Background Briefing with Ian Masters
1,514 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 5 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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January 7, 2020 - Stephen Pyne | James Henry | Nader Hashemi
January 08, 2020 03:08 - 27 MBAustralia: A Continent on Fire; The Mysterious Deaths of Trump's Bankers; Iran's Retaliation Appears Intent on Avoiding an Escalation backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 6, 2020 - Hussein Banai | Amir Rashidi | Shibley Telhami
January 06, 2020 23:20 - 27 MBTrump has the Opposition Inside Iran Rallying Around the Flag; The Possibility of a Retaliatory Cyberattack from Iran; A Proportional Response from Iran Coming Later Rather than Sooner? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 5, 2020 - Lawrence Wilkerson | Robert Baer | Graham Fuller
January 05, 2020 20:44 - 27.4 MBWill the Green Zone in Baghdad Become the Alamo?; The Long War With Iran Has Come to a Head; Us Foreign Policy by Assassination backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 2, 2019 - Astra Taylor | Wendy Brown
January 02, 2020 22:40 - 33.9 MBAn Examination of the Health of Our Democracy; The Survival of Democracy and the Rule of Law in Our Regressive and Reactionary World
January 1, 2020 - Anand Giridharadas | Robert Hockett | Emily Guendelsberger
January 01, 2020 20:45 - 41.4 MBThe Elite Charade of Changing the World; An Adviser to AOC and Senators Sanders and Warren; The Realities of Our Sociopathic Economy
December 31, 2019 - Douglas Rushkoff | Stacy Mitchell | Matt Stoller
January 01, 2020 00:21 - 32.5 MBThe Dystopian Reality of the Tech Industry; A Nation of Jesters in the Court of the Platform Kings; Reigning in the New Monopolies with Anti-Trust
December 30, 2019 - Oliver Bullough | Peter Pomerantsev | Angela Stent
December 30, 2019 23:33 - 37.8 MBWhy Crooks and Thieves Rule Our World; The War Against Reality; The Country's Leading Expert on Russia
December 29, 2019 - Chris Arnade | Ian Haney Lopez | Allen Frances
December 29, 2019 19:04 - 36.8 MBA Portrait of the Underclass in Trump's America; How the Super Rich Use Racism in the Class War They Are Winning; The Deteriorating State of Our Weak Strongman
December 26, 2019 - David Wallace-Wells | Christopher Ketcham
December 26, 2019 17:40 - 30.1 MBSaving Our Endangered Earth; Saving Our Public Lands
December 25, 2019 - James Carroll | Eric LeCompte
December 25, 2019 20:33 - 28.8 MBBarr and Bannon's War on the Pope; The Jewish and Christian Tradition of Forgiving Debts and Freeing Slaves Every 7 Years
December 24, 2019 - Anthea Butler | Frank Schaeffer
December 24, 2019 19:56 - 27.4 MBEvangelical Leaders Flock to Trump's Defense; A Former Leader of the Religious Right on the Corruption of the Evangelical Movement
December 23, 2019 - Lisa Graves | Michael German | Joel Clement
December 23, 2019 22:10 - 27 MBCould Public Pressure Force McConnell to Conduct a Fair Trial with Witnesses?; Trump's War on the FBI; The Assault and Plunder of Our Public Lands backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 22, 2019 - Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Jennifer Mercieca | Glenn Carle
December 22, 2019 21:13 - 54.6 MBTrump Uses His Lies to Create a New Reality; Trump Uses the Rhetorical Techniques of Demagogues; Former US Intelligence Officers Believe Trump is a "Controlled Spy" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 19, 2019 - Jeremi Suri | Andrew Bacevich | John Laurence
December 20, 2019 01:30 - 62.9 MBPelosi Delays Impeachment to Get a Fair Trial in the Senate; Andrew Bacevich on How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory; Nancy Pelosi Has Emerged as the Democrats Indispensable Leader backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 18, 2019 - Laurence Tribe | Beverly Gage | John Nichols
December 19, 2019 02:07 - 56 MBLaurence Tribe on Today's Impeachment; Webster's Alarm That Trump Will Fire His Second FBI Director; Republicans Purge 234,000 Voters in Key Swing State of Wisconsin backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 17, 2019 - Jonah Gelbach | Siva Vaidhyanathan | Alex Lawson
December 18, 2019 01:41 - 56.9 MBCalling the Republicans' Bluff on Impeachment; Zuckerberg and Thiel's Secret Meetings with Trump; Trump's Brazen Stealth Attack on Social Security backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 16, 2019 - Sumit Ganguly | Rachel Cleetus | Julia Davis
December 17, 2019 02:11 - 56.4 MBRiots Across India Against Modi's Hindu Nationalism; What Went Wrong at the Madrid Climate Talks; Russia's State Media Gloats at Putin's Control of Trump backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 15, 2019 - Andrew Revkin | Kate Aronoff | Stephany Griffith Jones
December 15, 2019 21:19 - 55.1 MBThe Disappointing Madrid Climate Talks Scuttled by Big Polluters; The Real Lessons from Labour's Loss in the UK; The Economic Consequences of Getting Brexit Done backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 12, 2019 - Mark Kleiman | Anne Nelson | Robert Hockett
December 13, 2019 02:26 - 68.3 MBTrump Brands Criticism of Israel on Campuses Antisemitism; The Author of "Shadow Network: Media, Money and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right; The Gloves Are off Between Moderate and Progressive Democratic Candidates backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 11, 2019 - Jack Laperruque | Wendy Brown | Toby Miller
December 12, 2019 01:52 - 66.2 MBSenator Graham Explodes Over the Steele Dossier; A New Vision of the Left to Blunt Barr's Reactionary Moralism; Will Boris "Get Brexit Done" Thanks to Corbyn's Lackluster Campaign backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 10, 2019 - Scott Horton | Adam Klasfeld | James Poniewozik
December 11, 2019 00:46 - 63.7 MBThe Senate Impeachment Trial May Not Be the Circus Trump Wants; The Republicans Throw the Kitchen Sink; How Trump Jumped Off the Cereal Box to the Highest Political Office backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 9, 2019 - Asha Rangappa | Kenneth McCallion | Thomas Barfield
December 10, 2019 01:30 - 54 MBThe Report by the IG of the DOJ Refutes Trump's "Deep State" Lie; The Futility of Trying to Educate Trump's Base; The Pentagon Papers of the Afghanistan Fiasco backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 8, 2019 - Caroline Fredrickson | Moira Donegan | Ali al-Ahmed
December 08, 2019 21:05 - 55.5 MBThe Case to Keep the Focus of the Impeachment Case Narrow; Is Nancy Pelosi Bungling the Impeachment Case?; The Role of Saudi Wahhabi Islam in Motivating the Pensacola Killer backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 5, 2019 - Harry Litman | James Stewart | Maria Victoria Murillo
December 06, 2019 01:11 - 70.6 MBPelosi Announces the Impeachment of Trump Is Going Forward; Inside Trump's War with the FBI; The Danger of Turning to Generals to Solve Political Crises backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 4, 2019 - Corey Brettschneider | John Stoehr | Michael Klare
December 05, 2019 01:07 - 66.3 MBDueling Legal Scholars and Overheated Republican Rhetoric; "When Does Ordinary Republican Partisanship Turn Into Treason?"; The Pentagon's Reality-Based Approach to Global Warming backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 3, 2019 - Casey Michel | Jack Blum | Nina Burliegh
December 04, 2019 00:46 - 57.6 MBThe House Intelligence Report Delivered to the House Judiciary Committee; Court Orders Release of Trump's Dealings with Two Banks; Trump No Longer Knows the Disgraced Prince Andrew backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 2, 2019 - Daniel Kelemen | Harold Meyerson | Abbas Milani
December 03, 2019 00:59 - 55 MBWill NATO's 70th Anniversary Be a Celebration or a Conflagration?; Bullock Exits but Will Not Pick up a Senate Seat for the Democrats; The Brutal Crackdown by Iran's Corrupt and Cruel Clerics backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 1, 2019 - Michael Mann | Juan Cole | Mike Lux
December 01, 2019 20:27 - 54.7 MBPelosi Represents America at the Madrid Climate Conference; The Growing Schism Between Iran and Iraq; Trump's SEC Plans to Silence Shareholders backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 28, 2019 - Stephan Schwartz | Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
November 28, 2019 19:47 - 54.2 MBThanksgiving as an Opportunity for Families to Discuss Their Future and the Future of the Planet; Investigative the Origins and Myths of Thanksgiving
November 27, 2019 - Reverend Billy | Roger Morris | Victor Pickard
November 28, 2019 00:36 - 54.4 MBA Thanksgiving Sermon from the Reverend Billy of the Stop Shopping Choir; From Nixon to Trump, Impeachment and a Comparison of Their National Security Councils; Can We Have Media That Informs, Not Sells and Manipulates? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 26, 2019 - Robert Baer | Richard Parker | David Dayen
November 26, 2019 22:13 - 55.2 MBOnly Trumps Taxes and the CI File on Him Will Remove Him from Office; Can Trump Be Impeached on the Evidence So Far?; Is a New Progressive Democratic Party Emerging That Does Not Need Wall Street or Corporate America?
November 25, 2019 - Thomas Nichols | Austin Evers | Rob Ford
November 26, 2019 01:08 - 54.6 MBThe Firing of the Secretary of the Navy; The Clear paper Trail Between Giuliani, Pompeo and the Oval Office; Labour Leader Corbyn's "Neutral Stance" on Brexit backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 24, 2019 - Angela Stent | Sherrod Brown | Lisa Graves
November 24, 2019 23:10 - 55.8 MBDr. Fiona Hill's Mentor; Senator Sherrod Brown on a New Progressive Era; Can the Democrats Prevent Trump Putting Another Reactionary on the Supreme Court? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 21, 2019 - James Goldgeier | Dr. Arye Carmon | Ryan Cooper
November 22, 2019 01:49 - 58.3 MBFiona Hill Nails Trump's Pursuit of "A Domestical Political Errand"; Netanyahu Charged with Bribery, Fraud and Breach of Trust; Last Night's Lowest-Rated Democratic Presidential Candidates' Debate backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 20, 2019 - Heather Hurlburt | James Lamond | Virginia Tilley
November 21, 2019 01:25 - 55 MBSondland Implicates Trump, Pence, Pompeo, Perry and Mulvaney; Republican Conspiracies Have Hillary Clinton Hacking Into Her Own Emails?; The Republican Onslaught of Inane Babble and Shrieking Stupidities backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 19, 2019 - Marc Sandalow | Robert Mackey | Edward McCafferey
November 20, 2019 01:28 - 54.7 MBNovember 19, 2019 - Marc Sandalow | Robert Mackey | Edward McCafferey by Ian Masters
November 18, 2019 - Khaled Elgindy | Rachel VanLandingham | Nader Hashemi
November 18, 2019 23:08 - 53.9 MBTrump Further Weakens Palestinians' Claims for Statehood; Our Tough Guy President Pardons Murderers and War Criminals; Leaked Iranian Intelligence Documents Expose Iran's Control Over Iraq backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 17, 2019 - Malcolm Nance | Philip Shenon | David Redlawsk
November 17, 2019 20:46 - 54.5 MBTrump's Actions in Ukraine Serve Putin's Interest, Not America's; AG Barr's Opus Dei Agenda Threatens the US Constitution's Separation of Church and State; An Analysis of Mayer Pete's Surge in Iowa backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 14, 2019 - Frank Bowman | Michael E. Hayden | Lisel Hintz
November 14, 2019 23:05 - 53.4 MBDemocrats Lay the Groundwork for Impeachment; Stephen Miller's Racism Revealed; Erdogan Gets Lindsey Graham to Ditch the Kurds and Back the House Armenian Genocide Bill backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 13, 2019 - Will Jordan | Adele Stan | William Yeomans
November 14, 2019 02:28 - 53.7 MBToday's Fact Witnesses and the Republican's Alternative Reality; The "Journalist" Who Makes Up the Stories the White House Spins; Do the Democrats Have the Best Case of Presidential Abuse of Power? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 12, 2019 - Luke Harding | Christopher Sabatini | Julian Zelizer
November 13, 2019 00:39 - 139 MBBoris Johnson Suppresses a Report on Russian Meddling in the UK; The Ignominious Exit of Morales Who Claims He is a Victim of a Coup; Will Republicans Try to Disrupt, Distract or Even Derail Tomorrow's Hearings? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 11, 2019 - Lucian Truscott | Phillip Butler
November 11, 2019 21:30 - 54.7 MBWhy Haven't Trump's Generals, The "Adults", Spoken Out?; A Highly Decorated Veteran on Our "Bone Spur" Commander-in-Chief backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 10, 2019 - Anders Åslund | Darrell West | Peter Pomerantsev
November 10, 2019 21:53NSC Officials Fight Trump to Defend Ukraine; Billionaires Running in a Race Tilted Against Billionaires; An Expert on the War Against Reality backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 7, 2019 - Wendell Potter | Lawrence Lessig | Dan Palazzolo
November 07, 2019 22:17Going Bold on Healthcare Reform with Elizabeth Warren; A Call to Arms to Take Back Our Government from the 1% Who Own It; The Blue Wave That Swept Virginia on Tuesday backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 6, 2019 - Allan Lichtman | Brian Rosenwald | Joshua Douglas
November 07, 2019 01:26Next Week's Impeachment Hearings Will Be Damning for Trump; How the Rise of Right Wing Talk Radio Paved the Way for Trump; Does the Victory for Democrats in Kentucky Signal Trouble Ahead for McConnell? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 5, 2019 - Ioan Grillo | David Schultz | Janet Redman
November 06, 2019 00:29Mexico's Murderous Drug Cartels Are Winning; Democrats Take False Comfort from National Polls as Trump Electoral College Reelection Looks Likely; An Alarming New Report on Global Warming backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 4, 2019 - Nina Khrushcheva | LeRoy Westerling | Leah Stokes
November 05, 2019 01:16"The Silence of the Republican Lambs"; Trump Threatens to Cut off Federal Fund to Fight California's Wildfires; Why Aren't Democrats Making a Stand on Auto Emissions and Gas Mileage? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 3, 2019 - David Cay Johnston | Kenneth McCallion | Jim Manley
November 03, 2019 20:49Why Trump is Moving to Florida; Trump Is Bought and Paid for By the Russians; Will McConnell Cut Trump Loose Before Losing the Senate? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
October 31, 2019 - David Rothkopf | Moira Donegan | Corey Brettschneider
October 31, 2019 23:15The Narrow Scope of the Impeachment Case; A Rising Star in the House Brought Down by Revenge Porn; Republicans Continue to Criticize the Impeachment Process Because They Can't Dispute the Facts backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
October 30, 2019 - Aaron Rupar | Michael Shifter | Henri Barkey
October 31, 2019 00:20Damning Testimony from Someone on Trump's July 25 Call; Protests Rage Across Latin America; Will There Be Justice for Kurds and Punishment for Turkey? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia