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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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01:00:00

May 1, 2025 - Jacob Heilbrunn | James Liebman | Eric...

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2025/05/01

Trump's Reality TV Reshuffle of His National Security Team | SCOTUS Appears Poised to Smash Through the Wall Separating Church and State to Force Taxpayers to Subsidize Religious Indoctrination | On This May Day, How Unions Would Be the Only Way Reindustrialized American Factory Workers Could Make a Living Wage to Support a Family backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:00:44

April 30, 2025 - Christine Fair | Sidney Blumenthal |...

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2025/04/30

Two Nuclear Powers India and Pakistan are Poised to Go To War | Trump's 100th Day and the Record-Breaking Collapse of His Poll Numbers | Today's 50th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon Which Trump is Boycotting While Slapping 46% Tariffs on Vietnam backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:04:16

April 29, 2025 - Andrew Latham | Rick Perlstein |...

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2025/04/29

Thanks to Trump's Bullying, Bluster and Bombast the Liberals Won In Canada | A Presidential Historian on Trump's 100 Day Reign of Ruin | The Intertwined Two Americas as the Colossus of the North Exports State Terror to the Southbackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:03:03

April 28, 2025 - Lisa DeMio | Moira Donega | Sean...

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2025/04/28

Governor Pritzker Wows Democrats in the Key New Hampshire Primary State | Thiel, Musk and Vance's Pro-Natalist Movement Wants More Superior White Children | The Historical Comparisons Between Hilter's Rapid Extinction of German Democracy and Trump's First 100 Days backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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00:58:54

April 27, 2025 - Simon Shuster | Craig Holman |...

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2025/04/27

On the Sidelines of the Pope's Funeral, Zelensky Meets With Trump to Discuss the White House's Charade of a Peace Plan/Giveaway to Putin | Trump Orders the DOJ to Investigate Act Blue to Get Private Data on 15 Million Democratic Donors | Opus Dei and "Traditionalist" Forces Inside the Catholic Church Maneuver to Replace a Pope They Hated With a Reactionary backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:02:36

April 24, 2025 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Jameel Jaffer |...

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2025/04/24

Why Should Putin Accept Trump's Peace Deal When He Can Wait for Him to Walk Away as Promised? | One-By-One News Organizations are Caving to Trump's Extortion | Inside Project 2025 and the Right Wing Zealots and Culture Warriors Who Crafted the Roadmap For Trump backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:02:12

April 17, 2025 - Bruce Fein | Bill Scher | Scott Kennedy

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2025/04/17

The Looming Constitutional Crisis as Trump Continues to Defy the Supreme Court and Federal District Courts With "The Dog Ate My Homework" Excuses | A Little-Noticed FEC Ruling Opens the Door For the Next Frontier of Plutocracy | The Tariff War Trump Has Launched Against China That He Will Surely Losebackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:00:07

April 10, 2025 - Joseph Stiglitz | Barry Eichengreen...

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2025/04/10

Trump's MAGA Economy Driven by Greed, Stupidity and Cowardice | Will Trump's Weakening of the Dollar Lead to a New Global Reserve Currency? | The Hollow Nature of Trump's Promise of Gain After the Painbackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:03:05

April 9, 2025 - Robert Hockett | Matt Gold | Gregory...

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2025/04/09

Trump'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

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00:58:49

April 8, 2025 - Barry Naughton | Trita Parsi |...

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2025/04/08

Chinese Response to 104% Tariffs and Insults From Vance | Trump Announces Talks Between Iran and the US in Oman on Saturday | Trump's DOJ Will No Longer Stop Crypto Scams and Cyber Command Will No Longer Stop Ransomware Attacksbackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:01:27

April 7, 2025 - William Cohan | Mike Lofgren |...

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2025/04/07

Trump Urges Americans Not to Be "Weak or Stupid" as the Meltdown on Wall Street Continues | Who Benefits From Trump and Musk's Deliberate Destruction of the American Economy, Our Government and Our Standing in the World? | Saturday's 1,200 "Hands Off" Demonstrations in American Towns and Cities and Others Around the World backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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00:59:11

April 3, 2025 - Jeremi Suri | Sarang Shidore |...

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2025/04/03

The Growing Grassroots Revolt Against the Slash and Burn of the American Government, Our Institutions and Our Democracy by Trump and Musk | Trump's Broadside of Tariffs Amid a Blizzard of Lies From the Rose Garden | After Trump, Musk and RFK Jr. Have Purged Scientists, Researchers, Innovators and Experts, Who Will Make America Great Again?backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:03:22

April 1, 2025 - Michael Martin | Matthew Klein |...

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2025/04/01

Thanks to Musk, the US is Not Helping the Victims of the Earthquake in Myanmar Because There Are Only 15 Employees Left at USAID | Who Will be Freed on Trump's "Liberation Day" Tomorrow When We'll All Be Paying More? | More Nuclear Proliferation as Europeans Plan to Develop Their Own Nuclear Deterrent and Tactical Battlefield Nukesbackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:04:05

March 31, 2025 - Paul Pillar | Henry Giroux | Lloyd...

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2025/03/31

Is Trump Bluffing With Nuclear Threats Against Iran or Does he Want to Nuke Their Underground Nuclear Facilities | Trump and Stephen Miller are Borrowing From the Argentine Junta, Pinochet and the Nazis | A Former Republican Opposition Researcher on Republican Vulnerabilities and How the Democrats Can Up Their Game backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:01:58

March 30, 2025 - Harold Meyerson | Aziz Rana

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2025/03/30

Trump's Top Aides Dig the Hole Deeper on Signalgate Speaking Lies on Behalf of Power | An Examination of the Emerging Resistance and How the Only Pathway Out of Institutional Collapse as Our Democracy is Destroyed is on the Left backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:01:02

March 26, 2025 - Lincoln Mitchell | Michael Hiltzik |...

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2025/03/26

Heading Into the Generational Fight Against MAGA Fascism | Can Social Security be Saved From Musk's Wreck Then Rob | Trump's Executive Order to Rig Elections in His Favor He Claims Have Been Rigged Against Himbackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:00:15

March 25, 2025 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Gregory Treverton...

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2025/03/25

The Trump Team Group Chat Revels VP Vance is Running the Presidency Along With Stephen Miller | Incompetent and Unqualified Heads of US Intelligence on Display Before the Senate Intelligence Committee Today | The Courts Will Not Save Us Since They Got Us Into This Messbackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01:10:22

March 24, 2025 - David Phillips | Asher Kaufman |...

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2025/03/24

Trump Greenlight's Erdogan's Crackdown While Musk Removes Turkish Opposition Content on X | The Strategy Behind Netanyahu's Resumption of His War on Gaza | The Pathetic Asymmetry Between Seasoned Russian Diplomats and Intelligence Professionals Negotiating Against Trump's Real Estate Buddy Witkoff

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01:00:16

March 23, 2025 - Fred Turner | Robert Suettinger

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2025/03/23

Musk'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

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01:03:35

March 6, 2025 - Orville Schell | Andy Kroll

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2025/03/06

The Similarities Between Trump and Musk Tearing America Apart and What Mao Did to China in the Cultural Revolution | An Assessment on How Much the Musk Assault on Government is Performative as Our Reality TV President Governs By Stuntbackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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