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How Dark Money Put Barrett and Her Predecessors on Our Highest Court | As We Intrude on Nature With Ecological Disruption, Expect More Pandemics | Erdogan's Son-in-law's Drones Tip the Balance in the War Over Nagorno-Karabakh backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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10.27.2020 October 26, 2020 - Anne Nelson \| Dr. Angela Rasmussen \| Max Hoffman How Dark Money Put Barrett and Her Predecessors on Our Highest Court \| As We Intrude on Nature With Ecological Disruption, Expect More Pandemics \| Erdogan's Son-in-law's Drones Tip the Balance in the War Over Nagorno-Karabakh backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
10.25.2020 October 25, 2020 - Andrew Feinberg \| Jonathan Metzl \| Sean Lyngaas Trump Just Rigged a Booby Trap to Cripple a Biden Administration \| Trump's Debate Dog Whistles and the Politics of White Anxiety \| The FSB's "Energetic Bear" Probes Networks to Disrupt Election Results backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
10.22.2020 October 22, 2020 - Allen Frances \| Josh Douglas \| David Rothkopf If Biden Gets Under His Skin, Will Trump Have a Meltdown in Tonight's Debate? \| Why Did the Supreme Court Uphold Voter Suppression in Alabama? \| America's History of Treason Confirms Trump is a Traitor
10.22.2020 October 21, 2020 - Lee Gelernt \| Mary Jane Mudd \| Jared Yates Sexton Parents of 545 Immigrant Children Separated at the Border Can't Be Found \| As More Democrats Vote in Texas, Voter Suppression Ramps Up \| Challenging Our Foundational Myths to Make Us More Clear Eyed and Patriotic backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
10.20.2020 October 20, 2020 - Frank Clemente \| Andrew Nathan \| Barry Lynn As Americans Suffer the Pandemic Billionaires' Wealth Increases by $931 Billion \| China Wants Trump, The Gift That Keeps On Giving, Reelected \| Today's First Blow Against Monopoly Power
10.19.2020 October 19, 2020 - Lydia Camarillo \| Anders Aslund \| Jack Fong Record Turnouts Underway For Early Voting in Texas In Spite of Voter Suppression \| Giuliani's Phony Biden Dossier Manufactured by Russian Intelligence \| Pro-Democracy Young Thais Protest a King Backed by the Military backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
10.18.2020 October 18, 2020 - Dr. Ian Lipkin \| Ruth Ben Ghiat \| Carl Hoffman We Need Dr. Fauci More Than Ever as Trump Embraces Quackery \| Trump, The Ill Strongmen on the White House Balcony \| Inside the World of Q-Anon and Trump's Deadly Conspiracies backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
10.15.2020 October 15, 2020 - Dr. Irwin Redlener \| John Stoehr \| Tom Burgis The Author of the Open Letter to Trump's Top Doctors Asking Them to Step Down and Speak Up \| The SCOTUS Confirmation Ritual of Refusing to Answer Key Questions Then Ruling as Their Critics Feared \| The FT's Investigative Journalist ...
10.15.2020 October 14, 2020 - Mary McCord \| Thomas Bollyky \| Grace Blakeley Trump Calls Out His "Army" to the Polls Just As He Called on His Militias to "Liberate" Michigan and Virginia \| Trump's Herd Immunity Strategy is Exactly What He Has Been Doing to Stop the Pandemic - NOTHING \| How ...
10.13.2020 October 13, 2020 - Zalman Rothschild \| John Myers \| Stephen Wertheim In Spite of Routine Assurances Politics Play No Role, Judges' Politics Sway Their Decisions \| The Battle Over Ballot Boxes in California \| The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy and Whether the Republic Will Survive the Empire backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
10.13.2020 October 12, 2020 - Christopher Leonard \| Thomas Csordas \| Alexander Keyssar Charles Koch is Funding Amy Coney Barrett to Overturn Restrictions on Carbon Pollution Dooming the Planet \| Why This Nice Lady Amy Coney Barrett is So Dangerous \| The Long Effort to Get Rid of the Electoral College backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia ...
10.11.2020 October 11, 2020 - John Nichols \| Paul Wood \| Rick Perlstein Congress is Supposed to Play a Key Role in Invoking the 25th Amendment \| Was Saudi, Emirati and Russian Money Funneled into Trump's 2016 Campaign Via Micropayments? \| Republican Rats Are Deserting the Sinking SS Trump backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
10.08.2020 October 8, 2020 - Thomas Mockaitis \| David Phillips \| Jean Guerrero Trump's Encouragement of Militia's Takes A Deadly Turn \| Erdogan Has to Be Stopped But Trump Ignores the New Armenian Genocide \| How Stephen Miller Has Crippled DHS's Ability to Protect the Homeland backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
10.07.2020 October 7, 2020 - Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox \| Rebecca Lissner \| Chelsea Jane A Former Catholic Theologian's Open Letter to Amy Coney Barrett \| Reimagining, Not Restoring a New Post-Trump Liberal International Order \| How Will Kamala Harris Handle Mike Pence? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
10.06.2020 October 6, 2020 - Robert Hockett \| John Barry \| Sarah Chayes Trump Stiffs Needy Americans and Struggling Businesses to Get Barrett on the Court \| Our Mussolini Gasps For Air While Projecting Strength Over a Virus he Claims to Have Conquered \| On Corruption in America backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
10.06.2020 October 5, 2020 - Victoria Nourse \| Natasha Sarin \| Lawrence Douglas Will Amy Coney Barrett Go Down in History as the "Typhoid Mary" of the Supreme Court? \| How the IRS is Outgunned and How to Make the Rich Pay Their Taxes \| The Author of Will He Go? Trump and ...
10.04.2020 October 4, 2020 - Dr. Kavita Patel \| Allan Lichtman \| Kurt Andersen Evasion Over Trump's Health and Capability to Carry Out His Duties \| Trump Has Failed to Lie the Pandemic Away \| How Plutocrats and Their Enablers Captured the U.S. and How Americans Can Take Back Their Country
10.01.2020 October 1, 2020 - Robert Mackey \| Lisa Graves \| Jennifer Taub Will Law Enforcement Protect Voters From Trump's MAGA Militias Harassing Them at the Polls? \| Roberts, Kavanaugh and Barrett all Worked to Stop the Count in Florida 2000, Will They Do It Again? \| The Hidden Cost of White Collar ...
09.30.2020 September 30, 2020 - Nicole Hemmer \| Amanda Marcotte \| Edward McCaffery Trump Turned Last Night's Debate Into a National Shame and an International Embarrassment \| Trump's Bullying Was Meant to Drown Out the Truth \| The Impact of the Trump Tax Scandal on the Debate backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
09.29.2020 September 29, 2020 - David Cay Johnston \| Leslie Samuels \| Jennifer Mercieca Trump's MO of Lying, Cheating and Stealing to Tie up IRS Auditors for Years Until They Give up and Cry Uncle \| Congress's Gutting of the IRS's Revenue Collection Capabilities \| Ahead of Tonight's Debate, Will Biden Get Tough While ...
09.28.2020 September 28, 2020 - Kimberly Clausing \| Gloria Steinem \| Paul Pillar Trump Exposed as a Spectacularly Inept Businessman and a Serial Tax Cheat \| Gloria Steinem on Her Friend, Hero and Guide Ruth Bader Ginsburg \| Following Robert Cardillo, It's Time For Mattis, McMaster, Tillerson and Kelly to Speak Upbackgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia ...
09.27.2020 September 27, 2020 - Malcolm Nance \| Lara Bazelon \| Massimo Faggioli A Top Intelligence Official Warns Trump Decisions Are Not Based on Real-World Facts But on What's Good For Him \| The Politics Behind the Choice of Amy Coney Barrett \| Religious Dogma's Influence on Barrett's Approach to the Law and ...
09.24.2020 September 24, 2020 - Col. Lawrence Wilkerson \| Norm Ornstein \| Richard Hasen Trump's Refusal to Commit to a Peaceful Transition of Power \| Trump's Plan to Steal a Close Election and Contest a Biden Landslide \| An Election Expert on Why He's Never Been More Worried backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
09.23.2020 September 23, 2020 - Oliver Bullough \| Dr. Pete Kraska \| Dr. Terry Madonna We Should Blame Politicians Who Accept Dirty Money More Than the Kleptocrats Who Bribe Them \| A Flagrant Miscarriage of Justice in Kentucky \| A Ruling in Pennsylvania Tosses 100,000 ballots in a Swing State Trump Won by 44,000 backgroundbriefing.org/donate ...
09.22.2020 September 22, 2020 - Will Fitzgibbon \| Mandy Smithberger \| Sean Roberts Prying Into a World Awash with Dirty Money Major Banks are Laundering \| The Pentagon Diverts Money for PPE to Engine Parts, Body Armor and Dress Uniforms \| Inside China's Cultural Genocide Against the Uyghurs backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
09.21.2020 September 21, 2020 - Robert Alexander \| Michael Coppedge \| Kevin Kumashiro How McConnell and Trump's Appointment to Replace RBG Will Backfire \| The Global "Dictator Drift" as the U.S. Undergoes "Substantial Autocratization" \| Trump's Call to "Restore Patriotic Education" is Intended to Whitewash and Rewrite Our History backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
09.20.2020 September 20, 2020 - Jim Manley \| Caroline Fredrickson \| James Fallows Trump and McConnell Move With Unseemly Haste to Fill RBG's Just-vacated Seat \| Opus Dei's Leonard Leo Gets his Sixth Pick to Stack the Supreme Court \| Has the Press Learned Anything After Billions in Free Advertising to Elect Trump ...
09.17.2020 September 17, 2020 - Joseph Lowndes \| Mark Sandel \| Shuja Nawaz When he Loses the Election Will Trump Call His Armed and Delusional Supporters to the Streets? \| The Dark Side of Meritocracy and the Need to Restore the Dignity of Work \| Chaos and War Will Follow Trump's Withdrawal from ...
09.16.2020 September 16, 2020 - Paul Waldman \| David Graham \| Ryan Cooper Trump Chokes on ABC's Town Hall Facing Real Questions From Ordinary Americans \| Silence From the White House and GOP on Caputo's Call to Arms For a Civil War in November \| The GOP's Affinity for Putin Who Runs a ...
09.15.2020 September 15, 2020 - Juan Cole \| Naomi Oreskes \| Valerie Trouet The Trump, Netanyahu, UAE and Bahrain Peace Deal is Actually an Arms Deal \| With the West of Fire, Trump Puts a Global Warming Denier in Charge of the Weather \| Ending Fire Suppression and Learning From the "Good Fires" ...
09.14.2020 September 14, 2020 - Daphne Wysham \| Meg Krawchuk \| David Vine Trump's Threat to Withhold Funds Unless States Follow his Advice to Rake the Forest Floor \| The Role of Winds and Power Lines in the Oregon Fires \| The 48 to 59 Million Displaced by the U.S. War on Terror ...
09.13.2020 September 13, 2020 - Peter Strzok \| Harry Litman The Person at the Eye of the Storm Heading up the "Crossfire Hurricane" Counterintelligence Investigation Into Trump/Russia Ties \| Growing Resistance Inside Barr's DOJ backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
09.10.2020 September 9, 2020 - Michael Greenberger \| Stanley Greenberg \| Susan Neiman Trump's Minions Bury Intelligence on How the Russians Are helping Reelect the Boss \| Trump is Losing His Base Who Are Suffering in the Healthcare Crisis He is Worsening \| How the Germans Confronted Their Past Evils Compared to Us ...
09.09.2020 September 9, 2020 - Lawrence Gostin \| LeRoy Westerling \| Dr. David Hill Our Spectacularly Stupid President Who Would Rather Let People Die Than Panic Them \| The Unprecedented Wildfires in California, Oregon and Washington \| An Expert on Voter Turnout backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
09.08.2020 September 8, 2020 - Ian Haney Lopez \| Fathali Moghaddam \| Dr. Michael McDonald Calling Out Trump's Racist Reelection Strategy \| Time For the Democrats to Get Tough With the Mafia Boss in the White House \| Senior Republicans Try to Stop Trump From Trashing Mail-in Balloting backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
09.07.2020 September 7, 2020 - Lawrence Mishel \| Janice Fine \| Dr. Harley Shaiken On Labor Day: The State of Working America \| The Disgraceful Growth of Wage Theft During the Pandemic \| According to a Recent Gallup Poll, 65% of Americans Approve of Labor Unions backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
09.06.2020 September 6, 2020 - Lucian Truscott \| Cynthia Miller-Idriss \| Benjamin Carter-Hett The Commander-in- Chief's Real Attitude Toward Those Who Serve Under Him \| The Mainstreaming of White Nationalism \| Similarities Between the 1930's and the Present backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
09.03.2020 September 3, 2020 - Arlie Hochschild \| James Risen \| Kai Strittmatter While Trump Offers Simplistic, Strongman Magic, Biden Must Show That Real Strength Does Not Depend on Magic \| The Overlooked Senate Intelligence Report Puts Mueller's Report to Shame \| China's Orwellian Digital Authoritarian Surveillance State backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
09.02.2020 September 2, 2020 - Pavel Felgenhauer \| Gregory Koblentz \| James Henry A Report From Moscow on the Poisoning of Navalny by Novichok \| Outrage in Europe at Putin the Poisoner But Silence From Trump \| Will The Trump Inaugural Committee's Corruption Ensnare Trump? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
09.01.2020 September 1, 2020 - Ruth Conniff \| John Dean \| Cynthia Schneider Trump's Unwelcome Visit to Kenosha \| John Dean on His New Book Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His Followers \| A Former U.S. Ambassador on the Kind of People Trump Sends Abroad to Represent Us backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
08.31.2020 August 31, 2020 - Jason Wilson \| Katrina Mulligan \| Geoffrey Kabaservice A Convoy of Far Right Trump Supporters Provoke Violence in Portland \| Trump Loyalists in Charge of Intelligence Hold Back Evidence of Foreign Interference in the Upcoming Election \| Was Biden Effective in Showing How Trump is Inflaming Tensions to ...
08.30.2020 August 30, 2020 - Carl Hoffman \| Matthew Rothschild \| MIke German Why Trump Loves Rallies in Which He Shares the Unhinged Belief Systems of His Cult-like Followers \| Will Biden Call Trump Out on His Cynical Game of Creating Civil Strife in Order to Benefit From It? \| The Author of ...
08.27.2020 August 27, 2020 - Mike Lofgren \| Sylvia Allegretto \| Alexander Zaitchik The Cult-like Quality of the GOP's Capitulation to Trumpism \| Economic Distress Grows With No Unemployment Benefits and Protection From Eviction \| How Big Pharma Price-Gouges on Drugs Taxpayers Invested Billions of R&D in backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
08.26.2020 August 26, 2020 - David Wallace-Wells \| Jean Guerrero As the West Burns 9 Times More CO2 Enters the Atmosphere Than All the Reductions From California's Green Initiatives \| The Malign Influence of Stephen Miller Who Follows His Mentor David Horowitz's Advice That "Fear Beats Hope" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
08.25.2020 August 25, 2020 - Thomas Nichols \| Harold Meyerson \| Joshua Green RNC Fantasy Night Has Trump a Decisive Leader Against the Pandemic \| RNC Diversity Night Showcases a Few Minority Faces Without the Usual 95% White Crowd \| Bannon Hopes For a Pardon Which is Unlikely to Come From Trump backgroundbriefing.org/donate ...
08.24.2020 August 24, 2020 - Sidney Blumenthal \| Will Bunch \| Lawrence Rosenthal The Trump No-Platform Know Nothing Party Convention \| QAnon Previews the Biden Resistance in Weekend Demonstrations \| The Author of Empire of Resentment: Populism's Toxic Embrace of Nationalism backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
08.23.2020 August 23, 2020 - Kavita Patel \| Douglas Rushkoff An Update On the State of the Pandemic and its Impact on the Election Campaigns \| How the Biggest Digital Companies are Decimating the Economy Turning People into Assets backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
08.20.2020 August 20, 2020 - Robert Kuttner \| Carol Anderson \| Melissa Ryan Can Biden's Big Tent Paper Over Differences of Policy and Principal? \| Voter suppression Never Went Away. It Evolved \| Trump All But Endorses the QAnon Conspiracy Cult backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
08.19.2020 August 19, 2020 - Robert Draper \| Scott Horton \| Kristen Clarke How Trump Wore Down the Intelligence Community \| The Explosive Report From the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee \| Suing Trump and DeJoy to Stop the Weaponizing of the USPS Against Americans' Need to Vote backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
08.18.2020 August 18, 2020 - John Nichols \| Moira Donega \| Mohamad Bazzi An Assessment of the First Night of the Democrat's Virtual Convention \| The 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment \| How Do the Lebanese People Break Free From the Sectarian Warlords? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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