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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

May 16, 2023 - Thomas Kahn | Scott Horton | Aslı Bâli

A Lawsuit With Recorded Evidence Against Giuliani By A Woman Scorned Could Be Devastating For Trump | Democrats Cave on a Clean Debt Ceiling Bill | The Disappointing Results of Sunday's Elections in Turkey backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

May 16, 20231 hr 2 min

May 15, 2023 - Stephanie Kelton | Nicholas Danforth | Fred Turner

As the Standoff Over the Debt Ceiling Gets Closer to Default, Can Biden Call the House Republicans Bluff? | Running an Anti-American Campaign, Erdogan is Likely to be Reelected, Making Him Less Constrained and More Authoritarian | Not Only Do We Have a Mad Candidate, Countries Can Fall Into the Grip of Madness as Germany Did in the 1930's backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

May 15, 20231 hr 3 min

May 14, 2023 - Miles Taylor | Orville Schell | James Risen

The First White House Insider to Expose Trump on How Trump Will be Even More Dangerous Next Time | After Top Officials Met For 8 Hours, Could China and the U.S. Work Together to End the War in Ukraine? | A Champion of Democracy and Transparency Who Took on Powerful Interests and Won backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

May 14, 20231 hr 3 min

May 11, 2023 - Dr. Bandy Lee | Michelle Garcia | Christine Fair

Trump's Unstable Unfitness For Office on Display as the Much of the U.S Falls into the Grip of Madness | A Flood of Desperate and Destitute Migrants Face More Military and Police Response Than Humanitarian Assistance | The Arrest of Imran Khan, the Pakistan Military's Favorite who Fell Out of Favor With Them backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

May 11, 20231 hr 4 min

May 10, 2023 - Will Brederman | Michael Gorham | Elmira Bayrasli

Today's Indictment of Congressman George Santos on 13 Counts and Calls For Him To Resign, But Not From Speaker McCarthy | Prigozhin Throws Shade on Putin's Victory Day Parade Telling Him Not to F**k Around On Red Square | Could Turkey's Kleptocratic Authoritarian Be Voted out on Sunday and Will He Accept the Results? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

May 10, 20231 hr 3 min

May 9, 2023 - Anthea Butler | Robert Hockett | Hamilton Nolan

A Former President Has Been Found Guilty of Sexual Assault But Does the Party of Donald Trump and George Santos Care? | After Today's Pointless Meeting, Biden Should Now Call McCarthy's Bluff on the Debt Ceiling | The Writers' Guild Strike Has Much More Significance Beyond Hollywood backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

May 09, 20231 hr 3 min

May 8, 2023 - Victoria Sanford | Garrett Epps | Sam Biddle

Thursday's Expected Influx of Immigrants at the Southern Border and the Failure to Deal With the Root Causes | As Republicans Try to Extort Budget Cuts, the Counter Leverage of the 14th Amendment is in Biden's Pocket | The Weaponization of AI Tech as the Pentagon Looks at CHAT GPT backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

May 08, 20231 hr 3 min

May 7, 2023 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Eric Segall | Brendan Ballou

A Reporter Who Was Banned From Entering the "Woke Free Zone" at CPAC's Conference in Orban's Hungary | The Growing Evidence of Ethical Violations by Justice Clarence Thomas and His Right Wing Activist Wife | The Pillage by Vulture Capitalist in Private Equity Who Make Huge Profits Plundering Companies They Buy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

May 07, 20231 hr 1 min

May 4, 2023 - Andy Campbell | Lucas Webber | Dov Zakheim

Trump's StormTroopers the Proud Boys Found Guilty of Seditious Conspiracy | The Possibility the Drone Attack on the Kremlin Was Carried Out By Anti-Putin Russian Partisans | Why Does the Biden Administration Create Red Lines For Ukraine Then Eventually Deliver the Weapons Months if Not a Year Later? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

May 04, 20231 hr 1 min

May 3, 2023 - Vera Mironova | James Thurber | Henry Giroux

Was the Drone Attack on the Kremlin Staged or a Ukrainian Attempt to Rattle Putin's Cage? | In the Face of House Republicans Extortion, is the Democratic Work-Around of a Discharge Petition Feasible? | 40% of 8th Graders Are Below Average in History and 31% Are Below Basic Proficiency in Civics backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

May 03, 20231 hr 4 min

April 2, 2023 - Norm Ornstein | Graham Smith | Michael Hiltzik

How the Press Has Framed the Looming Act of Insanity by House Republicans as Dueling Budget Proposals | Royal Fever Ahead of King Charles's Coronation and a Plan to Abolish the Monarchy | Republican Governors are Bringing Back Child Labor in the United States backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

May 02, 20231 hr 1 min

May 1, 2023 - Moira Donegan | Sirang Shidore | Simon Rosenberg

Growing Concern at the Supreme Court's Impunity From Ethical Norms as Its Credibility With the Public Plunges | Biden Pledges "Ironclad" Military Ties With The Philippines As China Warns of "Stoking the Fire" | Biden's Reelection Strategy of Running Against Hate and MAGA Madness backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

May 01, 20231 hr 4 min

April 30, 2023 - Alden Young | Branislav Slantchev

Sudan is Descending Into a Destructive and Bloody Civil War Along the Lines of Syria and Libya | An Extensive Look Into Military Preparations For a Ukrainian Spring Offensive Aimed at a Decisive Victory Over Russia backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Apr 30, 202359 min

April 27, 2023 - Jeff Madrick | Sung Yoon Lee | Michael Kimmage

A Republican Budget That Punishes the Poorest Americans, Children, to Deal With A Debt They Caused by Cutting Taxes For the Rich | The U.S. Nuclear Guarantees To South Korea to Stop Their Self Nuclearization | Short of a Decisive Blow Against Russia in the Upcoming Offensive, the Ukraine War Will Go On For Years backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Apr 27, 20231 hr 1 min

April 26, 2023 - Charles Kupchan | Deborah Tuerkheimer | David Smilde

China's Peace Offer to Ukraine and Does the US Want to Avoid Ukraine Humiliating Putin With Its Upcoming Offensive? | Today's Testimony by E. Jean Carroll Describing How Donald Trump Raped Her in a Bergdorf Goodman's Dressing Room | A Summit on Venezuela in Bogata, Colombia to Which the Former Venezuelan Opposition Leader Showed Up Uninvited backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Apr 26, 20231 hr 4 min

April 25, 2023 - Jonathan Alter | Christopher Whipple | Ryan Cooper

Biden Announces He is Running For a Second Term at the End of Which He Will be 86 | Biden's Relationship With Kamala Harris Who Might Succeed Him | DeSantis's Surgeon General Doctors Data to Support his Anti-Vaxxer Lunacy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Apr 25, 20231 hr 3 min

April 24, 2023 - Ben Smith | Adele Stan | Dr. Michael McDonald

Murdoch's Abrupt Firing of Tucker Carlson and How Progressives Assumed They'd Dominate Social Media Only to be Outflanked by Right Wing Populism | The Sudden Silencing of the Loudest and Most Commanding Voice That Had Republican Leaders Grovelling | DeSantis's Faltering Campaign as the Anointed Alternative To Trump is Starting to Look Like A Loser backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Apr 24, 20231 hr 1 min

March 23, 2023 - James Zirin | Ryan Busse | Lako Tongun

Tensions Within the Supreme Court As Its Popularity and Credibility Suffers While Justice Thomas Flouts Ethics | More Guns and No Restrictions For the Few Or Safety in Schools, Churches, Malls and Theaters For the Many? | While Foreigners Evacuate, Sudanese Face Starvation, Bombs and Bullets as Two Warlords Fight For Power backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Apr 23, 20231 hr 7 min

April 20, 2023 - John Donohue | Craig Holman | Mike Lofgren

What Will it Take For the Supreme Court to Deal With Reality and Politicians to Ignore the NRA? | Growing Pressure From the Clarence Thomas Scandal on the Supreme Court to Adopt a Code of Ethics | How Wall Street Dictates to CEO's of the Military Industrial Complex Have Led to the Ukrainians Running Out of Ammunition backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Apr 20, 20231 hr 1 min