Background Briefing With Ian Masters

Anti-Semitism From Trump and Kanye West is Feeding the Dual Loyalty Trope | Alarm That the Latest Weapons to Saudi Arabia Now Allied With Putin Could End up in the Wrong Hands | Could Democrats Lose in the Blue States of the West? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Having Bought the Supreme Court, American Oligarchs Are Now Trying to Buy the Legislative Branch | Did the House January 6 Hearing Move the Needle For Democrats Ahead of the Upcoming Election? | With Its Economy in Deep Trouble, the Chinese Communist Party Congress Will Anoint Xi Jinping to Another Decade in Power backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

An Analysis of Today's Final House January 6 Committee Hearing | Who Did Liz Cheney Have in Mind When She Said "We Have Enough Information For Criminal Referrals?" | With the UN Voting Overwhelmingly to Condemn Putin, Why Does Elon Musk, JD Vance, Tucker Carlson and Fox News Support the Murderous Dictator? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Biden's New National Security Strategy and the Danger Putin May Not be Able to Accept Losing His War Without Escalating to Nukes | Haiti Now a Lawless State Controlled by Gangs, is Poised For Another Intervention | Why Is the Democratic Candidate Behind the Most Beatable Republican, Senator Ron Johnson? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Pernicious Polarization Gripping Our Politics As We Head For Electoral Autocracy or a Democratic Collapse | The Ohio Senate Race as a Contest Between an "Ass-kicker and an "Ass-kisser" | Zelensky Expresses Concern to the G7 That Putin is Pressuring Belarus to Enter the War backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Apart From Angry Denunciations of MBS From Congress, What Can Be Done About His Perfidy? | The US Fought Two Wars To Protect the Saudi Regime, Now They Are Allied With Russia and China | Inside Ukraine's Military Strategy and Recriminations Within Putin's Military backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Biden Warns We Are Close to Armageddon and Have To Take Putin's Nuclear Threats Seriously | How We Can Build a Fair and Secure Middle Class Society | Women in America and Iran are Leading the Fight For Democracy Against the Repression of Women in the Name of Religion backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Biden Will Pardon all Federal Offenses of Simple Marijuana Possession | The Breathtaking Hypocrisy of the GOP's "Christian" Base Doubling Down in Their Support of a Brazen Liar and Serial Sinner | Calls to Cut Ties With Saudi Arabia After MBS and His Mentor Putin's "October Surprise" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Murderous Pals MBS and Putin Jack Up the Price of Oil Ahead of the Midterms to Help Republicans and Bring Trump Back | How Putin Uses Mutually Assured Destruction as a Shield to Conduct a Conventional War in Ukraine With Impunity | The Youthful Revolt Underway in Iran Against a Hypocritical and Hated Clerical Kleptocracy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Is Putin Desperate or Upping the Nuclear Ante to Force Biden to the Negotiating Table? | How Close Are We to Having the Nuclear Taboo Which Has Existed Since Nagasaki, Broken By Putin? | What Practical Steps Can be Taken to Restore the Supreme Court's Legitimacy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Questioning the Supreme Court's Legitimacy as a New Term Begins | Oil Company Extortion in California as Consumers Pay Twice as Much Per Gallon as the Rest of the Country | Does it Make Sense to Build High Rises on Ocean Fronts as Hurricanes Get More Powerful?

Will Biden's Threats Deter Putin? Apparently Our Military Does Not Think So | Could Our Shadow War With Russia Spiral Into Nuclear Catastrophe? | The Loser in Today's Election in Brazil Will Contest, Not Concede backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Hurricane Ian's Path of Destruction and the Need To Update Building Codes | Today's First Pacific Islands Summit at the White House as China Makes Inroads Into the Region | The CIA's Investment in Colossal Biosciences to Bring Back the Wooly Mammoth and the Tasmanian Tiger

Who Sabotaged the Nord Stream 1 and 2 Undersea Gas Pipelines? | Is the Disunited States of America Heading For a Civil War? | The Revolution in Iran Broadens Across Society Including Strikes backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Are the Democrats Too Timid Playing Defense While the Republicans Dominate With Illusion? | Highlights From the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Texas | Why Does Hungary Have Such an Outsize Influence Over American Politics? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Italy Lurches to the Far Right in a Low-Turnout Election With the Left Divided | An Update on the Investigations Into Trump Ahead of Wednesday's Jan. 6 Hearing | As Trump Drags the Country Towards Civil War, What Can be Done to Stop Him backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Putin's Nuclear Sabre-Rattling and How to Deal With It | Hideous Russian War Crimes Unearthed in Ukraine | Iran's Corrupt and Hypocritical Clerical Mafia Could Soon be Toppled backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The 11th Circuit's Blistering Smackdown of Judge Cannon's Ruling and Judge Dearie's Call For Trump's Lawyers to Put up or Shut up about Claims the FBI Planted Documents | A Lawyer for Some of the Venezuelan Asylum-Seekers Used in DeSantis' Sadistic Trolling | How Close is Iran to Another Revolution? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The New York AG Sues Trump, the Trump Organization, Don Jr., Eric and Ivanka for Staggering Fraud | Putin Threatens to Use Nukes, Declaring "It's Not a Bluff" | President Biden's Address to the UN General Assembly backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Special Master Essentially Tells Trump's Lawyers to Put Up or Shut Up | Biden Makes a Pitch For the Disclose Act Which Americans Favor But Republicans Don't | The Violent Crackdown on Demonstrations Across Iran After the Death of a Young Woman in the Custody of the Morality Police backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia