EPA and NYC Lied About 9/11 Air Quality | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas

EPA and NYC Lied About 9/11 Air Quality | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas

September 9, 2026 · 59 min

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The episode discusses the misleading information about air quality after 9/11 and recent political developments regarding Israel and Hamas.

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET. Today we discuss: • In the harrowing months that followed the attacks on the World Trade Center, New Yorkers were repeatedly assured that the air around the fallen towers was safe to breathe. But 10 months later, health officials were still finding evidence of asbestos as much as a half mile away according to documents released by Mayor Zohran Mamdani after decades of cover-ups. • The Trump administration did not oppose a UK-led initiative to impose new sanctions on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank . The White House's decision not to push back on the UK effort is a signal of its frustration with the Netanyahu government's policy in the West Bank. Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden joined. • Israeli opposition politicians said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “unfit” for office after a newspaper reported he had been warned that Hamas was planning a major operation weeks before the Oct. 7, 2023, attack but did not alert security officials. MERCHANDISE…

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Hosts: Ted Rall, Jamarl Thomas

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Organizations: EPA, Trump administration, Hamas

Places: New York, UK, West Bank

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