Whatever you think of the current administration, it is astonishing that so many Americans who hate the president and the government are willing to sit passively at home, rather than actively resist.
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They’re Not Even Trying to Lie Well Anymore
Venezuela is merely one of seven countries Trump bombed in 2025, one of several where regime change is the official but unstated agenda. Increasingly, Americans are being asked to support going to war and deploying the military in lethal actions even in the absence of anything approximating a casus belli.
Manners During Trumpism
ICE agents are the worst possible people. Masked and unidentified, they roam the country terrorizing innocent, hard-working people, and kidnap them and their kids with no consideration for their constitutional rights. Sometimes, you hear about some misfortune befalling one of them. Sadly, you have to pretend to at least feel neutral about this. Until the Trump madness blows over, here’s how to keep your poker face.
Scraping the Bottom
In the same way that companies like Facebook’s habit of scraping news from news websites helped drive traditional news organizations out of business, leaving Facebook with little original news to send out to its users, A.I. models are scraping websites for content, which will deny them the traffic they need to survive. Then, what will A.I. do?
I’m Right Here
Hundreds of thousands of STEM workers who have graduated with professional science and math degrees and have substantial tech experience are unemployed in the U.S. Yet American employers continue the fiction that they can’t find Americans to do these jobs, requiring them to import foreign workers under the H-1B visa program.
On the Road 2025
US Border Patrol collects millions of tracking data points about American motorists in order to form profiles of their travels. Those deemed suspicious are targeted for pretextual stops by local law enforcement in one of the most Orwellian developments of our age. Jack Kerouac would not have approved.
The Logic of Sanctions
Given the logic of sanctions, it’s unsurprising that they hardly ever prove effective. A large country like the U.S. imposes economic misery on a country’s inhabitants in the hope that they, rather than hate the U.S., will blame their own government and then overthrow it, thus doing what the U.S. wants.
Not Sporting
Presidents of both parties have assassinated thousands of innocent people all around the world with drones. The latest iteration of these extrajudicial killings is Trump’s campaign against so-called narco-terrorists in the southern Caribbean, who are carrying cocaine to Africa and Europe, not the United States. But the incident that attracted criticism and investigations was the DOD’s decision to kill a pair of survivors of one such strike off the coast of Venezuela.
Why Politicians Lie
Politicians and political parties that smear and lie about others find themselves in a dilemma that begins with the fact that there doesn’t seem to be much electoral punishment for lying.
Medical Status Symbol
With ACA subsidies expiring and neither party serious about creating a real medical insurance system, healthcare is becoming as much of a luxury status purchase as a Rolex or a Rolls-Royce.
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Rogue State | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou
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Live 9 AM Eastern and Streaming All Day: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM EST. Today we discuss: • America’s Coup Against Venezuela: The UN Security Council and many nations, including US allies, criticize Trump for overthrowing and kidnapping President Nicolás Maduro, and Trump threatens a second military attack unless Acting President Delcy Rodriguez collaborates with the US to expel Cubans and Iranians, cracking down on drugs, and ceasing oil sales to US adversaries. Venezuela braces for economic collapse. Oh, and Canada is worried about the effect on its oil industry. Maduro calls himself a POW. • Cuba in Trouble: Venezuelan oil supplies likely to be cut off, but neither Mexico nor Russia is inclined to fill the gap. Will the US intervene militarily in a country likely to resist? • Trump Targets Poor Kids: HHS to cut off Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois and Colorado—Democratic states—from…
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Live at 9 AM Eastern time, then streaming 24-7: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM EST. Today we discuss the ultimate holiday weekend media dump: the overthrow of a sovereign head of state of a country most voters can’t find on a map. • Regime change against Venezuela: President Maduro kidnapped, VP less compliant than Trump hoped, Trump says he wants to steal the nation’s oil. Will the UN, Congress, Europe or the Democrats prove less useless than usual? John and Ted explain what’s happening and predict what’s next. • Never too many new wars: Trump threatens to attack Greenland, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico and Iran. Which threats are real? Will Congress insist on its war powers, or impeach the president? • AI psyops are go: Images of Maduro in custody and of Venezuelans celebrating in the street have been debunked as fake, but does it matter? Oh,…
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LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM EST. Special TWO-HOUR SHOW! Starting 10 AM EST, we’re taking your voice calls. Tune in early for a full explanation for how to talk to Ted and John LIVE. Today we discuss: • Happy New Year! Millions of Americans now have no health insurance, thanks to bipartisan Congressional inaction. • Taking a page from Trump, new NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani hits the ground running with leftie rhetoric and an unapologetically liberal agenda. Gone is the Adams’ Administration’s IHRA’s right-wing definition of anti-Semitism. He will also speed up public and private housing construction. • Swiss ski resort fire kills about 40 people. A “flashfuire” is blamed. • Venezuela’s president says he’s open to a deal. Meanwhile, the Pentagon blew up 3 more “drug boats”—and left survivors floating in the ocean.
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LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM EST. Special TWO-HOUR SHOW! Starting 10 AM EST, we’re taking your voice calls. Tune in early for a full explanation for how to talk to Ted and John LIVE. Today we discuss: • Israel blocks 37 aid groups from Gaza. How much worse will the misery get? Will the world care? • Trump bombed 7 countries in 2025: Somalia, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Venezuela, Syria and Nigeria. • US border agents are searching travelers’ phones and other electronic devices at a record rate. • Zohran Mamdani becomes Mayor of New York tonight.
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LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM EST. Special TWO-HOUR SHOW! Starting 10 AM EST, we’re taking your voice calls. Tune in early for a full explanation for how to talk to Ted and John LIVE. Today we discuss: • The U.S. has been operating for the past 5 years under the assumption that China is preparing to invade Taiwan as soon as 2027. China is conducting military drills that encircle the island of Taiwan, demonstrating its ability to blockade. • Trump bombed a shipping dock, probably in Venezuela, where “they load drugs.” Looks like the drugs are marijuana. • Medicaid can share patient data with ICE, judge rules. • Protests in Iran over inflation and the collapse of the rial.
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