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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

February 21, 2024 - Amanda Marcotte | Robert Baer | Maxwell Stearns

Increasing Signs That Christian Nationalists Plan to Impose an American Theocracy | Evidence That The Source For the "Biden Crime Family" Case is a Dissembler Working for Russian Intelligence | A Plan to Reinvent Our Polarized and Dysfunctional Government backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Feb 21, 20241 hr 6 min

February 20, 2024 - Wendy Pearlman | Jacob Heilbrunn | Justin Vaughn

The US Again Gives Israel Cover Vetoing a UN Resolution For an Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza | The American Right's 100-Year Romance With Foreign Dictators | The Latest American Historians' Survey That Has Donald Trump Dead Last in 45th Place backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Feb 20, 20241 hr

February 19, 2024 - Daniel Treisman | Anna Massoglia | Jonathan Metzl

Navalny Wanted to See "The Beautiful Russia of the Future" While Putin is Fixated on Historical Delusions of Reviving Russian Imperialism | Do Mike Johnson's Financial Ties Explain Why He is Cutting Off Aid to Ukraine? | A Country Held Hostage by Gun Violence backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Feb 19, 20241 hr

February 18, 2024 - Dr. Ariel Cohen | James Risen | John Pike

A Friend of the Murdered Leader of the Russian Opposition Discusses Putin's Latest Murder of the Leader of the Russian Opposition | Why Speaker Johnson Admires Putin and Has Shut Down the Government for a Month | What We Know About Recent Warnings Russia Plans To Deploy a Space Weapon backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Feb 18, 20241 hr

February 15, 2024 - Tom Collina | Casey Michel | John Feffer

What is Behind The Republican Head of the House Intel Committee's Warning of "A Serious National Security Threat"? | The Role of US Consulting Firms Who Launder Election Money and the Reputations of Dictators | How Brazil Handles an Insurrectionist President Compared to the U.S. backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Feb 15, 20241 hr

February 14, 2024 - Thomas Kahn | David Cay Johnston | Sidney Blumenthal

How to Get Around Speaker Johnson's Servility to Trump as He Blocks Aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan | A Resounding Win For Democrats and a Rebuke of Trump and the Republicans on the Border Issue | Will the Far Right Supreme Court's Majority Delay the Cases Trump is Facing in Federal Court? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Feb 14, 202458 min

February 13, 2024 - Lawrence Levy | Thomas Pepinsky | Joshua Oppenheimer

Voting to Replace George Santos Underway in a Snow Storm In a Race That Will Impact the House GOP's Slim Majority | Elections in Indonesia Could Have a General With Blood on His Hands Who Was Banned From the U.S., Become the Nation's Next President | The Military's Role in the 1965-66 Genocide and the How the U.S. Aided and Abetted the Slaughter of 2 Million Indonesians backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Feb 13, 202458 min

February 12, 2024 - Joshua Shifrinson | Scott Horton | Shuja Nawaz

Trump Alarms Allies Saying He Would Let Russia Do "Whatever the Hell They Want" to a NATO Country | Why Aren't Journalists and Democratic Strategists Exposing Trump's Obvious Ties to Putin? | Is Pakistan on the Brink of Economic and Civil Collapse? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Feb 12, 202459 min

February 11, 2024 - Avraham Burg | Dennis Aftergut | Chris Whipple

Can Biden Go Around Netanyahu to Save Israel From Its Ruinous Leader? | SCOTUS Avoids Talking About Insurrection in a Case That Was All About the January 6 Insurrection | How Biden Should Counter Questions About His Age and Kamala Harris's Qualifications backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Feb 11, 20241 hr 1 min

February 8, 2024 - Simon Shuster | Rick Perlstein | Michael Bociurkiw

The Contrast Between the Transparent Leadership Change in Ukraine and Putin Cancelling the Token Opposition Candidate Because He Was Too Popular | Looking Ahead at the Fact-Free and Violence-Prone 2024 Election | 17 Donor Nations Refuse to Fund UNWRA based on a Disputed Israeli Dossier backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Feb 08, 20241 hr 5 min

February 7, 2024 - Justin Higgins | Michael Weiss

Trump's Successful Scuttling of the Immigration Bill and His Toady Mike Johnson's Humiliation | As Trump and Tucker Carlson Work For Putin to Kill Aid to Ukraine, Are They Traitors of "Useful Idiots?" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Feb 07, 20241 hr

February 6, 2024 - Aziz Huq | Wendy Via | Natalie Melnyczuk

If Trump is Disqualified From the Ballot Waves of Violence Will Follow Whether he Wins or Loses the Election | The Right Wing "Texit" Movement Russia and China are Encouraging | President Zelensky's Planned Leadership Shakeup of "Multiple State Leaders" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Feb 06, 20241 hr 1 min

February 5, 2024 - Andrew Feinberg | Steven Simon | Pavlina Tcherneva

To Solve Crises, Biden is Increasingly Relying on His Enemies at Home and Abroad | Biden Should Bypass Netanyahu And Go to the Israeli Public With a Peace Plan | The Disconnect Between Biden's Great Economic Numbers and How Voters Feel about the Economy Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green

Feb 05, 202459 min

February 4, 2024 - Joshua Landis | Taras Kuzio | Lawrence Lessig

As US Bombing of Syria and Iraq Continues, Will Iraq's Government be Forced to Eject 2,000 US Personnel Who Could Become Hostages? | Conflicting Reports of Rifts in Ukraine's Leadership | Did SCOTUS Give Trump and Republican Legislatures a Way to Steal the 2024 Election? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Feb 04, 202458 min

February 1, 2024 - Stephen Biddle | Asher Kaufman | Victor Pickard

Why Russia's War on Ukraine Has Reached a Stalemate | US Sanctions 4 Israeli Settlers But Not the Ministers Who Support Them | What it Will Take to Save American Journalism From Big Tech and Vulture Capitalism backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Feb 01, 20241 hr 1 min

January 31, 2024 - Gregory Brew | Benn Steil | Bartlett Naylor & Richard Anthony

With Biden Poised to Retaliate, Both the US and Iran Say They Don't Want a Wider War | In 1944 FDR Ditched VP Wallace For Truman, Should Biden Do the Same With Kamala Harris? | Bipartisan Outrage in the Senate Today at the CEOs of Meta, X, Snap, TikTok and Discord backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jan 31, 20241 hr 2 min

January 29, 2024 - Nick Heras | Paul Pillar | Allan Lichtman

Biden's Options to Retaliate as Pressure Mounts to Strike Iran | Will the Presence of 2,400 US Soldiers in Iraq and Syria Become the Main Reason We Fight Iran? | One of 25 Historians of the Civil War and Reconstruction Who Signed An Amicus Brief to Have Trump Removed From the Ballot Under the 14th Amendment backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jan 29, 20241 hr

January 28, 2024 - Jared Yates Sexton | Maria Popova & Oxana Shevel | Alexander Sammon

Texas Leads a Secession Movement as Militias Head to the Border in a New Civil War | The Real Reasons Behind Putin's War on Ukraine | Billionaire Republican Donors Are Prepared to Spend Over $100 Million to Primary Progressive House Democrats backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jan 28, 20241 hr 2 min

January 25, 2024 - Dr. Bandy Lee | Nader Hashemi | Kim Lane Scheppele

Trump's Mental Unfitness Will Now be a Campaign Issue Thanks to Nikki Haley | Undeterred, an Emboldened Iran Benefits From Israel's US-Backed War on Gaza | Exposing Hungary's Dictator Orban as the Blackmailer and Kleptocrat That He Is backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jan 25, 202459 min

January 24, 2024 - Stephen Wertheim | Nina Khrushcheva | Federico Perelmuter

The Need For a New Strategy to Defend Democracy at Home and Abroad as the US No Longer Deters Iran, Russia, China or North Korea | Life in Russia Which is Becoming a Garrison State With a Wartime Leader Who Started a War He Has No Intention of Stopping | Argentina Faces a General Strike in Opposition to Its Chainsaw-wielding New Leader's Slash and Burn Policies

Jan 24, 20241 hr 1 min

January 23, 2024 - Matt Hongoltz-Hetling | Zaha Hassan | Sue Mi Terry

Why New Hampshire Republican Voters Love Trump | Coming Soon the ICJ Provisional Ruling on South Africa's Genocide Case Against Israel Will Further Isolate Biden | Has Kim Jong Un Made a Strategic Decision to Go to War Against the South? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jan 23, 20241 hr 2 min

January 22, 2024 - Michael Binder | Michael Mechanic | Erica Payne

The Rise and Fall of the Warrior Against Woke, Ron DeSantis | An Editor and Contributor to the American Oligarchy Issue of Mother Jones Just Out | A Letter to Davos From 260 Millionaires and Billionaires Demanding World Leaders Increase Their Taxes backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jan 22, 20241 hr 2 min

January 21, 2024 - Haggai Matar | Dalal Mawad | Brandon Formby

A Defiant Netanyahu Will Drag Out His War to Hurt Biden and Help Trump | A Failing State Lebanon Poised to Fail Completely Should War Between Israel and Hezbollah Break Out | Uvalde: So Much For the NRA Refrain That The Only Way to Stop a Bad Guy With a Gun Is a Good Guy With a Gun backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jan 21, 20241 hr

January 17, 2024 - Jody Freeman | James Goodwin | Christopher Preble

A Supreme Court Poised to Gut the Administrative State | Should Bitter, Angry Justices in the Thrall of Billionaires and Corporate Power Decide What We Eat, Breath, How Long We Live and What Kind of World We Live in? | Testing US Foreign Policy Assumptions on the Brink of a Wider War in the Middle East backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jan 17, 202459 min

January 16, 2024 - Geoffrey Kabaservice | Dr. Allen Frances | Wladimir van Wilgenburg

After Trump's Blowout Victory in Iowa, He is All But Certain to be the GOP's Presidential Nominee | As MAGA World Celebrates Trump's Lawlessness, Is the Rule of Law Itself on Trial in This Election? | A Report From Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan on an Iranian Missile and Drone Strike backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jan 16, 20241 hr

January 15, 2024 - Jon Hoffman | Michael Gerhardt | Timothy Hagle

Are Israel and Saudi Arabia Liabilities Emboldened by the US to Pursue Reckless Policies? | An Expert on Impeachment as Rep. Comer Backs Down on Impeaching Biden | An Update From Iowa on the Coldest Caucus Day in History backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jan 15, 202459 min

January 14, 2024 - Shireen Al-Adeimi | Michael Swaine | Edward McCaffery

Will Strikes Against the Houthis Scuttle the Saudi Peace Deal to End a War in Yemen MbS Started in 2015? | According to China, the War Party Won and the Peace Party Lost in Taiwan's Election | "Christian" Corruption as Mike Johnson Kills Enforcement After the IRS Collected $520 Million From Rich Tax Cheats backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jan 14, 20241 hr

January 11, 2024 - Arnie Arnesen | Mike Spies | Joshua Green

Will Christie's Exit in New Hampshire Help Nikki Haley Who the Koch Network in Banking On? | The Reporter Behind the NY AG's Suit to Close Down the NRA | The History of Why the Democrats Got Into Bed With Wall Street and the Sanders, Warren, AOC Movement to Return the Party to Its Working Class Roots backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jan 11, 20241 hr 2 min