Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM EST.

Today we discuss:

• Investigators are confounded by the lack of a recognizable ideological agenda in a wave of high-profile killings and political violence — shootings, a bombing, a planned drone attack — by assailants who were not Democrat or Republican, or Islamist militant, or antifa or white supremacist. They declare their contempt for humanity and a desire to see the collapse of civilization. It’s a contemporary strain of nihilism, the philosophical stance that arose in the 19th century to deny the existence of moral truth.

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