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   Number 1: August 19, 2026 - Paul Waldman | Craig Aaron | Sean Freeder

   Trump's "Binky: The Closest Person to Him Who Feeds Our President Far-Right Conspiratorial Fabrication | How Brendan Carr Wants Putin-Style Media in America Devoted to Our "Dear Leader" | The Results of the Florida Primaries Have a DSA Candidate For Senate Winning and Two Of Trump's Picks Losing backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

   August 19, 2026·1h 3min
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   Number 2: August 23, 2026 - Dr. Thaer Ahmad & Dr. Feroze Sidhwa | Sidney Blumenthal

   Two Subjects of American Doctor, a Film That Makes Us Face Our Complicity in Gaza | How The Tate Brothers Fan Barron Trump Helped Get Out the Manosphere Vote in 2024 Which Has Now Turned Against Trump backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

   August 23, 2026·1h 15min
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   Number 3: August 26, 2026 - Gregory Treverton | Robert Kuttner | Sacoby Wilson

   Trump Bought Into Netanyahu's War Against the Advice of His Top Intel and Military Officials | The Gospel of Love Enters Political Campaigns Against Trump, Miller, Harp, Johnson, Vance and Hegseth's Gospel of Hate | Environmental Racism Has the Majority Black City of Gary, Indiana in the Dark As the State's White Republicans Invite in 121 Data Centers to Suck Up All the Electricity backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

   August 26, 2026·1h 4min
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   Number 4: August 24, 2026 - Stephen Marche | Hossein Askari | Gil Duran

   Trump Wages the "Dumbest Trade War In History" Against Canada | Treasury Secretary Bessent Declares Economic Warfare on Iran, Likening it to D Day Promising the IRGC Will Not Kill Their Own People Like When East Germans Rose Up and the Berlin Wall Fell | Gil Duran on His New Book The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

   August 24, 2026·1h 3min
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   Number 5: August 31, 2026 - Sasha Abramsky | William Hartung | Javier Corrales

   The Same DHS Trying to Rig the Election For Trump, Increases Its Cruelty, Sending Haitians Back to a Failed State Run By Violent Gangs | Pentagon Leaders Try to Stop Hegseth Escalating a War He's Lost But Claimed He Won Many Times | Trump's $100 Billion Venezuelan Oil Deal With an Illegitimate Leader and a Shady Businessman Accused of Money Laundering and Black Market Oil Sales backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

   August 31, 2026·1h 3min
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