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08.05.2020

An Update From Beirut on the Devastation Which Government Incompetence and Indifferent Politicians Are Responsible For | Trump's Law and Order Campaign is Backfiring | Trump OK's Mail-in Ballots in Florida Because the Democrats are Ahead With 600,000 More Requests ...

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08.05.2020 August 5, 2020 - Habib Battah \| Lincoln Mitchell \| Dr. Michael McDonald An Update From Beirut on the Devastation Which Government Incompetence and Indifferent Politicians Are Responsible For \| Trump's Law and Order Campaign is Backfiring \| Trump OK's Mail-in Ballots in Florida Because the Democrats are Ahead With 600,000 More Requests ...
08.05.2020 August 4, 2020 - Robert Baer \| Aaron Rupar \| Stephanie Kelton A Massive Explosion Rocks Beirut Ahead of a Verdict in the Bombing of a Former Prime Minister \| Trump's Disastrous Interview in Which Follow Up Questions Were Asked \| Republicans Revive the Deficit Myth After Voting For Trump's Tax Cuts
08.03.2020 August 3, 2020 - Dr. Irwin Redlener \| Dr. Stanley Perlman \| Chuck Collins All of Trump's Public Health Experts Should Have Resigned Months Ago \| The Countrywide Spread of the Coronavirus and Herd Immunity \| Billionaires Are Richer Than Ever So Why Aren't They Giving More? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
08.02.2020 August 2, 2020 - Ananya Roy \| Christopher Shaw \| Tom Hastings Americans Face a Tsunami of Evictions \| It is Clear Trump is Crippling the U.S. Postal Service to Stymie Voting by Mail in November \| Advice From Portland's Veteran in Non-Violent Activism and Training backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
07.30.2020 July 30, 2020 - Rachel Kleinfeld \| Rudy deLeon \| David Dayen On the Day John Lewis is Buried, Trump Attacks Voting Rights To Delay the Election \| Members of the Military, Does the Commander-in-Chief Have Your Back? \| Congress Finally Addresses Monopoly Power backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
07.29.2020 July 29, 2020 - Ryan Cooper \| Stuart Schrader \| Robert Draper The $1 Trillion Republican Stimulus Bill Gives the Pentagon More Weapons They Don't Want While Stiffing the American People \| How the Dirty Wars We Exported Are Coming Home in Portland \| The Origins of the Iraq War as Trump's ...
07.28.2020 July 28, 2020 - Rebecca Roiphe \| Jennifer Mercieca \| Garrett Epps Black Lives Matter Versus Antifa at Barr's Grilling Before the House \| What Can be Done to Stop Giving the Trump Campaign Videos to Discredit Peaceful Protests \| How and Why Trump's Dangerous Demagoguery Works So We Can Defend Ourselves ...
07.27.2020 July 27, 2020 - Thomas Bollyky \| Lawrence Douglas \| Michael D'Antonio The Continuation of the Republican War on Strong Women by Weak and Insecure Men \| How the 2020 Election Meltdown Could be a Repeat of 1876 \| The Danger of Vaccine Nationalism Making the Pandemic Worse backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
07.26.2020 July 26, 2020 - Sarah Churchwell \| Michael Hirsh \| Rob Johnson The Deep Roots of Fascism in America \| Fascists Always Fail and So Will Trump \| McConnell's Congress Takes Care of the Donors First With Leftover Crumbs for the American People backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
07.23.2020 July 23, 2020 - Elizabeth Goitein \| Trita Parsi \| Victor Shih The Enormous Emergency Powers a Lawless Trump Has at Hand His Predecessors Used With Restraint \| A Plan to End Our Misguided Policy of Domination in the Middle East \| Trump's New Cold War With China as a Reelection Strategy ...
07.22.2020 July 22, 2020 - Federico Finchelstein \| Orville Schell \| Daniel Drezner Fascism Comes to America \| An Escalating Tit-For-Tat With China \| What Will a Post-Trump GOP Look Like? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
07.21.2020 July 21, 2020 - Sharon Meieran \| Heather Boushey \| Jeet Heer One of the Moms From the "Wall of Moms" in Portland Protecting the Protesters \| Families About to Lose Their Unemployment Money Face Eviction and Foreclosure \| Trump's One-Man Coronavirus Show Bombs as the Pandemic Rages backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
07.20.2020 July 20, 2020 - Mike German \| Sean Wilentz \| Dr. Robert Bollinger After a Trial Run in Portland, Trump Plans to Deploy his Private Federal Militia in Chicago and Across the Country \| An Historian and Friend of John Lewis Talks About His Hero \| Can We Reverse the Pandemic's Deadly Trajectory ...
07.19.2020 July 19, 2020 - Robert Evans \| Sen. Tim Wirth \| Allan Frances Citizens of Portland Continue Their Stand Against Brutal Police Now Aided by Trump's Stormtroopers \| How Trump and Barr Are Planning to Overturn the Election \| A Psychiatrist Examines Mary Trump's Book on Her Uncle backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
07.16.2020 July 16, 2020 - Lisa Graves \| Greg Palast \| Dr. Dan Cooper Will Trump Be Able to Kill the Postal Service Before November to Stop Mail-in Ballots? \| Biden May Be Ahead in the Polls But 16 Million Likely Democratic Voters Have Already Been Purged \| Can School Kids Be Protected From ...
07.15.2020 July 15, 2020 - John Barry \| Ryan Devereaux \| Julian Zelizer Since Trump Blew Our First Chance, We Have To Contain Covid Now Because We Won't Get a Third Chance \| Instead of Antifa, Police Should Focus on the Boogaloo Bois Who Are Killing Cops to Start a Civil War \| ...
07.14.2020 July 14, 2020 - Jennifer Taub \| Dennis Kelleher \| Kathy Hipple Trump Clearly Bribed Stone For His Silence But Will Other Republican Senators Join the Two Who Have Condemned His Criminality? \| The Supreme Court Gives Pension Fund Managers the Green Light to Rip Off Retirees \| As the Frackers Go ...
07.13.2020 July 13, 2020 - Corey Brettschneider \| Shannon Bennett \| David Glass Trump's Pardon of Roger Stone is Unconstitutional \| Trump Defames Dr. Fauci While Offering Medical Advice From a Talk Show Host \| The Owner of the Washington Redskins Bows to Financial, Not Moral Pressure backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
07.12.2020 July 12, 2020 - Adam Klasfeld \| Cas Mudde \| Nina Jankowicz Did the Dirty Trickster of The Mob Boss-in-Chief Threaten to Rat Him Out If he Goes to Jail? \| The Global Growth of the Extreme Right and the Radical Right \| Why the West is Losing the Information War backgroundbriefing.org/donate ...
07.09.2020 July 9, 2020 - David Cay Johnston \| Leah Litman \| Joseph Nye SCOTUS Hands Trump a Victory Even Though he is Whining That it's Not Fair \| Trump and Roberts are the Winners While the American Public is the Loser \| In Extinguishing the Voice of America, We Lose Our Best "Soft ...
07.08.2020 July 8, 2020 - Lance Dodes \| Jamille Fields Allsbrook \| Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera Trump's Niece Portrays Her Uncle as a Fraud and a Bully Whose Ego is So Fragile it Must Be Bolstered Every Moment \| The Supreme Court Makes Birth Control Less Accessible and Abortion More Likely \| The Left Wing and ...
07.07.2020 July 7, 2020 - Amanda Marcotte \| Craig Holman \| Henri Barkey Are There Enough Racists in America for Trump to Win in November? \| A Little But Not Enough Transparency on Who Got the SBA's PPP Money \| NATO Members French and Turkish Warships Clash Off Libya backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
07.06.2020 July 6, 2020 - Elie Honig \| Jason Stanley \| Laura Miller To Avoid Prison Will Epstein's Procurer Implicate Powerful Men? \| Trump's Full-on Fascist 4th of July Speeches \| The Cumulative Effect of the Books by the "Axis of Adults" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
07.05.2020 July 5, 2020 - David Shimer \| Roger Morris The History Of The U.S. and Russia Rigging Votes \| Trump Could Take Advantage of Multiple Crises If We Take His Bait backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
07.02.2020 July 2, 2020 - Pavlina Tcherneva \| David Halperin \| Toby Miller Job Guarantees Could Reverse the Epidemic of Job Loss Since the Government Has the Cure \| SCOTUS Hands DeVos a Victory to Fund Religious Schools at the Expense of Public Education \| Mexico's AMLO Thinks Jesus Christ Can Cure the ...
07.01.2020 July 1, 2020 - Aaron Blake \| Michael Davis \| Tom Collina How Far Out on Limb is Trump With His Latest Routine "Hoax" Defense? \| Protestors Arrested On the First Day of China's New Security Law in Hong Kong \| With Trump and Putin Having the Ability to Destroy the World ...
06.30.2020 June 30, 2020 - Paul Pillar \| David Rohde \| Frederick Clarkson Trump's Excuses For Ignoring Intelligence Get Increasingly Lame as More Evidence Emerges \| The Taliban Side of the Story From Someone Who Was Kidnapped by Them \| The Supreme Court's Makeup Gift to the Religious Right backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
06.29.2020 June 29, 2020 - Nicole Hemmer \| Christine Fair \| Dru Gladney Is Trump's Incitement of his Armed Followers to Confront Demonstrators his Reelection Strategy? \| In Afghanistan Russia Holds a Grudge But the Taliban Hardly Need to be Bribed to Kill Americans \| China's Forced Sterilization of Uighur Women backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia ...
06.28.2020 June 28, 2020 - James W. Loewen \| Luke Harding Trump Cares More About Dead Confederate Soldiers Than Live Black Americans \| Investigating the GRU's Unit 29155 and Why Trump Has Not Lifted a Finger to Stop Them Killing U.S. Soldiers backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
06.25.2020 June 25, 2020 - Andrew Noymer \| Lincoln Mitchell \| Lara Friedman As Trump Does the Opposite of What is Needed, We Could Have 300,000 Covid Deaths by November \| What Happens When Trump Rejects the Election Results? \| With Trump's Backing, Israel Moves to Annex 30% of the West Bank backgroundbriefing.org/donate ...
06.24.2020 June 24, 2020 - Harry Litman \| Cynthia Miller-Idress \| Kent Harrington Republicans Try to Shut Down Testimony From Critics of Barr \| The U.S. Military's Vulnerability to Infiltration by Neo-Nazi Groups \| The Latest Threats From North Korea and Why China Props up the Regime backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
06.23.2020 June 23, 2020 - Ari Berman \| Jennifer Rodgers \| Dr. Lawrence Gostin How "Moscow Mitch's" Voting Suppression is Playing Out in Kentucky Today \| A Former AUSA with the SDNY on How New York Prosecutors Will Not be Cowed by Barr and Trump \| Dr. Fauci's Testimony Today and the Need For ...
06.22.2020 June 22, 2020 - Scott Horton \| Kavita Patel \| Andrea Flores Strands of Incriminating Evidence Against Trump are Coming Together \| An Update on the Pandemic as Trump Pretends it Has Gone Away \| Trump and Miller's Relentless Drive to Hurt Immigrants and Their Families backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
06.21.2020 June 21, 2020 - David Rothkopf \| Catherine Belton To Avoid a Growing Likelihood of Humiliation, Could Trump Walk Off the Job he Doesn't Like Doing \| The Real History of Putin and How the KGB Never Went Away backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
06.18.2020 June 18, 2020 - Jacob Heilbrunn \| Craig Futterman \| Rob Jackson Is the Dam Breaking to Sweep Trump Away? \| The Killing in Atlanta Reveals a Sadistic Streak in Policing \| After a Recent Drop, CO2 Emissions are Surging Back as Countries and States Reopen backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
06.17.2020 June 17, 2020 - Joshua Geltzer \| Lara Bazelon \| Joshua Douglas Trump and Barr's Frantic Last-Ditch Effort to Stop the Release of Bolton's Book \| Trump's "Law and Order" Photo Op Dressed up as Police Reform \| Democratic Candidate's Race in Kentucky to Unseat McConnell Tightens backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
06.16.2020 June 16, 2020 - Charles Armstrong \| Joshua Fitt \| Tobias Wolff Kim Jong-Un's Sister Issues North Korea's Latest Round of Threats \| Chinese Soldiers Club 20 Indian Soldiers to Death on Disputed Border \| The Supreme Court's Ruling Protecting LGBT Americans From Being Fired Because of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity ...
06.15.2020 June 15, 2020 - Peniel Joseph \| Adam Hochschild \| Kate Mackintosh An Awakening Underway Will Leave Trump and His Racist Followers in the Rear-View Mirror of History \| The Toppling of Statues of Confederate Generals and Slave Traders \| Trump's Attack on the Staff of the International Criminal Court backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia ...
06.14.2020 June 14, 2020 - Malcolm Nance \| Stuart Schrader \| Steven Simon Trump's Misuse of the Most Diverse Class of West Point Cadets as Campaign Props \| The Militarized Mindset of Policing in America \| Shifting the Focus from Jihadist Terrorists Abroad to Right-Wing Terrorists at Home backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
06.11.2020 June 11, 2020 - Jim Adams \| Dr. Scott Ellsworth \| Stephanie Kelton Trump's Gift to Donald Jr., You Can Now Kill Hibernating Bear Cubs and Their Mothers Along With Wolf Pups \| Trump Chooses "Juneteenth" and Tulsa, the Site of the Worst Massacre of Blacks in Our History, for his Campaign Rally ...
06.10.2020 June 10, 2020 - Aklima Khondocker \| Dennis Kenney \| Robert Hennelly Is Georgia's Election Debacle the Trump GOP's Strategy for November? \| The Feasibility of Defunding the Police \| Police Reforms in Camden, New Jersey as a National Model backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
06.09.2020 June 9, 2020 - Ian Haney Lopez \| Lloyd Green \| Ekow Yankah Trump's Appropriation of Nixon's 1968 "Silent Majority" Playbook Will Not Work in 2020 \| Barr as a Right-Wing Culture Warrior Propping Up a Weak Strongman \| Defunding the Police and Eradicating the Culture of Impunity backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
06.08.2020 June 8, 2020 - Federico Finchelstein \| Ruth Ben-Ghiat \| Carol Anderson Comparing the Latin American Fascist Playbook to Today's Putsch by Trump and Barr \| Trump is Already Performing Fascism, Will He Get to Enact It? \| The Ongoing Youthful Demonstrations as a Potential Political Movement
06.07.2020 June 7, 2020 - Peter Bergen \| Jennifer Taub \| Ian Lipkin The "Adults in the Room" Finally Speak Out Against the Fraud in the Oval Office \| In Dropping the Flynn Case, Barr Sets up a Confrontation Between the Executive and Judicial Branches \| With Fauci Silenced, an Update on the ...
06.04.2020 June 4, 2020 - Col. Lawrence Wilkerson \| Dahlia Lithwick \| Dr. Andrew Rosenberg The Likelihood Trump Will Invoke Martial Law Before or After an Electoral Defeat \| The Federalist's Leonard Leo is Now Using Dark Money to Suppress the Democratic Vote \| Trump Kills Environmental Protections in the Name of the "Economic Emergency" ...
06.03.2020 June 3, 2020 - Spencer Sunshine \| Bree Carlson \| Quinn Slobodian While Police Mass Against Demonstrations, Stores and Pharmacies are Looted \| Will This Nationwide Uprising Bring About Racial Justice and Economic Equality? \| The Techno-Utopian Fantasies of Libertarian Billionaires and the Dreams of Disaster Capitalists backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
06.02.2020 June 2, 2020 - Col. Rachel VanLandingham \| Andrew Whitehead \| Glenn Kessler Trump's Entirely Fabricated Pretext of Domestic Terrorism to Justify Martial Law \| Trump's Bible-in-hand Appeal to Christian Nationalism \| The Washington Post's Fact-Checker on Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth: The President's Falsehoods, Misleading Claims and Flat-Out Lies backgroundbriefing.org/donate ...
06.01.2020 June 1, 2020 - Darnell Hunt \| Sebastian Mallaby \| Joseph Pierre The 1992 Rodney King Riots and Today's Looting and Rioting in LA \| How the Fed Not Only Tolerates Budget Deficits But Facilitates Them \| How Conspiracy Theories Could Prolong the Pandemic backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
05.31.2020 May 31, 2020 - Brian Levin \| Sidney Blumenthal \| Andrew Nathan How Rioting and Looting Will Help Trump Cast Himself for Reelection as the "Law and Order" President \| The Know-Nothings of the 1850's Have Come Back as Donald Trump's GOP of Today \| Trump's Bluster Against China Backfires backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia ...
05.28.2020 May 28, 2020 - Philip Stinson \| Thomas Nichols \| Greg Grandin Investigating Police Crime \| Trump's Attacks of Twitter Are About His Freedom to Continue to Lie \| The Pandemic as the Fourth Turning Point After 9/11, the 2008 Crash and Climate Change backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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