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Background Briefing with Ian Masters

Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news, expert guests, policymakers, and critics offering analysis and insight on national security, foreign and domestic policy, political, cultural, and social issues. backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Episodes

August 8, 2023 - David Pepper | William Robinson | Tommy Miles

The Power Grab by Ohio Republicans Behind Today's Election | The 'Socialism of Fools' of the 'Anti-Imperialist Left' | The Situation in Niger and the Sahel Where Wagner Mercenaries are Making Inroads backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Aug 08, 20231 hr

August 7, 2023 - Mathew Burrows | Shuja Nawaz | Andrei Markovits

Have Putin and Xi Handed a Strategic Opportunity to the West? |The Downfall and Jailing of Pakistan's Former PM Imran Khan | Sunday's Loss by the US Women's Soccer Team Celebrated by Right Wing Trolls and Donald Trump backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Aug 07, 20231 hr 8 min

August 6, 2023 - Charles Kupchan | George Beebe | Amanda Marcotte

Ukraine Tries to Woo the BRICS Nations to Get About Their Peace Plan | Did Saudi Arabia Make a Mistake in Not Inviting Russia to the Peace Talks? | Trump Claims Victimhood But the Real Victims Are the 90 Million Americans Whose Votes he Tried To Steal backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Aug 06, 20231 hr 6 min

August 3, 2023 - Frederick Baron | Timothy Karr | Dr. Olayinka Ajala

Trump's Arraignment Today and Why His Defense Won't Work | The Commanding Role Trump Plays Over the Press as the Top Fox News Executives Dine With Him on the Evening of His Indictment | What is Behind the Coup in Niger Where Putin and Wagner Are Seen as Heroes and the French Villains backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Aug 03, 20231 hr

August 2, 2023 - Victoria Nourse | Justin Levitt | Dennis Aftergut

Trump's Latest Indictment is not a First Amendment Issue About His Words. It's About His Deeds | Examining the Indictments With an Expert on Elections and Election Law | Jack Smith's 45 Page Indictment as a Prosecutorial Masterstroke backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Aug 02, 20231 hr

August 1, 2023 - Joseph Lowndes | Michael Brenes | David Broder

The GOP's Long Quest For an Imperial Presidency. Now They're About To Crown Trump King Donald the First | What Broke the American War Machine That Now Hobbles Ukraine | How Italy's PM Giorgia Meloni Leads the Far Right in Europe backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Aug 01, 20231 hr 1 min

July 31, 2023 - Mary Ellen O'Connell | Sarah Leah Whitson | Sidney Blumenthal

The Ukrainian Peace Plan to be Discussed by 30 Nations in Saudi Arabia on August 5 | Questions Following Jake Sullivan's Saudi Trip to Bolster the Abraham Accords | The Republican Napoleon is Getting Smaller and Smaller backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 31, 20231 hr 2 min

July 30, 2023 - Karen Greenberg | Michael Kimmage | Lisa Graves

More Indictments of Trump That Pro-Trump Jurors in Florida Could Agree Are Crimes | Do the US and NATO Really Want Ukraine's Counteroffensive to Succeed? | A Defiant Alito Tells the Congress He is Above the Law backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 30, 20231 hr 3 min

July 27, 2023 - Kim Lane Scheppele | Harold Meyerson | Jill Quadagno

Netanyahu's Path of Autocratic Legalism Following Orban, Erdogan, Bolsonaro, Modi and Putin | The Attempt Underway to Give Republicans and Independents Who Can't Vote For Trump an Alternative to Voting For Biden | Senator McConnell Freezes Then Senator Feinstein Has to be Told Repeatedly to Vote "Aye" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 27, 202358 min

July 26, 2023 - Adam Klasfeld | Dr. Allen Frances | Quinn Slobodian

A Roundup of Legal Issues Facing Hunter Biden, Guiliani, Flynn, Navarro and Trump | Biden's Mental Health Initiative as Addiction and Mental Illness Remain Untreated Across the Country | The Techno-Autocracy of Saudi Arabia as an Example of Capitalism Without Democracy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 26, 20231 hr

July 25, 2023 - Guy Ziv | Monica Medina | John Nichols

Deepening Divisions in Israel With the Country's National Security Threatened by Netanyahu's Power Grab | Scientists Predict a Tipping Point Where the Atlantic Gulf Stream Current Could Collapse as Early as 2025 | Is Governor Ron DeSantis Going the Way of Governor Scott Walker? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 25, 20231 hr 1 min

July 24, 2023 - Avraham Burg | Michael Mann | Elizabeth Beavers

Massive Demonstrations in Israel Against Netanyahu's Power Grab to Avoid Jail | The Global Heatwave and It's Not Game Over on Climate Change But Game On | Does The US Government and the Pentagon Want Ukraine to Lose the War? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 24, 20231 hr 4 min

July 23, 2023 - Miles Taylor | Danielle Allen

How to Save American Democracy From the Trump 2.0 Revenge Machine | A Plan to Solve the Electoral College and Gerrymandering Problems Undermining American Democracy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 23, 202357 min

July 20, 2023 - Lincoln Mitchell | Joe Glauber | Jonathan Zasloff

Today's Republican Lovefest With RFK Jr. Which Had Democrats Attacking the Anti-Vaxxer and Anti Semite With the Storied Democratic Name | As Russia Attacks Grain Terminals, Mines the Black Sea and Threatens Shipping, Grain Prices Soar | A Legal Historian on How and Why Trump Has Avoided Accountability So Far backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 20, 20231 hr 1 min

July 19, 2023 - Allan Lichtman | Fred Wertheimer

Trump Facing a Third Indictment From Jack Smith in DC for the January 6 Insurrection | Pro-Trump Fake Electors Charged in Michigan With Cases Pending in Arizona and Georgia backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 19, 20231 hr

July 18, 2023 - Naomi Oreskes | Peter Strauss | Aziz Huq

As the Planet Bakes, Oil Companies Enjoy Record Profits From a Product that is Killing the Planet | The Heritage Foundation Plan to "Deconstruct the Administrative State" and Install Trump as Dictator | What if Trump Controlled the IRS, FDA, FTC, EPA and DOJ and Who Would Benefit? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 18, 20231 hr 1 min

July 17, 2023 - Dennis Aftergut | Chris Barrett | Rachel Schmalz

No Labels, Flush With Republican Billionaire Dark Money, Woos Joe Manchin to Split the Biden Vote to Elect Trump | Russia's Suspension of the UN-Brokered Black Sea Deal to Export Grains and Fertilizer | The Underground Tartar Resistance Group in Crimea backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 17, 20231 hr 1 min

July 16, 2023 - Wendy Via | Lawrence Korb | Lane Windham

What is Behind the Hatred Spewing Forth From House MAGA Republicans? | The Hate-Filled Amendments to the NDAA Which McCarthy Hailed as Stopping "Wokeness" in the Military | The Impact on the Broader Labor Movement of SAG-AFTRA Joining the WGA Already on Strike backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 16, 20231 hr 1 min

July 13, 2023 - Michele Bratcher Goodwin | Jo-Marie Burt | Mike Lofgren

Birth Control Pills Will Soon be Available Over the Counter Without a Prescription | A Brazen Coup Attempt in Guatemala Which Has the Leading Presidential Candidate Suspending Her Campaign | What Has Happened to the GOP, the Party of Law and Order? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 13, 20231 hr 1 min

July 12, 2023 - Ryan Busse | James Goldgeier | Henri Barkey

The Growing Threat to Public Safety From Ghost Guns | An Assessment of the Just-Concluded NATO Summit | Erdogan Did Not Steal the Limelight at the Summit or End up With Much backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 12, 20231 hr

July 11, 2023 - Jeffrey Goodell | Ahmet Yayla | Olivia Buckley

Record Heat in the South and Southwest as Climate Change Scorches the Planet | Considered the Most Corrupt Leader in the World, Erdogan's Successful Blackmail | The Crypto Industry Throws Money at House and Senate Democrats backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 11, 20231 hr

July 10, 2023 - Stephen Wertheim | Oxana Shevel | James Browning

Should Ukraine Model Its Security Future on Israel, Not NATO? | What Does Zelensky Want From the NATO Summit? | The Researcher Who Exposed How Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Also Represent the Victims of the Climate Crisis backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 10, 20231 hr

July 9, 2023 - Amb. Steven Pifer | Ryan Cooper | Jared Holt

As Russia's Nuclear Threats Recede, Some NATO States Call For Ukraine to be Admitted | Is America Now Divided Between "Team Crazy" and "Team Normal"? | When Will Those Who Incite Violence Be Held to Account For the Consequences? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 09, 20231 hr 5 min

July 6, 2023 - Brian Concannon | Jonathan Taplin | Blake Zeff

The US Secretary of State and the UN Secretary General to Send an International Police Force to Haiti to Prop Up a Corrupt Government in League With the Gangs and Repugnant Elite | The Battle of the Billionaires As Zuckerberg's "Threads" Challenges the Future of Musk's Twitter | The Maker of the LOAN WOLVES documentary Which Shows How and Why 43 Million Americans Were Trapped Into $2 Trillion in Student Debt backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 06, 20231 hr 1 min

July 5, 2023 - Mariana Budjeryn | Edwin Lyman | Anders Åslund

Alarming Reports That the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant Could be Blown Up | Can the IAEA Save Zaporizhzhya While Giving the Go Ahead to Dump Fukushima's Radioactive Water Into the Pacific | Biden Meets With Sweden's PM Ahead of Next Week's NATO Summit backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 05, 20231 hr 1 min

July 4, 2023 - Aram Shabanian | Robert Crews

The Strategy Behind the Ukrainian Counteroffensive Many Pundits See as Being Bogged Down | Our Cavalier Disregard of Nuclear Threats From Putin Who Said "We Have No Need For a World Without Russia" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 04, 20231 hr

July 3, 2023 - Garrett Epps | Khaled Elgindy | Alexander Motyl

American Democracy Under Threat as Unelected Justices Veto Policies They Don't Like Aided By Phony Front Groups | The Israeli Military Targets Angry Young Palestinians Alienated From Their Own Aged and Inept Government | Has Putin Lost His Monopoly on Violence and Will the ICC Charge Him With Genocide? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 03, 20231 hr 1 min

July 2, 2023 - René Christian Moya | Dr. Steven Hassan | Olga Lautman

Why Not Cancel Student Debts Now Using The Higher Education Act of 1965? | How to Deprogram the Followers Inside the Cult of Trump | An Update on the Mutiny in Russia and Ukraine's Counteroffensive backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 02, 20231 hr 4 min

June 29, 2023 - Katherine Franke | Kevin Kumashiro | Wesley Lowery

Another Right Wing Front Group Gets SCOTUS to Rule With a Predetermined Outcome, This Time Against Affirmative Action | How Asian Students Were Used to Perpetuate the Myth of Colorblindness | The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jun 29, 20231 hr 1 min

June 28, 2023 - Nick Schwellenbach | John Bonifaz | Juan Cole

The SBA Finds That Over $200 Billion Was Stolen From Covid Relief Funds With Billions More Unaccounted For | The Terrible Electoral Systems We Are Left With After the Supreme Court Voted Down an Outrageous GOP Power Grab | What is Being Discussed and Could Emerge From Talks Between the US and Iran in Oman and New York? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jun 28, 20231 hr 2 min