Background Briefing with Ian Masters
1,561 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 14 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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Episodes
October 8, 2020 - Thomas Mockaitis | David Phillips | Jean Guerrero
October 08, 2020 23:48 - 110 MBTrump'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
October 7, 2020 - Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox | Rebecca Lissner | Chelsea Jane
October 07, 2020 23:33 - 82.4 MBA 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
October 6, 2020 - Robert Hockett | John Barry | Sarah Chayes
October 06, 2020 23:39 - 88.9 MBTrump 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
October 5, 2020 - Victoria Nourse | Natasha Sarin | Lawrence Douglas
October 06, 2020 00:02 - 86.4 MBWill 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 the Looming Electoral Meltdown of 2020 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
October 4, 2020 - Dr. Kavita Patel | Allan Lichtman | Kurt Andersen
October 04, 2020 18:05 - 86.1 MBEvasion 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
October 1, 2020 - Robert Mackey | Lisa Graves | Jennifer Taub
October 01, 2020 23:23 - 82.7 MBWill 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 Crime backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 30, 2020 - Nicole Hemmer | Amanda Marcotte | Edward McCaffery
September 30, 2020 20:19 - 82.8 MBTrump 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
September 29, 2020 - David Cay Johnston | Leslie Samuels | Jennifer Mercieca
September 29, 2020 22:31 - 81.6 MBTrump'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 Staying Presidential? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 28, 2020 - Kimberly Clausing | Gloria Steinem | Paul Pillar
September 28, 2020 22:43 - 132 MBTrump 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 facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 27, 2020 - Malcolm Nance | Lara Bazelon | Massimo Faggioli
September 27, 2020 18:29 - 85.5 MBA 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 Whether it Serves Justice For All backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 24, 2020 - Col. Lawrence Wilkerson | Norm Ornstein | Richard Hasen
September 24, 2020 22:19 - 138 MBTrump'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
September 23, 2020 - Oliver Bullough | Dr. Pete Kraska | Dr. Terry Madonna
September 23, 2020 22:25 - 81.3 MBWe 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 twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 22, 2020 - Will Fitzgibbon | Mandy Smithberger | Sean Roberts
September 22, 2020 21:28 - 82.3 MBPrying 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
September 21, 2020 - Robert Alexander | Michael Coppedge | Kevin Kumashiro
September 21, 2020 20:50 - 81.9 MBHow 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
September 20, 2020 - Jim Manley | Caroline Fredrickson | James Fallows
September 20, 2020 18:52 - 139 MBTrump 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 in 2016?
September 17, 2020 - Joseph Lowndes | Mark Sandel | Shuja Nawaz
September 17, 2020 20:58 - 86 MBWhen 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 Afghanistan Before the Election backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 16, 2020 - Paul Waldman | David Graham | Ryan Cooper
September 16, 2020 23:24 - 80.5 MBTrump 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 Regime Republicans Want for America backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 15, 2020 - Juan Cole | Naomi Oreskes | Valerie Trouet
September 15, 2020 22:53 - 85.2 MBThe 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" of Indigenous People backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 14, 2020 - Daphne Wysham | Meg Krawchuk | David Vine
September 14, 2020 22:45 - 82.5 MBTrump'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 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 13, 2020 - Peter Strzok | Harry Litman
September 13, 2020 17:22 - 160 MBThe 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
September 9, 2020 - Michael Greenberger | Stanley Greenberg | Susan Neiman
September 10, 2020 22:35 - 84.9 MBTrump'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 Facing Our Legacy of Slavery and Racial Hatred Which Trump is Reviving backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 9, 2020 - Lawrence Gostin | LeRoy Westerling | Dr. David Hill
September 09, 2020 23:06 - 86.4 MBOur 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
September 8, 2020 - Ian Haney Lopez | Fathali Moghaddam | Dr. Michael McDonald
September 08, 2020 22:55 - 84.2 MBCalling 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
September 7, 2020 - Lawrence Mishel | Janice Fine | Dr. Harley Shaiken
September 07, 2020 21:40 - 81.9 MBOn 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
September 6, 2020 - Lucian Truscott | Cynthia Miller-Idriss | Benjamin Carter-Hett
September 06, 2020 18:51 - 83.9 MBThe 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
September 3, 2020 - Arlie Hochschild | James Risen | Kai Strittmatter
September 03, 2020 21:23 - 86.4 MBWhile 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
September 2, 2020 - Pavel Felgenhauer | Gregory Koblentz | James Henry
September 02, 2020 23:23 - 84.8 MBA 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
September 1, 2020 - Ruth Conniff | John Dean | Cynthia Schneider
September 01, 2020 23:10 - 82 MBTrump'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
August 31, 2020 - Jason Wilson | Katrina Mulligan | Geoffrey Kabaservice
August 31, 2020 23:09 - 82.8 MBA 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 Benefit From the Violence he Creates? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 30, 2020 - Carl Hoffman | Matthew Rothschild | MIke German
August 30, 2020 20:10 - 84.7 MBWhy 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 a New Report "Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism, White Supremacy, And Far-right Militancy in Law Enforcement" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 27, 2020 - Mike Lofgren | Sylvia Allegretto | Alexander Zaitchik
August 27, 2020 21:06 - 83.5 MBThe 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
August 26, 2020 - David Wallace-Wells | Jean Guerrero
August 26, 2020 19:04 - 81.6 MBAs 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
August 25, 2020 - Thomas Nichols | Harold Meyerson | Joshua Green
August 25, 2020 23:20 - 85.5 MBRNC 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 twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 24, 2020 - Sidney Blumenthal | Will Bunch | Lawrence Rosenthal
August 24, 2020 23:38 - 81 MBThe 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
August 23, 2020 - Kavita Patel | Douglas Rushkoff
August 23, 2020 18:06 - 81.1 MBAn 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
August 20, 2020 - Robert Kuttner | Carol Anderson | Melissa Ryan
August 20, 2020 21:10 - 83.8 MBCan 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
August 19, 2020 - Robert Draper | Scott Horton | Kristen Clarke
August 19, 2020 22:40 - 137 MBHow 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
August 18, 2020 - John Nichols | Moira Donega | Mohamad Bazzi
August 18, 2020 23:26 - 82.9 MBAn 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
August 17, 2020 - Joshua Geltzer | Barton Gellman | Natalie Manaeva Rice
August 17, 2020 22:52 - 83.5 MBTrump's Three-Pronged Attack on the Election | What is Behind Trump's Suggested Pardoning of Edward Snowden | Putin is Unlikely to Invade Belarus to Rescue a Dictator he Despises backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 16, 2020 - Richard Parker | Matt Angle | Michael Shifter
August 16, 2020 17:50 - 87.1 MBTrump and DeJoy's Criminal Sabotage of the USPS Underway | Can the Democrats Do Something to Stop Trump From Writing the Rules For His Own Reelection? | Elliott Abrams' Appointment and the Seizure of Tankers From Iran to Venezuela backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 13, 2020 - Angelo Carusone | Steve Hutkins | Rick Perlstein
August 13, 2020 22:42 - 86.8 MBTrump Praises a Racist Q-Anon Devotee as a Rising Star in the GOP | Trump and De Joy's Criminal Attack on the United States Postal Service | The Author of Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976 - 1880 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 12, 2020 - Chelsea Janes | Christopher Parker | Allan Lichtman
August 12, 2020 20:41 - 82.8 MBThe Washington Post Reporter who was Embedded in Kamala Harris's Presidential Primary Campaign | What Will Kamala Harris Bring to the On-going Struggle For Racial Justice? | The Presidential Predictor Who Always Gets It Right On His Prediction Biden Will Win in November backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 8, 2020 - Andra Gillespie | John Lawrence | Thom Hartmann
August 12, 2020 00:30 - 95.6 MBBiden Chooses California Senator Kamala Harris as his Vice Presidential Running Mate | The Messaging War Between the Democratic Leaders and the White House Over the Next Stimulus Package | The Hidden History of Monopolies Exposed backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 10, 2020 - David Hearst | David Marples | James Thurber
August 10, 2020 23:14 - 90.3 MBU.S. Court Summons MBS and His Hit Team to Answer Charges From Targeted Former Saudi Intelligence Official | Europe's Last Dictator Flagrantly Steals Sunday's Election | Will the Next Stimulus Package Have Money for the Post Office? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 9, 2020 - Paul Light | Anders Aslund | Vincent Bevins
August 09, 2020 17:52 - 178 MBTrump's Phony Stunt to Break a Deadlock That He Created | The Ex-KGB Ukrainian Who Senators Johnson and Grassley Are Working With to Get Dirt on Biden | How the Jakarta Method of Exterminating Leftists Was Exported to Brazil and Chile. backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 6, 2020 - Thanassis Cambanis | Joshua Horwitz | Philip Rubio
August 06, 2020 22:35 - 83.8 MBTrump Insists Without Evidence the Destruction of Beirut Was Not an Accident | The Once-Powerful NRA Will Go the Way of the Trump Foundation | A Veteran of the U.S.P.S. on the Manufactured Crisis to Destroy it backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 5, 2020 - Habib Battah | Lincoln Mitchell | Dr. Michael McDonald
August 05, 2020 22:35 - 82.4 MBAn Update From Beirut on the Devastation Which Government Incompetence and Indifferent Politicians Are Responsible For | Trump's Law and Order Campaign is Backfiring | Trump OK's Mail-in Ballots in Florida Because the Democrats are Ahead With 600,000 More Requests backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 4, 2020 - Robert Baer | Aaron Rupar | Stephanie Kelton
August 05, 2020 00:09 - 168 MBA Massive Explosion Rocks Beirut Ahead of a Verdict in the Bombing of a Former Prime Minister | Trump's Disastrous Interview in Which Follow Up Questions Were Asked | Republicans Revive the Deficit Myth After Voting For Trump's Tax Cuts
August 3, 2020 - Dr. Irwin Redlener | Dr. Stanley Perlman | Chuck Collins
August 03, 2020 22:09 - 87.7 MBAll of Trump's Public Health Experts Should Have Resigned Months Ago | The Countrywide Spread of the Coronavirus and Herd Immunity | Billionaires Are Richer Than Ever So Why Aren't They Giving More? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 2, 2020 - Ananya Roy | Christopher Shaw | Tom Hastings
August 02, 2020 17:40 - 91.1 MBAmericans Face a Tsunami of Evictions | It is Clear Trump is Crippling the U.S. Postal Service to Stymie Voting by Mail in November | Advice From Portland's Veteran in Non-Violent Activism and Training backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia