Background Briefing with Ian Masters
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.
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Jul 9, 2025 • 23min
The Meltdown In MAGAworld Over the So-called Epstein "Client List"
The Meltdown In MAGAworld Over the So-called Epstein "Client List" by Ian Masters

Jul 9, 2025 • 16min
The Pentagon Budget Has Doubled Since 2000 With Trump's Big, Bad Bill Pushing it to $1.06 Trillion
The Pentagon Budget Has Doubled Since 2000 With Trump's Big, Bad Bill Pushing it to $1.06 Trillion by Ian Masters
Jul 9, 2025 • 1h 2min
July 9, 2025 - James Risen | Nina Burleigh | Stephen Semler
The Meltdown In MAGAworld Over the So-called Epstein "Client List" | There is Vast Amounts of Evidence of Trump's Seedy Ties to the Despicable Epstein | The Pentagon Budget Has Doubled Since 2000 With Trump's Big, Bad Bill Extra $156 Billion Pushing it to $1.06 Trillion
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Jul 8, 2025 • 1h 3min
July 8, 2025 - Jeremi Suri | Tom Mockaitis | Dr. Annelle Sheline
Intergenerational Greed and Inaction Led to Underinvestment in Flood Prevention in Kerr County, Texas | Ken Klippenstein's Documents Expose the Military Fiasco Yesterday in Los Angeles's MacArthur Park | The Unctuous War Criminal Recommended the Easily-Flattered Felon For a Nobel Peace Prize
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Jul 7, 2025 • 19min
The BRICS Summit and Trump's Threats to Countries That Side With BRICS
July 7, 2025 - Sarang Shidore
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Jul 7, 2025 • 59min
July 7, 2025 - Jeff Masters | Olga Lautman | Sarang Shidore
Extreme Weather and Its Connection to Climate Change as Trump and DOGE's Cuts Impacted The National Weather Service's Response to the Tragic Flash Floods in Texas | Putin's Cabinet Officials Commit "Suicide" as More Top Oil Executives Fall From 10th Floor Windows | The BRICS Summit and Trump's Threats to Countries That Side With BRICS
music:
Nighttime - The Way
Itasca - Milk
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Jul 6, 2025 • 1h 3min
July 7, 2025 - Tamar Jacoby | Stavroula Pabst | Samuel Moyn
Trump Gets Stiffed Again by His Idol Putin as China Admits It Wants the Ukraine War to Drag on to Keep the US and NATO Out of Asia | Trump Says he Expects to Close a Ceasefire Deal Between Israel and Hamas Next Week | Trump as a Man of the Past as Zombie Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism Comeback From the Dead
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Jul 3, 2025 • 1h 2min
July 3, 2025 - Edward McCaffery | Greg Treverton | Raed Jarrar
The Republican's Cynical Ploy to Give Billionaires Tax Breaks Immediately While Delaying Cuts to Medicaid and Food Assistance Until After the Midterms | In Spite of Ratcliffe's Spin to Please His Boss, the CIA Report Finds That Putin Did Help Trump and Hurt Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Election | US Contractors Shoot Gazans For Sport as Hamas Approves the US Plan for a Hostage Release
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Jul 2, 2025 • 1h 2min
July 2, 2025 - Paul Farhi | Patrick Sullivan | Oona Hathaway
Another Big Media Company Caves to Trump's Extortion | Four of the Worst Horrors in the Awful Republican Megabill | As Trump Uses War and the Threat of War, He Ignores the UN and the US Congress
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Jul 1, 2025 • 1h 2min
July 1, 2025 - Will Bunch | James Thurber | Meghan Pazik
Trump's Casualty Cruelty as He Tours a New Gulag Celebrating the $75 Billion He Just Got For ICE and DHS | Republican Senators Shamelessly Pass a Massive Transfer of Wealth From the Poorest to the Richest Americans | Today's Misanthropic Assault on Our Kids and Grandkids From Republican Whores and Hirelings of Big Oil and Dirty Coal


