Background Briefing with Ian Masters

Supreme Court Anti-Abortion Ideologues Threaten Access to Emergency Care | The Search For Diplomatic Openings as the War in Ukraine Escalates | Trump's Republican Party Makes it Clear the GOP Would Rather Cheat Than Compete Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green

Trump's History of Using and Abusing Women | The Pathetic Man on Display in the Courtroom as a Far Cry From the MAGA Faithful's Superhero | Will SCOTUS Undermine the 8th Amendment's Protection For the Homeless Against Cruel and Unusual Punishment? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Arrests of Students Protesting the War in Gaza Spread From Columbia to Yale | The Optics of Trump on Trial in New York; a President Off His Pedestal Defending Sleazy Criminal Behavior | A Positive Case For America's Next Economy Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green

Meeting Ukraine's Needs as Russia Mobilizes for a June Offensive | How Ukraine Will Survive and Adjust to Permanent War | The Deadly War in Gaza and Israel's Tenuous Standoff With Iran as Both Israel and Palestine Appear to be Leaderless and Directionless backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

A View From Ukraine as the Fate of Their Country Hangs in the Hands of Mike Johnson and Marjorie Taylor Greene | Jurors Quit the Trump Trial as the Criminal Defendant Tests the Gag Orders | As Billionaires Try to Kill the NLRB, the UAW Makes Gains in the South backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Prologue to the Trump Criminal Trial Underway in Which AG Barr Went Out of His Way to Protect "Individual 1" | Is Mike Johnson Serious About Aiding Ukraine or Following Trump and Putin's Orders? | Biden's Tax Plan in Contrast to Trump's Giveaway to Billionaires backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

A Look Inside Iran as Its People Wait For Israel's Retaliation Which Could Lead to a Wider War | The Symbiosis Between Israel's Hardline PM and Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei | An Assessment of Today's Oral Argument That Could Result in the Supreme Court Undoing Charges Against Trump and the J6 Insurrectionists backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Biden Meets With Iraq's PM Over Concerns That US Troops in Iraq and Syria Are Vulnerable if Israel Retaliates Against Iran | The First Day of Trump's NY Trial and the Possibility of a Trumpster on the Jury Causing a Mistrial as Happened in the Bannon "We Build the Wall" Fraud Case | The Record Numbers of Election Officials Quitting Under Threats From the "Stop the Steal" Lies backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Iran's Theatrical Response to the Israeli Strike and the Fear of Netanyahu Escalating | Finally the Architect of the Far-Right Takeover of the US Judiciary | An Assessment of the Trump vs Biden Records of Achievement backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Israel's AI Tools "Gospel", "Lavender" and "Where's Daddy" Are Being Used For Targeted Assassinations in Gaza | Increased Cooperation Between the U.S., Japan and The Philippines' Militaries Tops the White House Summit Agenda | An Assessment of the Political Damage to Arizona Republicans From the 1864 Abortion Ban backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Arizona Supreme Court Takes the State Back to 1864 Before it Was a State With a Draconian Abortion Law | The Left/Right Coalition Refusing to Re-Authorize FISA With MAGA Republicans Doing So Because Trump Thinks it Was Used to Spy on Him | The Fatal Combination of Passivity in the Electorate and Trump's Impunity Could End American Democracy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Did Trump's Lawyers Mislead the NY Appeals Court to Get a Lower Bond? | As Trump Encourages Secession and Threatens Civil War, He Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving to China and Russia | How Billionaires Who Don't Pay Taxes Use Their Surplus Money to Buy Politicians to Lower Their Taxes Even Further backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

April 8, 2024 - Renee Hobbs | Dr. Allen Frances | Kevin Carey by Ian Masters

Iran's vow to Retaliate Against an Israeli Strike Could Lead to a Wider War Biden is Trying to Avoid | With MbS and Trump Talking, What Could They Do to Jack Up Gas Prices to Hurt Biden's Reelection? | Good Economic News as Janet Yellen Tries to Get a Level Playing Field With China backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Trump's Piety in Contrast to the Porn he Faces and the Cruelty and Hatred he Displays | The 100 Right Wing Tax-Exempt Organizations With Over $2 Billion to Elect Trump | AFRICOM Loses Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali and Niger to the Russians backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jack Smith's Shot Across the Bow at the Trump-Friendly Judge on the Classified Documents Case | The Florida Supreme Court's 6 Week Abortion Ban and a Ballot Initiative to Enshrine Abortion Access in the Florida State Constitution | "Why Silicon Valley Reactionaries Love RFK Jr." Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green

Israel's Killing of 7 Aid Workers Who Were Feeding Starving Gazans Sparks International Outrage | Will Israel's Strike on an Iranian Consulate That Killed Top IRGC Officials Provoke a Wider War? | What the US Could Learn From the Electoral Rebuke of Erdogan's Dictatorship and Kleptocracy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

New evidence on "Havana Syndrome" Links the GRU's Assassination Unit 29155 to Mysterious Attacks on U.S. Officials and Their Families | A Scholar Just Back From Ukraine on the Heroism of Ukraine and the Nihilism of Mike Johnson | Trump's Illiberalism is Not a Departure But a Recurring Theme in American History backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The State Department Officer With Feds United for Peace Who Resigned to Protest US Complicity in Israel's War on Gaza | The Success of Propaganda as a Third of Americans Now Believe Trump's Big Lie | Putin's Evolution From Democrat to Despot backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Plutocrats 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 facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Is 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.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

A 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 Million backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The 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: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green

Can 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 facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

While 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 Avoids His Own Family's History of Dementia backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Who 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 "External Interference" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

An 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/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The 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 twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

More 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

As 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/ianmastersmedia

Of 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 Better backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Biden 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/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

What 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/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Can 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? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

VP 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/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

A 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/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Following 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

The 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 facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The 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.com/ianmastersmedia

The Embrace of Fascism by Trump's Government in Waiting at CPAC by Ian Masters

The 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.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The 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 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

A 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 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

RFK 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/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Increasing Signs That Christian Nationalists Plan to Impose an American Theocracy | Evidence That The Source For the "Biden Crime Family" Case is a Dissembler Working for Russian Intelligence | A Plan to Reinvent Our Polarized and Dysfunctional Government backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The US Again Gives Israel Cover Vetoing a UN Resolution For an Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza | The American Right's 100-Year Romance With Foreign Dictators | The Latest American Historians' Survey That Has Donald Trump Dead Last in 45th Place backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Navalny Wanted to See "The Beautiful Russia of the Future" While Putin is Fixated on Historical Delusions of Reviving Russian Imperialism | Do Mike Johnson's Financial Ties Explain Why He is Cutting Off Aid to Ukraine? | A Country Held Hostage by Gun Violence backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

A Friend of the Murdered Leader of the Russian Opposition Discusses Putin's Latest Murder of the Leader of the Russian Opposition | Why Speaker Johnson Admires Putin and Has Shut Down the Government for a Month | What We Know About Recent Warnings Russia Plans To Deploy a Space Weapon backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

What is Behind The Republican Head of the House Intel Committee's Warning of "A Serious National Security Threat"? | The Role of US Consulting Firms Who Launder Election Money and the Reputations of Dictators | How Brazil Handles an Insurrectionist President Compared to the U.S. backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

How to Get Around Speaker Johnson's Servility to Trump as He Blocks Aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan | A Resounding Win For Democrats and a Rebuke of Trump and the Republicans on the Border Issue | Will the Far Right Supreme Court's Majority Delay the Cases Trump is Facing in Federal Court? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Voting to Replace George Santos Underway in a Snow Storm In a Race That Will Impact the House GOP's Slim Majority | Elections in Indonesia Could Have a General With Blood on His Hands Who Was Banned From the U.S., Become the Nation's Next President | The Military's Role in the 1965-66 Genocide and the How the U.S. Aided and Abetted the Slaughter of 2 Million Indonesians backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Trump Alarms Allies Saying He Would Let Russia Do "Whatever the Hell They Want" to a NATO Country | Why Aren't Journalists and Democratic Strategists Exposing Trump's Obvious Ties to Putin? | Is Pakistan on the Brink of Economic and Civil Collapse? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Can Biden Go Around Netanyahu to Save Israel From Its Ruinous Leader? | SCOTUS Avoids Talking About Insurrection in a Case That Was All About the January 6 Insurrection | How Biden Should Counter Questions About His Age and Kamala Harris's Qualifications backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Contrast Between the Transparent Leadership Change in Ukraine and Putin Cancelling the Token Opposition Candidate Because He Was Too Popular | Looking Ahead at the Fact-Free and Violence-Prone 2024 Election | 17 Donor Nations Refuse to Fund UNWRA based on a Disputed Israeli Dossier backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Trump's Successful Scuttling of the Immigration Bill and His Toady Mike Johnson's Humiliation | As Trump and Tucker Carlson Work For Putin to Kill Aid to Ukraine, Are They Traitors of "Useful Idiots?" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

If Trump is Disqualified From the Ballot Waves of Violence Will Follow Whether he Wins or Loses the Election | The Right Wing "Texit" Movement Russia and China are Encouraging | President Zelensky's Planned Leadership Shakeup of "Multiple State Leaders" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

To Solve Crises, Biden is Increasingly Relying on His Enemies at Home and Abroad | Biden Should Bypass Netanyahu And Go to the Israeli Public With a Peace Plan | The Disconnect Between Biden's Great Economic Numbers and How Voters Feel about the Economy Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green

As US Bombing of Syria and Iraq Continues, Will Iraq's Government be Forced to Eject 2,000 US Personnel Who Could Become Hostages? | Conflicting Reports of Rifts in Ukraine's Leadership | Did SCOTUS Give Trump and Republican Legislatures a Way to Steal the 2024 Election? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Why Russia's War on Ukraine Has Reached a Stalemate | US Sanctions 4 Israeli Settlers But Not the Ministers Who Support Them | What it Will Take to Save American Journalism From Big Tech and Vulture Capitalism backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

With Biden Poised to Retaliate, Both the US and Iran Say They Don't Want a Wider War | In 1944 FDR Ditched VP Wallace For Truman, Should Biden Do the Same With Kamala Harris? | Bipartisan Outrage in the Senate Today at the CEOs of Meta, X, Snap, TikTok and Discord backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Plutocratic War on the New Deal and American Democracy | With "End Times" Christian Zionists Supporting Israel's War, Could Trump be the Antichrist? | How Layoffs at Newsrooms Will Impact This Year's Elections backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Biden's Options to Retaliate as Pressure Mounts to Strike Iran | Will the Presence of 2,400 US Soldiers in Iraq and Syria Become the Main Reason We Fight Iran? | One of 25 Historians of the Civil War and Reconstruction Who Signed An Amicus Brief to Have Trump Removed From the Ballot Under the 14th Amendment backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Texas Leads a Secession Movement as Militias Head to the Border in a New Civil War | The Real Reasons Behind Putin's War on Ukraine | Billionaire Republican Donors Are Prepared to Spend Over $100 Million to Primary Progressive House Democrats backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Trump's Mental Unfitness Will Now be a Campaign Issue Thanks to Nikki Haley | Undeterred, an Emboldened Iran Benefits From Israel's US-Backed War on Gaza | Exposing Hungary's Dictator Orban as the Blackmailer and Kleptocrat That He Is backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Need For a New Strategy to Defend Democracy at Home and Abroad as the US No Longer Deters Iran, Russia, China or North Korea | Life in Russia Which is Becoming a Garrison State With a Wartime Leader Who Started a War He Has No Intention of Stopping | Argentina Faces a General Strike in Opposition to Its Chainsaw-wielding New Leader's Slash and Burn Policies

Why New Hampshire Republican Voters Love Trump | Coming Soon the ICJ Provisional Ruling on South Africa's Genocide Case Against Israel Will Further Isolate Biden | Has Kim Jong Un Made a Strategic Decision to Go to War Against the South? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Rise and Fall of the Warrior Against Woke, Ron DeSantis | An Editor and Contributor to the American Oligarchy Issue of Mother Jones Just Out | A Letter to Davos From 260 Millionaires and Billionaires Demanding World Leaders Increase Their Taxes backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

A Defiant Netanyahu Will Drag Out His War to Hurt Biden and Help Trump | A Failing State Lebanon Poised to Fail Completely Should War Between Israel and Hezbollah Break Out | Uvalde: So Much For the NRA Refrain That The Only Way to Stop a Bad Guy With a Gun Is a Good Guy With a Gun backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

January 18, 2024 - Michael Hiltzick | Daniel Markey | Adam Weinstein by Ian Masters

A Supreme Court Poised to Gut the Administrative State | Should Bitter, Angry Justices in the Thrall of Billionaires and Corporate Power Decide What We Eat, Breath, How Long We Live and What Kind of World We Live in? | Testing US Foreign Policy Assumptions on the Brink of a Wider War in the Middle East backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

After Trump's Blowout Victory in Iowa, He is All But Certain to be the GOP's Presidential Nominee | As MAGA World Celebrates Trump's Lawlessness, Is the Rule of Law Itself on Trial in This Election? | A Report From Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan on an Iranian Missile and Drone Strike backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Are Israel and Saudi Arabia Liabilities Emboldened by the US to Pursue Reckless Policies? | An Expert on Impeachment as Rep. Comer Backs Down on Impeaching Biden | An Update From Iowa on the Coldest Caucus Day in History backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Will Strikes Against the Houthis Scuttle the Saudi Peace Deal to End a War in Yemen MbS Started in 2015? | According to China, the War Party Won and the Peace Party Lost in Taiwan's Election | "Christian" Corruption as Mike Johnson Kills Enforcement After the IRS Collected $520 Million From Rich Tax Cheats backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Will Christie's Exit in New Hampshire Help Nikki Haley Who the Koch Network in Banking On? | The Reporter Behind the NY AG's Suit to Close Down the NRA | The History of Why the Democrats Got Into Bed With Wall Street and the Sanders, Warren, AOC Movement to Return the Party to Its Working Class Roots backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Last Days Ahead of Monday's Iowa Caucuses and Tonight's CNN Debate Overshadowed by a Trump Town Hall on Fox | Amid Gang Violence Ecuador Appears to be Close to a Failed State | Asymmetrical Clashes in the Red Sea Between Powerful Navies and Houthi Rebels backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Trump's Immunity Claim is Met With Deep Skepticism From the DC Appeals Court Judges | A Billionaire's War Against Harvard Now Shifts to the Media as His Wife's Plagiarism in Revealed by Business Insider | With Evangelicals at Over 50% of the Vote For Trump in Iowa, the Heathen is Promoting a Video "God Made Trump" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Why Boeing's 737 Max is Grounded and is a Flying Turkey | The History Behind South Africa's Genocide Case Against Israel in the International Court of Justice | Can the Democrats Return to the New Deal Fight for the Common Man and Equal Opportunity? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

An Historian Who Had Lunch With the President on Wednesday Ahead of Biden's Opening Campaign Speech of 2024 at Valley Forge | How Corporate America Caved After January 6 Pledges Not to Fund Congressional Insurrectionists | A Wider War Looms as the US Gears Up To Retaliate Against the Houthis and Israel Provokes Hezbollah backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Trump Made $7.8 Millions From Foreign Governments While in the White House, $5.5 Million From China | The Names Named in the Documents Just Released About the Epstein Blackmail Factory | Is Israel's Disproportionate Use of Force in Gaza Intended? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Will the Bombings in Iran Following Yesterday's Killing of an Hamas Official Spark a Wider War? | House Republican Grandstanding as They Weaponize Immigration | The Root Causes of The Human Flow From Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico and Around the World Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green

Will Israel's Killing of the Hamas Ambassador to Hezbollah Trigger a Wider War? | The Move Underway to Get SCOTUS to Tear Down Jefferson's Wall Between Church and State | The Frightening Similarities Between Germany in 1933 and the US in 2024 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Foreign Policy Landscape Ahead in 2024 and the Chance For Peace in a World at War | The Economy in 2023 and What's Ahead in 2024 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Politics in the Year Ending and the Critical Year About to Begin | A Recovering Republican on the GOP's Embrace of Fascism backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

How to Save American Democracy From the Trump 2.0 Revenge Machine | How the US Constitution's Protection Against a Tyranny of the Majority Has Enabled the Opposite | After the 565th Mass Shooting This Year, a Look at Red and Yellow Flag Laws backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Growing Concern at the Supreme Court’s Impunity From Ethical Norms as Its Credibility With the Public Plunges | Evidence That it Was Ukraine, Not Russia Behind the Sabotage of the Nord Stream Gas Pipelines | Is America Now Divided Between “Team Crazy” and “Team Normal”? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

A History of Paranoid Fantasies and Today’s Rise of Fascism Led by a Reality TV Star | Rising Tensions With China and a U.S. China Policy of Self-Harm | Hatred and Division Intensifies in the US as the Phony war Against the Woke, Drag Queens and Trans Kids Accelerates backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

America's Foundation as a Christian Nation and How the Right Captured Freedom | The "Christian" Moral Authoritarianism of Supreme Court Justices in the Pockets of Plutocrats

As Christians Celebrate Christmas, a Christian Nationalist With a Smug and Sanctimonious Smile Wants to Undo the First Amendment | What Could Bring Us Together Over the Holidays backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Will the Supreme Court Fall For Trump's Brazen Tried a True Delaying Tactic? | Will the Colorado Supreme Court's Ruling Hurt or Help Trump? | Will Biden Benefit or be Damaged if Foreign Policy Dominated the 2024 Campaign? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Netanyahu and Putin Drag Out Their Wars That Hurt Biden to Bring Back Trump | The Author of a New Report From Human Rights Watch on Starvation in Gaza | Having Stymied Prior Comprehensive Solutions, Republicans Now Demagogue The Border Crisis backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Texas is About to Turn Into the "Show Me Your Papers" Gestapo State | The US and 10 Nations Will Police the Red Sea Following Houthi Missile Attacks That Have Scared off International Shipping | As Trump Channels Hitler, Insight Into America's 40% Who Would be Happy With an Authoritarian Leader backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The White House Tells Israel That "Protecting Palestinian Civilians in Gaza is Both a Moral Duty and Strategic Imperative" | Pope Francis Approves Blessing For Same-Sex Couples | Republicans Hold Biden Hostage With An Immigration Deal That Will Anger the Democratic Base backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Top Secret 10 Inch 2,700 Page Binder of Russian Influence and Collusion That Went Missing When Trump Left Office | How Trump and His Minions Tried to Doctor the Evidence in the Missing Binder | The American Right's Embrace of Franco and the Hungarian Kleptocratic Despot Orban backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The House Republicans Unanimous Evidence-Free Vote For Biden's Impeachment | How Hungary's Crooked Despot Viktor Orban is Blackmailing the EU | Efforts To Reform FISA as Section 702 is Tucked Into the $886 Billion NDAA backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Hunter Biden Defies the House Witch-Hunters Ahead of the Vote To Impeach His Father | Hypocrisy Hardly Begins to Describe What is Going on With Florida Republicans | The COP28 Pledge to "Transition Away" From Fossil Fuels That Leaves a Lot of Wiggle Room backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Zelensky Tries to Break the Deadlock as Republicans Hold up Aid to Ukraine | How Putin is Determined to Win His War On Ukraine | Musk Offers a Preview of the Media Landscape Ahead If Trump Were to Win Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green

As Russia Emphasizes its Maximalist Demands and Zelensky Heads to the White House to Try to Salvage the Aid Deal, What Kind of Peace is Possible? | How University Presidents Fell Into Congresswoman Stefanik's Trap | After a Death Sentence From the Texas AG and Supreme Court, a Pregnant Woman Escapes the State For an Abortion backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Recently Impeached Texas AG Issues a Life-Threatening Delay to an Abortion | The Emerging Campaign Issue of Dictatorship and What a Second Trump Term Could Look Like | Biden Vetoes a Ceasefire Sticking With Netanyahu Like VP Humphrey Stuck With LBJ in 1968 Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green

A Meaningless Debate in a Democratic Ritual That Avoided Discussing Our Endangered Democracy | How Anti-War Left Wing Activists in Israel Are Being Threatened and Silenced | Growing Tensions as Venezuela Threatens to Annex an Oil-Rich Region of Guyana Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green