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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
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Episodes

July 16, 2024 - Harold Meyerson | Tom LoBianco | Dr. Tatsiana Kulakevich

The Disconnect at the RNC Between Trump's Call For Unity and Partisan Speeches From MAGA Warriors | Republicans Pretend to Love Workers While Biden Loses Support Except For Unions | What is Behind Chinese Soldiers Drilling on the Border With Poland and Ukraine? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 16, 20241 hr 1 min

July 15, 2024 - Geoffrey Kabaservice | Michael Greenberger | Kim Lane Scheppele

Trump's Judge Dismisses the Most Winnable Case Against Him Taking Her Cue From Justice Thomas | J.D. Vance, the Authoritarian Brains Behind a Trump Dictatorship | Orban Has Invited China Into Europe as He Acts as a Courier For Secret Messages From Putin and Xi to Trump backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 15, 20241 hr 1 min

July 14, 2024 - Robert Baer | Sean Wilentz | Jared Yates Sexton

Assassinations That Changed the World or Might Have Changed the World | America's Historical Legacy of Presidential Assassinations and Attempted Assassinations | The Inciter of Political Violence Now Calls For Unity as He Moves Closer to Joining the Illiberal Club of the World's Despots and Kleptocrats backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 14, 20241 hr 3 min

July 7, 2024 - Gil Duran | Arash Azizi

A Former Press Secretary to Kamala Harris on Who Could Best Beat Trump as Divisions Among Democrats Intensify While Republicans Can't Get Enough of Their Candidate's Depravity and Dementia | An Assessment of the So-Called Reformist President of Iran and What He Means For Women, Life, Freedom backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 11, 20241 hr 2 min

July 10, 2024 - Christopher Whipple | Bhaskar Sunkara | Elle Reeve

Insight Into Biden's Inner Circle Resisting Growing Calls For Him to Step Down | Shifting the Focus to Trump and His Scary GOP Party Platform | A Journalist Who Has Taken on the Nazis at Charlottesville and Was at Risk Inside the Angry Mob That Stormed the Capitol On Trump's Far-Right Capture of American Politics backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 10, 20241 hr 1 min

July 9, 2024 - Bill Scher | James Goldgeier | Natalie Melnyczuk

As Biden and the Democrats Circle the Wagons, Concerns Persist in the Rest of the Country, Meanwhile Trump Gets a Free Pass in the Media | The 75th Anniversary of NATO at a Washington Summit Concerned About Biden and Afraid Trump Could be Reelected | While NATO is Not Ready For Ukraine to Join, Will it Sustain Ukraine Over the Long Haul? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 09, 20241 hr 3 min

July 8, 2024 - Simon Rosenberg | David Andelman | Francis Kagaru

Biden's Defiance As We Learn a Parkinson's Expert Visited the White House 8 Times in 8 Months | The Far Right Comes in Third In France as Le Pen Joins Forces With Orban to Form the Third Largest Bloc in the European Parliament | An Update From Kenya on the Bloody Demonstrations Against a Government Sending Police to Haiti When They Are Needed at Home backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 08, 20241 hr 4 min

July 4, 2024 - Sarah Churchwell | Lawrence Douglas

A View From Abroad as Biden Stands Between the Survival of Global Democracy and the Rule of Law and Dictatorship | Even If Biden Could be Convinced to Step Down Soon, He Would Be Making Himself a Lame Duck President backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 04, 202459 min

July 3, 2024 - Sam Rosenfeld | James Henry

A Historical Assessment of How the Major Political Parties Have Become Hollow Shells | Will the Conviction of a Former Trump Business Partner Who Laundered Millions Into Trump Real Estate Revive the Trump/Russia Collusion? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 03, 20241 hr

July 2, 2024 - Robert Hockett | Charles Kupchan | Abner Greene

The Supreme Court Has Handed the Criminal Trump a Loaded Gun, Might Biden Also Use it? | How the Shift to the Right in Europe Could Impact the War in Ukraine | The Other Alarming SCOTUS Decision Overshadowed by the Ruling to Give Trump a License to Kill backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 02, 20241 hr 2 min

July 1, 2024 - Jeremi Suri | Lisa Gilbert | Philippe Marliere

In the Service of a President Convicted of Crimes, the Supreme Court Allows Presidents to Commit Crimes | Hope in Dark Times as Many Americans Reel From the One-Two Punch of Biden's Debate Performance and Today's Supreme Court Ruling | Alarming Gains by the French Far Right as the Left and Center Maneuver to Block a Neo-Fascist Takeover of Parliament backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 01, 202459 min

June 30, 2024 - Robert Kuttner | Richard Parker | Allan Lichtman

If Biden is Lucky to Be Running Against Trump and Not a Younger Candidate, Does That Mean The Republicans Would be Worse Off Against a Younger Democratic Candidate? | The Impact of Biden's Disastrous Debate on the Democratic Down-Ticket | "Foolhardy Nonsense" Coming From Pundits, the Press, and Anxious Democrats Clutching Their Pearls backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jun 30, 20241 hr 2 min

June 27, 2024 - Aaron Rupar | John Ganz | Thomas Zeitzoff

Why Do More Americans in Swing States Think Trump is Better For Democracy? The Answer Might be the Local Influence of Sinclair Broadcast Group | How We Arrived at a Moment Where a Reality TV Right Wing Populist Captured One of America's Two Major Political Parties | The Author of Nasty Politics: The Logic of Insults, Threats, and Incitement backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jun 27, 20241 hr

June 25, 2024 - James Risen | Bob Shrum | Thanassis Cambanis

A Journalist Who Faced Jail Under the Espionage Act on Assange's Plea Deal | Presidential Debate Prep and How to Fact-Check Trump From a Former Democratic Strategist | War Between Israel and Hezbollah Appears Increasingly Likely backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jun 25, 20241 hr 1 min

June 24, 2024 - William Snowden | Corey Brettschneider | Mike Lofgren

Trump's Open Declaration of War Against the Rule of Law | The US is Running Out of Ammo While Spending Trillions of Gold-Plated Turkeys As Enemies Have Plenty of Ammunition and Allies Make Better Ships Much Cheaper | Trump Follows the Far-Right Culture Warrior Governor of Louisiana's Call for the Ten Commandments to be Displayed in Schools backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jun 24, 20241 hr

June 23, 2024 - Jeff Goodell | Tad DeLay | Sue Mi Terry

The Heatwave Baking the Planet and the Contrast Between Biden's Understanding of Global Warming and Trump's Denial | The Sources of Climate Change Denial and a Future Beyond Denial | Is the Putin/Kim Jong Un Pact Alarming or Pathetic as Two Murderous Pariah's Resume Their Love Affair With Trump? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jun 23, 20241 hr 1 min

June 20, 2024 - Paul Waldman | Lawrence Lessig

Secret Recordings of Trump's Dirty Trickster Reveals Plans to Steal the Next Election | How the Next Election Can Be Stolen and What to Do About It backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jun 20, 20241 hr 3 min

June 19, 2024 - Melanye Price | Sidney Blumenthal | Edwin Lyman

Juneteenth and the Legacy of Racism in Texas | The Wholesale Self-abasement, Humiliation and Degradation in the Recent Groveling of GOP Lawmakers Before the Insurrectionist Who Directed the Attack on Their Capitol Workplace | The Senate Votes 88 to 2 to Boost Nuclear Power Based on "New" Reactor Technology That is Old and Less Safe backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jun 19, 20241 hr 2 min

June 18, 2024 - Robert Johnson | Jessica Melugin | Sung Yoon Lee

America's Plutocrats Believe the Threat to Capitalism From Democrats is Worse Than the Threat to Democracy From Trump | A Critique of the Surgeon General's Call for Warning Labels on Social Media Platforms | Putin Meets to Make Weapons Deals With His "Comrade-in-Arms" Kim Jong Un backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jun 18, 202416 min

June 17, 2024 - Asher Kaufman | Bob Dreyfuss | Rachel Schmalz

Netanyahu Dissolves the War Cabinet as Tensions on Israel's Border With Lebanon Intensify | Trump's Gaza Policy Would Be So Much Worse Given Who He Put in Charge of Israeli/Palestinian Issues During His Presidency | The U.S., the U.K. and Canada Warn Putin is Actively Sabotaging Upcoming Elections in Moldova backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jun 17, 202457 min

June 16, 2024 - Lisa Graves | Jane Kirtley | David Vine

How to Reign in a Supreme Court Even More Out of Step With the American People | The Message Versus the Messenger Conundrum Following Revelations in the Alito Tapes | With Peace Talks Underway, Ukraine's Future and the U.S. Military Industrial Complex backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jun 16, 20241 hr 1 min

June 13, 2024 - Casey Michel | Paul Pillar | Alexander Stille

The Senate Launches a Probe Into Jared Kushner's $2 billion Payoff From Saudi Arabia's MbS | The Saudi/Israel Security Pact Biden is Doggedly Pursuing | Italy's PM Giorgia Meloni Hosts the G-7 Summit With Glamour Amidst "Dead Men Walking" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jun 13, 20241 hr 2 min

June 12, 2024 - Marcy Wheeler | Peter Goodman | Melissa Jacoby

The Hunter Biden Trial as a Political Hit Job With More Humiliation of the Troubled Son Coming in the September Trial | How We Got Hooked On Globalism and a System in Which Corporations Win While Everybody Else Loses | How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jun 12, 20241 hr 3 min

June 16, 2024 - Lauren Windsor | Joshua Horwitz | Philippe Marlière

The Undercover Activist Who Captured the Real Justice Alito as a Christian Nationalist | The Hypocrisy of MAGA Republicans Celebrating Hunter Biden's Convictions on Gun Laws They Violently Oppose | President Macron's Call For a Snap Election Already Appears to be Backfiring backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jun 11, 20241 hr

June 10, 2024 - Haggai Matar | R. Daniel Kelemen | Michael Kimmage

Israel's Opposition Leader Quits the War Cabinet But Netanyahu Will Continue the War Through the US Elections to Hurt Biden and Help Trump | An Analysis of the Results of the EU Elections and the Right Wing Sweep That Did Not Materialize | A Historical Analysis of Whether We Are in 1938 With Putin's War on Ukraine backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jun 10, 202459 min

June 9, 2024 - Gregory Treverton | Nick Bryant

Already Governing, Trump Has His Puppet Mike Johnson Appoint Two Clowns to Cripple the House Intel Committee | The Inevitability of Trump 250 Years in the Making With the U.S. Captive to Its Contentious Past backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jun 09, 20241 hr

June 6, 2024 - Michel Paradis | Lindsay Owens | Jacob Hacker

The 80th Anniversary of D-Day and Today's Struggle Against Tyranny | How Corporate Power and Technology Have Combined to Gouge Consumers | As Billionaires and Corporations Back Trump to Continue Tax Cuts For the Rich, Biden Needs to Make it Clear We Have a Revenue Not a Spending Problem and Make Them Pay

Jun 06, 20241 hr 2 min

June 5, 2024 - Aaron Reichlin-Melnick | Mark Hannah | Dr. Sumit Ganguly | Andrew Latham

Legal Challenges to Biden's EO on Closing the Border | Agreements and Disagreements Between Americans and Europeans on China, the Wars in Ukraine and Gaza and European Security | An Assessment of the Results of the Elections in India | India's Foreign Policy Choices as Russia and China Grow Closer backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jun 05, 202459 min

June 4, 2024 - Margaret Hu | Justin Bulcher | Michael Brenes

Will Biden's Executive Order to Close the Border Win or Lose Votes? | Although Trump and Biden are Raising Billions, Money Will Have Little Effect on the Presidential Race | Following the CIA, The Pentagon Falls For Silicon Valley's Promise of AI Miracle Weapons backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jun 04, 20241 hr
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