The Murky Ties to the Poet and Would-be Assassin of Slovakia's PM Robert Fico | At their 40th Meeting, Xi and Putin Pledge to Deepen Defense and Military Ties | Trump's Lawyer Attacks Michael Cohen as a Liar Even Though Trump's Fixer Lied in the Service of the Liar-in-Chief backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 16, 2024•1 hr
The Party of Law and Order Now Embraces Lawlessness as the GOP Speaker Trashes the Rule of Law to Please the Scofflaw-in-Chief | The Setbacks the Ukrainian Military is Suffering as a Result of Trump's 6 Month Delay of U.S. Arms and Ammunition | What is Behind the Rise in Food Prices as a Few Monopolies Gouge the Public and Farmers While Protected by the Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 15, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Mike Johnson Personifies the Staggering Hypocrisy of the "Christian" Right | Is the New York Trial Hurting Trump Who is Polling Ahead in all Swing States But Wisconsin? | The Mainstreaming of America's Neo-Nazi Movement and the Potential for Violence in the Election backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 14, 2024•1 hr
In Paying Off A Porn Star For Her Silence Trump Tells Cohen to "Just do it!" | Georgia's Billionaire-Owned Government Passes a Kremlin-Style Law Although the Vast Majority Want to Join the EU | Neo-Nazis, Christian Nationalists and Proud Boys Were in the Pro-Israel Mob at UCLA Claiming to Fight Antisemitism backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 13, 2024•1 hr 1 min
As Ukraine Faces a Long War, Will the US and NATO be There and Is There Any Hope of a Peace Deal? | The FTC Goes After Corporate Greed and AIPAC Goes After a January 6 Hero backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 12, 2024•1 hr
The Israeli Public's Support for Continuing the War and Netanyahu's Defiant Response to Biden | Trump's Wildly Inflated Ego Takes a Beating as Stormy Daniels Belittles Trump's Sexual Prowess | Will the Slapdown 359 to 43 Vote Deter "Moscow Marge" From Fomenting Further Chaos in the House? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 09, 2024•59 min
Trump's Delaying Tactic is Working as 3 of the 4 Trials He's Facing Will Likely Not be Heard Before the Election | Following His 5th Inauguration, Putin Is Now Called "Imperator", the Formal Title For the Russian Tsars | Student Protests in the Age of the New McCarthyism Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green
May 08, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Israel Joins Peace Talks in Cairo Amid IDF Escalation in Gaza | Strengthening the Laws of War as Non-combatants Die in Gaza and Ukraine | Brazen Examples of Foreign Governments Buying US Senators and Congressmen backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 07, 2024•1 hr 1 min
The Gaza Impasses With Hamas Wanting a Permanent Ceasefire and Israel a Temporary One | A Possible Change in the US's Israel/Palestinian Policy as Grassroots and Student Protests Ended Support For South Africa's Apartheid Regime | Russia Announces Drills For the Use of Tactical Nukes Ahead of Putin's Inauguration Tomorrow backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 06, 2024•1 hr
The House Speaker Uses an Antisemitic Trope Blaming George Soros as he Launches Hearings on Anti Semitism on Campuses | The Role of Right Wing, Christian Zionist and MAGA Provocateurs in Campus Violence | Models of Dialogue and Deescalation as Outside Opportunists Stoke Violence on Campuses backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 05, 2024•1 hr 3 min
On the Brink of the Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza as Ceasefire Talks Are Deadlocked | The DEA's Decriminalization of Marijuana as Too Little Too Late | Could a Change in DEA Policy Revive California's Troubled Marijuana Industry? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 02, 2024•1 hr 1 min
A Pro-Israel Mob Invades the UCLA Campus to Beat up Pro-Palestinian Students While the Police Look On | Assessing the Flaws and Exploring the Fixes to a Constitution That is Failing Americans As Fascism Threatens Our Democracy Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green
May 01, 2024•58 min
As Campus Protests Intensify and Spread, Northwestern University Serves as a Model For Deescalation | The Disturbingly Accurate Analogies Between Hitler's Rise to Power and Trump's Threat to Democracy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Apr 30, 2024•59 min
The Weaponization of Anti Semitism Against Students Protesting on American Campuses | The Strength of the Only Trial That May End Up Holding Trump to Account Before the Election | Elections Underway in the World's Largest Democracy and the Dark Side Modi's India backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Apr 29, 2024•1 hr 2 min
The House and Senate Moves to Strip Non-Profit Status From Foundations That Support Palestinian Causes | The Damage the Supreme Court is Doing to the Rule of Law by Making Trump Above the Law | Biden's Reelection Chances According to a Prediction System That Has Got Every Presidential Election Right Since 1984 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Apr 28, 2024•1 hr 1 min
More Special Treatment of Trump by the Supreme Court | Implications of Biden's TikTok Ban | The Enduring Relationship Between the Far-Right and Conservative Movements of "Responsible" and "Respectable" Republicans backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Apr 25, 2024•1 hr
Supreme Court Anti-Abortion Ideologues Threaten Access to Emergency Care | The Search For Diplomatic Openings as the War in Ukraine Escalates | Trump's Republican Party Makes it Clear the GOP Would Rather Cheat Than Compete Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green
Apr 24, 2024•1 hr
Trump's History of Using and Abusing Women | The Pathetic Man on Display in the Courtroom as a Far Cry From the MAGA Faithful's Superhero | Will SCOTUS Undermine the 8th Amendment's Protection For the Homeless Against Cruel and Unusual Punishment? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Apr 23, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Arrests of Students Protesting the War in Gaza Spread From Columbia to Yale | The Optics of Trump on Trial in New York; a President Off His Pedestal Defending Sleazy Criminal Behavior | A Positive Case For America's Next Economy Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green
Apr 22, 2024•1 hr
Meeting Ukraine's Needs as Russia Mobilizes for a June Offensive | How Ukraine Will Survive and Adjust to Permanent War | The Deadly War in Gaza and Israel's Tenuous Standoff With Iran as Both Israel and Palestine Appear to be Leaderless and Directionless backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Apr 21, 2024•1 hr 4 min
A View From Ukraine as the Fate of Their Country Hangs in the Hands of Mike Johnson and Marjorie Taylor Greene | Jurors Quit the Trump Trial as the Criminal Defendant Tests the Gag Orders | As Billionaires Try to Kill the NLRB, the UAW Makes Gains in the South backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Apr 18, 2024•1 hr 2 min
The Prologue to the Trump Criminal Trial Underway in Which AG Barr Went Out of His Way to Protect "Individual 1" | Is Mike Johnson Serious About Aiding Ukraine or Following Trump and Putin's Orders? | Biden's Tax Plan in Contrast to Trump's Giveaway to Billionaires backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Apr 17, 2024•59 min
A Look Inside Iran as Its People Wait For Israel's Retaliation Which Could Lead to a Wider War | The Symbiosis Between Israel's Hardline PM and Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei | An Assessment of Today's Oral Argument That Could Result in the Supreme Court Undoing Charges Against Trump and the J6 Insurrectionists backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Apr 16, 2024•57 min
Biden Meets With Iraq's PM Over Concerns That US Troops in Iraq and Syria Are Vulnerable if Israel Retaliates Against Iran | The First Day of Trump's NY Trial and the Possibility of a Trumpster on the Jury Causing a Mistrial as Happened in the Bannon "We Build the Wall" Fraud Case | The Record Numbers of Election Officials Quitting Under Threats From the "Stop the Steal" Lies backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Apr 15, 2024•1 hr
Iran's Theatrical Response to the Israeli Strike and the Fear of Netanyahu Escalating | Finally the Architect of the Far-Right Takeover of the US Judiciary | An Assessment of the Trump vs Biden Records of Achievement backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Apr 14, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Israel's AI Tools "Gospel", "Lavender" and "Where's Daddy" Are Being Used For Targeted Assassinations in Gaza | Increased Cooperation Between the U.S., Japan and The Philippines' Militaries Tops the White House Summit Agenda | An Assessment of the Political Damage to Arizona Republicans From the 1864 Abortion Ban backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Apr 11, 2024•1 hr
The Arizona Supreme Court Takes the State Back to 1864 Before it Was a State With a Draconian Abortion Law | The Left/Right Coalition Refusing to Re-Authorize FISA With MAGA Republicans Doing So Because Trump Thinks it Was Used to Spy on Him | The Fatal Combination of Passivity in the Electorate and Trump's Impunity Could End American Democracy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Apr 10, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Did Trump's Lawyers Mislead the NY Appeals Court to Get a Lower Bond? | As Trump Encourages Secession and Threatens Civil War, He Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving to China and Russia | How Billionaires Who Don't Pay Taxes Use Their Surplus Money to Buy Politicians to Lower Their Taxes Even Further backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Apr 09, 2024•1 hr
April 8, 2024 - Renee Hobbs | Dr. Allen Frances | Kevin Carey by Ian Masters
Apr 08, 2024•59 min
Iran's vow to Retaliate Against an Israeli Strike Could Lead to a Wider War Biden is Trying to Avoid | With MbS and Trump Talking, What Could They Do to Jack Up Gas Prices to Hurt Biden's Reelection? | Good Economic News as Janet Yellen Tries to Get a Level Playing Field With China backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Apr 07, 2024•1 hr