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Background Briefing with Ian Masters
by Ian Masters
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
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October 18, 2026 - Jeremi Suri | Julia Loktev & Valeria Ratnikova | Akbar Shahid Ahmed
The Richest Man in the World, Who Bought the Last Election For the Republicans, Has Spent $366 Million So Far On the Midterms Including $168 Million to Elect Ken Paxton | A Brave Young Exiled Russian Journalist and the Filmmaker of MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART II - EXILE | The Author of Crossing...
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October 15, 2026 - Robert Pape | Sarah Leah Whitson | Santiago Mayer
October 15, 2026 - Robert Pape | Sarah Leah Whitson | Santiago Mayer by Ian Masters
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October 14th, 2026 - Natalie Melnyczuk | Benn Steil | Julie Ingersoll
October 14th, 2026 - Natalie Melnyczuk | Benn Steil | Julie Ingersoll by Ian Masters
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October 13, 2026 - Tamar Jacoby | Sharon Weinberger | Dr. Sumit Ganguly
October 13, 2026 - Tamar Jacoby | Sharon Weinberger | Dr. Sumit Ganguly by Ian Masters
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October 12, 2026 - Lincoln Mitchell | Susan Neiman | Carissa Véliz
How After the Midterms Democrats Must Extinguish the Many Flavors of Trump and MAGA Fascism | The Left Should Rediscover the Word Evil and Apply it to Trump and MAGA | The Author of Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI backgroundbriefing.org/donate...
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October 11, 2026 - Norman Ornstein | Suzanne Schneider | Harold Meyerson
The Democrats Daunting To-Do List When They Take The House and Senate | Hegseth's Obscene Focus on Lethality Mimics Iran's Public Executions and Gives Aid and Comfort to Jihadis | Why Did Leading California Democrats Cave to Larry and David Ellison's Blackmail? backgroundbriefing.org/donate...
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October 8, 2026 - Dr. Vincent Greenwood | JS Tan & Clarissa Redwine
An Expert on Psychopathic Personality Disorder Ties Trump's Deteriorating Condition to the Crises We Face |Background Briefing's Anna Leah With the Authors of Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia...
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October 7, 2026 - Asher Kaufman | Nicolas Jabko | Eric Liu
The Third Anniversary of the Hamas Attack on Israel and How Netanyahu's Ignoring of Warnings is Impacting the October 27 Election | How France's Record Debt Underpins the Lack of Investment in Education as Students Protest Nationwide | How we Can Live Like a Citizen and Change Mindsets and Our...
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October 6, 2026 - Dr. Henry Abraham | Anders Aslund | Gregory Koblentz
Trump Invites Iran to Nuke the Democratic Cities of Los Angeles and San Diego | Putin Offers the Mother of All Corrupt Deals to the Trump/Witkoff Families For Selling Out Ukraine | Russia Covers Up a Researcher's Death by Pneumonic Plague in Siberia While Rubio Asks For Transparency...
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October 5, 2026 - James Green | Sasha Abramsky | David Cay Johnston
Will Brazil Join the Rightward Shift in Latin America Following Chile, Honduras and Colombia? | Sam Altman Says We Should Accept "Bad Things" With AI. What Could Go Wrong? | What Is in The Epstein Files That Trump is So Afraid Of and Will Todd Blanche and Kash Patel Shred Them if the Democrats…
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October, 4 2026 - Reverend Stacy Rector | Hamidreza Azizi | Susan Smith-Peter
Will the Macabre Barbarism of a Botched Execution in Tennessee Change People's Views on Capital Punishment? | An Analysis of Iran's Strategic Adaptation and the Likelihood of a Resumption of the Iran War | Anna Leah Looks Into the Real Culture War Underway in Ukraine backgroundbriefing.org/donate...
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October 1, 2026 - Michael Weinstein | Emma Ashford | Sonali Kolhatkar
A "Christian" Crusader In Charge of the Nuclear Arsenal Who Is Invested in the End Times Should Scare Us All | "Everyone Got Pete Hegseth Wrong" | How Citizens are Fighting Back Against ICE Cruelty Their Taxpayer Money Is Funding backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia...
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September 30, 2026 - Lisa Graves | Isabella Mosselmans | Dan Grazier
How John Roberts Has Increased the Power of the Criminal in Charge of the Executive Branch While Weakening the Judicial Branch Whose Rulings Trump Ignores |The 6 Far Right Supreme Court Justices Just Allowed Stephen Miller to Continue Sending Deportees to a Cruel Fate in Third Countries | After…
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September 30, 2026
September 30, 2026 by Ian Masters
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September 29, 2026 - Nader Hashemi | Paul Eisenstein | Jacob Weisberg
September 29, 2026 - Nader Hashemi | Paul Eisenstein | Jacob Weisberg by Ian Masters
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September 28 2026 - Alexander Sammon | David Corn
As Trump Warns the Communist Menace Is About to Take Over the Country, We Enter The CPUSA's Shadowy Lair | Having Cowered the Press Away From Investigating Trump's Ties to Putin, We Explore What Possible Compromat Putin Has on America's Pedophile Protector backgroundbriefing.org/donate...
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September 27, 2026 - Dr. Allen Frances | James Risen | Michael McDonald
A President Who Has Always Been Out of His Depth Is Now Losing His Mind |Trump's White House Press Ban Backfires With Xi Annoyed the Western Media Did Not See All the Pomp and Ceremony Trump Laid On For the Chinese Dictator |The Impact of Friday's Supreme Court Ruling Allowing DHS to Build a...
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September 24, 2026 - Jake Werner | Molly Redden | Gil Durán
Trump Meets With Xi Praising the Chinese Press While the American Press is Absent Due to Trump's Idiotic Ban | The Corrupt Pay-To-Play Allegations Against Senator Susan Collins | The Decades-Long Campaign to Replace Our Elected Government With Corporate Rule By the World's Richest Men Building a...
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September 23, 2026 - Alex Lawson | Andra Garner | Dulcie Leimbach
September 23, 2026 - Alex Lawson | Andra Garner | Dulcie Leimbach by Ian Masters
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September 22, 2026 - Amy Fried | Dr. Nancy Okail | Kai Bird & Susan Goldmark
How Will the Bombshell Pay to Play Corruption Report on Senator Susan Collins Impact the Maine Senate Race? | A Report on Today's UN General Assembly Speeches With Trump Threatening to "Annihilate" Iran | How Trump's Mentor Roy Cohn Brought the GOP Back From a Political Wilderness and Shrunk the...
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September 21, 2026 - Dan Froomkin | Paul Pillar | Jonathan Handel
The Major TV Networks Take Away What Trump Craves Most, TV Cameras | Is the Final Battle With Iran Coming Now That Trump Threatens to "Blow the Entire Nation Up"? | California's AG Announces a Deal He Doesn't Like, the Ellison's $111 Billion Paramount-Warners Merger backgroundbriefing.org/donate...
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September 20, 2026 - Joan Williams | Haggai Matar | Garrett Epps
Democrats Should Focus Their Campaign on Corruption and Its Link to Affordability, Not Authoritarianism | How a Documentary NAZA Has Israel in Turmoil But If Seen, It Could Force a Reckoning on Gaza |The Need For a Shadow Supreme Court and a Speaker Johnson-Led Coup on January 3, 2027...
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September 17, 2026 - Ben Terris | Nicholas Heras | Juan Cole
Will Trump Tear Down the Kennedy Center Because They Took His Name Off It? | As Trump's Blockade Squeezes the Iranian People, Rumors of a US/Israel Plan to Deliver a Knockout Blow Either Before Israel's Election or After the US Midterms | Having Lost the Narrows, With Diesel at $6+, Pentagon War...
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September 16th, 2026 - Robert Hockett | Mark Hays | Donald Moynihan
We begin with the Fed raising interest rates today by a quarter of a percent with an expectation there will be another increase to 4.1% later this year. Joining us to discuss how this is a response to inflation at 3.7% in July, in part caused by Trump's war on Iran, is Robert Hockett, the Edward...
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September 15th, 2026 - Robert Young Pelton | Daryl Kimball | Peter Beinart
Trump Hangs MbS Out to Dry After Jared "Peacemaker" Kushner Has Made Billions From Gulf Potentates Now at the Mercy of Iran | The U.S. Has Joined An Arms Race in Space | Settlers Are Not Only Invading the West Bank, They're Moving Into Captured Areas of Lebanon and Syria...
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September 14, 2026 - David Daley | Yaqiu Wang | Michael Kimmage
Trump and Mike Johnson's Plan to Steal the Election, Not On November 3 But On January 3, 2027 | Trump Rejects Guardrails on AI In a Race To the Bottom Which China Will Win | Trump Blames Zelensky For the Price of Gas And Diesel While Putin Escalates to Destroy a Country He Can't Conquer...
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September 13, 2026 - Dr. Annelle Sheline | Dr. Justin Bullock | SarangShidore
Iran's Proxies in Yemen and Iraq Shut Down Saudi Oil Exports as Trump and Netanyahu's War Is Hit With More Losses With Iran Now Controlling Two Chokepoints | The Alarm Sounded By An Anthropic Researcher That AI "Could Kill Us All By the End of the Decade" | Modi Tries to Heal Divisions At the…
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September 10, 2026 - Scott Hibbard | Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark | Eric Schlosser
25 Years Later What We Have Learned From 9/11 and What We Have Not Learned From Successive U.S. Government Cover Ups of Saudi Involvement | What Roy Cohn Taught the Wannabe Mafia Boss in the White House | How Farmers Are Getting Screwed While Corporate Food is Killing Us
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September 9, 2026 - Steven Simon | Chandra Manning
Pressure on Netanyahu from MbZ Revealing His Warning About the Hamas Attack Was Ignored and Sanctions by the UK, Canada and France on Trade With Settlements | Trump's War on History Targets the First African-American and First Historian to Head the Smithsonian backgroundbriefing.org/donate...
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September 8, 2026 - Luke Harding | Thomas Ferguson | Brian Levin
Why Do Trump, Kushner and Witkoff Show Such Slavish Deference to Putin? | The Macroeconomic Roots of the Collapse of the Political Center in the U.S. | More People Across the Ideological Spectrum Now Feel That Violence is a Legitimate Means of Resolving Political Disputes...
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September 7, 2026 - Kim Phillips-Fein | John Nichols
While Americans Fight Back Against Big Tech and Billionaire Bros, Some Resort to Violence in This New Era of Class Warfare | The Bipartisan Grassroots Rejection of Data Centers in the Battle Against Tech Oligarchs Who Are Buying the Current Election backgroundbriefing.org/donate...
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September 6, 2206 - Thomas Berger | Tamar Jacoby | Karl Loftus
Germany's Far Right, Supported by Musk, Vance and Putin, Is On the Rise | Russia's Strike on Ukraine's Intel HQ and the Shootout Between Rival Ukrainian Intel Agents |Following an ICE Whistleblowers' Warning, a Journalist With Unusual Access to ICE Officers Discusses Their Opinions and Outlooks...
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September 3, 2026 - Moira Donegan | Alexandra Hutzler | Dr. Henry Abrahams
The Death of Gloria Steinem and Her Legacy in the Battle For Women's Rights | A Whistleblower Warns That Trump and DHS Are Using the USPS to Purge Mail-in Ballots Or At the Very Least Cause Chaos in November | Trump's Chronic Narcissism Jumps the Shark With Him Claiming To Be the Greatest…
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September 2, 2026 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Paul Glastris | Ilya Somin
September 2, 2026 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Paul Glastris | Ilya Somin by Ian Masters
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September 1, 2026 - Harold Meyerson | Thomas Homer Dixon | Aaron Regunberg
Every Insecure American Should Have a "Binky" Like Trump's Natalie Harp | With Google Caving to Trump to Rename Lake Ontario Lake America, Canadians Are Now Thinking They'll Have to Defend Their Country From an American Aggressor |Opposition to Data Centers as a Unifying Issue Across the…
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August 31, 2026 - Sasha Abramsky | William Hartung | Javier Corrales
The Same DHS Trying to Rig the Election For Trump, Increases Its Cruelty, Sending Haitians Back to a Failed State Run By Violent Gangs | Pentagon Leaders Try to Stop Hegseth Escalating a War He's Lost But Claimed He Won Many Times | Trump's $100 Billion Venezuelan Oil Deal With an Illegitimate...
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August 30, 2026 - Molly White | Pavlina Tcherneva | Jennifer Kavanagh
The Crypto and AI Billionaire Bros Are Buying the November Election With Fake Money | Can the Fed Chairman and the Secretary of the Treasury Do Their Job at the Same Time Please Their Boss's Economic Idiocy? | As The CIA Director Warns Putin Not to Take Advantage of U.S. Munitions Shortages…
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August 27, 2026 - Manju von Rospatt | Marc Lynch | J.B. Branch
A Report From Nepal on the Horrific Wall of Water That Swept Away Thousands of Lives | How Biden Lost Our Moral Authority in the Middle East Then Trump Destroyed Our Military Power and Credibility | Meta's $18 Billion Settlement After Decades of Damage to Children and Teens By Its Social Media...
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August 26, 2026 - Gregory Treverton | Robert Kuttner | Sacoby Wilson
Trump Bought Into Netanyahu's War Against the Advice of His Top Intel and Military Officials | The Gospel of Love Enters Political Campaigns Against Trump, Miller, Harp, Johnson, Vance and Hegseth's Gospel of Hate | Environmental Racism Has the Majority Black City of Gary, Indiana in the Dark As...
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August 25, 2026 - David Walbert | Orville Schell | Will Bunch
Trump Has Chief Justice Roberts' Blessing to Have DHS Create a Master List of All Voters Which Will Be Purged Then the USPS Will Send Mail-In Ballots to a Whittled-Down List of Democratic Voters | China's Reaction to Secretary Bessent's Declaration of Economic Warfare Against Iran | The Small Man...
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August 24, 2026 - Stephen Marche | Hossein Askari | Gil Duran
Trump Wages the "Dumbest Trade War In History" Against Canada | Treasury Secretary Bessent Declares Economic Warfare on Iran, Likening it to D Day Promising the IRGC Will Not Kill Their Own People Like When East Germans Rose Up and the Berlin Wall Fell | Gil Duran on His New Book The Nerd Reich:...
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August 23, 2026 - Dr. Thaer Ahmad & Dr. Feroze Sidhwa | Sidney Blumenthal
Two Subjects of American Doctor, a Film That Makes Us Face Our Complicity in Gaza | How The Tate Brothers Fan Barron Trump Helped Get Out the Manosphere Vote in 2024 Which Has Now Turned Against Trump backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia...
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August 20, 2026 - Michelle Berenfeldt | Dean Baker
Lesson From the Roman Republic of Emperor Augustus As Trump, With the Help of a Gutless Senate, Turns Our Republic Into a Tyranny | Our $40.05 Trillion Debt With the CBO Projecting it Will Climb to $64 Trillion by 2036 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia...
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August 19, 2026 - Paul Waldman | Craig Aaron | Sean Freeder
Trump's "Binky: The Closest Person to Him Who Feeds Our President Far-Right Conspiratorial Fabrication | How Brendan Carr Wants Putin-Style Media in America Devoted to Our "Dear Leader" | The Results of the Florida Primaries Have a DSA Candidate For Senate Winning and Two Of Trump's Picks Losing...
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August 18, 2026 - Rachel VanLandingham | Michael Fuchs | Tricia Cortez
As Trump and Hegseth Show Callous Indifference to the Morale of the Rank and File, Signs of Resistance Inside the Military Emerge | A Strategic Overview of Trillions Wasted in the Middle East as Trump Digs the Hole Deeper | Growing Resistance in the Lone Star State to Trump's Border Wall...
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August 17, 2026 - Stephen Walt | Kent Harrington | Aziz Huq
The Current Iran War Tops the Record As We Keep Losing Wars | Trump's Latest Treasonous Outrage | How a Reactionary Oligarchy Is Capturing Our Politics and Economy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
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August 16, 2026 - Asli Bali | Harry Litman | Olga Lautman
As Trump Squanders U.S. Power and Credibility, Former Allies Find Alternatives For Collective Security | Trump's Relentless Assault On the Law as He Finds Workabounds After Being Struck Down By the Courts | The Traitor in the Oval Office Praises Putin and Xi as They Covertly Work With Iran to…
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August 13, 2026 - Garrett Epps | Ori Goldberg | Anders Aslund
Our Banana Republic Dictator Orders Blanche and Pirro to Punish Innocent Americans For Embarrassing the "Dear Leader" | Iran Plans to Drag Out the Stalemate in the Gulf Past the November Elections to Punish Trump | As Putin Destroys Ukraine Which He Cannot Conquer, VP Vance Leans on Zelensky Not…
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August 12, 2026 - Aaron Regunberg | Brian Concannon | Helaine Olen
The Call For Unity After David Crowley's Narrow Win in Wisconsin | Trump, Miller and Mullin's Sadistic Pleasure Has Haitians in Ohio Facing a Cruel Fate | The Reality of the Real Economy is Biting Republicans backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia...
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August 11, 2026 - Hussein Banai | Joan Williams | Eugene Gholz
After the Democrats Failed Twice to Stop Trump, In the End Will It Be Iran's Theocratic Fanatics Who Bring Him Down? | How To Build a Bridge Between College-Educated Democrats and the Concerns of Working Class Voters | How Did We Get To the Point the World's Most Powerful and Expensive Military…
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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. backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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