DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Venezuela: Trump’s Iraq?”

DeProgram with John Kiriakou and Ted Rall by Ted Rall and John Kiriakou

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Political cartoonist Ted Rall, and producer Robby West filling in for CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou, confront the fallout from federal overreach in Chicago's ICE raids and the violent U.S. military brinkmanship off Venezuela's shores, revealing how unchecked authority clashes with human rights and global stability.

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