Background Briefing With Ian Masters

Inside Trumpworld Civil War Looms in Our Deeply Polarized and Divided Country | The Need For the Democrats to Pay Attention to State Legislature Races backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

A New Hearing on January 12 Will Add to the Portrait of a Disastrously Dysfunctional Trump White House | The Texas GOP Explodes the Myth of the Party of Shills For the Plutocracy Caring For Working Americans | The Real Driver of Inflation is Not Worker's Wages But Corporate Price-Gouging backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The UK's Scandal-Plagued Prime Minister Circles the Drain | Under Enormous Pressure From Putin, Belarus Will Soon Enter the War Against Ukraine | SCOTUS is Using the Constitution to Destroy the Very Democratic Governance it Was Designed to Protect backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Violent and Macabre Online Posting by the Assassin Who Fired 70 Shots Into a 4th of July Parade | Instead of a Red Wave, The Democrats Could Pick Up 4 New Senate Seats | SCOTUS Could Give Republican State Legislatures Sole Control Over Elections backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Is Trump Blackmailing the GOP Into Submission Threatening to Run as an Independent? | What Can the Biden Administration Do to Mitigate or Undo the Supreme Court's Assault on Women's Reproductive Rights? | Breaking up the Callous Human Trafficking Network Exploiting and Endangering Migrants backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Will Trump Soon Announce He is Running For the Presidency to Get Legal Cover and Fleece the MAGA Crowd? | As We Celebrate the Constitution, Are We Still a Democracy or Have We Become a Plutocracy? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Thanks to the Supreme Court, Will There Be a Liveable Planet in Our Children and Grandchildren's Future? | As Electrical Generators Move Away From Coal, SCOTUS Turns Back the Clock | Will This Unpopular Ruling Motivate the Young to Vote For a Liveable Future? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Our Borderlands With Mexico Are Becoming a Graveyard | The Likelihood That Giuliani and Flynn Will Go To Jail and That Meadows, Clark, Eastman and Trump Will be Indicted | Did Sweden and Finland Sell Out the Kurds in Their Deal With Turkey to Enter NATO? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

With Evidence Against Trump Piling Up, Why is he Not in Jail? | Today's Witness Describes a Psychotic Trump Strangling His Bodyguard and Throwing Dishes | An Update on the G-7 Summit Just Ending and the NATO Summit Just Beginning backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Alito's "Victory for White Life" and the Freakout on the White Right | The Case So Far Presented by the House Select Committee | How American Think Tanks do the Bidding of Their Foreign Patrons backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Gloria Steinem on a New Wave of Activism and Voting Beginning to Swell | State Versus State in a Fight Over Abortion Pills and Interstate Travel | A Radical Supreme Court Just Starting to Enact Its Reactionary Agenda backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Trump's Pressure Campaign on the DOJ and Pardons Sought by the GOP's Most Ardent Trumpsters | If Today's Supreme Court Ruling Against Gun Safety Had Been in Effect on Jan. 6, Bullets and Bloodshed Would Have Ensued | With Originalists Imposing Government by Judiciary, Liberals Must Find an Alternative Legal Doctrine backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Hearings Portray Trump as a Mafia Boss With Giuliani His Consigliere | Fight Inflation With An Excess Profits Tax to Rein in U.S. Corporate Markups | Erdogan Washes the Blood From MBS's Hands backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

More Powerful Testimony From Republican Witnesses Demolish Trump's Election Lies | The Supreme Court Decision to Fund Religious Schools With Taxpayer Money | A Former Guerrilla and Domestic Servant Elected to Lead Colombia backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Face of Trump's GOP on Display at the Texas Republican Convention | Biden Will Get Nothing in Return For Bowing to the Sociopathic Crown Prince | Far Right Gains and Ruling Party Loses in French Elections backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Critical Tipping Point For Democracy and the Rule of Law America and the World Faces | What the Democrats Can Do As a Perfect Storm of Economic Gloom Approaches | How to Fight Back Against Our Courts Stacked With Far-Right ideologues backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Internal White House Battles Between Pence and His Lawyers and Trump and His Legal Charlatan John Eastman | The Fed's Interest Rate Hike and Its Impact on the Markets and Economy | Growing Tensions Over the Taiwan Straits backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

A History of the Right Wing Grift Machine Now That the "Big Lie" Has Become the "Big Grift" | How the American Majority Can Thwart the Tyranny of the Minority | The Presidential Ambition of Florida's "Grievance Governor" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Republicans Don't Trust Teachers to Teach But Trust Them to Have Loaded Guns Around Children with Little Training | Blaming the Fed Instead of Biden For the Economy As the Era of Easy Money For Wall Street Ends backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

After Manufacturing the Big Lie, Trump Engineered the Big Ripoff to Fund His Comeback and Intimidate the GOP Into Supporting the Big Lie | Are the Hearings Meant to Educate Americans or Get AG Garland to Indict the Criminal Behind the Coup? | What is In and What is Out of the Senate's Bipartisan Gun Safety Reforms backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia