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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

November 3, 2024 - Joshua Dyck | Karen Greenberg | Adele Stan

Cynical Preparations Underway to Get the MAGA Faithful to Believe an Assured Victory Was Stolen Again | With Trump and Murdoch etc. Having Made Half of America Hate the Other Half, Putin is Already the Winner of the Election | Trump's Promise to America's Women "Whether They Like It Or Not"

Nov 03, 20241 hr 1 min

October 31, 2024 - David Daley | Austin Ahlman | Steven Harper

The Murdochs and Their Fox News Propagandists Are Laying the Groundwork For a New Civil War | A "Prairie Populist" in Nebraska is Campaigning the Way Democrats Should be in Red States | "Why is This Election Even Close?" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 31, 20241 hr

October 30, 2024 - Justin Higgins | Sidney Blumenthal | Richard Briffault

The October Surprise As a Trump Self-Inflicted Wound | 2024 Collusion Between Trump and Putin and Musk and Putin | The Supreme Court's Latest Partisan Ruling Allowing a Voter Purge in Virginia backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 30, 202459 min

October 29, 2024 - Sarah Leah Whitson | Luis Martínez-Fernández | Peter Montgomery

Israel's Expulsion of UNRWA From Gaza Will Worsen an Already Dire Humanitarian Disaster | The Puerto Rican Vote After Trump's Hate-Filled Rally He Called a "Love Fest" | Apparently Trump's "Christians" No Longer "Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 29, 20241 hr

October 27, 2024 - Nader Hashemi | James Risen | Jeffrey Winters

Reactions to Israel's Retaliation Against Iran Appear to Indicate a Winding Down of Escalation | The Press Allows Trump to Be Lawless While Expecting Harris to be Flawless | Will the Election be Won by the Billionaire Tech Bros or Will the American People Save Our Democracy? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 27, 20241 hr 3 min

October 24, 2024 - Aram Shabanian | Victor Pickard | Jonathan Alter

What Does North Korea Get in Return For Sending Cannon Fodder to Ukraine? | Another South African Billionaire, the Owner of the LA Times, Comes to the Aid of Donald Trump | This Election as a Reckoning on Whether America Has Abandoned Democracy for Dictatorship Under the Spell of a Convicted Felon and Serial Liar backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 24, 20241 hr 2 min

October 23, 2024 - Lydia Camarillo | Steven Greenhouse | Alexander Stille

How the Latino and Latina Vote Will Decide the Election and Trump's Latest Racist Slur at Mexicans | As Trump Tries to Win the Votes of Workers, His Anti-Worker Record is Glaring | A Scholar of Fascism and Italy, Where Fascism Began, On Trump's Former Chief of Staff's Comment That Trump "Fits Into the General Definition of Fascist" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 23, 20241 hr 3 min

October 22, 2024 - Dr. Bandy Lee | Rachel Bitecofer | Lara Friedman

The Author of the Goldwater Rule Which Gagged Psychiatrists Now Calls For Trump to Be Evaluated For Dementia | Trump's Plans To Round Up Enemies Into Concentration Camps Are the Same as Hitler's Who Quickly Turned Democracy Into Dictatorship | The Abraham Accords Are Becoming a Pipe Dream as Netanyahu Drives Saudi Arabia and Iran Together backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 22, 20241 hr 1 min

October 20, 2024 - Lawrence Douglas | Benjamin Carter Hett | Stephen Wertheim

43 States Are Mere Spectators to a Most Consequential Election That Could be Decided by a Few Counties | With One Third of Americans Agreeing With Trump That "Immigrants Poison the Blood of America" His Bad Genes Invasion Claim Echoes Nazi "Criminal Biology" | "Competitive Coexistence" With China as an Alternative to Cold War Containment and Confrontation backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 20, 20241 hr

October 17, 2024 - Dov Waxman | Jacob Silverman | Mike Lofgren

The Killing of Sinwar and the Burning Alive Seen Around the World of a Promising Young Palestinian | The Blatant Buying of a Next Trump Presidency (However Short it May Be) by Right Wing Plutocrats | The Goebbels-Like Nature of the Trump/Vance Campaign of Lies backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 17, 20241 hr 2 min

October 16, 2024 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Sung Yoon Lee | Sarang Shidore

More Important Than Trump's Mental Decline is the Rising Possibility of JD Vance as the Tech Bros President of the United States | A Report From South Korea on the Rising Fury of Kim and His Sister and the Desertion of North Korean Troops in Ukraine | As BRICS Expands, Is it a Dictators Club or an Alternative to the Domination of the Dollar? backgroundbriefing.org/donate x.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 16, 20241 hr 3 min

October 15, 2024 - Dr. Lance Dodes | Nizar Farsakh | Andrew Latham

Trump's Obvious Mental Deterioration | Netanyahu's Plan to Starve 400,000 in Gaza Prompts the US to Warn Military Aid Could be Cut Off in 30 Days | Canada Expels 6 Indian Diplomats For Colluding With Criminals to Assassinate a Sikh Activist on Canadian Soil backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 15, 20241 hr 2 min

October 14, 2024 - Fawaz Gerges | Dr. Trita Parsi | Wendy Via

Intensifying Israeli Attacks on Lebanon and Netanyahu's "Delusion" He Can Reshape the Middle East by Eliminating Hezbollah | How Much do Biden and His Top Officials Believe the Middle East Can be Reshaped by Israeli Military Power | Reports Armed Militias Motivated by Trump and Vance's Lies are Stopping FEMA From Delivering Aid in North Carolina

Oct 14, 20241 hr 3 min

October 13, 2024 - Bill Scher | Sidney Blumenthal | David Noll

With the Fateful Election 3 Weeks Away, an Update on Polls and Predictions | Is America Itself on Trial in This Election and Could it Soon Descend Into Darkness Like Germany in the 1930's? | The Political Violence Spilling Out of Red States in Our Vigilante Nation backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 13, 20241 hr 1 min

October 10, 2024 - Thanassis Cambanis | Jonathan Weiler | Pamela Yates

The UN Warns Israel it is in Breach of Humanitarian Law For IDF Attacks on UN Peacekeepers in Lebanon | The Impact of Hurricane Helene and Trump/Vance's Lies on Whether Harris Will Win North Carolina | A New Film Exposing the Border Industrial Complex and the Profitable Business of Immigration

Oct 10, 20241 hr 1 min

October 9, 2024 - Christopher Steele | Timothy Shenk

As More Evidence of Trump's Collusion With Putin Emerges, We Speak With Former British Intelligence Professional Christopher Steele | With Republicans Making Inroads Into the What's Left of the New Deal Coalition, How the Democratic Party Could Repair its Frayed Connection to the Working Class backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 09, 20241 hr 3 min

October 8, 2024 - Dr. Annelle Sheline | Anders Aslund | Rob Jackson

A Former State Department Official on Why Biden and Harris Appear Helpless as Netanyahu Pushes the Middle East to the Brink | Bob Woodward's Latest Revelations of Trump's Continuing and Treasonous Contacts with Putin | As Global Warming Drives Superstorms, How We Can Restore the Atmosphere backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 08, 20241 hr 5 min

October 7, 2024 - Haggai Matar | James Acton | Stephen Ujlaki

Israel's One Year Anniversary of the October 7 Attack as Hezbollah Missiles Rain Down on Haifa, Tiberias and Carmiel | How an Israeli Retaliation Against Iran's Nuclear Facilities Could Backfire | It's Time For Trump's "Christian" Soldiers to Ask, is Trump the Antichrist? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 07, 20241 hr 3 min

October 6, 2024 - David Daley | David Graham | Brett Murphy

The Democrats Have to Win Big Because Chris Jankowski, Leonard Leo and John Roberts Have Stacked the Deck Against Them | The Many October Surprises and a Guide to the Cases Against Trump | The Flow of US Weapons Continues Unabated as Civilian Deaths Mount in Gaza and Lebanon backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 06, 20241 hr 2 min

October 3, 2024 - Dennis Aftergut | Gareth Gore

What May Be the Only Chance We Have to See Jack Smith's Case Against Trump for January 6 | A Deep Investigation of the Far-Right Cult Opus Dei and Its Infiltration of American Politics at the Highest Level backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 03, 20241 hr

October 2, 2024 - Andrew Miller | Paul Pillar | Lane Windham

Netanyahu is in the Driver's Seat With Biden and Harris Reluctant Passengers | Under Attack by a Foreign Power, Lebanese and Iranians Rally Around the Flag | The Likely Impact of the East Coast Dockworkers' Strike on the Election backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 02, 20241 hr 2 min

October 1, 2024 - Nick Heras | Andy Levin | Katherine Stewart

Iran Fires 400 Ballistic Missiles at Israel as the Escalation Ladder Has Both Threatening Responses and Responses to Responses | As Michigan Shapes up to be a Critical Swing State, Could Jill Stein be a Spoiler Along With Conservative Muslims Making Alliances With the Christian Right | Will Tim Walz Expose J.D. Vance's Sick Dystopian Vision of America in Tonight's VP Debate? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Oct 01, 20241 hr 3 min

September 29, 2024 - Mohsen Milani | Frederick Clarkson | Maximina Juson

After Repeated Humiliations, Will Iran Strike Back at Israel in a Wider Middle East War? | J.D. Vance Doubles Down in His Embrace of Christian Nationalism and "Christo-Fascism | The Filmmaker of the Feature Documentary on the Electoral College One Person, One Vote Which Premieres on PBS's Independent Lens on Monday backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Sep 29, 20241 hr 3 min

September 26, 2024 - Steven Simon | James Zirin | Dr. Bradley Onishi

The US and 21 Allies Call For a Lebanon-Israel Ceasefire Which Netanyahu Rejected | New York's Mayor Charged with Bribery, Wire Fraud and Seeking Illegal Campaign Donations | How J.D. Vance and His Backers Plan to Legislate Morality backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Sep 26, 20241 hr

September 25, 2024 - Asher Kaufman | Dulcie Leimbach | Dr. Oleh Kotsyuba

Israel Appears Poised For a Ground Invasion of Lebanon | UN Activities and Speeches Today and Yesterday | Zelensky Tries to Get the UN to Focus on Ukraine While a War in Lebanon Looms backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Sep 25, 20241 hr 3 min

September 24, 2024 - Simon Shuster |Philip Stark | Jacob Ware

Zelensky's "Victory Plan" And His Remark That "We Are Closer To Peace Than We Think" | Trump Can Steal the Election Since He Has the Software For the Voting Machines in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan and Colorado | An Expert on Terrorism on How Election Violence is Already Underway Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Asher Price

Sep 24, 20241 hr 3 min

September 23, 2024 - Habib Battah | Ari Berman | Cleo Paskal

As Netanyahu Goads Hezbollah and Iran Into War, Biden and Harris Will be the Losers But Seem Helpless in Stopping the Escalation | Trump and Vance Are Not Trying to Win Over Voters But Are Focused on Stopping the Democratic Vote and the Counting of Votes | An Analysis of the Quad Meeting of the PMs of Australia, India and Japan Biden Hosted Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Asher Price

Sep 23, 20241 hr 2 min