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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July 25, 2024 • 64 mins
More Alarming Information About Who J.D. Vance is and What he Believes Continues to Surface | Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear as a Possible Running Mate For Kamala Harris | Netanyahu's Visit With Biden and Harris Followed by His Meeting Tomorrow With Trump
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July 24, 2024 • 61 mins
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
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July 23, 2024 • 58 mins
The Contours of a Kamala Harris Campaign Emerges Contrasting the Felon With the Prosecutor Who Went After For-Profit College Ripoffs Like Trump University and Investigated Big Oil While Trump Invited Them to Bribe Him | Kamala Harris Campaigns in Wisconsin Today Which Trump Barely Won in 2016 and Biden in 2020 | Project 2025 Is More of a Corporate Wishlist Than a MAGA Manifesto and Trump and Vance Are Running Away From Its Unpopula...
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July 22, 2024 • 66 mins
How the Most Important Hire in the World Has Been Made With, Good, Bad and Ugly Consequences | The Vice Presidential Sweepstakes and the Importance of Swing States | A Democratic Party Reborn
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July 21, 2024 • 61 mins
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 Office
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July 18, 2024 • 58 mins
Mounting Pressure From Democratic Leaders on Biden to Step Down Could Overwhelm His Stubbornness | Beyond Biden, America Has a Problem With Gerontocracy | Doubling Down on America First, the Trump/Vance Ticket Will Undermine Democracy and the Rule of Law at Home and Abroad
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July 17, 2024 • 60 mins
J.D. Vance's Foreign Policy Views Plus Trump's Ties to Putin Spell Doom For Ukraine | 75 Years of Rightwing Conmen, Quacks and Charlatans Making Money Attacking Liberals, Influencing the Wider Political Landscape and Moving the Country to the Right
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July 16, 2024 • 61 mins
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?
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July 15, 2024 • 61 mins
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
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July 14, 2024 • 63 mins
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
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July 11, 2024 • 61 mins
A Former Press Secretary to Kamala Harris on Who Could Best Beat Trump as Divisions Among Democrats Intensify While Republicans Can't Get Enough of Their Candidate's Depravity and Dementia | An Assessment of the So-Called Reformist President of Iran and What He Means For Women, Life, Freedom
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July 10, 2024 • 60 mins
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 Politics
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July 9, 2024 • 62 mins
As Biden and the Democrats Circle the Wagons, Concerns Persist in the Rest of the Country, Meanwhile Trump Gets a Free Pass in the Media | The 75th Anniversary of NATO at a Washington Summit Concerned About Biden and Afraid Trump Could be Reelected | While NATO is Not Ready For Ukraine to Join, Will it Sustain Ukraine Over the Long Haul?
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July 8, 2024 • 64 mins
Biden's Defiance As We Learn a Parkinson's Expert Visited the White House 8 Times in 8 Months | The Far Right Comes in Third In France as Le Pen Joins Forces With Orban to Form the Third Largest Bloc in the European Parliament | An Update From Kenya on the Bloody Demonstrations Against a Government Sending Police to Haiti When They Are Needed at Home
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July 7, 2024 • 60 mins
Should Biden Follow the Example of George Washington? | The Washington Gerontocracy | Will a Fresh Face Bring Back Younger Democratic Voters?
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July 4, 2024 • 59 mins
A View From Abroad as Biden Stands Between the Survival of Global Democracy and the Rule of Law and Dictatorship | Even If Biden Could be Convinced to Step Down Soon, He Would Be Making Himself a Lame Duck President
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July 3, 2024 • 60 mins
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?
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July 2, 2024 • 61 mins
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 Kill
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July 1, 2024 • 58 mins
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
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June 30, 2024 • 62 mins
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
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