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We Support Ukraine. Shouldn’t We Be Supporting Iran?

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Ted Rall
In 1984, one of Orwell’s characters explains that “doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” There’s a less elegant, yet equally absurd, way to describe the behavior of a politician who expresses two contradictory beliefs at once. People do what they want, and retrofit their ideological justification after the fact. Israel’s war against Iran provides an unambiguous example of political doublethink. The United States is supporting Israel militarily, Trump called Israel’s attack “excellent,” and members of Congress from both major political parties have issued statements backing the Jewish state. Yet the same U.S. and political leaders support Ukraine. No two wars are identical, yet the circumstances of the Russo-Ukrainian War and the Israel-Iran conflict are remarkably analogous. Israel is to Iran as Russia is to Ukraine. Russia claimed that the Ukrainian government’s ideological extremism and increasing ties to anti-Russian regional allies, particularly its professed desire to join NATO, presented…
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Israel: An Idea That No Longer Makes Sense

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Ted Rall
People who support Israel, no matter what it does, tend to hang their hats on a series of familiar arguments. Israel, they say, is the only place Jews can live in security. Critics of Israel want to eliminate Israel. The abolition of Israel would render Israeli Jews homeless (ethnic cleansing), or they would be killed (genocide). Therefore, anyone who criticizes Israel—any anti-Zionist, anyone appalled by Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians—is, by definition, anti-Semitic. Let’s take these assumptions one at a time, beginning with the shibboleth of Israel As Safe Haven. “I think without Israel, there’s not a Jew in the world that’s secure. I think Israel is essential,” President Biden, a strident Zionist, said to Bibi Netanyahu in 2023. He’s wrong. Whatever good Israel provides to Jewish people, it does not include protecting them from physical harm. Roughly half the world’s Jews (7.2 million, three out of four Israelis) live in Israel compared to 8 million in other countries. Between 2015…
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Democrats Must Apologize for Biden Cover-Up

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Ted Rall

Ted Rall reveals how Democrats concealed Joe Biden’s mental and physical health issues, eroding public trust. With polls showing voter distrust, Rall argues the party must apologize and take action, like the Tylenol crisis response, to recover credibility.

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Biden’s Many “Original Sins”

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Ted Rall

Ted Rall reviews “Original Sin,” exposing the Democratic cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline, the sabotage of Bernie Sanders, and Kamala Harris’ disastrous VP selection. This gripping tale of political betrayal paved the way for Trump’s return, with lasting consequences for democracy.

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TMI Show Ep 141: “Biden’s Cancer, Democrats’ Reckoning”

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Ted Rall
LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: This week on The TMI Show, hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan confront the stunning news of President Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis, a bombshell that escalates calls for the Democratic Party to answer for its handling of his health. The revelation intensifies scrutiny over the party’s cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline, which ushered in Trump’s sweeping victory. Ted and Manila dissect the political wreckage, probing how the Democrats’ reluctance to address Biden’s senility shattered public confidence and altered the nation’s course. Why did party leaders prioritize lies over victory? How does Biden’s cancer diagnosis deepen doubts about transparency in governance? With their fearless, incisive approach, the hosts unravel the consequences for the Democratic Party’s credibility and the evolving political arena. This is The TMI Show at its most gripping—delivering unflinching analysis of leadership, health, and accountability. Plus: Joined by guest Todd “Bubba” Horwitz, the show examines the U.S. economy’s current trajectory, marked by…
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Trump Is Shocking But Not New

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Ted Rall
The philosopher Nigel Warburton shrugged: “Users of slippery slope arguments should take skiing lessons—you really can choose to stop.” But slippery slopes are a thing precisely because people often choose to keep cruising along until they smash into Sonny Bono’s tree. Critics from both parties describe Donald Trump’s behavior and policies as unprecedented. This presidency, however, did not emerge from a vacuum. Everything Trump does builds on presidential politics of the not-so-recent past—mostly, but not always, Republican. Trump has shocked free speech advocates and civil libertarians by ordering his masked ICE goons to abduct college students off city streets for participating in campus protests criticizing Israel for carpet-bombing Gaza. (An aside: what will he say when someone avails themselves of their Second Amendment rights rather than allow themselves to be chucked into an unmarked van by random strangers?) Government oppression of dissidents in America has a rich and foul history. During the 1999 Seattle WTO protests, which included many college…
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50 Years After the Fall of Saigon, Let’s Accept Defeat

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Ted Rall

Fifty years after Saigon’s fall, Ted Rall reflects on America’s Vietnam War defeat, urging acceptance of self-determination and an end to costly imperialism. This poignant piece, published April 30, 2025, calls for investing in domestic needs over foreign wars, echoing themes from Rall’s What’s Left: Radical Solutions for Radical Problems.

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Detonating Democracy: The Threat of Obsolete Laws

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Ted Rall

In “Detonating Democracy: The Threat of Obsolete Laws,” Ted Rall reveals how outdated U.S. laws, like the Alien Enemies Act, enable government overreach, threatening civil liberties. He calls for systemic reform to modernize or repeal these legal “landmines” before they further erode democracy.

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