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Barr Covers Up for Trump While the SDNY Exposes His Crimes; Will Parnas' Evidence Be Adjudicated?; Trump Now Faces the Democratic Values He Has Desecrated backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01.17.2020 January 16, 2020 - Scott Horton \| Joshua Geltzer \| Bernard-Henri Lévy Barr Covers Up for Trump While the SDNY Exposes His Crimes; Will Parnas' Evidence Be Adjudicated?; Trump Now Faces the Democratic Values He Has Desecrated backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
01.16.2020 January 15, 2020 - Steven Pifer \| Jeremi Suri \| David Graham Lev Parnas Hands Democrats Incriminating Evidence; The Role of the Chief Justice in the Senate Trial; A Critique of Last Night's Democratic Debate backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
01.15.2020 January 14, 2020 - David Redlawsk \| Ali Al-Ahmed \| Jeff Hauser Barr Blames Apple, Not the Saudi Education and Religious Establishment; Will the Four Front-Runners Be Evenly Divided All the Way to the Convention?; Will Candidates Be Asked How They Would Actually Do the Job of Being President?
01.13.2020 January 13, 2020 - Lawrence Douglas \| Mansour Farhang \| Bandy Lee Trump's Reckless Defiance Matched by McConnell's Reckless Partisanship; Widespread Public Disgust at Iran's Religious Fascist Regime; Dershowitz Tries to Get a Yale Forensic Psychiatrist Who Diagnosed Trump Fired backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
01.12.2020 January 12, 2020 - Mohsen Milani \| Harry Litman \| Ian Madrigal Iranians Mourn Suleimani Then Demonstrate Against the Regime; Will There Be a Real or a Sham Trial in the Senate; The Buying of the Presidency by Billionaires backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
01.10.2020 January 9, 2020 - David Gleave \| Sarah Anderson \| Lawrence Korb Evidence the Iranians Shot Down a Ukrainian Airliner; Threat of War Rewards the CEO's of Defense Contractors; Pompeo's Arrogant and Disdainful Briefing of Congress backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
01.08.2020 January 8, 2020 - Suzanne Maloney \| Richard Flannigan \| Frank Bowman Iran "Stands Down" But the Long War Continues; Australia as the Chernobyl of the Climate Crisis; Has McConnell Outmaneuvered Pelosi? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
01.08.2020 January 7, 2020 - Stephen Pyne \| James Henry \| Nader Hashemi Australia: A Continent on Fire; The Mysterious Deaths of Trump's Bankers; Iran's Retaliation Appears Intent on Avoiding an Escalation backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
01.06.2020 January 6, 2020 - Hussein Banai \| Amir Rashidi \| Shibley Telhami Trump has the Opposition Inside Iran Rallying Around the Flag; The Possibility of a Retaliatory Cyberattack from Iran; A Proportional Response from Iran Coming Later Rather than Sooner? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
01.05.2020 January 5, 2020 - Lawrence Wilkerson \| Robert Baer \| Graham Fuller Will the Green Zone in Baghdad Become the Alamo?; The Long War With Iran Has Come to a Head; Us Foreign Policy by Assassination backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
01.02.2020 January 2, 2019 - Astra Taylor \| Wendy Brown An Examination of the Health of Our Democracy; The Survival of Democracy and the Rule of Law in Our Regressive and Reactionary World
01.01.2020 January 1, 2020 - Anand Giridharadas \| Robert Hockett \| Emily Guendelsberger The Elite Charade of Changing the World; An Adviser to AOC and Senators Sanders and Warren; The Realities of Our Sociopathic Economy
01.01.2020 December 31, 2019 - Douglas Rushkoff \| Stacy Mitchell \| Matt Stoller The Dystopian Reality of the Tech Industry; A Nation of Jesters in the Court of the Platform Kings; Reigning in the New Monopolies with Anti-Trust
12.30.2019 December 30, 2019 - Oliver Bullough \| Peter Pomerantsev \| Angela Stent Why Crooks and Thieves Rule Our World; The War Against Reality; The Country's Leading Expert on Russia
12.29.2019 December 29, 2019 - Chris Arnade \| Ian Haney Lopez \| Allen Frances A Portrait of the Underclass in Trump's America; How the Super Rich Use Racism in the Class War They Are Winning; The Deteriorating State of Our Weak Strongman
12.26.2019 December 26, 2019 - David Wallace-Wells \| Christopher Ketcham Saving Our Endangered Earth; Saving Our Public Lands
12.25.2019 December 25, 2019 - James Carroll \| Eric LeCompte Barr and Bannon's War on the Pope; The Jewish and Christian Tradition of Forgiving Debts and Freeing Slaves Every 7 Years
12.24.2019 December 24, 2019 - Anthea Butler \| Frank Schaeffer Evangelical Leaders Flock to Trump's Defense; A Former Leader of the Religious Right on the Corruption of the Evangelical Movement
12.23.2019 December 23, 2019 - Lisa Graves \| Michael German \| Joel Clement Could Public Pressure Force McConnell to Conduct a Fair Trial with Witnesses?; Trump's War on the FBI; The Assault and Plunder of Our Public Lands backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.22.2019 December 22, 2019 - Ruth Ben-Ghiat \| Jennifer Mercieca \| Glenn Carle Trump Uses His Lies to Create a New Reality; Trump Uses the Rhetorical Techniques of Demagogues; Former US Intelligence Officers Believe Trump is a "Controlled Spy" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.20.2019 December 19, 2019 - Jeremi Suri \| Andrew Bacevich \| John Laurence Pelosi Delays Impeachment to Get a Fair Trial in the Senate; Andrew Bacevich on How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory; Nancy Pelosi Has Emerged as the Democrats Indispensable Leader backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.19.2019 December 18, 2019 - Laurence Tribe \| Beverly Gage \| John Nichols Laurence Tribe on Today's Impeachment; Webster's Alarm That Trump Will Fire His Second FBI Director; Republicans Purge 234,000 Voters in Key Swing State of Wisconsin backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.18.2019 December 17, 2019 - Jonah Gelbach \| Siva Vaidhyanathan \| Alex Lawson Calling the Republicans' Bluff on Impeachment; Zuckerberg and Thiel's Secret Meetings with Trump; Trump's Brazen Stealth Attack on Social Security backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.17.2019 December 16, 2019 - Sumit Ganguly \| Rachel Cleetus \| Julia Davis Riots Across India Against Modi's Hindu Nationalism; What Went Wrong at the Madrid Climate Talks; Russia's State Media Gloats at Putin's Control of Trump backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.15.2019 December 15, 2019 - Andrew Revkin \| Kate Aronoff \| Stephany Griffith Jones The Disappointing Madrid Climate Talks Scuttled by Big Polluters; The Real Lessons from Labour's Loss in the UK; The Economic Consequences of Getting Brexit Done backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.13.2019 December 12, 2019 - Mark Kleiman \| Anne Nelson \| Robert Hockett Trump Brands Criticism of Israel on Campuses Antisemitism; The Author of "Shadow Network: Media, Money and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right; The Gloves Are off Between Moderate and Progressive Democratic Candidates backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.12.2019 December 11, 2019 - Jack Laperruque \| Wendy Brown \| Toby Miller Senator Graham Explodes Over the Steele Dossier; A New Vision of the Left to Blunt Barr's Reactionary Moralism; Will Boris "Get Brexit Done" Thanks to Corbyn's Lackluster Campaign backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.11.2019 December 10, 2019 - Scott Horton \| Adam Klasfeld \| James Poniewozik The Senate Impeachment Trial May Not Be the Circus Trump Wants; The Republicans Throw the Kitchen Sink; How Trump Jumped Off the Cereal Box to the Highest Political Office backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.10.2019 December 9, 2019 - Asha Rangappa \| Kenneth McCallion \| Thomas Barfield The Report by the IG of the DOJ Refutes Trump's "Deep State" Lie; The Futility of Trying to Educate Trump's Base; The Pentagon Papers of the Afghanistan Fiasco backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.08.2019 December 8, 2019 - Caroline Fredrickson \| Moira Donegan \| Ali al-Ahmed The Case to Keep the Focus of the Impeachment Case Narrow; Is Nancy Pelosi Bungling the Impeachment Case?; The Role of Saudi Wahhabi Islam in Motivating the Pensacola Killer backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.06.2019 December 5, 2019 - Harry Litman \| James Stewart \| Maria Victoria Murillo Pelosi Announces the Impeachment of Trump Is Going Forward; Inside Trump's War with the FBI; The Danger of Turning to Generals to Solve Political Crises backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.05.2019 December 4, 2019 - Corey Brettschneider \| John Stoehr \| Michael Klare Dueling Legal Scholars and Overheated Republican Rhetoric; "When Does Ordinary Republican Partisanship Turn Into Treason?"; The Pentagon's Reality-Based Approach to Global Warming backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.04.2019 December 3, 2019 - Casey Michel \| Jack Blum \| Nina Burliegh The House Intelligence Report Delivered to the House Judiciary Committee; Court Orders Release of Trump's Dealings with Two Banks; Trump No Longer Knows the Disgraced Prince Andrew backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.03.2019 November 2, 2019 - Daniel Kelemen \| Harold Meyerson \| Abbas Milani Will NATO's 70th Anniversary Be a Celebration or a Conflagration?; Bullock Exits but Will Not Pick up a Senate Seat for the Democrats; The Brutal Crackdown by Iran's Corrupt and Cruel Clerics backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.01.2019 December 1, 2019 - Michael Mann \| Juan Cole \| Mike Lux Pelosi Represents America at the Madrid Climate Conference; The Growing Schism Between Iran and Iraq; Trump's SEC Plans to Silence Shareholders backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.28.2019 November 28, 2019 - Stephan Schwartz \| Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Thanksgiving as an Opportunity for Families to Discuss Their Future and the Future of the Planet; Investigative the Origins and Myths of Thanksgiving
11.28.2019 November 27, 2019 - Reverend Billy \| Roger Morris \| Victor Pickard A Thanksgiving Sermon from the Reverend Billy of the Stop Shopping Choir; From Nixon to Trump, Impeachment and a Comparison of Their National Security Councils; Can We Have Media That Informs, Not Sells and Manipulates? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.26.2019 November 26, 2019 - Robert Baer \| Richard Parker \| David Dayen Only Trumps Taxes and the CI File on Him Will Remove Him from Office; Can Trump Be Impeached on the Evidence So Far?; Is a New Progressive Democratic Party Emerging That Does Not Need Wall Street or Corporate America?
11.26.2019 November 25, 2019 - Thomas Nichols \| Austin Evers \| Rob Ford The Firing of the Secretary of the Navy; The Clear paper Trail Between Giuliani, Pompeo and the Oval Office; Labour Leader Corbyn's "Neutral Stance" on Brexit backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.24.2019 November 24, 2019 - Angela Stent \| Sherrod Brown \| Lisa Graves Dr. Fiona Hill's Mentor; Senator Sherrod Brown on a New Progressive Era; Can the Democrats Prevent Trump Putting Another Reactionary on the Supreme Court? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.22.2019 November 21, 2019 - James Goldgeier \| Dr. Arye Carmon \| Ryan Cooper Fiona Hill Nails Trump's Pursuit of "A Domestical Political Errand"; Netanyahu Charged with Bribery, Fraud and Breach of Trust; Last Night's Lowest-Rated Democratic Presidential Candidates' Debate backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.21.2019 November 20, 2019 - Heather Hurlburt \| James Lamond \| Virginia Tilley Sondland Implicates Trump, Pence, Pompeo, Perry and Mulvaney; Republican Conspiracies Have Hillary Clinton Hacking Into Her Own Emails?; The Republican Onslaught of Inane Babble and Shrieking Stupidities backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.20.2019 November 19, 2019 - Marc Sandalow \| Robert Mackey \| Edward McCafferey November 19, 2019 - Marc Sandalow \| Robert Mackey \| Edward McCafferey by Ian Masters
11.18.2019 November 18, 2019 - Khaled Elgindy \| Rachel VanLandingham \| Nader Hashemi Trump Further Weakens Palestinians' Claims for Statehood; Our Tough Guy President Pardons Murderers and War Criminals; Leaked Iranian Intelligence Documents Expose Iran's Control Over Iraq backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.17.2019 November 17, 2019 - Malcolm Nance \| Philip Shenon \| David Redlawsk Trump's Actions in Ukraine Serve Putin's Interest, Not America's; AG Barr's Opus Dei Agenda Threatens the US Constitution's Separation of Church and State; An Analysis of Mayer Pete's Surge in Iowa backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.14.2019 November 14, 2019 - Frank Bowman \| Michael E. Hayden \| Lisel Hintz Democrats Lay the Groundwork for Impeachment; Stephen Miller's Racism Revealed; Erdogan Gets Lindsey Graham to Ditch the Kurds and Back the House Armenian Genocide Bill backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.14.2019 November 13, 2019 - Will Jordan \| Adele Stan \| William Yeomans Today's Fact Witnesses and the Republican's Alternative Reality; The "Journalist" Who Makes Up the Stories the White House Spins; Do the Democrats Have the Best Case of Presidential Abuse of Power? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.13.2019 November 12, 2019 - Luke Harding \| Christopher Sabatini \| Julian Zelizer Boris Johnson Suppresses a Report on Russian Meddling in the UK; The Ignominious Exit of Morales Who Claims He is a Victim of a Coup; Will Republicans Try to Disrupt, Distract or Even Derail Tomorrow's Hearings? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.11.2019 November 11, 2019 - Lucian Truscott \| Phillip Butler Why Haven't Trump's Generals, The "Adults", Spoken Out?; A Highly Decorated Veteran on Our "Bone Spur" Commander-in-Chief backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.10.2019 November 10, 2019 - Anders Åslund \| Darrell West \| Peter Pomerantsev NSC Officials Fight Trump to Defend Ukraine; Billionaires Running in a Race Tilted Against Billionaires; An Expert on the War Against Reality backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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