The United States constantly does bad things that its political leaders claim go against the nation’s fundamental values. If you do something all the time, isn’t THAT your value?
Ted Rall’s Latest Books:
Kill the Human Race to Save It
After ISIS killed 13 US soldiers at the airport in Kabul, Joe Biden accidentally assassinated a US aid worker and his seven young children using a drone. Killing the wrong people isn’t an occasional but rather a systematic, routine feature of drone warfare.
What Passes for Progressivism
There is no left in the United States. Certainly not in Congress. Even “progressive” Democrats like AOC argue that the rich should pay higher taxes, a stance perfectly aligned with mainstream DNC leadership. No one argues about where those taxes should be going.
How to Talk to an Anti-Vaxxer
There’s a cultural war raging between people who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and those who already have. Caught in the middle are people who got the vaccine but don’t have contempt for those who haven’t.
Ethics Gone to the Dogs
The United States only managed to evacuate 7,000 out of the 120,000 Afghans and their family members who were eligible for U.S. visas because they worked for occupation forces. But we did manage to bring out hundreds of cats and dogs.
We Are Worse Than the Taliban
The new Taliban government of Afghanistan received widespread international criticism for using whips and sticks against women protesting in favor of women’s rights. But Western countries like the United States use even harsher methods to suppress their own demonstrators.
Happy 9/11 Day
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 left a bunch of ridiculous legacies that pretty much everyone with an ounce of sanity agrees we should let go. For example, let’s get rid of the TSA and go back to the old days of airport security. And let’s stop saying that we have to do something before we think about what to do.
The China Syndrome
Now that the US military is finally out of the horrid occupation of Afghanistan, the clique of professional warmongers has convinced President Biden that China is a threat. What kind of threat, they can’t exactly say, but a threat.
Hey Patsies! Want a Job?
Soon the US will invade another country and recruit locals to work for them. Who will be able to trust their assurances that they’ll be protected and evacuated afterward, given that so many Afghans were abandoned in Afghanistan?
Quit Bellyaching About Afghanistan
Joe Biden and his defenders say a messy evacuation from Afghanistan was inevitable, though if that’s true, why didn’t they plan accordingly? Now they argue that criticism of the execution of the withdrawal is tantamount to remaining indefinitely.
“The Stringer”
graphic novel
by Ted Rall & Pablo G. Callejo
“Political Suicide: The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party”
by Ted Rall
“Bernie (Revised 2020 Edition)”
by Ted Rall
DMZ America Podcast Episode 14: America’s latest pretty dead white woman fixation and Haitian refugee ambivalence
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Ted and Scott discuss the American media’s latest obsession with an attractive Caucasian dead woman. Also, our national disregard for the plight of tens of thousands of Haitian refugees. Plus, the scare-mongering of John Bolton as neo-conservatives scramble to stay relevant.
Read MoreNew DMZ Podcast: After Afghanistan, Another War? And: What Are Our Values, Anyway?
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President Joe Biden delivers his first speech to the United Nations, prompting political cartoonist Ted Rall and Scott Stantis to ponder what comes next in foreign policy under Biden and for the foreseeable future? Ted pushes back against Scott’s description of China as a “threat.” Scott surprises with his updated take on 1930s-style isolationism. Border patrol goons use whips to control Haitian immigrants at the border with Mexico; can we really say at this point that, as the secretary of homeland security argued, this is against American values?
Read MoreTaliban Cops Aren’t as Bad as American Cops
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Journalism needs a new rule. Are you reporting about a human rights violation in another country? If the United States commits the same offense, you should be required to refer to that fact in your article or broadcast. Criticizing how a nation treats its prisoners or responds to internal dissent implies that the behavior being discussed falls outside international norms. If your own country does the same thing and you don’t mention it, your lie of omission strips your story of context. There have been many examples of such journalistic malfeasance in coverage of the Taliban since their takeover of Afghanistan. “Taliban fighters used whips and sticks against a group of women protesting in Kabul,” CNN reported September 9th. “The fighters also beat a number of journalists covering the demonstration, according to witnesses.” This is terrible. Violent suppression of peaceful protests should be covered and widely circulated, as was this story—although it’s hardly surprising that a brand-new revolutionary government…
Read MoreCalifornia Recalls to SCOTUS Hacks to General Miley. This new podcast has it all!
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It’s an ADD episode where Ted and Scott discuss everything from SCOTUS political hacks to Covid-19 booster shots to outlawing drones. Also we ask the question: where do you buy YOUR submarines?
Read MoreDemocrats Share the Blame for Afghanistan
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Joe Biden is taking heat from Democrats, not for his decision to withdraw from Afghanistan—that’s popular—but for his haphazard pullout that, self-serving Rumsfeldian stuff happens, wars end messily platitudes aside, could have been executed more efficiently. They blame George W. Bush for starting America’s longest war, arguing that what he began inexorably led to our most shocking military defeat and its humiliating aftermath. I am sympathetic to any and all criticism of our intervention in Afghanistan. I was an early critic of the war and got beaten up for my stance by media allies of the Bush administration. But the very same liberals who now pretend they’re against the Afghan disaster stood by when it mattered and did nothing to defend war critics because Democrats—political leaders and voters alike—went far beyond tacit consent. They were actively complicit with the Republicans’ war, at the time of the invasion and throughout the decades-long occupation of Afghanistan. Now the deadbeat dads…
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