
Blockade! | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou
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Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM EST.
Today we discuss:
• Declaring the Venezuelan government a terrorist organization, Trump imposes a naval blockade of sanctioned oil tankers.
• D.C. is talking about Chief of Staff Susie Wiles’ candid assessments of her White House colleagues, including the president, in Vanity Fair.
• WarSec Pete Hegseth is refusing to release that controversial double-tap killing by the US military of boat-bombing survivors. What’s he hiding?
• Citizens of 35 countries are now restricted from travel to the U.S. 5 are banned entirely. Will they retaliate?
• Who shot a prominent nuclear physics professor at MIT and why?
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