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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Jun 24, 2024 • 60min
June 24, 2024 - William Snowden | Corey Brettschneider | Mike Lofgren
Trump's Open Declaration of War Against the Rule of Law | The US is Running Out of Ammo While Spending Trillions of Gold-Plated Turkeys As Enemies Have Plenty of Ammunition and Allies Make Better Ships Much Cheaper | Trump Follows the Far-Right Culture Warrior Governor of Louisiana's Call for the Ten Commandments to be Displayed in Schools
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Jun 23, 2024 • 1h 1min
June 23, 2024 - Jeff Goodell | Tad DeLay | Sue Mi Terry
The Heatwave Baking the Planet and the Contrast Between Biden's Understanding of Global Warming and Trump's Denial | The Sources of Climate Change Denial and a Future Beyond Denial | Is the Putin/Kim Jong Un Pact Alarming or Pathetic as Two Murderous Pariah's Resume Their Love Affair With Trump?
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Jun 20, 2024 • 1h 3min
June 20, 2024 - Paul Waldman | Lawrence Lessig
Secret Recordings of Trump's Dirty Trickster Reveals Plans to Steal the Next Election | How the Next Election Can Be Stolen and What to Do About It
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Jun 19, 2024 • 1h 2min
June 19, 2024 - Melanye Price | Sidney Blumenthal | Edwin Lyman
Juneteenth and the Legacy of Racism in Texas | The Wholesale Self-abasement, Humiliation and Degradation in the Recent Groveling of GOP Lawmakers Before the Insurrectionist Who Directed the Attack on Their Capitol Workplace | The Senate Votes 88 to 2 to Boost Nuclear Power Based on "New" Reactor Technology That is Old and Less Safe
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Jun 18, 2024 • 16min
June 18, 2024 - Robert Johnson | Jessica Melugin | Sung Yoon Lee
America's Plutocrats Believe the Threat to Capitalism From Democrats is Worse Than the Threat to Democracy From Trump | A Critique of the Surgeon General's Call for Warning Labels on Social Media Platforms | Putin Meets to Make Weapons Deals With His "Comrade-in-Arms" Kim Jong Un
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Jun 17, 2024 • 57min
June 17, 2024 - Asher Kaufman | Bob Dreyfuss | Rachel Schmalz
Netanyahu Dissolves the War Cabinet as Tensions on Israel's Border With Lebanon Intensify | Trump's Gaza Policy Would Be So Much Worse Given Who He Put in Charge of Israeli/Palestinian Issues During His Presidency | The U.S., the U.K. and Canada Warn Putin is Actively Sabotaging Upcoming Elections in Moldova
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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
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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"
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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
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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
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