Background Briefing with Ian Masters
1,514 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 7 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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October 29, 2019 - Cara Horowitz | Jeff Wise | Emily Guendelsberger
October 30, 2019 01:00Will Consumers Boycott GM, Chrysler and Toyota?; Boeing Executives Try To Defend Their Doomed 737 Max Airplane; The Harsh Realities of Our Sociopathic Economy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
October 28, 2019 - Peter Bergen | Robert Lipsyte | William Galston
October 29, 2019 00:32Trump Trashes the Kurds and the CIA Who Made Him Look like a Hero; Did Trump Get a Dose of Reality When Baseball Fans Chanted "Lock Him Up"?; When It Comes to Impeachment, Courage Is Not the Norm, It's the Exception backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
October 27, 2019 - Sanford Levinson | Nicholas Heras | Kimberly Wehle
October 27, 2019 20:26Investigating the Investigators is a Putin Tactic and the Hallmark of a Banana Republic; The Death of the Head of ISIS; The Status of the Impeachment Inquiry backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
October 24, 2019 - Lisa Graves | Keith Darden | Katherine Hite
October 25, 2019 00:10A Phony Rebellion for the Pleasure of a Leader Demanding Devotion; How Rudy Giuliani Became Manafort's Crooked Replacement; Turmoil in the South from Chile to Haiti, from Ecuador to Bolivia backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
October 23, 2019 -Lord Jim Knight | Kenneth McCallion | Thom Hartmann
October 24, 2019 00:59A Member of the House of Lords on Brexit; Trump's Long History of Money Laundering for the Soviets Then the Russians; How "We the People" Can Take Back the Supreme Court backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
October 22, 2019 - Naveed Jamali | John Lawrence | Aaron Glantz
October 22, 2019 23:49October 22, 2019 - Naveed Jamali | John Lawrence | Aaron Glantz by Ian Masters
October 21, 2019 - Amy Austin Holmes | Steven Greenhouse
October 22, 2019 00:19American Convoys Abandon the Kurds as Putin and Erdogan Meet to Carve up the Spoils; How American Labor Can Be Re-Empowered backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
October 20, 2019 - William Cohan | John Nichols | Andrew Marantz
October 20, 2019 20:14Billions Made on Trades Apparently Based on Trump Insider Knowledge; HRC's Accusation Boosts Her Campaign; How Long Can Big Tech Pretend to Be Platforms Not Publishers? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
October 17, 2019 - Graham Fuller | Wladimir van Wilgenburg | Susan Rice
October 17, 2019 22:17Does US "Credibility" and "Leadership" in the Middle East Still Mean US Hegemony?; What the US Calls a Ceasefire, Turkey Calls a "Pause in the Operation"; Susan Rice on the Chaos and Disarray at the Top of Our National Security Structure backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
October 16, 2019 - Frances Brown | David Graham | Mike Giglio
October 17, 2019 00:28Trump Melts Down as Our Foreign Policy and National Security Breaks Down; Was Last Night's Debate a Sideshow with Impeachment the Main Event?; The Author of "Shatter the Nations: ISIS and the War for the Caliphate" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
October 15, 2019 - Robert Hockett | Joseph Cirincione | Mike Lofgren
October 15, 2019 23:16Handicapping the Latest Democratic Presidential Debate; The Uncertain Custody of 50 US Hydrogen Bombs in Turkey; The Civil Servants Are Choosing Loyalty to Country over Obedience to Trump backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
October 14, 2019 - Joshua Landis | Juan Cole | William Pomeranz
October 15, 2019 00:12The Kurds Desperate Deal with Assad and Russia; Since Trump Does Not Act in America's Interest but for Personal Gain, Is He Being Blackmailed by Putin and/or Erdogan?; Damaging Testimony from Trump's Former Russia Expert on the National Security Council backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
October 13, 2019 - Michael Greenberger; Dr. Guy Ziv; Matt Stoller
October 13, 2019 20:53The Trump Family and Giuliani's Sleezy friends; Will Trump Abandon Israel Next?; How to Create a New Democracy and Economy
October 10, 2019 - Max Hoffman | Daniel Byman | Tim Alberta
October 10, 2019 21:45Why Is Removing 1000 US Troops Trump's Top Priority?; Having Sold out Saudi Arabia, Trump Is Now Selling out Israel; The Author of "American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
October 9, 2019 - Giran Ozcan | Kani Xulam | Scott Horton
October 10, 2019 00:36Trump Rewards Russia and Iran While Selling out the Kurds and Israel Just After Selling out the Saudis; Erdogan's Jihadist Chock Truoops Are Bent on Slaughtering the Kurds; A Constitutional Crisis Awaits When Trump Defies the Courts backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
October 8, 2019 - Will Jordan | James Henry | Henri Barkey | Frank Bowman
October 09, 2019 00:29It Was Trump and Giuliani Who Were Chasing Dirty Deals in Ukraine; Our Tough Guy Trump Got Rolled Again by Erdogan; Impeaching Trump Will Help Restore the Constitution's Balance of Power backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
October 7, 2019 - David Phillips | Nicholas Danforth | Paul Adler
October 07, 2019 23:23In Selling out the Kurds, Trump Is Doing Putin's Bidding; Erdogan's Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Syria's Kurds; Can Democratic Socialism Overcome the Crises of Capitalism? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
October 6, 2019 - Adele Stan | Roger Morris | Stephen Kinzer
October 06, 2019 19:58Conspiracy Theories as Our Government’s Top Priority; Trump Continues to Be a Godsend for the Kremlin; The Author of “Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control” backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
October 3, 2019 - Allen Frances | Jedediah Purdy | Mark Galeotti
October 04, 2019 00:00Will Trump Become More Unhinged as Impeachment Pressure and Evidence Mounts?; How to Heal Our Fractured Relationship with the Land and Each Other; A Leading Russia-Watcher on How the West Gets Putin Wrong
October 2, 2019 - Scott Anderson | Allison Stanger | Hassan Hassan
October 03, 2019 00:55The State Department's IG Delivers a Package of Conspiracy Theories; Trump's Escalating War Against the Whistleblower; One Year After Khashoggi's Murder, Has MBS Been Forgiven by Corporate America? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
October 1, 2019 - Michael Gorham | Tom LoBianco | June Dreyer
October 02, 2019 00:02As the Truth Closes In, Trump Spins Alternative Realities; All You Need to Know About Mike Pence Who Could Be Our Next President; Xi Jinping Stages a Military Parade to Promote Himself and the Communist Party on the PRC's 70th Anniversary backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 30, 2019 - Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Casey Michel | Will Bunch
September 30, 2019 23:26Authoritarians Are Never More Dangerous Than When Vulnerable; As Trump's Roy Cohn Barr Gets Him Out of Trouble, Giuliani Gets Him into More Trouble; The Contrast Between Whistleblowers like Reality Winner and the So-Called "Adults in the Room" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 29, 2019 - Alexander Butterfield | Steven Pifer | Katrina Mulligan
September 29, 2019 19:06The Person Who Sealed Nixon's Fate in Watergate; Trump's Trashing of a US Ambassador to Ukraine; Was the Firing of the DNI and His Deputy 3 Days After Trump's Phone Call a "Coincidence"? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 26, 2019 - Liz Hempowicz | David Halperin | Michael Klare
September 26, 2019 22:26How the Whistleblower's Complaint Tracks with the Transcript; Trump and Barr's Efforts to "Lockdown" the Complaint; The Reasons Behind Trump's Offer to Buy Greenland backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 25, 2019 - James Risen | Aaron Rupar | Keith Darden
September 26, 2019 00:41September 25, 2019 - James Risen | Aaron Rupar | Keith Darden by Ian Masters
September 24, 2019 - James Thurber | Kent Harrington | Andrei Kozyrev
September 24, 2019 22:43Pelosi Calls for a Formal Impeachment Inquiry; Trump Will Escalate His Attacks on the "Deep State"; Russia's First Foreign Minister of Putin and Trump's Relationship backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 23, 2019 - James Follows | Michael Gerhardt | Nadia Nazar
September 24, 2019 00:40The Media's False Equivalence Helps a Guilty Trump Smear Biden; Crossing the Impeachment Threshold; A 17 Year-Old Climate Activist on Today's UN Climate Action Summit backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 22, 2019 - Anders Aslund | Tom Nichols | Richard Parker
September 22, 2019 21:02Extortion In Plain Sight; "If This Isn't Impeachable, Nothing Is"; Is This Latest Scandal Heading For Impeachment?
September 19, 2019 - Harry Litman | Loch Johnson | Natalie Rotstein
September 20, 2019 01:09Nadler Made the Democrats Look Weak and Feckless; Trump's DNI is Suppressing a White House Whistleblower's Complaint; A Young Climate Activist on the Global Climate Strike
Full Program - Gideon Levy | Mohsen Sazegara | Nader Hashemi
September 18, 2019 23:23Israel's Deadlocked Election and the Shady Kingmaker; US Mistakes Continue to Enhance Iran's Power and Position in the Middle East; Will Trump or the Iranians Cry Uncle? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 17, 2019 - Jeff Colgan | Jane McAlevey | Alan Schroeder
September 17, 2019 22:01Trump Awaits Instructions from His Saudi Masters; GM's Executives Stiff Their Workers Who Sacrificed to Rescue the Company; How Long Before There Is Clarity in the Cluttered Democratic Debate backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 16, 2019 - Mansour Farhang | Paul Sullivan | Michael Kazin
September 16, 2019 23:47September 16, 2019 - Mansour Farhang | Paul Sullivan | Michael Kazin by Ian Masters
September 15, 2019 - Allan Lichtman | Marie Arana | George Beebe
September 15, 2019 19:38Some 2020 Presidential Predictions; Will There Be a Hispanic Backlash at the Polls in 2020?; Avoiding a New Cold War with Russia
September 12, 2019 - Matt Stoller | Thomas Barfield | Silvio Carrillo
September 12, 2019 22:04Finally Anti-Trust Action Against the Tech Monopolies; Afghanistan's Uncertain Future; Trump's Cynical Deal with Honduras's Drug-Dealing President
September 11, 2019 - Jim Lobe | Jody Freeman | Rob Ford
September 12, 2019 00:54The Falling Out between the Adelsons and the Netanyahus; The Looming War Between Trump and California Over Fuel Efficiency; The Latest Chapter in the Brexit Drama backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 10, 2019 - David Rothkopf | Jacob Heilbrunn | George Beebe
September 11, 2019 00:05Will Bolton's Exit Mean More Trump Photo Ops with Tyrants?; Will Bolton Spill the Beans on White House Dysfunction?; The Loss of the CIA's Most Valuable Asset Inside the Kremlin backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 9, 2019 - Peter Bergen | Thanassis Cambanis | Sidney Blumenthal
September 09, 2019 22:27Was the Aborted Summit About Trump's Ego or Afghanistan's Future?; Can the Tenuous Deterrence Between Israel and Hezbollah Hold?; Comparing the Divided States of America Today to When the Country Was on the Brink of Civil War backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 8, 2019 - Monica Medina | John Campbell | Michael Khodarkovsky
September 08, 2019 19:25Trump's Orwellian Dictate to NOAA; The Disastrous Legacy of Zimbabwe's Mugabe; Russia's Rigged Regional Elections backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 5, 2019 - Hosted by Shirley Jahad - Andrew Kolodny | Kevin Arceneaux | Ganesh Sitaramen
September 05, 2019 23:18Big Pharma Faces More Big Court Challenges in the Opioid Addiction Epidemic; How Much Is "A Need for Chaos" Playing a Role in Our Elections?; Reviving the Reforms of the Progressive Era to Help Bridge the Wealth Gap backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 4, 2019 Hosted by Shirley Jihad | Ann Ravel | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor | Jacqueline Douge
September 04, 2019 23:54Why the Federal Election Commission Is Broken and What It Means for 2020; “Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Home Ownership”; The American Academy of Pediatrics Says Racism Is a Socially Transmitted Disease backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 3, 2019 - Alan Minsky sits in for Ian Masters - Kate Aronoff | Jim Knight | Douglas Lain
September 04, 2019 01:16How the Democratic Presidential Candidates Differ on the Climate Crisis; Making Sense of the Chaos in UK Politics; Critical Theory Over Conspiracy Theory backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 2, 2019 - Robert Hockett; Corey Pein; Astra Taylor
September 02, 2019 21:24Will the Democrats Run Away from their Progressive Majority?; Inside the Dystopian Reality of the Tech Boom; A Stronger Democracy Makes a Better Economy
September 1, 2019 -Stacy Mitchell | Sylvia Allegreto | Jeffrey Winters
September 01, 2019 20:01September 1, 2019 -Stacy Mitchell | Sylvia Allegreto | Jeffrey Winters by Ian Masters
August 298, 2019 - Ryan Cooper | Moira Donegan | John Patrick Leary
August 29, 2019 21:48The Deadly Legacy of David Koch | Elizabeth Warren's Surging Campaign | The New Language of Capitalism
August 28, 2019 - Robert Baer | David Hearst | Michael Carpenter
August 29, 2019 01:18Why Does the CIA Not Spy On the UAE?; Is the Mentor MBZ Giving Up On His Protege MBS?; Trump Goes to Bat for Putin Again
August 27, 2019 - Todd Gitlin | Corey Brettschneider | Bill Yeomans
August 28, 2019 01:36Bernie Sanders' Plan to Protect American Journalism; Trump Violates the Emoluments Clause for All to See; Will We Ever Learn the Truth About How Epstein Died? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 26, 2019 - David Wallace-Wells | James Green | Heather Hurlburt
August 27, 2019 01:19Could Collective Action Against Bad Actors Stop Climate Change?; Do Brazilians Have Buyer's Remorse Over Bolsonaro; Again Trump Behaves Badly at the G-7 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Encourages Boris To Go Over The Cliff
August 26, 2019 01:53Trump Encourages Boris To Go Over The Cliff by Ian Masters
August 25 - Victor Shih | Charles Kupchan | Cynthia Galaz
August 25, 2019 22:00Trump Has Second Thoughts About The Trade War With China; Trump Encourages Boris To Go Over The Cliff; ICE Cuts Off Hotline For Immigrants Because of a TV Show
August 22, 2019 - Lance Dodes | Alexander Zaitchik | Steven Pifer
August 23, 2019 00:49"The Chosen One" Is Losing It; Bolsanaro's War on the Amazon; Trump Tries to Get Putin Readmitted to the G8 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia