Synopsis
Taking listeners deep into the underlying issues and forces that shape our world.
Episodes
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October 31, 2024 - David Daley | Austin Ahlman | Steven Harper
31/10/2024 Duration: 59minThe 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/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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October 30, 2024 - Justin Higgins | Sidney Blumenthal | Richard Briffault
30/10/2024 Duration: 58minThe 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 Virginia backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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October 29, 2024 - Sarah Leah Whitson | Luis Martínez-Fernández | Peter Montgomery
29/10/2024 Duration: 59minIsrael'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/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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October 28, 2024 - Anne Nelson | David Cay Johnston | Lincoln Mitchell
28/10/2024 Duration: 01h03minTrump 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 Georgia
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October 27, 2024 - Nader Hashemi | James Risen | Jeffrey Winters
27/10/2024 Duration: 01h02minReactions 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/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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October 24, 2024 - Aram Shabanian | Victor Pickard | Jonathan Alter
24/10/2024 Duration: 01h01minWhat 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 Liar backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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October 23, 2024 - Lydia Camarillo | Steven Greenhouse | Alexander Stille
23/10/2024 Duration: 01h03minHow 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" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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October 22, 2024 - Dr. Bandy Lee | Rachel Bitecofer | Lara Friedman
22/10/2024 Duration: 01h58sThe 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 Together backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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October 21, 2024 - James Carville | Mitchell Plitnick | Denver Riggleman
21/10/2024 Duration: 01h01minWe 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?
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October 20, 2024 - Lawrence Douglas | Benjamin Carter Hett | Stephen Wertheim
20/10/2024 Duration: 59min43 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 Confrontation backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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October 17, 2024 - Dov Waxman | Jacob Silverman | Mike Lofgren
17/10/2024 Duration: 01h01minThe 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/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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October 16, 2024 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Sung Yoon Lee | Sarang Shidore
16/10/2024 Duration: 01h02minMore 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? backgroundbriefing.org/donate x.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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October 15, 2024 - Dr. Lance Dodes | Nizar Farsakh | Andrew Latham
15/10/2024 Duration: 01h02minTrump'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 Soil backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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October 14, 2024 - Fawaz Gerges | Dr. Trita Parsi | Wendy Via
14/10/2024 Duration: 01h02minIntensifying 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
13/10/2024 Duration: 01h01minWith 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 Nation backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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October 10, 2024 - Thanassis Cambanis | Jonathan Weiler | Pamela Yates
10/10/2024 Duration: 01h30sThe 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 Immigration
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October 9, 2024 - Christopher Steele | Timothy Shenk
09/10/2024 Duration: 01h03minAs 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 Class backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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October 8, 2024 - Dr. Annelle Sheline | Anders Aslund | Rob Jackson
08/10/2024 Duration: 01h05minA 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 Atmosphere backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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October 7, 2024 - Haggai Matar | James Acton | Stephen Ujlaki
07/10/2024 Duration: 01h02minIsrael'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/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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October 6, 2024 - David Daley | David Graham | Brett Murphy
06/10/2024 Duration: 01h01minThe 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 Lebanon backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia