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Background Briefing with Ian Masters

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Sep 19, 2024 • 1h 4min

September 19, 2024 - Olga Lautman | Michele Goodwin | Rob Larson

Musk Promotes Russian Fake News Claiming Kamala Harris Injured a Black Girl in a Hit and Run That Did Not Happen | Women Are Dying Because of Abortion Bans by Trump and "Christian" Republicans Who Won't Let Doctors Practice Medicine For Fear of Going to Jail | How Bilious Billionaires Like Musk Are More Influential Than World Leaders backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Sep 18, 2024 • 59min

September 18, 2024 - Robert Hockett | Robert Baer | Juan Cole

How the Lowering of Interest Rates by the Fed Will Impact the Economy and the Election | Does Netanyahu Have an "October Surprise" in Store for the Harris/Walz Campaign? | Are We at the Beginning Stage of Another War in the Middle East That the US Will be Dragged Into? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Sep 17, 2024 • 1h 3min

September 17, 2024 - Thannasis Cambanis | Lisa Graves | Jared Yates Sexton

Will Another Humiliation of Hezbollah and Iran Lead to a War in Lebanon? | Chief Justice Roberts Does Not Call Balls and Strikes, He Rigs the Playing Field Before the Game | As Incendiary Hate, Racism and Paranoia From Trump and Vance Escalates, What Can We Expect If They Lose the Election? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Sep 16, 2024 • 59min

September 16, 2024 - Thomas Zeitzoff | William McNulty | Jo-Marie Burt

Another Assassination Attempt on Trump by Another Assassin Whose Politics Are All Also Over the Map With Both Having Easy Access to Military-Style Assault Rifles | Americans Who Want to Help Ukraine Defend Against Russia: Good and Bad | The Growing Phenomenon of "Caudillismo" in Latin America backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Sep 15, 2024 • 1h 6min

September 15, 2024 - George Beebe | Amy Wilentz | Joe Conasen

Is Putin Using Psychological Warfare to Stop Ukraine From Striking Deep Into Russia or Is He Not Bluffing When He Says Doing So Will Mean Russia Is “At War” With NATO? | The Reason Haitians Are in Ohio Is That US Foreign Policy Has Made Haiti Unlivable | Rather Than Race-Bait Harris Head On, Trump and Vance Are Using Racism as the Main Driver of Their Campaign backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Sep 12, 2024 • 60min

September 12, 2024 - Arthur Goldwag | Ahmet Yayla | Sasha Abramsky

Trump is Hanging Out With Laura Loomer Who Republicans Are Blaming For His Disastrous Debate | Erdogan Inflames Tensions With the US and Israel While Secretly Profiting From Oil and Arms Sales to Israel | What America Would Be Like After a MAGA Takeover Based on the MAGA Takeover of Two Counties in Washington and Northern California
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Sep 11, 2024 • 1h 2min

September 11, 2024 - Amanda Marcotte | Debbie Walsh | Tim Golden

In Last Night's Debate, the Reality TV Star Trump Appeared to Lose His War Against Reality | The Obstacles Women Face in Politics That Harris is Navigating | On the 23rd Anniversary of 9/11, New Evidence of Saudi Involvement With the Hijackers Emerges backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Sep 10, 2024 • 1h 3min

September 10, 2024 - Jon Hoffman | Greg Sargent | Jason Stanley

Foreign Policy in Tonight's Harris/Trump Debate and Whose Finger Do You Want on the Nuclear Button | Democratic "Irrational Exuberance" With the Polls and "Sane-Washing" by the Mainstream Media | We Should Take Trump at His Word That He Wants to be a Dictator and Jail His Opponents and the Press backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Sep 9, 2024 • 1h 3min

September 9, 2024 - Nina Burleigh | Thomas Barfield | Stephanie Baker

The Mein Kampf of the MAGA Republican Party, Project 2025 | Today's Republican Report on the Withdrawal From Afghanistan is a Political Hit Job on VP Harris | How Putin's Shadow Fleet of "Ghost" Tankers Are an Accident Waiting to Happen backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Sep 8, 2024 • 1h 6min

September 8, 2024 - Natalie Manaeva Rice | Steven Pifer | Allan Lichtman

Americans Colluding With Russia as Spies, Propagandists and Useful Idiots | UK and US Heads of Intelligence Warn of Russia's "Reckless Campaign of Sabotage" | The Accurate Predictor Issues His Presidential Prediction for 2024 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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