Background Briefing with Ian Masters
1,575 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsBackground 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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July 28, 2021 - Robert Hockett | John Pike | Philip Rucker
July 28, 2021 23:10 - 1 hour - 87.3 MBWhat the Senate Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Does and Doesn't Do | China Signals It Is Building up its Strategic Nuclear Arsenal | The Co-author of I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 27, 2021 - Will Sommer | Sidney Blumenthal | John Bonifaz
July 27, 2021 23:37 - 59 minutes - 81.4 MBTrump's GOP is Turning Traitors and Seditionists Into Martyrs and Patriots | Today's Testimony and the Role of Jim Jordan in the Insurrection | Section 3 of the 14th Amendment Bars Trump and Other Insurrectionists From Running Again backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 26, 2021 - Michael Mann | David Pogue | Juan Cole
July 26, 2021 22:55 - 1 hour - 92.7 MBThe World's Climate Scientists Meet as Fires, Floods and Droughts Ravage the Planet | The Author of How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos | Biden Agrees to Leave Iraq But U.S. Troops Will Stay as Trainers backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 25, 2021 - Jamie Metzl | Lisa Graves | Greg Grandin
July 25, 2021 22:50 - 1 hour - 99.4 MBWhy is the Communist Chinese Government so Afraid of an Investigation Into Covid 19's Origins? | What Happened to the 4,500 Tips Into Kavanaugh's Background? | Blowback as New Waves of Refugees Head From Latin America to the U.S. backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 22, 2021 - James Thurber | Eric Schickler | Michael Bender
July 22, 2021 23:17 - 1 hour - 95.8 MBMcCarthy and the "Political Terrorist" Jim Jordan's Trolling of the January 6 Select Committee | Already Fox's Tucker Carlson Has Slandered Tuesday's First Witness | Michael Bender on Frankly We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 21, 2021 - Eli Zupnick | David Hearst | Ann Hagehorn
July 21, 2021 22:57 - 1 hour - 90.7 MBFixing the Senate McConnell Has Made a Graveyard of Legislation | Barrack's Arrest and the Outsized Role of the UAE in Trump's Administration | The Untold Story of a Russian Atomic Spy Even Putin Didn't Know About backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 20, 2021 - Alex Kotch | Jamie Beck Alexander | Jennifer Mercieca
July 20, 2021 23:19 - 1 hour - 86.5 MBJoe Manchin's Deep Ties to the Fossil Fuel Industries | A Climate Refugee on Being Safe and Being of the Most Use | The Bewildered Herd Now in a Rage is Trampling and Destroying Things backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 19, 2021 - Miles Taylor | David Kaye | Lawrence Gostin
July 19, 2021 22:57 - 57 minutes - 79.7 MBThe First to Reveal Trump's Oval Office Insanity Now that the Generals are Speaking Out Years Later | The Spyware Used to Target Journalists, Human Rights Activists and Politicians | Trump is Now the Spokesman For the Anti-Vaxxers backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 18, 2021 - Col. Lawrence Wilkerson | Robert Baer | Richard Parker
July 18, 2021 18:40 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBHow the Generals Saved us From a Wannabe Dictator | What Will It Take For Trump's Base to See Their Hero as a Traitor? | Can Democrats Weaponize This Flood of Mounting Evidence? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 15, 2021 - Scott Horton | David Karpf | Anne Louis Bardach
July 15, 2021 21:34 - 54.5 MBKremlin Documents Show How Putin Put Trump in the White House | The Left Should Push Biden on Infrastructure | Miami as the Exile Capital of the World Where Cubans, Haitians and Venezuelans Cook up Plots backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 15, 2021 - Scott Horton | David Karpf | Ann Louis Bardach
July 15, 2021 21:34 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBKremlin Documents Show How Putin Put Trump in the White House | The Left Should Push Biden on Infrastructure | Miami as the Exile Capital of the World Where Cubans, Haitians and Venezuelans Cook up Plots backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 14, 2021 - Jonathan Metzl | Keesha Gaskins-Nathan | Rob Johnson
July 14, 2021 22:51 - 1 hour - 84.4 MBRepublicans Don't Believe You Have a Right to Vote, But You Do Have a Right To Infect | The House Democratic Whip Pressures Senate Democrats to Carve-Out Voting Rights From the Filibuster | The $3.5 Trillion Infrastructure Package and Pressure on Republican Senators to Abandon Their Earlier Bipartisan Deal backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 13, 2021 - Joshua Douglas | Garry Pierre-Pierre | Ada Ferrer
July 13, 2021 23:02 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBBiden Takes On Trump's "Big Lie" at the Birthplace of American Democracy | Why Do We Accept Reports Completely Lacking In Credibility From Haitian Officials and Politicians? | Cuban Leaders Resort to the Familiar Playbook of Repression backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 12, 2021 - Jeremi Suri | Arturo Lopez Levy | Robert Jones
July 12, 2021 22:17 - 59 minutes - 81.5 MBTexas Democrats Head Out of Town Again to Stop Republican Voter Suppression | Popular Demonstrations Erupt in Cuba | White Evangelicals Double Down in Their Support For a Violator of Seven of the Ten Commandments backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 8, 2021 - Alex Weinstein | Brian Concannon | Terry O'Rourke
July 08, 2021 22:43 - 59 minutes - 81.8 MBAn Analysis Of Biden's Afghanistan Withdrawal Announcement From a Marine Who Served There | An Update on the Killing and Capture of Suspects Behind the Assassination of Haiti's President | The Texas Governor and Republican Legislature Double Down on Distraction backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 7, 2021 - Alex Dupuy | Amy Wilentz | Amanda Tyler
July 07, 2021 20:23 - 59 minutes - 81.9 MBHaiti's Corrupt and Illegitimate President Assassinated | How Gangs and a New Corrupt Elite Have Made Haiti Unlivable | Christians Against Christian Nationalism Join the Fight Against White Supremacist Heresy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 7, 2021 - Amy Fried | David Rothkopf | Thomas Barfield
July 06, 2021 22:46 - 1 hour - 84.1 MBHow Conservative Elites Have Created Distrust in Government and Profited From It | Why So Many Americans Believe In "the Big Lie" | Afghanistan's Incompetent Leader is Making a Taliban Takeover Easier backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 6, 2021 - Amy Fried | David Rothkopf | Thomas Barfield
July 06, 2021 22:44 - 1 hour - 84.1 MBHow Conservative Elites Have Created Distrust in Government and Profited From It | Why So Many American Believe In "the Big Lie" | Afghanistan's Incompetent Leader is Making a Taliban Takeover Easier backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 5, 2021 - Adam Serwer | Neta Crawford | Michael Gerrard
July 05, 2021 22:21 - 55 minutes - 126 MBWhy Republican Oppose Voter Reform and Making Life Better For All Americans | The Costs or Post-9/11 Wars With 4 Times More Vets Dying From Suicides Than Combat | Using the Law to Fight Global Warming and Climate Change Denial backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 1, 2021 - Leah Litman | Henry Pontell | Susan Joy Hassol
July 01, 2021 23:45 - 1 hour - 85.1 MBThe Supreme Court Guts Voting Rights and Hands a Gift to the Koch Brothers | Will Indictments Against the Trump Organization and Its CFO be Enough to Nail Trump? | Climate Change is Behind the Record Heat in Canada and the Northwest backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 30, 2021 - Michael Greenberger | Elizabeth Goitein | Abadir Ibrahim
June 30, 2021 22:23 - 1 hour - 82.9 MBThe Republicans fail to Stop a Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Insurrection | A Red State Governor Sends a Private Army to the Border Paid For By a Billionaire Donor | Human Rights Atrocities in Ethiopia, a Country on the Verge of Collapse backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 29, 2021 - David Cay Johnston | Nic Lutsey | Zhong-Ren Peng
June 29, 2021 22:04 - 1 hour - 83.2 MBTrump's IRS Commissioner Allows the Super-Rich to Cheat on Gifts as Trump is About to be Indicted on Tax Avoidance on Gifts | The U.S. is Falling Behind China and Europe in Investments in Electric Vehicle Production | The Role of Saltwater Corrosion From Sea Level Rise in the Building Collapse in Florida backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 28, 2021 - David Daley | Eugene Gholz | Madiha Afzal
June 28, 2021 23:03 - 59 minutes - 82 MBThe Republicans Will Win Back the House in 2022 Before One Vote is Cast | The U.S. Could Pull All of Its Troops Out of the Middle East | A Violent Taliban Takeover Of Afghanistan and Blowback for Pakistan From Its Proxy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 27, 2021 - Harry Litman | Kate Mackintosh | William Lazonick
June 27, 2021 18:46 - 1 hour - 89.8 MBThe DOJ's Move to Protect Voting Rights Could Be Undone Next Week By the Supreme Court | A New Ecocide Law To Hold Governments and Corporations Responsible for Environmental Crimes | Corporate America's Failure to Invest in the Future Is Even Worse Than the Government's backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 24, 2021 - Jonna Hamilton | Cheryl Dorsey | John Pfaff
June 24, 2021 22:59 - 59 minutes - 81.6 MBHow Much Does the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Address the Needs of the Future? | The Future of the Stalled George Floyd Justice in Policing Act | An Analysis Of Biden's Strategy to Deal With Violent Crime and the Proliferation of Guns backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 23, 2021 - Philip Stinson | Jo-Marie Burt | Seth Mnookin
June 23, 2021 22:52 - 59 minutes - 82.1 MBBiden's Strategy to Combat Violent Crime and Restrict Guns | Peru's Presidential Loser Follows Trump's Playbook. Steal an Election to Stay Out of Jail | With a New COVID Variant Spreading, the Anti-Science Movement Threatens Us All backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 22, 2021 - Alexander Keyssar | Charles Zelden | Mark Fenster
June 22, 2021 22:21 - 83.8 MBThe Debate About Having a Debate in Our Broken Senate | Will Biden Make Saving American Democracy a Priority? | Are Conspiracy Theories Behind the Shortfall in Vaccinating 70% by July 4th? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 21, 2021 - Edward McCaffery | Abbas Milani | Phil Gunson
June 21, 2021 22:23 - 81 MBWill We Get a Small Useless Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal or One That Meets Our Future Needs? | Low Voter Turnout for the Hardline Hanging Judge Now Iran's President | Millions Flee Venezuela as it Becomes a Failed State backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 20, 2021 - Ari Berman | Nina Khrushcheva
June 20, 2021 18:30 - 84.3 MBThe Layered Republican Electoral Strategy to Cheat Rather Than Compete | A View From Moscow of Putin's Recent Nuclear Alert Compared to the Cuban Missile Crisis backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 17, 2021 - Ryan Cooper | David Dayen | Jack Goldstone
June 17, 2021 23:17 - 83.6 MBSenator Manchin's Changes to the For the People Act That Stacey Abrams "Absolutely" Supports | "Everything You Need to Know About the Infrastructure Bill Traveling Through Congress" | Biden Carries the Weight of the World to Stop the Spread of Trumpism and Restore Democracy at Home and Abroad backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 15, 2021 - Timothy Frye | Lance Dodes | Jesse Eisinger
June 16, 2021 22:28 - 83.9 MBThe Biden-Putin Summit and the Press Conferences That Followed | Why is Putin Supporting the Far-Right Rabble Who Stormed the Capitol? | The ProPublica Reporter Who Revealed the Secret IRS Files backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 15, 2021 - Anatol Lieven | Andrew Noymer | David Schanzer
June 15, 2021 23:02 - 84.1 MBA Plan to End the Standoff Between Ukraine and Russia to Avoid a Wider War | With 600,000 Deaths by Covid in the U.S., Deadlier Strains are on the Horizon | The White House Unveils its First National Strategy to Fight Domestic Terrorism backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 14, 2021 - Orville Schell | Gideon Levy | Anne Marie Lofaso
June 14, 2021 23:34 - 79.7 MBThe G7 and NATO Issue Warnings About China's Rise | Israel's New Government With a One Seat Majority in the Knesset | The Poor People's Campaign Demonstrate in Joe Manchin's West Virginia backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 13, 2021 - Elie Honig | Bill Yeomans | Frank Clemente
June 13, 2021 17:17 - 78.3 MBAbuses by Trump's DOJ Under Sessions Then Barr Now Come to Light | Will Sessions, Rosenstein and Barr Ever Answer For Their Conduct Before Congress? | Republicans Resist Raising Taxes on the Rich to Pay For Infrastructure backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 10, 2021 - Aslı Bâli | Mateo Jarquin | James Cronin
June 10, 2021 22:53 - 81.2 MBThe Contrast Between Biden's Progressive Domestic Policies and Conservative Foreign Policies | An Increasingly Despotic Ortega Arrests Nicaragua's Opposition Candidates | Biden and Johnson Reaffirm the "Special Relationship" With a New Atlantic Charter backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 9, 2021 - David Cay Johnston | Charles Kupchan | Lawrence Douglas
June 09, 2021 21:51 - 80.8 MBThe Super-Rich are Making More Money Than Ever and Paying Less Taxes Than Ever | Biden's Repair Job After Trump Divided Our Allies and United Our Enemies | Trump's "Big Lie" is Being Weaponized Into Law by the GOP
July 8, 2021 - Lisa Graves | Robert Hockett | T.J. Newman
June 08, 2021 23:07 - 139 MBThe Koch Brothers "Thank and Spank" Joe Manchin as He Does Their Bidding | Yellen's Global Agreement on a 15% Corporate Tax Rate | A Flight Attendant Turned Bestselling Author on 2,500 Incidents of Unruly Passengers So Far This Year backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 7, 2021 - Scott Kennedy | Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera | Gershom Gorenberg
June 07, 2021 23:18 - 81 MBCompeting With China Without Conflict | Results in Mexico of an Election in Which 96 Politicians and Candidates Were Assassinated | Netanyahu Incites Violence That Could Lead to a January 6-Style Attack backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 6, 2021 - Ira Shapiro | Thom Hartmann | Linc Kesler
June 06, 2021 18:11 - 85 MBManchin Kills the "For The People Act" as Not Sufficiently Bipartisan | Thom Hartmann on How the Democrats Should Fight Back | Canada's Trudeau Calls on the Catholic Church to Take Responsibility for the Cultural Genocide of First Nations Children backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 3, 2021 - Guy Ziv | Julian Zelizer | Jo Marie Burt
June 03, 2021 22:59 - 83.7 MBThe End of Netanyahu's 12 Year Rule in Israel | With Republicans Attacking the Foundation of American Democracy, Biden is Compelled to Act | VP Harris Heads For Mexico and Guatemala on Challenging Mission backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 2, 2021 - David Faris | Adele Stan | Nader Hashemi
June 02, 2021 23:07 - 80.2 MBAn Urgent Call to Save American Democracy | After Trump's Dec 19 Call for "Wild" Protests, Plots to Murder U.S. Officials Began | The Supreme Leader Picks a Hardline Hanging Judge as Iran's Next President backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 1, 2021 - William Darity | Matt Angle | Steven Levitsky
June 01, 2021 23:50 - 84.4 MBThe 1921 Tulsa Massacre and the Persisting Wealth Gap Between Blacks and Whites | The Texas Walkout and the Need for the House and Senate to Pass HR 1 and SB1 | An Urgent Call From 100 Experts on Democracy to Defend American Democracy Before it is Too Late backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 31, 2021 - Dr. Phillip Butler | Shibley Telhami | Leah Garrett
May 31, 2021 21:45 - 93.6 MBAfter 8 Years as a POW in North Vietnam, Going Back Inside California's Prisons to Help Vets Rebuild Their Lives | A Dramatic Drop in Support For Israel Among Young Evangelicals | The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 30, 2021 - Merve Tahiroglu | John Nichols | Eric Rauchway
May 30, 2021 19:22 - 95.7 MBWith Democracy Under Attack Around the World, Could Turkey See the Reversal of That Trend? | The Democrats Should Prioritize Defending Democracy at Home and Abroad | Lesson From The New Deal For Today backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 27, 2021 - Norman Ornstein | James Henry | David Phillips
May 27, 2021 22:56 - 81 MBRepublican Senators Kill the 1/6 Bi-partisan Commission as a Personal Favor to McConnell | Focus Should be on Biden's Tax Plan Otherwise There Will Be No infrastructure Bill | Turkey has Become a Mafia State Under Erdogan backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 26, 2021 - Dr. Stanley Perlman | Dr. Gulnoza Said | Dr. Scott Ellsworth
May 26, 2021 22:27 - 93.8 MBBiden Calls For an Investigation Into Whether a Lab Accident Caused the Covid Pandemic | The Fate of Journalists Jailed and Tortured by the Lukashenko Regime | Exhuming Mass Graves 100 Years After the Tulsa Race Massacre backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 25, 2021 - Ahmet Yayla | Ekow Yankah | David Schultz
May 25, 2021 23:24 - 80.5 MBAn Explosive Story That Will Bring Down Turkey's Spectacularly Corrupt Dictator | Police Reform on the Anniversary of George Floyd's Murder | The Scene of the Crime One Year Later backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 24, 2021 - David Marples | James Green | Srećko Horvat
May 24, 2021 23:27 - 97.3 MBA Desperate Move by Europe's Last Dictator the Stalinist Thug Lukashenko | Change Underway in Brazil to Sweep Out the Anti-Science Moron Bolsonaro | The Philosopher/Author of After The Apocalypse backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
April 23, 2021 - Lloyd Green | Sung Yoon Lee | Sebastian Junger
May 23, 2021 19:44 - 151 MBAlarming Poll Finds Republicans in an Alternate Universe Believing Trump Lies | An Analysis of Biden's Meeting with South Korean President Moon | Best-Selling Author and Filmmaker Sebastian Junger on His New Book Freedom backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 20, 2021 - Kimberly Wehle | William Pomeranz | Russell Jeung
May 20, 2021 23:35 - 80 MBThe Law is Finally Catching Up With Donald Trump | A Possible Thaw in the Frosty Relations Between Russia and the U.S. | The Law to Stop Asian American Hate 63 House Republicans Voted Against backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia