Background Briefing with Ian Masters

By 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, ex... more

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January 12, 2026 January 12, 2026 - Robert Hockett | Annelle Sheline | David Daley
Bondi's Department of Crime Manufactures Trumped Up Charges Against The Fed Chairman | As Violence Escalates Inside Iran, Clashes Between Saudi Arabia and the UAE Intensify | Trump's Assault on America's Election Systems Across Many Fronts
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January 11, 2026 January 11, 2026 - Karen Greenberg | Mohsen Milani | Alfred McCoy
Trump, Vance, Hegseth and MAGA's Deadly War on "Woke" Women | Is Iran's Cruel and Corrupt Clerical Government About to Fall? | As Trump Effortlessly Destroys America, a New Cold War Emerges
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January 08, 2026 January 8, 2026 - David Schultz | Alejandro Velasco | Ryan Cooper
Trump's Government Goon Executes the Kind of Person MAGA Hates, a Liberal White Woman | Did The Venezuelan Leadership Sacrifice Maduro and His Cuban Protectors in A Secret Deal With Trump and Rubio? | Trying to Make Sense of Trump's Belligerent Bluster Over Greenland
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January 07, 2026 January 7, 2026 - Ana Pottratz Acosta | Dr. Allen Frances | Oona Hathaway
One Of Trump and Miller's ICE Thugs Just Executed a 37 Year-Old Woman, a Legal Observer, in Minneapolis | No Tyrant in History Had the Power to Destroy Like Trump Has at His Fingertip | A Former Special Counsel to the DOD's General Counsel on Trump's Great Unravelling of International Law
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January 06, 2026 January 6, 2026 - Spencer Sunshine | Miguel Tinker Salas | Stephen Wertheim
Republicans Try to Bury the Truth on the Anniversary of January 6 | Trump Has Already Made Life More Miserable For Venezuelan and There in More Misery to Come | Trump and Miller Espouse Imperialism as American Fascism is on the March
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January 05, 2026 January 5, 2026 - Robert Pape | Jacob Heilbrunn | Adele Stan
A Terrorism and Guerrilla War Expert's Warning That "Venezuela is Primed For Resistance...Far Worse Than Iraq. Chaos is Coming..." | Is Trump, Who Does Not Believe in Democracy, Replacing One Dictator With Another? | In Two Months Trump Will be Erecting Another Monument to Himself
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January 04, 2026 January 4, 2026 - David Smilde | Francisco Mondaldi | Nader Hashemi
Trump's Monroe Doctrine: Threaten Greenland, Canada, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil But Support Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Honduras and Ecuador Whose Authoritarian Leaders Like Him and Keep on Maduro's VP While Spurning the Nobel Prize-Winning Leader of Venezuela's Opposition | Trump's Venezuela Oil Grab to Recover "Stolen" U.S. Oil and Then Pump Baby Pump |"Locked And Loaded": Trump Vows to Rescue Iranian Demonstrators From a Brutal Government Whose Economy is Cratering From U.S. Sanctions
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January 01, 2026 January 1, 2026 - Richard Parker | John Nichols
A Hopeful Welcome to 2026 | Could 2026 Be the Beginning of the End of Trump’s Reign of Ruin?
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December 31, 2025 December 31, 2025 - Lisa Graves | Aram Shabanian
An Interview on the Increasing Power of the Unrepresentative Supreme Court | The Ongoing War in Ukraine As It Evolved This Year
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December 30, 2025 December 30, 2025 - Olga Lautman | Luke Goldstein | Anand Giridharadas
Evidence That Putin Owns Trump is Staring Us in the Face | How Google and Big Tech Are Trying to Stop States From Regulating AI | The Enduring Scandal That Above All His Other Outrages, Might Bring Trump Down
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