Background Briefing with Ian Masters

By Ian Masters

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Taking listeners deep into the underlying issues and forces that shape our world.

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	EPISODES LIST
		April 17 - Will the Mueller Report Give a Career Criminal and a Traitor a Free Pass?; Democratic Fratricide and Digital Technology's Assault on Humanity	04.17.2019
		April 16 - Paris the Day After the Burning of Notre Dame; Amnesty International's Condemnation of Ortega's Brutality; Trump Swears in a Coal Lobbyist to Head the EPA	04.17.2019
		April 15 - On Tax Day Trump Hides His Returns While He and Jared Pay No Taxes; Could Mayor Pete Revive the Religious Left to Challenge the Religious Right?; Trump's Threat to Close the Border Unless M	04.16.2019
		April 14 - It Will Be a Long Time Before Julian Assange is in US Custody; Mayor Pete’s Background and Local Reputation; Trump’s Use of Poor, Desperate Immigrants to Distract Us	04.14.2019
		April 11 - The Danger in Celebrating Assange's Arrest; As Bad as Barr Is, Trump's Nominee to Replace Rosenstein is Even Worse; Will the Removal of Sudan's Dictator Be the Beginning of Democracy or a T	04.11.2019
		April 10 - A Partisan Protector of Trump, Barr Shapes the Narrative; Will a Split Between Centrists and Progressives Sink the Democrats?; Trump Places Himself Above the Law as He Fights to Hide His Ta	04.10.2019
		April 9 - Barr's Less-Than-Reassuring Testimony; Republicans Try to Deflect Hearing on White Supremacy; Outside Backers are Driving Libya to a New Civil War	04.09.2019
		April 8 - Trump's "You're Fired!" Spree; Designating the IRGC as a Terrorist Organization; Netanyahu's Last-Minute Pandering	04.09.2019
		April 7 - Why Not Release Mueller Team's Summaries Now?; Trump Vows Democrats Will Never See His Tax Returns; Are Democrats Forming a Circular Firing Squad	04.07.2019
		April 4 - Mueller's Investigators Are Angry at Barr's Misrepresentation of Their Report;Stoning Gay Men While Importing Call Girls; The Frontier of Opportunity Is Now the Wall of Reactionary Populism	04.04.2019
		April 3 - McConnell Goes Nuclear for the Third Time in Six Years; The Head of NATO's Meetings and Why the Public Needs the Mueller Report; An Emboldened Maduro Strips Guaido's Parliamentary Immunity	04.04.2019
		April 2 - Anti-Vaxxers and the Growing Measles Epidemic; Erdogan Rebuked in Turkey's Elections; Can a Ukranian Comedian Handle Vladimir Putin?	04.02.2019
		April 1 - House to Subpoena Barr to Hand Over Full Mueller Report; White House Whistleblower Reveals 25 Clearance Denials Overruled; Trump Appoints Medicare and Medicaid Mega-Fraudster to Head GOP Hea	04.02.2019
		March 31 - The Brexit Paralysis Moves from Fiasco to Fury; Trump's Threat to Close the Border with Mexico; The Power Behind the Scenes Exposed in Algeria	03.31.2019
		March 28 - Is America's Justice System Incapable of Challenging Real Power?; Trump's Cruel Cuts in Aid to Puerto Rico; Jared Kushner Questioned About Secret Deals with Russia and Saudi Arabia	03.29.2019
		March 27 - How Regulatory Capture Allowed Boeing to Build an Unsafe Airliner; An Update from a Country Disintegrating into Chaos and Lawlessness; An Activist and Performance Artist Who Stages Acts of	03.27.2019
		March 26 - The Republican Right and the Russiagate-Skeptic Left Embrace Barr's Spin; Trump Wants the Entire Affordable Care Act to Be Ruled Unconstitutional; The Crisis of Legitimacy Roiling the Globa	03.26.2019
		March 25 - Barr Contains the Potential Damage of the Mueller Report; What Didn't Kill Trump's Presidency Won't Necessarily Make it Stronger in 2020; Will Trump's Popularity in Israel Rub Off on Netany	03.25.2019
		March 24 - A Stark Assessment of Global Warming's Effects on Human Life over the Coming Decades	03.24.2019
		March 24 - Assessing the Many Legal Cases Against Trump; The Unfair Treatment of Congresswoman Omar; Trump's Losing Battle with China	03.21.2019
		March 20 - New Zealand's Response to Erdogan's Demagoguery; A Psychological Explanation for Trump's Manic Tweeting; The Intensifying Scrutiny of Trump's Relationship with Deutsche Bank	03.21.2019
		March 19 - What the Search Warrants in the Cohen Raid Reveal; The Growing Threat of White Nationalist Terrorism; The Rose Garden Love Fest Between Trump and Bolsonaro	03.20.2019
		March 18 - Is Trump Losing It as Mueller Closes In?; A Call to Investigate Trump's Friend Who Owned Massage Parlors; New Zealand's Gun Control Action Compared to US Inaction	03.19.2019
		March 17 - Why Trump Won’t Condemn White Nationalism; The Convergence of Attacks on Muslims, Social Media and Targeting Houses of Worship; Students Around the World Protest Inaction on Global Warming	03.17.2019
		March 14 - Beto O'Rourke's Entry into the Presidential Race; The Senate's Rebuke of Trump and His Unwavering Support for MBS; The Senate Vote's Down Trump's Emergency Declaration Which Now Goes to the	03.14.2019
		March 13 - Trump Appears Poised to Pardon Manafort; Why the US is Losing Out to China on 5G and High Speed Internet; The College Admission Scandal	03.14.2019
		March 12 - The Brexit Zombie Has the UK Heading for a Cliff; A Roadmap to Fix Our Broken Democracy; Trump and Maduro Fan the Flames as Venezuela Slowly Dies	03.13.2019
		March 11 - Did Software in Conflict with Human Control Cause the 737 MAX 8 Crashes?; Manafort Got Off Light, but US Sentencing is Harsh; A Critique of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren's Foreign Pol	03.11.2019
		March 10 - The Outrageous Disparity in US Sentencing; Will the Democratic Left and Center Collide?; Why the Intelligence Community Denied Jared Kushner a Top Secret Clearance	03.10.2019
		March 7 - Are Talented Democratic Candidates Discouraged By the Crowded Field?; In Spite of Old Divisions, New Democratic Talent Will Emerge; Reps. Omar and Tlaib are Lightning Rods Who Will Change th	03.08.2019
		March 6 - Hypocrisy and a Double Standard Roiling the House; Supporters of Trump Are Dying from His Policies; The Expanding Investigations into Trump, His Family and His Administration	03.07.2019
		March 5 - The Culture of Celebrity is Colliding with the Culture of Scandal; The Unprecedented Trump-Fox News Relationship; Will the Senate Start Acting Like a Separate Branch of Government?	03.06.2019
		March 4 - The Vatican's Secret WWII Archives to Be Opened; Behind the Scenes at CPAC; The White House's Reckless Path Away from Nuclear Deterrence and Diplomacy	03.05.2019
		March 3 - Deutsche Bank's Shady Relationship with Donald Trump; How Democrats Can Re-Define "Socialism" Against Republicans; Trump Vows to Strip Funding if Campuses Don't Support What He Calls "Free S	03.03.2019
		February 28 - Nuclear Powers India and Pakistan Go to the Brink with Nobody Minding the Store in Washington; Netanyahu Faces Serious Charges; The Diplomatic Train wreck in Hanoi	03.01.2019
		February 27 - Michael Cohen's Explosive Public Testimony Today; Who is This Person Described as a Racist, Conman and a Cheat?; An Assessment of Today's Trump-Kim Summit in Hanoi	02.28.2019
		February 26 - Trump Might Just Pull off a Big Deal in Hanoi; Inside the Inner Sanctums of the Global Elite in This New Gilded Age; Could India's Bombing of Territory Pakistan Claims Lead to a Wider Wa	02.27.2019
		February 25 - Hawks Running Trump's Venezuelan Policy Could Spark Civil War; A Possible People's Vote in a New Brexit Referendum; Controversy Over the Best Picture Academy Award	02.26.2019
		February 24 - How Trump's Labor Secretary Got Trump's Friend Off Child Sex Abuse and Trafficking Charges; A Would-be Assassin's Hit List the Same as Trump's Enemies List: The Untold Story of How Ame	02.25.2019
		February 21 - Trump's Accomplices in Overturning Libel Laws; America's Hidden History; Is There a Move Underway to Protect the GOP from the Damage the Mueller Report Will Do To Them?	02.22.2019
		February 20 - Breaking Stories on the Mueller Probe and Trump's Efforts to Thwart It; An Analysis of Putin's State-of-the-Nation Address Today; Revelations of McKinsey & Company's Fall from Grace	02.21.2019
		February 19 - Trump Conflates Chaos in Venezuela with Socialism in America; Bernie Sanders Enters the 2020 Presidential Race; Mounting Scandals Ahead of the Pope's Sex Abuse Prevention Summit	02.20.2019
		February 18 - More Evidence That Trump is Both a Criminal and a Traitor; The UK Parliament Slams Facebook as a Digital Gangster; The Dystopian Reality of the Tech Industry	02.19.2019
		February 17 - How to Thwart Trump's Unconstitutional Power Grab; A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Trump Trainwreck in the Rose Garden; The Pathetic Pence Pompeo Diplomatic Roadshow	02.17.2019
		February 14 - Pence, Pompeo and Kushner's Warsaw War Party Against Iran; Our Autocrat is Now Following the Dictator's Playbook; Tolerating Trump's Racism While Indignant at a Congresswoman's Ill-Consi	02.15.2019
		February 13 - The Lead Author of the New Study on the Extinction of Insects; How We Must Come Together and Join "Team Human"; Manafort, a Russian Asset, Doing the Kremlin's Bidding	02.14.2019
		February 12 - Trump and Don Jr. Stir Up Hatred of the Press; Another Sex Scandal in a Different Church; The US Not Immune to a Fascist Takeover By a Demagogue	02.13.2019
		February 11 - Elizabeth Warren's Prediction That Trump Will Soon Be in Jail; Why Trump and Netanyahu Go to the Mat for MBS; Iran 40 Years After the Revolution	02.12.2019
		February 10 - Do Pecker and AMI's Threats to Bezos Amount to Extortion?; The Saudi Role and Ex-NSA Hackers; Trump's Campaign Rally Versus "Beto at the Border"	02.10.2019
		February 7 - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Unveils Her Green New Deal; An American Socialist on Trump's Demonization of Socialism; Baggage Emerges as Senator Klobuchar is Poised to Enter the Race	02.08.2019

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April 17 - Will the Mueller...

04.17.2019

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