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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May 31, 2023 - Chris McGreal | Daniel Serwer | Jake Grumbach
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The Sacklers Get to Keep Most of Their Money After a Million Americans Have Died From Their Drug OxyContin | Serbia's Authoritarian Leader and Russian Provocateurs Are Behind What Lavrov Says is a Big Explosion Looming in the Heart of Europe | The March Towards Authoritarianism in States Taken Over by Republican Supermajoritiesbackgroundbriefing.or…
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May 30, 2023 - Jeff Hauser | Paul Pillar | Aaron Stein
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The Hazardous Passage of the Debt Ceiling Deal Through Congress | Will Putin Get the Traitor-in-Chief Back in the Oval Office? | Is Erdogan's Victory Also a Victory For Putin?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmediaIan Masters
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May 29, 2023 - Lucian Truscott IV | Julia Gledhill | Scott Shapiro
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Remembering an American General Who Would Not Speak of the Glorious Dead on Memorial Day | How Defense Contractors Are Gouging the Taxpayer While Rewarding Shareholders at the Expense of R&D | Is Cybersecurity an Unsolvable Problem?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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May 28, 2023 - Jeremi Suri | Steven Harper | Branislav Slantchev
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The Impeachment of a MAGA Crook by a Far-Right Republican-Dominated House of the Texas Legislature | Ron DeSantis's Alarming Promise to Do To the Nation What He Has Done To Florida | The Ukrainian Counteroffensive and the "Game of Thrones" Power Struggle Inside the Kremlinbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmaste…
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May 25, 2023 - David Roth | Steven Greenhouse | Shibley Telhami
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The Meltdown of DeSantis's Big Announcement on Elon Musk's Troubled $44 Billion Platform | A Chief Justice Out of Touch With Reality and a Call For Justice Thomas to Resign | Time to Deal With the One State Reality of Israelbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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May 24, 2023 - E.J. Dionne | Ari Berman | Nina Burleigh
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The Continuing Standoff Over the Debt Ceiling as the Congressional Clock Runs Out | As a Red State Turns Blue, New Bills in Texas Target Democratic Voters in Houston | The Shadowy Fixer For the Reverse Altruism of Right Wing Billionaires Who Have Captured Our Courts and Want the Restbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.c…
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May 23, 2023 - Michael Binder | Whitney Tucker | Kent Harrington
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Ron DeSantis Will Announce His Bid For the Presidency in Conversation With Elon Musk on Twitter | Debt Ceiling Negotiations Will Determine How Much Punishment Will Be Inflicted on the Poor to Reward the Rich | Putin Could Be Arrested If He Shows Up For the BRICS Summit in South Africa in August backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmed…
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May 22, 2023 - Alec Bertina | Joshua Shifrinson | Quinn Slobodian
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Ukrainian Sabotage Operations Inside Russia as Part of the Upcoming Counteroffensive | Europe Can Provide More Military and Economic Assistance to Ukraine | Free Trade Zones as Capitalist Nirvanas to Unleash the Market From the Tyranny of Government and Bureaucracybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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May 21, 2023 - Ellis Krauss | Jon Hoffman | Aram Shabanian
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Zelensky's Surprise Visit to the G7 in Hiroshima, Japan | MBS Welcomes Assad Back Into the Arab League While Also Welcoming President Zelensky | Russia Warns of Escalation as Biden Allows Ukrainian Pilots to Train on F-16sbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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May 18, 2023 - Mark Fitzpatrick | Dean Baker | David Dayen
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The G7 Summit Underway in Hiroshima, Japan and the Haunting Spectre of Nuclear Weapons | Can the House Radicals Compromise on a Deal Many Democrats Say Biden Should Not Be Negotiating? | The Politics Behind Diane Feinstein's Sad Return to the US Senatebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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May 17, 2023 - Cleo Paskal | Lloyd Green | Jessica Melugin
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How Domestic Turmoil Caused by GOP Radicals Makes the U.S. an Unreliable Partner on the World Stage | What Does Trump Owe Rudy Giuliani and Will he Throw Him Under the Bus? | Regulation of Promising But Potentially Dangerous AI Technology is Necessary But is it Practical or Possible?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.c…
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May 16, 2023 - Thomas Kahn | Scott Horton | Aslı Bâli
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A Lawsuit With Recorded Evidence Against Giuliani By A Woman Scorned Could Be Devastating For Trump | Democrats Cave on a Clean Debt Ceiling Bill | The Disappointing Results of Sunday's Elections in Turkeybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmediaIan Masters
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May 15, 2023 - Stephanie Kelton | Nicholas Danforth | Fred Turner
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As the Standoff Over the Debt Ceiling Gets Closer to Default, Can Biden Call the House Republicans Bluff? | Running an Anti-American Campaign, Erdogan is Likely to be Reelected, Making Him Less Constrained and More Authoritarian | Not Only Do We Have a Mad Candidate, Countries Can Fall Into the Grip of Madness as Germany Did in the 1930's backgroun…
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May 14, 2023 - Miles Taylor | Orville Schell | James Risen
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The First White House Insider to Expose Trump on How Trump Will be Even More Dangerous Next Time | After Top Officials Met For 8 Hours, Could China and the U.S. Work Together to End the War in Ukraine? | A Champion of Democracy and Transparency Who Took on Powerful Interests and Wonbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.co…
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May 11, 2023 - Dr. Bandy Lee | Michelle Garcia | Christine Fair
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Trump's Unstable Unfitness For Office on Display as the Much of the U.S Falls into the Grip of Madness | A Flood of Desperate and Destitute Migrants Face More Military and Police Response Than Humanitarian Assistance | The Arrest of Imran Khan, the Pakistan Military's Favorite who Fell Out of Favor With Thembackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/…
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May 10, 2023 - Will Brederman | Michael Gorham | Elmira Bayrasli
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Today's Indictment of Congressman George Santos on 13 Counts and Calls For Him To Resign, But Not From Speaker McCarthy | Prigozhin Throws Shade on Putin's Victory Day Parade Telling Him Not to F**k Around On Red Square | Could Turkey's Kleptocratic Authoritarian Be Voted out on Sunday and Will He Accept the Results?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwi…
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May 9, 2023 - Anthea Butler | Robert Hockett | Hamilton Nolan
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A Former President Has Been Found Guilty of Sexual Assault But Does the Party of Donald Trump and George Santos Care? | After Today's Pointless Meeting, Biden Should Now Call McCarthy's Bluff on the Debt Ceiling | The Writers' Guild Strike Has Much More Significance Beyond Hollywoodbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.co…
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May 8, 2023 - Victoria Sanford | Garrett Epps | Sam Biddle
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Thursday's Expected Influx of Immigrants at the Southern Border and the Failure to Deal With the Root Causes | As Republicans Try to Extort Budget Cuts, the Counter Leverage of the 14th Amendment is in Biden's Pocket | The Weaponization of AI Tech as the Pentagon Looks at CHAT GPTbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/…
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May 7, 2023 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Eric Segall | Brendan Ballou
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A Reporter Who Was Banned From Entering the "Woke Free Zone" at CPAC's Conference in Orban's Hungary | The Growing Evidence of Ethical Violations by Justice Clarence Thomas and His Right Wing Activist Wife | The Pillage by Vulture Capitalist in Private Equity Who Make Huge Profits Plundering Companies They Buy backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.c…
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May 4, 2023 - Andy Campbell | Lucas Webber | Dov Zakheim
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Trump's StormTroopers the Proud Boys Found Guilty of Seditious Conspiracy | The Possibility the Drone Attack on the Kremlin Was Carried Out By Anti-Putin Russian Partisans | Why Does the Biden Administration Create Red Lines For Ukraine Then Eventually Deliver the Weapons Months if Not a Year Later? backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmaste…
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May 3, 2023 - Vera Mironova | James Thurber | Henry Giroux
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Was the Drone Attack on the Kremlin Staged or a Ukrainian Attempt to Rattle Putin's Cage? | In the Face of House Republicans Extortion, is the Democratic Work-Around of a Discharge Petition Feasible? | 40% of 8th Graders Are Below Average in History and 31% Are Below Basic Proficiency in Civicsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmedi…
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April 2, 2023 - Norm Ornstein | Graham Smith | Michael Hiltzik
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How the Press Has Framed the Looming Act of Insanity by House Republicans as Dueling Budget Proposals | Royal Fever Ahead of King Charles's Coronation and a Plan to Abolish the Monarchy | Republican Governors are Bringing Back Child Labor in the United Statesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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May 1, 2023 - Moira Donegan | Sirang Shidore | Simon Rosenberg
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Growing Concern at the Supreme Court's Impunity From Ethical Norms as Its Credibility With the Public Plunges | Biden Pledges "Ironclad" Military Ties With The Philippines As China Warns of "Stoking the Fire" | Biden's Reelection Strategy of Running Against Hate and MAGA Madness backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/i…
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Sudan is Descending Into a Destructive and Bloody Civil War Along the Lines of Syria and Libya | An Extensive Look Into Military Preparations For a Ukrainian Spring Offensive Aimed at a Decisive Victory Over Russia backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmediaIan Masters
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