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Background Briefing with Ian Masters

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Aug 11, 2024 • 1h 4min

August 10, 2024 - Dr. Bandy Lee | Robert Young Pelton | Mitchell Plitnick

Americans Are Being Denied the Truth About Trump's Mental Instability and Possible Dementia | How Does the Veteran Community Feel About the Latest Round of Swift-Boating? | Can A Deal For Iran Not to Retaliate in Exchange For A Ceasefire in Gaza be Made? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Aug 8, 2024 • 1h 1min

August 8, 2024 - David Cay Johnston | Shireen Al-Adeimi | Aram Shabanian

Trump's Press Conference Tirade of Child-like Petulance That Biden Had Been Taken Away Like His Favorite Toy and Now He's Stuck Having to Run Against a Black Woman | How Will the Harris/Walz Team Handle More Pro-Palestinian Demonstrations? | Objectives Behind the Ukrainian Incursion Into Russia backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Aug 7, 2024 • 1h 2min

August 7, 2024 - Clarissa Hayward | Moira Donegan | Joshua Landis

With Millions From Republican Billionaires, AIPAC Unseats Another Member of The Squad | Have The Democrats Learned Their Lesson of Playing it Safe With VP Picks? | Netanyahu Has Provoked and Khamenei Has Promised a War That Nobody Wants backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Aug 6, 2024 • 1h 6min

August 6, 2024 - Jonathan Alter | Quinn Slobodian | K. Sabeel Rahman

What the VP Pick Tim Walz Brings to the Electoral Map | The Global Menace of Elon Musk Stoking Racial Unrest in the UK | How to Save Government Oversight and Expertise From the Ravages of SCOTUS Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Asher Price
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Aug 5, 2024 • 1h 2min

August 5, 2024 - David Schultz | David Daley | Pavlina Tcherneva

Governor Tim Walz May be Kamala Harris's Pick For VP | The Plutocratic Capture of John Roberts's Supreme Court | Wall Street's and the Global Drop in Markets Does Not Spell Recession backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Aug 4, 2024 • 1h 1min

August 4, 2024 - Brett Eagleson | Ian Haney López | Katherine Stewart

Evidence the US Government Has Buried For 23 Years Appears Poised to Blow the Lid Off Saudi Involvement in 9/11 | Will Trump's Revival of the "Birther" Dog Whistle Work Against Kamala Harris? | The Noble Lie, J.D. Vance and the New Right backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Aug 1, 2024 • 1h 4min

August 1, 2024 - Olga Lautman | Adam Weinstein | Lawrence Jacobs

Russia Swaps Innocent Hostages For Putin's Spies, Criminals and Hackers | Will Netanyahu Drag the US Into Another Forever War in the Middle East | A Profile of a Possible VP Pick, Minnesota's Governor Tim Walz backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jul 31, 2024 • 1h 4min

July 31, 2024 - Nader Hashemi | Haggai Matar | Jim Small

With Assassinations in Tehran and Beirut, Netanyahu Taunts Iran and Hezbollah to Bring It On | The Arrest of 9 IDF Soldiers by Military Police For Gang Rape of Palestinian Prisoners 36 of Whom Have Been Tortured to Death | A Profile of Senator Mark Kelly as a Possible VP for Kamala Harris backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jul 30, 2024 • 1h 2min

July 30, 2024 - Harry Litman | Christopher Borick | Molly White

Biden's Supreme Court Reform Plans Now That Leonard Leo and the Federalists Have Stacked the Courts | As Governor Shapiro Auditions for the VP Slot, We Look at His Pros and Cons | The Cryptocurrency Industry is All-In For Trump Who is Promising to Give Away the Store to Them backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jul 29, 2024 • 1h 1min

July 29, 2024 - Alejandro Velasco | Habib Battah | Jesselyn Cook

Venezuela's Maduro Defies Most of the World Claiming Victory When the Vote Was as Much as 70 to 30% Against Him | On the Brink of Another War as the US and Israel Reject Hezbollah's Claim a Missile That Killed 12 Was Not Theirs | With the GOP Now Seen as a Cult, Why Are Americans Susceptible to Cults? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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