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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

October 31, 2023 - M.J. Rosenberg | Anne Nelson

More Civilian Deaths in Gaza as Israel's Ground Campaign Intensifies | Both Trump and Mike Johnson Were Backed by the Council For National Policy Founded by Right-Wing Fundamentalists and Oil Barons backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 31, 202358 min

October 30, 2023 - Andrew Payne | Emerson Brooking | Steven Greenhouse

How the War in Gaza is Impacting U.S. Electoral Politics | With the New House Speaker a Champion of the Big Lie, How Do We Deal With the Challenges Ahead From Fake News and Deep Fakes? | After Big Wins For Labor, the UAW Seals a Good Deal With the Big Three backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 30, 20231 hr 1 min

October 29, 2023 - Lara Friedman | Jonathan Metzl | Frederick Clarkson

Winning the Military Campaign But Losing the Information War | After the 565th Mass Shooting This Year, a Look at Red and Yellow Flag Laws | The Ascension of Mike Johnson as a Christian Fundamentalist Politician backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 29, 20231 hr 2 min

October 26, 2023 - Clyde Wilcox | Abbas Milani | Franklin Foer

Trump's Christian Soldier MAGA Mike Johnson | Will Iran's Aging Supreme Leader Avoid a Wider War or Bring on the Apocalypse? | An Inside Look at the President and Joe Biden's First Two Years in Office backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 26, 20231 hr 1 min

October 25, 2023 - Allan Lichtman | Nick Heras | Juan Cole

Trump Gets His Speaker With a Friendlier Face But a Hard Right Record | A Strategic Overview of the Middle East on the Brink of a Wider War | The Reemergence of the Palestinian Statehood Issue backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 25, 20231 hr 3 min

October 24, 2023 - Lawrence Jacobs | Rebecca Gordon | Maziar Behrooz

Emmer Gets the Nomination, Trump Calls Him a RINO, Then He Drops Out of the Race For Speaker | Are the Insurrectionist House Republicans Fascist or Nihilists, or Both? | When Israel Invades Gaza They Will Cross Iran and Hezbollah's Red Line backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 24, 20231 hr 1 min

October 23, 2023 - E.J. Dionne | Jon Hoffman | David Adler

The Continuing Paralysis of the Legislative Branch | Instead of Doubling Down on Failed Policies, It's Time to Reconsider Our Position in the Middle East | Argentina's Potty-Mouth Populist is Down But Not Out backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 23, 20231 hr 2 min

October 22, 2023 - Victoria Nourse | Stephen Wertheim | David Daley

Putin, Hamas and Trump's House Republicans Demonstrate Their Contempt For Democracy | Biden's $105 Billion Aid Request Goes to a Leaderless House With No One Constitutionally Able to Act on It | How Much Will Third Party Candidates Swing the 2024 Election to Trump? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 22, 20231 hr

October 19, 2023 - Amy Wilentz | Sa’ed Atshan | David Graham

The War on Children as Bombs Fall on Gaza Where Half the Population is Under 18 | The Search for Humanity and Compassion Amid the Killing | The Kraken is Released on Probation and Will Testify Against Trump and His Cohorts backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 19, 202359 min

October 18, 2023 - William Arkin | Haggai Matar | Moira Donegan

An Assessment of the Latest Intelligence on the Strike on the Gaza Hospital Parking Lot | A Local Reaction From a Journalist and Activist to Biden's Short Visit to Israel | Jordan Fails Again After Unleashing Fox News Junkyard Dogs and MAGA Threats at the House Republicans Cowards Caucus backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 18, 202358 min

October 17, 2023 - David Hearst | Ryan Cooper | Michael Hiltzik

With the Facts of Who and What Was Behind the Bombing of a Hospital in Gaza Not Yet Verified, We Look Into How it Has Backfired on Israel | Jim Jordan Falls 20 GOP Votes Short, So Trump Does Not Yet Control the House | Is the Supreme Court's Right Wing Majority Using a Specious Case For a Massive Gift to Their Billionaire Backers? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 17, 20231 hr 1 min

October 16, 2023 - Julian Zelizer | Jan Kubik | Anita Isaacs

Paralysis at Home While Wars Rage Abroad With the House to Vote on Jim (Gym) Jordan For Speaker on Tuesday at Noon | Sunday's Election in Poland a Welcome Reversal of Democratic Backsliding | Will the Corrupt, Crooked and Reactionary Establishment in Guatemala Deny the Democratically-Elected President Arévalo His Right to Govern? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 16, 202357 min

October 15, 2023 - Steven Simon | Katherine Franke

Can Israel Destroy Hamas Then Hand Over Gaza to the UN and Arab States to Rebuild and Sustain it? | Rising Tensions on Campuses Between Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestinian Students backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 15, 202356 min

October 12, 2023 - Michael Kimmage | Leila Hilal | Ben Freeman

The Role the Great Powers are Likely to Play in Israel's War Against Hamas | Gaza Civilians Caught Between Israel's Retaliation For Atrocities by Hamas, and an Illegitimate, Repressive, Religious Fundamentalist Government | Another Indictment Against Senator Menendez For Acting as a Foreign Agent For a Foreign Government While Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 12, 202358 min

October 11, 2023 - Paul Pillar | Andy Kroll | Paul Light

Israel's Intelligence Failures and the Recriminations Soon to Come | The Religious Fanatic Who Stacked Our Judiciary Believes Catholics Are Under Threat From Barbarian Secularists | Chaos With No New Speaker as a Block of Republican Members Want to Vote For McCarthy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 11, 202359 min

October 10, 2023 - Mitchell Plitnick | Nader Hashemi | Emma Steiner

Jared, MbS, Biden and Bibi Ignored the Palestinians as They Dreamed Up Their Plan for Peace and Prosperity in the Middle East | The Distinction Between Supporting Palestinian Rights and Supporting Terrorists | Elon Musk's X Now Monetizes Disinformation by Fake Journalists With Blue- Check Accounts Who Get Paid to Spread Lies backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 10, 202359 min

October 10, 2023 - Asher Kaufman | Denver Riggleman | Richard Parker

The Intensifying War Between Israel and Hamas | The Election of a New House Speaker and Jim Jordan as a Leading Insurrectionist | Democrats Should Get Behind Joe Biden and It's the Democratic Party That's Ailing, Not Him backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 09, 202359 min

October 8, 2023 - Dr. Guy Ziv | Daniel Byman | Emma Ashford

After Declaring War on Hamas, Could the Conflict Escalate Against Hezbollah in the North? | The Colossal Israeli Intelligence Failure on the 50th Anniversary of Another Intelligence Failure | The Future of the Israeli/Saudi Arabia Normalization Deal That Does Not Add Up For the U.S. backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 08, 202359 min

October 5, 2023 - Sam Quinones | George Beebe | Shushan Karapetian

Top Biden Officials Meet With Mexico's President AMLO Who Denies Fentanyl is Made in Mexico and Blames the US For Refugees From Cuba and Venezuela | A Warning Against Cutting Off Aid to Ukraine and Expecting a Complete Victory | The Blowback Armenia's Leader Faces After Azerbaijan's Ethnic Cleansing of Nagorno Karabakh backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 05, 20231 hr 1 min

October 4, 2023 - James Thurber | William Hartung | Michael Mann

The United States is Without a Functioning House of Representatives | "Will the Pentagon's Techno-Fantasies Pave the Way for War with China?" | Can Lessons From the Past Save Our Future on an Endangered Planet? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 04, 20231 hr

October 3, 2023 - John Lawence | Thomas Kahn | Garry Pierre-Pierre | Sumit Ganguly

Far-Right House Freedom Caucus Rebels Led by the Brat Matt Gaetz Who Hates McCarthy, Topple the Speaker | Today's Fratricide in House With Democrats Joining the Insurrectionists in a 216 to 210 Vote to Remove McCarthy | The UN Plan to Deploy 1,000 Police From Kenya to Free Haitians From Gangs | Growing Tensions Between Canada and India

Oct 03, 20231 hr 1 min

October 2, 2023 - Lloyd Green | Persis Yu | Christopher Peterson

Trump's Day in Court Lashing Out Against New York Fraud Charges | 43 Million With Student Debt of $1.65 Trillion Now Have to Make Loan Payments | Will the Supreme Court Give Predatory Payday Lenders a Win as They Rule to Deconstruct the Administrative State? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 02, 20231 hr

October 1, 2023 - Scott Horton | Sasha Abramsky | Astra Taylor

Apart From Helping Putin, Why is Cutting Aid to Ukraine the Top Priority of Trump and a Handful of Republicans in Congress? | The Urgency to Replace Senator Feinstein as Governor Newsom Backtracks | Astra Taylor on Her New Book The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 01, 202359 min

September 28, 2023 - Kate Andrias | Mike Rothschild | Dr. Herb Lin

With the Deck Stacked Against American Workers, the Competition to Win Their Votes | The Rise of Antisemitism and the Role of Conspiracy Theories in Our Politics | With 60,000 Emails Hacked From the State Department, An Assessment of the Government's Cybersecurity backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Sep 28, 202359 min

September 27, 2023 - David Cay Johnston | Robert Kuttner | Sidney Blumenthal

After Losing His Business License in New York, Trump Could Lose All His Businesses Built on Fraud | Voters Care More About the Economy Than Losing American Democracy | Will Trump's Call to Shut Down the Government Backfire? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Sep 27, 20231 hr 3 min

September 26, 2023 - Alexander Sammon | Barry Lynn | Eric Levitz

Biden Sides With Workers on the Picket Line | The FTC's Antitrust Suit Against Amazon Which 17 States Are Joining In | Why Is Trump So Afraid of General Milley and Cassidy Hutchison? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Sep 26, 202358 min

September 25, 2023 - Anne Nelson | David Dayen | Doris Meissner

Trump’s Latest Full-on Fascist Rant to Shut Down Any Media That’s Critical of Him | The Role of the Supreme Court in Helping Sen. Menendez Dodge a Bullet the First Time | As Thousands Arrive at the Southern Border, Biden Is Under Increasing Pressure From Republicans and Democrats backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Sep 25, 202359 min

September 24, 2023 - Nelson Lichtenstein | Perry Link | Diane Winston

Tuesday Will See the First American President to Join a Picket Line in the UAW Strike in Detroit | How Shaky is Xi Jinping's Hold on Power? | The Failure of Journalism in the Reagan Era and Now the Trump Era backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Sep 23, 20231 hr 4 min

September 21, 2023 - Mike Lofgren | Caroline Fredrickson | Christian Leuprecht

The House Freedom Caucus Nihilists Further Weaken McCarthy as They Head For a Shutdown | Judicial Activists Focused on Civil Liberties While Plutocrats Captured the Supreme Court to Deconstruct Government Itself | Investigating Credible Evidence That Indian Agents Assassinated a Sikh Activist on Canadian Soil backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Sep 21, 20231 hr 1 min

September 20, 2023 - Dr. Monique Ryan | Mathias Döpfner | Houri Berberian

A Member of a Delegation of Australian Politicians in Washington Urging the US Not to Extradite Julian Assange | How To Stop Doing Business With Dictators and Undo the Trade Trap We Built | An Update on the Tense Armenia/Azerbaijan Confrontation as a Ceasefire is Reached backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Sep 20, 20231 hr