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Background Briefing with Ian Masters

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Dec 14, 2024 • 60min

December 15, 2024 - David Hearst | Jason Wilson | Alex Scribener

Is Another Arab Spring Possible With Syria's New Leader and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood? | With Trump's Manic Fanboy Kash Patel in Charge of the Country's Most Powerful Law Enforcement Agency, Patel's Delusional List of "Traitors" Will Soon Fill the MAGA Gulag | Georgia's Pro-EU Protests Intensify as the Pro-Russian Parliament Installs a Right Wing Footballer as President backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Dec 12, 2024 • 1h 2min

December 12, 2024 - Robert Young Pelton | Nader Hashemi | Stacy Mitchell

Will Trump and His Shills For Russia like Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard Turn Us Into Putin's America? | Israel and Turkey Appears to be the Winners in Syria While Russia and Iran are the Losers | How Rising Food Prices Played a Decisive Role in the Election and Efforts to Rein In Food Monopolies Like WalMart backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Dec 11, 2024 • 1h 4min

December 11, 2024 - Wendell Potter | David Ignatius | Wladimir van Wilgenburg

Wall Street's Role in Why We Have the Worst and Most Expensive "Healthcare" in the Developed World | How Ukrainian Military Intelligence Helped the Syrian Rebels | The Vulnerability of the Kurds to Erdogan's Murderous Militia in the New Syria backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Dec 10, 2024 • 1h 3min

December 10, 2024 - John Donohue | Anthony Grasso | John Stoehr

Ghost Guns Now a Proven Untraceable and Undetectable Tool For Assassins | America's Dual System of Justice: Punishing Street Criminals While Corporate CEO's Get a Slap on the Wrist | Kash Patel's FBI Will Go After Trump's Enemies While Opening up the U.S. to Putin's Spies backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Dec 9, 2024 • 1h 4min

December 9, 2024 - Paul Pillar | Dr. Nancy Okail

How the Islamist Capture of Syria Upends Regional and Global Geopolitics | How Americans Need an Alternative to the Choice Between Trump's "America First" Unilateralism and Biden's "America is Back" Nostalgia
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Dec 8, 2024 • 1h

December 8, 2024 - Olga Lautman | Patrick Blanchfield | Helaine Olen

The Fall of Assad Could End Putin, But Trump Will Rescue Him | Rage for Across the US at the Sickness-for-Profit “Healthcare” System | Musk Will Put Millions Out of Work While Making Billions Out of the Government He is Hollowing Out backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Dec 5, 2024 • 1h 2min

December 5, 2024 - Eric Kingson | Richard Beck

"It's Going to Be Fun" Says Ramaswamy Who Along With Musk Will Try to Cut $2 Trillion By Targeting Social Security and Medicare | How 9/11 Made the Trump Presidency Possible and Hollowed Out the Very Idea Of Citizenship in the US backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Dec 4, 2024 • 1h 5min

December 4, 2024 - Sarah Anderson | Joshua Landis | Stavroula Pabst

The Champion of Working Class Voters' Big Con As Trump Forms a Government Of, By and For Plutocrats | The Syria Rebels Just Blew Up Secret US-Israel-UAE Efforts to Lure Assad Away From Iran | What Trump's Pick of Feinberg as Number 2 at DOD Means For the Silicon Valley Defense Tech Takeover of the Pentagon Budget Credits backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Dec 3, 2024 • 1h 1min

December 3, 2024 - Stephen Noerper | Juan Cole | David Shapiro

South Korea's President Yoon Declares Martial Law Then Has to Back Down | Trump Threatens There'll Be " All Hell To Pay in the Middle East" If Hamas Does Not Release the Hostages Before His Inauguration | Will the Apolitical Rank and File at the FBI Survive a Fanatical Pro-Trump Ideologue as Their Director? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Dec 3, 2024 • 1h 5min

December 2, 2024 - Max Kiefel | Lincoln Mitchell | Scott Horton

The Democrats as a Vision Starved Blob Made up of Candidates, Billionaire Donors and Data Addled Consultants | Trump Wins by Calling the System Rigged While the Democrats Remain Silent | Will the FBI Survive a Fanatical Pro-Trump Ideologue?

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