Background Briefing with Ian Masters
News & Politics Podcasts
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. backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Location:
United States
Description:
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. backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Twitter:
@ianmastersmedia
Language:
English
Contact:
213 422 0537
Website:
https://backgroundbriefing.org/
Episodes
March 23, 2023 - David Carroll | James Bamford
3/23/2023
Beating up on TikTok While Ignoring the Data Mining Business Model of Big Tech Based on Surveillance Capitalism | Netanyahu's Unreported Collusion to Elect Trump in 2016 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:01:20
March 22, 2023 - Mark Hannah | Deak Baker | Matthew Dallek
3/22/2023
Xi Fails to Deliver a Viable Peace Plan Leaving Putin to Pursue His War While Appearing to be Open to Peace Talks | The Fed Raises Interest Rates for the Ninth Time to Just Under 5% | The Roots of the Radical Right's Capture of the Republican Party backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:03:11
March 21, 2023 - George Beebe | Michael D'Antonio | Jane McAlevey
3/21/2023
Could China Deliver a Peace Deal to End the War in Ukraine? | On the Day Trump Said He Would Be Arrested, Where are the Indictments? | Reinvigorating the Labor Movement as Strikes and Union Negotiations Gain National Attention backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:04:02
March 20, 2023 - H. W. Brands | Gary Sick
3/20/2023
An Historian Who First Learned of the 1980 October Surprise Which Helped Elect Reagan and End Carter's Presidency | A Carter White House Insider on the Second Act of Treason by Republicans Which Deserves More Than an Apology to Jimmy Carter backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:00:56
March 19, 2023 - Rachel Denber | Stephen Wertheim | Dr. Ariel Cohen
3/19/2023
What An Arrest Warrant For Putin Means and What it Will Achieve | Our Historical Memory Lapse on the 20th Anniversary of the U.S. Invasion of Iraq | A Conservative Scholar's Critique of Tucker Carlson's Pro-Russia Talking Points backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:08:35
March 16, 2023 - David Cay Johnston | Cleo Paskal | Paul Pillar
3/16/2023
The Under-reported Role of Crypto in the Silicon Valley Bank Crash | Mass Hysteria Got Us Into the Iraq War 20 Years Ago and is on Display Today Over China | An Update From Taiwan, the Flashpoint For a Possible War With China backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:00:33
March 15, 2023 - John Pike | Dr. Ushma Upadhyay | Dennis Kelleher
3/15/2023
Russian and American Military Aircraft Clash Over the Black Sea | A Zealous Anti-Abortion Judge in Texas is Poised to Ban an Abortion Drug Nationwide | Fallout From the Failure of the SVB Bank is Spreading to Europe backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:05:39
March 13, 2023 - Ian Haney López | Bonnie Glaser | Juan Cole
3/14/2023
Hatred and Division Intensifies in the US as the Phony War Against the Woke, Drag Queens and Trans Kids Accelerates | China's Reaction to the AUKUS Deal on Display Yesterday With Biden Beside the PMs of Australia and the UK | What China's Diplomatic Initiative in the Middle East Portends for the Region backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:02:25
March 13, 2023 - Graham Fuller | Robert Hockett | James Henry
3/13/2023
China Brings Diplomacy to the Middle East Where the US Has Wasted Trillions on Endless Wars | Trump and the Fed Chair's Role in the Collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank | Are There More Shoes to Drop Following the SVB Failure? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:05:31
March 12, 2023 - Jennifer Taub | Katheryn Russ Russ | Lincoln Mitchell
3/12/2023
An "Invitation" to Trump to Testify Before a Manhattan Grand Jury Will Likely be Followed by the First Indictment of a President in US History | The Dire Consequences of Defaulting on Our Debt | Demonstrations in Georgia, Destabilization in Moldova and Russian Pressure on Belarus backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:00:57:34
March 9, 2023 - Ben Jacobs | Annelle Sheline | Max Bergmann
3/9/2023
More Damning Texts and Emails Show That Fox News Considers Telling the Truth Bad For Business | The Saudi War Against Yemen Could be Coming to an End | The Threadbare State Of NATO's Military Readiness backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:04:53
March 8, 2023 - Richard Parker | Amanda Marcotte | Anders Åslund
3/8/2023
The Fed Chair is asked if he is OK With Putting 2 Million Americans Out of Work by Raising Interest Rates to Curb Inflation | How Best to Respond to Increasingly Extreme GOP Trolling | Another Thinly-Soured Article on Who Blew Up the Nord Stream Pipelines backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:01:59
March 7, 2023 - Carol Anderson | Jessica Melugin | Mitchell Plitnick
3/7/2023
Environmental Protestors in Georgia Are Charged With Domestic Terrorism for Exercising Their First Amendment Rights | Why in the Land of the Free Are we Afraid of Being Turned Into Communists by TikTok Videos | Will the Biden Administration Make a Stand Against Netanyahu's Assault on Israeli Democracy? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:02:40
March 6, 2023 - Aaron Rupar | Aram Shabanian | Mark FitzPatrick
3/6/2023
Trump's Bizarre Fact-Free Speech to CPAC Where He Out-Polled DeSantis for the Nomination 3 to 1 | The Russian Strategy to Draw Ukraine's Main Force Into the Bakhmut Battle is Not Working | An Assessment of Reports That Russia Will Supply Uranium to Iran in Exchange For Drones and Missiles backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:00:39
March 5, 2023 - Stephen Walt | Betsey Stevenson | John Mill Ackerman
3/5/2023
Can Germany Persuade its Biggest Trading Partner China to to Bring Russia to the Peace Table? | 200 Economists Urge Leaders of Congress to Raise the Debt Ceiling to Avoid a "Dangerous and Unnecessary" Economic Crisis | A Different Perspective on Demonstrations in Mexico Against AMLO's Electoral Reforms backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:02:55
March 2, 2023 - William Arkin | Olga Lautman | Michael Binder
3/2/2023
With Biden's First Veto of a Culture War Absurdity "Woke Capitalism" Which Does Not Exist, Is Ron DeSantis Setting the Republican Agenda? | Is There Any Possibility of a Peaceful Solution to the War in Ukraine? | As Putin Spreads Alarm About "Nazi" Terrorist Attacks Inside Russia, Is He Setting the Stage For a False Flag Act to Justify Martial Law? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:04:00
March 1, 2023 - Joshua Shifrinson | Ellen Vollinger | Persis Yu
3/1/2023
Amid Rising U.S./ China Tensions, the House Holds a Hearing of Its New Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party | As of Today 42 Million Americans Will Have Food Stamp Benefits Cut Down to $6 Per Person Per Day | The Latest Power Grab by Our Far-Right Supreme Court Using Its "Major Questions Doctrine." backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:00:59:39
February 28, 2023 - Adele Stan | Barmak Nassirian | Rob Wallace
2/28/2023
Bombshells in Unsealed Deposition Have Murdoch Revealing Biden's Ads and Debate Strategy to Trump | Republicans With Shaky Standing Urge the Supreme Court to Kill Biden's Student Debt Relief | The Deeper Structural Failures to Deal With the Coronavirus Pandemic backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:00:15
February 27, 2023 - Khaled Elgindy | Stanley Perlman | Patrick Allen
2/27/2023
New Intelligence Has the DOE and the FBI Suggesting the Coronavirus Pandemic Could Have Originated from a Lab Accident in China | As Settlers Rampage on The West Bank, a Jordanian/Israeli Agreement is Overruled by Israel's Far-Right Finance Minister | Could an Agreement Between the UK's PM Sunak and the Head of the EU be the Beginning of the End of Brexit? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:00:45
February 26, 2023 - Simon Shuster | Gilbert Rozman | Naomi Oreskes
2/26/2023
Russia's War on Ukraine One Year Later | Skepticism About China's "Position Paper" on Ending the Ukraine War Although Zelensky Welcomes It | How the Magic of the Free Market Ended Up Impoverishing Democracy and Weakening Our Ability to Tackle Major Challenges backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:00:53