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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

January 10, 2024 - Robert Leonard | Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera | Charles Schmitz

The Last Days Ahead of Monday's Iowa Caucuses and Tonight's CNN Debate Overshadowed by a Trump Town Hall on Fox | Amid Gang Violence Ecuador Appears to be Close to a Failed State | Asymmetrical Clashes in the Red Sea Between Powerful Navies and Houthi Rebels backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jan 10, 20241 hr

January 9, 2024 - Laurie Levenson | William Cohan | Anne Nelson

Trump's Immunity Claim is Met With Deep Skepticism From the DC Appeals Court Judges | A Billionaire's War Against Harvard Now Shifts to the Media as His Wife's Plagiarism in Revealed by Business Insider | With Evangelicals at Over 50% of the Vote For Trump in Iowa, the Heathen is Promoting a Video "God Made Trump" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jan 09, 20241 hr 4 min

January 8, 2024 - Jeff Wise | Chris McGreal | John Judis

Why Boeing's 737 Max is Grounded and is a Flying Turkey | The History Behind South Africa's Genocide Case Against Israel in the International Court of Justice | Can the Democrats Return to the New Deal Fight for the Common Man and Equal Opportunity? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jan 08, 20241 hr 1 min

Janaury 7, 2024 - Sean Wilentz | Anna Massoglia | Trita Parsi

An Historian Who Had Lunch With the President on Wednesday Ahead of Biden's Opening Campaign Speech of 2024 at Valley Forge | How Corporate America Caved After January 6 Pledges Not to Fund Congressional Insurrectionists | A Wider War Looms as the US Gears Up To Retaliate Against the Houthis and Israel Provokes Hezbollah backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jan 07, 20241 hr 1 min

January 4, 2024 - Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette | Nina Burleigh | Nir Eyal

Trump Made $7.8 Millions From Foreign Governments While in the White House, $5.5 Million From China | The Names Named in the Documents Just Released About the Epstein Blackmail Factory | Is Israel's Disproportionate Use of Force in Gaza Intended? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jan 04, 20241 hr 2 min

January 3, 2024 - Abbas Milani | Lee Galernt | Maureen Meyer

Will the Bombings in Iran Following Yesterday's Killing of an Hamas Official Spark a Wider War? | House Republican Grandstanding as They Weaponize Immigration | The Root Causes of The Human Flow From Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico and Around the World Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green

Jan 03, 20241 hr 2 min

January 2, 2024 - Thanassis Cambanis | Paul Collins | Benjamin Carter Hett

Will Israel's Killing of the Hamas Ambassador to Hezbollah Trigger a Wider War? | The Move Underway to Get SCOTUS to Tear Down Jefferson's Wall Between Church and State | The Frightening Similarities Between Germany in 1933 and the US in 2024 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jan 02, 20241 hr 2 min

January 1, 2024 - Stephen Walt | Robert Hockett

The Foreign Policy Landscape Ahead in 2024 and the Chance For Peace in a World at War | The Economy in 2023 and What's Ahead in 2024 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jan 01, 20241 hr

December 31, 2023 - Richard Parker | Mike Lofgren

Politics in the Year Ending and the Critical Year About to Begin | A Recovering Republican on the GOP's Embrace of Fascism backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Dec 31, 202357 min

December 28, 2023 - Miles Taylor | Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt | Jonathan Metzl

How to Save American Democracy From the Trump 2.0 Revenge Machine | How the US Constitution's Protection Against a Tyranny of the Majority Has Enabled the Opposite | After the 565th Mass Shooting This Year, a Look at Red and Yellow Flag Laws backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Dec 28, 20231 hr 21 min

December 27, 2023 - Moira Donegan | Michael Weiss | Ryan Cooper

Growing Concern at the Supreme Court’s Impunity From Ethical Norms as Its Credibility With the Public Plunges | Evidence That it Was Ukraine, Not Russia Behind the Sabotage of the Nord Stream Gas Pipelines | Is America Now Divided Between “Team Crazy” and “Team Normal”? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Dec 27, 202359 min

December 26, 2023 - Jared Yates Sexton | Amb. Chas Freeman | Ian Haney Lopez

A History of Paranoid Fantasies and Today’s Rise of Fascism Led by a Reality TV Star | Rising Tensions With China and a U.S. China Policy of Self-Harm | Hatred and Division Intensifies in the US as the Phony war Against the Woke, Drag Queens and Trans Kids Accelerates backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Dec 26, 20231 hr 12 min

December 25, 2023 - Aziz Rana | Lisa Graves

America's Foundation as a Christian Nation and How the Right Captured Freedom | The "Christian" Moral Authoritarianism of Supreme Court Justices in the Pockets of Plutocrats

Dec 25, 202354 min

December 24, 2023 - Anne Nelson | Astra Taylor

As Christians Celebrate Christmas, a Christian Nationalist With a Smug and Sanctimonious Smile Wants to Undo the First Amendment | What Could Bring Us Together Over the Holidays backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Dec 24, 202355 min

December 21, 2023 - Dennis Aftergut | Lawrence Douglas | Mark Hannah

Will the Supreme Court Fall For Trump's Brazen Tried a True Delaying Tactic? | Will the Colorado Supreme Court's Ruling Hurt or Help Trump? | Will Biden Benefit or be Damaged if Foreign Policy Dominated the 2024 Campaign? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Dec 21, 202359 min

December 20, 2023 - Lincoln Mitchell | Omar Shakir | Gus Bova

Netanyahu and Putin Drag Out Their Wars That Hurt Biden to Bring Back Trump | The Author of a New Report From Human Rights Watch on Starvation in Gaza | Having Stymied Prior Comprehensive Solutions, Republicans Now Demagogue The Border Crisis backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Dec 20, 202359 min

December 19, 2023 - James Moore | Gregory Brew | Jennifer Mercieca

Texas is About to Turn Into the "Show Me Your Papers" Gestapo State | The US and 10 Nations Will Police the Red Sea Following Houthi Missile Attacks That Have Scared off International Shipping | As Trump Channels Hitler, Insight Into America's 40% Who Would be Happy With an Authoritarian Leader backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Dec 19, 20231 hr

December 18, 2023 - Dov Waxman | Joshua McElwee | Aaron Reichlin Melnick

The White House Tells Israel That "Protecting Palestinian Civilians in Gaza is Both a Moral Duty and Strategic Imperative" | Pope Francis Approves Blessing For Same-Sex Couples | Republicans Hold Biden Hostage With An Immigration Deal That Will Anger the Democratic Base backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Dec 18, 20231 hr 1 min

December 17, 2023 - Gregory Treverton | Scott Horton | Sebastiaan Faber

The Top Secret 10 Inch 2,700 Page Binder of Russian Influence and Collusion That Went Missing When Trump Left Office | How Trump and His Minions Tried to Doctor the Evidence in the Missing Binder | The American Right's Embrace of Franco and the Hungarian Kleptocratic Despot Orban backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Dec 17, 20231 hr

December 14, 2023 - David Redlawsk | R. Daniel Kelemen | Elizabeth Goitein

The House Republicans Unanimous Evidence-Free Vote For Biden's Impeachment | How Hungary's Crooked Despot Viktor Orban is Blackmailing the EU | Efforts To Reform FISA as Section 702 is Tucked Into the $886 Billion NDAA backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Dec 14, 20231 hr

December 13, 2023 - Allan Lichtman | Grant Stern | Michael Mann

Hunter Biden Defies the House Witch-Hunters Ahead of the Vote To Impeach His Father | Hypocrisy Hardly Begins to Describe What is Going on With Florida Republicans | The COP28 Pledge to "Transition Away" From Fossil Fuels That Leaves a Lot of Wiggle Room backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Dec 13, 202357 min

December 12, 2023 - Michael Kimmaga | Olga Lautman | Mike Rothschild

Zelensky Tries to Break the Deadlock as Republicans Hold up Aid to Ukraine | How Putin is Determined to Win His War On Ukraine | Musk Offers a Preview of the Media Landscape Ahead If Trump Were to Win Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green

Dec 12, 20231 hr

December 11, 2023 - George Beebe | Juan Cole | Frances Kissling

As Russia Emphasizes its Maximalist Demands and Zelensky Heads to the White House to Try to Salvage the Aid Deal, What Kind of Peace is Possible? | How University Presidents Fell Into Congresswoman Stefanik's Trap | After a Death Sentence From the Texas AG and Supreme Court, a Pregnant Woman Escapes the State For an Abortion backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Dec 11, 20231 hr 1 min

December 10, 2023 - Jane Cohen | Thomas Nichols | Michael Kazin

Recently Impeached Texas AG Issues a Life-Threatening Delay to an Abortion | The Emerging Campaign Issue of Dictatorship and What a Second Trump Term Could Look Like | Biden Vetoes a Ceasefire Sticking With Netanyahu Like VP Humphrey Stuck With LBJ in 1968 Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green

Dec 10, 20231 hr 7 min

December 7, 2023 - Aaron Rupar | Haggai Matar | Phil Gunson

A Meaningless Debate in a Democratic Ritual That Avoided Discussing Our Endangered Democracy | How Anti-War Left Wing Activists in Israel Are Being Threatened and Silenced | Growing Tensions as Venezuela Threatens to Annex an Oil-Rich Region of Guyana Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green

Dec 07, 20231 hr

December 6, 2023 - Samuel Moyn | William Arkin | Stephanie Muravchik

How the Laws of War, International Law and the Right of Self-Defense Apply to the War in Gaza | Aid to Ukraine is Now Stalled in the House and the Senate | As Liz Cheney Campaigns to Stop Trump, "We Are Sleepwalking Into Dictatorship" Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green

Dec 06, 20231 hr 4 min

December 5, 2023 - John Nichols | Rashid Khalidi | Susan Joy Hassol

The Target of a Lunatic Conspiracy Theory Who Trump Claims Encouraged Jan. 6 Violence on Behalf of the Deep State | Did Blinken Lean on Jordanian and Egyptian Leaders to Allow Palestinians to be Expelled Into Their Territories? | At COP28 Oil and Gas Delegates Vastly Outnumber Climate Scientists, Activist and Indigenous People backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Dec 05, 20231 hr 5 min

December 4, 2023 - Chuck Collins | Robert Downen | Timothy Canova

SCOTUS Poised to Kill Any Wealth Tax Before It Even Exists | The Texas GOP Refuses to Ban Contacts With Anti Semites, Pro-Nazi Sympathizers or Holocaust Deniers in Resolution Supporting Israel | An Exploding Sexual Assault Scandal Involving A Threesome With A Founder of "Moms For Liberty" Has DeSantis Asking his Friend, Florida's GOP Chair, to Step Down backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Dec 04, 20231 hr 1 min

December 3, 2023 - Paul Pillar | Greg Grandin | Ganesh Sitaraman

An Assessment of the Chillingly Precise Intelligence Report on the Planned Hamas Attack That Was ignored | The Price We Paid For the Capture of US Foreign Policy by Kissinger's Realpolitik | How Deregulation Made Airline Travel Miserable as Underinvestment is Making it Dangerous backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Dec 03, 20231 hr 2 min

November 30, 2023 - Jeremi Suri | Stephanie Carvin | Dr. Daniel Markey

The Death of Henry Kissinger, a great Elder Statesman to Some and a War Criminal to Others | The Canadian Connection to the Foiled Assassination Plot on US Soil | Why Did Modi's Government Take Such a Brazen Risk to Conduct a Hit on a US Citizen on US Soil? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Nov 30, 202357 min