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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

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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
08.12.2019 August 12, 2019 - David Cay Johnston \| Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera \| Mayra Joachin Trump's Consigliere Barr Has Custody of Epstein's Blackmail; Mexico is Left Holding the Bag for Trump's Border Crackdown; Trump's Move to Deny Green Cards to Poor, Brown Immigrants
08.11.2019 August 11, 2019 - Nina Burleigh \| Daryl Johnson \| Lydia Camarillo Will Epstein's Victims See Justice?; The Author of "Hateland: A Long, Hard Look at America's Extremist Heart"; Will There Be a Backlash with Latinos Voting in Record Numbers in 2020?
08.09.2019 August 8, 2019 -Spencer Sunshine \| Victoria Sanford \| Caroline Fredrickson August 8, 2019 -Spencer Sunshine \| Victoria Sanford \| Caroline Fredrickson by Ian Masters
08.08.2019 July 7, 2019 - Erin Coulehan \| Norm Ornstein \| Mike Logren Trump's Unwelcome Visit to El Paso; Has Trump's Racism Derailed His Reelection Plans to Run Against the "Mexican Invasion"; The GOP Is Now a Right-Wing Cult
08.06.2019 August 6, 2019 - Josh Horwitz \| Michael Fuchs \| Ben Burgis Grassroots Pressure Can Defeat the NRA; Trump Is Starting a Nuclear Cold War with China; The Left Can Win with Both Facts and Feelings on Their Side
08.06.2019 August 5, 2019 - David Schanzer \| Aaron Rupar \| Dale Beran The El Paso Mass Shooting Is Trump-Inspired Terrorism; Could There Be a Break in the Logjam on Gun Control?; We Are in the Middle of an Alt-Right Terror Epidemic
08.04.2019 August 8, 2019 - Julia Davis \| Jennifer Mercieca \| Tom Diaz August 8, 2019 - Julia Davis \| Jennifer Mercieca \| Tom Diaz by Ian Masters
08.01.2019 August 1, 2019 - Anne Alstott \| Scott Kennedy \| Christopher Ketcham The Need for More Public Options \| Trump Escalates the Trade War with China \| The Pillaging and Profiteering from Public Lands
07.31.2019 July 31, 2019 - David Graham \| Simon Rosenberg \| Jeet Heer July 31, 2019 - David Graham \| Simon Rosenberg \| Jeet Heer by Ian Masters
07.31.2019 July 30, 2019 - John Nichols \| David Dayen \| Anders Åslund A Preview of Tonight's Democratic Debates; Elizabeth Warren's Remarkable Political Journey; Demonstrations By Russia's Professional and Intelligencia Have Putin in a State of Panic
07.30.2019 July 29, 2019 - Paul Pillar \| D. Watkins \| Ryan Grim A Partisan and Conspiracy Theorist as Our New Head of Intelligence; Is Trump Saying That the Residents of Baltimore Are Less Than Human?; Who Will Be Annoying and Who Will Stand out in Tomorrow's Debate?
07.28.2019 July 28, 2019 - Andrew Gumbel \| Michele Gilman \| Chris Arnade Apathy in the Face of Attacks on American Democracy and Sovereignty; Trump Trashes Another Black Congressman and a Whole American City; An Extraordinary Exploration of America’s Vast and Growing Underclass
07.25.2019 July 25, 2019 - Walter Shapiro \| Robert Knake \| Richard Dieter July 25, 2019 - Walter Shapiro \| Robert Knake \| Richard Dieter by Ian Masters
07.24.2019 July 24, 2019 - Harry Litman \| James Cronin \| Jehane Naijaim & Karim Amer Today's Monosyllabic Mueller Hearings; A Profile of the UK's New PM Boris Johnson; The Filmmakers of the Explosive New Documentary "The Great Hack" https://twitter.com/ianmastersmedia https://www.facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
07.24.2019 July 23, 2019 - Michael Davis \| Stephanie Griffith-Jones \| Henry Giroux Trump Praises Xi Who Uses Triad Gangsters to Beat Up Hong Kong Protesters; The Reality the Delusional Boris Johnson Faces; How to Fight a Fascist President and His "Vichy" Republican Enablers
07.22.2019 July 22, 2019 - Christine Fair \| Julian Zelizer \| Charles Venator-Santiago Trump Sells Out the Afghan People to the Perfidious Pakistan Army's Puppet PM; How Trump's Manipulation of the Media Overwhelms Damaging Stories; One Third of Puerto Ricans Protest Their Corrupt Governor
07.21.2019 July 21 -Sean Wilentz \| Mohsen Sazegara \| James Risen To Impeach, or Not to Impeach?; The Strategy Behind Iran's Seizure of the British Tanker; The Deafening Silence from Trump and Assange Supporters Following Revelations of Assange's Ties to Russian Intelligence
07.18.2019 July 18, 2019 - Justin Levitt \| Roger Morris July 18, 2019 - Justin Levitt \| Roger Morris by Ian Masters
07.18.2019 July 17 - Jonathan Weiler \| Eric Levitz \| Garrett Epps July 17 - Jonathan Weiler \| Eric Levitz \| Garrett Epps by Ian Masters
07.17.2019 July 16, 2019 - Scott Horton \| Halie Soifer\| Ekow Yankah July 16, 2019 - Scott Horton \| Halie Soifer\| Ekow Yankah by Ian Masters
07.16.2019 July 15, 2019 - Nikhil Pal Singh \| David Schultz \| Jeff Hauser July 15, 2019 - Nikhil Pal Singh \| David Schultz \| Jeff Hauser by Ian Masters
07.14.2019 July 14, 2019 - William Hartung \| Lucian Truscott \| Ahmet Yayla July 14, 2019 - William Hartung \| Lucian Truscott \| Ahmet Yayla by Ian Masters
07.12.2019 June 11 - Counting "Illegals" When the Constitution Stipulates Counting Persons; Did Boris Johnson Leak the Cables Describing Trump as Inept, Insecure and Incompetent?; Trump's Wingnut Social Media Su Program Date: 07/11/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
07.12.2019 July 11 - Trump's Wingnut Social Media Summit July 11 - Trump's Wingnut Social Media Summit by Ian Masters
07.11.2019 July 10 - Who Had Ever Hear of Emoluments Until Trump Came Along?; Acosta Plans to Cut 80% of the Budget to Combat Sex Trafficking; Just as One Democratic Hopeful Drops out of the Crowded Race, Anothe Program Date: 07/10/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
07.11.2019 July 10 - Who Had Ever Hear of Emoluments Until Trump Came Along? July 10 - Who Had Ever Hear of Emoluments Until Trump Came Along? by Ian Masters
07.10.2019 July 9 - Trump and Epstein's Similar Taste in Very Young Women; Will Trump's Lawyer Barr Make Sure His Client Is Not Embroiled in the Epstein Case?; Pompeo Seeks to Re-Define Human Rights Program Date: 07/09/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
07.10.2019 Full Program - July 9, 2019 Full Program - July 9, 2019 by Ian Masters
07.09.2019 July 8 - The Previously Untouchable Epstein's Court Appearance Today; The Legal Jeopardy Epstein Finds Himself In; Jared Kushner's Shadow Foreign Policy Program Date: 07/08/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
07.08.2019 Full Program - July 8, 2019 Full Program - July 8, 2019 by Ian Masters
07.07.2019 July 7 - Unmasking the Growth of Fascist Tendencies in Trump's America; State-Sponsored Terror on the US-Mexico Border; Health Insurance Giants Target Elizabeth Warren Program Date: 07/07/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
07.07.2019 Full Program - July 7, 2019 Full Program - July 7, 2019 by Ian Masters
07.04.2019 July 4 - A Plan to Broaden the Definition of National Security; Where Do the Nation's Values and Morality Stand on This 4th of July?; A Case for Economic Patriotism Program Date: 07/04/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
07.04.2019 Full Program - July 4, 2019 Full Program - July 4, 2019 by Ian Masters
07.03.2019 July 3 - Trump Dragoons the Military into a Reelection Campaign Event; An End to Us Forever Wars?; The Role of Militias in the Oregon State Senate Program Date: 07/03/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
07.03.2019 Full Program - July 3, 2019 Full Program - July 3, 2019 by Ian Masters
07.02.2019 July 2 - The Lead Organizer of the Counter-Demonstrations Against Trump's July 4th Military Parade; The Bravery of Sudan's Pro-Democracy Demonstrations; The Three Camps in US Foreign Policy Program Date: 07/02/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
07.02.2019 Full Program - July 2, 2019 Full Program - July 2, 2019 by Ian Masters
07.02.2019 July 1 - Ivanka Trump and the Embarrassing Amateurism of the Trump Family Foreign Policy; According to a Fox News Host, Leading a Country "Means Killing People"; Was There Some Substance Beyond the Ph Program Date: 07/01/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
07.02.2019 Full Program - July 1, 2019 Full Program - July 1, 2019 by Ian Masters
06.30.2019 June 30 - Are the Democrats Committing Political Suicide Moving Too Far to the Left?; 2. Do the Democrats Have a Healthcare Problem?; Trump and Kim's Photo op on the DMZ Program Date: 06/30/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
06.27.2019 June 27 - SCOTUS's Green Light to Gerrymander and Yellow Light on the Census; An Assessment of Last Night's Democratic Presidential Candidates' Debate; The Lead Negotiator of the Iran nuclear Deal Program Date: 06/27/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
06.27.2019 Full Program - June 27, 2019 Full Program - June 27, 2019 by Ian Masters
06.27.2019 June 26 - Will the Religious Right Heed the Parable of the Good Samaritan?; The Same Media Who Piled on Joe Biden Ignore Rape Allegations Against Trump; How to Winnow the Crowded Field of Democratic P Program Date: 06/26/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
06.26.2019 Full Program - June 26, 2019 Full Program - June 26, 2019 by Ian Masters
06.26.2019 June 25 - Holding Poor, Destitute Kids Hostage to a Reelection Strategy; The Disastrous Foreign Policy of the Master of the Art of the Deal; Undemocratic Quorum-Busting by Republicans in Deep Blue Ore Program Date: 06/25/2019 mp3audio: Full Program

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