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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Sep 14, 2025 • 1h 3min
September 14, 2025 - Kim Lane Scheppele | Jared Holt | Reality Winner
Trump and His Co-President Stephen Miller Declare War on the Democratic Party Which Miller Calls "A Domestic Terrorism Organization" | Charlie Kirk's Christian Nationalism is Embraced by the Shadow Rulers J.D. Vance, Mike Johnson and Russ Vought | Reality Winner Got 5 Years in Prison While Trump Got a Free Pass From a Judge he Owns For Far, Far Worse Breaches of the Espionage Act of 1917
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Sep 11, 2025 • 1h 6min
September 11, 2025 - Barbara F. Walter | Thomas Mockaitis | Bruce Cumings
September 11, 2025 - Barbara F. Walter | Thomas Mockaitis | Bruce Cumings by Ian Masters

Sep 10, 2025 • 1h 6min
September 10, 2025 - Jonathan Katz | Harold Meyerson | Juan Cole
Putin Tests the NATO Alliance With a Drone Incursion Into Poland | Why Are Democratic Leaders Avoiding Popular And Promising Candidates Like Mamdani and Maine's Oysterman? | Qatar Was Not Warned About the Israeli Attack Which Happened at 3.46 Because the US Told Them About it 10 Minutes Later at 3.56
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Sep 9, 2025 • 26min
The US Tells the Europeans We Will No Longer Work With Them Against Disinformation Warfare
The US Tells the Europeans We Will No Longer Work With Them Against Disinformation Warfare by Ian Masters

Sep 9, 2025 • 20min
With a Sept. 30 Gov Shutdown Looming, Do the Dems Get Blamed or Do They Let the Republicans Own it?
With a Sept. 30 Gov Shutdown Looming, Do the Dems Get Blamed or Do They Let the Republicans Own it? by Ian Masters
Sep 9, 2025 • 1h 6min
September 9, 2025 - Daoud Kuttab | Olga Luatman | Bill Scher
With a September 30 Government Shutdown Looming, Do the Democrats Get Blamed or Do They Walk Away and Let the Republicans Own it Since They Don't Negotiate in Good Faith? | Did the US Allow Israel to Strike an Allied Country That Hosts the Biggest US Base in the Middle East? | The US Tells the Europeans We Will No Longer Work With Them Against Russian, Chinese and Iranian Disinformation Warfare
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Sep 9, 2025 • 15min
Did the US Allow Israel to Strike an Allied Country That Hosts the Biggest US Base in the ME?
Did the US Allow Israel to Strike an Allied Country That Hosts the Biggest US Base in the ME? by Ian Masters
Sep 8, 2025 • 1h 2min
September 8, 2025 - Anne Nelson | Bruce Fein | Rick Perlstein
A Major TV Network Caves Again, Censoring Trump Protests at the US Open Men's Tennis Final | The Growing Rift Between the Supreme Court and the Lower Courts | A Chicagoan Manning the Barricades Ahead of Trump's "Invasion" in His War on Chicago
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Sep 7, 2025 • 58min
September 7, 2025 - Miguel Tinker Salas | Aram Shabanian | Brette Steele
Trump Escalates Threats Against Venezuela as Rubio Calls For a Regional Latin American Campaign of Extrajudicial Killings | The Weak and Cynical Trump Plans For Defending Ukraine In a Possible Deal With Putin | The Consequence of DHS Violence Prevention Funding Cuts to Minnesota Just Ahead of the Minneapolis Mass Shooting of Kids on Their First Day of School
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Sep 4, 2025 • 18min
The Moral and Strategic Collapse of US Policy in the Middle East
September 4, 2025 - Jonathan Guyer
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