Episodes

  • July 22, 2025 - Mike Lofgren | Tim Weiner

    July 22, 2025 - Mike Lofgren | Tim Weiner
    Jul 22 2025
    The Good Christian Mike Johnson Shuts Down the House to Protect the Best Friend of a Pedophile and Child Sex Trafficker | The Decline of the Intelligence Community Trying to Survive an Anti-Intellectual Regime backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • July 21, 2025 - James Zirin | Jacques Berlinerblau | Sidney Blumenthal

    July 21, 2025 - James Zirin | Jacques Berlinerblau | Sidney Blumenthal
    Jul 21 2025
    Is Trump Suing Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal to Find Out Who the Leaker Is? | Cancelling Comedians to Muzzle the American Tradition of Political Satire | The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse Driving Us Into a Hellscape: Trump, Miller and Vought backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • July 20, 2025 - Nancy Gertner | Sean Wilentz | Richard Parker

    July 20, 2025 - Nancy Gertner | Sean Wilentz | Richard Parker
    Jul 20 2025
    With the Upcoming Senate Confirmation Vote on Emil Bove, Will Trump Get His "Roy Cohn" on the Supreme Court? | We Are Past a Constitutional Crisis and Should be Working on Restoring Our Democracy and Reviving the Constitution | A Way Out of America's Descent Into Authoritarianism backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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    1 hr
  • July 17, 2025 - Will Sommer | Scott Horton | Lisa Graves

    July 17, 2025 - Will Sommer | Scott Horton | Lisa Graves
    Jul 17 2025
    After Feeding Them Lies and Delusions For Years, Trump Now Calls His MAGA Cultists "Stupid" and "Weaklings" | AG Bondi's Firing of Maurene Comey Whose Father is High Up on Trump's Enemies List | Today's Walkout by Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committee backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • July 16, 2025 - Joshua Landis | Bill Hing | Sylvia Allegretto

    July 16, 2025 - Joshua Landis | Bill Hing | Sylvia Allegretto
    Jul 16 2025
    Israel Bombs Damascus as the Syrian Government Slaughters the Druze Minority, Exposing the Different Interests of Israel and the U.S. When it Comes to the Jihadi in a Suit Leading the New Syria | Geo Group and Core Civic Feast on Taxpayer Money as ICE Detains Whoever They Can Snatch | Apparently the Rich Are Not Rich Enough in America backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • July 15, 2025 - Robert Hockett | David Halperin | Matthew Hongoltz-Hettling

    July 15, 2025 - Robert Hockett | David Halperin | Matthew Hongoltz-Hettling
    Jul 15 2025
    Trump Escalates His War Against the Fed and Its Chairman Jerome Powell | The Consequence of the Supreme Court Allowing Trump to Continue Dismantling the U.S. Department of Education | What is Behind the War Inside MAGA Over Not Releasing the Epstein Files As Promised? Music: Carla Bozulich - Glass House Elodie Lauten - Despair Postlude backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • July 14, 2025 - Michael Kimmage | Casey Michel | Juan Cole

    July 14, 2025 - Michael Kimmage | Casey Michel | Juan Cole
    Jul 14 2025
    Trump's Tough Talk Threatening Russia With a 50 Day Deadline For a Ceasefire | Trump and His Family's Unprecedented Corruption and How Foreign Regimes Can Now Buy American Elections | Is There Any Hope of Stopping the Slaughter in Gaza? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • July 13, 2025 - Kevin Hall | Cynthia Schneider | James Green

    July 13, 2025 - Kevin Hall | Cynthia Schneider | James Green
    Jul 13 2025
    Could a Top Trump Official Who Lied About Being Born in the Soviet Union be a Russian Plant? | Trump Slashes Soft Power While Adding a $Trilion to Fighting a Nuclear War That Can Only Be Prevented by Diplomacy | Trump Slaps a 50% Tariff on Brazil Along With 35% on Canada and 30% on the EU and Mexico backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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    1 hr and 5 mins