Background Briefing with Ian Masters
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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Dec 12, 2024 • 1h 2min
December 12, 2024 - Robert Young Pelton | Nader Hashemi | Stacy Mitchell
Will Trump and His Shills For Russia like Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard Turn Us Into Putin's America? | Israel and Turkey Appears to be the Winners in Syria While Russia and Iran are the Losers | How Rising Food Prices Played a Decisive Role in the Election and Efforts to Rein In Food Monopolies Like WalMart
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Dec 11, 2024 • 1h 4min
December 11, 2024 - Wendell Potter | David Ignatius | Wladimir van Wilgenburg
Wall Street's Role in Why We Have the Worst and Most Expensive "Healthcare" in the Developed World | How Ukrainian Military Intelligence Helped the Syrian Rebels | The Vulnerability of the Kurds to Erdogan's Murderous Militia in the New Syria
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Dec 10, 2024 • 1h 3min
December 10, 2024 - John Donohue | Anthony Grasso | John Stoehr
Ghost Guns Now a Proven Untraceable and Undetectable Tool For Assassins | America's Dual System of Justice: Punishing Street Criminals While Corporate CEO's Get a Slap on the Wrist | Kash Patel's FBI Will Go After Trump's Enemies While Opening up the U.S. to Putin's Spies
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Dec 9, 2024 • 1h 4min
December 9, 2024 - Paul Pillar | Dr. Nancy Okail
How the Islamist Capture of Syria Upends Regional and Global Geopolitics | How Americans Need an Alternative to the Choice Between Trump's "America First" Unilateralism and Biden's "America is Back" Nostalgia
Dec 8, 2024 • 1h
December 8, 2024 - Olga Lautman | Patrick Blanchfield | Helaine Olen
The Fall of Assad Could End Putin, But Trump Will Rescue Him | Rage for Across the US at the Sickness-for-Profit “Healthcare” System | Musk Will Put Millions Out of Work While Making Billions Out of the Government He is Hollowing Out
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Dec 5, 2024 • 1h 2min
December 5, 2024 - Eric Kingson | Richard Beck
"It's Going to Be Fun" Says Ramaswamy Who Along With Musk Will Try to Cut $2 Trillion By Targeting Social Security and Medicare | How 9/11 Made the Trump Presidency Possible and Hollowed Out the Very Idea Of Citizenship in the US
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Dec 4, 2024 • 1h 5min
December 4, 2024 - Sarah Anderson | Joshua Landis | Stavroula Pabst
The Champion of Working Class Voters' Big Con As Trump Forms a Government Of, By and For Plutocrats | The Syria Rebels Just Blew Up Secret US-Israel-UAE Efforts to Lure Assad Away From Iran | What Trump's Pick of Feinberg as Number 2 at DOD Means For the Silicon Valley Defense Tech Takeover of the Pentagon Budget
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Dec 3, 2024 • 1h 1min
December 3, 2024 - Stephen Noerper | Juan Cole | David Shapiro
South Korea's President Yoon Declares Martial Law Then Has to Back Down | Trump Threatens There'll Be " All Hell To Pay in the Middle East" If Hamas Does Not Release the Hostages Before His Inauguration | Will the Apolitical Rank and File at the FBI Survive a Fanatical Pro-Trump Ideologue as Their Director?
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Dec 3, 2024 • 1h 5min
December 2, 2024 - Max Kiefel | Lincoln Mitchell | Scott Horton
The Democrats as a Vision Starved Blob Made up of Candidates, Billionaire Donors and Data Addled Consultants | Trump Wins by Calling the System Rigged While the Democrats Remain Silent | Will the FBI Survive a Fanatical Pro-Trump Ideologue?
Dec 1, 2024 • 1h 7min
December 1, 2024 - Robert Kuttner | William Arkin | Steven Simon
If the Senate Has Hearings, Hegseth, Gabbard and RFK Jr. Will Not Be Confirmed | Trump's Envoy To Ukraine General Kellogg's Plan to End the War | With Iran and Hezbollah on the Ropes, Syrian Rebels Backed By Turkey Make Surprising Gains
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