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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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00:15:47

The Pentagon Budget Has Doubled Since 2000 With...

Background Briefing with Ian Masters ·

2025/07/09

The Pentagon Budget Has Doubled Since 2000 With Trump's Big, Bad Bill Pushing it to $1.06 Trillion by Ian Masters

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01:01:44

July 9, 2025 - James Risen | Nina Burleigh | Stephen...

Background Briefing with Ian Masters ·

2025/07/09

The Meltdown In MAGAworld Over the So-called Epstein "Client List" | There is Vast Amounts of Evidence of Trump's Seedy Ties to the Despicable Epstein | The Pentagon Budget Has Doubled Since 2000 With Trump's Big, Bad Bill Extra $156 Billion Pushing it to $1.06 Trillionbackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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00:23:07

The Meltdown In MAGAworld Over the So-called Epstein...

Background Briefing with Ian Masters ·

2025/07/09

The Meltdown In MAGAworld Over the So-called Epstein "Client List" by Ian Masters

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00:17:30

There is Vast Amounts of Evidence of Trump's Seedy...

Background Briefing with Ian Masters ·

2025/07/09

There is Vast Amounts of Evidence of Trump's Seedy Ties to the Despicable Epstein by Ian Masters

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01:01:59

July 3, 2025 - Edward McCaffery | Greg Treverton |...

Background Briefing with Ian Masters ·

2025/07/03

The Republican's Cynical Ploy to Give Billionaires Tax Breaks Immediately While Delaying Cuts to Medicaid and Food Assistance Until After the Midterms | In Spite of Ratcliffe's Spin to Please His Boss, the CIA Report Finds That Putin Did Help Trump and Hurt Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Election | US Contractors Shoot Gazans For Sport as Hamas Approves the US Plan for a Hostage Release

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01:00:53

June 26, 2025 - Dr. Trita Parsi | Michael German |...

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2025/06/26

The Supreme Leader Congratulates Iranians on Their "Victory" over Israel and the US While the Head of the IAEA Says Fordo is "No Longer Operational" | As Trump Demonizes Democrats and Democratic Lawmakers Are Assassinated, How Long Before ICE and DHS Start Rounding up His Political Enemies? | Explaining the 60-Fold Rise in Autism While the Quack Heading HHS, RFK Jr. Still Blames it on

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01:05:28

June 24, 2025 - Charles Kupchan | Susan Kang | Ali...

Background Briefing with Ian Masters ·

2025/06/24

Trump's Waffling on Article 5 of the NATO Treaty as European Leaders Try to Avoid a Clash Between Him and Zelensky at the Summit Underway | Today's NY City Race For Mayor Exposes the Division in the Democratic Party as a Talented Young Leader Faces a Disgraced Relic | Iran's Divided Opposition With the US and Israel-Backed MEK and Shah's Son Hated For Their Collusion With Israel

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01:02:39

June 23, 2025 - Eli Clifton | Maziar Behrooz | Eleni...

Background Briefing with Ian Masters ·

2025/06/23

A Specialist on Iran Who Recently Met With Iranian Foreign Ministry Officials and Nuclear Negotiators | The State Of the Iranian Opposition as Trump Muses About Regime Change | The MAGA and Project 2025 Plan to Dumb Down America to Become an Idiocracy in Service of a Plutocracy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:04:35

June 22, 2025 - David Albright | Elizabeth Saunders

Background Briefing with Ian Masters ·

2025/06/22

US Bombs Have Fallen on Iran, What We Know and Don't Know About Iran's Secret Nuclear Program | Trump, the Triumphant and Imperial President at Home and the Emperor Abroad backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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00:59:02

June 12, 2025 - Elizabeth Goitein | Sasha Abramsky |...

Background Briefing with Ian Masters ·

2025/06/12

Trump's Lawless Unleashing of the Military as He Threatens Americans Not to Protest His Strongman Military Parade | Finally Governor Newsom Steps Up to Challenge Trump | Trump is Asking For $45 Billion More for Private Prisons Where 90% of Immigrants Are Detained backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:03:13

June 11, 2025 - Lincoln Mitchell | Gerardo Chagolla |...

Background Briefing with Ian Masters ·

2025/06/11

Like All Dictators, Trump Now Controls the Security Services Via His Obedient Flunkies | A Young Latino Journalist Who Has Covered the LA Protests Since Friday | Is Trump's Triumphant Announcement of a Trade Deal With China and EXCELLENT Relations With Xi Jinping Warranted? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:00:42

June 10, 2025 - Michael Hiltzik | Tom Mockaitis |...

Background Briefing with Ian Masters ·

2025/06/10

The Escalating War of Words Between President Trump and Governor Newsom | In Sending in the Marines Against Protesters in LA, is Trump Stoking a Possible Civil War? | Trump Offers Up His Tesla For $69, Trashing His Former Best Buddy and Biggest Donor Who Bought Him the Presidency

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01:02:29

June 9, 2025 - Manuel Pastor | John Lawrence |...

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2025/06/09

An Eyewitness to Trump's Dictatorial Dream of Crushing Blue State Opposition on His Way to Becoming An American Fuhrer | With Trump Itching to Provoke an Insurrection to Justify a Dictatorship, Has LA Played Into His Hands? | Trump's Dual Strategies of Scaring Off Protests and Instigating Provocations to Enact Fascismbackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:01:02

June 8, 2025 - Moira Donegan | Harold Meyerson |...

Background Briefing with Ian Masters ·

2025/06/08

More Tabloid Headlines From a Tabloid Presidency As the Marriage of Wealth and Power Between Two Infantile Ego-Maniacs Heads For Divorce | Political Activism Versus Centrist Pragmatism: The Choices Facing the Moribund Democratic Party in New York City's Mayoral Race | Trump Claims Putin is "Tapping Him Along" But is Trump Stringing Us All Along? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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00:55:00

June 5, 2025 - Miles Taylor | John Nichols

Background Briefing with Ian Masters ·

2025/06/05

What it is Like to Be An American Citizen Targeted by the Most Powerful Person in the World Who is Accusing You of Treason For Speaking the Truth | Trump's America: The United States of Crueltybackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:00:45

June 4, 2025 - Robert Hockett | Oleh Kotsyuba |...

Background Briefing with Ian Masters ·

2025/06/04

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 LikelyTrump 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

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01:00:52

June 1, 2025 - Robert Kuttner | Lisa Graves | George...

Background Briefing with Ian Masters ·

2025/06/01

President 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 Upbackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:04:00

May 29, 2025 - Aram Shabanian | Olga Lautman | Chris...

Background Briefing with Ian Masters ·

2025/05/29

How the Trump Wrecking Crew Are Destroying Our Defense and National Security | How the Media Falls for Trump's Theatre While Ukraine Burns | A Pulitzer Prize-Winning NYT ME Bureau Chief and Veteran War Correspondent on Gaza backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:00:02

May 28, 2025 - Daniel Treisman | Jacob Heilbrunn |...

Background Briefing with Ian Masters ·

2025/05/28

Trump Says the Quiet Part Out Loud About How He Protects Putin | Musk, JD Vance and Rubio Praise the German Neo-Nazi AfD Party While the Trump Administration Weaponizes Aniti-Semitism | The Impact of the US Senate's Republicans Revoking California's Electric Car Mandatebackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:04:31

May 22, 2025 - Rob Johnson | Joan Williams

Background Briefing with Ian Masters ·

2025/05/22

What Will the Senate Do With Trump's Robin Hood In Reverse "Big, Beautiful Bill"? |1 Why the Democratic Party's "Brahmin Left" Lost America's Working Men and Women and How to Win Them Backbackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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