Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET.

This week, “Deprogram” expands into two hours Monday, Wednesday, and Friday!

Today we discuss:

• The podium of the United Nations was an unusual setting for the leader of a global superpower to threaten to “annihilate the Islamic republic” of Iran or to declare that, in another conflict, “to the victor belong the spoils.” Yet that was exactly what Trump did. Meanwhile, U.S. officials met for three hours with the Iranian delegation to the United Nations General Assembly.

• The ICE officer who shot a Venezuelan man in Austin over the weekend is a recruit who was issued a body camera but was n ...