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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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
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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
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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?
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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?
Dec 1, 2024 • 1h 7min
December 1, 2024 - Robert Kuttner | William Arkin | Steven Simon
If the Senate Has Hearings, Hegseth, Gabbard and RFK Jr. Will Not Be Confirmed | Trump's Envoy To Ukraine General Kellogg's Plan to End the War | With Iran and Hezbollah on the Ropes, Syrian Rebels Backed By Turkey Make Surprising Gains
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Nov 27, 2024 • 1h 6min
November 28, 2024 - Richard Parker | Moira Donegan | Stephan Schwartz
What We can Be Thankful For in These Bleak Times | How Women Can Resist and Fight Back Against a Regime of Hate and Misogyny | What We As Individuals Can Do to Resist and Overcome the Coming Darkness
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Nov 26, 2024 • 1h 5min
November 26, 2024 - Scott Kennedy | Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera | Habib Battah
Trump Declares a Day One Trade War on China, Mexico and Canada | Tariffs on Mexico Will Not Solve Immigration or Drug Consumption in the US | An Update on the Ceasefire Deal Between Israel and Hezbollah
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Nov 26, 2024 • 1h 4min
November 25, 2024 - Asher Kaufman | Nitish Pahwa | Amanda Tyler
A 60 Day Ceasefire Expected Soon Between Israel and Hezbollah | With Elon Musk Musing About Buying MSNBC, We Look Into the Future of Cable TV | Christian Nationalists Make Inroads Into Indoctrinating Texas Schoolchildren
Nov 24, 2024 • 1h 6min
November 24, 2024 - Thomas Mockaitis | James Green | Stephen Biddle
Trump's Choice to Head the DOD Sees Half the Country as the Enemy and That There Will Be Civil War | The Arrest of Coup Plotters in Brazil Who Trump Supports For a Military Takeover That Could Happen Here | Putin's Latest Nuclear Sabre Rattling as NATO Crosses Its Red Lines
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Nov 21, 2024 • 1h 2min
November 21, 2024 - James Zirin | Craig Holman | Richard Falk
Gaetz Withdraws AG Nomination as Trump's Pentagon Choice Faces Sexual Assault Allegations | The International Criminal Court Issues Arrest Warrants For Netanyahu, His Former Defense Minister and an Hamas Leader Presumed Dead | An Update on the House Vote To Give Trump the Power to Shut Down Nonprofits
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