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Background Briefing with Ian Masters

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Aug 25, 2024 • 1h 4min

August 25, 2024 - Dr. Allen Frances | Will Bunch | Stephen Biddle

The Contrast Between the Best and Worst of America and Why Does Anyone Support Trump's GOP? | A Wrap Up of the DNC and How Will RFK Jr's Endorsement of Trump Impact Swing States | A Military Analysis of Ukraine's Incursion Into Russia and the Escalation Ladder to Nuclear War backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Aug 22, 2024 • 1h 2min

August 22, 2024 - Casey Michel | Jacob Heilbrunn | David Klion

The FBI Cracks Down on American Kremlin Propagandists as Russian Election Influence Operations Ramp Up | Last Night's Star Turns at the DNC From Tim Walz and Kenan Thompson on Project 2025 | Trump's Anti-Semitic Attacks on Governor Josh Shapiro backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Aug 21, 2024 • 58min

August 21, 2024 - Bill Scher | Lincoln Mitchell | Orville Schell

A Review of Last Night's Democratic National Convention and a Preview of Tonight's | The Generational Change Underway in the Harris/Walz Democratic Party | China Sues Stanford For Mao's Secretary's Diaries With an Inside Look at the CCP From 1935 to 2018 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Aug 20, 2024 • 1h 1min

August 20, 2024 - Wendy Pearlman | Tom LoBianco | Rob Johnson

Biden Acknowledges the Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators at the DNC in Chicago Have a Point | An Appraisal of Last Night's Speeches at the DNC | The Turnaround in the Polls For the Democrats in the Key Swing States of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Aug 19, 2024 • 60min

August 19, 2024 - David Faris | Paul Glastris | Rhona Michie

An Update From Chicago on the Democratic National Convention | A Presidential Speechwriter on the Delicate Job a President Passing the Baton to His VP | As Bombs Fall on Gaza and Ukraine, Arms Industries Benefit From Tragedy
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Aug 18, 2024 • 1h 2min

August 18, 2024 - Michael Kimmage | Sarah Leah Whitson | Dean Baker

Will Biden Come Up With a Strategy For Ukraine the Absence of Which is an Excuse For Trump And the Republicans Not to Support Its Defense Against Russia? | The Irony That Saudi's MbS "Prince Bonesaw" Now Fears Assassination | An Assessment of the Harris/Walz Economic Plan backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Aug 15, 2024 • 1h 4min

August 15, 2024 - Rashid Khalidi | Adam Kirsch | Sumit Ganguly

Peace Negotiations For a Gaza Ceasefire Now Minus a Representative From Hamas | The Origins and Definition of Settler Colonialism Which Used to Be Applied to Australia, Canada and the US But is Now is Labelling Israel | Bangladesh: The Latest Example of the US Not Acting According to Its Democratic Ideals backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Aug 14, 2024 • 1h 5min

August 18, 2024 - Steve Benen | Sidney Blumenthal | Andrew Feinberg

How a Reality TV Star Living in His Own Reality Captured the GOP and Up To Half of Americans Now Living in a Phony Reality | America's Historical Irony of its Foundation in a Revolution Against a Mad King Only to Possibly Re-elect a Mad King Anointed by the Supreme Court With Monarchical Power and Immunity | Did Trump's Pandering to Young White Men and Joe Rogan and Elon Musk Fanboys on X Help His Campaign? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Aug 13, 2024 • 1h 3min

August 13, 2024 - Nicholas Heras | John Lawrence | Anastasia Edel

With War Between Israel and Iran Inevitable, a Strategic Analysis of How Much It Could Escalate | Kamala Harris and Donald Trump's Competing Tax Proposals on Tips Aimed at Winning Nevada | Putin's Long Game Counters the Current Optimism as Ukraine Takes Russian Territory backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Aug 12, 2024 • 1h 4min

August 12, 2024 - Justin Higgins | Rick Hasen | Mohsen Milani

A Former Republican Opposition Researcher on What Damaging Material Might Be In the Leaked Vetting of J.D. Vance by the Trump Campaign | Trump's Plan to Deny a Harris Victory by Stalling Certification of the Vote at the Local and State Levels to Delay Results and Cause Chaos | How Much Humiliation is Driving Iran's Promised Response to Netanyahu's Provocations backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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