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Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersNovember 30, 2025 - Robert Young Pelton | Christine Fair | Tamar JacobyAn Investigation Into the CIA-Run "Kill Or Capture" Zero Units the D.C. Shooter Worked With | As Trump Blames Biden, Who is Responsible For the Chaotic U.S. Withdrawal of 76,000 Afghans Including the Shooter? | With Many Trump Teams Negotiating While Putin Has No Interest in Peace, What Impact Will the Resignation of Ukraine's Negotiator Yermak Have? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
2025-11-301h 01Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersNovember 30, 2025 - Robert Young Pelton | Christine Fair | Tamar JacobyAn Investigation Into the CIA-Run "Kill Or Capture" Zero Units the D.C. Shooter Worked With | As Trump Blames Biden, Who is Responsible For the Chaotic U.S. Withdrawal of 76,000 Afghans Including the Shooter? | With Many Trump Teams Negotiating While Putin Has No Interest in Peace, What Impact Will the Resignation of Ukraine's Negotiator Yermak Have? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
2025-11-301h 01Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersNovember 24, 2025 - Anand Giridharadas | Robert Benson | Peter DreierAmerica's Morally Bankrupt, Corrupt and Anti-Democratic Power Elite as Revealed in the Epstein Emails | Trump's Treasonous Sellout of Ukraine Is As If Chamberlain Showed Up at Munich With Hitler's "Peace Plan" | Sasha Linden Cohen on How the "Socialist" Handled the "Fascist" backgroundbriefing.org/donate x.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-11-251h 09Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersNovember 24, 2025 - Anand Giridharadas | Robert Benson | Peter DreierAmerica's Morally Bankrupt, Corrupt and Anti-Democratic Power Elite as Revealed in the Epstein Emails | Trump's Treasonous Sellout of Ukraine Is As If Chamberlain Showed Up at Munich With Hitler's "Peace Plan" | Sasha Linden Cohen on How the "Socialist" Handled the "Fascist" backgroundbriefing.org/donate x.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-11-251h 09Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersOctober 22, 2025 - Jared Abbott | Robert McElvaine | Priya JainAlthough the Oysterman in Maine is Imploding and Senator Fetterman is a Disappointment, Authentic Populist Democratic Candidates Are Emerging on the Left | Disturbing Similarities With Today's Wall Street Bubble and the 1929 Crash | A Wakeup Call as the People's House is Torn Down to Build a Gilded Palace backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-10-221h 01Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersOctober 22, 2025 - Jared Abbott | Robert McElvaine | Priya JainAlthough the Oysterman in Maine is Imploding and Senator Fetterman is a Disappointment, Authentic Populist Democratic Candidates Are Emerging on the Left | Disturbing Similarities With Today's Wall Street Bubble and the 1929 Crash | A Wakeup Call as the People's House is Torn Down to Build a Gilded Palace backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-10-221h 01Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersOctober 8, 2025 - Lawrence Douglas | Robert Pape | Lincoln MitchellThe James Comey Show Trial by Trump and Bondi Gets Underway | Trump's "War Within" is Underway and It Will Be a Long One | America's Sea Change of Views on Israel Two Years After October 7 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-10-081h 03Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersOctober 8, 2025 - Lawrence Douglas | Robert Pape | Lincoln MitchellThe James Comey Show Trial by Trump and Bondi Gets Underway | Trump's "War Within" is Underway and It Will Be a Long One | America's Sea Change of Views on Israel Two Years After October 7 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-10-081h 03Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersSeptember 30, 2025 - Robert Kuttner | Stuart Schrader | Michael MannHow Trump Will Take Advantage of the Government Shutdown | Trump Tells Our Admirals and Generals That the Enemy is Within and Democratic U.S. Cities Should be Military Training Grounds | Ignorance is the Key Ingredient That Keeps MAGAworld Believing Trump's Lies and Absurdities backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-09-301h 00Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersSeptember 30, 2025 - Robert Kuttner | Stuart Schrader | Michael MannHow Trump Will Take Advantage of the Government Shutdown | Trump Tells Our Admirals and Generals That the Enemy is Within and Democratic U.S. Cities Should be Military Training Grounds | Ignorance is the Key Ingredient That Keeps MAGAworld Believing Trump's Lies and Absurdities backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-09-301h 00Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersSeptember 28, 2025 - Harry Litman | David Adler | Robert MalleyThe Consiglieres Running Trump's Private Law Firm, the DoJ as Junkyard Dogs Unleashed to Hound, Harass, Bankrupt and Jail the Mob Boss's Enemies | An Activist on a Boat in a Flotilla Heading to Gaza That the Israelis Have Attacked With Drones | A Senior Middle East Negotiator for Clinton, Obama and Biden on the Pursuit of Israel/Palestine Peace and the Horrors of Today backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-09-281h 04Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersSeptember 28, 2025 - Harry Litman | David Adler | Robert MalleyThe Consiglieres Running Trump's Private Law Firm, the DoJ as Junkyard Dogs Unleashed to Hound, Harass, Bankrupt and Jail the Mob Boss's Enemies | An Activist on a Boat in a Flotilla Heading to Gaza That the Israelis Have Attacked With Drones | A Senior Middle East Negotiator for Clinton, Obama and Biden on the Pursuit of Israel/Palestine Peace and the Horrors of Today backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-09-281h 04Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersSeptember 21, 2025 - Jacob Heilbrunn | James HenryThe Trump Coup Underway and His Assault on the First Amendment | The Real Epstein Files Story in the 7,000 + SARS Files at Treasury and the Central Role of Robert Maxwell and His Depraved Daughter backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-09-2157 minBackground Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersSeptember 21, 2025 - Jacob Heilbrunn | James HenryThe Trump Coup Underway and His Assault on the First Amendment | The Real Epstein Files Story in the 7,000 + SARS Files at Treasury and the Central Role of Robert Maxwell and His Depraved Daughter backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-09-2157 minBackground Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersAugust 26, 2025 - David Faris | Robert Hockett | Emma AshfordAnother Governor, Illinois' Pritzker, Stands up to Trump While Democratic Leaders in the House and Senate are MIA | After Trying to Terminate the Fed Chair, Trump Fires the First and Only Black Woman on the Fed, But She is Staying Put | How the U.S. Should Deal With the Way the World is, Not How We Wish It To Be backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-08-261h 02Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersAugust 26, 2025 - David Faris | Robert Hockett | Emma AshfordAnother Governor, Illinois' Pritzker, Stands up to Trump While Democratic Leaders in the House and Senate are MIA | After Trying to Terminate the Fed Chair, Trump Fires the First and Only Black Woman on the Fed, But She is Staying Put | How the U.S. Should Deal With the Way the World is, Not How We Wish It To Be backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-08-261h 02Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersAugust 14, 2025 - Harold Meyerson | Julie Roginsky | Robert SternTrump'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
2025-08-141h 02Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersAugust 14, 2025 - Harold Meyerson | Julie Roginsky | Robert SternTrump'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
2025-08-141h 02Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersJuly 29, 2025 - Robert Kuttner | Daniel Treisman | Mitchell PlitnickTrump's Announce First- Details Later Trade Deal With the EU and "Air Farce One: When Gift Becomes Grift" | Trump's New Ultimatum To Putin Seen as a Step Towards War | Trump Rebukes Netanyahu Over Starving Children But OK's Plan to Annex Gaza backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-07-291h 01Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersJuly 29, 2025 - Robert Kuttner | Daniel Treisman | Mitchell PlitnickTrump's Announce First- Details Later Trade Deal With the EU and "Air Farce One: When Gift Becomes Grift" | Trump's New Ultimatum To Putin Seen as a Step Towards War | Trump Rebukes Netanyahu Over Starving Children But OK's Plan to Annex Gaza backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-07-291h 01Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersJuly 15, 2025 - Robert Hockett | David Halperin | Matthew Hongoltz-HettlingTrump Escalates His War Against the Fed and Its Chairman Jerome Powell | The Consequence of the Supreme Court Allowing Trump to Continue Dismantling the U.S. Department of Education | What is Behind the War Inside MAGA Over Not Releasing the Epstein Files As Promised? Music: Carla Bozulich - Glass House Elodie Lauten - Despair Postlude backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-07-151h 01Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersJuly 15, 2025 - Robert Hockett | David Halperin | Matthew Hongoltz-HettlingTrump Escalates His War Against the Fed and Its Chairman Jerome Powell | The Consequence of the Supreme Court Allowing Trump to Continue Dismantling the U.S. Department of Education | What is Behind the War Inside MAGA Over Not Releasing the Epstein Files As Promised? Music: Carla Bozulich - Glass House Elodie Lauten - Despair Postlude backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-07-151h 01Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersJune 4, 2025 - Robert Hockett | Oleh Kotsyuba | Mohsen MilaniTrump Digs the Deficit Hole $2.4 Trillion Deeper to Punish the Poor and Reward the Richest | Trump Sells Out Ukraine Again in His Call Today With Putin | Trump Pressure Iran to Sign or Get Bombed, Making a War That Will Not Be a Cakewalk More Likely Trump Digs the Deficit Hole $2.4 Trillion Deeper to Punish the Poor and Reward the Richest | Trump Sells Out Ukraine Again in His Call Today With Putin | Trump Pressure Iran to Sign or Get Bombed, Making a War That Will Not Be a Cakewalk More Likely backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia...
2025-06-041h 00Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersJune 4, 2025 - Robert Hockett | Oleh Kotsyuba | Mohsen MilaniTrump Digs the Deficit Hole $2.4 Trillion Deeper to Punish the Poor and Reward the Richest | Trump Sells Out Ukraine Again in His Call Today With Putin | Trump Pressure Iran to Sign or Get Bombed, Making a War That Will Not Be a Cakewalk More Likely Trump Digs the Deficit Hole $2.4 Trillion Deeper to Punish the Poor and Reward the Richest | Trump Sells Out Ukraine Again in His Call Today With Putin | Trump Pressure Iran to Sign or Get Bombed, Making a War That Will Not Be a Cakewalk More Likely backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia...
2025-06-041h 00Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersJune 1, 2025 - Robert Kuttner | Lisa Graves | George PackerPresident TACO Zig-Zags on Tariffs as the Senate Takes Up His "Big, Beautiful Bill" Which Some Republicans Want to Cut More and Others Cut Less | Trump Calls Leonard Leo a "Sleazebag" and Regrets Following the Advice of the Federalist Society | The Growing Possibility Our Next President Will Be J.D. Vance Before Trump's Term is Up backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-06-011h 00Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersJune 1, 2025 - Robert Kuttner | Lisa Graves | George PackerPresident TACO Zig-Zags on Tariffs as the Senate Takes Up His "Big, Beautiful Bill" Which Some Republicans Want to Cut More and Others Cut Less | Trump Calls Leonard Leo a "Sleazebag" and Regrets Following the Advice of the Federalist Society | The Growing Possibility Our Next President Will Be J.D. Vance Before Trump's Term is Up backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-06-011h 00Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersApril 9, 2025 - Robert Hockett | Matt Gold | Gregory BrewTrump's Amateurism on Display or is He Shorting the Market for His Family and Cronies? | An Assessment of the Amount of Damage Ahead From Trump's Trade War | Today's Drop in Oil To $56 From $72 a Barrel Last Week and What Kind of a Deal Could Emerge Between the US and Iran on Saturday? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-04-091h 03Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersApril 9, 2025 - Robert Hockett | Matt Gold | Gregory BrewTrump's Amateurism on Display or is He Shorting the Market for His Family and Cronies? | An Assessment of the Amount of Damage Ahead From Trump's Trade War | Today's Drop in Oil To $56 From $72 a Barrel Last Week and What Kind of a Deal Could Emerge Between the US and Iran on Saturday? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-04-091h 03Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersMarch 23, 2025 - Fred Turner | Robert SuettingerMusk's Ungoverning Tactic of "Wreck Then Rob" | Inside the PRC's Secretive Internal Leadership Struggles Between Reformers and Reactionaries backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-03-231h 00Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersMarch 23, 2025 - Fred Turner | Robert SuettingerMusk's Ungoverning Tactic of "Wreck Then Rob" | Inside the PRC's Secretive Internal Leadership Struggles Between Reformers and Reactionaries backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-03-231h 00Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersMarch 12, 2025 - Tom Mockaitis | Robert Creamer | Michael SwaineWith Trump Attacking Free Speech on Campuses, Expect Patel and Bongino to Order the FBI to Round Up Trump's Critics and Those on Patel's Enemies List? | The Dilemma Senate Democrats Face Whether to Vote For a Bad Bill or Stand up to Trump and Musk and Risk a Government Shutdown | Trump's Losing Strategy of Wooing Putin Away From Xi and Musk's Outsized Influence Over China Policy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-03-121h 04Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersMarch 12, 2025 - Tom Mockaitis | Robert Creamer | Michael SwaineWith Trump Attacking Free Speech on Campuses, Expect Patel and Bongino to Order the FBI to Round Up Trump's Critics and Those on Patel's Enemies List? | The Dilemma Senate Democrats Face Whether to Vote For a Bad Bill or Stand up to Trump and Musk and Risk a Government Shutdown | Trump's Losing Strategy of Wooing Putin Away From Xi and Musk's Outsized Influence Over China Policy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-03-121h 04Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersFebruary 4, 2025 - Robert Kuttner | Ioan Grillo | Van JacksonThe Fatal Combination of a Mentally Ill President and a Mentally Deranged Billionaire Out to Destroy Our Government and Democracy | Stopping the Deadly Fentanyl Trade in Mexico, China and Now India | The Folly of a Trade War With China and a Saner Way To Ease Tensions backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-02-041h 05Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersFebruary 4, 2025 - Robert Kuttner | Ioan Grillo | Van JacksonThe Fatal Combination of a Mentally Ill President and a Mentally Deranged Billionaire Out to Destroy Our Government and Democracy | Stopping the Deadly Fentanyl Trade in Mexico, China and Now India | The Folly of a Trade War With China and a Saner Way To Ease Tensions backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-02-041h 05Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersJanuary 14, 2025 - Robert Young Pelton | Rachel VanLandingham | Laurie Levenson | Annelle ShelineRepublican Senators Roll Over the Democrats Determined to Do Trump's Bidding and Confirm a Dangerously Unqualified Ideologue as Secretary of Defense | A Former Female JAG Officer on Hegseth's Disparagement of Women in the Military and Military Justice | Jack Smith's January 6 Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted Had the Case Gone To Trial | Unlike Biden, Trump Uses Leverage to Get a Ceasefire and Hostage Release Deal Between Israel and Hamas backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-01-141h 03Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersJanuary 14, 2025 - Robert Young Pelton | Rachel VanLandingham | Laurie Levenson | Annelle ShelineRepublican Senators Roll Over the Democrats Determined to Do Trump's Bidding and Confirm a Dangerously Unqualified Ideologue as Secretary of Defense | A Former Female JAG Officer on Hegseth's Disparagement of Women in the Military and Military Justice | Jack Smith's January 6 Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted Had the Case Gone To Trial | Unlike Biden, Trump Uses Leverage to Get a Ceasefire and Hostage Release Deal Between Israel and Hamas backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-01-141h 03Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersJanuary 2, 2025 - Robert Pape | Chris McGreal | Stephen WertheimThe Latest on the Investigations Into the New Year's Massacre in New Orleans and the Tesla Cyber Truck Explosion in Front of the Trump Hotel | Contrasting the Divisive Trump With Jimmy Carter Who Tried to Bridge Divides | Could Trump be a Peacemaker Even If He Only Wants to Win a Nobel Prize? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-01-021h 10Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersJanuary 2, 2025 - Robert Pape | Chris McGreal | Stephen WertheimThe Latest on the Investigations Into the New Year's Massacre in New Orleans and the Tesla Cyber Truck Explosion in Front of the Trump Hotel | Contrasting the Divisive Trump With Jimmy Carter Who Tried to Bridge Divides | Could Trump be a Peacemaker Even If He Only Wants to Win a Nobel Prize? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2025-01-021h 10Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersDecember 22, 2024 - Robert Hockett | James Thurber | Robert BensonThe Emerging Threat to the US Economy Trump and Musk's Amateurism Poses | An Even More Dysfunctional Congress With Trump and Musk in Charge of Both Houses? | The Foreign Policy Damage Musk is Already Doing backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-12-221h 00Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersDecember 22, 2024 - Robert Hockett | James Thurber | Robert BensonThe Emerging Threat to the US Economy Trump and Musk's Amateurism Poses | An Even More Dysfunctional Congress With Trump and Musk in Charge of Both Houses? | The Foreign Policy Damage Musk is Already Doing backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-12-221h 00Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersDecember 12, 2024 - Robert Young Pelton | Nader Hashemi | Stacy MitchellWill Trump and His Shills For Russia like Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard Turn Us Into Putin's America? | Israel and Turkey Appears to be the Winners in Syria While Russia and Iran are the Losers | How Rising Food Prices Played a Decisive Role in the Election and Efforts to Rein In Food Monopolies Like WalMart backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-12-121h 02Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersDecember 12, 2024 - Robert Young Pelton | Nader Hashemi | Stacy MitchellWill Trump and His Shills For Russia like Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard Turn Us Into Putin's America? | Israel and Turkey Appears to be the Winners in Syria While Russia and Iran are the Losers | How Rising Food Prices Played a Decisive Role in the Election and Efforts to Rein In Food Monopolies Like WalMart backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-12-121h 02Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersDecember 1, 2024 - Robert Kuttner | William Arkin | Steven SimonIf the Senate Has Hearings, Hegseth, Gabbard and RFK Jr. Will Not Be Confirmed | Trump's Envoy To Ukraine General Kellogg's Plan to End the War | With Iran and Hezbollah on the Ropes, Syrian Rebels Backed By Turkey Make Surprising Gains backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-12-011h 06Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersDecember 1, 2024 - Robert Kuttner | William Arkin | Steven SimonIf the Senate Has Hearings, Hegseth, Gabbard and RFK Jr. Will Not Be Confirmed | Trump's Envoy To Ukraine General Kellogg's Plan to End the War | With Iran and Hezbollah on the Ropes, Syrian Rebels Backed By Turkey Make Surprising Gains backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-12-011h 06Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersNovember 14, 2024 - Lisa Graves | Robert Young Pelton | Gregory TrevertonTrump's Choice of an Unqualified and Incompetent Ideologue to Head the DOJ Who Has Be Charged With Sex Trafficking an Underaged Girl Across State Lines | Trump's Choice of a Fox Propagandist, Grifter and Supporter of For-Profit Colleges That Rip off Veterans to be Secretary of Defense | Trump Wants a Member of a Fringe Hindu Cult and Fan of the Syrian and Russian Dictators to be the Next Head of Our Intelligence Agencies backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-11-1459 minBackground Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersNovember 14, 2024 - Lisa Graves | Robert Young Pelton | Gregory TrevertonTrump's Choice of an Unqualified and Incompetent Ideologue to Head the DOJ Who Has Be Charged With Sex Trafficking an Underaged Girl Across State Lines | Trump's Choice of a Fox Propagandist, Grifter and Supporter of For-Profit Colleges That Rip off Veterans to be Secretary of Defense | Trump Wants a Member of a Fringe Hindu Cult and Fan of the Syrian and Russian Dictators to be the Next Head of Our Intelligence Agencies backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-11-1459 minBackground Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersNovember 11, 2024 - Timothy Shenk | Sean Wilentz | Robert BensonWith the Blame Game Underway, the Democrats Need to Focus on Accountability and a Coherent Strategy | The Failure of the Legal System to Bring a Career Criminal to Justice Before he Took Over the World | The Global Implications of the Enormous Power Trump Will Wield backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-11-101h 00Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersNovember 11, 2024 - Timothy Shenk | Sean Wilentz | Robert BensonWith the Blame Game Underway, the Democrats Need to Focus on Accountability and a Coherent Strategy | The Failure of the Legal System to Bring a Career Criminal to Justice Before he Took Over the World | The Global Implications of the Enormous Power Trump Will Wield backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-11-101h 00Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersSeptember 18, 2024 - Robert Hockett | Robert Baer | Juan ColeHow the Lowering of Interest Rates by the Fed Will Impact the Economy and the Election | Does Netanyahu Have an "October Surprise" in Store for the Harris/Walz Campaign? | Are We at the Beginning Stage of Another War in the Middle East That the US Will be Dragged Into? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-09-1859 minBackground Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersSeptember 18, 2024 - Robert Hockett | Robert Baer | Juan ColeHow the Lowering of Interest Rates by the Fed Will Impact the Economy and the Election | Does Netanyahu Have an "October Surprise" in Store for the Harris/Walz Campaign? | Are We at the Beginning Stage of Another War in the Middle East That the US Will be Dragged Into? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-09-1859 minBackground Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersSeptember 4, 2024 - Robert Creamer | David Hearst | Tom CollinaAnother 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
2024-09-041h 01Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersSeptember 4, 2024 - Robert Creamer | David Hearst | Tom CollinaAnother 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
2024-09-041h 01Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersAugust 10, 2024 - Dr. Bandy Lee | Robert Young Pelton | Mitchell PlitnickAmericans Are Being Denied the Truth About Trump's Mental Instability and Possible Dementia | How Does the Veteran Community Feel About the Latest Round of Swift-Boating? | Can A Deal For Iran Not to Retaliate in Exchange For A Ceasefire in Gaza be Made? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-08-111h 03Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersAugust 10, 2024 - Dr. Bandy Lee | Robert Young Pelton | Mitchell PlitnickAmericans Are Being Denied the Truth About Trump's Mental Instability and Possible Dementia | How Does the Veteran Community Feel About the Latest Round of Swift-Boating? | Can A Deal For Iran Not to Retaliate in Exchange For A Ceasefire in Gaza be Made? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-08-111h 03Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersJuly 14, 2024 - Robert Baer | Sean Wilentz | Jared Yates SextonAssassinations That Changed the World or Might Have Changed the World | America's Historical Legacy of Presidential Assassinations and Attempted Assassinations | The Inciter of Political Violence Now Calls For Unity as He Moves Closer to Joining the Illiberal Club of the World's Despots and Kleptocrats backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-07-141h 03Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersJuly 14, 2024 - Robert Baer | Sean Wilentz | Jared Yates SextonAssassinations That Changed the World or Might Have Changed the World | America's Historical Legacy of Presidential Assassinations and Attempted Assassinations | The Inciter of Political Violence Now Calls For Unity as He Moves Closer to Joining the Illiberal Club of the World's Despots and Kleptocrats backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-07-141h 03Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersJuly 2, 2024 - Robert Hockett | Charles Kupchan | Abner GreeneThe Supreme Court Has Handed the Criminal Trump a Loaded Gun, Might Biden Also Use it? | How the Shift to the Right in Europe Could Impact the War in Ukraine | The Other Alarming SCOTUS Decision Overshadowed by the Ruling to Give Trump a License to Kill backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-07-021h 01Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersJuly 2, 2024 - Robert Hockett | Charles Kupchan | Abner GreeneThe Supreme Court Has Handed the Criminal Trump a Loaded Gun, Might Biden Also Use it? | How the Shift to the Right in Europe Could Impact the War in Ukraine | The Other Alarming SCOTUS Decision Overshadowed by the Ruling to Give Trump a License to Kill backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-07-021h 01Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersJune 30, 2024 - Robert Kuttner | Richard Parker | Allan LichtmanIf Biden is Lucky to Be Running Against Trump and Not a Younger Candidate, Does That Mean The Republicans Would be Worse Off Against a Younger Democratic Candidate? | The Impact of Biden's Disastrous Debate on the Democratic Down-Ticket | "Foolhardy Nonsense" Coming From Pundits, the Press, and Anxious Democrats Clutching Their Pearls backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-06-301h 02Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersJune 30, 2024 - Robert Kuttner | Richard Parker | Allan LichtmanIf Biden is Lucky to Be Running Against Trump and Not a Younger Candidate, Does That Mean The Republicans Would be Worse Off Against a Younger Democratic Candidate? | The Impact of Biden's Disastrous Debate on the Democratic Down-Ticket | "Foolhardy Nonsense" Coming From Pundits, the Press, and Anxious Democrats Clutching Their Pearls backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-06-301h 02Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersJune 18, 2024 - Robert Johnson | Jessica Melugin | Sung Yoon LeeAmerica's Plutocrats Believe the Threat to Capitalism From Democrats is Worse Than the Threat to Democracy From Trump | A Critique of the Surgeon General's Call for Warning Labels on Social Media Platforms | Putin Meets to Make Weapons Deals With His "Comrade-in-Arms" Kim Jong Un backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-06-1815 minBackground Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersJune 18, 2024 - Robert Johnson | Jessica Melugin | Sung Yoon LeeAmerica's Plutocrats Believe the Threat to Capitalism From Democrats is Worse Than the Threat to Democracy From Trump | A Critique of the Surgeon General's Call for Warning Labels on Social Media Platforms | Putin Meets to Make Weapons Deals With His "Comrade-in-Arms" Kim Jong Un backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-06-1815 minBackground Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersMay 30, 2024 - Ryan Cooper | Robert Young PeltonWhy We Should Care About the Trump Trial and, With the Tail Wagging the Dog, Biden Has to End the Gaza War Which Netanyahu Plans to Continue for 7 Months | The War in Ukraine Has Gone From a Proxy War to a NATO Conflict backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-05-3058 minBackground Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersMay 30, 2024 - Ryan Cooper | Robert Young PeltonWhy We Should Care About the Trump Trial and, With the Tail Wagging the Dog, Biden Has to End the Gaza War Which Netanyahu Plans to Continue for 7 Months | The War in Ukraine Has Gone From a Proxy War to a NATO Conflict backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-05-3058 minBackground Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersMay 16, 2024 - Orville Schell | Kim Lane Scheppele | James ZirinThe Murky Ties to the Poet and Would-be Assassin of Slovakia's PM Robert Fico | At their 40th Meeting, Xi and Putin Pledge to Deepen Defense and Military Ties | Trump's Lawyer Attacks Michael Cohen as a Liar Even Though Trump's Fixer Lied in the Service of the Liar-in-Chief backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-05-161h 00Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersMay 16, 2024 - Orville Schell | Kim Lane Scheppele | James ZirinThe Murky Ties to the Poet and Would-be Assassin of Slovakia's PM Robert Fico | At their 40th Meeting, Xi and Putin Pledge to Deepen Defense and Military Ties | Trump's Lawyer Attacks Michael Cohen as a Liar Even Though Trump's Fixer Lied in the Service of the Liar-in-Chief backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-05-161h 00Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersApril 7, 2024 - Nader Hashemi | Jeff Colgan | Robert HockettIran's vow to Retaliate Against an Israeli Strike Could Lead to a Wider War Biden is Trying to Avoid | With MbS and Trump Talking, What Could They Do to Jack Up Gas Prices to Hurt Biden's Reelection? | Good Economic News as Janet Yellen Tries to Get a Level Playing Field With China backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-04-0759 minBackground Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersApril 7, 2024 - Nader Hashemi | Jeff Colgan | Robert HockettIran's vow to Retaliate Against an Israeli Strike Could Lead to a Wider War Biden is Trying to Avoid | With MbS and Trump Talking, What Could They Do to Jack Up Gas Prices to Hurt Biden's Reelection? | Good Economic News as Janet Yellen Tries to Get a Level Playing Field With China backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-04-0759 minBackground Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersMarch 25, 2024 - Robert Young Pelton | Dr. Trita Parsi | Lloyd GreenA 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 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-03-251h 00Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersMarch 25, 2024 - Robert Young Pelton | Dr. Trita Parsi | Lloyd GreenA 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 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-03-251h 00Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersMarch 20, 2024 - Dov Waxman | James Zirin | Robert SapolskyWhile 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 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-03-201h 02Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersMarch 20, 2024 - Dov Waxman | James Zirin | Robert SapolskyWhile 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 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-03-201h 02Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersFebruary 21, 2024 - Amanda Marcotte | Robert Baer | Maxwell StearnsIncreasing 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 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-02-211h 06Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersFebruary 21, 2024 - Amanda Marcotte | Robert Baer | Maxwell StearnsIncreasing 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 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-02-211h 06Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersJanuary 10, 2024 - Robert Leonard | Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera | Charles SchmitzThe Last Days Ahead of Monday's Iowa Caucuses and Tonight's CNN Debate Overshadowed by a Trump Town Hall on Fox | Amid Gang Violence Ecuador Appears to be Close to a Failed State | Asymmetrical Clashes in the Red Sea Between Powerful Navies and Houthi Rebels backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-01-1059 minBackground Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersJanuary 1, 2024 - Stephen Walt | Robert HockettThe Foreign Policy Landscape Ahead in 2024 and the Chance For Peace in a World at War | The Economy in 2023 and What's Ahead in 2024 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2024-01-011h 00Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersDecember 4, 2023 - Chuck Collins | Robert Downen | Timothy CanovaSCOTUS Poised to Kill Any Wealth Tax Before It Even Exists | The Texas GOP Refuses to Ban Contacts With Anti Semites, Pro-Nazi Sympathizers or Holocaust Deniers in Resolution Supporting Israel | An Exploding Sexual Assault Scandal Involving A Threesome With A Founder of "Moms For Liberty" Has DeSantis Asking his Friend, Florida's GOP Chair, to Step Down backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2023-12-051h 01Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersNovember 21, 2023 - Robert Baer | Dean Baker | Toby MillerA Brief Pause in Gaza But a Long War to Follow | On Thanksgiving Should We Be Thankful For an Improved Economy? | Lesson For the Democratic Party From Spain Where a Fragmented Left Was Rebuilt to Now Hold Power backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
2023-11-2157 minBackground Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian MastersSeptember 27, 2023 - David Cay Johnston | Robert Kuttner | Sidney BlumenthalAfter Losing His Business License in New York, Trump Could Lose All His Businesses Built on Fraud | Voters Care More About the Economy Than Losing American Democracy | Will Trump's Call to Shut Down the Government Backfire? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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