Background Briefing With Ian Masters

Israel's Killing of 7 Aid Workers Who Were Feeding Starving Gazans Sparks International Outrage | Will Israel's Strike on an Iranian Consulate That Killed Top IRGC Officials Provoke a Wider War? | What the US Could Learn From the Electoral Rebuke of Erdogan's Dictatorship and Kleptocracy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

New evidence on "Havana Syndrome" Links the GRU's Assassination Unit 29155 to Mysterious Attacks on U.S. Officials and Their Families | A Scholar Just Back From Ukraine on the Heroism of Ukraine and the Nihilism of Mike Johnson | Trump's Illiberalism is Not a Departure But a Recurring Theme in American History backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The State Department Officer With Feds United for Peace Who Resigned to Protest US Complicity in Israel's War on Gaza | The Success of Propaganda as a Third of Americans Now Believe Trump's Big Lie | Putin's Evolution From Democrat to Despot backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Plutocrats Are Backing Trump, Not Because They Like Him, But to Extend Trump's Tax Cuts For the Ultra-Rich | RFK Jr's Pick For His Running Mate Has Deep Pockets But a Shallow Resume | Guns and Ammo From the US Fuel Anarchy in Haiti backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Is Israel Becoming a Strategic Liability For the United States? | Today's Oral Arguments Before the Supreme Court on a Nationwide Ban of a Medication Abortion Drug | After Today's Trading, Trump's Essentially Worthless Company is Suddenly Worth $15 Billion? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

A Look at the Islamic State's Global Terrorist Franchises While Putin Tries to Shift the Blame Onto Ukraine | Will The US Help Implement the UN Ceasefire Resolution Which For the First Time It Did Not Veto? | Today's Lifeline Thrown to Trump Reducing His Bond Down From $454 Million to $175 Million backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Do-Nothing Congress Descends Into the Chaos Congress | Could Billions Made Out of Nothing Pumped Into Truth Social Rescue Trump Tomorrow? | While Putin Has His Security Services Going After Gays and Lesbians He Prioritizes as Terrorists, Real Terrorists Strike Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green

Can the Public Own Giant Tech Companies Who Operate as Monopolies? | In a Major Shift, the US Drafts a UN Resolution For an Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza and a Hostage Deal | The Ethical Obligation to Warn the Public About Trump's Dementia backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

While Kushner's Callous Remarks on the Value of Beachfront Property as a Million Gazans Starve Resonate, Netanyahu Talks to Republican Senators and the House Speaker | AG Garland and Justice Cardoza's Warning That Criminals "Go Free Because the Constable Has Blundered" | Trump Attacks Biden But Avoids His Own Family's History of Dementia backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Who Will Come up With the Billion Dollars Trump Needs as he Faces the Prospect of His Assets Being Seized? | Trump's Call For a Civil War Just as he Called For the January 6 Insurrection | China Ends Freedom of Speech Now That Anyone in Hong Kong Communicating With Anyone Abroad is Guilty of "External Interference" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

An Alarming Poll on the Rise of the "Duel Haters" Who Want Neither Trump or Biden | The Fate of the Russian Opposition Now That Putin Has Awarded Himself a Blowout Election Victory | Concerns Inside the Intelligence Community Over Trump's Bromance With Putin and Orban backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Russian Elections and Putin's Plans to Stoke Divisions in an Already-Divided America | The Increasingly Visible Role of Vice President Harris in the Campaign Underway | Trump's GOP Keeps Lowering the Bar With Greater Ignorance, Vitriol, Clownishness and Vulgarity backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

More Evidence Emerges About the Source of Disinformation on Hunter Biden | More Problems For An Already Troubled Boeing Whose Disastrous CEO is Still on the Job | Senator Schumer's Public Break With Netanyahu backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

As Gazans Starve, Will Netanyahu Cross Biden's "Red Line" and Invade Rafah? | 3rd Party Spoilers Already Have 17% of the Vote and Will Hurt Biden More Than Trump | Will Money From Malign Foreign Dictators Bail Out Trump? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Of the $1.6 Trillion in Discretionary Spending in Biden's 2025 Budget, a Trillion Goes to the Military and $499 Billion For Everything Else | Trump's Mafia-Like Extortion of Corporate America | In Hedging its Bet on Biden, Wall Street is Telling Itself Trump is Not That Bad Even Though They Know Better backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Biden Turns the Tide Against the Press and Pollsters Who Have Written Him Off As Too Old and Losing Badly to Trump | Biden Confronts the Reactionary Supreme Court Over Women's Rights | The State of War and Rumors of Peace Between Ukraine and Russia backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

What Biden Might, Should and Will Say in Tonight's State of the Union Address | Will Biden Take Off the Gloves and Confront the House MAGA Republicans' Pro-Putin Caucus? | Belatedly Biden Appears to be Using the Enormous Leverage the US Has Over Netanyahu backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Can Biden Pick up Haley's Voters While Placating the Uncommitted Young Democrats? | The Challenge the "Uncommitted" Vote in Minnesota Poses to Biden | With $2 Trillion Being Spent on "Nuclear Modernization" of Dangerous and Unnecessary Weapons, Where is the Guns and Butter Argument? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

VP Harris's Clear Rebuke of Netanyahu Calling For a Ceasefire and What Amounts to Regime Change | The Role of the Right Wing Supreme Court as it Goes Out of Its Way to Protect Trump | Sinema Quits the Senate But Rewards From Big Pharma and Hedge Funds Likely Await Her backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

A Unanimous Supreme Court Ruling to Keep Trump on the Ballot Ignores the Constitution | Haiti's Descent Into Anarchy as Gangs Attack Police and Free 3,700 Prisoners | The Cynical Political Strategy of Choosing the Opponent You Want to Run Against backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia