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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. backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:01:07

November 18, 2024 - Lawrence Wilkerson | Wendy Brown

Background Briefing with Ian Masters ·

2024/11/18

The Consequences of Biden Authorizing Missile Strikes From Ukraine Into Russia | Will the Democrats Confront the Economic Conditions That Gave Rise to Right Wing Populism?

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01:03:57

November 17, 2024 - Nina Burleigh | Tom Nichols |...

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2024/11/17

"Trump 2.0: Here Comes The Night" | A Hari Krishna-Like Cult Member and Russian Asset in Charge of US Intelligence! | Russia's Military: It's History and It's War Today backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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00:59:52

November 14, 2024 - Lisa Graves | Robert Young Pelton...

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2024/11/14

Trump'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

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01:01:29

November 3, 2024 - Joshua Dyck | Karen Greenberg |...

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2024/11/03

Cynical Preparations Underway to Get the MAGA Faithful to Believe an Assured Victory Was Stolen Again | With Trump and Murdoch etc. Having Made Half of America Hate the Other Half, Putin is Already the Winner of the Election | Trump's Promise to America's Women "Whether They Like It Or Not"

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00:58:53

October 30, 2024 - Justin Higgins | Sidney Blumenthal...

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2024/10/30

The October Surprise As a Trump Self-Inflicted Wound | 2024 Collusion Between Trump and Putin and Musk and Putin | The Supreme Court's Latest Partisan Ruling Allowing a Voter Purge in Virginiabackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:03:26

October 23, 2024 - Lydia Camarillo | Steven...

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2024/10/23

How the Latino and Latina Vote Will Decide the Election and Trump's Latest Racist Slur at Mexicans | As Trump Tries to Win the Votes of Workers, His Anti-Worker Record is Glaring | A Scholar of Fascism and Italy, Where Fascism Began, On Trump's Former Chief of Staff's Comment That Trump "Fits Into the General Definition of Fascist"backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:00:58

October 22, 2024 - Dr. Bandy Lee | Rachel Bitecofer |...

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2024/10/22

The Author of the Goldwater Rule Which Gagged Psychiatrists Now Calls For Trump to Be Evaluated For Dementia | Trump's Plans To Round Up Enemies Into Concentration Camps Are the Same as Hitler's Who Quickly Turned Democracy Into Dictatorship | The Abraham Accords Are Becoming a Pipe Dream as Netanyahu Drives Saudi Arabia and Iran Togetherbackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:01:27

October 21, 2024 - James Carville | Mitchell Plitnick...

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2024/10/21

We Should Take Trump's Fascistic Plans Seriously | Kamala Harris's Stand on Gaza Satisfies No One | Were the Leaks From US Intelligence on Israel's Plans to Attack Iran Authorized or Unauthorized?

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00:59:56

October 20, 2024 - Lawrence Douglas | Benjamin...

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2024/10/20

43 States Are Mere Spectators to a Most Consequential Election That Could be Decided by a Few Counties | With One Third of Americans Agreeing With Trump That "Immigrants Poison the Blood of America" His Bad Genes Invasion Claim Echoes Nazi "Criminal Biology" | "Competitive Coexistence" With China as an Alternative to Cold War Containment and Confrontation backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:01:51

October 17, 2024 - Dov Waxman | Jacob Silverman |...

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2024/10/17

The Killing of Sinwar and the Burning Alive Seen Around the World of a Promising Young Palestinian | The Blatant Buying of a Next Trump Presidency (However Short it May Be) by Right Wing Plutocrats | The Goebbels-Like Nature of the Trump/Vance Campaign of Lies backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:02:42

October 16, 2024 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Sung Yoon Lee |...

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2024/10/16

More Important Than Trump's Mental Decline is the Rising Possibility of JD Vance as the Tech Bros President of the United States | A Report From South Korea on the Rising Fury of Kim and His Sister and the Desertion of North Korean Troops in Ukraine | As BRICS Expands, Is it a Dictators Club or an Alternative to the Domination of the Dollar?backgroundbriefing.org/donate x.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:03:01

September 24, 2024 - Simon Shuster |Philip Stark |...

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2024/09/24

Zelensky's "Victory Plan" And His Remark That "We Are Closer To Peace Than We Think" | Trump Can Steal the Election Since He Has the Software For the Voting Machines in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan and Colorado | An Expert on Terrorism on How Election Violence is Already UnderwayHost: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Asher Price

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01:01:54

September 23, 2024 - Habib Battah | Ari Berman | Cleo...

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2024/09/23

As Netanyahu Goads Hezbollah and Iran Into War, Biden and Harris Will be the Losers But Seem Helpless in Stopping the Escalation | Trump and Vance Are Not Trying to Win Over Voters But Are Focused on Stopping the Democratic Vote and the Counting of Votes | An Analysis of the Quad Meeting of the PMs of Australia, India and Japan Biden Hosted Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Asher Price

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01:04:01

September 22, 2024 - Marilyn Marks | Jonathan Weiler...

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2024/09/22

The Republicans Have Stolen the Software for the Voting Machines in Georgia and Can Manipulate the November Results at Will | Trump Abandons His "Black NAZI" Gubernatorial Candidate in North Carolina He Recently Referred to as "Martin Luther King on Steroids" | Can Trump and Vance Win With a Campaign Based on Racist Hatred? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:04:05

September 19, 2024 - Olga Lautman | Michele Goodwin |...

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2024/09/19

Musk Promotes Russian Fake News Claiming Kamala Harris Injured a Black Girl in a Hit and Run That Did Not Happen | Women Are Dying Because of Abortion Bans by Trump and "Christian" Republicans Who Won't Let Doctors Practice Medicine For Fear of Going to Jail | How Bilious Billionaires Like Musk Are More Influential Than World Leaders backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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00:59:00

September 18, 2024 - Robert Hockett | Robert Baer |...

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2024/09/18

How 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

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01:02:39

September 5, 2024 - Jared Holt | Jonathan Metzl |...

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2024/09/05

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

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01:03:44

August 29, 2024 - Paul Waldman | Andra Gillespie |...

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2024/08/29

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

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01:02:17

August 22, 2024 - Casey Michel | Jacob Heilbrunn |...

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2024/08/22

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 Shapirobackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:04:59

August 18, 2024 - Steve Benen | Sidney Blumenthal |...

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2024/08/14

How a Reality TV Star Living in His Own Reality Captured the GOP and Up To Half of Americans Now Living in a Phony Reality | America's Historical Irony of its Foundation in a Revolution Against a Mad King Only to Possibly Re-elect a Mad King Anointed by the Supreme Court With Monarchical Power and Immunity | Did Trump's Pandering to Young White Men and Joe Rogan and Elon Musk Fanboys on X Help His Campaign?backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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