Background Briefing with Ian Masters

Ian Masters
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Aug 24, 2025 • 1h 3min

August 24, 2025 - Nina Burleigh | James Fallows | Bill McKibben

Trump Rewrites His Epstein/Maxwell History as He Has Done With "Russiagate" and "Stop the Steal" But This Time Are the American People That Stupid? | Joining the Residents of Washington DC As They Demonstrate Against the Military Occupation of Our Nation's Capital | Among the First to Warn About Global Warming, Bill McKibbon on His New Book Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Aug 21, 2025 • 58min

August 21, 2025 - Peter Stone | Osita Nwanevu

Trump Patrols the Streets of the Nation's Capital as He Wages War on the Truth | A Case For a Real Democracy in the U.S.A. backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Aug 20, 2025 • 1h 3min

August 20, 2025 - Ryan Cooper | Jeremi Suri | Natalie Melnyczuk

Protestors at DC's Union Station Yell at Vance, Hegseth and Miller Who Calls Them "Crazy Communists" as They Bring Cheeseburgers to National Guard Troops | Texas Gerrymanders 5 Seats For Trump Who is Trying Everything to Stop the Democrats From Taking the House in 2026 | Can Ukraine Hold the Front Against a Russian Offensive Which is Why Putin Doesn't Want a Ceasefire? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Aug 19, 2025 • 1h 3min

August 19, 2025 - David Andelman | Ori Goldberg | James Moore

Trump's Pathetic Idea of Diplomacy and the Art of the Giveaway | After Sunday's Massive Demonstrations, Can Israel's Opposition Stop the War on Gaza? | The Fascistic Thuggery of Republican Legislators in Texas backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Aug 18, 2025 • 1h 3min

August 18, 2025 - Charles Kupchan | Richard Hasen | Jeff Hauser

Damage Control at the White House to Prevent Trump's Sellout of Ukraine to Putin | Trump Wants to Get Rid of Mail-in Ballots and Undo the Constitution's Bedrock of States Controlling Elections | Trump's Burgeoning War Chest to Buy theNext Election Just as Musk Bought the Last backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Aug 17, 2025 • 1h

August 17, 2025 - Angela Stent | Michael Gorham | Jacob Silverman

The Shameful Amateurism of Trump's Reality TV Diplomacy as He Sells Out Ukraine While Fawning Over a Wanted War Criminal | A Specialist on Russian Media on the Summit the Russian Public Saw on Putin-Controlled State Media | The Possibility of Crypto-Corruption Greasing the Skids to the Summit backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Aug 14, 2025 • 1h 2min

August 14, 2025 - Harold Meyerson | Julie Roginsky | Robert Stern

Trump's Performative Takeover of the Street of Washington DC as Its Residents Cry "Fascists", "Pigs" and "Go Home" | What Can Democrats Do To Be Proactive, Not Reactive to Trump | California Governor Newsom's Announcement of a November 4 Special Election to Counter the Texas Gerrymander backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Aug 13, 2025 • 60min

August 13, 2025 - Tamar Jacoby | Simon Shuster | Steven Simon

How Ukrainians Feel About the Upcoming Summit to Which They Are Not Invited | The 31 Years-Long Dictatorship That Served as a Backchannel For the Putin/Trump Summit | Trump and Hegseth Have Captured the Generals Who Will Show Loyalty Over Legality and Not Rescue us From Trump as Milley, Mattis and Kelly Did Last Time backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Aug 12, 2025 • 1h 2min

August 12, 2025 - Sarah Leah Whitson | George Beebe | Lucian Truscott IV

The UN's Palestinian Representative's Call For a UN Peacekeeping Protection Force in Gaza | What a Peace Plan to End Russia's War on Ukraine Could Look Like | Trump Moves to Use the Military for Domestic Law Enforcement as the Pentagon Plans For Rapid Reaction Forces to Put Down Civil Dissent backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Aug 11, 2025 • 1h 4min

August 11, 2025 - Adele Stan | Dr. Guy Ziv | Dr. Trita Parsi

Like a Tinpot Dictator, Trump Takes Over the Nation's Capital, Sending Troops Into the Streets as a Show of Force | The Growing Rift Between IDF Generals and Netanyahu as More of Israel's Allies Call For a Palestinian State | The Possibility of a New War Erupting Soon Between Israel and Iran backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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