Background Briefing with Ian Masters

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United States

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Politics

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Twitter:

@ianmastersmedia

Language:

English

Contact:

213 422 0537

Website:

https://backgroundbriefing.org/

Email:

robert@backgroundbriefing.org

Episodes

April 18 - Why the Mueller Report Will Only Scratch the Surface; Why the US Intelligence Community Wants Assange

4/18/2019

Program Date: 04/18/2019 mp3audio: Full Program

Duration:00:59:31

April 17 - Will the Mueller Report Give a Career Criminal and a Traitor a Free Pass?; Democratic Fratricide and Digital Technology's Assault on Humanity

4/17/2019

Program Date: 04/17/2019 https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/2019/04/17/background-briefing-april-17-2019/ mp3audio: Full Program

Duration:00:58:24

April 16 - Paris the Day After the Burning of Notre Dame; Amnesty International's Condemnation of Ortega's Brutality; Trump Swears in a Coal Lobbyist to Head the EPA

4/16/2019

Program Date: 04/16/2019 https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/2019/04/16/background-briefing-april-16-2019/ mp3audio: Full Program

Duration:01:00:07

April 15 - On Tax Day Trump Hides His Returns While He and Jared Pay No Taxes; Could Mayor Pete Revive the Religious Left to Challenge the Religious Right?; Trump's Threat to Close the Border Unless Mexico Stops Drugs Entering the US

4/15/2019

Program Date: 04/15/2019 mp3audio: Full Program

Duration:00:59:35

April 14 - It Will Be a Long Time Before Julian Assange is in US Custody; Mayor Pete’s Background and Local Reputation; Trump’s Use of Poor, Desperate Immigrants to Distract Us

4/14/2019

Program Date: 04/14/2019 https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/2019/04/14/background-briefing-april-14-2019/ mp3audio: Full Program

Duration:00:59:48

April 11 - The Danger in Celebrating Assange's Arrest; As Bad as Barr Is, Trump's Nominee to Replace Rosenstein is Even Worse; Will the Removal of Sudan's Dictator Be the Beginning of Democracy or a Transition to Another Dictator

4/11/2019

Program Date: 04/11/2019 https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/2019/04/11/background-briefing-april-11-2019/ mp3audio: Full Program

Duration:00:59:59

April 10 - A Partisan Protector of Trump, Barr Shapes the Narrative; Will a Split Between Centrists and Progressives Sink the Democrats?; Trump Places Himself Above the Law as He Fights to Hide His Tax Returns?

4/10/2019

Program Date: 04/10/2019 mp3audio: Full Program

Duration:00:59:33

April 9 - Barr's Less-Than-Reassuring Testimony; Republicans Try to Deflect Hearing on White Supremacy; Outside Backers are Driving Libya to a New Civil War

4/9/2019

Program Date: 04/09/2019 https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/2019/04/09/background-briefing-april-9-2019/ mp3audio: Full Program

Duration:00:59:00

April 8 - Trump's "You're Fired!" Spree; Designating the IRGC as a Terrorist Organization; Netanyahu's Last-Minute Pandering

4/8/2019

Program Date: 04/08/2019 https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/2019/04/08/background-briefing-april-8-2019/ mp3audio: Full Program

Duration:01:00:26

April 7 - Why Not Release Mueller Team's Summaries Now?; Trump Vows Democrats Will Never See His Tax Returns; Are Democrats Forming a Circular Firing Squad

4/7/2019

Program Date: 04/07/2019 https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/2019/04/07/background-briefing-april-7-2019/ mp3audio: Full Program

Duration:01:00:40

April 4 - Mueller's Investigators Are Angry at Barr's Misrepresentation of Their Report;Stoning Gay Men While Importing Call Girls; The Frontier of Opportunity Is Now the Wall of Reactionary Populism and Racist Nationalism

4/4/2019

Program Date: 04/04/2019 https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/2019/04/04/background-briefing-april-4-2019/ mp3audio: Full Program

Duration:00:58:44

April 3 - McConnell Goes Nuclear for the Third Time in Six Years; The Head of NATO's Meetings and Why the Public Needs the Mueller Report; An Emboldened Maduro Strips Guaido's Parliamentary Immunity

4/3/2019

Program Date: 04/03/2019 https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/2019/04/03/background-briefing-april-3-2019/ mp3audio: Full Program

Duration:00:58:59

April 2 - Anti-Vaxxers and the Growing Measles Epidemic; Erdogan Rebuked in Turkey's Elections; Can a Ukranian Comedian Handle Vladimir Putin?

4/2/2019

Program Date: 04/02/2019 https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/2019/04/02/background-briefing-april-2-2019/ mp3audio: Full Program

Duration:01:00:28

April 1 - House to Subpoena Barr to Hand Over Full Mueller Report; White House Whistleblower Reveals 25 Clearance Denials Overruled; Trump Appoints Medicare and Medicaid Mega-Fraudster to Head GOP Healthcare Push

4/1/2019

Program Date: 04/01/2019 mp3audio: Full Program

Duration:00:59:19

March 31 - The Brexit Paralysis Moves from Fiasco to Fury; Trump's Threat to Close the Border with Mexico; The Power Behind the Scenes Exposed in Algeria

3/31/2019

Program Date: 03/31/2019 https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/2019/03/31/background-briefing-march-31-2019/ mp3audio: Full Program

Duration:00:58:43

March 28 - Is America's Justice System Incapable of Challenging Real Power?; Trump's Cruel Cuts in Aid to Puerto Rico; Jared Kushner Questioned About Secret Deals with Russia and Saudi Arabia

3/28/2019

Program Date: 03/28/2019 https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/2019/03/28/background-briefing-march-28-2019/ mp3audio: Full Program

Duration:00:59:55

March 27 - How Regulatory Capture Allowed Boeing to Build an Unsafe Airliner; An Update from a Country Disintegrating into Chaos and Lawlessness; An Activist and Performance Artist Who Stages Acts of Creative Resistance

3/27/2019

Program Date: 03/27/2019 https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/2019/03/27/background-briefing-march-27-2019/ mp3audio: Full Program

Duration:01:00:11

March 26 - The Republican Right and the Russiagate-Skeptic Left Embrace Barr's Spin; Trump Wants the Entire Affordable Care Act to Be Ruled Unconstitutional; The Crisis of Legitimacy Roiling the Global Political Landscape

3/26/2019

Program Date: 03/26/2019 https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/2019/03/26/background-briefing-march-26-2019/ mp3audio: Full Program

Duration:01:00:35

March 25 - Barr Contains the Potential Damage of the Mueller Report; What Didn't Kill Trump's Presidency Won't Necessarily Make it Stronger in 2020; Will Trump's Popularity in Israel Rub Off on Netanyahu

3/25/2019

Program Date: 03/25/2019 https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/2019/03/25/background-briefing-march-25-2019/ mp3audio: Full Program

Duration:00:59:12

March 24 - A Stark Assessment of Global Warming's Effects on Human Life over the Coming Decades

3/24/2019

Program Date: 03/24/2019 https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/2019/03/24/background-briefing-march-24-2019/ mp3audio: Full Program

Duration:01:01:08