Ted Rall

5 days ago | ashevilledailyplanet.com | Ted Rall

By TED RALLSyndicated ColumnistWars end. Bombs remain.  In December 2020, the crew of an English fishing boat was pulling in a string of crab pots 22 miles northeast of Cromer, a town in Norfolk, England, when they noticed a tug on the main line. An explosion blew the Galwad-Y-Mor into the air, injuring five crew members, one of whom lost an eye. The cause was a bomb dropped by Nazi Germany three quarters of a century before.

6 days ago | whowhatwhy.org | Ted Rall

Many are called, few are chosen … to be secret deportation gestapo. ICE agents are despised for their brutal treatment of migrants and anyone who crosses them, acting like spineless cowards by hiding their identities. Who takes such a vile job? Someone obsessed with cash, clearly prioritizing their salaries over basic human decency.

1 week ago | arcamax.com | Ted Rall

In "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 retrofit their ideological justification after the fact. Israel's war against Iran provides an unambiguous example of political doublethink.

1 week ago | rall.com | Ted Rall

In 1984, one of 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 retrofit their ideological justification after the fact. Israel’s war against Iran provides an unambiguous example of political doublethink.

1 week ago | newsitem.com | Ted Rall

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 (genocide). Therefore, anyone who criticizes Israel — any anti-Zionist, anyone appalled by Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians — is, by definition, antisemitic.