DOJ vs. SPLC | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas

About this episode

Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas discuss the DOJ's charges against the SPLC and various geopolitical issues.

Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM EST. Today we discuss: • Trump’s Justice Department charged the SPLC civil-rights group with a financial crimes, including wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The indictment focused on its past use of paid informants to infiltrate far-right groups. Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, accused the SPLC of “manufacturing racism to justify its existence.” • When is a Blockade not a Blockade ? Lloyd’s List Intelligence says “a steady flow of shadow fleet traffic” has passed the U.S. blockade, including 11 tankers with Iranian cargo that have left the Persian Gulf since April 13. “The dilemma for the U.S. is: The tighter the blockade, the greater the pain is in the global oil market, so there are conflicting priorities there, and it seems there is a policy of not intercepting every single shipment of Iranian oil,” Torbjorn Soltvedt, principal Middle East analyst at risk intelligence company Verisk Maplecroft, says. Almost all that oil is going to China, and the U.S. has to manage that relationship as well, with Trump planning to visit from…

People in this episode

Hosts: Ted Rall, Jamarl Thomas

Topics covered

• DOJ charges
• SPLC
• financial crimes
• blockade
• negative net migration
• U.S. foreign policy

Keywords

• DOJ
• SPLC
• financial crimes
• blockade
• negative net migration
• U.S. foreign policy
• Trump
• Iranian oil

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: DOJ, SPLC, Lloyd’s List Intelligence, Verisk Maplecroft

Places: U.S., China

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