
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

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
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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
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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
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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"
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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?
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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
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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?
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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

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
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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
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