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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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01:02:48

October, 4 2026 - Reverend Stacy Rector | Hamidreza...

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2026/10/04

Will the Macabre Barbarism of a Botched Execution in Tennessee Change People's Views on Capital Punishment? | An Analysis of Iran's Strategic Adaptation and the Likelihood of a Resumption of the Iran War | Anna Leah Looks Into the Real Culture War Underway in Ukrainebackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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00:58:38

October 1, 2026 - Michael Weinstein | Emma Ashford |...

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2026/10/01

A "Christian" Crusader In Charge of the Nuclear Arsenal Who Is Invested in the End Times Should Scare Us All | "Everyone Got Pete Hegseth Wrong" | How Citizens are Fighting Back Against ICE Cruelty Their Taxpayer Money Is Funding backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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01:02:09

September 30, 2026 - Lisa Graves | Isabella...

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2026/09/30

How John Roberts Has Increased the Power of the Criminal in Charge of the Executive Branch While Weakening the Judicial Branch Whose Rulings Trump Ignores |The 6 Far Right Supreme Court Justices Just Allowed Stephen Miller to Continue Sending Deportees to a Cruel Fate in Third Countries | After 23 Years the US Leaves a Strategic Vacuum in Iraq That Iran is Likely to

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01:02:09

September 30, 2026

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2026/09/30

September 30, 2026 by Ian Masters

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01:00:30

September 29, 2026 - Nader Hashemi | Paul Eisenstein...

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2026/09/29

September 29, 2026 - Nader Hashemi | Paul Eisenstein | Jacob Weisberg by Ian Masters

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01:03:20

September 28 2026 - Alexander Sammon | David Corn

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2026/09/28

As Trump Warns the Communist Menace Is About to Take Over the Country, We Enter The CPUSA's Shadowy Lair | Having Cowered the Press Away From Investigating Trump's Ties to Putin, We Explore What Possible Compromat Putin Has on America's Pedophile Protectorbackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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01:03:48

September 27, 2026 - Dr. Allen Frances | James Risen...

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2026/09/27

A President Who Has Always Been Out of His Depth Is Now Losing His Mind |Trump's White House Press Ban Backfires With Xi Annoyed the Western Media Did Not See All the Pomp and Ceremony Trump Laid On For the Chinese Dictator |The Impact of Friday's Supreme Court Ruling Allowing DHS to Build a Database to Purge Voters Based on Trump's Obsessive Lies backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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01:00:51

September 24, 2026 - Jake Werner | Molly Redden | Gil...

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2026/09/24

Trump Meets With Xi Praising the Chinese Press While the American Press is Absent Due to Trump's Idiotic Ban | The Corrupt Pay-To-Play Allegations Against Senator Susan Collins | The Decades-Long Campaign to Replace Our Elected Government With Corporate Rule By the World's Richest Men Building a New Political Order

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01:01:27

September 20, 2026 - Joan Williams | Haggai Matar |...

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2026/09/20

Democrats Should Focus Their Campaign on Corruption and Its Link to Affordability, Not Authoritarianism | How a Documentary NAZA Has Israel in Turmoil But If Seen, It Could Force a Reckoning on Gaza |The Need For a Shadow Supreme Court and a Speaker Johnson-Led Coup on January 3, 2027backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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00:48:04

September 16th, 2026 - Robert Hockett | Mark Hays |...

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2026/09/16

We begin with the Fed raising interest rates today by a quarter of a percent with an expectation there will be another increase to 4.1% later this year. Joining us to discuss how this is a response to inflation at 3.7% in July, in part caused by Trump's war on Iran, is Robert Hockett, the Edward Cornell Professor of Law and Finance and a Professor of Public Policy at Cornell University. He has first-hand experience working at the International Monetary Fund and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York,

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01:15:50

September 15th, 2026 - Robert Young Pelton | Daryl...

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2026/09/15

Trump Hangs MbS Out to Dry After Jared "Peacemaker" Kushner Has Made Billions From Gulf Potentates Now at the Mercy of Iran | The U.S. Has Joined An Arms Race in Space | Settlers Are Not Only Invading the West Bank, They're Moving Into Captured Areas of Lebanon and Syriabackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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01:06:29

September 14, 2026 - David Daley | Yaqiu Wang |...

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2026/09/14

Trump and Mike Johnson's Plan to Steal the Election, Not On November 3 But On January 3, 2027 | Trump Rejects Guardrails on AI In a Race To the Bottom Which China Will Win | Trump Blames Zelensky For the Price of Gas And Diesel While Putin Escalates to Destroy a Country He Can't Conquer backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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01:02:33

September 10, 2026 - Scott Hibbard | Kai Bird and...

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2026/09/10

25 Years Later What We Have Learned From 9/11 and What We Have Not Learned From Successive U.S. Government Cover Ups of Saudi Involvement | What Roy Cohn Taught the Wannabe Mafia Boss in the White House | How Farmers Are Getting Screwed While Corporate Food is Killing Us

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01:03:04

September 3, 2026 - Moira Donegan | Alexandra Hutzler...

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2026/09/03

The Death of Gloria Steinem and Her Legacy in the Battle For Women's Rights | A Whistleblower Warns That Trump and DHS Are Using the USPS to Purge Mail-in Ballots Or At the Very Least Cause Chaos in November | Trump's Chronic Narcissism Jumps the Shark With Him Claiming To Be the Greatest President in Historybackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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00:58:43

September 2, 2026 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Paul Glastris |...

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2026/09/02

September 2, 2026 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Paul Glastris | Ilya Somin by Ian Masters

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01:00:41

August 25, 2026 - David Walbert | Orville Schell |...

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2026/08/25

Trump Has Chief Justice Roberts' Blessing to Have DHS Create a Master List of All Voters Which Will Be Purged Then the USPS Will Send Mail-In Ballots to a Whittled-Down List of Democratic Voters | China's Reaction to Secretary Bessent's Declaration of Economic Warfare Against Iran | The Small Man With a Big Job at the Pentagon's War Against Reporting on What an Incompetent Racist Poseur He

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01:02:10

August 24, 2026 - Stephen Marche | Hossein Askari |...

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2026/08/24

Trump Wages the "Dumbest Trade War In History" Against Canada | Treasury Secretary Bessent Declares Economic Warfare on Iran, Likening it to D Day Promising the IRGC Will Not Kill Their Own People Like When East Germans Rose Up and the Berlin Wall Fell | Gil Duran on His New Book The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracybackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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01:14:03

August 23, 2026 - Dr. Thaer Ahmad & Dr. Feroze...

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2026/08/23

Two Subjects of American Doctors, a Film That Makes Us Face Our Complicity in Gaza | How The Tate Brothers Fan Barron Trump Helped Get Out the Manosphere Vote in 2024 Which Has Now Turned Against Trumpbackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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00:59:56

August 20, 2026 - Michelle Berenfeldt | Dean Baker

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2026/08/20

Lesson From the Roman Republic of Emperor Augustus As Trump, With the Help of a Gutless Senate, Turns Our Republic Into a Tyranny | Our $40.05 Trillion Debt With the CBO Projecting it Will Climb to $64 Trillion by 2036 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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01:02:28

August 19, 2026 - Paul Waldman | Craig Aaron | Sean...

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2026/08/19

Trump's "Binky: The Closest Person to Him Who Feeds Our President Far-Right Conspiratorial Fabrication | How Brendan Carr Wants Putin-Style Media in America Devoted to Our "Dear Leader" | The Results of the Florida Primaries Have a DSA Candidate For Senate Winning and Two Of Trump's Picks Losing backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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