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.
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Latest episodes
Oct 31, 2024 • 60min
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?"
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Oct 30, 2024 • 59min
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
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Oct 29, 2024 • 60min
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"
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Oct 28, 2024 • 1h 4min
October 28, 2024 - Anne Nelson | David Cay Johnston | Lincoln Mitchell
Trump and His Warm-up Acts Spew Racist Hatred at Sunday's Madison Square Garden Rally | Billionaires and CEOs Suck Up to Trump Hedging Their Bets in Fear of Retribution | The Disputed Election Results in the Former Soviet State of Georgia
Oct 27, 2024 • 1h 3min
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?
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Oct 24, 2024 • 1h 2min
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
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Oct 23, 2024 • 1h 3min
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"
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Oct 22, 2024 • 1h 1min
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
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Oct 21, 2024 • 1h 1min
October 21, 2024 - James Carville | Mitchell Plitnick | Denver Riggleman
We Should Take Trump's Fascistic Plans Seriously | Kamala Harris's Stand on Gaza Satisfies No One | Were the Leaks From US Intelligence on Israel's Plans to Attack Iran Authorized or Unauthorized?
Oct 20, 2024 • 60min
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
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