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October 22, 2024 - Dr. Bandy Lee | Rachel Bitecofer | Lara Friedman
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The Author of the Goldwater Rule Which Gagged Psychiatrists Now Calls For Trump to Be Evaluated For Dementia | Trump's Plans To Round Up Enemies Into Concentration Camps Are the Same as Hitler's Who Quickly Turned Democracy Into Dictatorship | The Abraham Accords Are Becoming a Pipe Dream as Netanyahu Drives Saudi Arabia and Iran Togetherbackground…
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October 31, 2024 - David Daley | Austin Ahlman | Steven Harper
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The Murdochs and Their Fox News Propagandists Are Laying the Groundwork For a New Civil War | A "Prairie Populist" in Nebraska is Campaigning the Way Democrats Should be in Red States | "Why is This Election Even Close?"backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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October 30, 2024 - Justin Higgins | Sidney Blumenthal | Richard Briffault
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The October Surprise As a Trump Self-Inflicted Wound | 2024 Collusion Between Trump and Putin and Musk and Putin | The Supreme Court's Latest Partisan Ruling Allowing a Voter Purge in Virginiabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmediaBy Ian Masters
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October 29, 2024 - Sarah Leah Whitson | Luis Martínez-Fernández | Peter Montgomery
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Israel's Expulsion of UNRWA From Gaza Will Worsen an Already Dire Humanitarian Disaster | The Puerto Rican Vote After Trump's Hate-Filled Rally He Called a "Love Fest" | Apparently Trump's "Christians" No Longer "Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself"backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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October 28, 2024 - Anne Nelson | David Cay Johnston | Lincoln Mitchell
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Trump and His Warm-up Acts Spew Racist Hatred at Sunday's Madison Square Garden Rally | Billionaires and CEOs Suck Up to Trump Hedging Their Bets in Fear of Retribution | The Disputed Election Results in the Former Soviet State of GeorgiaBy Ian Masters
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October 27, 2024 - Nader Hashemi | James Risen | Jeffrey Winters
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Reactions to Israel's Retaliation Against Iran Appear to Indicate a Winding Down of Escalation | The Press Allows Trump to Be Lawless While Expecting Harris to be Flawless | Will the Election be Won by the Billionaire Tech Bros or Will the American People Save Our Democracy?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmas…
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October 24, 2024 - Aram Shabanian | Victor Pickard | Jonathan Alter
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What Does North Korea Get in Return For Sending Cannon Fodder to Ukraine? | Another South African Billionaire, the Owner of the LA Times, Comes to the Aid of Donald Trump | This Election as a Reckoning on Whether America Has Abandoned Democracy for Dictatorship Under the Spell of a Convicted Felon and Serial Liarbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter…
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October 23, 2024 - Lydia Camarillo | Steven Greenhouse | Alexander Stille
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How the Latino and Latina Vote Will Decide the Election and Trump's Latest Racist Slur at Mexicans | As Trump Tries to Win the Votes of Workers, His Anti-Worker Record is Glaring | A Scholar of Fascism and Italy, Where Fascism Began, On Trump's Former Chief of Staff's Comment That Trump "Fits Into the General Definition of Fascist"backgroundbriefin…
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October 21, 2024 - James Carville | Mitchell Plitnick | Denver Riggleman
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We Should Take Trump's Fascistic Plans Seriously | Kamala Harris's Stand on Gaza Satisfies No One | Were the Leaks From US Intelligence on Israel's Plans to Attack Iran Authorized or Unauthorized?By Ian Masters
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October 20, 2024 - Lawrence Douglas | Benjamin Carter Hett | Stephen Wertheim
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43 States Are Mere Spectators to a Most Consequential Election That Could be Decided by a Few Counties | With One Third of Americans Agreeing With Trump That "Immigrants Poison the Blood of America" His Bad Genes Invasion Claim Echoes Nazi "Criminal Biology" | "Competitive Coexistence" With China as an Alternative to Cold War Containment and Confro…
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October 17, 2024 - Dov Waxman | Jacob Silverman | Mike Lofgren
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The Killing of Sinwar and the Burning Alive Seen Around the World of a Promising Young Palestinian | The Blatant Buying of a Next Trump Presidency (However Short it May Be) by Right Wing Plutocrats | The Goebbels-Like Nature of the Trump/Vance Campaign of Lies backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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October 16, 2024 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Sung Yoon Lee | Sarang Shidore
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More Important Than Trump's Mental Decline is the Rising Possibility of JD Vance as the Tech Bros President of the United States | A Report From South Korea on the Rising Fury of Kim and His Sister and the Desertion of North Korean Troops in Ukraine | As BRICS Expands, Is it a Dictators Club or an Alternative to the Domination of the Dollar?backgro…
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October 15, 2024 - Dr. Lance Dodes | Nizar Farsakh | Andrew Latham
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Trump's Obvious Mental Deterioration | Netanyahu's Plan to Starve 400,000 in Gaza Prompts the US to Warn Military Aid Could be Cut Off in 30 Days | Canada Expels 6 Indian Diplomats For Colluding With Criminals to Assassinate a Sikh Activist on Canadian Soilbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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October 14, 2024 - Fawaz Gerges | Dr. Trita Parsi | Wendy Via
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Intensifying Israeli Attacks on Lebanon and Netanyahu's "Delusion" He Can Reshape the Middle East by Eliminating Hezbollah | How Much do Biden and His Top Officials Believe the Middle East Can be Reshaped by Israeli Military Power | Reports Armed Militias Motivated by Trump and Vance's Lies are Stopping FEMA From Delivering Aid in North Carolina…
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October 13, 2024 - Bill Scher | Sidney Blumenthal | David Noll
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With the Fateful Election 3 Weeks Away, an Update on Polls and Predictions | Is America Itself on Trial in This Election and Could it Soon Descend Into Darkness Like Germany in the 1930's? | The Political Violence Spilling Out of Red States in Our Vigilante Nationbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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October 10, 2024 - Thanassis Cambanis | Jonathan Weiler | Pamela Yates
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The UN Warns Israel it is in Breach of Humanitarian Law For IDF Attacks on UN Peacekeepers in Lebanon | The Impact of Hurricane Helene and Trump/Vance's Lies on Whether Harris Will Win North Carolina | A New Film Exposing the Border Industrial Complex and the Profitable Business of ImmigrationBy Ian Masters
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October 9, 2024 - Christopher Steele | Timothy Shenk
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As More Evidence of Trump's Collusion With Putin Emerges, We Speak With Former British Intelligence Professional Christopher Steele | With Republicans Making Inroads Into the What's Left of the New Deal Coalition, How the Democratic Party Could Repair its Frayed Connection to the Working Classbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmedia…
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October 8, 2024 - Dr. Annelle Sheline | Anders Aslund | Rob Jackson
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A Former State Department Official on Why Biden and Harris Appear Helpless as Netanyahu Pushes the Middle East to the Brink | Bob Woodward's Latest Revelations of Trump's Continuing and Treasonous Contacts with Putin | As Global Warming Drives Superstorms, How We Can Restore the Atmospherebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediaface…
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October 7, 2024 - Haggai Matar | James Acton | Stephen Ujlaki
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Israel's One Year Anniversary of the October 7 Attack as Hezbollah Missiles Rain Down on Haifa, Tiberias and Carmiel | How an Israeli Retaliation Against Iran's Nuclear Facilities Could Backfire | It's Time For Trump's "Christian" Soldiers to Ask, is Trump the Antichrist?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmaster…
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October 6, 2024 - David Daley | David Graham | Brett Murphy
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The Democrats Have to Win Big Because Chris Jankowski, Leonard Leo and John Roberts Have Stacked the Deck Against Them | The Many October Surprises and a Guide to the Cases Against Trump | The Flow of US Weapons Continues Unabated as Civilian Deaths Mount in Gaza and Lebanonbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmas…
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October 3, 2024 - Dennis Aftergut | Gareth Gore
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What May Be the Only Chance We Have to See Jack Smith's Case Against Trump for January 6 | A Deep Investigation of the Far-Right Cult Opus Dei and Its Infiltration of American Politics at the Highest Levelbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmediaBy Ian Masters
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October 2, 2024 - Andrew Miller | Paul Pillar | Lane Windham
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Netanyahu is in the Driver's Seat With Biden and Harris Reluctant Passengers | Under Attack by a Foreign Power, Lebanese and Iranians Rally Around the Flag | The Likely Impact of the East Coast Dockworkers' Strike on the Electionbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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October 1, 2024 - Nick Heras | Andy Levin | Katherine Stewart
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Iran Fires 400 Ballistic Missiles at Israel as the Escalation Ladder Has Both Threatening Responses and Responses to Responses | As Michigan Shapes up to be a Critical Swing State, Could Jill Stein be a Spoiler Along With Conservative Muslims Making Alliances With the Christian Right | Will Tim Walz Expose J.D. Vance's Sick Dystopian Vision of Amer…
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September 30, 2024 - Aaron David Miller | David Phillips | Alexander Motyl
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Now That He is Suddenly Popular, Netanyahu Has Boxed Harris in to Support His War in Gaza and Lebanon | How Turkey's Erdogan, Who Has Stolen Billions, Threw Chump Change to the NYC Mayor Eric Adams | An Assessment of Zelensky's US Visit and the Real Reason Trump Hates HimBy Ian Masters
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September 29, 2024 - Mohsen Milani | Frederick Clarkson | Maximina Juson
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After Repeated Humiliations, Will Iran Strike Back at Israel in a Wider Middle East War? | J.D. Vance Doubles Down in His Embrace of Christian Nationalism and "Christo-Fascism | The Filmmaker of the Feature Documentary on the Electoral College One Person, One Vote Which Premieres on PBS's Independent Lens on Mondaybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitt…
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