Background Briefing with Ian Masters

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Background Briefing with Ian Masters episodes:

06.16.2019 June 16 - A Better War to Stage the Democratic Presidential Campaign Debates; Who Believes the Serial Liar Trump That He Doesn't Want War with Iran?; Trump's 2020 Campaign Again Steals a March on the Program Date: 06/16/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
06.13.2019 June 13 - Trump: The Wannabe Gangster; A Founder of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps on Today's Attacks on Tankers; How Democracy in Brazil Was Sabotaged to Allow a Far-Right Leader to Take over Program Date: 06/13/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
06.12.2019 June 12 - Trump Sides with North Korea's Murderous Dictator; A Wake-Up Call for the Grassroots to Get Active While the Democratic Party Plays It Safe Program Date: 06/12/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
06.11.2019 June 11 - Do Americans Expect Their Head of State to Have Some Dignity?; Mueller Proved There Is No "Deep State"; A Rare Call for One Democratic State with Equal Rights for Palestinians and Israelis Program Date: 06/11/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
06.11.2019 June 10 - Hong Kong's Largest Demonstration Against China's Extradition Law; Could Latino Americans Vote to Overwhelm Trump's Angry White Voters?; Further Exposs of Transportation Secretary Chao Program Date: 06/10/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
06.09.2019 June 9 - America's Leading Expert on China "On Hostile Coexistence with China"; Solving the Central American Refugee Problem at Its Roots; Separating Manufactured Problems on the Border from Real Ones Program Date: 06/09/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
06.06.2019 June 6 - Trump Threatens Mexico with a Tariff War; Pelosi Wants Trump in Prison, Not Impeached; La's Homeless Crisis Persists in Spite of $619 Million Spent on Housing Program Date: 06/06/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
06.06.2019 June 5 - Ending Usury and an "Agenda for Economic Patriotism"; Senators Push Back Against Trump Transfers of Nuclear Technology and Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia; Crippling Mexico with Tariffs to Stop Ce Program Date: 06/05/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
06.04.2019 June 4 - The Arrest of the Serial Pedophile Who Was Trump's Go-Between and Fixer; The Saudi and Emirati Backing for Massacring Pro-Democracy Protesters in Sudan; Trump's War on Workers' Rights Program Date: 06/04/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
06.03.2019 June 3 - The Trump Family Outing to Buckingham Palace; The Constitutional Remedy Robert Mueller Obscured with His Impenetrable Legalese; Elaine Chao's Alarmingly Inappropriate Conflicts of Interest Program Date: 06/03/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
06.02.2019 June 2 - The 30th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre; Could Our Reality TV President Be Brought Down By Reality TV?; The Execution of North Korea's Nuclear Negotiators of the Failed Hanoi Summit Program Date: 06/02/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
06.01.2019 May 30 - Trump Spews Poison at the Lawman Who Could Not Nail Him Because of a DOJ Rule; Choosing Science Over Pseudoscience; The Problem with Liberal Luddites Program Date: 05/30/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
05.30.2019 May 29 - Mueller: A DOJ Rule Places Trump Above the Law; Impeachment Makes Trump's Re-Election Less Likely; Assange Indictment an Escalation in Trump's War on the Press Program Date: 05/29/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
05.29.2019 May 28 - Dark Forces Did Not Win in the EU Elections but the Greens Did; Trump Throws Bolton and Abe Under the Bus; Will Working Class Politics Emerge in the 2020 Elections? Program Date: 05/28/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
05.27.2019 May 27 - Will Trump Pardon American War Criminals?; The Release of the Unrepentant "American Taliban" From Prison Program Date: 05/27/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
05.26.2019 May 26 - The Alarming Potential Mischief of "Deepfake" Videos; Inside The Darkest corner of the Deep State; Working Around the Electoral College Program Date: 05/26/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
05.24.2019 May 23 - Our Reality TV President's Feral Understanding of How to Use Media; Intelligence Is No Guarantee Against Stupidity Program Date: 05/23/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
05.23.2019 May 22 - Trump's Tax Travails; Trump's Border Wall at a Billion Dollars a Mile; The Bizarre Russian Plot to Create "Blockmanistan" in the Deep South Program Date: 05/22/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
05.22.2019 May 21 - Growing Pressure on Speaker Pelosi to Initiate Impeachment Hearings; The Need to Get Witnesses Trump Does Not Want to Testify on National TV; Trump Again Is Ahead of the Democrats in Using So Program Date: 05/21/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
05.20.2019 March 20 - Another Scandal Involving Trump and Deutsche Bank; Will the Expose of Austria's Far-Right Vice Chancellor Impact the Right in the EU Elections?; The DOJ's Latest Lifeline to Trump to Stop M Program Date: 05/20/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
05.19.2019 May 19 - The US Has Already Declared Economic Warfare on Iran; "Iran and the Coalition of the Weird"; "Democracy May Not Exist But We'll Miss It When It's Gone" Program Date: 05/19/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
05.17.2019 May 16 - The US is Engaged in Economic Warfare Against Iran; How Trump Used the DOJ to Sabotage Mueller; Trump Aims His Big Guns at China Program Date: 05/16/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
05.16.2019 May 15 - The Fight Inside the NRA; How Our World Is Being Impoverished for the Benefit of a Few Kleptocrats; Too Many Democratic Candidates Are Running for President but Not Enough for the Senate Program Date: 05/15/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
05.15.2019 May 14 - Program Date: 05/14/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
05.14.2019 May 14 - Bolton's War Shaping Up in the Gulf; Trump's White House Dalliance with a Despot; Wall Street's Latest Perversion of Capitalism Program Date: 05/14/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
05.12.2019 May 12 - A New Low in Un-Presidential Rhetoric; From the Frontier to Border; Has Turkeys Despot Gone Too Far? Program Date: 05/12/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
05.09.2019 May 9 - Democrats Should Not Have to Choose Between Progressive Politics and Winning Elections; How Putin and His Cronies Are Looting Russia Program Date: 05/09/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
05.09.2019 May 8 - One of the 730 Former Federal Prosecutors Who Believes Trump is a Criminal; The Difference Between Real and Politically-Motivated Investigations; A New Poll on American’s Concerns About Trump Program Date: 05/08/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
05.08.2019 May 7 - Pompeo Denies Global Warming But Praises its Results; The Country's Leading Authority on Russia; The Market Plunges as Trump Reignites a Trade War with China Program Date: 05/07/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
05.07.2019 May 6 - The Alarming New UN Report on the Destruction of Biodiversity and the Mass Extinction of One Million Species; An Assessment of Global Warming's Impact on Life Over the Coming Decades Program Date: 05/06/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
05.05.2019 May 5 - Is Trump Naive or Compromised by Putin?; Our Conspiracy Theorist-In-Chief; Brexiteers Polling Ahead of May 23rd EU Election Program Date: 05/05/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
05.03.2019 May 2 - How Do the American People Learn What Is Actually in the Mueller Report?; The Embarrassing Amateurism of Trump's Foreign Policy Team; Will Japan Soon Join the Nuclear Club? Program Date: 05/02/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
05.02.2019 May 1 - Barr Continues to Blunt the Impact of the Mueller Report; How to Clear the Air Polluted By Republican Obfuscation; Venezuela on the Cusp of Civil War or Regime Change Program Date: 05/01/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
04.30.2019 April 30 - Venezuela in the Midst of an Uncertain Coup; Trump Sues Banks to Stop House Investigations of His Family's Finances; Rosenstein's Unctuous, Grovelling Letter to Trump Program Date: 04/30/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
04.29.2019 April 29 - In the Standoff Between Trump and the House, The Constitution Has No Answers; Why Do the Press Who Trump Vilifies, Normalize Him?; Letting Trump Be Trump is a Recipe for Disaster Program Date: 04/29/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
04.28.2019 April 28 - The Deepening Battle Lines Between the House and the White House; Why Can't Trump Say Nazis are Bad People?; Has Trump Gone Full-On Fascist? Program Date: 04/28/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
04.25.2019 April 25 - Biden Takes a Moral Stance as He Enters the Race; Is Trump Counting on the Russians to Help Him Again in 2020?; The Courts Packed with Partisans Program Date: 04/25/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
04.24.2019 April 24 - Trump Defies Congress with Gangster-Like Tactics; An Analysis of Mueller's Obstruction of Justice Case Against Trump; What Might Emerge from the Kim Jong-un-Putin Summit Program Date: 04/24/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
04.23.2019 April 23 - National Security and Our Corrupt, Compromised Commander in Chief; Conservatives on SCOTUS Signal They're OK with Counting Citizens Only; Trump Defies the Deadline on His Tax Return Program Date: 04/23/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
04.22.2019 April 22 - While Trump Does a Victory Lap, Democrats Wrestle with Impeachment; Examining the Fine Print in the Mueller Report; Links to Foreign Terrorist Networks Emerging from the Bombings in Sri Lan Program Date: 04/22/2019 https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/2019/04/22/background-briefing-april-22-2019/ mp3audio: Full Program
04.21.2019 April 21 - Has Trump Dodged Another Bullet?; Glaring Evidence of Collusion in the Mueller Report; Why Investigate Someone You Can't Indict? Program Date: 04/21/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
04.19.2019 April 18 - Why the Mueller Report Will Only Scratch the Surface; Why the US Intelligence Community Wants Assange Program Date: 04/18/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
04.17.2019 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 Program Date: 04/17/2019 https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/2019/04/17/background-briefing-april-17-2019/ mp3audio: Full Program
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 Program Date: 04/16/2019 https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/2019/04/16/background-briefing-april-16-2019/ mp3audio: Full Program
04.16.2019 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 Program Date: 04/15/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
04.14.2019 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 Program Date: 04/14/2019 https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/2019/04/14/background-briefing-april-14-2019/ mp3audio: Full Program
04.11.2019 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 Program Date: 04/11/2019 https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/2019/04/11/background-briefing-april-11-2019/ mp3audio: Full Program
04.10.2019 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 Program Date: 04/10/2019 mp3audio: Full Program
04.09.2019 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 Program Date: 04/09/2019 https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/2019/04/09/background-briefing-april-9-2019/ mp3audio: Full Program
04.09.2019 April 8 - Trump's "You're Fired!" Spree; Designating the IRGC as a Terrorist Organization; Netanyahu's Last-Minute Pandering Program Date: 04/08/2019 https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/2019/04/08/background-briefing-april-8-2019/ mp3audio: Full Program

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June 16 - A Better War to Stage the Democratic Presidential Campaign Debates; Who Believes the Serial Liar Trump That He Doesn't Want War with Iran?; Trump's 2020 Campaign Again Steals a March on the

June 13 - Trump: The Wannabe Gangster; A Founder of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps on Today's Attacks on Tankers; How Democracy in Brazil Was Sabotaged to Allow a Far-Right Leader to Take over

June 12 - Trump Sides with North Korea's Murderous Dictator; A Wake-Up Call for the Grassroots to Get Active While the Democratic Party Plays It Safe

June 11 - Do Americans Expect Their Head of State to Have Some Dignity?; Mueller Proved There Is No "Deep State"; A Rare Call for One Democratic State with Equal Rights for Palestinians and Israelis

June 10 - Hong Kong's Largest Demonstration Against China's Extradition Law; Could Latino Americans Vote to Overwhelm Trump's Angry White Voters?; Further Exposs of Transportation Secretary Chao

June 9 - America's Leading Expert on China "On Hostile Coexistence with China"; Solving the Central American Refugee Problem at Its Roots; Separating Manufactured Problems on the Border from Real Ones

June 6 - Trump Threatens Mexico with a Tariff War; Pelosi Wants Trump in Prison, Not Impeached; La's Homeless Crisis Persists in Spite of $619 Million Spent on Housing

June 5 - Ending Usury and an "Agenda for Economic Patriotism"; Senators Push Back Against Trump Transfers of Nuclear Technology and Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia; Crippling Mexico with Tariffs to Stop Ce

June 4 - The Arrest of the Serial Pedophile Who Was Trump's Go-Between and Fixer; The Saudi and Emirati Backing for Massacring Pro-Democracy Protesters in Sudan; Trump's War on Workers' Rights

June 3 - The Trump Family Outing to Buckingham Palace; The Constitutional Remedy Robert Mueller Obscured with His Impenetrable Legalese; Elaine Chao's Alarmingly Inappropriate Conflicts of Interest

June 2 - The 30th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre; Could Our Reality TV President Be Brought Down By Reality TV?; The Execution of North Korea's Nuclear Negotiators of the Failed Hanoi Summit

May 30 - Trump Spews Poison at the Lawman Who Could Not Nail Him Because of a DOJ Rule; Choosing Science Over Pseudoscience; The Problem with Liberal Luddites

May 29 - Mueller: A DOJ Rule Places Trump Above the Law; Impeachment Makes Trump's Re-Election Less Likely; Assange Indictment an Escalation in Trump's War on the Press

May 28 - Dark Forces Did Not Win in the EU Elections but the Greens Did; Trump Throws Bolton and Abe Under the Bus; Will Working Class Politics Emerge in the 2020 Elections?

May 27 - Will Trump Pardon American War Criminals?; The Release of the Unrepentant "American Taliban" From Prison

May 26 - The Alarming Potential Mischief of "Deepfake" Videos; Inside The Darkest corner of the Deep State; Working Around the Electoral College

May 23 - Our Reality TV President's Feral Understanding of How to Use Media; Intelligence Is No Guarantee Against Stupidity

May 22 - Trump's Tax Travails; Trump's Border Wall at a Billion Dollars a Mile; The Bizarre Russian Plot to Create "Blockmanistan" in the Deep South

May 21 - Growing Pressure on Speaker Pelosi to Initiate Impeachment Hearings; The Need to Get Witnesses Trump Does Not Want to Testify on National TV; Trump Again Is Ahead of the Democrats in Using So

March 20 - Another Scandal Involving Trump and Deutsche Bank; Will the Expose of Austria's Far-Right Vice Chancellor Impact the Right in the EU Elections?; The DOJ's Latest Lifeline to Trump to Stop M

May 19 - The US Has Already Declared Economic Warfare on Iran; "Iran and the Coalition of the Weird"; "Democracy May Not Exist But We'll Miss It When It's Gone"

May 16 - The US is Engaged in Economic Warfare Against Iran; How Trump Used the DOJ to Sabotage Mueller; Trump Aims His Big Guns at China

May 15 - The Fight Inside the NRA; How Our World Is Being Impoverished for the Benefit of a Few Kleptocrats; Too Many Democratic Candidates Are Running for President but Not Enough for the Senate

May 14 -

May 14 - Bolton's War Shaping Up in the Gulf; Trump's White House Dalliance with a Despot; Wall Street's Latest Perversion of Capitalism

May 12 - A New Low in Un-Presidential Rhetoric; From the Frontier to Border; Has Turkeys Despot Gone Too Far?

May 9 - Democrats Should Not Have to Choose Between Progressive Politics and Winning Elections; How Putin and His Cronies Are Looting Russia

May 8 - One of the 730 Former Federal Prosecutors Who Believes Trump is a Criminal; The Difference Between Real and Politically-Motivated Investigations; A New Poll on American’s Concerns About Trump

May 7 - Pompeo Denies Global Warming But Praises its Results; The Country's Leading Authority on Russia; The Market Plunges as Trump Reignites a Trade War with China

May 6 - The Alarming New UN Report on the Destruction of Biodiversity and the Mass Extinction of One Million Species; An Assessment of Global Warming's Impact on Life Over the Coming Decades

May 5 - Is Trump Naive or Compromised by Putin?; Our Conspiracy Theorist-In-Chief; Brexiteers Polling Ahead of May 23rd EU Election

May 2 - How Do the American People Learn What Is Actually in the Mueller Report?; The Embarrassing Amateurism of Trump's Foreign Policy Team; Will Japan Soon Join the Nuclear Club?

May 1 - Barr Continues to Blunt the Impact of the Mueller Report; How to Clear the Air Polluted By Republican Obfuscation; Venezuela on the Cusp of Civil War or Regime Change

April 30 - Venezuela in the Midst of an Uncertain Coup; Trump Sues Banks to Stop House Investigations of His Family's Finances; Rosenstein's Unctuous, Grovelling Letter to Trump

April 29 - In the Standoff Between Trump and the House, The Constitution Has No Answers; Why Do the Press Who Trump Vilifies, Normalize Him?; Letting Trump Be Trump is a Recipe for Disaster

April 28 - The Deepening Battle Lines Between the House and the White House; Why Can't Trump Say Nazis are Bad People?; Has Trump Gone Full-On Fascist?

April 25 - Biden Takes a Moral Stance as He Enters the Race; Is Trump Counting on the Russians to Help Him Again in 2020?; The Courts Packed with Partisans

April 24 - Trump Defies Congress with Gangster-Like Tactics; An Analysis of Mueller's Obstruction of Justice Case Against Trump; What Might Emerge from the Kim Jong-un-Putin Summit

April 23 - National Security and Our Corrupt, Compromised Commander in Chief; Conservatives on SCOTUS Signal They're OK with Counting Citizens Only; Trump Defies the Deadline on His Tax Return

April 22 - While Trump Does a Victory Lap, Democrats Wrestle with Impeachment; Examining the Fine Print in the Mueller Report; Links to Foreign Terrorist Networks Emerging from the Bombings in Sri Lan

April 21 - Has Trump Dodged Another Bullet?; Glaring Evidence of Collusion in the Mueller Report; Why Investigate Someone You Can't Indict?

April 18 - Why the Mueller Report Will Only Scratch the Surface; Why the US Intelligence Community Wants Assange

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

April 8 - Trump's "You're Fired!" Spree; Designating the IRGC as a Terrorist Organization; Netanyahu's Last-Minute Pandering

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