
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

Mar 5, 2025 • 1h 1min
March 5, 2025 - Dr. Allen Frances | Alex Lawson | Karen Greenberg
Trump and Musk's Blitzkrieg Coup Underway to Replace American Democracy With a Plutocracy | Trump Laid the Groundwork to Destroy Social Security With Last Night's Deliberate Demonization | Will the People Wake Up and Boot Out the Wrecking Crew Before Our Electoral System is Rigged?
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Mar 4, 2025 • 1h 2min
March 4, 2025 - Lucan Way | Dean Baker | Corey Brettschneider
Trump's Assault On Our Friends and Neighbors As He Rewards Our Enemies | How the Tariffs Will Hit Working and Middle Class Americans With a $3,000 Tax Hike | What Will the Democrats Do Tonight at the SOTU in the Face of a Blizzard of Trump Lies?
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Mar 3, 2025 • 1h 2min
March 3, 2025 - Anna Merlan | Casey Michel | James Thurber
The Trump White House Follows the Kremlin Model Elevating Conspiracy Theorists, Propagandists and Far Right Influencers to Deliver the News | The Grift and Corruption at the Heart of Trump's Sellout to Putin | The Republicans Have Decided to Sacrifice the House in 2026 to Give Away the Store to the Plutocracy
Music:
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Mar 1, 2025 • 1h 2min
March 2, 2025 - Angela Stent | Stephen Crowley | Natalie Melnyczuk
Zelensky, Who Wants to Make Peace, Gets Steamrolled By Trump Who Wants to Make a Deal | Will Trump's Capitulation to Putin Improve Ties or Give Putin a Second Wind to Cause More Mayhem? | Can Ukraine's NATO Allies Fill the Gap as Trump Abandons Ukraine to Putin?
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Feb 27, 2025 • 1h 9min
February 27, 2025 - Alexander Motyl | Victor Pickard | Brooke Harrington
Is Putin Trump's Case Officer? | Will Trump be Able to Turn the Press Into His Propaganda and PR Arm as Putin and Orban Have Done? | Since Musk's Assault on the Federal Workforce is Only Saving a Pittance, the Real Intention Then Must Be To Cripple the US Government

Feb 26, 2025 • 1h 2min
February 26, 2025 - Paul Farhi | Mike Lofgren | Dr. Guy Ziv
Press Freedom in America Under Attack by Trump and Plutocratic Press Owners Cowering Before the Dear Leader | Republicans Vote Against Their Constituent's Interests to Cut Taxes For Plutocrats | Why Did Israel Vote With Russia and Iran Against Ukraine and Its Jewish Leader?
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Feb 25, 2025 • 1h 6min
February 25, 2025 - Rachel VanLandingham | Bill Scher | Mike German
Trump's Politicization of the Military and the Firing Its Top Lawyers So That His Unlawful Orders Won't be Blocked | The Historical Plunge of Trump's Poll Numbers in Just One Month | Having Patel and Bongino Head the FBI Means Trump Will Go after His Enemies While He Can Break the Law With Impunity
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Feb 24, 2025 • 1h 5min
February 24, 2025 - Laura Thornton | Alfred McCoy
Trump's Shameful Vote at the UN on the Third Anniversary of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine and the Results of the German Elections | The Rise and Fall of the French, Soviet and American Empires With the New Chinese Empire Already on Shaky Ground
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Feb 23, 2025 • 1h 4min
February 23, 2025 - Nathan Tankus | Bandy Lee | Peter Montgomery
As Assessment of the Damage Already Done by Musk and His Teenage Techies | The Need For Our Politicians, Business Leaders and Citizens to Recognize Trump's Sickness and Intervene Before He Does Any More Damage to the Country and the World | Trump's Lies-Laden Keynote Speech to CPAC
Host: Ian Masters
Producer: Graham FitzGibbon
Assistant Producer: Asher Price

Feb 21, 2025 • 1h 1min
February 20, 2025 - Ryan Cooper | Eric Blanc | Erik Baker
The Confirmation of Kash Patel as Trump's Dumbest Self-inflicted Wound to Weaken America and Accelerate Its Collapse as a World Power | In Crushing of the Federal WorkForce, Musk and Trump Will Not Find the Trillions to Make Trump's Tax Cuts to the Super-Wealthy Permanent | The Fraud of the Can-Do Power of Positive Thinking as We Head Into An Era of Techno-Serfdom
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