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Background Briefing with Ian Masters

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Jun 16, 2024 • 1h 1min

June 16, 2024 - Lisa Graves | Jane Kirtley | David Vine

How to Reign in a Supreme Court Even More Out of Step With the American People | The Message Versus the Messenger Conundrum Following Revelations in the Alito Tapes | With Peace Talks Underway, Ukraine's Future and the U.S. Military Industrial Complex backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jun 13, 2024 • 1h 2min

June 13, 2024 - Casey Michel | Paul Pillar | Alexander Stille

The Senate Launches a Probe Into Jared Kushner's $2 billion Payoff From Saudi Arabia's MbS | The Saudi/Israel Security Pact Biden is Doggedly Pursuing | Italy's PM Giorgia Meloni Hosts the G-7 Summit With Glamour Amidst "Dead Men Walking" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jun 12, 2024 • 1h 3min

June 12, 2024 - Marcy Wheeler | Peter Goodman | Melissa Jacoby

The Hunter Biden Trial as a Political Hit Job With More Humiliation of the Troubled Son Coming in the September Trial | How We Got Hooked On Globalism and a System in Which Corporations Win While Everybody Else Loses | How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jun 11, 2024 • 1h

June 16, 2024 - Lauren Windsor | Joshua Horwitz | Philippe Marlière

The Undercover Activist Who Captured the Real Justice Alito as a Christian Nationalist | The Hypocrisy of MAGA Republicans Celebrating Hunter Biden's Convictions on Gun Laws They Violently Oppose | President Macron's Call For a Snap Election Already Appears to be Backfiring backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jun 10, 2024 • 59min

June 10, 2024 - Haggai Matar | R. Daniel Kelemen | Michael Kimmage

Israel's Opposition Leader Quits the War Cabinet But Netanyahu Will Continue the War Through the US Elections to Hurt Biden and Help Trump | An Analysis of the Results of the EU Elections and the Right Wing Sweep That Did Not Materialize | A Historical Analysis of Whether We Are in 1938 With Putin's War on Ukraine backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jun 9, 2024 • 1h

June 9, 2024 - Gregory Treverton | Nick Bryant

Already Governing, Trump Has His Puppet Mike Johnson Appoint Two Clowns to Cripple the House Intel Committee | The Inevitability of Trump 250 Years in the Making With the U.S. Captive to Its Contentious Past backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jun 6, 2024 • 1h 2min

June 6, 2024 - Michel Paradis | Lindsay Owens | Jacob Hacker

The 80th Anniversary of D-Day and Today's Struggle Against Tyranny | How Corporate Power and Technology Have Combined to Gouge Consumers | As Billionaires and Corporations Back Trump to Continue Tax Cuts For the Rich, Biden Needs to Make it Clear We Have a Revenue Not a Spending Problem and Make Them Pay
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Jun 5, 2024 • 59min

June 5, 2024 - Aaron Reichlin-Melnick | Mark Hannah | Dr. Sumit Ganguly | Andrew Latham

Legal Challenges to Biden's EO on Closing the Border | Agreements and Disagreements Between Americans and Europeans on China, the Wars in Ukraine and Gaza and European Security | An Assessment of the Results of the Elections in India | India's Foreign Policy Choices as Russia and China Grow Closer backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jun 4, 2024 • 60min

June 4, 2024 - Margaret Hu | Justin Bulcher | Michael Brenes

Will Biden's Executive Order to Close the Border Win or Lose Votes? | Although Trump and Biden are Raising Billions, Money Will Have Little Effect on the Presidential Race | Following the CIA, The Pentagon Falls For Silicon Valley's Promise of AI Miracle Weapons backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jun 3, 2024 • 1h 1min

June 3, 2024 - Chuck Collins | Aram Shabanian | Emiliano Polo

The Oligarch's Lining Up to Line Trump's Pockets | The Upcoming Ukraine Peace Conference China Won't Attend Because Russia Won't Go and Now Saudi Arabia Won't Attend Because China Isn't Going | Will Scheinbaum's and Morena's Blowout Victory Lead to an Institutional Collapse in Mexico? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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