Background Briefing with Ian Masters
News & Politics Podcasts
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
Location:
United States
Description:
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
Twitter:
@ianmastersmedia
Language:
English
Contact:
213 422 0537
Website:
https://backgroundbriefing.org/
Episodes
July 8, 2025 - Jeremi Suri | Tom Mockaitis | Dr. Annelle Sheline
7/8/2025
Intergenerational Greed and Inaction Led to Underinvestment in Flood Prevention in Kerr County, Texas | Ken Klippenstein's Documents Expose the Military Fiasco Yesterday in Los Angeles's MacArthur Park | The Unctuous War Criminal Recommended the Easily-Flattered Felon For a Nobel Peace Prize backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:02:57
The BRICS Summit and Trump's Threats to Countries That Side With BRICS
7/7/2025
July 7, 2025 - Sarang Shidore backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:00:18:59
July 7, 2025 - Jeff Masters | Olga Lautman | Sarang Shidore
7/7/2025
Extreme Weather and Its Connection to Climate Change as Trump and DOGE's Cuts Impacted The National Weather Service's Response to the Tragic Flash Floods in Texas | Putin's Cabinet Officials Commit "Suicide" as More Top Oil Executives Fall From 10th Floor Windows | The BRICS Summit and Trump's Threats to Countries That Side With BRICS music: Nighttime - The Way Itasca - Milk backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:01:27
July 7, 2025 - Tamar Jacoby | Stavroula Pabst | Samuel Moyn
7/6/2025
Trump Gets Stiffed Again by His Idol Putin as China Admits It Wants the Ukraine War to Drag on to Keep the US and NATO Out of Asia | Trump Says he Expects to Close a Ceasefire Deal Between Israel and Hamas Next Week | Trump as a Man of the Past as Zombie Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism Comeback From the Dead backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:02:35
July 3, 2025 - Edward McCaffery | Greg Treverton | Raed Jarrar
7/3/2025
The Republican's Cynical Ploy to Give Billionaires Tax Breaks Immediately While Delaying Cuts to Medicaid and Food Assistance Until After the Midterms | In Spite of Ratcliffe's Spin to Please His Boss, the CIA Report Finds That Putin Did Help Trump and Hurt Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Election | US Contractors Shoot Gazans For Sport as Hamas Approves the US Plan for a Hostage Release backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:01:59
July 2, 2025 - Paul Farhi | Patrick Sullivan | Oona Hathaway
7/2/2025
Another Big Media Company Caves to Trump's Extortion | Four of the Worst Horrors in the Awful Republican Megabill | As Trump Uses War and the Threat of War, He Ignores the UN and the US Congress backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:02:23
July 1, 2025 - Will Bunch | James Thurber | Meghan Pazik
7/1/2025
Trump's Casualty Cruelty as He Tours a New Gulag Celebrating the $75 Billion He Just Got For ICE and DHS | Republican Senators Shamelessly Pass a Massive Transfer of Wealth From the Poorest to the Richest Americans | Today's Misanthropic Assault on Our Kids and Grandkids From Republican Whores and Hirelings of Big Oil and Dirty Coal
Duration:01:01:47
June 30, 2025 - Corey Brettschneider | Mike Lofgren | Assal Rad
6/30/2025
The Supreme Court Has Sold Out the Constitution and the Rule of Law to Reward a Lawless Trump, and Now The Republican Legislative Branch is Selling Out Their Constituents to Reward the Super-Rich | From Authoritarianism to Totalitarianism as Trump Erases the Distinction Between Civil Society and the State | Signs That Iran Was Not "Obliterated" and Could Quickly Resume Their Nuclear Program backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:01:38
June 29, 2025 - Lisa Graves | Garrett Epps | Sam Tanenhaus
6/29/2025
Welcome to One Party Rule As SCOTUS Removes the Last Check on Trump | We Are Back in the 1850's With ICE Repeating the Cruelty of the Fugitive Slave Act | There Was a Respectable Right Before Trump's MAGA Took Over the GOP backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:03:59
June 26, 2025 - Dr. Trita Parsi | Michael German | Dr. Allen Frances
6/26/2025
The Supreme Leader Congratulates Iranians on Their "Victory" over Israel and the US While the Head of the IAEA Says Fordo is "No Longer Operational" | As Trump Demonizes Democrats and Democratic Lawmakers Are Assassinated, How Long Before ICE and DHS Start Rounding up His Political Enemies? | Explaining the 60-Fold Rise in Autism While the Quack Heading HHS, RFK Jr. Still Blames it on Vaccines backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:00:53
June 25, 2025 - Jennifer Kavanagh | Joseph Cirincione | Brian Levin
6/25/2025
With Trump and Hegseth's Bombastic Claims of "Total Obliteration" Blowing Up, Will Iran Now Sprint to a Bomb? | While Talking Peace, This is Trump's War and It's Only Just Beginning | Trump and Miller's ICE Stormtroopers' Reckless and Brutal Roundups of Non-Criminals on the Streets of LA backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:00:40
June 24, 2025 - Charles Kupchan | Susan Kang | Ali Afshari
6/24/2025
Trump's Waffling on Article 5 of the NATO Treaty as European Leaders Try to Avoid a Clash Between Him and Zelensky at the Summit Underway | Today's NY City Race For Mayor Exposes the Division in the Democratic Party as a Talented Young Leader Faces a Disgraced Relic | Iran's Divided Opposition With the US and Israel-Backed MEK and Shah's Son Hated For Their Collusion With Israel backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:05:28
June 23, 2025 - Eli Clifton | Maziar Behrooz | Eleni Schirmer
6/23/2025
A Specialist on Iran Who Recently Met With Iranian Foreign Ministry Officials and Nuclear Negotiators | The State Of the Iranian Opposition as Trump Muses About Regime Change | The MAGA and Project 2025 Plan to Dumb Down America to Become an Idiocracy in Service of a Plutocracy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:02:39
June 22, 2025 - David Albright | Elizabeth Saunders
6/22/2025
US Bombs Have Fallen on Iran, What We Know and Don't Know About Iran's Secret Nuclear Program | Trump, the Triumphant and Imperial President at Home and the Emperor Abroad backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:04:35
June 19, 2025 - Steven Simon | Adam Weinstein | Mark Fitzpatrick
6/19/2025
Trump on the Brink of Embroiling the US in Another Forever War | Repeating the Ignorance and Hubris That Got Us Into the Iraq War, There Appears to Be No Plans For the Day After We Bomb Iran | The Iran Nuclear Issue Moves From Crisis to Tragedy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:04:37
June 18, 2025 - Nicholas Heras | Ben Burgis | Deborah Baker
6/18/2025
Trump's "To Do Or Not To Do" on Bombing Iran | The Split in MAGA Illustrated by the Clash Between the Insidious Tucker Carlson and the Odious Ted Cruz | The Legacy of Charlottesville Now That White Supremacists and Neo-Nazis Can Apply For a Job at ICE and DHS backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:03:43
June 17, 2025 - David Hearst | Marci Shore
6/17/2025
Putting the US in Alignment With Israel, Trump Claims We Own the Skies Over Tehran | The Moral Dilemma of Fleeing Trump's Fascism or Making a Stand With the Growing Opposition backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:00:59:41
June 15, 2025 - David Schultz | Sidney Blumenthal | Paul Pillar
6/15/2025
MAGA Political Hatred Has Moved From Talk to Action With the Assassination of Democratic Lawmakers in Minnesota | Raining on Trump's Parade as Our Fuhrer Takes the Stand to Review the Troops Like the Dictators He Admires | Trump on the Sidelines as Israel Wages War on Iran With Netanyahu Promising Regime Change backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:02:53
June 12, 2025 - Elizabeth Goitein | Sasha Abramsky | McKenzie Funk
6/12/2025
Trump's Lawless Unleashing of the Military as He Threatens Americans Not to Protest His Strongman Military Parade | Finally Governor Newsom Steps Up to Challenge Trump | Trump is Asking For $45 Billion More for Private Prisons Where 90% of Immigrants Are Detained backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:00:59:02
June 11, 2025 - Lincoln Mitchell | Gerardo Chagolla | Barry Naughton
6/11/2025
Like All Dictators, Trump Now Controls the Security Services Via His Obedient Flunkies | A Young Latino Journalist Who Has Covered the LA Protests Since Friday | Is Trump's Triumphant Announcement of a Trade Deal With China and EXCELLENT Relations With Xi Jinping Warranted? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Duration:01:03:13