Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Ian Masters
Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news, expert guests, policymakers, and critics offering analysis and insight on national security, foreign and domestic policy, political, cultural, and social issues. backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 2, 2026 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Paul Glastris | Ilya Somin
September 2, 2026 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Paul Glastris | Ilya Somin by Ian Masters
Sep 2
58 min
September 1, 2026 - Harold Meyerson | Thomas Homer Dixon | Aaron Regunberg
Every Insecure American Should Have a "Binky" Like Trump's Natalie Harp | With Google Caving to Trump to Rename Lake Ontario Lake America, Canadians Are Now Thinking They'll Have to Defend Their Country From an American Aggressor |Opposition to Data Centers as a Unifying Issue Across the Political Spectrum backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Sep 1
1 hr 1 min
August 31, 2026 - Sasha Abramsky | William Hartung | Javier Corrales
The Same DHS Trying to Rig the Election For Trump, Increases Its Cruelty, Sending Haitians Back to a Failed State Run By Violent Gangs | Pentagon Leaders Try to Stop Hegseth Escalating a War He's Lost But Claimed He Won Many Times | Trump's $100 Billion Venezuelan Oil Deal With an Illegitimate Leader and a Shady Businessman Accused of Money Laundering and Black Market Oil Sales backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Aug 31
1 hr 2 min
August 30, 2026 - Molly White | Pavlina Tcherneva | Jennifer Kavanagh
The Crypto and AI Billionaire Bros Are Buying the November Election With Fake Money | Can the Fed Chairman and the Secretary of the Treasury Do Their Job at the Same Time Please Their Boss's Economic Idiocy? | As The CIA Director Warns Putin Not to Take Advantage of U.S. Munitions Shortages, Europe Moves Away From Dependence on American Weapons and Security Guarantees backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Aug 30
1 hr 1 min
August 27, 2026 - Manju von Rospatt | Marc Lynch | J.B. Branch
A Report From Nepal on the Horrific Wall of Water That Swept Away Thousands of Lives | How Biden Lost Our Moral Authority in the Middle East Then Trump Destroyed Our Military Power and Credibility | Meta's $18 Billion Settlement After Decades of Damage to Children and Teens By Its Social Media Platforms backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Aug 27
1 hr 2 min
August 26, 2026 - Gregory Treverton | Robert Kuttner | Sacoby Wilson
Trump Bought Into Netanyahu's War Against the Advice of His Top Intel and Military Officials | The Gospel of Love Enters Political Campaigns Against Trump, Miller, Harp, Johnson, Vance and Hegseth's Gospel of Hate | Environmental Racism Has the Majority Black City of Gary, Indiana in the Dark As the State's White Republicans Invite in 121 Data Centers to Suck Up All the Electricity backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Aug 26
1 hr 3 min
August 25, 2026 - David Walbert | Orville Schell | Will Bunch
Trump Has Chief Justice Roberts' Blessing to Have DHS Create a Master List of All Voters Which Will Be Purged Then the USPS Will Send Mail-In Ballots to a Whittled-Down List of Democratic Voters | China's Reaction to Secretary Bessent's Declaration of Economic Warfare Against Iran | The Small Man With a Big Job at the Pentagon's War Against Reporting on What an Incompetent Racist Poseur He Is backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Aug 25
1 hr
August 24, 2026 - Stephen Marche | Hossein Askari | Gil Duran
Trump Wages the "Dumbest Trade War In History" Against Canada | Treasury Secretary Bessent Declares Economic Warfare on Iran, Likening it to D Day Promising the IRGC Will Not Kill Their Own People Like When East Germans Rose Up and the Berlin Wall Fell | Gil Duran on His New Book The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Aug 24
1 hr 2 min
August 23, 2026 -  Dr. Thaer Ahmad & Dr. Feroze Sidhwa | Sidney Blumenthal
Two Subjects of American Doctor, a Film That Makes Us Face Our Complicity in Gaza | How The Tate Brothers Fan Barron Trump Helped Get Out the Manosphere Vote in 2024 Which Has Now Turned Against Trump backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Aug 23
1 hr 14 min
August 20, 2026 - Michelle Berenfeldt | Dean Baker
Lesson From the Roman Republic of Emperor Augustus As Trump, With the Help of a Gutless Senate, Turns Our Republic Into a Tyranny | Our $40.05 Trillion Debt With the CBO Projecting it Will Climb to $64 Trillion by 2036 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Aug 20
59 min
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