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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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01:03:00

August 13, 2024 - Nicholas Heras | John Lawrence |...

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2024/08/13

With War Between Israel and Iran Inevitable, a Strategic Analysis of How Much It Could Escalate | Kamala Harris and Donald Trump's Competing Tax Proposals on Tips Aimed at Winning Nevada | Putin's Long Game Counters the Current Optimism as Ukraine Takes Russian Territorybackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:03:38

August 12, 2024 - Justin Higgins | Rick Hasen |...

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2024/08/12

A Former Republican Opposition Researcher on What Damaging Material Might Be In the Leaked Vetting of J.D. Vance by the Trump Campaign | Trump's Plan to Deny a Harris Victory by Stalling Certification of the Vote at the Local and State Levels to Delay Results and Cause Chaos | How Much Humiliation is Driving Iran's Promised Response to Netanyahu's Provocations backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:03:37

August 10, 2024 - Dr. Bandy Lee | Robert Young Pelton...

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2024/08/11

Americans 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

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01:03:30

July 31, 2024 - Nader Hashemi | Haggai Matar | Jim Small

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2024/07/31

With Assassinations in Tehran and Beirut, Netanyahu Taunts Iran and Hezbollah to Bring It On | The Arrest of 9 IDF Soldiers by Military Police For Gang Rape of Palestinian Prisoners 36 of Whom Have Been Tortured to Death | A Profile of Senator Mark Kelly as a Possible VP for Kamala Harrisbackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:02:28

July 30, 2024 - Harry Litman | Christopher Borick |...

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2024/07/30

Biden's Supreme Court Reform Plans Now That Leonard Leo and the Federalists Have Stacked the Courts | As Governor Shapiro Auditions for the VP Slot, We Look at His Pros and Cons | The Cryptocurrency Industry is All-In For Trump Who is Promising to Give Away the Store to Thembackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:01:28

July 29, 2024 - Alejandro Velasco | Habib Battah |...

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2024/07/29

Venezuela's Maduro Defies Most of the World Claiming Victory When the Vote Was as Much as 70 to 30% Against Him | On the Brink of Another War as the US and Israel Reject Hezbollah's Claim a Missile That Killed 12 Was Not Theirs | With the GOP Now Seen as a Cult, Why Are Americans Susceptible to Cults? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:04:12

July 28, 2024 - Adele Stan | Lisa Graves | David Smilde

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2024/07/28

With Democrats Reeling From Despair to Euphoria, Kamala Harris Steps Out of the Shadows Into the Limelight | After Capturing Our Judiciary, Opus Dei Operatives Are Poised to Capture the Executive Branch With J.D. Vance and Kevin Roberts, the Leader of Project 2025 | Since He Should Lose Today's Election in Venezuela, Will Maduro Do a Trump and Not Concede?backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:01:54

July 24, 2024 - Annelle Sheline | Sarah Leah Whitson...

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2024/07/24

A Former State Department Official Who Just Quit Over Gaza on Netanyahu's 4th Address to a Joint Session of Congress | Demonstrations Against Netanyahu Outside Congress Today and the Boycott of His Speech Inside | Netanyahu's Speech Was Aimed at His Domestic Audience With No Ceasefire Since His Coalition Will Collapse If He Makes a Ceasefire Deal Before the Knesset Adjourns backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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July 21, 2024 - Jennifer Mercieca | Will Bunch |...

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2024/07/21

The Gulf Between Rhetoric and Reality As One Presidential Candidate Drones on Disavowing his Plans While the Other is in a Bunker Not Listening | A Recap of the Republican Convention and What it Tells Us About a Future Trump Presidency | How a Handful of Tech Billionaires Are Poised to Enact Their Techno-Fascist Fantasies with Their Bro in the Oval Officebackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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July 16, 2024 - Harold Meyerson | Tom LoBianco | Dr....

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2024/07/16

The Disconnect at the RNC Between Trump's Call For Unity and Partisan Speeches From MAGA Warriors | Republicans Pretend to Love Workers While Biden Loses Support Except For Unions | What is Behind Chinese Soldiers Drilling on the Border With Poland and Ukraine?backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:01:29

July 15, 2024 - Geoffrey Kabaservice | Michael...

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2024/07/15

Trump's Judge Dismisses the Most Winnable Case Against Him Taking Her Cue From Justice Thomas | J.D. Vance, the Authoritarian Brains Behind a Trump Dictatorship | Orban Has Invited China Into Europe as He Acts as a Courier For Secret Messages From Putin and Xi to Trump backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:03:17

July 14, 2024 - Robert Baer | Sean Wilentz | Jared...

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2024/07/14

Assassinations 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

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01:00:40

July 10, 2024 - Christopher Whipple | Bhaskar Sunkara...

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2024/07/10

Insight Into Biden's Inner Circle Resisting Growing Calls For Him to Step Down | Shifting the Focus to Trump and His Scary GOP Party Platform | A Journalist Who Has Taken on the Nazis at Charlottesville and Was at Risk Inside the Angry Mob That Stormed the Capitol On Trump's Far-Right Capture of American Politicsbackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:00:25

July 3, 2024 - Sam Rosenfeld | James Henry

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2024/07/03

A Historical Assessment of How the Major Political Parties Have Become Hollow Shells | Will the Conviction of a Former Trump Business Partner Who Laundered Millions Into Trump Real Estate Revive the Trump/Russia Collusion?backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:01:32

July 2, 2024 - Robert Hockett | Charles Kupchan |...

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2024/07/02

The 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 Killbackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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00:58:30

July 1, 2024 - Jeremi Suri | Lisa Gilbert | Philippe...

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2024/07/01

In the Service of a President Convicted of Crimes, the Supreme Court Allows Presidents to Commit Crimes | Hope in Dark Times as Many Americans Reel From the One-Two Punch of Biden's Debate Performance and Today's Supreme Court Ruling | Alarming Gains by the French Far Right as the Left and Center Maneuver to Block a Neo-Fascist Takeover of Parliament backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:02:25

June 30, 2024 - Robert Kuttner | Richard Parker |...

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2024/06/30

If 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

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01:00:08

June 9, 2024 - Gregory Treverton | Nick Bryant

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2024/06/09

Already Governing, Trump Has His Puppet Mike Johnson Appoint Two Clowns to Cripple the House Intel Committee | The Inevitability of Trump 250 Years in the Making With the U.S. Captive to Its Contentious Pastbackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:02:16

June 6, 2024 - Michel Paradis | Lindsay Owens | Jacob...

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2024/06/06

The 80th Anniversary of D-Day and Today's Struggle Against Tyranny | How Corporate Power and Technology Have Combined to Gouge Consumers | As Billionaires and Corporations Back Trump to Continue Tax Cuts For the Rich, Biden Needs to Make it Clear We Have a Revenue Not a Spending Problem and Make Them Pay

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June 5, 2024 - Aaron Reichlin-Melnick | Mark Hannah |...

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2024/06/05

Legal Challenges to Biden's EO on Closing the Border | Agreements and Disagreements Between Americans and Europeans on China, the Wars in Ukraine and Gaza and European Security | An Assessment of the Results of the Elections in India | India's Foreign Policy Choices as Russia and China Grow Closerbackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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