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Jan 14, 2024 • 60min

January 14, 2024 - Shireen Al-Adeimi | Michael Swaine | Edward McCaffery

Will Strikes Against the Houthis Scuttle the Saudi Peace Deal to End a War in Yemen MbS Started in 2015? | According to China, the War Party Won and the Peace Party Lost in Taiwan's Election | "Christian" Corruption as Mike Johnson Kills Enforcement After the IRS Collected $520 Million From Rich Tax Cheats backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jan 11, 2024 • 1h 2min

January 11, 2024 - Arnie Arnesen | Mike Spies | Joshua Green

Will Christie's Exit in New Hampshire Help Nikki Haley Who the Koch Network in Banking On? | The Reporter Behind the NY AG's Suit to Close Down the NRA | The History of Why the Democrats Got Into Bed With Wall Street and the Sanders, Warren, AOC Movement to Return the Party to Its Working Class Roots backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jan 10, 2024 • 60min

January 10, 2024 - Robert Leonard | Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera | Charles Schmitz

The Last Days Ahead of Monday's Iowa Caucuses and Tonight's CNN Debate Overshadowed by a Trump Town Hall on Fox | Amid Gang Violence Ecuador Appears to be Close to a Failed State | Asymmetrical Clashes in the Red Sea Between Powerful Navies and Houthi Rebels backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jan 9, 2024 • 1h 4min

January 9, 2024 - Laurie Levenson | William Cohan | Anne Nelson

Trump's Immunity Claim is Met With Deep Skepticism From the DC Appeals Court Judges | A Billionaire's War Against Harvard Now Shifts to the Media as His Wife's Plagiarism in Revealed by Business Insider | With Evangelicals at Over 50% of the Vote For Trump in Iowa, the Heathen is Promoting a Video "God Made Trump" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jan 8, 2024 • 1h 1min

January 8, 2024 - Jeff Wise | Chris McGreal | John Judis

Why Boeing's 737 Max is Grounded and is a Flying Turkey | The History Behind South Africa's Genocide Case Against Israel in the International Court of Justice | Can the Democrats Return to the New Deal Fight for the Common Man and Equal Opportunity? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jan 7, 2024 • 1h 1min

Janaury 7, 2024 - Sean Wilentz | Anna Massoglia | Trita Parsi

An Historian Who Had Lunch With the President on Wednesday Ahead of Biden's Opening Campaign Speech of 2024 at Valley Forge | How Corporate America Caved After January 6 Pledges Not to Fund Congressional Insurrectionists | A Wider War Looms as the US Gears Up To Retaliate Against the Houthis and Israel Provokes Hezbollah backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jan 4, 2024 • 1h 2min

January 4, 2024 - Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette | Nina Burleigh | Nir Eyal

Trump Made $7.8 Millions From Foreign Governments While in the White House, $5.5 Million From China | The Names Named in the Documents Just Released About the Epstein Blackmail Factory | Is Israel's Disproportionate Use of Force in Gaza Intended? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jan 3, 2024 • 1h 2min

January 3, 2024 - Abbas Milani | Lee Galernt | Maureen Meyer

Will the Bombings in Iran Following Yesterday's Killing of an Hamas Official Spark a Wider War? | House Republican Grandstanding as They Weaponize Immigration | The Root Causes of The Human Flow From Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico and Around the World Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green
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Jan 2, 2024 • 1h 2min

January 2, 2024 - Thanassis Cambanis | Paul Collins | Benjamin Carter Hett

Will Israel's Killing of the Hamas Ambassador to Hezbollah Trigger a Wider War? | The Move Underway to Get SCOTUS to Tear Down Jefferson's Wall Between Church and State | The Frightening Similarities Between Germany in 1933 and the US in 2024 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jan 1, 2024 • 1h

January 1, 2024 - Stephen Walt | Robert Hockett

The Foreign Policy Landscape Ahead in 2024 and the Chance For Peace in a World at War | The Economy in 2023 and What's Ahead in 2024 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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