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Background Briefing with Ian Masters

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Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news, expert guests, policymakers, and critics offering analysis and insight on national security, foreign and domestic policy, political, cultural, and social issues.
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April 24, 2024 - George Beebe | Dr. Rob Davidson | Ari Berman

April 24, 2024 20:55 - 1 hour - 82.9 MB

Supreme 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 23, 2024 - Nina Burleigh | Sidney Blumenthal | Garrett Epps

April 23, 2024 20:18 - 1 hour - 85.1 MB

Trump'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/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

April 24, 2024 - Nina Burleigh | Sidney Blumenthal | Garrett Epps

April 23, 2024 20:18 - 1 hour - 85.1 MB

Trump'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/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

April 22, 2024 - Alexander Sammon | Anne Nelson | Natalie Foster

April 22, 2024 21:16 - 59 minutes - 82.2 MB

Arrests 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: Evan Green

April 21, 2024 - Aram Shabanian | Nataliya Gumenyuk | Steven Simon

April 21, 2024 16:54 - 1 hour - 88.2 MB

Meeting 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/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

April 18, 2024 - Illia Ponomarenko | Scott Horton | Steven Greenhouse

April 18, 2024 21:37 - 1 hour - 85.5 MB

A 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 twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

April 17, 2024 - Rebecca Roiphe | Anders Åslund | Chuck Marr

April 17, 2024 21:08 - 59 minutes - 81.6 MB

The 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 twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

April 16, 2024 - Assal Rad | Mansour Farhang | Claire Finkelstein

April 16, 2024 19:48 - 56 minutes - 78.4 MB

A 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 Insurrectionists backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

April 15, 2024 - Adam Weinstein | Jennifer Taub | Joshua Ferrer

April 15, 2024 21:20 - 1 hour - 83.1 MB

Biden 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 Numbers of Election Officials Quitting Under Threats From the "Stop the Steal" Lies backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

April 14, 2024 - Nicholas Heras | Lisa Graves | Paul Glastris

April 14, 2024 16:41 - 1 hour - 87.5 MB

Iran'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/ianmastersmedia

April 11, 2024 - Dr. Nancy Okail | Ellis Krauss | Stephen Lemons

April 11, 2024 21:33 - 1 hour - 83 MB

Israel'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 1864 Abortion Ban backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

April 10, 2024 - Jessica Mason Pieklo | Caroline Fredrickson | James Risen

April 10, 2024 21:31 - 1 hour - 83.4 MB

The 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 and Trump's Impunity Could End American Democracy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

April 9, 2024 - Laurie Levenson | Miles Taylor | Michael Graetz

April 09, 2024 19:38 - 1 hour - 83.2 MB

Did 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 Further backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

April 8, 2024 - Renee Hobbs | Dr. Allen Frances | Kevin Carey

April 08, 2024 23:17 - 59 minutes - 54 MB

April 8, 2024 - Renee Hobbs | Dr. Allen Frances | Kevin Carey by Ian Masters

April 7, 2024 - Nader Hashemi | Jeff Colgan | Robert Hockett

April 07, 2024 17:07 - 59 minutes - 82.4 MB

Iran'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 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

April 4, 2024 - Ryan Cooper | Dr. Lawrence Rosenthal | Tommy Miles

April 04, 2024 19:23 - 1 hour - 85 MB

Trump'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 facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

April 3, 2024 - Harry Litman | John Stoehr | Jeet Heer

April 03, 2024 21:22 - 1 hour - 83.3 MB

Jack 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 Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green

April 2, 2024 - Sarah Leah Whitson | Thanassis Cambanis | Ahmet Yayla

April 02, 2024 20:01 - 59 minutes - 82.1 MB

Israel'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 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

April 1, 2024 - Michael Weiss | Marci Shore | Steven Hahn

April 01, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour - 83.6 MB

New 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 American History backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

March 31, 2024 - Annelle Sheline | Peter Pomerantsev | Martin Sixsmith

March 31, 2024 16:51 - 1 hour - 145 MB

The 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/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

March 27, 2024 - Jacob Silverman | Fred Turner | Brian Concannon

March 27, 2024 20:59 - 1 hour - 140 MB

Plutocrats 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 facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

March 26, 2024 - Jon Hoffman | Michele Goodwin | Jay Ritter

March 26, 2024 20:33 - 56 minutes - 129 MB

Is 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.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

March 25, 2024 - Robert Young Pelton | Dr. Trita Parsi | Lloyd Green

March 25, 2024 19:54 - 1 hour - 140 MB

A Look at the Islamic State's Global Terrorist Franchises While Putin Tries to Shift the Blame Onto Ukraine | Will The US Help Implement the UN Ceasefire Resolution Which For the First Time It Did Not Veto? | Today's Lifeline Thrown to Trump Reducing His Bond Down From $454 Million to $175 Million backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

March 24, 2024 - James Thurber | James Henry | Alec Bertina

March 24, 2024 16:53 - 1 hour - 149 MB

The Do-Nothing Congress Descends Into the Chaos Congress | Could Billions Made Out of Nothing Pumped Into Truth Social Rescue Trump Tomorrow? | While Putin Has His Security Services Going After Gays and Lesbians He Prioritizes as Terrorists, Real Terrorists Strike Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green

March 21, 2024 - Nathan Schneider | Thomas Mockaitis | Dr. Lance Dodes

March 21, 2024 21:17 - 1 hour - 138 MB

Can the Public Own Giant Tech Companies Who Operate as Monopolies? | In a Major Shift, the US Drafts a UN Resolution For an Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza and a Hostage Deal | The Ethical Obligation to Warn the Public About Trump's Dementia backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

March 20, 2024 - Dov Waxman | James Zirin | Robert Sapolsky

March 20, 2024 21:07 - 1 hour - 142 MB

While Kushner's Callous Remarks on the Value of Beachfront Property as a Million Gazans Starve Resonate, Netanyahu Talks to Republican Senators and the House Speaker | AG Garland and Justice Cardoza's Warning That Criminals "Go Free Because the Constable Has Blundered" | Trump Attacks Biden But Avoids His Own Family's History of Dementia backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

March 19, 2024 - Scott Horton | Barbara Walter | Victoria Hui

March 19, 2024 21:47 - 57 minutes - 133 MB

Who Will Come up With the Billion Dollars Trump Needs as he Faces the Prospect of His Assets Being Seized? | Trump's Call For a Civil War Just as he Called For the January 6 Insurrection | China Ends Freedom of Speech Now That Anyone in Hong Kong Communicating With Anyone Abroad is Guilty of "External Interference" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

March 18, 2024 - Stanley Greenberg | Michael Gorham | David Satter

March 18, 2024 19:23 - 1 hour - 143 MB

An Alarming Poll on the Rise of the "Duel Haters" Who Want Neither Trump or Biden | The Fate of the Russian Opposition Now That Putin Has Awarded Himself a Blowout Election Victory | Concerns Inside the Intelligence Community Over Trump's Bromance With Putin and Orban backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

March 17, 2024 - Alexander Cooley | Julian Zelizer | Jonathan Weiler

March 17, 2024 16:29 - 1 hour - 144 MB

The Russian Elections and Putin's Plans to Stoke Divisions in an Already-Divided America | The Increasingly Visible Role of Vice President Harris in the Campaign Underway | Trump's GOP Keeps Lowering the Bar With Greater Ignorance, Vitriol, Clownishness and Vulgarity backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

March 14, 2024 - Marcy Wheeler | William McGee | Asher Kaufman

March 14, 2024 21:18 - 1 hour - 141 MB

More Evidence Emerges About the Source of Disinformation on Hunter Biden | More Problems For An Already Troubled Boeing Whose Disastrous CEO is Still on the Job | Senator Schumer's Public Break With Netanyahu backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

March 13, 2024 - Omar Shakir | David Faris | David Cay Johnston

March 13, 2024 20:20 - 1 hour - 139 MB

As Gazans Starve, Will Netanyahu Cross Biden's "Red Line" and Invade Rafah? | 3rd Party Spoilers Already Have 17% of the Vote and Will Hurt Biden More Than Trump | Will Money From Malign Foreign Dictators Bail Out Trump? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

March 12, 2024 - Lindsay Koshgarian | Will Bunch | William Cohan

March 12, 2024 20:07 - 58 minutes - 135 MB

Of the $1.6 Trillion in Discretionary Spending in Biden's 2025 Budget, a Trillion Goes to the Military and $499 Billion For Everything Else | Trump's Mafia-Like Extortion of Corporate America | In Hedging its Bet on Biden, Wall Street is Telling Itself Trump is Not That Bad Even Though They Know Better backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

March 10, 2024 - Harold Meyerson | Moira Donegan | Michael Kimmage

March 10, 2024 16:42 - 1 hour - 138 MB

Biden Turns the Tide Against the Press and Pollsters Who Have Written Him Off As Too Old and Losing Badly to Trump | Biden Confronts the Reactionary Supreme Court Over Women's Rights | The State of War and Rumors of Peace Between Ukraine and Russia backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

March 7, 2024 - Simon Rosenberg | Anne Nelson | Paul Pillar

March 07, 2024 21:34 - 59 minutes - 137 MB

What Biden Might, Should and Will Say in Tonight's State of the Union Address | Will Biden Take Off the Gloves and Confront the House MAGA Republicans' Pro-Putin Caucus? | Belatedly Biden Appears to be Using the Enormous Leverage the US Has Over Netanyahu backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

March 6, 2024 - David Schultz | Geoffry Kabaservice | Sharon Weiner

March 06, 2024 21:16 - 59 minutes - 136 MB

Can Biden Pick up Haley's Voters While Placating the Uncommitted Young Democrats? | The Challenge the "Uncommitted" Vote in Minnesota Poses to Biden | With $2 Trillion Being Spent on "Nuclear Modernization" of Dangerous and Unnecessary Weapons, Where is the Guns and Butter Argument? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

March 5, 2024 - Dr. Guy Ziv | Lawrence Douglas | Jim Small

March 05, 2024 22:01 - 1 hour - 140 MB

VP Harris's Clear Rebuke of Netanyahu Calling For a Ceasefire and What Amounts to Regime Change | The Role of the Right Wing Supreme Court as it Goes Out of Its Way to Protect Trump | Sinema Quits the Senate But Rewards From Big Pharma and Hedge Funds Likely Await Her backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

March 4, 2024 - Allan Lichtman | Brian Concannon | Sasha Abramsky

March 04, 2024 21:49 - 1 hour - 138 MB

A Unanimous Supreme Court Ruling to Keep Trump on the Ballot Ignores the Constitution | Haiti's Descent Into Anarchy as Gangs Attack Police and Free 3,700 Prisoners | The Cynical Political Strategy of Choosing the Opponent You Want to Run Against backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

March 3, 2024 - Rashid Khalidi | Tom Burgis | Natalie Melnyczuk

March 03, 2024 18:05 - 1 hour - 145 MB

Following the Massacre of Desperate Gazans Storming Food Trucks, Ceasefire Talks Are Underway | How Plutocrats Use Their Power to Own the Truth | With the U.S. AWOL, Growing Resolve Within NATO backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

February 29, 2024 - Caroline Fredrickson | Corey Brettschneider | Hamilton Nolan

February 29, 2024 21:15 - 1 hour - 138 MB

The Naked Partisanship of the Supreme Court's Right Wing Majority | The History of Supreme Courts That Have Served the Political Interests of Some of Our Worst Presidents | A Revival of Labor with Organizing Wins at Starbucks and Mercedes backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

February 28, 2024 - John Nichols | Ben Jacobs | Adele Stan

February 28, 2024 22:31 - 58 minutes - 133 MB

The Michigan Vote as an Indicator of How the Gaza War Threatens Biden's Reelection | Senator McConnell Steps Down From Leadership of a GOP He is Out Of Step With | The Embrace of Fascism by Trump's Government in Waiting at CPAC backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Embrace of Fascism by Trump's Government in Waiting at CPAC

February 28, 2024 22:31 - 20 minutes - 46.5 MB

The Embrace of Fascism by Trump's Government in Waiting at CPAC by Ian Masters

February 27, 2024 - Mike Lofgren | Jim Manley | Lisa Graves

February 27, 2024 22:44 - 58 minutes - 135 MB

The President and Congressional Leaders Meet to Prevent Another Government Shutdown | Schumer Describes an "Intense" Meeting as Everybody in the Oval Office Piled on Johnson to Get Aid to Ukraine Done | An Update on the Many Trials Trump Faces As He Tries to Run Out the Clock backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

February 26, 2024 - Katherine Stewart | Jonathan Taplin | Sevag Kechichian

February 26, 2024 22:14 - 59 minutes - 136 MB

The Rise of Christian Nationalism, Dominionism and the New Apostolic Reformation Movements | The Supreme Court Appears Open To Giving Tech Giants Immunity From Content on Their Social Media Platforms | Powerful Leaders, Investors and Celebrities Suck Up to MbS's Sovereign Wealth Fund backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

February 25, 2024 - Tom LoBianco | Paul Waldman | Christine Abely

February 25, 2024 18:22 - 1 hour - 143 MB

A Lackluster CPAC and the VP Auditions In Spite Of Trump Trying to Have His Last VP Killed | The GOP Gets a Free Pass With the Rural Vote While Doing Nothing to Help and a Lot to Harm Rural Folk | The Latest Round of Sanctions While China, India and Brazil Buy Discounted and Smuggled Russian Oil backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

February 22, 2024 - Lincoln Mitchell | Mitchell Plitnick | Maria Snegovaya

February 22, 2024 22:01 - 1 hour - 139 MB

RFK Junior's Role as a Spoiler Since His Campaign's Biggest Donor is Also Trump's Biggest Donor | An Update on Diplomatic Efforts Underway For a Ceasefire in the Gaza War | What is Behind the Rise of Illiberal and Right Wing Politics in Europe backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

February 21, 2024 - Amanda Marcotte | Robert Baer | Maxwell Stearns

February 21, 2024 22:00 - 1 hour - 152 MB

Increasing Signs That Christian Nationalists Plan to Impose an American Theocracy | Evidence That The Source For the "Biden Crime Family" Case is a Dissembler Working for Russian Intelligence | A Plan to Reinvent Our Polarized and Dysfunctional Government backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

February 20, 2024 - Wendy Pearlman | Jacob Heilbrunn | Justin Vaughn

February 20, 2024 22:13 - 59 minutes - 137 MB

The US Again Gives Israel Cover Vetoing a UN Resolution For an Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza | The American Right's 100-Year Romance With Foreign Dictators | The Latest American Historians' Survey That Has Donald Trump Dead Last in 45th Place backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

February 19, 2024 - Daniel Treisman | Anna Massoglia | Jonathan Metzl

February 19, 2024 20:01 - 1 hour - 138 MB

Navalny Wanted to See "The Beautiful Russia of the Future" While Putin is Fixated on Historical Delusions of Reviving Russian Imperialism | Do Mike Johnson's Financial Ties Explain Why He is Cutting Off Aid to Ukraine? | A Country Held Hostage by Gun Violence backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

February 18, 2024 - Dr. Ariel Cohen | James Risen | John Pike

February 18, 2024 17:56 - 1 hour - 138 MB

A Friend of the Murdered Leader of the Russian Opposition Discusses Putin's Latest Murder of the Leader of the Russian Opposition | Why Speaker Johnson Admires Putin and Has Shut Down the Government for a Month | What We Know About Recent Warnings Russia Plans To Deploy a Space Weapon backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

February 15, 2024 - Tom Collina | Casey Michel | John Feffer

February 15, 2024 22:09 - 1 hour - 138 MB

What is Behind The Republican Head of the House Intel Committee's Warning of "A Serious National Security Threat"? | The Role of US Consulting Firms Who Launder Election Money and the Reputations of Dictators | How Brazil Handles an Insurrectionist President Compared to the U.S. backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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