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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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August 15, 2024 - Rashid Khalidi | Adam Kirsch | Sumit Ganguly
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Peace Negotiations For a Gaza Ceasefire Now Minus a Representative From Hamas | The Origins and Definition of Settler Colonialism Which Used to Be Applied to Australia, Canada and the US But is Now is Labelling Israel | Bangladesh: The Latest Example of the US Not Acting According to Its Democratic Ideals backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ia…
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August 18, 2024 - Steve Benen | Sidney Blumenthal | Andrew Feinberg
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How a Reality TV Star Living in His Own Reality Captured the GOP and Up To Half of Americans Now Living in a Phony Reality | America's Historical Irony of its Foundation in a Revolution Against a Mad King Only to Possibly Re-elect a Mad King Anointed by the Supreme Court With Monarchical Power and Immunity | Did Trump's Pandering to Young White Men…
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August 13, 2024 - Nicholas Heras | John Lawrence | Anastasia Edel
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With War Between Israel and Iran Inevitable, a Strategic Analysis of How Much It Could Escalate | Kamala Harris and Donald Trump's Competing Tax Proposals on Tips Aimed at Winning Nevada | Putin's Long Game Counters the Current Optimism as Ukraine Takes Russian Territorybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmasters…
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August 12, 2024 - Justin Higgins | Rick Hasen | Mohsen Milani
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A Former Republican Opposition Researcher on What Damaging Material Might Be In the Leaked Vetting of J.D. Vance by the Trump Campaign | Trump's Plan to Deny a Harris Victory by Stalling Certification of the Vote at the Local and State Levels to Delay Results and Cause Chaos | How Much Humiliation is Driving Iran's Promised Response to Netanyahu's …
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August 10, 2024 - Dr. Bandy Lee | Robert Young Pelton | Mitchell Plitnick
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Americans Are Being Denied the Truth About Trump's Mental Instability and Possible Dementia | How Does the Veteran Community Feel About the Latest Round of Swift-Boating? | Can A Deal For Iran Not to Retaliate in Exchange For A Ceasefire in Gaza be Made?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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August 8, 2024 - David Cay Johnston | Shireen Al-Adeimi | Aram Shabanian
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Trump's Press Conference Tirade of Child-like Petulance That Biden Had Been Taken Away Like His Favorite Toy and Now He's Stuck Having to Run Against a Black Woman | How Will the Harris/Walz Team Handle More Pro-Palestinian Demonstrations? | Objectives Behind the Ukrainian Incursion Into Russiabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmedi…
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August 7, 2024 - Clarissa Hayward | Moira Donegan | Joshua Landis
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With Millions From Republican Billionaires, AIPAC Unseats Another Member of The Squad | Have The Democrats Learned Their Lesson of Playing it Safe With VP Picks? | Netanyahu Has Provoked and Khamenei Has Promised a War That Nobody Wants backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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August 6, 2024 - Jonathan Alter | Quinn Slobodian | K. Sabeel Rahman
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What the VP Pick Tim Walz Brings to the Electoral Map | The Global Menace of Elon Musk Stoking Racial Unrest in the UK | How to Save Government Oversight and Expertise From the Ravages of SCOTUSHost: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Asher PriceBy Ian Masters
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August 5, 2024 - David Schultz | David Daley | Pavlina Tcherneva
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Governor Tim Walz May be Kamala Harris's Pick For VP | The Plutocratic Capture of John Roberts's Supreme Court | Wall Street's and the Global Drop in Markets Does Not Spell Recessionbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmediaBy Ian Masters
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August 4, 2024 - Brett Eagleson | Ian Haney López | Katherine Stewart
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Evidence the US Government Has Buried For 23 Years Appears Poised to Blow the Lid Off Saudi Involvement in 9/11 | Will Trump's Revival of the "Birther" Dog Whistle Work Against Kamala Harris? | The Noble Lie, J.D. Vance and the New Rightbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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August 1, 2024 - Olga Lautman | Adam Weinstein | Lawrence Jacobs
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Russia Swaps Innocent Hostages For Putin's Spies, Criminals and Hackers | Will Netanyahu Drag the US Into Another Forever War in the Middle East | A Profile of a Possible VP Pick, Minnesota's Governor Tim Walzbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmediaBy Ian Masters
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July 31, 2024 - Nader Hashemi | Haggai Matar | Jim Small
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With Assassinations in Tehran and Beirut, Netanyahu Taunts Iran and Hezbollah to Bring It On | The Arrest of 9 IDF Soldiers by Military Police For Gang Rape of Palestinian Prisoners 36 of Whom Have Been Tortured to Death | A Profile of Senator Mark Kelly as a Possible VP for Kamala Harrisbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafaceb…
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July 30, 2024 - Harry Litman | Christopher Borick | Molly White
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Biden's Supreme Court Reform Plans Now That Leonard Leo and the Federalists Have Stacked the Courts | As Governor Shapiro Auditions for the VP Slot, We Look at His Pros and Cons | The Cryptocurrency Industry is All-In For Trump Who is Promising to Give Away the Store to Thembackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmas…
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July 29, 2024 - Alejandro Velasco | Habib Battah | Jesselyn Cook
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Venezuela's Maduro Defies Most of the World Claiming Victory When the Vote Was as Much as 70 to 30% Against Him | On the Brink of Another War as the US and Israel Reject Hezbollah's Claim a Missile That Killed 12 Was Not Theirs | With the GOP Now Seen as a Cult, Why Are Americans Susceptible to Cults?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmast…
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July 28, 2024 - Adele Stan | Lisa Graves | David Smilde
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With Democrats Reeling From Despair to Euphoria, Kamala Harris Steps Out of the Shadows Into the Limelight | After Capturing Our Judiciary, Opus Dei Operatives Are Poised to Capture the Executive Branch With J.D. Vance and Kevin Roberts, the Leader of Project 2025 | Since He Should Lose Today's Election in Venezuela, Will Maduro Do a Trump and Not …
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July 25, 2024 - Andy Kroll | Dewey Clayton | Steven Simon
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More Alarming Information About Who J.D. Vance is and What he Believes Continues to Surface | Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear as a Possible Running Mate For Kamala Harris | Netanyahu's Visit With Biden and Harris Followed by His Meeting Tomorrow With TrumpHost: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Asher Price…
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July 24, 2024 - Annelle Sheline | Sarah Leah Whitson | Dr. Guy Ziv
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A Former State Department Official Who Just Quit Over Gaza on Netanyahu's 4th Address to a Joint Session of Congress | Demonstrations Against Netanyahu Outside Congress Today and the Boycott of His Speech Inside | Netanyahu's Speech Was Aimed at His Domestic Audience With No Ceasefire Since His Coalition Will Collapse If He Makes a Ceasefire Deal B…
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July 23, 2024 - Gil Duran | Ruth Conniff | Nelson Lichtenstein
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The Contours of a Kamala Harris Campaign Emerges Contrasting the Felon With the Prosecutor Who Went After For-Profit College Ripoffs Like Trump University and Investigated Big Oil While Trump Invited Them to Bribe Him | Kamala Harris Campaigns in Wisconsin Today Which Trump Barely Won in 2016 and Biden in 2020 | Project 2025 Is More of a Corporate …
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July 22, 2024 - Gautam Mukunda | Anthea Butler | Ben Burgis
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How the Most Important Hire in the World Has Been Made With, Good, Bad and Ugly Consequences | The Vice Presidential Sweepstakes and the Importance of Swing States | A Democratic Party Reborn backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmediaBy Ian Masters
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July 21, 2024 - Jennifer Mercieca | Will Bunch | Jacob Silverman
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The Gulf Between Rhetoric and Reality As One Presidential Candidate Drones on Disavowing his Plans While the Other is in a Bunker Not Listening | A Recap of the Republican Convention and What it Tells Us About a Future Trump Presidency | How a Handful of Tech Billionaires Are Poised to Enact Their Techno-Fascist Fantasies with Their Bro in the Oval…
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July 18, 2024 - Alexander Stille | Samuel Moyn | Jacob Heilbrunn
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Mounting Pressure From Democratic Leaders on Biden to Step Down Could Overwhelm His Stubbornness | Beyond Biden, America Has a Problem With Gerontocracy | Doubling Down on America First, the Trump/Vance Ticket Will Undermine Democracy and the Rule of Law at Home and Abroadbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmaste…
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July 17, 2024 - Joshua Shifrinson | Joe Conason
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J.D. Vance's Foreign Policy Views Plus Trump's Ties to Putin Spell Doom For Ukraine | 75 Years of Rightwing Conmen, Quacks and Charlatans Making Money Attacking Liberals, Influencing the Wider Political Landscape and Moving the Country to the Rightbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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July 16, 2024 - Harold Meyerson | Tom LoBianco | Dr. Tatsiana Kulakevich
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The Disconnect at the RNC Between Trump's Call For Unity and Partisan Speeches From MAGA Warriors | Republicans Pretend to Love Workers While Biden Loses Support Except For Unions | What is Behind Chinese Soldiers Drilling on the Border With Poland and Ukraine?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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July 15, 2024 - Geoffrey Kabaservice | Michael Greenberger | Kim Lane Scheppele
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Trump's Judge Dismisses the Most Winnable Case Against Him Taking Her Cue From Justice Thomas | J.D. Vance, the Authoritarian Brains Behind a Trump Dictatorship | Orban Has Invited China Into Europe as He Acts as a Courier For Secret Messages From Putin and Xi to Trumpbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersme…
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July 14, 2024 - Robert Baer | Sean Wilentz | Jared Yates Sexton
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Assassinations That Changed the World or Might Have Changed the World | America's Historical Legacy of Presidential Assassinations and Attempted Assassinations | The Inciter of Political Violence Now Calls For Unity as He Moves Closer to Joining the Illiberal Club of the World's Despots and Kleptocratsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmas…
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July 7, 2024 - Gil Duran | Arash Azizi
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A Former Press Secretary to Kamala Harris on Who Could Best Beat Trump as Divisions Among Democrats Intensify While Republicans Can't Get Enough of Their Candidate's Depravity and Dementia | An Assessment of the So-Called Reformist President of Iran and What He Means For Women, Life, Freedombackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafa…
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