A Scathing Senate Report "Planned in Plain Sight" Compiles the Failures of the FBI, DHS and Capitol Police to Act on January 6 Warnings | Prigozhin's Fate Now That He is in Belarus Without His Mercenary Army | Did Putin and Lukashenko Set Up a Gangster Style Trap For Prigozhin? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Jun 27, 2023•59 min
Putin's Angry Address Tries to Drive a Wedge Between Prigozhin and the Rank and File of His Wagner Mercenary Army | How Trump Changed the Culture of Washington With the Influx of Grifters, Con Men, Racists, Creeps and Bottom Feeders backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Jun 26, 2023•59 min
Putin's Brush With Civil War in Nuclear-Armed Russia | A Profile of the Russian Warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin | What we Might Learn About Trump's Ties to Putin and Collusion with MBS from the Upcoming Trial backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Jun 25, 2023•1 hr
India's Controversial Leader Modi Gets the Royal Treatment at the White House But is an Alliance with the US in the Cards? | A Supreme Court Captured by Plutocrats Has Thomas and Alito Serving Their Billionaire Buddies | Homelessness is Caused by Loss of Income and Just $300 a Month Could Keep People Off the Streets backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Jun 22, 2023•56 min
GOP Show Trials Sputter As 5 Years Later We Have Durham's Nothingburger and Hunter Biden's Misdemeanor Plea Deal | Why Tech Billionaires and Bannon Are Promoting RFK Jr's Primary Challenge of the Biden Presidency | An Update on the Ukraine War and What Russia Has Learned From Past Mistakes backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Jun 21, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Why Were the DOJ's Investigations Into January 6 and the Theft of Documents Delayed For 15 Months? | What is Behind Tech Billionaires Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey and David Sacks' Promotion of RFK Jr's Spoiler Campaign? | Will China Play the Leading Role in Ending the Ukraine War? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Jun 20, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Can the GOP Convince American Voters That Biden's Government Has Been Captured by Marxists and Communists? | Blinken and Xi Jinping Agree on the Need to Stabilize US-China Relations | The Scathing DOJ Report on the Minneapolis Police backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Jun 19, 2023•1 hr
Why Did Trump Steal Classified Documents? Maybe Because Putin Told Him To | Analogies Between World War I and the War in Ukraine backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Jun 18, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Are We at the Point of No Return With American Democracy at the Crossroads? | A Cultural Historian on "Animal Spirits" and How the Universe is Alive backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Jun 15, 2023•58 min
Blinken Sets Out to Try to Repair Dangerously Frayed Relations Between the World's Leading Military Powers | With Florida Trump Country, Can the Democrats Reverse GOP Gains? | Comparisons Between Berlusconi and Trump and the Media Mogul Turned Italian Leader's Close Relationship With Putin backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Jun 14, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Arrested and Arraigned Today, Trump is So Lucky to Have Judge Aileen Cannon Preside over His Prosecution | Could Judge Cannon Influence the Jury Pool to Ensure a Hung Jury? | How Did a Ruthless Colonial Power The Soviet Union Get Away With Portraying Itself as the Anti-Colonial Champion? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Jun 13, 2023•1 hr 1 min
An Overwhelming Majority of Republicans Think Trump Should Serve as President if Convicted and That the Indictments Are Politically Motivated | At War With the Rule of Law, Trump is Calling For a Right Wing Rebellion | Why the PGA - Saudi LIV Merger Will Not Happen backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Jun 12, 2023•1 hr
Overwhelming Evidence of Trump's Endangerment of US National Security | Republican Efforts to Portray the Prosecution as Biden Taking Out His Main Rival For the Presidency | Trump's Uncanny Luck at Having His Pliant Judge Who He Appointed Hear the Case backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Jun 11, 2023•1 hr 4 min
A Surprise Ruling From the Supreme Court Whose Supermajority is Increasingly Out Of Touch With Mainstream America | Is the Breaching of the Dam in Ukraine an Act of Ecocide? | The Impact on European Public Opinion From Revelations Ukrainians Blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Jun 08, 2023•1 hr
Evidence That it Was Ukraine, Not Russia Behind the Sabotage of the Nord Stream Gas Pipelines | Is the Merger Between the PGA and LIV Golf Tournaments a Way For the Saudis to Pay Off Donald Trump? | The Supreme Court's Shadow Docket Where 99% of Unseen, Unsigned and Unexplained Cases are Decided backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Jun 07, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Flooding From a Breached Dam Delays Any Ukrainian Military Attack From the South Into Crimea | A Reporter's Earlier Conversations With Zelensky About Russia Blowing up the Dam | The Impact on Ukrainian Civilian Infrastructure and New Reporting That Ukraine Was Behind the Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Jun 06, 2023•59 min
The False Equivalence of the Far-Right House Freedom Caucus and the Democrat's Progressive Caucus | Mike Pence and the Growing Republican Ranks of Hopefuls Challenging Trump | Sunday's Massive Demonstrations in Poland Against Anti-Democratic Authoritarianism backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Jun 05, 2023•1 hr 4 min
A Phony Crisis Averted Now a Celebration of Compromise and Bipartisanship | The Next War of Drones and AI Now in Ukraine | Exporting the Technology of Repression and Australia's Trial of the Century backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Jun 04, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Trump Eviscerates His Own Defense as Jack Smith Closes in on Indicting Him | The Disconnect Between Biden's Low Poll Numbers and His Many Achievements | How Defense Contractors Influence the Ukraine Debate backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Jun 01, 2023•1 hr 1 min
The Sacklers Get to Keep Most of Their Money After a Million Americans Have Died From Their Drug OxyContin | Serbia's Authoritarian Leader and Russian Provocateurs Are Behind What Lavrov Says is a Big Explosion Looming in the Heart of Europe | The March Towards Authoritarianism in States Taken Over by Republican Supermajorities backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 31, 2023•1 hr
The Hazardous Passage of the Debt Ceiling Deal Through Congress | Will Putin Get the Traitor-in-Chief Back in the Oval Office? | Is Erdogan's Victory Also a Victory For Putin? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 30, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Remembering an American General Who Would Not Speak of the Glorious Dead on Memorial Day | How Defense Contractors Are Gouging the Taxpayer While Rewarding Shareholders at the Expense of R&D | Is Cybersecurity an Unsolvable Problem? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 29, 2023•1 hr 6 min
The Impeachment of a MAGA Crook by a Far-Right Republican-Dominated House of the Texas Legislature | Ron DeSantis's Alarming Promise to Do To the Nation What He Has Done To Florida | The Ukrainian Counteroffensive and the "Game of Thrones" Power Struggle Inside the Kremlin backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 28, 2023•1 hr 2 min
The Meltdown of DeSantis's Big Announcement on Elon Musk's Troubled $44 Billion Platform | A Chief Justice Out of Touch With Reality and a Call For Justice Thomas to Resign | Time to Deal With the One State Reality of Israel backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 25, 2023•1 hr 7 min
The Continuing Standoff Over the Debt Ceiling as the Congressional Clock Runs Out | As a Red State Turns Blue, New Bills in Texas Target Democratic Voters in Houston | The Shadowy Fixer For the Reverse Altruism of Right Wing Billionaires Who Have Captured Our Courts and Want the Rest backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 24, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Ron DeSantis Will Announce His Bid For the Presidency in Conversation With Elon Musk on Twitter | Debt Ceiling Negotiations Will Determine How Much Punishment Will Be Inflicted on the Poor to Reward the Rich | Putin Could Be Arrested If He Shows Up For the BRICS Summit in South Africa in August backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 23, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Ukrainian Sabotage Operations Inside Russia as Part of the Upcoming Counteroffensive | Europe Can Provide More Military and Economic Assistance to Ukraine | Free Trade Zones as Capitalist Nirvanas to Unleash the Market From the Tyranny of Government and Bureaucracy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 22, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Zelensky's Surprise Visit to the G7 in Hiroshima, Japan | MBS Welcomes Assad Back Into the Arab League While Also Welcoming President Zelensky | Russia Warns of Escalation as Biden Allows Ukrainian Pilots to Train on F-16s backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 21, 2023•1 hr 4 min
The G7 Summit Underway in Hiroshima, Japan and the Haunting Spectre of Nuclear Weapons | Can the House Radicals Compromise on a Deal Many Democrats Say Biden Should Not Be Negotiating? | The Politics Behind Diane Feinstein's Sad Return to the US Senate backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 18, 2023•1 hr 5 min
How Domestic Turmoil Caused by GOP Radicals Makes the U.S. an Unreliable Partner on the World Stage | What Does Trump Owe Rudy Giuliani and Will he Throw Him Under the Bus? | Regulation of Promising But Potentially Dangerous AI Technology is Necessary But is it Practical or Possible? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 17, 2023•1 hr 3 min