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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

August 10, 2024 - Dr. Bandy Lee | Robert Young Pelton | Mitchell Plitnick

Americans Are Being Denied the Truth About Trump's Mental Instability and Possible Dementia | How Does the Veteran Community Feel About the Latest Round of Swift-Boating? | Can A Deal For Iran Not to Retaliate in Exchange For A Ceasefire in Gaza be Made? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Aug 11, 20241 hr 4 min

August 8, 2024 - David Cay Johnston | Shireen Al-Adeimi | Aram Shabanian

Trump's Press Conference Tirade of Child-like Petulance That Biden Had Been Taken Away Like His Favorite Toy and Now He's Stuck Having to Run Against a Black Woman | How Will the Harris/Walz Team Handle More Pro-Palestinian Demonstrations? | Objectives Behind the Ukrainian Incursion Into Russia backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Aug 08, 20241 hr 1 min

August 7, 2024 - Clarissa Hayward | Moira Donegan | Joshua Landis

With Millions From Republican Billionaires, AIPAC Unseats Another Member of The Squad | Have The Democrats Learned Their Lesson of Playing it Safe With VP Picks? | Netanyahu Has Provoked and Khamenei Has Promised a War That Nobody Wants backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Aug 07, 20241 hr 2 min

August 6, 2024 - Jonathan Alter | Quinn Slobodian | K. Sabeel Rahman

What the VP Pick Tim Walz Brings to the Electoral Map | The Global Menace of Elon Musk Stoking Racial Unrest in the UK | How to Save Government Oversight and Expertise From the Ravages of SCOTUS Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Asher Price

Aug 06, 20241 hr 6 min

August 5, 2024 - David Schultz | David Daley | Pavlina Tcherneva

Governor Tim Walz May be Kamala Harris's Pick For VP | The Plutocratic Capture of John Roberts's Supreme Court | Wall Street's and the Global Drop in Markets Does Not Spell Recession backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Aug 05, 20241 hr 2 min

August 4, 2024 - Brett Eagleson | Ian Haney López | Katherine Stewart

Evidence the US Government Has Buried For 23 Years Appears Poised to Blow the Lid Off Saudi Involvement in 9/11 | Will Trump's Revival of the "Birther" Dog Whistle Work Against Kamala Harris? | The Noble Lie, J.D. Vance and the New Right backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Aug 04, 20241 hr 1 min

August 1, 2024 - Olga Lautman | Adam Weinstein | Lawrence Jacobs

Russia Swaps Innocent Hostages For Putin's Spies, Criminals and Hackers | Will Netanyahu Drag the US Into Another Forever War in the Middle East | A Profile of a Possible VP Pick, Minnesota's Governor Tim Walz backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Aug 01, 20241 hr 4 min

July 31, 2024 - Nader Hashemi | Haggai Matar | Jim Small

With Assassinations in Tehran and Beirut, Netanyahu Taunts Iran and Hezbollah to Bring It On | The Arrest of 9 IDF Soldiers by Military Police For Gang Rape of Palestinian Prisoners 36 of Whom Have Been Tortured to Death | A Profile of Senator Mark Kelly as a Possible VP for Kamala Harris backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 31, 20241 hr 4 min

July 30, 2024 - Harry Litman | Christopher Borick | Molly White

Biden's Supreme Court Reform Plans Now That Leonard Leo and the Federalists Have Stacked the Courts | As Governor Shapiro Auditions for the VP Slot, We Look at His Pros and Cons | The Cryptocurrency Industry is All-In For Trump Who is Promising to Give Away the Store to Them backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 30, 20241 hr 2 min

July 29, 2024 - Alejandro Velasco | Habib Battah | Jesselyn Cook

Venezuela's Maduro Defies Most of the World Claiming Victory When the Vote Was as Much as 70 to 30% Against Him | On the Brink of Another War as the US and Israel Reject Hezbollah's Claim a Missile That Killed 12 Was Not Theirs | With the GOP Now Seen as a Cult, Why Are Americans Susceptible to Cults? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 29, 20241 hr 1 min

July 28, 2024 - Adele Stan | Lisa Graves | David Smilde

With Democrats Reeling From Despair to Euphoria, Kamala Harris Steps Out of the Shadows Into the Limelight | After Capturing Our Judiciary, Opus Dei Operatives Are Poised to Capture the Executive Branch With J.D. Vance and Kevin Roberts, the Leader of Project 2025 | Since He Should Lose Today's Election in Venezuela, Will Maduro Do a Trump and Not Concede? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 28, 20241 hr 4 min

July 25, 2024 - Andy Kroll | Dewey Clayton | Steven Simon

More Alarming Information About Who J.D. Vance is and What he Believes Continues to Surface | Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear as a Possible Running Mate For Kamala Harris | Netanyahu's Visit With Biden and Harris Followed by His Meeting Tomorrow With Trump Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Asher Price

Jul 25, 20241 hr 5 min

July 24, 2024 - Annelle Sheline | Sarah Leah Whitson | Dr. Guy Ziv

A Former State Department Official Who Just Quit Over Gaza on Netanyahu's 4th Address to a Joint Session of Congress | Demonstrations Against Netanyahu Outside Congress Today and the Boycott of His Speech Inside | Netanyahu's Speech Was Aimed at His Domestic Audience With No Ceasefire Since His Coalition Will Collapse If He Makes a Ceasefire Deal Before the Knesset Adjourns backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 24, 20241 hr 2 min

July 23, 2024 - Gil Duran | Ruth Conniff | Nelson Lichtenstein

The Contours of a Kamala Harris Campaign Emerges Contrasting the Felon With the Prosecutor Who Went After For-Profit College Ripoffs Like Trump University and Investigated Big Oil While Trump Invited Them to Bribe Him | Kamala Harris Campaigns in Wisconsin Today Which Trump Barely Won in 2016 and Biden in 2020 | Project 2025 Is More of a Corporate Wishlist Than a MAGA Manifesto and Trump and Vance Are Running Away From Its Unpopularity backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia fa...

Jul 23, 202459 min

July 22, 2024 - Gautam Mukunda | Anthea Butler | Ben Burgis

How the Most Important Hire in the World Has Been Made With, Good, Bad and Ugly Consequences | The Vice Presidential Sweepstakes and the Importance of Swing States | A Democratic Party Reborn backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 22, 20241 hr 6 min

July 21, 2024 - Jennifer Mercieca | Will Bunch | Jacob Silverman

The Gulf Between Rhetoric and Reality As One Presidential Candidate Drones on Disavowing his Plans While the Other is in a Bunker Not Listening | A Recap of the Republican Convention and What it Tells Us About a Future Trump Presidency | How a Handful of Tech Billionaires Are Poised to Enact Their Techno-Fascist Fantasies with Their Bro in the Oval Office backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 21, 20241 hr 1 min

July 18, 2024 - Alexander Stille | Samuel Moyn | Jacob Heilbrunn

Mounting Pressure From Democratic Leaders on Biden to Step Down Could Overwhelm His Stubbornness | Beyond Biden, America Has a Problem With Gerontocracy | Doubling Down on America First, the Trump/Vance Ticket Will Undermine Democracy and the Rule of Law at Home and Abroad backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 18, 202459 min

July 17, 2024 - Joshua Shifrinson | Joe Conason

J.D. Vance's Foreign Policy Views Plus Trump's Ties to Putin Spell Doom For Ukraine | 75 Years of Rightwing Conmen, Quacks and Charlatans Making Money Attacking Liberals, Influencing the Wider Political Landscape and Moving the Country to the Right backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jul 17, 20241 hr

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