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.
backgroundbriefing.org/donate
twitter.com/ianmastersmedia
facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
backgroundbriefing.org/donate
twitter.com/ianmastersmedia
facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Episodes
Mentioned books
Apr 16, 2024 • 57min
April 16, 2024 - Assal Rad | Mansour Farhang | Claire Finkelstein
A Look Inside Iran as Its People Wait For Israel's Retaliation Which Could Lead to a Wider War | The Symbiosis Between Israel's Hardline PM and Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei | An Assessment of Today's Oral Argument That Could Result in the Supreme Court Undoing Charges Against Trump and the J6 Insurrectionists
backgroundbriefing.org/donate
twitter.com/ianmastersmedia
facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Apr 15, 2024 • 1h
April 15, 2024 - Adam Weinstein | Jennifer Taub | Joshua Ferrer
Biden Meets With Iraq's PM Over Concerns That US Troops in Iraq and Syria Are Vulnerable if Israel Retaliates Against Iran | The First Day of Trump's NY Trial and the Possibility of a Trumpster on the Jury Causing a Mistrial as Happened in the Bannon "We Build the Wall" Fraud Case | The Record Numbers of Election Officials Quitting Under Threats From the "Stop the Steal" Lies
backgroundbriefing.org/donate
twitter.com/ianmastersmedia
facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Apr 14, 2024 • 1h 4min
April 14, 2024 - Nicholas Heras | Lisa Graves | Paul Glastris
Iran's Theatrical Response to the Israeli Strike and the Fear of Netanyahu Escalating | Finally the Architect of the Far-Right Takeover of the US Judiciary | An Assessment of the Trump vs Biden Records of Achievement
backgroundbriefing.org/donate
twitter.com/ianmastersmedia
facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Apr 11, 2024 • 1h
April 11, 2024 - Dr. Nancy Okail | Ellis Krauss | Stephen Lemons
Israel's AI Tools "Gospel", "Lavender" and "Where's Daddy" Are Being Used For Targeted Assassinations in Gaza | Increased Cooperation Between the U.S., Japan and The Philippines' Militaries Tops the White House Summit Agenda | An Assessment of the Political Damage to Arizona Republicans From the 1864 Abortion Ban
backgroundbriefing.org/donate
twitter.com/ianmastersmedia
facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Apr 10, 2024 • 1h 1min
April 10, 2024 - Jessica Mason Pieklo | Caroline Fredrickson | James Risen
The Arizona Supreme Court Takes the State Back to 1864 Before it Was a State With a Draconian Abortion Law | The Left/Right Coalition Refusing to Re-Authorize FISA With MAGA Republicans Doing So Because Trump Thinks it Was Used to Spy on Him | The Fatal Combination of Passivity in the Electorate and Trump's Impunity Could End American Democracy
backgroundbriefing.org/donate
twitter.com/ianmastersmedia
facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Apr 9, 2024 • 1h
April 9, 2024 - Laurie Levenson | Miles Taylor | Michael Graetz
Did Trump's Lawyers Mislead the NY Appeals Court to Get a Lower Bond? | As Trump Encourages Secession and Threatens Civil War, He Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving to China and Russia | How Billionaires Who Don't Pay Taxes Use Their Surplus Money to Buy Politicians to Lower Their Taxes Even Further
backgroundbriefing.org/donate
twitter.com/ianmastersmedia
facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Apr 8, 2024 • 59min
April 8, 2024 - Renee Hobbs | Dr. Allen Frances | Kevin Carey
April 8, 2024 - Renee Hobbs | Dr. Allen Frances | Kevin Carey by Ian Masters
Apr 7, 2024 • 60min
April 7, 2024 - Nader Hashemi | Jeff Colgan | Robert Hockett
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
Apr 4, 2024 • 1h 2min
April 4, 2024 - Ryan Cooper | Dr. Lawrence Rosenthal | Tommy Miles
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
Apr 3, 2024 • 1h
April 3, 2024 - Harry Litman | John Stoehr | Jeet Heer
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


