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Background Briefing with Ian Masters podcast

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Background Briefing with Ian Masters

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  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

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

 

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#500

September 12, 2024 - Arthur Goldwag | Ahmet Yayla | Sasha Abramsky

Trump is Hanging Out With Laura Loomer Who Republicans Are Blaming For His Disastrous Debate | Erdogan Inflames Tensions With the US and Israel While Secretly Profiting From Oil and Arms Sales to Israel | What America Would Be Like After a MAGA Takeover Based on the MAGA Takeover of Two Counties in Washington and Northern California ... Read more

5 hrs Ago

59 MINS

59:58

5 hrs Ago

#499

September 11, 2024 - Amanda Marcotte | Debbie Walsh | Tim Golden

In Last Night's Debate, the Reality TV Star Trump Appeared to Lose His War Against Reality | The Obstacles Women Face in Politics That Harris is Navigating | On the 23rd Anniversary of 9/11, New Evidence of Saudi Involvement With the Hijackers Emerges backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia ... Read more

Yesterday

1 HR 01 MINS

1:01:37

Yesterday

#498

September 10, 2024 - Jon Hoffman | Greg Sargent | Jason Stanley

Foreign Policy in Tonight's Harris/Trump Debate and Whose Finger Do You Want on the Nuclear Button | Democratic "Irrational Exuberance" With the Polls and "Sane-Washing" by the Mainstream Media | We Should Take Trump at His Word That He Wants to be a Dictator and Jail His Opponents and the Press backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia ... Read more

10 Sep 2024

1 HR 02 MINS

1:02:30

10 Sep 2024

#497

September 9, 2024 - Nina Burleigh | Thomas Barfield | Stephanie Baker

The Mein Kampf of the MAGA Republican Party, Project 2025 | Today's Republican Report on the Withdrawal From Afghanistan is a Political Hit Job on VP Harris | How Putin's Shadow Fleet of "Ghost" Tankers Are an Accident Waiting to Happen backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia ... Read more

09 Sep 2024

1 HR 03 MINS

1:03:24

09 Sep 2024

#496

September 8, 2024 - Natalie Manaeva Rice | Steven Pifer | Allan Lichtman

Americans Colluding With Russia as Spies, Propagandists and Useful Idiots | UK and US Heads of Intelligence Warn of Russia's "Reckless Campaign of Sabotage" | The Accurate Predictor Issues His Presidential Prediction for 2024 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia ... Read more

08 Sep 2024

1 HR 05 MINS

1:05:35

08 Sep 2024

#495

September 5, 2024 - Jared Holt | Jonathan Metzl | Natalie Melnyczuk

Russia Interferes in Our Elections Underway Via Pro-Trump Influencers Now Running Away From Their Kremlin Paymasters | But For Police Failures, The Gun Culture and No Red Flag Laws, the Latest School Shooting Would Never Have Happened | The Shakeup In Zelensky's Government Who is Pleading For Patriot Missiles in Warehouses as Russian Missiles Kill His Civilians backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia ... Read more

05 Sep 2024

1 HR 02 MINS

1:02:39

05 Sep 2024

#494

September 4, 2024 - Robert Creamer | David Hearst | Tom Collina

Another School Shooting and Can a Progressive Ticket Win the Presidency? | Could the Arsonist Netanyahu Spark a Wider War With Jordan a Powder Keg About to Explode | A New Nuclear Doctrine to Confront Russia, China and North Korea Simultaneously backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia ... Read more

04 Sep 2024

1 HR 01 MINS

1:01:19

04 Sep 2024

#493

September 3, 2024 - Paul Pillar | David Daley | Scott Horton

Mounting Pressure on Netanyahu From the Israeli Public as the UK Cuts Off Arms Sales | How the Republicans Are Funding and Boosting the Cornel West and Jill Stein Campaigns | The Putin-Orban-Heritage Foundation-Project 2025 Connections backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia ... Read more

03 Sep 2024

1 HR 03 MINS

1:03:46

03 Sep 2024

#492

September 2, 2024 - John Nichols | Betsey Stevenson | Dr. Harley Shaiken

How Much Will the Harris/Walz Pro-Labor Stance Help Get Them Elected With 70% of Americans Approving of Unions? | America's Growing Economic Inequality | The Democratic Party Will Need a House and Senate Majority to Pass the PRO Act for President Harris to Sign ... Read more

02 Sep 2024

1 HR 04 MINS

1:04:44

02 Sep 2024

#491

September 1, 2024 - James Risen | Rabbi Steven Jacobs | Jennifer McCoy

The Media's Horse-race Coverage of the Election as CNN's Pathetic Harris/Walz Interview Asks Trump/Vance Attack Lines to Avoid the "Liberal Media" Label | Give a Post-Gaza Israeli/Palestinian Peace a Chance | The Domestic Threat to Democracy Posed by Trump and Project 2025 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia ... Read more

01 Sep 2024

1 HR 01 MINS

1:01:37

01 Sep 2024

#490

August 29, 2024 - Paul Waldman | Andra Gillespie | Beth Daviess

After Pressure From Republicans and the Press, Will Tonight's CNN Interview With Harris and Walz Answer Policy Questions? | Could Another Historical Breakthrough be the Election of a Black and Asian Woman Married to a Jew? | The Ties Between JD Vance and His New Press Secretary and the Shadowy Christian Nationalist Mens-Only Society for American Civic Renewal backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia ... Read more

29 Aug 2024

1 HR 03 MINS

1:03:44

29 Aug 2024

#489

August 28, 2024 - Richard Parker | Alan Abramowitz | Nader Hashemi

As the Press and Republicans Clamour For More Policy Details, Harris/Walz Are Winning on Charisma and Change | Today's Harris/Walz Bus Tour of Georgia | An Olive Branch to the US From Iran's Supreme Leader as We Wait For His Promised Retaliation Against Israel backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia ... Read more

28 Aug 2024

1 HR 01 MINS

1:01:36

28 Aug 2024

#488

August 27, 2024 - Rick Wilson | Matthew Seligman | David Andelman

How Many Disaffected Republicans Can Kamala Harris Peel Off in a Center Left - Center Right Alliance? | Could Jack Smith's Appeal to the 11th Circuit Result in Judge Cannon Being Taken Off the Case? | Is the Current Crisis in France Politics as Usual? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia ... Read more

27 Aug 2024

1 HR 02 MINS

1:02:53

27 Aug 2024

#487

August 26, 2024 - Allan Lichtman | Michael Gorham | Charles Schmitz

Harris Surges in the Polls as Trump Tries to Weasel Out of the September 10 ABC Debate With Harris | The French Arrest the Founder of Telegram After a Possible Meeting With Putin | Houthi Recklessness is About to Cause the Fifth Largest Oil Spill in History ... Read more

26 Aug 2024

1 HR 03 MINS

1:03:50

26 Aug 2024

#486

August 25, 2024 - Dr. Allen Frances | Will Bunch | Stephen Biddle

The Contrast Between the Best and Worst of America and Why Does Anyone Support Trump's GOP? | A Wrap Up of the DNC and How Will RFK Jr's Endorsement of Trump Impact Swing States | A Military Analysis of Ukraine's Incursion Into Russia and the Escalation Ladder to Nuclear War backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia ... Read more

25 Aug 2024

1 HR 04 MINS

1:04:14

25 Aug 2024

#485

August 22, 2024 - Casey Michel | Jacob Heilbrunn | David Klion

The FBI Cracks Down on American Kremlin Propagandists as Russian Election Influence Operations Ramp Up | Last Night's Star Turns at the DNC From Tim Walz and Kenan Thompson on Project 2025 | Trump's Anti-Semitic Attacks on Governor Josh Shapiro backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia ... Read more

22 Aug 2024

1 HR 02 MINS

1:02:17

22 Aug 2024

#484

August 21, 2024 - Bill Scher | Lincoln Mitchell | Orville Schell

A Review of Last Night's Democratic National Convention and a Preview of Tonight's | The Generational Change Underway in the Harris/Walz Democratic Party | China Sues Stanford For Mao's Secretary's Diaries With an Inside Look at the CCP From 1935 to 2018 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia ... Read more

21 Aug 2024

58 MINS

58:29

21 Aug 2024

#483

August 20, 2024 - Wendy Pearlman | Tom LoBianco | Rob Johnson

Biden Acknowledges the Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators at the DNC in Chicago Have a Point | An Appraisal of Last Night's Speeches at the DNC | The Turnaround in the Polls For the Democrats in the Key Swing States of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia ... Read more

20 Aug 2024

1 HR 01 MINS

1:01:21

20 Aug 2024

#482

August 19, 2024 - David Faris | Paul Glastris | Rhona Michie

An Update From Chicago on the Democratic National Convention | A Presidential Speechwriter on the Delicate Job a President Passing the Baton to His VP | As Bombs Fall on Gaza and Ukraine, Arms Industries Benefit From Tragedy ... Read more

19 Aug 2024

1 HR 00 MINS

1:00:00

19 Aug 2024

#481

August 18, 2024 - Michael Kimmage | Sarah Leah Whitson | Dean Baker

Will Biden Come Up With a Strategy For Ukraine the Absence of Which is an Excuse For Trump And the Republicans Not to Support Its Defense Against Russia? | The Irony That Saudi's MbS "Prince Bonesaw" Now Fears Assassination | An Assessment of the Harris/Walz Economic Plan backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia ... Read more

18 Aug 2024

1 HR 01 MINS

1:01:53

18 Aug 2024