Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Ian Masters
Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news, expert guests, policymakers, and critics offering analysis and insight on national security, foreign and domestic policy, political, cultural, and social issues.
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Nov 6, 2025 • 1h 4min
November 6, 2025 - Rick Wilson | Michael McDonald | John Lawrence
Mounting Evidence the MAGA Spell Has Been Broken | As a Blue Wave Looms, What Will Trump Do to Rig the Next Election? | Nancy Pelosi's Former Chief of Staff on Her Decision to Retire
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Nov 5, 2025 • 1h 2min
November 5, 2025 - Moira Donegan | Alexander Keyssar | Michael Edison Hayden
Having Shunned Mamdani, Will the Democratic Establishment Now Embrace Him? | California Governor Newsom's Warning That Trump Will Do Anything and Everything to Rig the Next Election | The Republicans Are the Real Radicals and They Have a Nazi Problem
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Nov 4, 2025 • 1h 6min
November 4, 2025 - Marion Nestle | Ryan Cooper | Dr. Ashley Koning
After Offering to Half-Fund SNAP, Trump Turns Callousness Into Cruelty by Refusing to Fund It At All Until "Radical Left Democrats" Open Up the Government | The Billionaire-Funded Retention Election For the Pennsylvania Supreme Court That Is Going Under the Radar | The Mamdani race in NYC and Sherrill race in NJ as the Personification of the Struggle Within the Democratic Party
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Nov 3, 2025 • 1h 6min
November 3, 2025 - Javier Corrales | Paul Glastris | Daniel Harawa
Trump Wants to Take Out Maduro Without a War But Replacing Venezuela's Corrupt and Criminal Hierarchy Will Not Be So Easy | Trump Has Project 2025 But the Democrats Have No Plan and They Need to Go On the Offensive With One | Will SCOTUS Shred Its Last Vestige of Legitimacy and Side With Trump on Tariffs?
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Nov 2, 2025 • 1h 12min
November 1, 2025 - Joseph Cirincione | Will Bunch | Fatemeh Jamalpour
The Man With His Finger on the Button Doesn't Know What He is Talking About When it Comes to Nuclear Weapons | Trump Doesn't Need a Reichstag Fire, Mike Johnson Has Already Shut Down the Legislature | An Iranian Journalist Banned by Iran's Ministry of Intelligence on Her Book on the Third Anniversary of the Women, Life, Freedom Movement
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Oct 30, 2025 • 1h 6min
October 30, 2025 - Miles Taylor & Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno | Jochen Hellbeck
Today's Launch ofDEFIANCE.ORG to Help Americans Push Back Against Trump's Revenge | As Putin Behaves Like A Nazi Killing Ukrainian Civilians, Hitler's Murderousness Mobilized the Russians, 26 Million of Whom Died Defeating Nazism
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Oct 29, 2025 • 1h 4min
October 29, 2025 - Gina Plata-Nino | Bartlett Naylor | Dennis Hogan
As Trump Rewards Billionaires and Mike Johnson Protects Pedophiles, Americans and Their Children Are About to Go Hungry | The CEO to Worker Pay Ratio Has Gone From 20 to 1 to 360 to 1 But Now Musk Expects a $1 Trillion Paycheck | Trump's Theatrical War on Drugs Has Key Ally Colombia Exiting the Stage;

Oct 28, 2025 • 1h 3min
October 28, 2025 - Michael Hudson | Kent Harrington
Reality Versus Fiction in Trump's Asia Tour of Japan Then on to South Korea To Meet Xi | An assessment of Trump's Claim of a "New Golden Age of the U.S. Japan Alliance"
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Oct 27, 2025 • 1h 5min
October 27, 2025 - Dr. Bandy Lee | Stephen Marche | Sarang Shidore
The Unbound Grandiosity of Trump's Ego and Its Frailty as the Most Powerful Man in the World Craves and Demands Praise and Flattery | Trump's Declaration of Economic War on Canada Over a Reagan TV Ad | An Assessment of What Was Achieved and What Was Not at the ASEAN Summit
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Oct 26, 2025 • 1h 4min
October 26, 2025 - Sean Wilentz | Sidney Blumenthal | Timothy Shenk
Dwarfing the White House, Trump's Monstrous Monument to His Ego Will be an Enduring Insult From the Worst President in Our History That Will Torment Us For the Ages | The Criminal Takeover of America as Trump Punishes His Enemies and Pardons His Friends While Rewarding Himself, His Family and His Cronies | Democrats Must Run With a Liberal/Populist Coalition to Improve the Lives of Americans Not Remind us How Bad Trump is
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