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April 29, 2024 - Raz Segal | Dennis Aftergut | Sumit Ganguly
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - April 29, 2024 20:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsThe Weaponization of Anti Semitism Against Students Protesting on American Campuses | The Strength of the Only Trial That May End Up Holding Trump to Account Before the Election | Elections Underway in the World's Largest Democracy and the Dark Side Modi's India backgroundbriefing.org/donate twit...
April 28, 2024 - Lara Friedman | Leah Litman | Allan Lichtman
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - April 28, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsThe House and Senate Moves to Strip Non-Profit Status From Foundations That Support Palestinian Causes | The Damage the Supreme Court is Doing to the Rule of Law by Making Trump Above the Law | Biden's Reelection Chances According to a Prediction System That Has Got Every Presidential Election Ri...
April 25, 2024 - Aziz Huq | Aynne Kokas | David Austin Walsh
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - April 25, 2024 19:16 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsMore Special Treatment of Trump by the Supreme Court | Implications of Biden's TikTok Ban | The Enduring Relationship Between the Far-Right and Conservative Movements of "Responsible" and "Respectable" Republicans backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
April 24, 2024 - George Beebe | Dr. Rob Davidson | Ari Berman
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - April 24, 2024 20:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsSupreme Court Anti-Abortion Ideologues Threaten Access to Emergency Care | The Search For Diplomatic Openings as the War in Ukraine Escalates | Trump's Republican Party Makes it Clear the GOP Would Rather Cheat Than Compete Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green
April 24, 2024 - Nina Burleigh | Sidney Blumenthal | Garrett Epps
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - April 23, 2024 20:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsTrump's History of Using and Abusing Women | The Pathetic Man on Display in the Courtroom as a Far Cry From the MAGA Faithful's Superhero | Will SCOTUS Undermine the 8th Amendment's Protection For the Homeless Against Cruel and Unusual Punishment? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmast...
April 23, 2024 - Nina Burleigh | Sidney Blumenthal | Garrett Epps
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - April 23, 2024 20:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsTrump's History of Using and Abusing Women | The Pathetic Man on Display in the Courtroom as a Far Cry From the MAGA Faithful's Superhero | Will SCOTUS Undermine the 8th Amendment's Protection For the Homeless Against Cruel and Unusual Punishment? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmast...
April 22, 2024 - Alexander Sammon | Anne Nelson | Natalie Foster
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - April 22, 2024 21:16 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsArrests of Students Protesting the War in Gaza Spread From Columbia to Yale | The Optics of Trump on Trial in New York; a President Off His Pedestal Defending Sleazy Criminal Behavior | A Positive Case For America's Next Economy Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Ev...
April 21, 2024 - Aram Shabanian | Nataliya Gumenyuk | Steven Simon
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - April 21, 2024 16:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsMeeting Ukraine's Needs as Russia Mobilizes for a June Offensive | How Ukraine Will Survive and Adjust to Permanent War | The Deadly War in Gaza and Israel's Tenuous Standoff With Iran as Both Israel and Palestine Appear to be Leaderless and Directionless backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com...
April 18, 2024 - Illia Ponomarenko | Scott Horton | Steven Greenhouse
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - April 18, 2024 21:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsA View From Ukraine as the Fate of Their Country Hangs in the Hands of Mike Johnson and Marjorie Taylor Greene | Jurors Quit the Trump Trial as the Criminal Defendant Tests the Gag Orders | As Billionaires Try to Kill the NLRB, the UAW Makes Gains in the South backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitte...
April 17, 2024 - Rebecca Roiphe | Anders Åslund | Chuck Marr
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - April 17, 2024 21:08 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsThe Prologue to the Trump Criminal Trial Underway in Which AG Barr Went Out of His Way to Protect "Individual 1" | Is Mike Johnson Serious About Aiding Ukraine or Following Trump and Putin's Orders? | Biden's Tax Plan in Contrast to Trump's Giveaway to Billionaires backgroundbriefing.org/donate t...
Diverse Intelligences Surprises with Dr. Frans de Waal & Dr. Michael Levin
Stories of Impact - April 17, 2024 12:08 - 29 minutesIn today's episode, we meet Dr. Frans de Waal, Emory University and Utrecht University primatologist Dr. Frans de Waal, a trailblazer in the science of animal cognition, and Dr. Michael Levin, distinguished professor of biology at Tufts University and associate faculty member at Harvard's Wyss I...
Diverse Intelligences Surprises with Dr. Franc de Waal & Dr. Michael Levin
Stories of Impact - April 17, 2024 12:08 - 29 minutesIn today's episode, we meet Dr. Frans de Waal, Emory University and Utrecht University primatologist Dr. Frans de Waal, a trailblazer in the science of animal cognition, and Dr. Michael Levin, distinguished professor of biology at Tufts University and associate faculty member at Harvard's Wyss I...
April 16, 2024 - Assal Rad | Mansour Farhang | Claire Finkelstein
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - April 16, 2024 19:48 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsA Look Inside Iran as Its People Wait For Israel's Retaliation Which Could Lead to a Wider War | The Symbiosis Between Israel's Hardline PM and Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei | An Assessment of Today's Oral Argument That Could Result in the Supreme Court Undoing Charges Against Trump and the J6 Insurr...
April 15, 2024 - Adam Weinstein | Jennifer Taub | Joshua Ferrer
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - April 15, 2024 21:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsBiden Meets With Iraq's PM Over Concerns That US Troops in Iraq and Syria Are Vulnerable if Israel Retaliates Against Iran | The First Day of Trump's NY Trial and the Possibility of a Trumpster on the Jury Causing a Mistrial as Happened in the Bannon "We Build the Wall" Fraud Case | The Record Nu...
April 14, 2024 - Nicholas Heras | Lisa Graves | Paul Glastris
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - April 14, 2024 16:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsIran's Theatrical Response to the Israeli Strike and the Fear of Netanyahu Escalating | Finally the Architect of the Far-Right Takeover of the US Judiciary | An Assessment of the Trump vs Biden Records of Achievement backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmaster...
April 11, 2024 - Dr. Nancy Okail | Ellis Krauss | Stephen Lemons
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - April 11, 2024 21:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsIsrael's AI Tools "Gospel", "Lavender" and "Where's Daddy" Are Being Used For Targeted Assassinations in Gaza | Increased Cooperation Between the U.S., Japan and The Philippines' Militaries Tops the White House Summit Agenda | An Assessment of the Political Damage to Arizona Republicans From the ...
April 10, 2024 - Jessica Mason Pieklo | Caroline Fredrickson | James Risen
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - April 10, 2024 21:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsThe Arizona Supreme Court Takes the State Back to 1864 Before it Was a State With a Draconian Abortion Law | The Left/Right Coalition Refusing to Re-Authorize FISA With MAGA Republicans Doing So Because Trump Thinks it Was Used to Spy on Him | The Fatal Combination of Passivity in the Electorate ...
Protecting Human Rights: The Role of NGOs in Today’s Landscape
Humanities Matter by Brill - April 10, 2024 14:00 - 43 minutesAs global crises have time and time again demonstrated, NGOs play an invaluable role in the protection and promotion of human rights. But what exactly does this role entail? How do NGOs fulfil their responsibilities while adapting to technological, commercial, and legal landscape shifts? And fin...
April 9, 2024 - Laurie Levenson | Miles Taylor | Michael Graetz
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - April 09, 2024 19:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsDid Trump's Lawyers Mislead the NY Appeals Court to Get a Lower Bond? | As Trump Encourages Secession and Threatens Civil War, He Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving to China and Russia | How Billionaires Who Don't Pay Taxes Use Their Surplus Money to Buy Politicians to Lower Their Taxes Even Furthe...
April 8, 2024 - Renee Hobbs | Dr. Allen Frances | Kevin Carey
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - April 08, 2024 23:17 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsApril 8, 2024 - Renee Hobbs | Dr. Allen Frances | Kevin Carey by Ian Masters
April 7, 2024 - Nader Hashemi | Jeff Colgan | Robert Hockett
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - April 07, 2024 17:07 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsIran's vow to Retaliate Against an Israeli Strike Could Lead to a Wider War Biden is Trying to Avoid | With MbS and Trump Talking, What Could They Do to Jack Up Gas Prices to Hurt Biden's Reelection? | Good Economic News as Janet Yellen Tries to Get a Level Playing Field With China backgroundbrie...
April 4, 2024 - Ryan Cooper | Dr. Lawrence Rosenthal | Tommy Miles
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - April 04, 2024 19:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsTrump's Piety in Contrast to the Porn he Faces and the Cruelty and Hatred he Displays | The 100 Right Wing Tax-Exempt Organizations With Over $2 Billion to Elect Trump | AFRICOM Loses Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali and Niger to the Russians backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia fa...
April 3, 2024 - Harry Litman | John Stoehr | Jeet Heer
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - April 03, 2024 21:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsJack Smith's Shot Across the Bow at the Trump-Friendly Judge on the Classified Documents Case | The Florida Supreme Court's 6 Week Abortion Ban and a Ballot Initiative to Enshrine Abortion Access in the Florida State Constitution | "Why Silicon Valley Reactionaries Love RFK Jr." Host: Ian Masters...
April 2, 2024 - Sarah Leah Whitson | Thanassis Cambanis | Ahmet Yayla
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - April 02, 2024 20:01 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsIsrael's Killing of 7 Aid Workers Who Were Feeding Starving Gazans Sparks International Outrage | Will Israel's Strike on an Iranian Consulate That Killed Top IRGC Officials Provoke a Wider War? | What the US Could Learn From the Electoral Rebuke of Erdogan's Dictatorship and Kleptocracy backgrou...
Humor in Apes
Stories of Impact - April 02, 2024 12:18 - 23 minutesAny sentient, soulful being paying attention to the way humans are treating other humans has been feeling these hard times. But sometimes, amidst all this darkness, humor can offer a little bit of hope. Today we're back with a friend of the podcast, Dr. Erica Cartmill. You might remember her f...
April 1, 2024 - Michael Weiss | Marci Shore | Steven Hahn
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - April 01, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsNew evidence on "Havana Syndrome" Links the GRU's Assassination Unit 29155 to Mysterious Attacks on U.S. Officials and Their Families | A Scholar Just Back From Ukraine on the Heroism of Ukraine and the Nihilism of Mike Johnson | Trump's Illiberalism is Not a Departure But a Recurring Theme in Am...
March 31, 2024 - Annelle Sheline | Peter Pomerantsev | Martin Sixsmith
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - March 31, 2024 16:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsThe State Department Officer With Feds United for Peace Who Resigned to Protest US Complicity in Israel's War on Gaza | The Success of Propaganda as a Third of Americans Now Believe Trump's Big Lie | Putin's Evolution From Democrat to Despot backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmed...
Ann Marie Flanagan - Disability Rights Champion
Love and Courage - March 30, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsAnn Marie Flanagan is a disabled human rights activist from County Clare in the west of Ireland. Growing up in a tight-knit, supportive community, she says attitudes towards her physical impairment were generally inclusive. However, that changed when Ann Marie hit the age of 12 and entered secon...
March 27, 2024 - Jacob Silverman | Fred Turner | Brian Concannon
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - March 27, 2024 20:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsPlutocrats Are Backing Trump, Not Because They Like Him, But to Extend Trump's Tax Cuts For the Ultra-Rich | RFK Jr's Pick For His Running Mate Has Deep Pockets But a Shallow Resume | Guns and Ammo From the US Fuel Anarchy in Haiti backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia faceboo...
March 26, 2024 - Jon Hoffman | Michele Goodwin | Jay Ritter
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - March 26, 2024 20:33 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsIs Israel Becoming a Strategic Liability For the United States? | Today's Oral Arguments Before the Supreme Court on a Nationwide Ban of a Medication Abortion Drug | After Today's Trading, Trump's Essentially Worthless Company is Suddenly Worth $15 Billion? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.c...
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