With Allies Like These | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou

<p>Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM EST. </p><p>Today we discuss:</p><p>• Trump didn’t consult with European allies before attacking Iran. Now he wants their help reopening the <strong>Strait of Hormuz</strong>. They’re rejecting him—and now <strong>Trump is seriously annoyed</strong>. Meanwhile, Iran denies Israel’s claim that it killed security chief Ali Larijani.</p><p>• <strong>More registered voters view Israel negatively than positively</strong> in, driven by change among independents and especially Democrats. “This is unrecognizable in terms of where America was, and the Democratic Party was, for a 20-, 30-year history,” said Republican pollster Bill McInturff. The 2028 Democratic primary is “going to be fought on very, very different terrain in regards to the issue of Israel,” he says.</p><p>• In an echo of the U.S. bombing of the Iranian elementary school, <strong>Pakistan</strong> claimed it was targeting a Taliban ammunition depot but instead <strong>killed at least 400 people in a drug rehabilitation center in Kabul</strong>, Afghanistan. Pakistan’s war aims are unarticulated.</p><p>• <strong>Cuba</strong> plunged into a total electricity blackout as Trump muses he can “take” the island if he wants.</p><p></p><p>MERCH STORE: <a href="https://www.deprogram.live" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.deprogram.live</a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://x.com/tedrall" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://x.com/tedrall</a></p><p><a href="https://x.com/JohnKiriakou" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://x.com/JohnKiriakou</a></p><p></p><p>LIVE ON RUMBLE: <a href="https://rumble.com/c/DeProgramShow" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://rumble.com/c/DeProgramShow</a></p><p>SPOTIFY: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2kdFlw2w8sSPhKI8NRx8Zu" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/2kdFlw2w8sSPhKI8NRx8Zu</a></p><p>APPLE MUSIC: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deprogram-with-john-kiriakou-and-ted-rall/id1825379504" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deprogram-with-john-kiriakou-and-ted-rall/id1825379504</a></p>