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Billions Made on Trades Apparently Based on Trump Insider Knowledge; HRC's Accusation Boosts Her Campaign; How Long Can Big Tech Pretend to Be Platforms Not Publishers? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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10.20.2019 October 20, 2019 - William Cohan \| John Nichols \| Andrew Marantz Billions Made on Trades Apparently Based on Trump Insider Knowledge; HRC's Accusation Boosts Her Campaign; How Long Can Big Tech Pretend to Be Platforms Not Publishers? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
10.17.2019 October 17, 2019 - Graham Fuller \| Wladimir van Wilgenburg \| Susan Rice Does US "Credibility" and "Leadership" in the Middle East Still Mean US Hegemony?; What the US Calls a Ceasefire, Turkey Calls a "Pause in the Operation"; Susan Rice on the Chaos and Disarray at the Top of Our National Security ...
10.17.2019 October 16, 2019 - Frances Brown \| David Graham \| Mike Giglio Trump Melts Down as Our Foreign Policy and National Security Breaks Down; Was Last Night's Debate a Sideshow with Impeachment the Main Event?; The Author of "Shatter the Nations: ISIS and the War for the Caliphate" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
10.15.2019 October 15, 2019 - Robert Hockett \| Joseph Cirincione \| Mike Lofgren Handicapping the Latest Democratic Presidential Debate; The Uncertain Custody of 50 US Hydrogen Bombs in Turkey; The Civil Servants Are Choosing Loyalty to Country over Obedience to Trump backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
10.15.2019 October 14, 2019 - Joshua Landis \| Juan Cole \| William Pomeranz The Kurds Desperate Deal with Assad and Russia; Since Trump Does Not Act in America's Interest but for Personal Gain, Is He Being Blackmailed by Putin and/or Erdogan?; Damaging Testimony from Trump's Former Russia Expert on the National Security Council ...
10.13.2019 October 13, 2019 - Michael Greenberger; Dr. Guy Ziv; Matt Stoller The Trump Family and Giuliani's Sleezy friends; Will Trump Abandon Israel Next?; How to Create a New Democracy and Economy
10.10.2019 October 10, 2019 - Max Hoffman \| Daniel Byman \| Tim Alberta Why Is Removing 1000 US Troops Trump's Top Priority?; Having Sold out Saudi Arabia, Trump Is Now Selling out Israel; The Author of "American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump ...
10.10.2019 October 9, 2019 - Giran Ozcan \| Kani Xulam \| Scott Horton Trump Rewards Russia and Iran While Selling out the Kurds and Israel Just After Selling out the Saudis; Erdogan's Jihadist Chock Truoops Are Bent on Slaughtering the Kurds; A Constitutional Crisis Awaits When Trump Defies the Courts backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
10.09.2019 October 8, 2019 - Will Jordan \| James Henry \| Henri Barkey \| Frank Bowman It Was Trump and Giuliani Who Were Chasing Dirty Deals in Ukraine; Our Tough Guy Trump Got Rolled Again by Erdogan; Impeaching Trump Will Help Restore the Constitution's Balance of Power backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
10.07.2019 October 7, 2019 - David Phillips \| Nicholas Danforth \| Paul Adler In Selling out the Kurds, Trump Is Doing Putin's Bidding; Erdogan's Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Syria's Kurds; Can Democratic Socialism Overcome the Crises of Capitalism? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
10.06.2019 October 6, 2019 - Adele Stan \| Roger Morris \| Stephen Kinzer Conspiracy Theories as Our Government’s Top Priority; Trump Continues to Be a Godsend for the Kremlin; The Author of “Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control” backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
10.04.2019 October 3, 2019 - Allen Frances \| Jedediah Purdy \| Mark Galeotti Will Trump Become More Unhinged as Impeachment Pressure and Evidence Mounts?; How to Heal Our Fractured Relationship with the Land and Each Other; A Leading Russia-Watcher on How the West Gets Putin Wrong
10.03.2019 October 2, 2019 - Scott Anderson \| Allison Stanger \| Hassan Hassan The State Department's IG Delivers a Package of Conspiracy Theories; Trump's Escalating War Against the Whistleblower; One Year After Khashoggi's Murder, Has MBS Been Forgiven by Corporate America? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
10.02.2019 October 1, 2019 - Michael Gorham \| Tom LoBianco \| June Dreyer As the Truth Closes In, Trump Spins Alternative Realities; All You Need to Know About Mike Pence Who Could Be Our Next President; Xi Jinping Stages a Military Parade to Promote Himself and the Communist Party on the PRC's 70th ...
09.30.2019 September 30, 2019 - Ruth Ben-Ghiat \| Casey Michel \| Will Bunch Authoritarians Are Never More Dangerous Than When Vulnerable; As Trump's Roy Cohn Barr Gets Him Out of Trouble, Giuliani Gets Him into More Trouble; The Contrast Between Whistleblowers like Reality Winner and the So-Called "Adults in the Room" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia ...
09.29.2019 September 29, 2019 - Alexander Butterfield \| Steven Pifer \| Katrina Mulligan The Person Who Sealed Nixon's Fate in Watergate; Trump's Trashing of a US Ambassador to Ukraine; Was the Firing of the DNI and His Deputy 3 Days After Trump's Phone Call a "Coincidence"? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
09.26.2019 September 26, 2019 - Liz Hempowicz \| David Halperin \| Michael Klare How the Whistleblower's Complaint Tracks with the Transcript; Trump and Barr's Efforts to "Lockdown" the Complaint; The Reasons Behind Trump's Offer to Buy Greenland backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
09.26.2019 September 25, 2019 - James Risen \| Aaron Rupar \| Keith Darden September 25, 2019 - James Risen \| Aaron Rupar \| Keith Darden by Ian Masters
09.24.2019 September 24, 2019 - James Thurber \| Kent Harrington \| Andrei Kozyrev Pelosi Calls for a Formal Impeachment Inquiry; Trump Will Escalate His Attacks on the "Deep State"; Russia's First Foreign Minister of Putin and Trump's Relationship backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
09.24.2019 September 23, 2019 - James Follows \| Michael Gerhardt \| Nadia Nazar The Media's False Equivalence Helps a Guilty Trump Smear Biden; Crossing the Impeachment Threshold; A 17 Year-Old Climate Activist on Today's UN Climate Action Summit backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
09.22.2019 September 22, 2019 - Anders Aslund \| Tom Nichols \| Richard Parker Extortion In Plain Sight; "If This Isn't Impeachable, Nothing Is"; Is This Latest Scandal Heading For Impeachment?
09.20.2019 September 19, 2019 - Harry Litman \| Loch Johnson \| Natalie Rotstein Nadler Made the Democrats Look Weak and Feckless; Trump's DNI is Suppressing a White House Whistleblower's Complaint; A Young Climate Activist on the Global Climate Strike
09.18.2019 Full Program - Gideon Levy \| Mohsen Sazegara \| Nader Hashemi Israel's Deadlocked Election and the Shady Kingmaker; US Mistakes Continue to Enhance Iran's Power and Position in the Middle East; Will Trump or the Iranians Cry Uncle? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
09.17.2019 September 17, 2019 - Jeff Colgan \| Jane McAlevey \| Alan Schroeder Trump Awaits Instructions from His Saudi Masters; GM's Executives Stiff Their Workers Who Sacrificed to Rescue the Company; How Long Before There Is Clarity in the Cluttered Democratic Debate backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
09.16.2019 September 16, 2019 - Mansour Farhang \| Paul Sullivan \| Michael Kazin September 16, 2019 - Mansour Farhang \| Paul Sullivan \| Michael Kazin by Ian Masters
09.15.2019 September 15, 2019 - Allan Lichtman \| Marie Arana \| George Beebe Some 2020 Presidential Predictions; Will There Be a Hispanic Backlash at the Polls in 2020?; Avoiding a New Cold War with Russia
09.12.2019 September 12, 2019 - Matt Stoller \| Thomas Barfield \| Silvio Carrillo Finally Anti-Trust Action Against the Tech Monopolies; Afghanistan's Uncertain Future; Trump's Cynical Deal with Honduras's Drug-Dealing President
09.12.2019 September 11, 2019 - Jim Lobe \| Jody Freeman \| Rob Ford The Falling Out between the Adelsons and the Netanyahus; The Looming War Between Trump and California Over Fuel Efficiency; The Latest Chapter in the Brexit Drama backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
09.11.2019 September 10, 2019 - David Rothkopf \| Jacob Heilbrunn \| George Beebe Will Bolton's Exit Mean More Trump Photo Ops with Tyrants?; Will Bolton Spill the Beans on White House Dysfunction?; The Loss of the CIA's Most Valuable Asset Inside the Kremlin backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
09.09.2019 September 9, 2019 - Peter Bergen \| Thanassis Cambanis \| Sidney Blumenthal Was the Aborted Summit About Trump's Ego or Afghanistan's Future?; Can the Tenuous Deterrence Between Israel and Hezbollah Hold?; Comparing the Divided States of America Today to When the Country Was on the Brink of Civil War backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
09.08.2019 September 8, 2019 - Monica Medina \| John Campbell \| Michael Khodarkovsky Trump's Orwellian Dictate to NOAA; The Disastrous Legacy of Zimbabwe's Mugabe; Russia's Rigged Regional Elections backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
09.05.2019 September 5, 2019 - Hosted by Shirley Jahad - Andrew Kolodny \| Kevin Arceneaux \| Ganesh Sitaramen Big Pharma Faces More Big Court Challenges in the Opioid Addiction Epidemic; How Much Is "A Need for Chaos" Playing a Role in Our Elections?; Reviving the Reforms of the Progressive Era to Help Bridge the Wealth Gap backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia ...
09.04.2019 September 4, 2019 Hosted by Shirley Jihad \| Ann Ravel \| Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor \| Jacqueline Douge Why the Federal Election Commission Is Broken and What It Means for 2020; “Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Home Ownership”; The American Academy of Pediatrics Says Racism Is a Socially Transmitted Disease backgroundbriefing.org/donate ...
09.04.2019 September 3, 2019 - Alan Minsky sits in for Ian Masters - Kate Aronoff \| Jim Knight \| Douglas Lain How the Democratic Presidential Candidates Differ on the Climate Crisis; Making Sense of the Chaos in UK Politics; Critical Theory Over Conspiracy Theory backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
09.02.2019 September 2, 2019 - Robert Hockett; Corey Pein; Astra Taylor Will the Democrats Run Away from their Progressive Majority?; Inside the Dystopian Reality of the Tech Boom; A Stronger Democracy Makes a Better Economy
09.01.2019 September 1, 2019 -Stacy Mitchell \| Sylvia Allegreto \| Jeffrey Winters September 1, 2019 -Stacy Mitchell \| Sylvia Allegreto \| Jeffrey Winters by Ian Masters
08.29.2019 August 298, 2019 - Ryan Cooper \| Moira Donegan \| John Patrick Leary The Deadly Legacy of David Koch \| Elizabeth Warren's Surging Campaign \| The New Language of Capitalism
08.29.2019 August 28, 2019 - Robert Baer \| David Hearst \| Michael Carpenter Why Does the CIA Not Spy On the UAE?; Is the Mentor MBZ Giving Up On His Protege MBS?; Trump Goes to Bat for Putin Again
08.28.2019 August 27, 2019 - Todd Gitlin \| Corey Brettschneider \| Bill Yeomans Bernie Sanders' Plan to Protect American Journalism; Trump Violates the Emoluments Clause for All to See; Will We Ever Learn the Truth About How Epstein Died? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
08.27.2019 July 26, 2019 - David Wallace-Wells \| James Green \| Heather Hurlburt Could Collective Action Against Bad Actors Stop Climate Change?; Do Brazilians Have Buyer's Remorse Over Bolsonaro; Again Trump Behaves Badly at the G-7 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
08.26.2019 Trump Encourages Boris To Go Over The Cliff Trump Encourages Boris To Go Over The Cliff by Ian Masters
08.25.2019 August 25 - Victor Shih \| Charles Kupchan \| Cynthia Galaz Trump Has Second Thoughts About The Trade War With China; Trump Encourages Boris To Go Over The Cliff; ICE Cuts Off Hotline For Immigrants Because of a TV Show
08.23.2019 August 22, 2019 - Lance Dodes \| Alexander Zaitchik \| Steven Pifer "The Chosen One" Is Losing It; Bolsanaro's War on the Amazon; Trump Tries to Get Putin Readmitted to the G8 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
08.21.2019 August 21, 2019 - William Cohan \| Amanda Marcotte \| R. Daniel Kelemen Is Trump Losing It?; Is the President Crazy?; Trump Makes Abortions More Likely by Denying Women Contraception; Trump Pouts at the "Nasty" Woman Who Turned Down His Offer to Buy Greenland backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
08.21.2019 August 20, 2019 -Lawrence Douglas \| Robert Kuttner \| Nicholas Heras Another Cowardly Retreat by Trump After a Call from the NRA; The Democrats Should Be at Least as Radical as FDR; The Pentagon's IG Cautions Trump to Not Let ISIS Rebuild in Syria backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
08.19.2019 August 19, 2019 - Dana Kennedy \| Mike German \| Dean Baker Ghislaine Maxwell's Mystery and Scandal-Plagued Family; An FBI Insider on How the Bureau is Chasing the Wrong Targets; A Reality Check on the Economy Trump Claims the Fake News is Crashing backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
08.18.2019 August 18, 2019 - Jason Wilson \| Fernando Morales-de la Cruz \| James Henry \| Christopher Leonard The Antifa and Proud Boys Battle in Portland; How Starbucks is Forcing Guatemalans to Head North; The Author of "Kochland" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
08.15.2019 August 15, 2019 - Robert Hennelly \| Lara Friedman \| Ian Haney López More Questions and Suspicions Surround Epstein's Death; Trump Deflects His Own Racism by Claiming the Democrats Are Anti-Semites; Race Is the Main Weapon of the Rich to Divide America in a Class War They Are Winning backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
08.14.2019 August 14, 2019 - Perry Link \| Thomas Wright \| Harold Meyerson Like Tiananmen, Xi Jinping's Patience Is Being Tested; Pelosi Warns the Brexiteers No Trade Deal If You Undermine the Peace Accord With Ireland; The Democratic Presidential Candidate's Eyes Are on the Wrong Prize backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
08.14.2019 August 13, 2019 - Lisa Graves \| Paul Waldman \| Jonathan Hansen The Nation's Top Lawman Cannot Be Trusted to Do the Right Thing; Paper Straws: The Latest Front in Trump's Culture Wars; "Young Castro: The Making of a Revolutionary" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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