
Background Briefing with 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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Latest episodes

Mar 24, 2024 • 1h 5min
March 24, 2024 - James Thurber | James Henry | Alec Bertina
The Do-Nothing Congress Descends Into the Chaos Congress | Could Billions Made Out of Nothing Pumped Into Truth Social Rescue Trump Tomorrow? | While Putin Has His Security Services Going After Gays and Lesbians He Prioritizes as Terrorists, Real Terrorists Strike
Host: Ian Masters
Producer: Graham FitzGibbon
Assistant Producer: Evan Green

Mar 21, 2024 • 1h
March 21, 2024 - Nathan Schneider | Thomas Mockaitis | Dr. Lance Dodes
Can the Public Own Giant Tech Companies Who Operate as Monopolies? | In a Major Shift, the US Drafts a UN Resolution For an Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza and a Hostage Deal | The Ethical Obligation to Warn the Public About Trump's Dementia
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Mar 20, 2024 • 1h 2min
March 20, 2024 - Dov Waxman | James Zirin | Robert Sapolsky
While Kushner's Callous Remarks on the Value of Beachfront Property as a Million Gazans Starve Resonate, Netanyahu Talks to Republican Senators and the House Speaker | AG Garland and Justice Cardoza's Warning That Criminals "Go Free Because the Constable Has Blundered" | Trump Attacks Biden But Avoids His Own Family's History of Dementia
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Mar 19, 2024 • 58min
March 19, 2024 - Scott Horton | Barbara Walter | Victoria Hui
Who Will Come up With the Billion Dollars Trump Needs as he Faces the Prospect of His Assets Being Seized? | Trump's Call For a Civil War Just as he Called For the January 6 Insurrection | China Ends Freedom of Speech Now That Anyone in Hong Kong Communicating With Anyone Abroad is Guilty of "External Interference"
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Mar 18, 2024 • 1h 2min
March 18, 2024 - Stanley Greenberg | Michael Gorham | David Satter
An Alarming Poll on the Rise of the "Duel Haters" Who Want Neither Trump or Biden | The Fate of the Russian Opposition Now That Putin Has Awarded Himself a Blowout Election Victory | Concerns Inside the Intelligence Community Over Trump's Bromance With Putin and Orban
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Mar 17, 2024 • 1h 3min
March 17, 2024 - Alexander Cooley | Julian Zelizer | Jonathan Weiler
The Russian Elections and Putin's Plans to Stoke Divisions in an Already-Divided America | The Increasingly Visible Role of Vice President Harris in the Campaign Underway | Trump's GOP Keeps Lowering the Bar With Greater Ignorance, Vitriol, Clownishness and Vulgarity
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Mar 14, 2024 • 1h 2min
March 14, 2024 - Marcy Wheeler | William McGee | Asher Kaufman
More Evidence Emerges About the Source of Disinformation on Hunter Biden | More Problems For An Already Troubled Boeing Whose Disastrous CEO is Still on the Job | Senator Schumer's Public Break With Netanyahu
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Mar 13, 2024 • 1h 1min
March 13, 2024 - Omar Shakir | David Faris | David Cay Johnston
As Gazans Starve, Will Netanyahu Cross Biden's "Red Line" and Invade Rafah? | 3rd Party Spoilers Already Have 17% of the Vote and Will Hurt Biden More Than Trump | Will Money From Malign Foreign Dictators Bail Out Trump?
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Mar 12, 2024 • 59min
March 12, 2024 - Lindsay Koshgarian | Will Bunch | William Cohan
Of the $1.6 Trillion in Discretionary Spending in Biden's 2025 Budget, a Trillion Goes to the Military and $499 Billion For Everything Else | Trump's Mafia-Like Extortion of Corporate America | In Hedging its Bet on Biden, Wall Street is Telling Itself Trump is Not That Bad Even Though They Know Better
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Mar 10, 2024 • 1h
March 10, 2024 - Harold Meyerson | Moira Donegan | Michael Kimmage
Biden Turns the Tide Against the Press and Pollsters Who Have Written Him Off As Too Old and Losing Badly to Trump | Biden Confronts the Reactionary Supreme Court Over Women's Rights | The State of War and Rumors of Peace Between Ukraine and Russia
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