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<item><title>I Know Mamdani Is Too Young. I Don't Care., by Ted Rall</title><link>https://www.unz.com/trall/i-know-mamdani-is-too-young-i-dont-care/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/trall/i-know-mamdani-is-too-young-i-dont-care/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 04:00:38 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Rall]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551305</guid><description><![CDATA[In every election, the voters choose a candidate to do a job. In some races, they also have an opportunity to send a message. Sometimes, in a change election, voters pass over the best person for the job in favor of making a statement. Although she certainly wasn't "the most qualified person ever to run...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>17</slash:comments></item><item><title>Trump Is Every Day. the Resistance Is Every Few Months. Wonder Why He's Winning?, by Ted Rall</title><link>https://www.unz.com/trall/trump-is-every-day-the-resistance-is-every-few-months-wonder-why-hes-winning/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/trall/trump-is-every-day-the-resistance-is-every-few-months-wonder-why-hes-winning/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 04:00:30 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Rall]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551118</guid><description><![CDATA[Hundreds of thousands of anti-Trump "No Kings" demonstrators marched on Saturday through the streets of thousands of American cities, to expose general opposition to the ruling Republican Party and to express outrage over their various policies. Like its predecessors, this effort will have zero effect. Performative protests like "No Kings," the 2017 Women's March and...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>17</slash:comments></item><item><title>Hamas's Stunning Victory, by Ted Rall</title><link>https://www.unz.com/trall/hamass-stunning-victory/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/trall/hamass-stunning-victory/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 04:00:17 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Rall]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550964</guid><description><![CDATA[Hamas's victory over Israel will go down in history as one of the most stunning upsets in the history of modern warfare. It will be studied by future resistance groups for instructions on how a guerrilla army can achieve its aims despite facing an adversary with seemingly insurmountable advantages in weaponry, technology, funding and international...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>22</slash:comments></item><item><title>What Did You Do During the Trump Wars, Daddy?, by Ted Rall</title><link>https://www.unz.com/trall/what-did-you-do-during-the-trump-wars-daddy/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/trall/what-did-you-do-during-the-trump-wars-daddy/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 04:00:48 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Rall]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550837</guid><description><![CDATA[My darling daughter gave me two dramatic blinks of her Aryan-blue eyes and flipped back her pure, naturally blonde pigtails. "What did you do during the Trump Wars, daddy?" It felt like a fever dream. What's that, evil libtard? I don't have a "Children of the Corn" daughter? Or any daughter at all? Who are...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>9</slash:comments></item><item><title>Israel Is Finished, by Ted Rall</title><link>https://www.unz.com/trall/israel-is-finished/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/trall/israel-is-finished/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 04:00:30 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Rall]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550683</guid><description><![CDATA[Dying regimes do funny things. Dying superpowers plan for a future that never comes. I have a 1992 Soviet ruble note, redesigned the year before. Considering that the USSR closed shop in 1991, they probably should have focused on something more pressing than their next five-year plan. Dying dictatorships bluff and bluster. Despite the obvious...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>39</slash:comments></item><item><title>The History of Presidential Grift, by Ted Rall</title><link>https://www.unz.com/trall/the-history-of-presidential-grift/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/trall/the-history-of-presidential-grift/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 04:00:50 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Rall]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550493</guid><description><![CDATA[Everyone knows that Donald Trump is the grifter in chief. Earlier this month, the president and his family raked in approximately $5 billion from meme coins, stablecoins and tokens. His businesses skimmed about $2.5 billion in profits from politically connected real estate deals during his first term. People eager to suck up to the leader...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>10</slash:comments></item><item><title>Jimmy Kimmel Enabled Censorship, by Ted Rall</title><link>https://www.unz.com/trall/jimmy-kimmel-enabled-censorship/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/trall/jimmy-kimmel-enabled-censorship/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:54 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Rall]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550298</guid><description><![CDATA[First they came for Jimmy Kimmel, but I didn't say anything because I wasn't ... a lameass? No. In this Niemoller scenario, the deplatforming of the host of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" comes at the end of the slippery slope, not the beginning. ABC canned Bill Maher 23 years ago for mocking Bush-era propaganda about our...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>32</slash:comments></item><item><title>Why Americans Love Political Violence, by Ted Rall</title><link>https://www.unz.com/trall/why-americans-love-political-violence/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/trall/why-americans-love-political-violence/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:00:39 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Rall]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550080</guid><description><![CDATA["I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it," Voltaire said. But not really. Stephen G. Tallentyre wrote it in his 1906 book about Voltaire, as a paraphrase of his attitude toward free speech. Actually, that's not true either: "Tallentyre" was a pseudonym. "He" was really...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>22</slash:comments></item><item><title>The Mamdani Effect, by Ted Rall</title><link>https://www.unz.com/trall/the-mamdani-effect/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/trall/the-mamdani-effect/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:06 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Rall]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=549874</guid><description><![CDATA[In his classic 1954 treatise on his human comparison theory, the social psychologist Leon Festinger stipulated that human beings assess their social standing by comparing themselves to those around them and how those other people are evaluated and received. The corporate liberals who, despite being underrepresented in their own party's electorate dominate the national Democratic...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>19</slash:comments></item><item><title>Trump's War Against Tradition, by Ted Rall</title><link>https://www.unz.com/trall/trumps-war-against-tradition/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/trall/trumps-war-against-tradition/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:00:49 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Rall]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=549718</guid><description><![CDATA[As American schoolchildren, we are taught that the great genius of the Framers was to create a constitutional balance of powers that wouldn't rely on the assumption that "enlightened statesmen will ... always be at the helm." This structure is presented like an ecosystem, as self-regulating and auto-correcting. As the liberal political strategist Neera Tanden...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>17</slash:comments></item><item><title>Trump Is Testing Us by Militarizing Cities. We're Failing., by Ted Rall</title><link>https://www.unz.com/trall/trump-is-testing-us-by-militarizing-cities-were-failing/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/trall/trump-is-testing-us-by-militarizing-cities-were-failing/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:39 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Rall]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=549465</guid><description><![CDATA[The first time I encountered a police checkpoint was in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan. My first reaction was excitement. I'd read about this facet of autocracy; here it was! It quickly gave way to fear. The men posted on the Almaty street intersection were armed. They had the power of the state. They...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>50</slash:comments></item><item><title>In Defense of Oct. 7, by Ted Rall</title><link>https://www.unz.com/trall/in-defense-of-oct-7/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/trall/in-defense-of-oct-7/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 04:00:03 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Rall]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=549265</guid><description><![CDATA[Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Commandos on land vehicles and paragliders killed 1,195 Israelis, injured about 5,400 and seized about 250 hostages. A few hours later, Israel launched its genocide of the Gazan people. The Israel Defense Forces have since killed at least 60,000 Palestinians — with some estimates as high as 200,000...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>32</slash:comments></item><item><title>The Case for Political Performance Ratings, by Ted Rall</title><link>https://www.unz.com/trall/the-case-for-political-performance-ratings/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/trall/the-case-for-political-performance-ratings/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 04:00:01 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Rall]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=549065</guid><description><![CDATA[Political opinions are like posteriors; with a few exceptions, everyone has one. And those opinions, like what comes out of rear ends, frequently look and smell terrible, the more so after the passage of time. Political opinions are the most dangerous kind of opinions, more so than almost any other kind of subjective thought. Political...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>5</slash:comments></item><item><title>Israel No Longer Has a Right to Exist, by Ted Rall</title><link>https://www.unz.com/trall/israel-no-longer-has-a-right-to-exist/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/trall/israel-no-longer-has-a-right-to-exist/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 04:00:02 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Rall]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=548843</guid><description><![CDATA[In certain traditional societies, troublesome individuals who were perceived as threats to communal harmony were labeled as "witches." To restore calm, accused witches were sometimes reintegrated into society via a ceremony of ritual cleansing. Other problematic people, particularly those whose socially unacceptable behavior persisted, were banished or killed. As a political entity, Israel is a...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>30</slash:comments></item><item><title>Make Funny, Make Money, by Ted Rall</title><link>https://www.unz.com/trall/make-funny-make-money/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/trall/make-funny-make-money/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2025 04:00:59 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Rall]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=548618</guid><description><![CDATA[In media, does satire generate profits? Or do profits permit satire? Causation is elusive. But there is a correlation between how much money a media organization generates and how much funny it publishes or puts on air. When print newspapers were dominant and highly profitable, satire was a significant part of their content. Based at...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>11</slash:comments></item><item><title>Retrain American Workers, by Ted Rall</title><link>https://www.unz.com/trall/retrain-american-workers/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/trall/retrain-american-workers/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 04:00:27 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Rall]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=548353</guid><description><![CDATA[More than anything else, American voters worry about the economy. Specifically, they struggle to pay their bills. Those with jobs are scared they will get fired through no fault of their own, perhaps because globalization ships all or part of their sector overseas, or because artificial intelligence replaces humans. The unemployed and underemployed are angry...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>21</slash:comments></item><item><title>How to Third Party, by Ted Rall</title><link>https://www.unz.com/trall/how-to-third-party/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/trall/how-to-third-party/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 04:00:59 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Rall]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=548179</guid><description><![CDATA[Elon Musk says he is going to start a new third party. Assuming he's serious, he'll soon learn that the Democratic-Republican duopoly has made it insanely hard to break into their — emphasis intentional — system. As The New York Times observes, "Launching a new national political party in the United States may be more...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>4</slash:comments></item><item><title>What's Wrong with the Democrats? They Need More Democracy., by Ted Rall</title><link>https://www.unz.com/trall/whats-wrong-with-the-democrats-they-need-more-democracy/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/trall/whats-wrong-with-the-democrats-they-need-more-democracy/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 04:00:27 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Rall]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=547959</guid><description><![CDATA[What's wrong with the Democrats and how can the party be fixed? When an insurgent outsider candidate from the party's progressive Left defeats a moderate endorsed by the establishment, Democratic leaders reject the results and deny the will of their voters. They refuse the infusion of new ideas and tactics every organization needs to evolve....]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>5</slash:comments></item><item><title>NYC to DNC: Drop Dead, by Ted Rall</title><link>https://www.unz.com/trall/nyc-to-dnc-drop-dead/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/trall/nyc-to-dnc-drop-dead/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 04:00:40 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Rall]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=547764</guid><description><![CDATA[The people have a message for the establishment: We hate you. We really, really hate you. The upset victory of Zohran Mamdani in New York's Democratic mayoral primary — which, in an overwhelmingly Democratic city, makes him the odds-on favorite to win the general election — has profound implications for a national party still reeling...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>10</slash:comments></item><item><title>We Support Ukraine. Shouldn't We be Supporting Iran?, by Ted Rall</title><link>https://www.unz.com/trall/we-support-ukraine-shouldnt-we-be-supporting-iran/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/trall/we-support-ukraine-shouldnt-we-be-supporting-iran/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 04:00:43 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Rall]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=547501</guid><description><![CDATA[n "1984," one of George Orwell's characters explains that "doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." There's a less elegant, yet equally absurd, way to describe the behavior of a politician who expresses two contradictory beliefs at once. People do what they want, and...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>27</slash:comments></item><item><title>Israel: An Idea That No Longer Makes Sense, by Ted Rall</title><link>https://www.unz.com/trall/israel-an-idea-that-no-longer-makes-sense/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/trall/israel-an-idea-that-no-longer-makes-sense/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 04:00:44 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Rall]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=547346</guid><description><![CDATA[People who support Israel, no matter what it does, tend to hang their hats on a series of familiar arguments. Israel, they say, is the only place Jews can live in security. Critics of Israel want to eliminate Israel. The abolition of Israel would render Israeli Jews homeless (ethnic cleansing), or they would be killed...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>28</slash:comments></item><item><title>Democrats Must Apologize for Biden Coverup, by Ted Rall</title><link>https://www.unz.com/trall/democrats-must-apologize-for-biden-coverup/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/trall/democrats-must-apologize-for-biden-coverup/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 04:00:36 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Rall]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=547106</guid><description><![CDATA[Democrats constantly accuse Donald Trump of constantly lying. Journalistic factcheckers, who work for Democratic-aligned media companies, back their claims with statistics. But it's the Democratic Party that's facing historically low approval ratings. In poll after poll about one issue after another, voters say they trust Republicans more. A major contributing factor to the diminishment of...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>17</slash:comments></item><item><title>Biden's Many 'Original Sins', by Ted Rall</title><link>https://www.unz.com/trall/bidens-many-original-sins/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/trall/bidens-many-original-sins/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 04:00:59 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Rall]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=546823</guid><description><![CDATA["Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again," by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, pulls from 200 interviews in order to expose Democrats' coverup of Joe Biden's cognitive and physical decline from his son Beau's death in 2015 through his presidency and into his misbegotten 2024 reelection campaign. The...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>11</slash:comments></item><item><title>What Did the President Not Know, and When Did He Not Know It?, by Ted Rall</title><link>https://www.unz.com/trall/what-did-the-president-not-know-and-when-did-he-not-know-it/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/trall/what-did-the-president-not-know-and-when-did-he-not-know-it/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2025 04:00:50 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Rall]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=546603</guid><description><![CDATA["What did the president know, and when did he know it?" That was the iconic question posed by Howard Baker, the ranking Republican on the Senate Watergate Committee, during televised hearings in 1973, to former White House Counsel John Dean about Nixon's knowledge of and involvement in the break-in at Democratic HQ and the subsequent...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>17</slash:comments></item><item><title>How Zionism Causes Antisemitism, by Ted Rall</title><link>https://www.unz.com/trall/how-zionism-causes-antisemitism/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/trall/how-zionism-causes-antisemitism/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 04:00:29 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Rall]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=546346</guid><description><![CDATA[Antisemitism as we know it has resulted from a complex witch's brew of historical stereotypes, economic resentments, ignorance and political extremism. Antisemites believe that Jewish people "have too much power," "have too much control and influence," and "are more willing than others to use shady practices to get what they want." A central, paranoid canard...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>6</slash:comments></item></channel></rss>