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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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August 3, 2023 - Frederick Baron | Timothy Karr | Dr. Olayinka Ajala

August 03, 2023 22:15 - 1 hour - 138 MB

Trump's Arraignment Today and Why His Defense Won't Work | The Commanding Role Trump Plays Over the Press as the Top Fox News Executives Dine With Him on the Evening of His Indictment | What is Behind the Coup in Niger Where Putin and Wagner Are Seen as Heroes and the French Villains backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

August 2, 2023 - Victoria Nourse | Justin Levitt | Dennis Aftergut

August 02, 2023 22:18 - 1 hour - 138 MB

Trump's Latest Indictment is not a First Amendment Issue About His Words. It's About His Deeds | Examining the Indictments With an Expert on Elections and Election Law | Jack Smith's 45 Page Indictment as a Prosecutorial Masterstroke backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

August 1, 2023 - Joseph Lowndes | Michael Brenes | David Broder

August 01, 2023 21:19 - 1 hour - 140 MB

The GOP's Long Quest For an Imperial Presidency. Now They're About To Crown Trump King Donald the First | What Broke the American War Machine That Now Hobbles Ukraine | How Italy's PM Giorgia Meloni Leads the Far Right in Europe backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

July 31, 2023 - Mary Ellen O'Connell | Sarah Leah Whitson | Sidney Blumenthal

July 31, 2023 22:38 - 1 hour - 142 MB

The Ukrainian Peace Plan to be Discussed by 30 Nations in Saudi Arabia on August 5 | Questions Following Jake Sullivan's Saudi Trip to Bolster the Abraham Accords | The Republican Napoleon is Getting Smaller and Smaller backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

July 30, 2023 - Karen Greenberg | Michael Kimmage | Lisa Graves

July 30, 2023 17:46 - 1 hour - 143 MB

More Indictments of Trump That Pro-Trump Jurors in Florida Could Agree Are Crimes | Do the US and NATO Really Want Ukraine's Counteroffensive to Succeed? | A Defiant Alito Tells the Congress He is Above the Law backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

July 27, 2023 - Kim Lane Scheppele | Harold Meyerson | Jill Quadagno

July 27, 2023 23:08 - 58 minutes - 134 MB

Netanyahu's Path of Autocratic Legalism Following Orban, Erdogan, Bolsonaro, Modi and Putin | The Attempt Underway to Give Republicans and Independents Who Can't Vote For Trump an Alternative to Voting For Biden | Senator McConnell Freezes Then Senator Feinstein Has to be Told Repeatedly to Vote "Aye" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

July 26, 2023 - Adam Klasfeld | Dr. Allen Frances | Quinn Slobodian

July 26, 2023 22:14 - 1 hour - 138 MB

A Roundup of Legal Issues Facing Hunter Biden, Guiliani, Flynn, Navarro and Trump | Biden's Mental Health Initiative as Addiction and Mental Illness Remain Untreated Across the Country | The Techno-Autocracy of Saudi Arabia as an Example of Capitalism Without Democracy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

July 25, 2023 - Guy Ziv | Monica Medina | John Nichols

July 25, 2023 22:50 - 1 hour - 140 MB

Deepening Divisions in Israel With the Country's National Security Threatened by Netanyahu's Power Grab | Scientists Predict a Tipping Point Where the Atlantic Gulf Stream Current Could Collapse as Early as 2025 | Is Governor Ron DeSantis Going the Way of Governor Scott Walker? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

July 24, 2023 - Avraham Burg | Michael Mann | Elizabeth Beavers

July 24, 2023 22:18 - 1 hour - 146 MB

Massive Demonstrations in Israel Against Netanyahu's Power Grab to Avoid Jail | The Global Heatwave and It's Not Game Over on Climate Change But Game On | Does The US Government and the Pentagon Want Ukraine to Lose the War? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

July 23, 2023 - Miles Taylor | Danielle Allen

July 23, 2023 17:14 - 56 minutes - 130 MB

How to Save American Democracy From the Trump 2.0 Revenge Machine | A Plan to Solve the Electoral College and Gerrymandering Problems Undermining American Democracy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

July 20, 2023 - Lincoln Mitchell | Joe Glauber | Jonathan Zasloff

July 20, 2023 23:07 - 1 hour - 140 MB

Today's Republican Lovefest With RFK Jr. Which Had Democrats Attacking the Anti-Vaxxer and Anti Semite With the Storied Democratic Name | As Russia Attacks Grain Terminals, Mines the Black Sea and Threatens Shipping, Grain Prices Soar | A Legal Historian on How and Why Trump Has Avoided Accountability So Far backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

July 19, 2023 - Allan Lichtman | Fred Wertheimer

July 19, 2023 23:22 - 59 minutes - 137 MB

Trump Facing a Third Indictment From Jack Smith in DC for the January 6 Insurrection | Pro-Trump Fake Electors Charged in Michigan With Cases Pending in Arizona and Georgia backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

July 18, 2023 - Naomi Oreskes | Peter Strauss | Aziz Huq

July 18, 2023 21:32 - 1 hour - 140 MB

As the Planet Bakes, Oil Companies Enjoy Record Profits From a Product that is Killing the Planet | The Heritage Foundation Plan to "Deconstruct the Administrative State" and Install Trump as Dictator | What if Trump Controlled the IRS, FDA, FTC, EPA and DOJ and Who Would Benefit? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

July 17, 2023 - Dennis Aftergut | Chris Barrett | Rachel Schmalz

July 17, 2023 22:19 - 1 hour - 139 MB

No Labels, Flush With Republican Billionaire Dark Money, Woos Joe Manchin to Split the Biden Vote to Elect Trump | Russia's Suspension of the UN-Brokered Black Sea Deal to Export Grains and Fertilizer | The Underground Tartar Resistance Group in Crimea backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

July 16, 2023 - Wendy Via | Lawrence Korb | Lane Windham

July 16, 2023 17:20 - 1 hour - 139 MB

What is Behind the Hatred Spewing Forth From House MAGA Republicans? | The Hate-Filled Amendments to the NDAA Which McCarthy Hailed as Stopping "Wokeness" in the Military | The Impact on the Broader Labor Movement of SAG-AFTRA Joining the WGA Already on Strike backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

July 13, 2023 - Michele Bratcher Goodwin | Jo-Marie Burt | Mike Lofgren

July 13, 2023 23:14 - 1 hour - 140 MB

Birth Control Pills Will Soon be Available Over the Counter Without a Prescription | A Brazen Coup Attempt in Guatemala Which Has the Leading Presidential Candidate Suspending Her Campaign | What Has Happened to the GOP, the Party of Law and Order? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

July 12, 2023 - Ryan Busse | James Goldgeier | Henri Barkey

July 12, 2023 22:15 - 1 hour - 138 MB

The Growing Threat to Public Safety From Ghost Guns | An Assessment of the Just-Concluded NATO Summit | Erdogan Did Not Steal the Limelight at the Summit or End up With Much backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

July 11, 2023 - Jeffrey Goodell | Ahmet Yayla | Olivia Buckley

July 11, 2023 22:34 - 1 hour - 138 MB

Record Heat in the South and Southwest as Climate Change Scorches the Planet | Considered the Most Corrupt Leader in the World, Erdogan's Successful Blackmail | The Crypto Industry Throws Money at House and Senate Democrats backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

July 10, 2023 - Stephen Wertheim | Oxana Shevel | James Browning

July 10, 2023 22:40 - 59 minutes - 137 MB

Should Ukraine Model Its Security Future on Israel, Not NATO? | What Does Zelensky Want From the NATO Summit? | The Researcher Who Exposed How Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Also Represent the Victims of the Climate Crisis backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

July 7, 2023 - Stephen Wertheim | Oxana Shevel | James Browning

July 10, 2023 22:40 - 59 minutes - 137 MB

Should Ukraine Model Its Security Future on Israel, Not NATO? | What Does Zelensky Want From the NATO Summit? | The Researcher Who Exposed How Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Also Represent the Victims of the Climate Crisis backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

July 9, 2023 - Amb. Steven Pifer | Ryan Cooper | Jared Holt

July 09, 2023 17:51 - 1 hour - 148 MB

As Russia's Nuclear Threats Recede, Some NATO States Call For Ukraine to be Admitted | Is America Now Divided Between "Team Crazy" and "Team Normal"? | When Will Those Who Incite Violence Be Held to Account For the Consequences? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

July 6, 2023 - Brian Concannon | Jonathan Taplin | Blake Zeff

July 06, 2023 22:29 - 1 hour - 140 MB

The US Secretary of State and the UN Secretary General to Send an International Police Force to Haiti to Prop Up a Corrupt Government in League With the Gangs and Repugnant Elite | The Battle of the Billionaires As Zuckerberg's "Threads" Challenges the Future of Musk's Twitter | The Maker of the LOAN WOLVES documentary Which Shows How and Why 43 Million Americans Were Trapped Into $2 Trillion in Student Debt backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

July 5, 2023 - Mariana Budjeryn | Edwin Lyman | Anders Åslund

July 05, 2023 22:25 - 1 hour - 140 MB

Alarming Reports That the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant Could be Blown Up | Can the IAEA Save Zaporizhzhya While Giving the Go Ahead to Dump Fukushima's Radioactive Water Into the Pacific | Biden Meets With Sweden's PM Ahead of Next Week's NATO Summit backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

July 4, 2023 - Aram Shabanian | Robert Crews

July 04, 2023 19:16 - 59 minutes - 137 MB

The Strategy Behind the Ukrainian Counteroffensive Many Pundits See as Being Bogged Down | Our Cavalier Disregard of Nuclear Threats From Putin Who Said "We Have No Need For a World Without Russia" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

July 3, 2023 - Garrett Epps | Khaled Elgindy | Alexander Motyl

July 03, 2023 23:11 - 1 hour - 140 MB

American Democracy Under Threat as Unelected Justices Veto Policies They Don't Like Aided By Phony Front Groups | The Israeli Military Targets Angry Young Palestinians Alienated From Their Own Aged and Inept Government | Has Putin Lost His Monopoly on Violence and Will the ICC Charge Him With Genocide? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

July 2, 2023 - René Christian Moya | Dr. Steven Hassan | Olga Lautman

July 02, 2023 17:30 - 1 hour - 146 MB

Why Not Cancel Student Debts Now Using The Higher Education Act of 1965? | How to Deprogram the Followers Inside the Cult of Trump | An Update on the Mutiny in Russia and Ukraine's Counteroffensive backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

June 29, 2023 - Katherine Franke | Kevin Kumashiro | Wesley Lowery

June 29, 2023 22:15 - 1 hour - 141 MB

Another Right Wing Front Group Gets SCOTUS to Rule With a Predetermined Outcome, This Time Against Affirmative Action | How Asian Students Were Used to Perpetuate the Myth of Colorblindness | The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

June 28, 2023 - Nick Schwellenbach | John Bonifaz | Juan Cole

June 28, 2023 21:09 - 1 hour - 141 MB

The SBA Finds That Over $200 Billion Was Stolen From Covid Relief Funds With Billions More Unaccounted For | The Terrible Electoral Systems We Are Left With After the Supreme Court Voted Down an Outrageous GOP Power Grab | What is Being Discussed and Could Emerge From Talks Between the US and Iran in Oman and New York? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

June 27, 2023 - Thomas Mockaitis | David Marples | Dr. Tatisana Kulakevich

June 27, 2023 22:29 - 58 minutes - 135 MB

A Scathing Senate Report "Planned in Plain Sight" Compiles the Failures of the FBI, DHS and Capitol Police to Act on January 6 Warnings | Prigozhin's Fate Now That He is in Belarus Without His Mercenary Army | Did Putin and Lukashenko Set Up a Gangster Style Trap For Prigozhin? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

June 26, 2023 - Andrew Weiss | Ben Terris

June 26, 2023 21:11 - 59 minutes - 136 MB

Putin's Angry Address Tries to Drive a Wedge Between Prigozhin and the Rank and File of His Wagner Mercenary Army | How Trump Changed the Culture of Washington With the Influx of Grifters, Con Men, Racists, Creeps and Bottom Feeders backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

June 25, 2023 - George Beebe | Robert Young Pelton | Scott Horton

June 25, 2023 17:39 - 1 hour - 138 MB

Putin's Brush With Civil War in Nuclear-Armed Russia | A Profile of the Russian Warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin | What we Might Learn About Trump's Ties to Putin and Collusion with MBS from the Upcoming Trial backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

June 22, 2023 - Dr. Sumit Ganguly | Leah Litman | Dr. Margot Kushel

June 22, 2023 23:20 - 56 minutes - 129 MB

India's Controversial Leader Modi Gets the Royal Treatment at the White House But is an Alliance with the US in the Cards? | A Supreme Court Captured by Plutocrats Has Thomas and Alito Serving Their Billionaire Buddies | Homelessness is Caused by Loss of Income and Just $300 a Month Could Keep People Off the Streets backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

June 21, 2023 - David Cay Johnston | William Arkin | Jacob Silverman

June 21, 2023 22:41 - 1 hour - 144 MB

GOP Show Trials Sputter As 5 Years Later We Have Durham's Nothingburger and Hunter Biden's Misdemeanor Plea Deal | Why Tech Billionaires and Bannon Are Promoting RFK Jr's Primary Challenge of the Biden Presidency | An Update on the Ukraine War and What Russia Has Learned From Past Mistakes backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

June 20, 2023 - Corey Brettschneider | Lawrence Gostin | Alfred McCoy

June 20, 2023 22:23 - 1 hour - 140 MB

Why Were the DOJ's Investigations Into January 6 and the Theft of Documents Delayed For 15 Months? | What is Behind Tech Billionaires Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey and David Sacks' Promotion of RFK Jr's Spoiler Campaign? | Will China Play the Leading Role in Ending the Ukraine War? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

June 19, 2023 - Tanner Mirrlees | Andrew Nathan | David Schultz

June 19, 2023 22:10 - 59 minutes - 137 MB

Can the GOP Convince American Voters That Biden's Government Has Been Captured by Marxists and Communists? | Blinken and Xi Jinping Agree on the Need to Stabilize US-China Relations | The Scathing DOJ Report on the Minneapolis Police backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

June 18, 2023 - Thom Hartmann | Margaret MacMillan

June 18, 2023 17:06 - 1 hour - 141 MB

Why Did Trump Steal Classified Documents? Maybe Because Putin Told Him To | Analogies Between World War I and the War in Ukraine backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

June 15, 2023 - Thomas Edsall | Jackson Lears

June 15, 2023 22:55 - 57 minutes - 132 MB

Are We at the Point of No Return With American Democracy at the Crossroads? | A Cultural Historian on "Animal Spirits" and How the Universe is Alive backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

June 14, 2023 - Lyle Goldstein | Laura Rodriguez | Alexander Stille

June 14, 2023 22:19 - 1 hour - 140 MB

Blinken Sets Out to Try to Repair Dangerously Frayed Relations Between the World's Leading Military Powers | With Florida Trump Country, Can the Democrats Reverse GOP Gains? | Comparisons Between Berlusconi and Trump and the Media Mogul Turned Italian Leader's Close Relationship With Putin backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

June 13, 2023 - Harry Litman | Lisa Graves | Azamat Junisbai

June 13, 2023 22:55 - 1 hour - 139 MB

Arrested and Arraigned Today, Trump is So Lucky to Have Judge Aileen Cannon Preside over His Prosecution | Could Judge Cannon Influence the Jury Pool to Ensure a Hung Jury? | How Did a Ruthless Colonial Power The Soviet Union Get Away With Portraying Itself as the Anti-Colonial Champion? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

June 12, 2023 - Dr. Allen Frances | Sean Wilentz | Matt Stoller

June 12, 2023 22:46 - 1 hour - 138 MB

An Overwhelming Majority of Republicans Think Trump Should Serve as President if Convicted and That the Indictments Are Politically Motivated | At War With the Rule of Law, Trump is Calling For a Right Wing Rebellion | Why the PGA - Saudi LIV Merger Will Not Happen backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

June 11, 2023 - Michael Greenberger | Frederick Baron | Bruce Green

June 11, 2023 17:18 - 1 hour - 148 MB

Overwhelming Evidence of Trump's Endangerment of US National Security | Republican Efforts to Portray the Prosecution as Biden Taking Out His Main Rival For the Presidency | Trump's Uncanny Luck at Having His Pliant Judge Who He Appointed Hear the Case backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

June 8, 2023 - Michael Waldman | Kate Mackintosh | Charles Kupchan

June 08, 2023 19:41 - 59 minutes - 137 MB

A Surprise Ruling From the Supreme Court Whose Supermajority is Increasingly Out Of Touch With Mainstream America | Is the Breaching of the Dam in Ukraine an Act of Ecocide? | The Impact on European Public Opinion From Revelations Ukrainians Blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

June 7, 2023 - Michael Weiss | Sarah Leah Whitson | Stephen Vladeck

June 07, 2023 22:53 - 1 hour - 146 MB

Evidence That it Was Ukraine, Not Russia Behind the Sabotage of the Nord Stream Gas Pipelines | Is the Merger Between the PGA and LIV Golf Tournaments a Way For the Saudis to Pay Off Donald Trump? | The Supreme Court's Shadow Docket Where 99% of Unseen, Unsigned and Unexplained Cases are Decided backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

June 6, 2023 - Dr. Sasha Dovzhyk | Simon Shuster | Emily Channell-Justice

June 06, 2023 21:10 - 59 minutes - 136 MB

Flooding From a Breached Dam Delays Any Ukrainian Military Attack From the South Into Crimea | A Reporter's Earlier Conversations With Zelensky About Russia Blowing up the Dam | The Impact on Ukrainian Civilian Infrastructure and New Reporting That Ukraine Was Behind the Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

June 5, 2023 - Peter Dreier | Tom LoBianco | Jan Kubik

June 05, 2023 22:22 - 1 hour - 147 MB

The False Equivalence of the Far-Right House Freedom Caucus and the Democrat's Progressive Caucus | Mike Pence and the Growing Republican Ranks of Hopefuls Challenging Trump | Sunday's Massive Demonstrations in Poland Against Anti-Democratic Authoritarianism backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

June 4, 2023 - James Galbraith | Lauren Kahn | Antony Loewenstein

June 04, 2023 17:24 - 1 hour - 146 MB

A Phony Crisis Averted Now a Celebration of Compromise and Bipartisanship | The Next War of Drones and AI Now in Ukraine | Exporting the Technology of Repression and Australia's Trial of the Century backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

June 1, 2023 - Dennis Aftergut | Richard Parker | Ben Freeman

June 01, 2023 22:35 - 1 hour - 139 MB

Trump Eviscerates His Own Defense as Jack Smith Closes in on Indicting Him | The Disconnect Between Biden's Low Poll Numbers and His Many Achievements | How Defense Contractors Influence the Ukraine Debate backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

May 31, 2023 - Chris McGreal | Daniel Serwer | Jake Grumbach

May 31, 2023 22:26 - 1 hour - 138 MB

The Sacklers Get to Keep Most of Their Money After a Million Americans Have Died From Their Drug OxyContin | Serbia's Authoritarian Leader and Russian Provocateurs Are Behind What Lavrov Says is a Big Explosion Looming in the Heart of Europe | The March Towards Authoritarianism in States Taken Over by Republican Supermajorities backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

May 30, 2023 - Jeff Hauser | Paul Pillar | Aaron Stein

May 30, 2023 22:07 - 1 hour - 142 MB

The Hazardous Passage of the Debt Ceiling Deal Through Congress | Will Putin Get the Traitor-in-Chief Back in the Oval Office? | Is Erdogan's Victory Also a Victory For Putin? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

May 29, 2023 - Lucian Truscott IV | Julia Gledhill | Scott Shapiro

May 29, 2023 21:01 - 1 hour - 151 MB

Remembering an American General Who Would Not Speak of the Glorious Dead on Memorial Day | How Defense Contractors Are Gouging the Taxpayer While Rewarding Shareholders at the Expense of R&D | Is Cybersecurity an Unsolvable Problem? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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