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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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01:01:55

July 29, 2025 - Robert Kuttner | Daniel Treisman |...

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2025/07/29

Trump'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

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01:03:44

July 28, 2025 - Katherine Stewart | Aziz Huq | Peter...

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2025/07/28

As Trump Appears More Bonkers, We Look Into the "Intellectual" Gloss J.D. Vance Puts on the Administration's Racist and Cruel Policies | What the Supreme Court's Liberals Are Trying to Tell the American People | The Pathetically Thin-Skinned Most Powerful Man in the World Demands "Dear Leader" Worship While Suing Media Outlets That Tell the Truth About Him backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:03:21

July 27, 2025 - Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan | Matt Angle...

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2025/07/27

Why Thailand and Cambodia Are Fighting Over Their Border and What Should Stop It | Trump's Brazen Plan to Gerrymander the Already Gerrymandered State of Texas to Have 80% of the Power With Only 55% of the Vote | Trump and His Law Firm the DoJ Make Nice With a Convicted Sex Trafficker of Underage Girls as MAGA Media Portrays Maxwell as a Victim to Justify Trump's Pardon of

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01:01:42

July 16, 2025 - Joshua Landis | Bill Hing | Sylvia...

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2025/07/16

Israel Bombs Damascus as the Syrian Government Slaughters the Druze Minority, Exposing the Different Interests of Israel and the U.S. When it Comes to the Jihadi in a Suit Leading the New Syria | Geo Group and Core Civic Feast on Taxpayer Money as ICE Detains Whoever They Can Snatch | Apparently the Rich Are Not Rich Enough in Americabackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:01:38

July 15, 2025 - Robert Hockett | David Halperin |...

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2025/07/15

Trump 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

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01:02:52

July 14, 2025 - Michael Kimmage | Casey Michel | Juan...

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2025/07/14

Trump's Tough Talk Threatening Russia With a 50 Day Deadline For a Ceasefire | Trump and His Family's Unprecedented Corruption and How Foreign Regimes Can Now Buy American Elections | Is There Any Hope of Stopping the Slaughter in Gaza? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:05:24

July 13, 2025 - Kevin Hall | Cynthia Schneider |...

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2025/07/13

Could a Top Trump Official Who Lied About Being Born in the Soviet Union be a Russian Plant? | Trump Slashes Soft Power While Adding a $Trilion to Fighting a Nuclear War That Can Only Be Prevented by Diplomacy | Trump Slaps a 50% Tariff on Brazil Along With 35% on Canada and 30% on the EU and Mexico backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:02:57

July 8, 2025 - Jeremi Suri | Tom Mockaitis | Dr....

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2025/07/08

Intergenerational Greed and Inaction Led to Underinvestment in Flood Prevention in Kerr County, Texas | Ken Klippenstein's Documents Expose the Military Fiasco Yesterday in Los Angeles's MacArthur Park | The Unctuous War Criminal Recommended the Easily-Flattered Felon For a Nobel Peace Prize backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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00:18:46

The BRICS Summit and Trump's Threats to Countries...

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2025/07/07

July 7, 2025 - Sarang Shidore backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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00:59:00

July 7, 2025 - Jeff Masters | Olga Lautman | Sarang...

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2025/07/07

Extreme Weather and Its Connection to Climate Change as Trump and DOGE's Cuts Impacted The National Weather Service's Response to the Tragic Flash Floods in Texas | Putin's Cabinet Officials Commit "Suicide" as More Top Oil Executives Fall From 10th Floor Windows | The BRICS Summit and Trump's Threats to Countries That Side With BRICS music: Nighttime - The Way Itasca -

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01:02:35

July 7, 2025 - Tamar Jacoby | Stavroula Pabst |...

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2025/07/06

Trump Gets Stiffed Again by His Idol Putin as China Admits It Wants the Ukraine War to Drag on to Keep the US and NATO Out of Asia | Trump Says he Expects to Close a Ceasefire Deal Between Israel and Hamas Next Week | Trump as a Man of the Past as Zombie Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism Comeback From the Dead backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:02:23

July 2, 2025 - Paul Farhi | Patrick Sullivan | Oona...

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2025/07/02

Another Big Media Company Caves to Trump's Extortion | Four of the Worst Horrors in the Awful Republican Megabill | As Trump Uses War and the Threat of War, He Ignores the UN and the US Congressbackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:01:47

July 1, 2025 - Will Bunch | James Thurber | Meghan Pazik

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2025/07/01

Trump's Casualty Cruelty as He Tours a New Gulag Celebrating the $75 Billion He Just Got For ICE and DHS | Republican Senators Shamelessly Pass a Massive Transfer of Wealth From the Poorest to the Richest Americans | Today's Misanthropic Assault on Our Kids and Grandkids From Republican Whores and Hirelings of Big Oil and Dirty Coal

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01:01:38

June 30, 2025 - Corey Brettschneider | Mike Lofgren |...

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2025/06/30

The Supreme Court Has Sold Out the Constitution and the Rule of Law to Reward a Lawless Trump, and Now The Republican Legislative Branch is Selling Out Their Constituents to Reward the Super-Rich | From Authoritarianism to Totalitarianism as Trump Erases the Distinction Between Civil Society and the State | Signs That Iran Was Not "Obliterated" and Could Quickly Resume Their Nuclear Program

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01:03:59

June 29, 2025 - Lisa Graves | Garrett Epps | Sam...

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2025/06/29

Welcome to One Party Rule As SCOTUS Removes the Last Check on Trump | We Are Back in the 1850's With ICE Repeating the Cruelty of the Fugitive Slave Act | There Was a Respectable Right Before Trump's MAGA Took Over the GOP backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:00:40

June 25, 2025 - Jennifer Kavanagh | Joseph Cirincione...

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2025/06/25

With Trump and Hegseth's Bombastic Claims of "Total Obliteration" Blowing Up, Will Iran Now Sprint to a Bomb? | While Talking Peace, This is Trump's War and It's Only Just Beginning | Trump and Miller's ICE Stormtroopers' Reckless and Brutal Roundups of Non-Criminals on the Streets of LAbackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:04:37

June 19, 2025 - Steven Simon | Adam Weinstein | Mark...

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2025/06/19

Trump on the Brink of Embroiling the US in Another Forever War | Repeating the Ignorance and Hubris That Got Us Into the Iraq War, There Appears to Be No Plans For the Day After We Bomb Iran | The Iran Nuclear Issue Moves From Crisis to Tragedybackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:03:43

June 18, 2025 - Nicholas Heras | Ben Burgis | Deborah...

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2025/06/18

Trump's "To Do Or Not To Do" on Bombing Iran | The Split in MAGA Illustrated by the Clash Between the Insidious Tucker Carlson and the Odious Ted Cruz | The Legacy of Charlottesville Now That White Supremacists and Neo-Nazis Can Apply For a Job at ICE and DHSbackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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00:59:41

June 17, 2025 - David Hearst | Marci Shore

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2025/06/17

Putting the US in Alignment With Israel, Trump Claims We Own the Skies Over Tehran | The Moral Dilemma of Fleeing Trump's Fascism or Making a Stand With the Growing Oppositionbackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:02:43

June 15, 2025 - David Schultz | Sidney Blumenthal |...

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2025/06/15

MAGA Political Hatred Has Moved From Talk to Action With the Assassination of Democratic Lawmakers in Minnesota | Raining on Trump's Parade as Our Fuhrer Takes the Stand to Review the Troops Like the Dictators He Admires | Trump on the Sidelines as Israel Wages War on Iran With Netanyahu Promising Regime Changebackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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