excerpt as “outrageous...

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Join Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas on "DeProgram" as they interview historian Thaddeus Russell about his new book "Savior and Seducer." Thaddeus Russell discusses his book “Savior and Seducer,” arguing that U.S. foreign policy has long been driven by a sincere “savior complex”—a Christian-evangeli...

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! • France’s “Doom Loop”: Populist protests explode across France as investors dump bonds and borrowing costs surge. President Emmanuel Macron faces a brutal trap : spend to calm the streets and risk market panic, or do nothing and fuel political chaos ahead of next year’s election.⁠ America carr...

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! • Join Ted and Jamarl for a timely conversation with Prof. Gideon Rahat, leading expert on the Israeli election system . With Israel’s elections days away, Rahat—political scientist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute—brings deep knowledge...

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! • France erupts in its biggest riots in years as education and living-cost protests explode into deadly chaos. Hooded rioters torch buildings and loot hundreds of shops while police blast tear gas; over 2,000 face arrest amid two deaths. President Macron vows accountability as unrest threatens...

• ICE agents ram their unmarked SUV into a fleeing Houston construction worker , shattering his leg in a pursuit of an alleged fugitive. As local police consider criminal charges against ICE and accuse ICE of lying and destroying evidence, the face plastered on their “wanted bulletin” belongs to a ghost : a man who plunged to his death from a Mexican border cliff in 2017 while evading immigration...

Zelensky says Ukraine will resume Russian refinery strikes, defying Trump. Kyiv’s anger boils over following sudden Starlink throttling and continued Russian attacks. Kyiv suspects deliberate pressure from Musk or the White House after Zelensky criticizes U.S. policy. Partial service returns, yet suspicions linger amid denied early warnings of Russian strikes. Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist T...

Trump privately debates scrapping plans to livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan after learning the paralyzed gunman relies on a wheelchair . Why didn’t he know? Advisers warn that the grim public images could martyr the terrorist or embolden enemies, even as Trump remains firmly committed to carrying out the death sentence itself. Conflict reporter/writer/cartooni...

“DeProgram” invites Michael Tracey , an independent journalist and commentator known for contrarian coverage of media and sexual-assault narratives, to discuss the 2026 Cornell “Jane Doe” civil lawsuit , filed by a former student alleged she was drugged and assaulted by seven Chi Phi fraternity members on October 19, 2024. Tracey has emphasized due-process concerns, the asymmetry of naming the acc...

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 firing squad execution of 2009 Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed December 3rd. • Unidentified ICE agents using unmarked cars surrounded a Dominican man and his 5-year-old child in his car in the Marble Hill sec...

• Israeli settler-terrorists attacked and fired at two Agence France-Presse journalists as they were reporting on settler violence against Palestinian olive farmers in the West Bank. Photographers Jaafar Ashtiyeh and John Wessels were taking pictures of an IDF soldier detaining a man when a driver on a quad bike opened fire with at least six other colonists and stole their camera equipment. Ashtiy...