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EP 161 "I Just Wanted Something Different" KJ and Marcia Holland
Background Check Podcast - March 27, 2024 21:19 - 1 hourOur interview with KJ and Marcia Holland. You can watch this video on our YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@forgivenfelon?si=JtJ4BkH5UBeICUYh
March 27, 2024 - Jacob Silverman | Fred Turner | Brian Concannon
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - March 27, 2024 20:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 543 ratingsPlutocrats Are Backing Trump, Not Because They Like Him, But to Extend Trump's Tax Cuts For the Ultra-Rich | RFK Jr's Pick For His Running Mate Has Deep Pockets But a Shallow Resume | Guns and Ammo From the US Fuel Anarchy in Haiti backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia faceboo...
March 26, 2024 - Jon Hoffman | Michele Goodwin | Jay Ritter
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - March 26, 2024 20:33 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 543 ratingsIs Israel Becoming a Strategic Liability For the United States? | Today's Oral Arguments Before the Supreme Court on a Nationwide Ban of a Medication Abortion Drug | After Today's Trading, Trump's Essentially Worthless Company is Suddenly Worth $15 Billion? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.c...
March 25, 2024 - Robert Young Pelton | Dr. Trita Parsi | Lloyd Green
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - March 25, 2024 19:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 543 ratingsA Look at the Islamic State's Global Terrorist Franchises While Putin Tries to Shift the Blame Onto Ukraine | Will The US Help Implement the UN Ceasefire Resolution Which For the First Time It Did Not Veto? | Today's Lifeline Thrown to Trump Reducing His Bond Down From $454 Million to $175 Millio...
March 24, 2024 - James Thurber | James Henry | Alec Bertina
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - March 24, 2024 16:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 543 ratingsThe Do-Nothing Congress Descends Into the Chaos Congress | Could Billions Made Out of Nothing Pumped Into Truth Social Rescue Trump Tomorrow? | While Putin Has His Security Services Going After Gays and Lesbians He Prioritizes as Terrorists, Real Terrorists Strike Host: Ian Masters Producer: Gr...
March 21, 2024 - Nathan Schneider | Thomas Mockaitis | Dr. Lance Dodes
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - March 21, 2024 21:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 543 ratingsCan the Public Own Giant Tech Companies Who Operate as Monopolies? | In a Major Shift, the US Drafts a UN Resolution For an Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza and a Hostage Deal | The Ethical Obligation to Warn the Public About Trump's Dementia backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia f...
March 20, 2024 - Dov Waxman | James Zirin | Robert Sapolsky
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - March 20, 2024 21:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 543 ratingsWhile Kushner's Callous Remarks on the Value of Beachfront Property as a Million Gazans Starve Resonate, Netanyahu Talks to Republican Senators and the House Speaker | AG Garland and Justice Cardoza's Warning That Criminals "Go Free Because the Constable Has Blundered" | Trump Attacks Biden But A...
March 19, 2024 - Scott Horton | Barbara Walter | Victoria Hui
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - March 19, 2024 21:47 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 543 ratingsWho Will Come up With the Billion Dollars Trump Needs as he Faces the Prospect of His Assets Being Seized? | Trump's Call For a Civil War Just as he Called For the January 6 Insurrection | China Ends Freedom of Speech Now That Anyone in Hong Kong Communicating With Anyone Abroad is Guilty of "Ext...
March 18, 2024 - Stanley Greenberg | Michael Gorham | David Satter
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - March 18, 2024 19:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 543 ratingsAn Alarming Poll on the Rise of the "Duel Haters" Who Want Neither Trump or Biden | The Fate of the Russian Opposition Now That Putin Has Awarded Himself a Blowout Election Victory | Concerns Inside the Intelligence Community Over Trump's Bromance With Putin and Orban backgroundbriefing.org/donat...
March 17, 2024 - Alexander Cooley | Julian Zelizer | Jonathan Weiler
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - March 17, 2024 16:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 543 ratingsThe Russian Elections and Putin's Plans to Stoke Divisions in an Already-Divided America | The Increasingly Visible Role of Vice President Harris in the Campaign Underway | Trump's GOP Keeps Lowering the Bar With Greater Ignorance, Vitriol, Clownishness and Vulgarity backgroundbriefing.org/donate...
March 14, 2024 - Marcy Wheeler | William McGee | Asher Kaufman
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - March 14, 2024 21:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 543 ratingsMore Evidence Emerges About the Source of Disinformation on Hunter Biden | More Problems For An Already Troubled Boeing Whose Disastrous CEO is Still on the Job | Senator Schumer's Public Break With Netanyahu backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
March 13, 2024 - Omar Shakir | David Faris | David Cay Johnston
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - March 13, 2024 20:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 543 ratingsAs Gazans Starve, Will Netanyahu Cross Biden's "Red Line" and Invade Rafah? | 3rd Party Spoilers Already Have 17% of the Vote and Will Hurt Biden More Than Trump | Will Money From Malign Foreign Dictators Bail Out Trump? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianma...
March 12, 2024 - Lindsay Koshgarian | Will Bunch | William Cohan
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - March 12, 2024 20:07 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 543 ratingsOf the $1.6 Trillion in Discretionary Spending in Biden's 2025 Budget, a Trillion Goes to the Military and $499 Billion For Everything Else | Trump's Mafia-Like Extortion of Corporate America | In Hedging its Bet on Biden, Wall Street is Telling Itself Trump is Not That Bad Even Though They Know ...
EP 160 Marriage Miscarriage and Ministry Jay Dan and Jessamys story
Background Check Podcast - March 11, 2024 18:46 - 1 hourJay Dan and his wife tell their story of how they got engaged, what it was like going through 4 miscarraiges, and what it's like doing ministry together.
EP 159 "My Heart is in Corrections" State Rep Carl O Sherman
Background Check Podcast - March 11, 2024 18:36 - 1 hourMy interview with State Rep Carl O Sherman including his journey to become a pastor and eventually in to politics.
March 10, 2024 - Harold Meyerson | Moira Donegan | Michael Kimmage
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - March 10, 2024 16:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 543 ratingsBiden Turns the Tide Against the Press and Pollsters Who Have Written Him Off As Too Old and Losing Badly to Trump | Biden Confronts the Reactionary Supreme Court Over Women's Rights | The State of War and Rumors of Peace Between Ukraine and Russia backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmas...
March 7, 2024 - Simon Rosenberg | Anne Nelson | Paul Pillar
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - March 07, 2024 21:34 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 543 ratingsWhat Biden Might, Should and Will Say in Tonight's State of the Union Address | Will Biden Take Off the Gloves and Confront the House MAGA Republicans' Pro-Putin Caucus? | Belatedly Biden Appears to be Using the Enormous Leverage the US Has Over Netanyahu backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com...
March 6, 2024 - David Schultz | Geoffry Kabaservice | Sharon Weiner
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - March 06, 2024 21:16 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 543 ratingsCan Biden Pick up Haley's Voters While Placating the Uncommitted Young Democrats? | The Challenge the "Uncommitted" Vote in Minnesota Poses to Biden | With $2 Trillion Being Spent on "Nuclear Modernization" of Dangerous and Unnecessary Weapons, Where is the Guns and Butter Argument? backgroundbri...
March 5, 2024 - Dr. Guy Ziv | Lawrence Douglas | Jim Small
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - March 05, 2024 22:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 543 ratingsVP Harris's Clear Rebuke of Netanyahu Calling For a Ceasefire and What Amounts to Regime Change | The Role of the Right Wing Supreme Court as it Goes Out of Its Way to Protect Trump | Sinema Quits the Senate But Rewards From Big Pharma and Hedge Funds Likely Await Her backgroundbriefing.org/donat...
March 4, 2024 - Allan Lichtman | Brian Concannon | Sasha Abramsky
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - March 04, 2024 21:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 543 ratingsA Unanimous Supreme Court Ruling to Keep Trump on the Ballot Ignores the Constitution | Haiti's Descent Into Anarchy as Gangs Attack Police and Free 3,700 Prisoners | The Cynical Political Strategy of Choosing the Opponent You Want to Run Against backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmaste...
March 3, 2024 - Rashid Khalidi | Tom Burgis | Natalie Melnyczuk
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - March 03, 2024 18:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 543 ratingsFollowing the Massacre of Desperate Gazans Storming Food Trucks, Ceasefire Talks Are Underway | How Plutocrats Use Their Power to Own the Truth | With the U.S. AWOL, Growing Resolve Within NATO backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 29, 2024 - Caroline Fredrickson | Corey Brettschneider | Hamilton Nolan
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - February 29, 2024 21:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 543 ratingsThe Naked Partisanship of the Supreme Court's Right Wing Majority | The History of Supreme Courts That Have Served the Political Interests of Some of Our Worst Presidents | A Revival of Labor with Organizing Wins at Starbucks and Mercedes backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia ...
February 28, 2024 - John Nichols | Ben Jacobs | Adele Stan
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - February 28, 2024 22:31 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 543 ratingsThe Michigan Vote as an Indicator of How the Gaza War Threatens Biden's Reelection | Senator McConnell Steps Down From Leadership of a GOP He is Out Of Step With | The Embrace of Fascism by Trump's Government in Waiting at CPAC backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.co...
The Embrace of Fascism by Trump's Government in Waiting at CPAC
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - February 28, 2024 22:31 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 543 ratingsThe Embrace of Fascism by Trump's Government in Waiting at CPAC by Ian Masters
February 27, 2024 - Mike Lofgren | Jim Manley | Lisa Graves
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - February 27, 2024 22:44 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 543 ratingsThe President and Congressional Leaders Meet to Prevent Another Government Shutdown | Schumer Describes an "Intense" Meeting as Everybody in the Oval Office Piled on Johnson to Get Aid to Ukraine Done | An Update on the Many Trials Trump Faces As He Tries to Run Out the Clock backgroundbriefing.o...
Court Access Fees are on the RISE... Why?
Background Screening Tips & Tech - February 27, 2024 16:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsCourt Access Fees on the RISE... Why? Court access fees are on the rise. What does that mean to the screening industry and the clients that we serve? In years past we would see updates to court access fees maybe every quarter or every six months. In the last year we are seeing updated court a...
February 26, 2024 - Katherine Stewart | Jonathan Taplin | Sevag Kechichian
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - February 26, 2024 22:14 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 543 ratingsThe Rise of Christian Nationalism, Dominionism and the New Apostolic Reformation Movements | The Supreme Court Appears Open To Giving Tech Giants Immunity From Content on Their Social Media Platforms | Powerful Leaders, Investors and Celebrities Suck Up to MbS's Sovereign Wealth Fund backgroundbr...
February 25, 2024 - Tom LoBianco | Paul Waldman | Christine Abely
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - February 25, 2024 18:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 543 ratingsA Lackluster CPAC and the VP Auditions In Spite Of Trump Trying to Have His Last VP Killed | The GOP Gets a Free Pass With the Rural Vote While Doing Nothing to Help and a Lot to Harm Rural Folk | The Latest Round of Sanctions While China, India and Brazil Buy Discounted and Smuggled Russian Oil ...
Los Angeles County - Dates of Birth Removed?
Background Screening Tips & Tech - February 23, 2024 15:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsLos Angeles County - Dates of Birth Removed? The Los Angeles County Superior court has announced that partial dates of birth will be removed from the public kiosks and from the court website. What does this mean? How does it impact you? The Los Angeles County Superior Court announced on Feb...
February 22, 2024 - Lincoln Mitchell | Mitchell Plitnick | Maria Snegovaya
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - February 22, 2024 22:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 543 ratingsRFK Junior's Role as a Spoiler Since His Campaign's Biggest Donor is Also Trump's Biggest Donor | An Update on Diplomatic Efforts Underway For a Ceasefire in the Gaza War | What is Behind the Rise of Illiberal and Right Wing Politics in Europe backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersm...
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