Background Briefing with Ian Masters

In the Biggest Bank Robbery in History, $6.3 Billion in Crypto Scam Was Stolen From Crypto Scammers | After a Blue Wave "Change Election," Will Democrats Go Bold Or Play It Safe? |Trump is About to Deport 1.3 Million On Temporary Protected Status Back to a Cruel Fate in Countries Like Afghanistan backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

Trump Has Many More Voter Suppression Tools Than He Had For the Jan 6, 2021 Coup and He'll Try Again But Fail If Voters Show Up | The Ties Between Election Deniers, MAGA Media and Key Figures in the Right Wing Media Manosphere | Why White Christian Women Like Erika Kirk, Paula White, Karoline Leavitt and Natalie Harp Worship a Corrupt Degenerate backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

October 28, 2026 - Robert Young Pelton | Dr. Hassan Jabareen by Ian Masters

While Musk Spends Half a Billion on Republicans, "Spam PAC's" and Greedy Consultants Eat up a Lot of Hard-Earned Money From Democratic Small Donors | The Report From Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee Alleges Trump Was "An Active Participant in Jeffrey Epstein's Abuse of Young Women and Girls in the Mid-to-Late 1990s" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

The Turnaround in Brazil Propelled by Young Voters Who Reelected Lula To a 4th Term | The Historical Record on Midterm Elections and History's Verdict of Trump as America's Worst Ever President backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

Pedophelia Protection Defines the Trump Administration Along With Treason | Disarray in Europe and Growing Illiberal Populism in a World in Need of a New Architecture For Global Governance | The Genesis of the Growth of Oligarchical Political Power From the Powell Memo to Elon Musk backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

A White House Correspondent Trump Called a "Sick Person" Who Vance Labelled an "Imbecile" On How He Was Banned From Air Force One | Trump's "Yalta" in His Quest For a Nobel Prize To Take Place at the APEC Summit in China With Putin and Xi But No Zelensky | The Growing Bipartisan Opposition to Data Centers backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

October 21, 2026 - Avi Asher-Schapiro | Robert Alexander | Chuck Collins by Ian Masters

October 20, 2026 - Paul Pillar | David Andelman | Mike Dennison by Ian Masters

Trump Follows Putin's Advice to Convene a Summit with Xi, Putin and Trump, Without Zelensky, to End Putin's War on Ukraine | DHS's Efforts to Denaturalize Congresswoman Omar and Obama's Defense of Her | If and When Will Republican Senators Stand Up To Trump? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 the Red Line: Biden, His Advisors, and Israel's War in Gaza backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

October 15, 2026 - Robert Pape | Sarah Leah Whitson | Santiago Mayer by Ian Masters

October 14th, 2026 - Natalie Melnyczuk | Benn Steil | Julie Ingersoll by Ian Masters

October 13, 2026 - Tamar Jacoby | Sharon Weinberger | Dr. Sumit Ganguly by Ian Masters

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 twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 Country backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 Win in November? David will be joining Ian for a live conversation next Sunday October 11th at 6:30pm at the New Parkway Theater in Oakland. You can purchase tickets at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/david-cay-johnston-with-ian-masters-in-oakland-tickets-1999799812071 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 23 Years the US Leaves a Strategic Vacuum in Iraq That Iran is Likely to Fill backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

September 30, 2026 by Ian Masters

September 29, 2026 - Nader Hashemi | Paul Eisenstein | Jacob Weisberg by Ian Masters

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 twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 Database to Purge Voters Based on Trump's Obsessive Lies backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 New Political Order

September 23, 2026 - Alex Lawson | Andra Garner | Dulcie Leimbach by Ian Masters

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 Democratic Left For Decades backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 Report Admits Worst Drubbing Since Vietnam

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 Cornell Professor of Law and Finance and a Professor of Public Policy at Cornell University. He has first-hand experience working at the International Monetary Fund and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and continues to consult for a number of US federal, state and local legislators and regulators. His latest books are Money from Nothing Or, Why We Should Stop Worrying About Debt and Learn to Love the Federal Reserve, Financing the Green New Deal: A Plan of Action and Renewal and most recently, Spread the Fed: Distributed Central Banking for Productive Monetary Policy. Then we look into the Senate's blocking of the crypto-friendly Clarity Act in a rebuke to billionaire crypto bros trying to buy the next election while building unpopular data centers to manufacture crypto which has been a huge boon for criminals and scammers engaged in ransomware attacks etc. Joining us is Mark Hays, the Associate Director for Cryptocurrency and Financial Technology with Americans for Financial Reform and Demand Progress where he works to ensure effective regulatory oversight of cryptocurrency and other financial technologies. Previously, he was the Anti-Money Laundering Campaign Director at Global Witness. Then finally we speak with Donald Moynihan, the Gerald Ford School's J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Previously he served as Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy Chair of Public Policy and the director of the La Follette School at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He co-directs the Better Government Lab, which looks for technology and other types of interventions to help government improve access to the social safety net and has an article at his Substack, "China Thank Trump: The Big Winner of Trump's Assault on Higher Ed is America's Chief Geopolitical Rival." We discuss how Trump has untethered himself from reality as he destroys America's economy, alliances, health, education, science, environment, soft power, rule of law, diplomacy and now our military. backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 BRICS Summit Underway backgroundbriefing.org/donate x.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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

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 twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 x.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 President in History backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

September 2, 2026 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Paul Glastris | Ilya Somin by Ian Masters

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 Political Spectrum backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 Leader and a Shady Businessman Accused of Money Laundering and Black Market Oil Sales backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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, Europe Moves Away From Dependence on American Weapons and Security Guarantees backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 Platforms backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 the State's White Republicans Invite in 121 Data Centers to Suck Up All the Electricity backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 With a Big Job at the Pentagon's War Against Reporting on What an Incompetent Racist Poseur He Is backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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

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 Kill Americans backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 To Bomb Russian Oil Terminals Chevron and Exxon Have Stakes in backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

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 is Running Out of Ammo? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

The Trump Family's Close Ties to the Tate Brothers Who Advocate Rape, Domination and Servility of Women and Girls | Trump Tries to Blame Big Oil For the Price at the Pump After Getting a $Billion in Exchange For Deregulation and the Blocking of Climate Suits | The Turkey/Saudi/Pakistan Defense Pact a Combination of Money, Nukes and Armies. backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

Will the Healing Between Progressive Democrats and Centrists Be Set Back By Tuesday's Primary in Wisconsin? | After Damaging Our Economy, Alliances, Health, Education, Science, Environment, Political Stability, National Cohesion and Rule of Law, Trump is Now Ruining Our Military | Cory Doctorow On How To Think About AI Before It's Too Late backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

How Democrats Can Distance Themselves From Nutty Ideas Like Cancelling Thanksgiving and Why Third Way Should Not Waste Money Trashing Democratic Socialists | The Uncanny Parallels Between Hiltler's Project 1933 and Trump's Project 2025 | Trump and His Greedy Family and Treasonous Oligarchs

A Former Michigan Congressman Who Was Defeated by Congresswoman Stevens and AIPAC Money on Abdul El-Sayed's Victory | Has AIPAC's Power As Washington's Kingmaker Peaked? | With Even Trump Criticising Oil Company Profits, China is Transitioning Away From Fossil Fuel Dependence, But Not the U.S. backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

Could the Ellisons Walk Away From Their $111 Billion Takeover of Warner Brothers? | Two Craven Republican Senators Accepted Worthless Assurances From Blanche Who Faces an Uncertain Confirmation Vote in the Full Senate | Trump Gives Iran One Day to Make a Deal Over Hormuz Which They Are Doing With Oman Not the U.S backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

Trump Backs Down Then Iran Refutes His Claim He Did So Because They Want to Talk | Has the Fratricide Between the Democrats Running For the US Senate in Michigan Doomed the Party's Chances of Winning Back the Senate? | A Whistleblower Who Revealed Trump and Musk's Illegitimate and Dangerous Dismantling of USAID Host: Ian Masters Producers: Graham FitzGibbon, Asher Price

Is Speaker Johnson Protecting an Accused Wife Beater and Child Abuser While Senator Bernie Moreno Attacks Dr. Fauci But Does Not Defend the Victim, His Own Daughter? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

Reviving Their War on Yemen, an Incensed Saudi Leadership Strikes Back at the Houthis | Yesterday's Unseemly Grilling of Fauci by Republican Junkyard Dogs | Similarities Between Stalin's Show Trials and Rand Paul's Ambush of Fauci backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

The Increasing Likelihood Trump Will Escalate His War on Iran | Where Refugees From the MAGA Movement Which Has Captured the GOP Can Find a Home | Dr. Fauci Takes the 5th at Senator's Paul's Ambush Designed to Feed Red Meat to the Anti-Vaxxer, Conspiracy Theorists, Quacks and Crackpots backgroundbriefing.org/donate x.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Trump's Meeting With Netanyahu and Hegseth's Shameful Cover Up of U.S. Casualties | How To Heal Divisions Between Centrists and Democratic Socialists Amid Calls For the Embattled Head of the DNC to be Replaced | Guest Host Anna Leah Interviews a Pro-Democracy Activist in the Republic of Georgia Which Like Ukraine, Was Invaded by Russia backgroundbriefing.org/donate x.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Facing a Choice to Escalate or Capitulate, Will Netanyahu Talk Trump Into Resuming Their War or Will He Listen to the JCS Chair and VP Telling Him We've Run Out of Ammo? | Could America's Gen Z Learn From the Youthful Rebellion in India Against Their Autocratic Leader? | Could the New Cold War in the Hinterlands of Europe and Asia Lead to WWIII? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

Trump's Latest Attack on Our Good Neighbor to the North | How to Survive Tyranny and Redeem America | The Release of a Cuban Dissident Artist While Rubio Turns the Screws on Collective Punishment backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

How Much Will Trump's Nuclear Deal With Saudi Arabia Line His Pockets While Increasing the Danger of Nuclear Proliferation? | Trump Says His War is Going Well as Oil Spikes at $100 a Barrel From the Houthi Closure of the Other Choke Point For Gulf Oil Iran Controls | Trump Drops His Subpoenas Against the New York Times But Continues His War Against Real Journalists backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

Will Trump's Fear Of Being Seen as a Loser Drive Him to Try to Bomb Iran Into a Submissive Failed State? | Rubio's New Red Scare List of "Subversives" Includes Mayors Mamdani and Bass, Amy Goodman and the Co-Founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream | Can the Democrats Hold the Senate Seat in New Hampshire Against Former Senator Sununu Who is MAGA Lite and Awash With Money? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

Russia's Useful Idiot Who is Destroying the FBI Will Go to Moscow in October As a Guest of Putin's Murderous FSB | Russia's Penetration of U.S. Industrial Innovation, Science and Hi Tech | Is the DSA Cracking Up the Democratic Party in the Way the Tea Party Turned the GOP Into MAGA? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

Iran Escalates Greenlighting the Houthis as Trump Vows Revenge While Israel is Poised to Enter the War | Zelensky in Full Damage Control After Firing Popular and Innovative Defense Minister | What Can Citizens Do to Stop Trump From Stealing the Next Election? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

The ICE Killer's Background of Racism, Spousal Abuse and History of Violence | Antifa is Now the Target of Trump and Miller's New Global War on Terrorism | Trump's Ridiculous but Dangerous Speech on the Next Election He is Destined to Lose But Determined to Win by Any Means Necessary backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

Will Trump's Roy Cohn Get Confirmed Since One Republican Senator's Vote is All It Takes To Tank Todd Blanche's Nomination? | A New DNI Unwilling To Speak Truth To Power in the Reckless Ignoramus's Oval Office Is a Catastrophe For Our National Security | Trump Will Try to Sell the Save America Act Tonight With Manufactured Intel and Racist Delusions About Georgia's Black Voters In 2020 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

The MoU Fell Apart Because of Trump, Witkoff and Kushner's Amateurism and Desperation and Now We Are About to Lose the Same War Again | There Is No Communism In America But That Won't Stop Trump and Speaker Johnson From Trying to Start a New Red Scare | An Examination of What Democratic Socialism Really Is backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

Another Murder on the Streets of America By Untrained ICE Thugs Following Trump's Racist Hate Filled Immigration Policy of Deliberate Cruelty | The Political Landscape in Israel Ahead of Elections With Not Much Difference Between Netanyahu and His Rivals backgroundbriefing.org/donate x.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

How To Heal Democratic Divisions as Carville Blames Bernie Sanders for Hillary's Loss and "Left Wing Idiots" of Today For Jeopardizing Senate Must-Wins in Maine and Michigan | The Just-Announced Replacement for the Late Senator Lindsey Graham | The Oligarchical Takeover ot the U.S. by "Ruling Class Clowns" backgroundbriefing.org/donate x.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

We Have A Fascist in the White House and the Only Democrat Trying to Stop His Second Coup is Marc Elias | A Postmortem on the NATO Summit as Europe Falls Apart backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

An Unstable Stalemate in the Persian Gulf is the Likely Outcome of Trump's Disastrous War | With the World's Richest Oligarchs Pushing AI, Will the People Demand Some Agency Over the Future of Their Communities and Livelihoods? | A View From Canada on the Zombification of America as the USA Destroys Itself backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

Will the War of Words Between Trump and the Iranians Lead to a Real War? | The Scramble to Replace Platner Who Appears Reluctant to Step Down | The Lack of Vetting and Opposition Research in Choosing Candidates to Run in Democratic Primaries backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

The Latest Platner Scandal Has Bernie and Mamdani Urging Him to Step Aside | What it is Like to Have Russian Missiles and Drones Heading For Your Apartment Building | The NATO Summit Underway and What Does Putin Want From Trump backgroundbriefing.org/donate x.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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

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

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

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

The Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship But Kavanaugh Shows Congress How to Undo it | Trump Claims "No Limits" to His Power As He Adds Himself to the List of Mass Murderers and Bloodthirsty Dictators He Calls "Great Men" | With Reality Intruding on Trump's Malignant Narcissism, Will He Become More Dangerous as He Becomes More Delusional? backgroundbriefing.org/donate x.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

A Supreme Court in an Alternative Universe Gives More Power to the "Orange Bandit" | How to Bridge the Different Understandings the U.S. and Iran Have Over the Future of the Strait of Hormuz | A Political Activist Who is Making a Difference backgroundbriefing.org/donate x.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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

Trump's Favorite Judge Shows How Protesting Against Government Cruelty Can Get You 30 Years in Prison Even If You Weren't at the Protest | Instead of Walls, A Welcome Table | As Trump Tries to End Our Democracy, How Can We Celebrate Our 250th Birthday He is Hijacking? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

What Do the Big Wins By Mamdani-Backed Democratic Socialists in New York Mean for the Future of Democratic Party Leadership | Could There Be a Silver Lining in the Wake of the Otherwise Unmitigated Disaster Trump and Netanyahu Brought to the Persian Gulf? | Could Ukrainian Gains in Crimea Bring About the End of Putin? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

In Spite of GOP Lies, There's An Easy Fix For a Social Security Shortfall in 2034 | The MAGA Fraud Frays As the Majority Tires of Trump's Lies, Amateurism and Incompetence | The Rise of Right Wing Authoritarian Leaders in Latin America backgroundbriefing.org/donate x.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The UK's PM Resigns With a People-Friendly Andy Burnham Poised to Replace Him | Why Did Republican Senators Confirm a Russian-Friendly Asset to Head U.S. Intel Who Took Her Marching Orders From a Homophobic, Islamophobe, Tinfoil-Wrapped Cult Guru? | The Crooks In Congress in Crypto's Corner backgroundbriefing.org/donate x.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Iran Closes the Strait Of Hormuz as Negotiators in Switzerland Try to Rescue the U.S.-Iran Peace Deal | Nazi Messages From DHS as MAGA-Trump Racism and Xenophobia Contrast with the Multi-Cultural Diversity and Joy of the World Cup |Could Ukraine Win and Bring Down Putin and Change Russia As We Know It? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

Vance Unloads on Israel in an Obvious Warning Not to Spoil the White House Deal With Iran | How to Stop an Autocrat From Rigging Another Election | Efforts to Stop the Paramount-Warner Merger and Its Impact on Jobs, News and Culture backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

Even if Trump Has Given Away the Store, Diplomacy is Better Than Continuing to Fight a Lost War | The Price the U.S. Will Pay for Trump's Hubris, Hegseth's Incompetence and Netanyahu's Mendacity | In Shelving His New DNI and FISA Deal, Trump Makes Clear That Rigging the Next Election is His Top Priority backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing