Background Briefing with Ian Masters

Ian Masters
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Jul 24, 2025 • 1h 5min

July 24, 2025 - Omar Shakir | Jared Abbott | Andrew Hartman

International Outrage at Deliberate Starvation in Gaza Grows | An Analysis of Working Class Social and Economic Attitudes For the Democratic Party to Consider | A New Books Karl Marx in America as Young Americans Embrace Socialism While Trump Calls Democrats Marxist Lunatics backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jul 23, 2025 • 60min

July 23, 2025 - James Thurber | Christopher Bing | Alex De Wall

The Bipartisan Discharge Petition Working Around Speaker Johnson's Protection of Trump and Epstein | The Weaponization of Confidential IRS Data Now Being Handed Over to ICE and DHS | The Deliberate Starvation of Children in Gaza With Over 1,000 Palestinian Aid-Seekers Killed Since May backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jul 22, 2025 • 1h 2min

July 22, 2025 - Mike Lofgren | Tim Weiner

The Good Christian Mike Johnson Shuts Down the House to Protect the Best Friend of a Pedophile and Child Sex Trafficker | The Decline of the Intelligence Community Trying to Survive an Anti-Intellectual Regime backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jul 21, 2025 • 1h 2min

July 21, 2025 - James Zirin | Jacques Berlinerblau | Sidney Blumenthal

Is Trump Suing Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal to Find Out Who the Leaker Is? | Cancelling Comedians to Muzzle the American Tradition of Political Satire | The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse Driving Us Into a Hellscape: Trump, Miller and Vought backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jul 20, 2025 • 1h

July 20, 2025 - Nancy Gertner | Sean Wilentz | Richard Parker

With the Upcoming Senate Confirmation Vote on Emil Bove, Will Trump Get His "Roy Cohn" on the Supreme Court? | We Are Past a Constitutional Crisis and Should be Working on Restoring Our Democracy and Reviving the Constitution | A Way Out of America's Descent Into Authoritarianism backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jul 17, 2025 • 1h 5min

July 17, 2025 - Will Sommer | Scott Horton | Lisa Graves

After Feeding Them Lies and Delusions For Years, Trump Now Calls His MAGA Cultists "Stupid" and "Weaklings" | AG Bondi's Firing of Maurene Comey Whose Father is High Up on Trump's Enemies List | Today's Walkout by Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committee backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jul 16, 2025 • 1h 2min

July 16, 2025 - Joshua Landis | Bill Hing | Sylvia Allegretto

Israel Bombs Damascus as the Syrian Government Slaughters the Druze Minority, Exposing the Different Interests of Israel and the U.S. When it Comes to the Jihadi in a Suit Leading the New Syria | Geo Group and Core Civic Feast on Taxpayer Money as ICE Detains Whoever They Can Snatch | Apparently the Rich Are Not Rich Enough in America backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jul 15, 2025 • 1h 2min

July 15, 2025 - Robert Hockett | David Halperin | Matthew Hongoltz-Hettling

Trump Escalates His War Against the Fed and Its Chairman Jerome Powell | The Consequence of the Supreme Court Allowing Trump to Continue Dismantling the U.S. Department of Education | What is Behind the War Inside MAGA Over Not Releasing the Epstein Files As Promised? Music: Carla Bozulich - Glass House Elodie Lauten - Despair Postlude backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jul 14, 2025 • 1h 3min

July 14, 2025 - Michael Kimmage | Casey Michel | Juan Cole

Trump's Tough Talk Threatening Russia With a 50 Day Deadline For a Ceasefire | Trump and His Family's Unprecedented Corruption and How Foreign Regimes Can Now Buy American Elections | Is There Any Hope of Stopping the Slaughter in Gaza? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jul 13, 2025 • 1h 5min

July 13, 2025 - Kevin Hall | Cynthia Schneider | James Green

Could a Top Trump Official Who Lied About Being Born in the Soviet Union be a Russian Plant? | Trump Slashes Soft Power While Adding a $Trilion to Fighting a Nuclear War That Can Only Be Prevented by Diplomacy | Trump Slaps a 50% Tariff on Brazil Along With 35% on Canada and 30% on the EU and Mexico backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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