Episodes

  • December 25, 2025 - James Carroll | Steven Simon | Barbara Walter

    December 25, 2025 - James Carroll | Steven Simon | Barbara Walter
    Dec 25 2025
    A Christmas Message | A 2025 Retrospective -The New Hegemon in the Middle East: Israel | Trump’s Dual Strategies of Scaring Off Protests and Instigating Provocations to Enact Fascism backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • December 24, 2025 - Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis | Gil Duran | Brooke Harrington

    December 24, 2025 - Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis | Gil Duran | Brooke Harrington
    Dec 24 2025
    Christmas Eve | A Look Back at 2025 Starting In January - A Manifesto to Stand Up in the Face Of Trump’s Firehose of Reactionary Initiatives | Since Musk’s Assault on the Federal Workforce is Only Saving a Pittance, the Real Intention Then Must Be To Cripple the US Government backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
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    1 hr
  • December 23, 2025 - Sidney Blumenthal | Jasper Nathaniel

    December 23, 2025 - Sidney Blumenthal | Jasper Nathaniel
    Dec 23 2025
    The Latest Dump of the Epstein Files and Susie Wiles' Expose of the Rot at the Top of the U.S. Government | A Reporter Whose Video of a West Bank Settler Beating An Elderly Palestinian Woman Went Viral Leading to a Rare Arrest backgroundbriefing.org/donate x.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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    1 hr
  • December 22, 2025 - Lincoln Mitchell | Ben Armbruster | Ariel Dorfman

    December 22, 2025 - Lincoln Mitchell | Ben Armbruster | Ariel Dorfman
    Dec 22 2025
    The Relationship Between Antisemitism and Criticism of Israel | The CBS News Editor Appointed by the Ellisons Spikes a 60 Minutes Segment to Re Edit a More Trump-Friendly Version | Ariel Dorfman From Chile on the Election of a Far-Right President Who Will Free Pinochet's Murderers, Torturers and Kidnappers backgroundbriefing.org/donate x.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • December 21, 2025 - Moira Donegan | James Zirin | Samuel Moyn

    December 21, 2025 - Moira Donegan | James Zirin | Samuel Moyn
    Dec 21 2025
    Trump's Deteriorating Mental and Physical Health| Trump's DoJ Releases 10% of the Heavily Redacted Epstein Files Trying to Shift the Focus From Trump to Clinton | Ending the Oligarch-Friendly Illegitimate Rule of the Supreme Court backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
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    59 mins
  • December 18, 2025 - Mike Lofgren | Francisco Rodríguez | Tim Wu

    December 18, 2025 - Mike Lofgren | Francisco Rodríguez | Tim Wu
    Dec 18 2025
    Trump's Mad, Fact-Free Diatribe to the Nation Telling Us How Bad Biden Was and How Great He Is | A Tanker Blockade and the Venezuelan Navy Going Up Against the U.S. Navy: What Could Go Wrong? | The Former White House Tech and Competition Czar on How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • December 17, 2025 - Greg Sargent | Sven Beckert

    December 17, 2025 - Greg Sargent | Sven Beckert
    Dec 17 2025
    A Profile of the Dark Force Behind the Indiscriminate Roundup of Immigrants and the Revival of the Political Paranoia of the "Red Scare" | With Young Americans Rejecting Capitalism, a Deep Dive Into the History of Capitalism backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
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    58 mins
  • December 16, 2025 - Jennifer Kavanagh | Karen Greenberg | Henry Giroux

    December 16, 2025 - Jennifer Kavanagh | Karen Greenberg | Henry Giroux
    Dec 17 2025
    Is Peace on the Horizon as Ukraine Agrees to Drop Hopes of Joining NATO? | Doubts of Putin's Interest in Peace in a Europe Rattled by Trump's National Security Strategy | Higher Education in a Time of Fascists and Autocrats Taking Over the World ackgroundbriefing.org/donate x.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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    1 hr