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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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July 6, 2026 - David Hirshey | Timothy Shenk | Kian Tajbakhsh
Crypto Don Makes a Deal With the Head of the Notoriously Corrupt FIFA Which Will Stain a U.S. Victory If There Is To Be One This Evening | Will Trump's Revival of His Mentor Roy Cohn's Red Scare Work? | The Religious Underpinning of the Iranian Theocracy backgroundbriefing.org/donate x.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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July 5, 2026 - Adele Stan | Aziz Rana
Trump's 4th of July Speech Appropriates Patriotism While Pushing Partisan Election Theft | The Declaration of Independence's Least Quoted Passage of Revolutionary Reform backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
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July 2, 2026 - Lincoln Mitchell | Allan Lichtman | Kent Harrington
The Unsettling Irony That Presiding Over the Celebration of 250 Years of American Democracy is a President Out to Destroy American Democracy | How a Government Of the People, By the People and For the People Can Be Reborn 250 Years After the American Revolution | Former Majority Leader Gephardt and Senator Tim Worth's Warning That Trump is Building the Infrastructure of Authoritarian Control backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
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July 1, 2026 - Ken Klippenstein | Hannah Metzger | David Daley
The Ludicrously Unqualified Government "Expert" Witness Who Turned Political Protest Into Terrorism to Put Anti-ICE Protesters Away for 450 Years | The Latest Victory For Democratic Socialists | SCOTUS Gifts Republicans With More Unregulated Dark Money backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
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June 28, 2026 - David Smilde | David Schultz | Steven Greenhouse
Since Trump Claims He Runs Venezuela, What is He Doing to Help the Victims of the Devastating Earthquakes? | DHS and ICE's Criminalization of Protests Against Their Thuggish Cruelty | As Trump's Poll Numbers Crater, Cracks Are Emerging in Trump's White, Blue Collar Base backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
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June 14, 2026 - Harrison Mann | Aslı Bâli | Aaron Regunberg
Trump's 80th Birthday Present Today Is Mindless Violence Where Jackie Kennedy's Rose Garden Once Stood Instead of Iran Signing a Peace Deal | A Post-War Strategic Realignment That Will Leave the U.S. Much Worse Off | With Big Oil a Winner of This War, It's Past Time to Kick the Habit and Get Off The Oil Drug backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
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May 13, 2026 - Dr. Henry Abraham | Juan Cole | David Ost
Growing Medical Concern About the President of the United States | The US and Israel Have Destabilized Global Oil and Gas Supplies For the Foreseeable Future | The Meaning of Fascism as Authoritarian Populism is on the Rise backgroundbriefing.org/donate x.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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May 10, 2026 - Ori Goldberg | Firmesk Rahim | Marc Bennetts
As Trump Desperately Tries to Make a Deal With Iran, Will Israel Be the Spoiler? | Pressure on Trump From the Saudis and Gulf States to Make a Deal With Iran | Russia's Descent Into Madness and Murder Under Putin backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
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April 26, 2026 - Bill Scher | Peter Loge | Toby Miller
Political Assassins More Often End up Achieving the Opposite of What Their Manifestos Proclaim | Trump's Tactic of Attacking the Messenger in Order to Avoid the Message | King Charles' Repair Job For Anglo/American Relations at the White House and Congress Today backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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
HOSTED BY
Ian Masters
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