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.
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Apr 2, 2024 • 60min
April 2, 2024 - Sarah Leah Whitson | Thanassis Cambanis | Ahmet Yayla
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
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Apr 1, 2024 • 1h 1min
April 1, 2024 - Michael Weiss | Marci Shore | Steven Hahn
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
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Mar 31, 2024 • 1h 3min
March 31, 2024 - Annelle Sheline | Peter Pomerantsev | Martin Sixsmith
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
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Mar 27, 2024 • 1h 1min
March 27, 2024 - Jacob Silverman | Fred Turner | Brian Concannon
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
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Mar 26, 2024 • 56min
March 26, 2024 - Jon Hoffman | Michele Goodwin | Jay Ritter
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?
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Mar 25, 2024 • 1h 1min
March 25, 2024 - Robert Young Pelton | Dr. Trita Parsi | Lloyd Green
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
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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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