Background Briefing with Ian Masters

April 8, 2024 - Renee Hobbs | Dr. Allen Frances | Kevin Carey by Ian Masters

Iran's vow to Retaliate Against an Israeli Strike Could Lead to a Wider War Biden is Trying to Avoid | With MbS and Trump Talking, What Could They Do to Jack Up Gas Prices to Hurt Biden's Reelection? | Good Economic News as Janet Yellen Tries to Get a Level Playing Field With China backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Trump's Piety in Contrast to the Porn he Faces and the Cruelty and Hatred he Displays | The 100 Right Wing Tax-Exempt Organizations With Over $2 Billion to Elect Trump | AFRICOM Loses Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali and Niger to the Russians backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jack Smith's Shot Across the Bow at the Trump-Friendly Judge on the Classified Documents Case | The Florida Supreme Court's 6 Week Abortion Ban and a Ballot Initiative to Enshrine Abortion Access in the Florida State Constitution | "Why Silicon Valley Reactionaries Love RFK Jr." Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green

Israel's Killing of 7 Aid Workers Who Were Feeding Starving Gazans Sparks International Outrage | Will Israel's Strike on an Iranian Consulate That Killed Top IRGC Officials Provoke a Wider War? | What the US Could Learn From the Electoral Rebuke of Erdogan's Dictatorship and Kleptocracy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

New evidence on "Havana Syndrome" Links the GRU's Assassination Unit 29155 to Mysterious Attacks on U.S. Officials and Their Families | A Scholar Just Back From Ukraine on the Heroism of Ukraine and the Nihilism of Mike Johnson | Trump's Illiberalism is Not a Departure But a Recurring Theme in American History backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The State Department Officer With Feds United for Peace Who Resigned to Protest US Complicity in Israel's War on Gaza | The Success of Propaganda as a Third of Americans Now Believe Trump's Big Lie | Putin's Evolution From Democrat to Despot backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Plutocrats Are Backing Trump, Not Because They Like Him, But to Extend Trump's Tax Cuts For the Ultra-Rich | RFK Jr's Pick For His Running Mate Has Deep Pockets But a Shallow Resume | Guns and Ammo From the US Fuel Anarchy in Haiti backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Is Israel Becoming a Strategic Liability For the United States? | Today's Oral Arguments Before the Supreme Court on a Nationwide Ban of a Medication Abortion Drug | After Today's Trading, Trump's Essentially Worthless Company is Suddenly Worth $15 Billion? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

A Look at the Islamic State's Global Terrorist Franchises While Putin Tries to Shift the Blame Onto Ukraine | Will The US Help Implement the UN Ceasefire Resolution Which For the First Time It Did Not Veto? | Today's Lifeline Thrown to Trump Reducing His Bond Down From $454 Million to $175 Million backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia