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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Mar 3, 2024 • 1h 3min
March 3, 2024 - Rashid Khalidi | Tom Burgis | Natalie Melnyczuk
Following the Massacre of Desperate Gazans Storming Food Trucks, Ceasefire Talks Are Underway | How Plutocrats Use Their Power to Own the Truth | With the U.S. AWOL, Growing Resolve Within NATO
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Feb 29, 2024 • 1h
February 29, 2024 - Caroline Fredrickson | Corey Brettschneider | Hamilton Nolan
The Naked Partisanship of the Supreme Court's Right Wing Majority | The History of Supreme Courts That Have Served the Political Interests of Some of Our Worst Presidents | A Revival of Labor with Organizing Wins at Starbucks and Mercedes
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Feb 28, 2024 • 58min
February 28, 2024 - John Nichols | Ben Jacobs | Adele Stan
The Michigan Vote as an Indicator of How the Gaza War Threatens Biden's Reelection | Senator McConnell Steps Down From Leadership of a GOP He is Out Of Step With | The Embrace of Fascism by Trump's Government in Waiting at CPAC
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Feb 28, 2024 • 20min
The Embrace of Fascism by Trump's Government in Waiting at CPAC
The Embrace of Fascism by Trump's Government in Waiting at CPAC by Ian Masters
Feb 27, 2024 • 59min
February 27, 2024 - Mike Lofgren | Jim Manley | Lisa Graves
The President and Congressional Leaders Meet to Prevent Another Government Shutdown | Schumer Describes an "Intense" Meeting as Everybody in the Oval Office Piled on Johnson to Get Aid to Ukraine Done | An Update on the Many Trials Trump Faces As He Tries to Run Out the Clock
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Feb 26, 2024 • 59min
February 26, 2024 - Katherine Stewart | Jonathan Taplin | Sevag Kechichian
The Rise of Christian Nationalism, Dominionism and the New Apostolic Reformation Movements | The Supreme Court Appears Open To Giving Tech Giants Immunity From Content on Their Social Media Platforms | Powerful Leaders, Investors and Celebrities Suck Up to MbS's Sovereign Wealth Fund
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Feb 25, 2024 • 1h 2min
February 25, 2024 - Tom LoBianco | Paul Waldman | Christine Abely
A Lackluster CPAC and the VP Auditions In Spite Of Trump Trying to Have His Last VP Killed | The GOP Gets a Free Pass With the Rural Vote While Doing Nothing to Help and a Lot to Harm Rural Folk | The Latest Round of Sanctions While China, India and Brazil Buy Discounted and Smuggled Russian Oil
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Feb 22, 2024 • 1h 1min
February 22, 2024 - Lincoln Mitchell | Mitchell Plitnick | Maria Snegovaya
RFK Junior's Role as a Spoiler Since His Campaign's Biggest Donor is Also Trump's Biggest Donor | An Update on Diplomatic Efforts Underway For a Ceasefire in the Gaza War | What is Behind the Rise of Illiberal and Right Wing Politics in Europe
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Feb 21, 2024 • 1h 6min
February 21, 2024 - Amanda Marcotte | Robert Baer | Maxwell Stearns
Increasing Signs That Christian Nationalists Plan to Impose an American Theocracy | Evidence That The Source For the "Biden Crime Family" Case is a Dissembler Working for Russian Intelligence | A Plan to Reinvent Our Polarized and Dysfunctional Government
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Feb 20, 2024 • 60min
February 20, 2024 - Wendy Pearlman | Jacob Heilbrunn | Justin Vaughn
The US Again Gives Israel Cover Vetoing a UN Resolution For an Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza | The American Right's 100-Year Romance With Foreign Dictators | The Latest American Historians' Survey That Has Donald Trump Dead Last in 45th Place
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