A Supreme Court Poised to Gut the Administrative State | Should Bitter, Angry Justices in the Thrall of Billionaires and Corporate Power Decide What We Eat, Breath, How Long We Live and What Kind of World We Live in? | Testing US Foreign Policy Assumptions on the Brink of a Wider War in the Middle East backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
After Trump's Blowout Victory in Iowa, He is All But Certain to be the GOP's Presidential Nominee | As MAGA World Celebrates Trump's Lawlessness, Is the Rule of Law Itself on Trial in This Election? | A Report From Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan on an Iranian Missile and Drone Strike backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Are Israel and Saudi Arabia Liabilities Emboldened by the US to Pursue Reckless Policies? | An Expert on Impeachment as Rep. Comer Backs Down on Impeaching Biden | An Update From Iowa on the Coldest Caucus Day in History backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Will Strikes Against the Houthis Scuttle the Saudi Peace Deal to End a War in Yemen MbS Started in 2015? | According to China, the War Party Won and the Peace Party Lost in Taiwan's Election | "Christian" Corruption as Mike Johnson Kills Enforcement After the IRS Collected $520 Million From Rich Tax Cheats backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Will Christie's Exit in New Hampshire Help Nikki Haley Who the Koch Network in Banking On? | The Reporter Behind the NY AG's Suit to Close Down the NRA | The History of Why the Democrats Got Into Bed With Wall Street and the Sanders, Warren, AOC Movement to Return the Party to Its Working Class Roots backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Last Days Ahead of Monday's Iowa Caucuses and Tonight's CNN Debate Overshadowed by a Trump Town Hall on Fox | Amid Gang Violence Ecuador Appears to be Close to a Failed State | Asymmetrical Clashes in the Red Sea Between Powerful Navies and Houthi Rebels backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Immunity Claim is Met With Deep Skepticism From the DC Appeals Court Judges | A Billionaire's War Against Harvard Now Shifts to the Media as His Wife's Plagiarism in Revealed by Business Insider | With Evangelicals at Over 50% of the Vote For Trump in Iowa, the Heathen is Promoting a Video "God Made Trump" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Why Boeing's 737 Max is Grounded and is a Flying Turkey | The History Behind South Africa's Genocide Case Against Israel in the International Court of Justice | Can the Democrats Return to the New Deal Fight for the Common Man and Equal Opportunity? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
An Historian Who Had Lunch With the President on Wednesday Ahead of Biden's Opening Campaign Speech of 2024 at Valley Forge | How Corporate America Caved After January 6 Pledges Not to Fund Congressional Insurrectionists | A Wider War Looms as the US Gears Up To Retaliate Against the Houthis and Israel Provokes Hezbollah backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Made $7.8 Millions From Foreign Governments While in the White House, $5.5 Million From China | The Names Named in the Documents Just Released About the Epstein Blackmail Factory | Is Israel's Disproportionate Use of Force in Gaza Intended? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Will the Bombings in Iran Following Yesterday's Killing of an Hamas Official Spark a Wider War? | House Republican Grandstanding as They Weaponize Immigration | The Root Causes of The Human Flow From Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico and Around the World Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green
Will Israel's Killing of the Hamas Ambassador to Hezbollah Trigger a Wider War? | The Move Underway to Get SCOTUS to Tear Down Jefferson's Wall Between Church and State | The Frightening Similarities Between Germany in 1933 and the US in 2024 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Foreign Policy Landscape Ahead in 2024 and the Chance For Peace in a World at War | The Economy in 2023 and What's Ahead in 2024 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Politics in the Year Ending and the Critical Year About to Begin | A Recovering Republican on the GOP's Embrace of Fascism backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How to Save American Democracy From the Trump 2.0 Revenge Machine | How the US Constitution's Protection Against a Tyranny of the Majority Has Enabled the Opposite | After the 565th Mass Shooting This Year, a Look at Red and Yellow Flag Laws backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Growing Concern at the Supreme Court’s Impunity From Ethical Norms as Its Credibility With the Public Plunges | Evidence That it Was Ukraine, Not Russia Behind the Sabotage of the Nord Stream Gas Pipelines | Is America Now Divided Between “Team Crazy” and “Team Normal”? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A History of Paranoid Fantasies and Today’s Rise of Fascism Led by a Reality TV Star | Rising Tensions With China and a U.S. China Policy of Self-Harm | Hatred and Division Intensifies in the US as the Phony war Against the Woke, Drag Queens and Trans Kids Accelerates backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
America's Foundation as a Christian Nation and How the Right Captured Freedom | The "Christian" Moral Authoritarianism of Supreme Court Justices in the Pockets of Plutocrats
As Christians Celebrate Christmas, a Christian Nationalist With a Smug and Sanctimonious Smile Wants to Undo the First Amendment | What Could Bring Us Together Over the Holidays backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Will the Supreme Court Fall For Trump's Brazen Tried a True Delaying Tactic? | Will the Colorado Supreme Court's Ruling Hurt or Help Trump? | Will Biden Benefit or be Damaged if Foreign Policy Dominated the 2024 Campaign? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Netanyahu and Putin Drag Out Their Wars That Hurt Biden to Bring Back Trump | The Author of a New Report From Human Rights Watch on Starvation in Gaza | Having Stymied Prior Comprehensive Solutions, Republicans Now Demagogue The Border Crisis backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Texas is About to Turn Into the "Show Me Your Papers" Gestapo State | The US and 10 Nations Will Police the Red Sea Following Houthi Missile Attacks That Have Scared off International Shipping | As Trump Channels Hitler, Insight Into America's 40% Who Would be Happy With an Authoritarian Leader backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The White House Tells Israel That "Protecting Palestinian Civilians in Gaza is Both a Moral Duty and Strategic Imperative" | Pope Francis Approves Blessing For Same-Sex Couples | Republicans Hold Biden Hostage With An Immigration Deal That Will Anger the Democratic Base backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Top Secret 10 Inch 2,700 Page Binder of Russian Influence and Collusion That Went Missing When Trump Left Office | How Trump and His Minions Tried to Doctor the Evidence in the Missing Binder | The American Right's Embrace of Franco and the Hungarian Kleptocratic Despot Orban backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The House Republicans Unanimous Evidence-Free Vote For Biden's Impeachment | How Hungary's Crooked Despot Viktor Orban is Blackmailing the EU | Efforts To Reform FISA as Section 702 is Tucked Into the $886 Billion NDAA backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Hunter Biden Defies the House Witch-Hunters Ahead of the Vote To Impeach His Father | Hypocrisy Hardly Begins to Describe What is Going on With Florida Republicans | The COP28 Pledge to "Transition Away" From Fossil Fuels That Leaves a Lot of Wiggle Room backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Zelensky Tries to Break the Deadlock as Republicans Hold up Aid to Ukraine | How Putin is Determined to Win His War On Ukraine | Musk Offers a Preview of the Media Landscape Ahead If Trump Were to Win Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green
As Russia Emphasizes its Maximalist Demands and Zelensky Heads to the White House to Try to Salvage the Aid Deal, What Kind of Peace is Possible? | How University Presidents Fell Into Congresswoman Stefanik's Trap | After a Death Sentence From the Texas AG and Supreme Court, a Pregnant Woman Escapes the State For an Abortion backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Recently Impeached Texas AG Issues a Life-Threatening Delay to an Abortion | The Emerging Campaign Issue of Dictatorship and What a Second Trump Term Could Look Like | Biden Vetoes a Ceasefire Sticking With Netanyahu Like VP Humphrey Stuck With LBJ in 1968 Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green
A Meaningless Debate in a Democratic Ritual That Avoided Discussing Our Endangered Democracy | How Anti-War Left Wing Activists in Israel Are Being Threatened and Silenced | Growing Tensions as Venezuela Threatens to Annex an Oil-Rich Region of Guyana Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green
