
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

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?
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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
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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
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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

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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