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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

September 19, 2023 - Steven Levitsky & Daniell Ziblatt | Dawn Clancy

How the US Constitution's Protection Against a Tyranny of the Majority Has Enabled a Tyranny of the Minority | Presidents Biden and Zelensky at the UN today and the Reactions of World Leaders backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Sep 19, 20231 hr

September 18, 2023 - Zach Despart | Thomas Nichols | Mansour El-Kikhia

In Spite of Damning, Salacious Testimony, Texas Republicans Acquit AG Paxton | Mitt Romney, the Last Honest Republican in the Senate | The History of What Contributed to the Tragic Loss of Life in Libya backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Sep 18, 202359 min

September 17, 2023 - Steven Greenhouse | Roberto González | Ali Abdullatif Ahmida

The UAW and the Transition to EV: Avoiding the False Choice Between a Good Job and a Green Job | After Trillions Wasted by the Military Industrial Complex, Cheap Drones and Robotic Vehicles Operating on AI Are the New Global Arms Race | The Tragic Loss of Life in Libya Already Riven by Civil War and Beset by Corruption backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Sep 17, 20231 hr 1 min

September 14, 2023 - David Shapiro | Sarah Chayes | Sylvia Allegretto

The False Equivalence of Hunter Biden on Trial While His Father is Running Against the Head of the Trump Crime Family | The Grey Area Between What is Illegal and What is Corrupt | The Looming Strike by the UAW Against the Big Three Automakers backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Sep 14, 20231 hr 3 min

September 13, 2023 - David Faris | Stephen Noerper | Karen Dolan

How Delusion and Distraction Now Dominate Our Politics | What is Kim Jong Un Getting For Helping Putin's "Great Victory in the Sacred Struggle" in Ukraine? | Child Poverty Has Doubled in a Year From an Historic Low of 5.2% to 12.4% backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Sep 13, 20231 hr 2 min

September 12, 2023 - Frank Bowman | Ruth Conniff | Karina Montoya

McCarthy Caves Into House Radicals to Impeach Biden After 9 Months of Fruitless Investigation of Hapless Hunter Biden | Can the Democrats Shame Wisconsin's Republican Legislative Thugs? | The DOJ Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Its Monopoly Via Billions Paid to Apple and Samsung backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Sep 12, 202359 min

September 11, 2023 - Philip Shenon | Ariel Dorfman | Zack Cooper

Why Can't Biden and the Pentagon Control Elon Musk From Helping His Pal Putin? | Ariel Dorfman on the 50th Anniversary of the Coup Against Allende | On the 22nd Anniversary of 9/11 the Senate Homeland Security Committee Wants an Unredacted Report on Saudi Arabia's Role in the Attack backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Sep 11, 20231 hr 1 min

September 10, 2023 - Christine Fair | Victor Shih | David Phillips

Modi, the Host of the G20, Employs Fascist Tactics to Make India a Hindu Only Nation | As China's Economy Stumbles With Youth Unemployment at 21.3%, Xi Doubles Down on Repression | The Looming Possibility of Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide Against Armenia backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Sep 10, 20231 hr

September 7, 2023 - Simon Rosenberg | Steven Donziger | Alexander Motyl

An Alarming Poll by CNN Has 46% Against Biden With 44% Saying Any Democrat Would Be Better Than Trump As Biden and Trump's Favorability Stands at 35% | The Only American to be Jailed by a Corporation For Winning a Lawsuit Against Chevron | The Firing of Ukraine's Defense Minister and Zelensky's Efforts to Root Out Corruption backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Sep 07, 20231 hr 6 min

September 6, 2023 - Jeremi Suri | Will Potter| Ronald Suny

The Impeachment Trial of the "Christian" Crook Ken Paxton Divides Texas Republicans | Over 60 Environmental Activists Charged Under the Same RICO Statutes Trump and His Allies Face For Trying to Steal an Election | On the Brink of Another War Between Armenia and Azerbaijan as the Kremlin Switches Sides and the U.S. Holds Military Exercises in Armenia backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Sep 06, 20231 hr 4 min

September 5, 2023 - Christopher Miller | Sue Mi Terry | Jacob Heilbrunn

Erdogan Fails to Revive the Black Sea Grain Deal as Ukraine Breaks Through Russian Defenses | Leaked Intelligence on Putin's Plans to Meet With Kim Jong-Un | The Rising GOP Star Ramaswamy is Angling to Be Trump's Running Mate or Secretary of State backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Sep 05, 20231 hr

September 4, 2023 - Lane Windham | Sarah Anderson | Lee Harris

The Summer of Strikes Enters the Fall With Energized Labor Movements From Hollywood to Detroit | Wage Disparity Grows as CEOs Write Their Own Multi-Million Compensations, Buying Back Stock to Boost Their Earnings | How Much of the Billions in the IRA and CHIPS Act Will End Up in the Pockets of Workers? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Sep 04, 20231 hr 1 min

September 3, 2023 - Samuel Moyn | Jonathan Taplin

What Happened to America's Liberals and Can They Reimagine a Vision For the Future? | The Greatest Threat to Our Politics, Economy and Culture From Big Tech's Billionaires Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberg and Andreessen backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Sep 03, 20231 hr 1 min

August 31, 2023 - David Neiwert | Kathryn Edin | Stephen Biddle

Proud Boys are Sentenced but Not Their Strategists Roger Stone and Alex Jones | America's Internal Colonies of Poverty | The High-Tech Hype of a Revolution in Weaponry in Ukraine as WWI Trench Warfare Grinds on backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Aug 31, 20231 hr 2 min

August 30, 2023 - Jacob Silverman | Jason Stanley | Ananya Kalahasti

The Political Rise of the Annoyingly Ambitious Ramaswamy Who Will Do or Say Anything to Get Ahead | How Trump and DeSantis Brought Racism Out Into the Open | How Big Pharma With the Help of the Corporate-Friendly Supreme Court Could Kill the Lowering of Drug Prices backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Aug 30, 20231 hr 2 min

August 29, 2023 - Brenda Priestly-Jackson | Alex Lawson | Chris Whipple

As DeSantis Erases Black History, His Campaign Appeals to the Likes of the Young White Nazi Who Murdered 3 Blacks In Jacksonville | The First of Ten Drugs Medicare Will Bargain Down the Prices Of With Big Pharma | Mark Meadows Fumbles Answers to Key Questions in 3 hours of Testimony backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Aug 29, 20231 hr

August 28, 2023 - Dan Grazier | Eugene Gholz | Frances Kissling

Today's Pentagon Announcement to Deploy Thousands of Drones and AI Robotic Warfare Platforms Against China Within Two Years | The Emerging Digital Military Industrial Complex as Silicon Valley Meets the Pentagon | The Pope Criticizes American Bishops for "A Very Strong, Organized, Reactionary Attitude" as "Ideologies Replace Faith" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedi

Aug 28, 20231 hr 1 min

August 27, 2023 - John Pike | William Arkin | Ekow Yankah

How NASA and the DoD Defer to Elon Musk Who Holds Ukraine's Fate in His Hands While Buying What Putin is Selling | How Much the U.S. is Helping and Hindering Ukraine's War Effort | While Trump Gets Celebrity Treatment at the Atlanta Jail and Makes Money Out of His Mugshot, Inmates Inside Rot for Months Without Trial backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Aug 27, 20231 hr 3 min

August 24, 2023 - Geoffrey Kabaservice | Taras Kuzio | Jennifer McCoy

Republican Presidential Hopefuls Deny Global Warming and Would Support Trump For President Even If He Is In Jail | The Threat to American Democracy When One of the Two Parties Embraces Authoritarianism and Rejects Election Results | A View From Kyiv of Putin's Assassination of Prigozhin and How the U.S. Does Not Want Ukraine to Win the War backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Aug 24, 202359 min

August 23, 2023 - Olga Luatman | Justin Higgins | Jeffrey Mankoff

Revenge is Putin's Dish Best Served Cold to His Former Chef | The Winner of Tonight's GOP Presidential Primary Debate in Not on the Stage | Moscow is Tightening Its Grip on Belarus, Georgia and Moldova backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Aug 23, 20231 hr 2 min

August 22, 2023 - Jon Hoffman | Dr. Tatsiana Kulakevich | Jodie Evans

Under the Leadership of Their Murderous Dictator, Saudi Border Guards Slaughter Ethiopian Refugees | The US Government Warns Americans to Leave Belarus "Immediately" | The Co-Founder of CODEPINK Argues That The New York Times's Criticism of Her and Her Husband is Propaganda and McCarthyism backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Aug 22, 20231 hr

August 21, 2023 - Troy Andrade | Jo-Marie Burt | Sarang Shidore

Biden's Visit to Maui Where 850 Are Missing After the Worst Fire in American History | Guatemala Elects a Reformer in a Landslide | The BRICS Summit in South Africa With China's Xi But Absent Putin backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Aug 21, 20231 hr

August 20, 2023 - Sung Yoon Lee | Anders Åslund | Stephen Pyne

The Camp David Summit to Bring Japan and South Korea Together as China, Russia and North Korea Strengthen Ties | The U.S. Does Not Want Ukraine to Win and Defeat Russian Aggression | We Are Entering the Age of Fire backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Aug 20, 20231 hr 1 min

August 16, 2023 - Michael Gerrard | Robert Hockett | Andra Gillespie

Trump's Racist Response to the Latest Indictments is to Call Black Judges, Prosecutors and Election Workers "RIGGERS" | A Win For Young Environmentalists in Red State Montana | Biden Celebrates the One Year Anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Aug 16, 20231 hr

August 15, 2023 - Jon Sale | Richard Hasen | Barbara F. Walter

Fani Willis's 98-Page indictment With 19 Defendants Including Trump Who Faces 13 Charges | An Expert on Election Law on the Latest Indictments | The Real World Consequences of Trump's Incitement of Violence backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Aug 15, 202359 min

August 14, 2023 - Spencer Sunshine | Stephen Marche | Howie Klein

Threats of Civil War From a US Congressman While Judges and Prosecutors on Trump's Cases Get Death Threats | The Likelihood of Trump Inciting Violence in the 2024 Election as the Law Closes in on Him | House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Face Criticism From Progressive Democrats backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Aug 14, 20231 hr 2 min

August 13, 2023 - Kristy Parker | Jennifer Taub | David Redlawsk

Trump Faces Jeopardy From Reconstruction Era Laws | Trump Warned Not to Turn January 6 Trial Into a Carnival | After 5 Decades in Public Office the So-Called Head of the "Biden Crime Family" Has No Charges Against Him, Unlike the Head of the Trump Crime Family backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Aug 13, 20231 hr

August 9, 2023 - Carol Sanger | Orville Schell | Josh Kurlantzick

A Resounding Defeat of an Anti-Abortion Power Grab in Ohio | What Genuine Peace Efforts Can be Taken Following Revelations in the NY Times That An American Peace Group Appears to be Shilling for the Chinese Communist Party | An Examination of the Chinese Government's Global Influence Campaigns backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Aug 09, 202359 min