Background Briefing with Ian Masters: Recent Episodes
Ian Masters
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The Trump Family's Close Ties to the Tate Brothers Who Advocate Rape, Domination and Servility of Women and Girls | Trump Tries to Blame Big Oil For the Price at the Pump After Getting a $Billion in Exchange For Deregulation and the Blocking of Climate Suits | The Turkey/Saudi/Pakistan Defense Pact a Combination of Money, Nukes and Armies.backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Will the Healing Between Progressive Democrats and Centrists Be Set Back By Tuesday's Primary in Wisconsin? | After Damaging Our Economy, Alliances, Health, Education, Science, Environment, Political Stability, National Cohesion and Rule of Law, Trump is Now Ruining Our Military | Cory Doctorow On How To Think About AI Before It's Too Latebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
How Democrats Can Distance Themselves From Nutty Ideas Like Cancelling Thanksgiving and Why Third Way Should Not Waste Money Trashing Democratic Socialists | The Uncanny Parallels Between Hiltler's Project 1933 and Trump's Project 2025 | Trump and His Greedy Family and Treasonous Oligarchs
A Former Michigan Congressman Who Was Defeated by Congresswoman Stevens and AIPAC Money on Abdul El-Sayed's Victory | Has AIPAC's Power As Washington's Kingmaker Peaked? | With Even Trump Criticising Oil Company Profits, China is Transitioning Away From Fossil Fuel Dependence, But Not the U.S.backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Could the Ellisons Walk Away From Their $111 Billion Takeover of Warner Brothers? | Two Craven Republican Senators Accepted Worthless Assurances From Blanche Who Faces an Uncertain Confirmation Vote in the Full Senate | Trump Gives Iran One Day to Make a Deal Over Hormuz Which They Are Doing With Oman Not the U.Sbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Trump Backs Down Then Iran Refutes His Claim He Did So Because They Want to Talk | Has the Fratricide Between the Democrats Running For the US Senate in Michigan Doomed the Party's Chances of Winning Back the Senate? | A Whistleblower Who Revealed Trump and Musk's Illegitimate and Dangerous Dismantling of USAIDHost: Ian MastersProducers: Graham FitzGibbon, Asher Price
Is Speaker Johnson Protecting an Accused Wife Beater and Child Abuser While Senator Bernie Moreno Attacks Dr. Fauci But Does Not Defend the Victim, His Own Daughter?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Reviving Their War on Yemen, an Incensed Saudi Leadership Strikes Back at the Houthis | Yesterday's Unseemly Grilling of Fauci by Republican Junkyard Dogs | Similarities Between Stalin's Show Trials and Rand Paul's Ambush of Fauci backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
The Increasing Likelihood Trump Will Escalate His War on Iran | Where Refugees From the MAGA Movement Which Has Captured the GOP Can Find a Home | Dr. Fauci Takes the 5th at Senator's Paul's Ambush Designed to Feed Red Meat to the Anti-Vaxxer, Conspiracy Theorists, Quacks and Crackpots backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Meeting With Netanyahu and Hegseth's Shameful Cover Up of U.S. Casualties | How To Heal Divisions Between Centrists and Democratic Socialists Amid Calls For the Embattled Head of the DNC to be Replaced | Guest Host Anna Leah Interviews a Pro-Democracy Activist in the Republic of Georgia Which Like Ukraine, Was Invaded by Russia backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Facing a Choice to Escalate or Capitulate, Will Netanyahu Talk Trump Into Resuming Their War or Will He Listen to the JCS Chair and VP Telling Him We've Run Out of Ammo? | Could America's Gen Z Learn From the Youthful Rebellion in India Against Their Autocratic Leader? | Could the New Cold War in the Hinterlands of Europe and Asia Lead to WWIII?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Trump's Latest Attack on Our Good Neighbor to the North | How to Survive Tyranny and Redeem America | The Release of a Cuban Dissident Artist While Rubio Turns the Screws on Collective Punishmentbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
How Much Will Trump's Nuclear Deal With Saudi Arabia Line His Pockets While Increasing the Danger of Nuclear Proliferation? | Trump Says His War is Going Well as Oil Spikes at $100 a Barrel From the Houthi Closure of the Other Choke Point For Gulf Oil Iran Controls | Trump Drops His Subpoenas Against the New York Times But Continues His War Against Real Journalistsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Jerry's Ice Cream | Can the Democrats Hold the Senate Seat in New Hampshire Against Former Senator Sununu Who is MAGA Lite and Awash With Money?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Russia's Useful Idiot Who is Destroying the FBI Will Go to Moscow in October As a Guest of Putin's Murderous FSB | Russia's Penetration of U.S. Industrial Innovation, Science and Hi Tech | Is the DSA Cracking Up the Democratic Party in the Way the Tea Party Turned the GOP Into MAGA?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Iran Escalates Greenlighting the Houthis as Trump Vows Revenge While Israel is Poised to Enter the War | Zelensky in Full Damage Control After Firing Popular and Innovative Defense Minister | What Can Citizens Do to Stop Trump From Stealing the Next Election?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
The ICE Killer's Background of Racism, Spousal Abuse and History of Violence | Antifa is Now the Target of Trump and Miller's New Global War on Terrorism | Trump's Ridiculous but Dangerous Speech on the Next Election He is Destined to Lose But Determined to Win by Any Means Necessary backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Will Trump's Roy Cohn Get Confirmed Since One Republican Senator's Vote is All It Takes To Tank Todd Blanche's Nomination? | A New DNI Unwilling To Speak Truth To Power in the Reckless Ignoramus's Oval Office Is a Catastrophe For Our National Security | Trump Will Try to Sell the Save America Act Tonight With Manufactured Intel and Racist Delusions About Georgia's Black Voters In 2020 backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
The MoU Fell Apart Because of Trump, Witkoff and Kushner's Amateurism and Desperation and Now We Are About to Lose the Same War Again | There Is No Communism In America But That Won't Stop Trump and Speaker Johnson From Trying to Start a New Red Scare | An Examination of What Democratic Socialism Really Is backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Another Murder on the Streets of America By Untrained ICE Thugs Following Trump's Racist Hate Filled Immigration Policy of Deliberate Cruelty | The Political Landscape in Israel Ahead of Elections With Not Much Difference Between Netanyahu and His Rivalsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How To Heal Democratic Divisions as Carville Blames Bernie Sanders for Hillary's Loss and "Left Wing Idiots" of Today For Jeopardizing Senate Must-Wins in Maine and Michigan | The Just-Announced Replacement for the Late Senator Lindsey Graham | The Oligarchical Takeover ot the U.S. by "Ruling Class Clowns" backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
We Have A Fascist in the White House and the Only Democrat Trying to Stop His Second Coup is Marc Elias | A Postmortem on the NATO Summit as Europe Falls Apart backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
An Unstable Stalemate in the Persian Gulf is the Likely Outcome of Trump's Disastrous War | With the World's Richest Oligarchs Pushing AI, Will the People Demand Some Agency Over the Future of Their Communities and Livelihoods? | A View From Canada on the Zombification of America as the USA Destroys Itselfbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Will the War of Words Between Trump and the Iranians Lead to a Real War? | The Scramble to Replace Platner Who Appears Reluctant to Step Down | The Lack of Vetting and Opposition Research in Choosing Candidates to Run in Democratic Primariesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
The Latest Platner Scandal Has Bernie and Mamdani Urging Him to Step Aside | What it is Like to Have Russian Missiles and Drones Heading For Your Apartment Building | The NATO Summit Underway and What Does Putin Want From Trump backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Crypto Don Makes a Deal With the Head of the Notoriously Corrupt FIFA Which Will Stain a U.S. Victory If There Is To Be One This Evening | Will Trump's Revival of His Mentor Roy Cohn's Red Scare Work? | The Religious Underpinning of the Iranian Theocracy backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's 4th of July Speech Appropriates Patriotism While Pushing Partisan Election Theft | The Declaration of Independence's Least Quoted Passage of Revolutionary Reformbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
The Unsettling Irony That Presiding Over the Celebration of 250 Years of American Democracy is a President Out to Destroy American Democracy | How a Government Of the People, By the People and For the People Can Be Reborn 250 Years After the American Revolution | Former Majority Leader Gephardt and Senator Tim Worth's Warning That Trump is Building the Infrastructure of Authoritarian Controlbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
The Ludicrously Unqualified Government "Expert" Witness Who Turned Political Protest Into Terrorism to Put Anti-ICE Protesters Away for 450 Years | The Latest Victory For Democratic Socialists | SCOTUS Gifts Republicans With More Unregulated Dark Money backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
The Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship But Kavanaugh Shows Congress How to Undo it | Trump Claims "No Limits" to His Power As He Adds Himself to the List of Mass Murderers and Bloodthirsty Dictators He Calls "Great Men" | With Reality Intruding on Trump's Malignant Narcissism, Will He Become More Dangerous as He Becomes More Delusional? backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Supreme Court in an Alternative Universe Gives More Power to the "Orange Bandit" | How to Bridge the Different Understandings the U.S. and Iran Have Over the Future of the Strait of Hormuz | A Political Activist Who is Making a Difference backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Since Trump Claims He Runs Venezuela, What is He Doing to Help the Victims of the Devastating Earthquakes? | DHS and ICE's Criminalization of Protests Against Their Thuggish Cruelty | As Trump's Poll Numbers Crater, Cracks Are Emerging in Trump's White, Blue Collar Basebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Trump's Favorite Judge Shows How Protesting Against Government Cruelty Can Get You 30 Years in Prison Even If You Weren't at the Protest | Instead of Walls, A Welcome Table | As Trump Tries to End Our Democracy, How Can We Celebrate Our 250th Birthday He is Hijacking?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
What Do the Big Wins By Mamdani-Backed Democratic Socialists in New York Mean for the Future of Democratic Party Leadership | Could There Be a Silver Lining in the Wake of the Otherwise Unmitigated Disaster Trump and Netanyahu Brought to the Persian Gulf? | Could Ukrainian Gains in Crimea Bring About the End of Putin?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
In Spite of GOP Lies, There's An Easy Fix For a Social Security Shortfall in 2034 | The MAGA Fraud Frays As the Majority Tires of Trump's Lies, Amateurism and Incompetence | The Rise of Right Wing Authoritarian Leaders in Latin Americabackgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The UK's PM Resigns With a People-Friendly Andy Burnham Poised to Replace Him | Why Did Republican Senators Confirm a Russian-Friendly Asset to Head U.S. Intel Who Took Her Marching Orders From a Homophobic, Islamophobe, Tinfoil-Wrapped Cult Guru? | The Crooks In Congress in Crypto's Corner backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Iran Closes the Strait Of Hormuz as Negotiators in Switzerland Try to Rescue the U.S.-Iran Peace Deal | Nazi Messages From DHS as MAGA-Trump Racism and Xenophobia Contrast with the Multi-Cultural Diversity and Joy of the World Cup |Could Ukraine Win and Bring Down Putin and Change Russia As We Know It?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Vance Unloads on Israel in an Obvious Warning Not to Spoil the White House Deal With Iran | How to Stop an Autocrat From Rigging Another Election | Efforts to Stop the Paramount-Warner Merger and Its Impact on Jobs, News and Culturebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Even if Trump Has Given Away the Store, Diplomacy is Better Than Continuing to Fight a Lost War | The Price the U.S. Will Pay for Trump's Hubris, Hegseth's Incompetence and Netanyahu's Mendacity | In Shelving His New DNI and FISA Deal, Trump Makes Clear That Rigging the Next Election is His Top Prioritybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
A Deal to Make a Deal Has Hawks on All Sides Terrified it Will Succeed | G-7 Leaders Bring Trump and Zelensky Together to Change the U.S. Role From Messenger Between Ukraine and Russia to Mediator That Makes Peace | The Iran War and the Future of American Empire and is Trump Blowing a Chance to Make Peace in Ukraine?backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Iran Will Sign a Deal on Friday as the Winner, But Will the War Be Over? | As Texas Republicans Target Talarico's Masculinity, the White House Puts on a Display of Toxic Masculinity and Cheesy Patriotism | Is the World's First Trilllionaire Elon Musk a "Human Ponzi Scheme"?backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's 80th Birthday Present Today Is Mindless Violence Where Jackie Kennedy's Rose Garden Once Stood Instead of Iran Signing a Peace Deal | A Post-War Strategic Realignment That Will Leave the U.S. Much Worse Off | With Big Oil a Winner of This War, It's Past Time to Kick the Habitand Get Off The Oil Drugbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Trump Tries To Spin His Way Out of a Defeat and the End of U.S. Hegemony in the Persian Gulf | Trump Ditches Pulte to Unblock FISA So the Government Can Spy on Americans | Trump's Lies About California Vote-Rigging Set the Stage To Rig the November Elections backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Trump's Plan to Destroy US Intelligence and Steal the Next Election | The Common Sense Coalition's Warning of the Trump Catastrophe For Our Democracy, National Security, Economy and the Future of the Planet backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
In Spite of Hit Jobs From the Liberal Media, a Progressive Populist is Poised to Win in Maine | A Report From Albania on Protests Against Jared and Ivanka's Luxury Resort in a Nature Reserve | Trump Has His Roy Cohn But Will the Mafia Boss Get His Consigliere Confirmed? backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump to Netanyahu: "I Call The Shots" and You Have To Accept Any Peace Deal I Make with Iran | Amid Heightened Tensions Between the US and Israel, Congress Quietly Moves to Integrate US and Israeli Militaries | Scott Pelley Tells the NYT How Bari Weiss Ordered Changes to a 60 Minutes Report to Support Trump's Lies backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The US and Iran Exchange Fire Jeopardizing a Tenuous Ceasefire As Iran Insists on Trump Handing Over $24 Billion of Its Money Before Finalizing a Deal | Republican Senators Give Stephen Miller $70 Billion On Top Of $100 Billion Unspent to Pursue Cruelty a Majority of Taxpayers Oppose |The DoJ Under Todd Blanche is the Department of Trump Family Crime and Pedophile Protection backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Now That Trump Has His Roy Cohn, Will the Senate Confirm Todd Blanche to be the Nation's Attorney General? | The Impact of the Latest Scandal Swirling Around Graham Platner on the Democrat's Chances to Win Back the Senate | Having Turned Russia Into a Police State, Who is Left to Topple Putin?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Election Results From Yesterday's Primaries With a Focus on California | Trump's Roy Cohn Does a Bait and Switch Ending the $1.8 Billion Slush Fund While Shielding Trump and His Family From IRS Audits | Trump Publicly Displays Anger at Netanyahu While Quietly the Pentagon Takes Over Oversight of Aid to Israel
After Being Cursed Out, Netanyahu Defies Trump, Declaring "Iran's Days Are Numbered" As He Continues Bombing Lebanon | How Larry and David Ellison's Lackeys are "Murdering" CBS to Please Trump | Does Owning 5 Rundown Trailer Parks in Florida Qualify You to Head Up U.S. Intelligence? backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Iran Suspends Peace Talks With Trump as Netanyahu Pounds Lebanon | How ICE Contactors Profit From Misery as Stephen Miller's Cruelty is the Strategy | The Continuing Cover Up Of Trump's Ties to Epstein By the MAGA Toadies Blanche, Patel and Comer backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Silence as Iran Holds the Cards, in Particular the Strait of Hormuz, a Prize Our Idiot Gave Them | As Trump Monetizes His Presidency, His Administration Rewards the Tech Bros By Criminalizing Opposition to AI | Could Trump Just Admit That He Screwed Up?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Trump Threatens to Blow Up Oman as Qatar and Bahrain Secretly Pay Bribes to Iran Not to Bomb Them | Trump Sells Out NATO to Putin Just as Ukraine Turns the Battlefield Against Russia | How a Democratic Socialist Beat Machine Politics and Even Won Over Donald Trumpbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
In Spite of the "Art of the Deal," Trump Keeps Getting Rolled in Negotiations | Paxton and the Moral Decay and Collapse of Decency and Discourse in the Trump Era | How and Why Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Another US Senator Assaulted by Trump and Stephen Miller's ICE and DHS Thugs | The California Crackup That Could Have Republican Reality TV Gadflys Elected in the Bluest State | The Rise of Progressive Populism in the Heartland as the Con of Trump's Authoritarian Populism Sinks Inbackgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
On Memorial Day a Pentagon Run by a Racist Incompetent Whose Number Two is a Defense Contractor Entrenching the Military Industrial Complex | Trump Will Try to Spin a Defeat as a Victory Over Iran Then Maybe Invade Cuba as a Distraction | Asymmetrical Warfare Goes Back to the American Revolution As Nowadays, Cheap Defense Favors Smaller Powers, While Expensive Offense Does Not Secure Victory for Major Powers backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
With Comedians Leading the Resistance, Colbert is Taken Off the Air by a President Who Can't Take a Joke | Trump's Conspiracy Theorist in Charge of US Intelligence Resigns | The Fate and Future of the Iranian Oppositionbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
With Trump's War Stalemated, More Sticker Shock Coming For Working Americans Being Punished at the Gas Pump | The Flimsy DNC Autopsy on the 2024 Loss Fails to Mention Gaza | The Trump Family Are So Good at Being Bad as the Democrats and the Press Get Distracted by the $1.8 Billion Slush Fund When the Real Scam is Barring the IRS From Investigating the Family's Monetization of the Presidencybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Trump's Grip Over the GOP Tightens as His Poll Numbers Tank | Trump's Capture of the DoJ Gives Him a $1.77 Slush Fund and IRS Immunity From Tax Fraud | Hondurasgate Look Worse Than Watergate and Iran-Contra Combined But the US Media Is Ignoring Itbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
A Scandal Worse Than Watergate and Iran Contra Combined Which Is Not Being Covered by the American Press | Trump Endorses a "Christian Crook" in Good News For James Talarico's Texas Senate Race | The Political Clout That Allows Police to Protect and Serve Themselves backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Different Versions on What Trump Had To Say And What Xi Said Happened at the Trump - Xi Summit | The Darkening Embrace of Evil as Trump's Mafia-Like Control of the GOP Strengthens | The Trickle Down Impact of the Gulf Oil Cutoff on Transportation, Food Supplies, Plastics, Chips and the Global Financial System backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How Xi Handled the Barbarian Who Went Home Emptyhanded Ready to Sell Out Taiwan | The US Offers $100 Million in Aid to Cubans Suffering Collective Punishment As They Run Out of Oil From a Total US Blockade | Republicans Fight Against Imaginary Problems Like Cultural Marxism Because They Have Nothing Real to Offerbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
The Republican Electoral Coup Underway to Offset a Wipeout in November by Gerrymandering to Hold the House and Senate Before One Vote is Cast | An Update on the Trump - Xi Summit | How a Generation of Over-Qualified Young Americans With Degrees Working in the Gig Economy Will Impact Our Politics in the Futurebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Growing Medical Concern About the President of the United States | The US and Israel Have Destabilized Global Oil and Gas Supplies For the Foreseeable Future | The Meaning of Fascism as Authoritarian Populism is on the Rise backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Sunsetting Trump's Demonstratively Declining Mental and Physical Abilities | Trump's Weak Hand as He Meets With Xi | Molly Crabapple on the Jewish Labor Bund's Struggle For a Secular, Internationalist Society Based on Socialist Ideals of Equality and Dignitybackgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Rejects Iran's Offer While Netanyahu Warns of "Reengaging Them Militarily" | In Turning Against Trump's War, a Prominent Neocon Wants a Bigger War | Andrew Cockburn on Corruption and Lies in the Age of Trump backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
As Trump Desperately Tries to Make a Deal With Iran, Will Israel Be the Spoiler? | Pressure on Trump From the Saudis and Gulf States to Make a Deal With Iran | Russia's Descent Into Madness and Murder Under Putinbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Pressure on Trump From the Saudis to Make a Deal With Iran While Israel Warns the Deal Would be a Disaster For Them | Chief Justice Roberts' Hollow Indignation at the American People For Thinking He and His Colleagues Are "Political Actors" | From Henry Ford's Production-Consumption Capitalism To Elon Musk's Techno-Driven Dismantling of the State that Funds Himbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
More Erratic Moves From Trump as He Appears Desperate and the Iranians seem to be Holding the Cards | How Long Can Iran Ride Out the Oil Blockade and What is Behind the Saudi-UAE Split Over OPEC | Trump's Cult-Like Hold Over the GOP Just Got a Boost From Indianabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Are Putin's Days Numbered? | Six Right Wing Activists in Robes Killed the VRA to Make Sure Republicans Win Elections Regardless of the Majority Vote | Why the Democrats Lost Not Just the Vote, But the Voter in 2024backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Leaks From European Intel Say Putin is Increasingly Paranoid and Afraid of His Own Military | Trump Pulls Troops Out of Germany After a Spat With Chancellor Mertz | Trump's Triply Illegal War on Iran Just Got More Dangerousbackgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Deadly, Delusional Amateurism of Trump's On and Off Talks With Iran As He Now Threatens to "Blast the Hell Out of Them" | The Rise of Left Wing Populism After a Devastating Era of Right Wing Populism Perpetrated By a Criminal Fraudster in the Service of a Greedy Oligarchy | May Day 2026 and What Kind of Nation Will We Be?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Trump's Briefing Today on How to Get Out From Under His Maniacal Misadventure in the Middle East | A Report From Kyiv on Trump Checking in With the Boss Yesterday in His Hour and Half Phone Call With Putin | Hegseth's Testimony Today Before the Senate Armed Services Committeebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
A Craven Creep Auditioning For a Mob Boss Who Wants a Consigliere Not an Attorney General | The Fulfillment of John Roberts Long Crusade To Give Republicans An Advantage By Undoing Voting Rights For Minorities | While Insulting House Democrats and Republicans, Hegseth Asks For an Extra $1.5 Trillion backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Political Assassins More Often End up Achieving the Opposite of What Their Manifestos Proclaim | Trump's Tactic of Attacking the Messenger in Order to Avoid the Message | King Charles' Repair Job For Anglo/American Relations at the White House and Congress Todaybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
After Trump Assassinated Leaders Abroad, an American Citizen Struck Back Saying He Is "No Longer Willing to Permit a Pedophile, Rapist, and Traitor to Coat My Hands With His Crimes" | Are Our Allies Separating From Us or is a Divorce Underway? | Do the CIA Deaths in Mexico Mean Trump is Playing With Fire? backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Celebration of the First Amendment Upended by the Unregulated Second Amendment | Trump's Latest Diplomatic Dance Without a Partner | Will Iran be the Death Rattle of the American Empire?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
While Trump Thrashes About, Iran's Leaders Can Afford to be Patient | The Blowback From Assassinating Heads of State | If the Law is to Bring Down a Lawless President, Impeachment is Much More Likely to Succeed Than the 25th Amendmentbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Our Reality TV President is at War With Reality in Iran | Trump Is Also Losing on the Domestic Front After Yesterday's Election in Virginia | On Earth Day a World Addicted to Oil Looking For a Fix as the Dealers Fight Over the Supplybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Kushner/Witkoff Diplomacy Fails Again with Trump "Ready to Go To War" as Iran Has "Prepared New Surprises" | Trump Turns Allies Into Enemies While Weakening America at Warp Speed | How Long Can the Ridiculous Drunken Fanboy in Charge of the FBI Last? backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Uncertainty Over Talks to End the War on Iran Before the Ceasefire Deadline Expires | The CIA's Legacy of Blowback Where, But For Their 1953 Coup, Iran Would be a Thriving, Secular Democratic State Today | Palantir's Manifesto as a Technofascist Doctrine backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
With What Trump Calls the Strait of Iran Closed Again, It's Clear Whomever the Administration is Talking to Are Not in Charge of Iran | Although Trump Forced Netanyahu's Hand Prohibiting Him From Bombing Lebanon, the Israeli Public Wants the IDF to Finish Off Hezbollah | How to Remove an Increasingly Mentally Ill Trump From Officebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
A Reality Check on Trump's Claims He's Stopping His 10th War in Lebanon | How Big Oil is Making an Extra $30 Million an Hour Out of the Iran War | The Average Taxpayer Shelled Out Over $4,000 For War and Weapons Last Year | Amy Goodman on the New Film About Her STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE! backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Could a Ceasefire Between Israel and Lebanon Lead to an Iran-US Agreement to End the War? | On Tax Day Working And Middle Class Americans Do Their Patriotic Duty While the Richest Among Us Take Their Money and Run | The Delusional Democrats Crowding Out the Governor's Race Make it Likely a MAGA Republican Will be California's Next Governorbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
The Trump Administration's Explanation of Why We Are At War With Iran..."We're America Bitches" | The History of Blockades and Their Impact on Global Trade | The State of Opposition Movements Against Iran's Brutal Theocracy backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Escalation Trap Trump Set For Himself Deepens With the Naval Blockade and a Possible Use of a Nuclear Weapon on Esfahan | Trump Depicts Himself As Jesus While Disrespecting the Pope and 1.4 Billion Catholicsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
An Experienced Negotiator With Iran on Vance's Failure to Make a Quick Deal With an Enemy of 47 Years | An Update on Hungary's Election That Has Trump and Putin Campaigning For Orban | Threatening to Bring Down the Trump Regime, Melania's Former Friend Warns Her "I Will Tear Down the Entire System - Be Careful Bitch...I will Take Legal Action Against Your Pedophile Husband"backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
In Desperation, Our Self-Serving and Imbecilic President Has Strengthened a Brutal Regime and Elevated Its Global Position | Will America's Defeat Liberate It From a Broken Imperial Model? | The Pentagon and Trump's War on Pope Leo
Both the Arsonist and the Fire Brigade, Trump Celebrates His Ceasefire Deal as "A Total Victory 100%" While Iran Says They Dealt the Enemy "A Crushing Defeat" | Questions of Trump's Competence, Morality, Credibility and Sanity Arise | The Cynical Tactics Big Money Now Uses to Attack Progressive Democratic Candidatesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Trump's Long and Loony Press Conference and How He Has Not "Decimated" Iran's Anti-Aircraft Capacity | A Founder of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps on What Is Not Being Done to Free Iranians From Their Brutal Theocratic Government backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's War Has Turned the Strait of Hormuz Into an Iranian Tollbooth With China the Winner | "You're Fired" Pam Bondi and Replaced by an Even Worse Todd Blanche | Trump Told the Truth For Once Trashing Childcare, Medicare and Medicaid as "Scams" With the Military the Only Thing We Have to Take Care Of backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
In Three Weeks Trump Will Declare Victory Without Securing a Victory, Leaving Someone Else to Open the Strait of Hormuz | How Do Iranians Feel About Trump Bombing Them "Back to the Stone Age Where They Belong"? | With Trump in the Front Row, the Supreme Court's Right Wing Justices Express Skepticism of Overturning Birthright Citizenshipbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Trump Poised to Announce Victory in a Surrender of His War on Iran | The Origins of Trump's war on Iran | How Serious is An Executive Order That Has Trump Deciding Who Gets to Vote By Mail? backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Will Either Double Down or Cut and Run Leaving Us, Our Allies and the Iranian People So Much Worse Off | Trump's Strategic Failure In Iran | Trump's War is Holding Him Hostagebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
The Strategic and Moral Danger of Having Adolescent Bullies Running an Ill-considered War of Choice | An Assessment of the Damage Being Done to the US and Global Economy | In Stripping Birthright Citizenship, Trump and Miller Want to Create and Exploitable Class on Non-Citizens backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Dementia on Display at Trump's North Korean-Style Cabinet Meeting Raises the Alarm For VP Vance to Invoke the 25th Amendment | The Political Impact of the Largest Demonstration Against a Sitting President in the History of the United States | Could James Talarico Flip Ruby Red Texas and the US Senate?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
No Kings and 11 Attempts by Democrats to Fund TSA Blocked by Trump As He Tries To Force His SAVE Act on Senate Republicans | Will Congress Balk at Hegseth's Extra $200 Billion and Trump's Extra $500 Billion on Top of a $Trillion Defense Budget? | Trump Postpones His Summit With Xi While Cutting Off Persian Gulf Oil China Depends Onbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Our Reality TV President Unable to Deal With Reality, Makes Up Stories About Negotiating With Iran | Trump and Putin Work Together to Reelect Hungary's Kleptocratic Despot Orban | As Trump-Friendly Billionaires Buy Up the Media, the Former CEO of Viacom Now Owned by the Ellisonsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Life in Bomb Shelters Under Bombardment in a War 90% of Israelis Support | An Update on the Story Trump Has Waged a War to Distract Us From backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
TACO Trump Now Claims Peace is at Hand But Iran Says No Such Talks Are Taking Place | Crying Foul Over Cluster Bombs as Civilians Are Targeted | Oil Companies and Refiners Are Making Out Like Bandits With California Refiners Gouging a $1.50 Profit Per Gallon at the Pump backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Contradictory Signals From Trump to Wind Down the War While Sending in More Marines | The Winner of the Iran War Putin Prepares For a Spring Offensive in Ukraine While His Bootlicking Friend Trump Rewards Him With Extra Revenue | Celebrating the Iranian New Year Under Bombardment From Abroad and Repression at Homebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
The Global Impact of the Trump/Netanyahu War on Iran as Energy Prices Shoot Through the Roof | A Former DIA Intelligence Officer on the Folly of Sending Marines Into the Gulf | Trump is Being Played at We Deplete Expensive Weapons on Cheap Iranian Drones backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Organizer of an International Humanitarian Flotilla Delivering Aid to the Desperate and Starving People of Cuba | Possible Scenarios to End the US/Israeli War on Iran and a More Likely Escalation of Attacks on Oil and Gas Terminals and Storage Facilities backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Today's Blowback and the Historical Record of US Meddling in Iran | The Intensifying War Between Afghanistan's Taliba And Their Former Sponsor Pakistan | Trump's Claim He will Have "The Honor of Taking Cuba" Which is Likely to Fall in a Matter of Weeks backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Although the US Navy Won't Go Into the Gulf, Trump is Demanding Other Navies Escort Tankers Through the Strait of Hormuz | Iran's Strategic Plans For a Long War With Layers of Redundancy in the Ranks of Leadership | The Crackup on the Right Against Trump's War on Iranbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Trump's War of Choice Rattles Allies While Rewarding Russia | Our Commander-in-Chief is a Senile Old Man Who is Losing His Mind | Trump's Cynical SAVE America Act Will Not Save Republicans in Novemberbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.sociallinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
After Declaring Victory Over Iran, Trump Vows That Cuba Is Next | What Can Be Done To Reign In If Not Abolish DHS | AI's Sweeping and Growing Impact on Every Aspect of Societybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on Trump, Epstein and Putin | The Silicon Valley Billionaire Bros Are Determined to Have the Tech-Industrial Complex Replace the Military-Industrial Complex | The Iran War and the Return of the Neoconsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Trump Reverses Himself on Ending the Iran War After A Call With Putin | Iran's New Supreme Leader Will Likely Reverse His Father's Fatwa Against Nuclear Weapons | A Military Analysis of the Iran War and the Russia/Ukraine Warbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
A War Iran Only Has to Stay in While We Can Only Win At a Price We Are Unlikely to Want to Pay | An Analysis of a Brutal Regime From Which the Iranian People Desperately Want to be Freed But Have No Power to Do So | A Lawless World Trump is Dragging Us Into Based on Force and His Whimsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How Relying on Regime Decapitation Could Backfire | As Evidence Mounts That the War on Iran Is a Disaster, We Will Look For Some Kind of "Success" | Our Gen Z Reporter on the Texas Senate Race as Republicans Panic Over the Talented Young Talarico backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
The U.S. Continues to Resort to Force at Growing Cost in a Region of Diminishing Importance | How Do Iranians Feel About Being Bombed to Become Free as Their Government Increasingly Oppresses Them | A Highly Decorated Former CIA Officer Who Operated Against Iran in Iraq and Lebanon Explains What a Disaster Trump Has Blundered Intobackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Could Kristi Noem be the First in the Trump Kakistocracy's Clown Car Cabinet to be Impeached? | A Report From Iraqi Kurdistan On the CIA Arming Kurdish Iranian Militias | The Anointment of Mojtaba Khamenei as Iran's New Supreme Leaderbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Trump's Reality TV War and the Prospect He Will Sell Out The Iranian People Just as He Sold Out the Venezuelan People For Oil | The DoJ Leaks the FBI Reports Bondi Held Back to The Guardian and Breitbart to Discredit Trump's Then 13 Year Old Rape Accuser | Following the Putin-Orban Playbook, Right Wing Trump-Friendly Billionaires Are Buying Up the Mainstream Mediabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
With the President of the United States Accused of Raping a 13 Year-Old Girl, the Brazen and Shameless Hypocrisy of Mike Johnson's Christian Nationalists and the MAGA Movement | Sasha Linden Cohen With Heather Ann Thompson on a Crucial Turning Point When Rupert Murdoch Stoked White Rage in the Reagan 80'sbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
February 23, 2026 - Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera | Robert Creamer | Josh Gerstein by Ian Masters
Trump's Tariff Meltdown and What the Supreme Court Ruling Does and Doesn't Do | In a Plea Deal Could Former Prince Andrew Implicate Others Including Trump? | "The Age of Kleptocracy: Geopolitical Power, Private Gain"backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Justice With the Arrest of the Former Prince Andrew in the UK But In Contrast, a Coverup by the Consiglieres at DoJ Protecting the Mob Boss in the Oval Office | Will the Environmental Movement Become More Radical as Trump Kills Off Efforts to Curb Global Warming?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
The Breathtaking and Brazen Corruption of Trump and His Family As They Shamelessly Monetize the Presidency | Thanks to Trump, Trust In Elections is Cratering As Trump Claims They're Rigged, Unless He Happens to Win | Why the US Media is in Crisis and How to Rescue Itbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
A Close Friend Who Worked With Jesse Jackson for 40 Years On Jesse's Fight to Give Peace a Chance | The Bloodbath at The Washington Post and Censorship at CBS | The Trump/Republican Crackup Has Begun backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Contrast between AOC and Rubio's Reception in Munich and the Possibility They Will be Running Against Each Other For President | How Trump's Top-Down Fascism Could Meld With Bottom Up Authoritarianism From America's Police Forces and Police Unions | An AI Video Has Hollywood Alarmed They Could Be Replaced By AI as Wall Street Pours Billions Into AI and Tech Bros Buy Up the Media backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump and Rubio Turn the Screws of Collective Punishment on the Cuban People | Rubio Makes Nice in Munich Without One Word About Ukraine | Trump Issues a Death Sentence on Our Children, Grandchildren and the Planet With His Payoff to the Fossil Fuel Industrybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Today's Senate Hearing Grills a White Supremacist, Racist, Homophobic Antisemite Trump Nominated to Interact With the UN and international Organizations | Will Trump's Yearning For a Nobel Prize Overwhelm Netanyahu's Opposition to Making a Nuclear Deal With Iran? | With a Lawless DoJ Acting as Trump's Crooked Law Firm, How Do We Protect and Preserve the Rule of Law?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Trump Has Finally Found His Roy Cohn in the Disgraceful and Corrupt AG Pam Bondi | The Trump and Republican Plan to Prevent a Blowout Electoral Loss in November: The SAVE Act | How to Fight the Oligarchy and Reclaim America With Positive Populismbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Trump's Demented Rant Warning Canada that China Will Terminate ALL Ice Hockey and Eliminate the Stanley Cup Suggests We are Nearing the 25th Amendment | The Heads of ICE and CBP in the Hot Seat Today Before the House Homeland Security Committee | Why Are So-Called MAGA Intellectuals With All The Power and Billionaire Money, So Angry? backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
America's Cultural/Political Divide on Display at the Super Bowl's Halftime With a Wildly Popular and Joyous Bad Bunny Versus a Washed Up Right Wing MAGA Relic Kid Rock | The History of the Border Patrol's Murderous Impunity | "The Predatory Hegemon: How Trump Wields American Power." backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The DNI Gabbard Covered up an NSA Intercept of Someone Close to Trump Colluding With Foreign Intelligence | How Trump’s Break With the Liberal International Order Was Shaped by Decades of US Policy in the Middle Eastbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Why Did Tulsi Gabbard Sit on the Most Top Secret Whistleblower Complaint the IC's IG Determined Required "Urgent Concern" For 8 Months? | The Last and Only Nuclear Arms Control Treaty Between the U.S. and Russia Ended Today | Trump's Delusional and Idiotic Call to Resume Nuclear Testingbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Trump Has Brought About the End of Reactionary Centrism in the Democratic Party | The On and Off Again and On Again Talks Between the US and Iran | The US Occupation of Gaza Has Begun With Trump in Charge Into the Futurebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Today's House Votes to Fund the Government With Only 2 Weeks of Funding For DHS During Which Democrats Will Work to Reign in ICE | We are Funding the Warehousing of Immigrants in a Form of Torture To Make Them So Miserable They'll Waive Their Rights and be Deported | The Victimhood Behind Trump's Backlash Presidency backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Latest Release of the Epstein Files Contain 9,629 References to Moscow | Compromised DNI Gabbard Seizes Voter Rolls in Georgia as Trump's Plans to Rig Midterms Escalate | Haitians in Springfield Ohio Already Demonized by VP Vance are About to Lose Their Temporary Protected Statusbackgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How Trump's Working With MS-13 To Help Elect the New President ofHonduras Reveals the Real Agenda Behind Trump and Miller's ImmigrationCruelty | Tulsi Gabbard's Seizure of the 2020 Ballots in Georgia is AboutRigging the 2026 Election | Bondi's Arrest of Don Lemon as a Wakeup Call to All Journalists andMedia Ownersbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Terrorising Minnesota, the Trump/Miller Administration is Violating the First, Second, Fourth and Tenth Amendments | Bezos's $75 Million Bribe That Avoids Melania's Early "Career" as a Naked Model and Friend of Epstein | Armed and Untouchable: The Deadly History of ICE
Trump Tanks the Dollar After the World Saw a Demented Fool at Davos Rambling Like a Lunatic | The Fight Over State Preemption As Silicon Valley Billionaires Fund a War Chest to Defeat AI Regulation | The Need to Shut Down the Government to Defund ICE Terror
The Influence of Nazi Slogans and White Supremacist Anthems Inside Trump's White House, DHS and Department of Labor | AG Bondi's Attempt to Extort Voter Rolls From Minnesota to End ICE Terror | The Government's Killing of an American Citizen With a Concealed Carry Permit Has Rattled NRA and Gun Rights Advocates backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
The Trickle Down Effect of Trump's Lawlessness and How Ice is Undermining Professional Policing | Similarities Between Hitler's Brown Shirts and Trump's ICE | The Possibility of a Renewed U.S./Israeli Strike on Iran Now That Trump's "Armada" is in Placebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
After Another Shooting in Minneapolis, Can We Believe the Trump Administration As Much As Can We Believe Anything Putin Says? | Trump's Brutal Demolition of the World Order backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Republicans Try to Discredit Jack Smith's Testimony While Trump Calls Him "A Deranged Animal" But Smith Made Clear He Will Not Be Intimidated | The Same Conditions That Dragged Down Biden To Defeat Are Now Weighing On Trump | House and Senate Democratic Leaders Appear Unwilling to Go To the Mat to Reform ICE backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
After Piling on About Biden's Mental Acuity, the Press is Mostly Silent on Trump's Obvious Madness | The Country's Closest Friend and Neighbor is Making Precautionary Military Plans Against a U.S. Invasion Ordered by Trump | Will the Counterculture Led By Artists Rise Again?
On the One Year Anniversary of the Return of Trump On How He Has Weaponized Immigration | Trump's Billion Dollar a Head Board of Peace and the Reality on the Ground in Gaza | The Latest Sellout of the Kurds With Trump Backing the New Syrian Government as it Releases ISIS Prisoners backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
The Caligula Moment of the Madman in the Oval Office Waging War Against Half of Our Country and Our Allies Abroad | The Latest Report From Oxfam "Resisting the Rule of The Rich: Defending Freedom Against Billionaire Power" | Corruption Inside DHS and ICE Awash With $170 Billion to Wage War Against Their Fellow Americansbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Trump's Resource Imperialism and Imperial Racketeering | The "Putinization" of American Foreign Policy | Israel and Gulf Allies Urged Trump to Pause Bombing Iran as US Naval Assets Head For the Regionbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Vance and Rubio Meet With the Foreign Ministers of Denmark and Greenland Amid Mafia-like Threats From Trump | Unconfirmed Reports of an Off Ramp For Trump if Iran Stops the Killings and Delays Executions | The Return of the Fascist Troll Who Bought the Last Election For the Republicans and is About to Buy the Nextbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
The DoJ Goes After the Victims Wife While Exonerating the ICE Shooter Who Murdered Renee Good | With Over 3,000 Killed By the Iranian Regime, Will Trump Come to The People's Rescue as Promised? | Can the Europeans and the UN With Its R2P (Responsibility to Protect) Help to Stop the Regime's Killing of Its Own People?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Bondi's Department of Crime Manufactures Trumped Up Charges Against The Fed Chairman | As Violence Escalates Inside Iran, Clashes Between Saudi Arabia and the UAE Intensify | Trump's Assault on America's Election Systems Across Many Frontsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Trump, Vance, Hegseth and MAGA's Deadly War on "Woke" Women | Is Iran's Cruel and Corrupt Clerical Government About to Fall? | As Trump Effortlessly Destroys America, a New Cold War Emergesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Trump's Government Goon Executes the Kind of Person MAGA Hates, a Liberal White Woman | Did The Venezuelan Leadership Sacrifice Maduro and His Cuban Protectors in A Secret Deal With Trump and Rubio? | Trying to Make Sense of Trump's Belligerent Bluster Over Greenlandbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
One Of Trump and Miller's ICE Thugs Just Executed a 37 Year-Old Woman, a Legal Observer, in Minneapolis | No Tyrant in History Had the Power to Destroy Like Trump Has at His Fingertip | A Former Special Counsel to the DOD's General Counsel on Trump's Great Unravelling of International Law backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Republicans Try to Bury the Truth on the Anniversary of January 6 | Trump Has Already Made Life More Miserable For Venezuelan and There in More Misery to Come | Trump and Miller Espouse Imperialism as American Fascism is on the March backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
A Terrorism and Guerrilla War Expert's Warning That "Venezuela is Primed For Resistance...Far Worse Than Iraq. Chaos is Coming..." | Is Trump, Who Does Not Believe in Democracy, Replacing One Dictator With Another? | In Two Months Trump Will be Erecting Another Monument to Himselfbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Trump's Monroe Doctrine: Threaten Greenland, Canada, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil But Support Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Honduras and Ecuador Whose Authoritarian Leaders Like Him and Keep on Maduro's VP While Spurning the Nobel Prize-Winning Leader of Venezuela's Opposition | Trump's Venezuela Oil Grab to Recover "Stolen" U.S. Oil and Then Pump Baby Pump |"Locked And Loaded": Trump Vows to Rescue Iranian Demonstrators From a Brutal Government Whose Economy is Cratering From U.S. Sanctionsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
A Hopeful Welcome to 2026 | Could 2026 Be the Beginning of the End of Trump’s Reign of Ruin?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
An Interview on the Increasing Power of the Unrepresentative Supreme Court | The Ongoing War in Ukraine As It Evolved This Year backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Evidence That Putin Owns Trump is Staring Us in the Face | How Google and Big Tech Are Trying to Stop States From Regulating AI | The Enduring Scandal That Above All His Other Outrages, Might Bring Trump Down backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
We continue to look back on 2025 by reviewing some of our favorite interviews from November and early December:More Damaging Epstein Emails Emerge While the Real Smoking Gun Remains Epsteins Ties to Israeli Intelligence | An Investigation Into the CIA-Run Kill Or Capture Zero Units the D.C. Shooter Worked With | A Former JAG on Hegseth and Trumps Murder Spree Which Are Not War Crimes Because We are Not at War backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A 2025 Retrospective - We Are Past a Constitutional Crisis and Should be Working on Restoring Our Democracy and Reviving the Constitution | An Activist on a Boat in a Flotilla Heading to Gaza That the Israelis Have Attacked With Drones | Trump and Miller’s National Security Directive NSPM-7 Outlaws the Common Beliefs of Over Half of the Countrybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
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 Fascismbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
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 Governmentbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
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 Arrestbackgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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 Courtbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
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 Prosperitybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
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 Capitalismbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
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/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Hanukkah Terror Attack in Australia | Trump's Disgusting Reaction to the Murders of Rob Reiner and His Wife | Today's Conviction of the Hong Kong Freedom Activist Jimmy Lai backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
An Assessment of Trump's New National Security Strategy | Why Democrats Lost the Last Election and What They Must Do to Win the Next One | A Gen Z Union Organizer on Standing Up For a Better Workplacebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Trump Targets Venezuela's Oil, Intensifying Pressure on Maduro | Why Are Trump and Vance Trashing a "Decaying" Europe When They Have a Better Quality of Life Than We Do? | The Vexed Relationship Between the U.S. and Iran With a Hostility That Has Lasted Longer Than the Cold Warbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Will the Anti-Capitalist Gen Z Left Which Has Energized the Democrats Dominate American Politics in the Future? | The Bill Introduced Today for Rank Choice Voting in House and Senate Primaries and General Elections | Will the Release of Records From Maxwell and Epstein Trials Bring Us Closer to Justice For the Victims?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Trump Says Maduro's Days Are Numbered at War Against Venezuela Could Break Out at Any Time | The Ellison's Have Promised Trump They Will Revamp CNN to Trump's Liking | Australia's Social Media Ban and How the "Tech Left" Can Mobilize Against Techno-Utopianism backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Billionaire Buddy Launches a Hostile Takeover To Create a Trump-Friendly Media Giant | Zelensky Meets with Europe's Leaders Alarmed by Trump's New National Security Strategy | How Do the Democrats Take Back the House in the Face of a Partisan Supreme Court, a Serial Coup-Plotter and a Craven GOP Willing to Sell Out American Democracy? backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Former JAG on Hegseth and Trump's Murder Spree Which Are Not War Crimes Because We are Not at War | The Supreme Court Just Gave Republicans 30 of the 38 House Seats in Texas Before a Vote is Cast in November | The Harvard Youth Pollster Who Finds 13% of Americans Between 18 and 29 Say the U.S. is Heading in the Right Direction With Only 39% Supporting Capitalism | The Naked Partisanship of John Roberts Should be Clear to All As His Gives Trump Unlimited Power and Moves Us Towards a One-Party Statebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
France's Fifth Government in Three Years Collapses as the Far Right in Europe Rises | A Film That Takes You Inside the Battlefield Under Russian Fire as Ukrainian Soldiers Fight and Die Defending Their Land Putin Claims As His | Trump Breaks Records Pardoning Crooked Congressmen, Scammers, Embezzlers, Fraudsters and Fanaticsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Trump and MAGA's Policies and Politics Are Driven By Sadism | Putin Warns of War With Europe After Which There Will Be No One Left to Negotiate With | In Spite Of the Ongoing Agony, A Plan For Peace Between Israelis and Palestinians backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Secretary of Defense Hegseth Needs to Step Down Now! | Could the Democratic Underdog Win Today in Deep Red Tennessee? | With Affordability the Big Issue, Why Can We Afford Guns and Not Butter?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Trump and His Team Meet on Going to War Against Venezuela | With the House Back in Session, the Fate of Affordable Healthcare Hangs by a Thread | How Much is Melania Mentioned in the Epstein Files Trump is Trying to Suppress? backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
An Investigation Into the CIA-Run "Kill Or Capture" Zero Units the D.C. Shooter Worked With | As Trump Blames Biden, Who is Responsible For the Chaotic U.S. Withdrawal of 76,000 Afghans Including the Shooter? | With Many Trump Teams Negotiating While Putin Has No Interest in Peace, What Impact Will the Resignation of Ukraine's Negotiator Yermak Have?backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
What We Can Be Thankful For in This Otherwise Bleak Time | Talking Turkey About the Turkey Industry and Its lobbying Clout | How Art in Activism Can Uplift Dissent and Inspire Community Organizing backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Will the Shooting of 2 National Guardsmen in Washington D.C. Provide Trump With an Excuse to Invoke the Insurrection Act For Example? | A Warning to the American Press From the Filmmaker of a Powerful New Feature Documentary About Brave Young Russian Women Reporting the Truth as Putin Shuts Down Independent Media and Criminalizes Journalismbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
Will There Be Further Vindictiveness After the Dismissals of the Revenge Cases Against James Comey and Letitia James? | Bolsonaros Botched Escape Attempt and Possible Collusion With the Trump Administration | Why Are Trump, Hegseth, and Vance So Freaked Out Over the Video by Six Democratic Lawmakers Who Are Veterans backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
America's Morally Bankrupt, Corrupt and Anti-Democratic Power Elite as Revealed in the Epstein Emails | Trump's Treasonous Sellout of Ukraine Is As If Chamberlain Showed Up at Munich With Hitler's "Peace Plan" | Sasha Linden Cohen on How the "Socialist" Handled the "Fascist"backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Decades-Long Obsession With Getting On the Forbes 400 List and How Much Saudi Money Has Lined His Pockets | Musk's $Trillion Payday and How Billionaires Donated 1 in 13 Dollars Spent in the Last Election, Over 80% of Which Went to Republicans | Trump is Shoving Putin's Wish List Down Zelensky's Throat With a Thursday Deadline to Capitulatebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
A Dangerous and Demented Trump Calls For the Execution of Democratic Senators and Congressmen and Women Who Are Military and Intelligence Veterans | In the Service of His Billionaire Tech Bro Buddies, Trump Doubles Down on Stopping States From Regulating AI | How Ordinary Citizens Witness and Record ICE and CBP's Brutality and Crueltybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
A Weakened Trump As a Split in MAGA Emerges With Tucker Carlson and J.D. Vance Jockeying to Succeed America's Most Corrupt and Disastrous President | Trump's Plan to Gut the Department of Education That Only Congress Has the Legal Right to Do | Trump is Pressuring a Weakened Zelensky to Accept a Sellout Peace Plan That is Putin's Wish Listbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing
The Loophole in the Epstein Files Bill Passed by the House Today 427 to 1 That Allows Trump to Classify What He Does Not Want the Public to See | The Former Pariah's Lavish White House Welcome With Trump Dismissing MBS's Murder and Dismemberment of a Critic as "Things Happen" | Meta Wins the Antitrust Case Against the Tech Giant on the Basis Facebook Has Lost So Much Market Share to TikTok and YouTubebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmediayoutube.com/@ianmastersnetinstagram.com/ianmastersmedia
The Cast of Characters Feeding the Bogus and Delusional Intel Trump is Using to Justify a War With Venezuela | Apparent Russian Sabotage of Poland's Rail Link to Ukraine | As They Throw Money at the Pentagon, When Will Our Politicians Address the Guns Versus Butter Issue?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmediayoutube.com/@ianmastersnetinstagram.com/ianmastersmedia
Epstein's Ties to Foreign Leaders and How Much the CIA Has an Epstein Problem | In Targeting an Organization That Does Not Exist, Trump Can Now Target Anyone |Will AI be an Issue in the Next Election?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
One of the First Journalists to Reveal the Email Trove Linking Epstein With Israeli Intelligence | The Damaging Scandal of Zelensky's Former Media Partner on the Lam With $100 Million in Energy Repairs Stolen | Does the U.S. Need Trump's Security Pact With Saudi Arabia?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
More Damaging Epstein Emails Emerge While the Real "Smoking Gun" Remains Epstein's Ties to Israeli Intelligence | Silicon Valley's Migration to Texas with Musk's Monarcho-Capitalism Embracing the Christian Nationalist of Petrobaptists | A New Poll That Finds GOP Voters See Trump as Tough, Intelligent or a Peacemaker While Democrats and Independents Say He's Destructive, Erratic or Recklessbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Senate Democrats Defect to Open the Government on Republican Terms With Empty Promises |Can Trump Overcome Supporters of Israel in Congress to End US Sanctions and Stabilize Syria? | Hegseth Wants Defense Contractors on a "Wartime Footing" as He Plans to Attack Venezuelabackgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
An Assessment of Air Safety as Air Travel Melts Down | Following Orban's Example, Trump's Announces His Plan to Rig Election So That "We will never lose the midterms, and we will never lose a general election" | A Followup on Mamdani's Victory on How He Will Deal With the Affordability Crisisbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Mounting Evidence the MAGA Spell Has Been Broken | As a Blue Wave Looms, What Will Trump Do to Rig the Next Election? | Nancy Pelosi's Former Chief of Staff on Her Decision to Retirebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Having Shunned Mamdani, Will the Democratic Establishment Now Embrace Him? | California Governor Newsom's Warning That Trump Will Do Anything and Everything to Rig the Next Election | The Republicans Are the Real Radicals and They Have a Nazi Problembackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
After Offering to Half-Fund SNAP, Trump Turns Callousness Into Cruelty by Refusing to Fund It At All Until "Radical Left Democrats" Open Up the Government | The Billionaire-Funded Retention Election For the Pennsylvania Supreme Court That Is Going Under the Radar | The Mamdani race in NYC and Sherrill race in NJ as the Personification of the Struggle Within the Democratic Party backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Wants to Take Out Maduro Without a War But Replacing Venezuela's Corrupt and Criminal Hierarchy Will Not Be So Easy | Trump Has Project 2025 But the Democrats Have No Plan and They Need to Go On the Offensive With One | Will SCOTUS Shred Its Last Vestige of Legitimacy and Side With Trump on Tariffs? backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Man With His Finger on the Button Doesn't Know What He is Talking About When it Comes to Nuclear Weapons | Trump Doesn't Need a Reichstag Fire, Mike Johnson Has Already Shut Down the Legislature | An Iranian Journalist Banned by Iran's Ministry of Intelligence on Her Book on the Third Anniversary of the Women, Life, Freedom Movementbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Today's Launch ofDEFIANCE.ORG to Help Americans Push Back Against Trump's Revenge | As Putin Behaves Like A Nazi Killing Ukrainian Civilians, Hitler's Murderousness Mobilized the Russians, 26 Million of Whom Died Defeating Nazismbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
As Trump Rewards Billionaires and Mike Johnson Protects Pedophiles, Americans and Their Children Are About to Go Hungry | The CEO to Worker Pay Ratio Has Gone From 20 to 1 to 360 to 1 But Now Musk Expects a $1 Trillion Paycheck | Trump's Theatrical War on Drugs Has Key Ally Colombia Exiting the Stage;
Reality Versus Fiction in Trump's Asia Tour of Japan Then on to South Korea To Meet Xi | An assessment of Trump's Claim of a "New Golden Age of the U.S. Japan Alliance" backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Unbound Grandiosity of Trump's Ego and Its Frailty as the Most Powerful Man in the World Craves and Demands Praise and Flattery | Trump's Declaration of Economic War on Canada Over a Reagan TV Ad | An Assessment of What Was Achieved and What Was Not at the ASEAN Summit backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Dwarfing the White House, Trump's Monstrous Monument to His Ego Will be an Enduring Insult From the Worst President in Our History That Will Torment Us For the Ages | The Criminal Takeover of America as Trump Punishes His Enemies and Pardons His Friends While Rewarding Himself, His Family and His Cronies | Democrats Must Run With a Liberal/Populist Coalition to Improve the Lives of Americans Not Remind us How Bad Trump is backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How Blue States Can Defend Themselves Against the Divisive Partisan Warfare Trump is Waging Against Them | The White House is Being Trashed to Build a Massive Monument to the Worst President in Our History | A Report From Kyiv on Whether Europe's Tough Talk on Russia Will Translate Into Actionbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Although the Oysterman in Maine is Imploding and Senator Fetterman is a Disappointment, Authentic Populist Democratic Candidates Are Emerging on the Left | Disturbing Similarities With Today's Wall Street Bubble and the 1929 Crash | A Wakeup Call as the People's House is Torn Down to Build a Gilded Palacebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Tears Down the East Wing For a Gilded Ballroom While Washington's Government Workers Aren't Getting Paid | Trump's Judges Overturn District Court Rulings For Troops to Intimidate Portland and Chicago | Will Trump Attack Venezuela to Please Little Marco? backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Outlandish Vulgarity Has Support in the GOP and Deep Roots in American Politics | Witkoff and Kushner in Israel to Plug Holes in the israel/Hamas Peace Plan With VP Vance Arriving tomorrow For More Damage Control | The Contentious Trump/Zelensky Meeting at Which Trump Parroted Putin's Talking Points and Russian Propaganda backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Resistance to Trump is Growing With 2,600 No Kings Protests Across America | In Spite of JD Vance's Craven Lies, Group Chat Reveals Trump's Appeal to Young Republican Racists, Misogynists and Even Incels | Signs that Trump and Rubio's Plan To Use Military Force Against Venezuela Are Behind the Head of Southcom Stepping Downbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump and Putin to Meet in Budapest Soon For Another Summit After the Alaska Fiasco | Trump Authorizes CIA Covert Action Against Venezuela Announcing "We Are Looking at Land Now" | Friends and Relatives of Our Political Leaders Cash in on Dirty Money From Disreputable Despotsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
SCOTUS Appears Poised To Gut the Voting Rights Act Again to Give Republicans 10 to 12 New House Seats at the Expense of Black Voters Before Votes Are Cast in the Midterms | Younger Candidates Challenging the Gerontocracy Ruling Our Politics | The Weak and Vindictive Case Trump Has Ginned Up Against Leticia Jamesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Hamas Moves to Assert Control Over Gaza Making the Prospect of an Arab/Muslim Police Force Taking Over Dubious While Trump, Miller and Vance's Demonization of the American Left is Ludicrous, We Look Into Rifts Between the Fundis and the Realos | How Far Will the Country Sink Into the Trump Abyss of Corruption, Venality, Malevolence and Vulgarity?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Veteran Middle East Negotiator on the Gaza Peace Deal and Trump's Middle East Peace Plan | The Absence of Palestinian Representatives in the Peace Deal and Reconstruction Plans Underway | So Far So Good But Can All the Benchmarks Be Met? backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
And the Nobel Peace Prize Goes to...Maria Corina Machado Not Donald J. Trump | The Latest Moves by the Shadowy Power Broker Who Owns J.D. Vance, Peter Thiel | Thom Hartmann on His Latest Book The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party and a World on the Brinkbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Peace Deal Underway With Trump In Israel on Monday to Greet the Hostages | Not If But When Trump and Miller Will Invoke the Insurrection Act | Liberals With Attitude in the Past Needed Now in the Present backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The James Comey Show Trial by Trump and Bondi Gets Underway | Trump's "War Within" is Underway and It Will Be a Long One | America's Sea Change of Views on Israel Two Years After October 7backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
On the Second Anniversary of the October 7 Massacre: The Role of $21.7 Billion in U.S. Military Aid | The Trump Judge Who Blocked His Deployment to Portland Saying "This is a Nation of Constitutional Law, Not Martial Law" | Cory Doctorow on How the Digital World Has Turned to S**Tbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Is Trump Crazier Than Ever Or Has He Always Been Crazy? | Trump Moves To Bail Out American Soybean Farmers Who Lost the Chinese Market Because of Trump and Now Trump is Bailing Out Argentina's Milei Who Has Opened His Soybean Market to China | 905 U.S. Billionaires (Up From 66 in 1989) Now Own $7.8 Trillion Compared to the $4.1 Trillion of 66 Million American Householdsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Will Peace Happen in Gaza and Trump Get His Nobel Prize? | The Second Trump Coup Is Underway and Will We Have an Election Next November? | What Happens After This Long, Cruel Is Over? backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump and Miller's National Security Directive NSPM-7 Outlaws the Common Beliefs of Over Half of the Country | Trump Is More the Latin American Caudillo Than the European Fascists of the 1930's | Trump and Vought Use the Government Shutdown to Gleefully Inflict Trauma on Public Service Workers and Their Families backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How Trump Will Take Advantage of the Government Shutdown | Trump Tells Our Admirals and Generals That the Enemy is Within and Democratic U.S. Cities Should be Military Training Grounds | Ignorance is the Key Ingredient That Keeps MAGAworld Believing Trump's Lies and Absurditiesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Promises Eternal Peace in the Middle East With a Peace Plan Hamas Has Yet to Sign | Trump Meets With Democratic Leaders to Avoid a Shutdown Making it Clear He Won't Compromise | Can Democratic Senators Convince the Public You Can't Make Deals With Republicans Acting in Bad Faithbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Consiglieres Running Trump's Private Law Firm, the DoJ as Junkyard Dogs Unleashed to Hound, Harass, Bankrupt and Jail the Mob Boss's Enemies | An Activist on a Boat in a Flotilla Heading to Gaza That the Israelis Have Attacked With Drones | A Senior Middle East Negotiator for Clinton, Obama and Biden on the Pursuit of Israel/Palestine Peace and the Horrors of Todaybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Leninists and Stalinist at the Head of MAGA and the Trump White House | Trump Trashes the UN Leaving China to Fill the Void After the US Withdraws From the World Body | Silicon Valley's Merging of Techno-Fascism and Christo-Fascism as Musk Merges X with xAI in His Latest Griftbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Could Our Democracy Be Over Before We Get to Vote in 2026? | Zelensky Warns the World is "in the Most Destructive Arms Race in History" | Harris' Book Reminds Us That Biden's Inner Circle Are Responsible For the Catastrophic Return of Trumpbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 23, 2025 - Dulcie Leimbach | Arthur Caplan | Maha Nassar Trump Trashes the Countries of the World at the UN in Front of the World's Leaders | The Deadly Consequences of Trump's Lies and Quackery As He Announces a "Cure" For Autism | At the UN Today Trump's Call to End the Wars in Ukraine and Gaza Repeats an Empty Promise backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Does Recognizing Palestine Create an Illusion of Action to End the Agony in Gaza? | Massive Demonstrations Across Brazil Against Pardoning Bolsonaro and How We Should Have Jailed Trump After His Coup Attempt | Trump Spews Hatred at Charlie Kirk's Memorial After Kirk's Widow Invokes Her Christian Faith To Forgive Her Husband's Murderer backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Trump Coup Underway and His Assault on the First Amendment | The Real Epstein Files Story in the 7,000 + SARS Files at Treasury and the Central Role of Robert Maxwell and His Depraved Daughter backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Richest Man in the World, Trump's Buddy Larry Ellison, Will Soon Own Most of the Media and We Will Have Government TV and Wall-to-Wall Fox News | Trump's MAGA Apparatchik Brendon Carr Uses Charlie Kirk to Kill Free Speech | Time For Jimmy Kimmel to Sue the Trump Administrationbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Peter Thiel's Obsession With the Antichrist Brings Techno-Fascism and Christo-Fascism Together | The Senate Grills the Unqualified and Incompetent Kash Patel as the FBI's Top Talent is Purged | Israel Invades Gaza City as a UN Report Concludes Israel is Commititng Genocide in Gaza backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Ben Burgis Who Debated Charlie Kirk on "Democratic Socialism vs. Conservative Populism" | Echoes of the 60's and 70's From Protest Songs Against Trump and MAGA Fascism | An Assessment of the Military Standoff Between Russia and Ukrainebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump and His Co-President Stephen Miller Declare War on the Democratic Party Which Miller Calls "A Domestic Terrorism Organization" | Charlie Kirk's Christian Nationalism is Embraced by the Shadow Rulers J.D. Vance, Mike Johnson and Russ Vought | Reality Winner Got 5 Years in Prison While Trump Got a Free Pass From a Judge he Owns For Far, Far Worse Breaches of the Espionage Act of 1917backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 11, 2025 - Barbara F. Walter | Thomas Mockaitis | Bruce Cumings by Ian Masters
Putin Tests the NATO Alliance With a Drone Incursion Into Poland | Why Are Democratic Leaders Avoiding Popular And Promising Candidates Like Mamdani and Maine's Oysterman? | Qatar Was Not Warned About the Israeli Attack Which Happened at 3.46 Because the US Told Them About it 10 Minutes Later at 3.56 backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
With a September 30 Government Shutdown Looming, Do the Democrats Get Blamed or Do They Walk Away and Let the Republicans Own it Since They Don't Negotiate in Good Faith? | Did the US Allow Israel to Strike an Allied Country That Hosts the Biggest US Base in the Middle East? | The US Tells the Europeans We Will No Longer Work With Them Against Russian, Chinese and Iranian Disinformation Warfarebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Did the US Allow Israel to Strike an Allied Country That Hosts the Biggest US Base in the ME? by Ian Masters
With a Sept. 30 Gov Shutdown Looming, Do the Dems Get Blamed or Do They Let the Republicans Own it? by Ian Masters
The US Tells the Europeans We Will No Longer Work With Them Against Disinformation Warfare by Ian Masters
A Major TV Network Caves Again, Censoring Trump Protests at the US Open Men's Tennis Final | The Growing Rift Between the Supreme Court and the Lower Courts | A Chicagoan Manning the Barricades Ahead of Trump's "Invasion" in His War on Chicagobackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmediabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Escalates Threats Against Venezuela as Rubio Calls For a Regional Latin American Campaign of Extrajudicial Killings | The Weak and Cynical Trump Plans For Defending Ukraine In a Possible Deal With Putin | The Consequence of DHS Violence Prevention Funding Cuts to Minnesota Just Ahead of the Minneapolis Mass Shooting of Kids on Their First Day of Schoolbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 4, 2025 - Jonathan Guyer backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
RFK Jr. Grilled by Senate Democrats Who Want him Fired and Republicans He Lied To | A Congressional Reporter on the Women Abused And Trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell as Trump, the Doj and the House Speaker Fight to Keep the Epstein Files From the Public | The Moral and Strategic Collapse of US Policy in the Middle East backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
With Trump's DoJ and House Republicans on the Side of a Depraved Socialite Instead of the Victims of Her Sex Trafficking, Maxwell's Survivors Had to Speak in Front of the Capitol Today | Is Trump Cooking Up a Nice Little War to Take Out Maduro as a Distraction From Epstein? | ICE's Shameful Deportation of Asylum Seekers Back to Russian Torture and Imprisonment backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Federal Court Rules That Trump and Hegseth Violated the Posse Comitatus Act and That Trump is Creating a National Police Force With Him As Its Chief | Does Xi Jinping Command the World Stage Because of His Diplomatic Skills or Because of Trump's Blundering Lack of Diplomacy? | A Mayor Mamdani Will Need A Mass Movement Behind Him To Overcome an Establishment Out to Crush Him backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The State of Working America Under Assault From Trump and Project 2025 | How Trump and Project 2025 Have Turbocharged the Plutocratic Takeover of American Democracy | The History of Labor Day As Opposed to May Day That Others Celebratebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump, Hegseth, Ratcliffe, Gabbard, Patel, Bongino and Noem Might as Well be Working For Putin and Xi as They Destroy Our National Security | How the Conspiratorial Mindset of an Entitled Wastrel From a Famous American Political Dynasty is Collapsing America's Public Health | The Blowback at Home From America's Killing Machine in the War on Terrorbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Another Mass Murder of Children, This Time While They Were Praying in Church on Their First Day at School | The Sadistic Absurdity of Trump, Miller, Noem, Lewandowsky and Homan | Democrats Can Learn From Our Best President's Strategic Shift in the Civil War to Save Our Democracy From America's Worst President backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The U.S. is Caught Spying on a NATO Ally in Support of Trump's Plot to Steal Greenland | Trump's Antisemitic Conspiratorial Rant Threatening George Soros and His Son | Having Survived a Coup Attempt, Can We Endure Dictatorial Creep?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Another Governor, Illinois' Pritzker, Stands up to Trump While Democratic Leaders in the House and Senate are MIA | After Trying to Terminate the Fed Chair, Trump Fires the First and Only Black Woman on the Fed, But She is Staying Put | How the U.S. Should Deal With the Way the World is, Not How We Wish It To Bebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Since Oval Office Flattery is Required, South Korea's President Praises Trump's Garish Redecoration Only to Have Trump Heap Praise on the North Korean Dictator Who Wants to Annihilate South Korea | A Directionless DNC Meets Today With Coffers Empty and a Growing Split Between Younger Activists and Older Centrists While Trump's GOP Moves to Wipe Out the Opposition and Install a Dictator | 5 More Palestinian Journalists Killed Today as Starvation Takes Hold in Gazabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Rewrites His Epstein/Maxwell History as He Has Done With "Russiagate" and "Stop the Steal" But This Time Are the American People That Stupid? | Joining the Residents of Washington DC As They Demonstrate Against the Military Occupation of Our Nation's Capital | Among the First to Warn About Global Warming, Bill McKibbon on His New Book Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilizationbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Patrols the Streets of the Nation's Capital as He Wages War on the Truth | A Case For a Real Democracy in the U.S.A.backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Protestors at DC's Union Station Yell at Vance, Hegseth and Miller Who Calls Them "Crazy Communists" as They Bring Cheeseburgers to National Guard Troops | Texas Gerrymanders 5 Seats For Trump Who is Trying Everything to Stop the Democrats From Taking the House in 2026 | Can Ukraine Hold the Front Against a Russian Offensive Which is Why Putin Doesn't Want a Ceasefire?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Pathetic Idea of Diplomacy and the Art of the Giveaway | After Sunday's Massive Demonstrations, Can Israel's Opposition Stop the War on Gaza? | The Fascistic Thuggery of Republican Legislators in Texasbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Damage Control at the White House to Prevent Trump's Sellout of Ukraine to Putin | Trump Wants to Get Rid of Mail-in Ballots and Undo the Constitution's Bedrock of States Controlling Elections | Trump's Burgeoning War Chest to Buy theNext Election Just as Musk Bought the Last backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Shameful Amateurism of Trump's Reality TV Diplomacy as He Sells Out Ukraine While Fawning Over a Wanted War Criminal | A Specialist on Russian Media on the Summit the Russian Public Saw on Putin-Controlled State Media | The Possibility of Crypto-Corruption Greasing the Skids to the Summitbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Performative Takeover of the Street of Washington DC as Its Residents Cry "Fascists", "Pigs" and "Go Home" | What Can Democrats Do To Be Proactive, Not Reactive to Trump | California Governor Newsom's Announcement of a November 4 Special Election to Counter the Texas Gerrymander backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How Ukrainians Feel About the Upcoming Summit to Which They Are Not Invited | The 31 Years-Long Dictatorship That Served as a Backchannel For the Putin/Trump Summit | Trump and Hegseth Have Captured the Generals Who Will Show Loyalty Over Legality and Not Rescue us From Trump as Milley, Mattis and Kelly Did Last Time backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The UN's Palestinian Representative's Call For a UN Peacekeeping Protection Force in Gaza | What a Peace Plan to End Russia's War on Ukraine Could Look Like | Trump Moves to Use the Military for Domestic Law Enforcement as the Pentagon Plans For Rapid Reaction Forces to Put Down Civil Dissent backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Like a Tinpot Dictator, Trump Takes Over the Nation's Capital, Sending Troops Into the Streets as a Show of Force | The Growing Rift Between IDF Generals and Netanyahu as More of Israel's Allies Call For a Palestinian State | The Possibility of a New War Erupting Soon Between Israel and Iran backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Yet Another Sellout by Trump to His Handler Putin | Since Zelensky Will Have to Reject Trump's Phony Peace Deal, Will That Be Trump's Excuse to Abandon Ukraine? | Gabbard's Ridiculous Revisionist History Aimed to Please the Liar-in-Chiefbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Low Expectations Among Experts For the Upcoming Putin/Trump Summit in the UAE | Decades of US Efforts to Woo India Away From Russia and Forge a Strategic Partnership Against China Blown Up Overnight By Trump | The Dark Side of A.I. as Silicon Valley Techno-Utopians Oversell Their Products Again backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Will the Lawless Trump Regime Have the FBI Arrest the Democratic Lawmakers Who Fled Texas to Stop Trump's Power Grab? | As Trump Tries to Persuade Putin Ahead of Friday's Deadline, Can Putin End His War on Ukraine? | An Authoritative Analysis on the Economy and Where Trump is Taking itbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The House Subpoenas the Epstein Files and Laura Loomer is Back in the Oval Office | The Dirty Deal Already Made Between Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell | As Netanyahu Plans to Reoccupy Gaza, Speaker Johnson Meets Settlers Telling Them They Are the "Rightful Owners" of Palestinian Territorybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Texas Democrats Try to Stop the Trump/Abbott Power Grab to Win the House in the Midterms Before a Vote Has Been Cast | With Signs of Stagflation and Recession Emerging, It's Time For the Democrats to Hammer Trump on the Economy | How Will Trump Respond to the Letter From 600 Top Israeli Officials Asking Him to Get Netanyahu to Stop the Killing in Gaza?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Tariff Spree and Shooting the Messenger With the Bad Jobs Report | Trump Accuses Obama of "Treason" As He Tries to Rewrite History Based on Forgeries by Russian Intelligence | American Sociocide in the Misanthropic Era of a Malevolent Sociopathbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
50% Tariffs Slapped on Brazil To Force Lula To Drop Charges Against Trump's Fellow Fascist Bolsonaro | Time To Rename the Environmental Protection Agency the Environmental Destruction Agency | In Spite of Trump's Bullying, the Fed Chair Holds Steady on Interest Ratesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Trump-controlled US Senate Elevates Bove as the Law is Weaponized to Keep Unqualified Ideologues On As US Attorneys | The Good and the Bad of Having a Foreign Policy Amateur in the Oval Office | The Senate Tries To Make the Epstein Files Public as the Republicans Stonewall Protecting Their "Dear Leader" backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Announce First- Details Later Trade Deal With the EU and "Air Farce One: When Gift Becomes Grift" | Trump's New Ultimatum To Putin Seen as a Step Towards War | Trump Rebukes Netanyahu Over Starving Children But OK's Plan to Annex Gaza backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
As Trump Appears More Bonkers, We Look Into the "Intellectual" Gloss J.D. Vance Puts on the Administration's Racist and Cruel Policies | What the Supreme Court's Liberals Are Trying to Tell the American People | The Pathetically Thin-Skinned Most Powerful Man in the World Demands "Dear Leader" Worship While Suing Media Outlets That Tell the Truth About Himbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Why Thailand and Cambodia Are Fighting Over Their Border and What Should Stop It | Trump's Brazen Plan to Gerrymander the Already Gerrymandered State of Texas to Have 80% of the Power With Only 55% of the Vote | Trump and His Law Firm the DoJ Make Nice With a Convicted Sex Trafficker of Underage Girls as MAGA Media Portrays Maxwell as a Victim to Justify Trump's Pardon of Herbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
International Outrage at Deliberate Starvation in Gaza Grows | An Analysis of Working Class Social and Economic Attitudes For the Democratic Party to Consider | A New Books Karl Marx in America as Young Americans Embrace Socialism While Trump Calls Democrats Marxist Lunaticsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Bipartisan Discharge Petition Working Around Speaker Johnson's Protection of Trump and Epstein | The Weaponization of Confidential IRS Data Now Being Handed Over to ICE and DHS | The Deliberate Starvation of Children in Gaza With Over 1,000 Palestinian Aid-Seekers Killed Since Maybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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 Voughtbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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 Authoritarianismbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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 Committeebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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 Americabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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 HouseElodie Lauten - Despair Postludebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Deliberate Effort to Destroy the FBI is Going Great Guns with Patel and Bongino in Charge | Trump's Vengeance and Obsessive War Against Reality Over Russia's Help in Electing Him Has the Former Heads of the CIA and FBI Now Under Investigation | The Growing Danger of Nuclear From a Trillion Dollar US Nuclear Buildup Over the Next Ten Yearsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Meltdown In MAGAworld Over the So-called Epstein "Client List" | There is Vast Amounts of Evidence of Trump's Seedy Ties to the Despicable Epstein | The Pentagon Budget Has Doubled Since 2000 With Trump's Big, Bad Bill Extra $156 Billion Pushing it to $1.06 Trillionbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Pentagon Budget Has Doubled Since 2000 With Trump's Big, Bad Bill Pushing it to $1.06 Trillion by Ian Masters
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/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 7, 2025 - Sarang Shidore backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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 WayItasca - Milkbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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 Deadbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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 Congressbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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
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/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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 Vaccinesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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 LAbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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 Tragedybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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 DHSbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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 Oppositionbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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 Changebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Escalating War of Words Between President Trump and Governor Newsom | In Sending in the Marines Against Protesters in LA, is Trump Stoking a Possible Civil War? | Trump Offers Up His Tesla For $69, Trashing His Former Best Buddy and Biggest Donor Who Bought Him the Presidency
An Eyewitness to Trump's Dictatorial Dream of Crushing Blue State Opposition on His Way to Becoming An American Fuhrer | With Trump Itching to Provoke an Insurrection to Justify a Dictatorship, Has LA Played Into His Hands? | Trump's Dual Strategies of Scaring Off Protests and Instigating Provocations to Enact Fascismbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
More Tabloid Headlines From a Tabloid Presidency As the Marriage of Wealth and Power Between Two Infantile Ego-Maniacs Heads For Divorce | Political Activism Versus Centrist Pragmatism: The Choices Facing the Moribund Democratic Party in New York City's Mayoral Race | Trump Claims Putin is "Tapping Him Along" But is Trump Stringing Us All Along?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
What it is Like to Be An American Citizen Targeted by the Most Powerful Person in the World Who is Accusing You of Treason For Speaking the Truth | Trump's America: The United States of Crueltybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Digs the Deficit Hole $2.4 Trillion Deeper to Punish the Poor and Reward the Richest | Trump Sells Out Ukraine Again in His Call Today With Putin | Trump Pressure Iran to Sign or Get Bombed, Making a War That Will Not Be a Cakewalk More LikelyTrump Digs the Deficit Hole $2.4 Trillion Deeper to Punish the Poor and Reward the Richest | Trump Sells Out Ukraine Again in His Call Today With Putin | Trump Pressure Iran to Sign or Get Bombed, Making a War That Will Not Be a Cakewalk More Likely backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Pentagon's Slow Learning Curve on Asymmetrical Warfare | The Latest Attacks on Jewish Americans As Our President Continues to Signal his Anti Semitic Leanings | A Former FBI Counterintelligence Whistleblower on the Wrecking of the FBI by Patel and Bonginobackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Smallest Man With The Biggest Job in America Calls Out China in a Hegemonic Showdown | Trump and Musk's Refugees From an Imaginary White Genocide | Part 2 of George Packer's Atlantic Article on Our Next President, "The Talented Mr. Vance" backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
President TACO Zig-Zags on Tariffs as the Senate Takes Up His "Big, Beautiful Bill" Which Some Republicans Want to Cut More and Others Cut Less | Trump Calls Leonard Leo a "Sleazebag" and Regrets Following the Advice of the Federalist Society | The Growing Possibility Our Next President Will Be J.D. Vance Before Trump's Term is Upbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How the Trump Wrecking Crew Are Destroying Our Defense and National Security | How the Media Falls for Trump's Theatre While Ukraine Burns | A Pulitzer Prize-Winning NYT ME Bureau Chief and Veteran War Correspondent on Gaza backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Says the Quiet Part Out Loud About How He Protects Putin | Musk, JD Vance and Rubio Praise the German Neo-Nazi AfD Party While the Trump Administration Weaponizes Aniti-Semitism | The Impact of the US Senate's Republicans Revoking California's Electric Car Mandatebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Cruelest Cuts in Trump's Big Beautiful Bill | Trump's Golden Dome - A Massive Boondoggle and Payoff to Musk and Thiel | As Trump Monetizes His Presidency, Thanks to Crypto, His Family's Net Worth Increased by $2.9 Billion to $ 5.4 Billionbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Memorial Day and West Point Politicization of the Military | An Investigation of the Evident Deterioration of Trump's Mental Health | Instead of Randomly Imposing Tariffs, The World's Biggest Debtor Should Be Showing Some Humility Towards Its Creditors backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Netanyahu Blames the Leaders of the UK, France and Canada For the Murders of Young Israeli Diplomats in DC | A Path Forward For Those Who Want to Stop the Killing of Innocents | The Ongoing Humanitarian Nightmare in Gaza backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
What Will the Senate Do With Trump's Robin Hood In Reverse "Big, Beautiful Bill"? |1 Why the Democratic Party's "Brahmin Left" Lost America's Working Men and Women and How to Win Them Backbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The 10 Richest Americans Made $365 Billion More in 2024 and Trump and the GOP Wants to Give Them a Huge Tax Break | In an Oval Office Ambush of South Africa's President, Trump Spewed Lies Musk Had Filled His Head With | More Conspiracy and Quackery From RFK Jr. Before Today's Senate as Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums and Alien Enthusiasts Wreck Sciencebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Deference to Putin and His Unwillingness to Press For a Ceasefire and Sanction Russia If It Refuses Stuns European Leaders | As the UK, France and Canada Condemn Israel's Gaza Offensive and the Starving of Children, Trump Does Not Come To Netanyahu's Defense | A South African Perspective on Trump's Welcoming of Its White "Refugees"backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Phone Call Today With Putin and Others and the Need For More Than a Russia/Ukraine Ceasefire | A Ukrainian Perspective on Trump's Conversations With the Warring Parties | Trump and Family Have Elevated Corruption to an Industrial Scale backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Putin Plays Trump Again Not Showing Up For Farcical "Peace" Talks in Istanbul | A Report From Kyiv on How Much Ukrainians Want Peace But Not Surrender on Putin's Terms | The Death Toll In Gaza Reaches 53, 272 As Trump Plans to Send a Million Gazans to War-torn Libyabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump is Using the Birthright Citizenship Case to Get the Supreme Court to Stop Federal Judges From Blocking His Agenda Nationwide | The History of Birthright Citizenship Which Has been Settled Law Since 1898 | Russia's "Girlfriend" Tulsi Gabbard is Neutering the IC as MAGAworld Makes America Deaf, Dumb and Blind When it Comes to What is Happening in the Real Worldbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Lifts Sanctions on Syria Calling Its New Leader, a Former Islamic State Fighter, "a Young Attractive Guy" | A Judge Orders ICE to Release Another Wrongly-Detained Scholar Held For 8 Weeks in Detention in Texas | Will Putin Show Up For Peace Talks and Tulsi Gabbard Fires Top Intel Officials For Telling Truth to Powerbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Signs a $142 Billion Weapons Deal In Saudi Arabia, Not the Peace Deal With Putin He Expected To Sign, But He Still Hopes to Sign a Deal With Iran | As Trump Throws His Lot in With Rich Arabs, How Much is Netanyahu Out in the Cold? | The Good "Christians" Speaker Johnson and the OMB's Vought Are Working Tirelessly to Hurt the Poor and Reward the Richbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's FBI is Trying to Silence a Whistleblower who Revealed Russian Recruitment of Musk and Thiel | The Mismatch Between Our Constitution and Weaponized Partisan Politics backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Manhandling Congresswomen and Arresting a Mayor Makes it Clear We Already Have an Authoritarian Government | As Stephen Miller Talks of Suspending Habeas Corpus, Justices Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson Warn it is Time to Stand Up | The Law is Being Put to the Test by a Lawless President Who Has Been Given Immunity by a Supreme Court Captured by Right Wing Billionairesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The 267th Pope is an American and a Peruvian Citizen Who Spent 2 Decades in Peru as a Missionary | A Roman Catholic Woman Priest on The Men-Only Cardinal's Choice of Pope Leo XIV | Is It Safe To Fly After Musk Gutted the FAA and a Reality TV President Chose a Reality TV Secretary of Transportation?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
After Claiming the Houthis Have Cried Uncle, Next Week in Saudi Arabia Will Trump Announce a Nuclear Deal With Iran? | Tit-For-Tat Military Strikes by India and Pakistan Appear Performative Not Escalatory | Musk's Alarming Plan To Build a Single Centralized Database For All the Confidential Government Data DOGE Has Scooped Upbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Unprecedented Monetizing of the Oval Office by the Most Corrupt President in US History | How the Trump Mafia Family's Extortion Can be Stopped | Understanding the Nazi Mind and How it Applies to Trumpbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Netanyahu's Plan to "Capture" Gaza Is a Death Sentence For the Remaining Hostages | Does Trump Want to Repeal the 20th Century? | What If America Abandons Ukraine, the Linchpin of European Security? backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Budget Cuts the Well Being of the American People While Boosting Exclusion, Retribution and Destruction | Trump Defunds PBS and NPR in His War Against the Truth and Facts | Trump Turns the World Against Us as First Canadians and Now Australians Vote Against Pro-Trump Candidatesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Reality TV Reshuffle of His National Security Team | SCOTUS Appears Poised to Smash Through the Wall Separating Church and State to Force Taxpayers to Subsidize Religious Indoctrination | On This May Day, How Unions Would Be the Only Way Reindustrialized American Factory Workers Could Make a Living Wage to Support a Family backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Two Nuclear Powers India and Pakistan are Poised to Go To War | Trump's 100th Day and the Record-Breaking Collapse of His Poll Numbers | Today's 50th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon Which Trump is Boycotting While Slapping 46% Tariffs on Vietnam backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Thanks to Trump's Bullying, Bluster and Bombast the Liberals Won In Canada | A Presidential Historian on Trump's 100 Day Reign of Ruin | The Intertwined Two Americas as the Colossus of the North Exports State Terror to the Southbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Governor Pritzker Wows Democrats in the Key New Hampshire Primary State | Thiel, Musk and Vance's Pro-Natalist Movement Wants More Superior White Children | The Historical Comparisons Between Hilter's Rapid Extinction of German Democracy and Trump's First 100 Daysbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
On the Sidelines of the Pope's Funeral, Zelensky Meets With Trump to Discuss the White House's Charade of a Peace Plan/Giveaway to Putin | Trump Orders the DOJ to Investigate Act Blue to Get Private Data on 15 Million Democratic Donors | Opus Dei and "Traditionalist" Forces Inside the Catholic Church Maneuver to Replace a Pope They Hated With a Reactionarybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Why Should Putin Accept Trump's Peace Deal When He Can Wait for Him to Walk Away as Promised? | One-By-One News Organizations are Caving to Trump's Extortion | Inside Project 2025 and the Right Wing Zealots and Culture Warriors Who Crafted the Roadmap For Trump backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Incredible Shrinking Billionaire Who is Destroying Our Government Blames Tesla's Sales Slump on "Paid" Demonstrators | Vance Announces a Shameful Sellout Of Ukraine Allowing Russia to Conquer and Subjugate What Putin Could Not Win on the Battlefieldbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Self-Inflicted Wound on Our Economy as Overseas Investors Retreat from Treasuries and the Dollar | An Update From Rome on the Conclave With Cardinals From the Global South in the Mix For a New Pope | On This Earth Day Strategies For Collective Political Action to Make Climate Change the Unifying Crisis of Our Timebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Sadness Around the World at the Death of a Good Man, Pope Francis | The Gap Between a Tolerant and Empathetic Pope and the Reactionary Male-Dominated Institution He Headed | Another Scandal From the White Nationalist, Racist, Book-Burning Reality TV Hire of Trump's at the Pentagonbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Putin's Brief Easter Ceasefire and Trump's Warning he Might "Take a Pass" if a Russia/Ukraine Peace Deal Can't be Made | Trump Threatens To Fire the Chairman of the Fed Which He Can't Do But That Won't Stop Him From Trying | In Picking a Trade War With China, Trump Might End Up With a Real War backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Looming Constitutional Crisis as Trump Continues to Defy the Supreme Court and Federal District Courts With "The Dog Ate My Homework" Excuses | A Little-Noticed FEC Ruling Opens the Door For the Next Frontier of Plutocracy | The Tariff War Trump Has Launched Against China That He Will Surely Losebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Appoints Another Unqualified Hack as the Deliberate Destruction of the IRS Continues | The Deliberate Destruction of Social Security With Biden the Wrong Person to Lead the Effort to Save it | An Assessment of Rumors about Witkoff's Ties To Russian Money-launderers backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Harvard Stands up to Trump Then He Hits Then For $2.2 Billion and Threatens Their Tax-exempt Status | Trump's Escalating War on the Press as he Threatens CBS Over an Accurate 60 Minutes Report on Ukraine | A Professor Who Just visited His Postdoctoral Student in an ICE Detention Campbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Is Trump Using El Salvador's Techno-Autocrat Bukele as an Excuse to Defy the Supreme Court? | Trump and Erik Prince's Plans to Rendition 100,000 Prisoners from American Jails to El Salvador | The New Hegemon in the Middle East: Israel backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How to Ruin a Country | From a Nation of Immigrants to a Nation of Hate, Xenophobia, Exclusion and Cruelty | An Inside Look Into the Fateful Campaign That Brought Back Trump to Finish Off AmericaHost: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Asher Price
Trump's MAGA Economy Driven by Greed, Stupidity and Cowardice | Will Trump's Weakening of the Dollar Lead to a New Global Reserve Currency? | The Hollow Nature of Trump's Promise of Gain After the Painbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Amateurism on Display or is He Shorting the Market for His Family and Cronies? | An Assessment of the Amount of Damage Ahead From Trump's Trade War | Today's Drop in Oil To $56 From $72 a Barrel Last Week and What Kind of a Deal Could Emerge Between the US and Iran on Saturday? backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Chinese Response to 104% Tariffs and Insults From Vance | Trump Announces Talks Between Iran and the US in Oman on Saturday | Trump's DOJ Will No Longer Stop Crypto Scams and Cyber Command Will No Longer Stop Ransomware Attacksbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Urges Americans Not to Be "Weak or Stupid" as the Meltdown on Wall Street Continues | Who Benefits From Trump and Musk's Deliberate Destruction of the American Economy, Our Government and Our Standing in the World? | Saturday's 1,200 "Hands Off" Demonstrations in American Towns and Cities and Others Around the World backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Looney Girlfriend Purges the NSC and NSA | The Future of NATO and a Europe Without the US | In Search of a Methodology Behind the Economic Lunacy of Trump's Tariffs?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Growing Grassroots Revolt Against the Slash and Burn of the American Government, Our Institutions and Our Democracy by Trump and Musk | Trump's Broadside of Tariffs Amid a Blizzard of Lies From the Rose Garden | After Trump, Musk and RFK Jr. Have Purged Scientists, Researchers, Innovators and Experts, Who Will Make America Great Again?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Hope on the Horizon for Democrats | Trump's Erratic Middle East Policy as He Threatens to Bomb Iran While Israel Annexes Gaza | Will the Earthquake in Myanmar Spell the End of the Military Junta?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Thanks to Musk, the US is Not Helping the Victims of the Earthquake in Myanmar Because There Are Only 15 Employees Left at USAID | Who Will be Freed on Trump's "Liberation Day" Tomorrow When We'll All Be Paying More? | More Nuclear Proliferation as Europeans Plan to Develop Their Own Nuclear Deterrent and Tactical Battlefield Nukesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Is Trump Bluffing With Nuclear Threats Against Iran or Does he Want to Nuke Their Underground Nuclear Facilities | Trump and Stephen Miller are Borrowing From the Argentine Junta, Pinochet and the Nazis | A Former Republican Opposition Researcher on Republican Vulnerabilities and How the Democrats Can Up Their Gamebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Top Aides Dig the Hole Deeper on Signalgate Speaking Lies on Behalf of Power | An Examination of the Emerging Resistance and How the Only Pathway Out of Institutional Collapse as Our Democracy is Destroyed is on the Left backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Team Trump's Amateurs and Incompetents Exposed on the Signal Group Chat Prepare to Bomb the Houthis Again, Maybe This Time With "Clean Opsec"? | RFK Jr's Brutal Cuts to HHS as His Quackery Harms Kids From Cod Liver He Recommends Instead of a Measles Vaccination | Are We About to See a Defeat of Musk in Wisconsin After Successfully Buying the White House, the Senate and the House?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Heading Into the Generational Fight Against MAGA Fascism | Can Social Security be Saved From Musk's Wreck Then Rob | Trump's Executive Order to Rig Elections in His Favor He Claims Have Been Rigged Against Himbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Trump Team Group Chat Revels VP Vance is Running the Presidency Along With Stephen Miller | Incompetent and Unqualified Heads of US Intelligence on Display Before the Senate Intelligence Committee Today | The Courts Will Not Save Us Since They Got Us Into This Messbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Greenlight's Erdogan's Crackdown While Musk Removes Turkish Opposition Content on X | The Strategy Behind Netanyahu's Resumption of His War on Gaza | The Pathetic Asymmetry Between Seasoned Russian Diplomats and Intelligence Professionals Negotiating Against Trump's Real Estate Buddy Witkoff
Musk's Ungoverning Tactic of "Wreck Then Rob" | Inside the PRC's Secretive Internal Leadership Struggles Between Reformers and Reactionariesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The MAGA Trump/Vance Takeover of American Education Using Money to Control Minds and Eradicate Intellectual Inquiry | Trump and the GOP Aim to Cripple the Left by Defunding Democrats and It's Underway | Vengeance Drives Trump As He Tears Down People and Institutionsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Could Massive Demonstrations Against Despots and Kleptocrats in Serbia and Hungary be a Model For the US to Get Rid of Trump and Musk? | Russia Claims Victory After Trump's Call With Putin Who Paid No Price For Rejecting Trump's Ceasefire Deal | Will Erdogan Get Away With the Brazen Jailing of the Leader of Turkey's Opposition?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
As Netanyahu Renews His War On Gaza, We Challenge the Comfort Zone of What is Happening in Distant Lands | As Musk and Trump Tear Through the Fabric of American Society, the Days of Choosing Between Gutless Liberals and Callous Conservatives are Over | What Kind of Opposition Will Emerge at This Critical Moment For the Survival of American Democracy? backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Growing Grassroots Opposition Movement to Catch up to the Damage Musk and Trump Are Doing | Musk's Gutting of the Department of Education Before Trump Abolishes it | The Bombing of the Houthis as a Prelude to a "Peace" Deal With Iran Meant to Deliver Trump a Nobel Prize backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Strategy Behind Trump's War on the So-Called Legacy Media | An Assessment of How the Senate Democrats Might Extricate Themselves From the Government Shutdown Trap | Having Decided Chuck Schumer Is No Longer Jewish, Trump's Conflation of Terrorism, Anti-Semitism and Anti-Americanismbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
With Trump Attacking Free Speech on Campuses, Expect Patel and Bongino to Order the FBI to Round Up Trump's Critics and Those on Patel's Enemies List? | The Dilemma Senate Democrats Face Whether to Vote For a Bad Bill or Stand up to Trump and Musk and Risk a Government Shutdown | Trump's Losing Strategy of Wooing Putin Away From Xi and Musk's Outsized Influence Over China Policybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Escalating Trade War Against Canada Has the Business Roundtable He's Meeting With Nervous | Trump Tries to Deport a Student Protester With a Green Card He Labels as "Pro-Terrorist, Anti-Semitic and Anti-American | As Tesla Stock Plunges by 40%, the World's Richest Man is Beginning to Feel a Reversal of Fortunebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Courts are the Only Remaining Barrier to MAGA Fascism | The Threat to the Dollar and the Brazen Corruption of Trump's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve | Trump's War on Education will Create an American Idiocracybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's March 6 Executive Order Signals His Revenge Tour in Underway With Bondi, Patel, Bongino, Ratcliffe and Gabbard as the Executioners | An Update on How Ukraine is Surviving After Trump Cuts Off Intelligence And Arms | As Trump Eyes Canada, Greenland and Gaza, Climate Change Will Lead to Land and Resource Grabs
The Similarities Between Trump and Musk Tearing America Apart and What Mao Did to China in the Cultural Revolution | An Assessment on How Much the Musk Assault on Government is Performative as Our Reality TV President Governs By Stuntbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump and Musk's Blitzkrieg Coup Underway to Replace American Democracy With a Plutocracy | Trump Laid the Groundwork to Destroy Social Security With Last Night's Deliberate Demonization | Will the People Wake Up and Boot Out the Wrecking Crew Before Our Electoral System is Rigged?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Assault On Our Friends and Neighbors As He Rewards Our Enemies | How the Tariffs Will Hit Working and Middle Class Americans With a $3,000 Tax Hike | What Will the Democrats Do Tonight at the SOTU in the Face of a Blizzard of Trump Lies? backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Trump White House Follows the Kremlin Model Elevating Conspiracy Theorists, Propagandists and Far Right Influencers to Deliver the News | The Grift and Corruption at the Heart of Trump's Sellout to Putin | The Republicans Have Decided to Sacrifice the House in 2026 to Give Away the Store to the Plutocracy Music: Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - RichExuma – Subway Bound For Hellbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Zelensky, Who Wants to Make Peace, Gets Steamrolled By Trump Who Wants to Make a Deal | Will Trump's Capitulation to Putin Improve Ties or Give Putin a Second Wind to Cause More Mayhem? | Can Ukraine's NATO Allies Fill the Gap as Trump Abandons Ukraine to Putin?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Is Putin Trump's Case Officer? | Will Trump be Able to Turn the Press Into His Propaganda and PR Arm as Putin and Orban Have Done? | Since Musk's Assault on the Federal Workforce is Only Saving a Pittance, the Real Intention Then Must Be To Cripple the US Government
Press Freedom in America Under Attack by Trump and Plutocratic Press Owners Cowering Before the Dear Leader | Republicans Vote Against Their Constituent's Interests to Cut Taxes For Plutocrats | Why Did Israel Vote With Russia and Iran Against Ukraine and Its Jewish Leader?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Politicization of the Military and the Firing Its Top Lawyers So That His Unlawful Orders Won't be Blocked | The Historical Plunge of Trump's Poll Numbers in Just One Month | Having Patel and Bongino Head the FBI Means Trump Will Go after His Enemies While He Can Break the Law With Impunitybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Shameful Vote at the UN on the Third Anniversary of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine and the Results of the German Elections | The Rise and Fall of the French, Soviet and American Empires With the New Chinese Empire Already on Shaky Groundbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
As Assessment of the Damage Already Done by Musk and His Teenage Techies | The Need For Our Politicians, Business Leaders and Citizens to Recognize Trump's Sickness and Intervene Before He Does Any More Damage to the Country and the World | Trump's Lies-Laden Keynote Speech to CPACHost: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Asher Price
The Confirmation of Kash Patel as Trump's Dumbest Self-inflicted Wound to Weaken America and Accelerate Its Collapse as a World Power | In Crushing of the Federal WorkForce, Musk and Trump Will Not Find the Trillions to Make Trump's Tax Cuts to the Super-Wealthy Permanent | The Fraud of the Can-Do Power of Positive Thinking as We Head Into An Era of Techno-Serfdombackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
In Crushing the Federal WorkForce, Trump Will Not Find the Trillions to Make His Tax Cuts Permanent by Ian Masters
After Throwing Ukraine Under the Bus, Trump is Now Trashing Zelensky | What Can Ukraine Do to Defend Itself and Rebuild After Trump Sells the Country out to Putin? | How Trump Rode Into the White House Again on a Wave of Reactionary Nihilismbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
From a Mad English King 249 Years Later to a Mad American King | The Wannabe Mob Boss Trump's Early Years With Made Men His Father Dealt With | Trump's Mafia-Style Foreign Policy as the Mob Boss Putin Meets With The Wannabe Mob Boss in Saudi Arabiabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
While Trump Brings Putin Out From the Cold of International Isolation, He Hangs Ukraine Out to Dry | An Assessment of What the Europeans Can Do to Help Ukraine As Trump Sells Out European Security | Will the Press Make a Stand as Trump Tries to Bring the AP to Heel?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Vance Tells Allies Russia is Not the Enemy, Europe's Enemy is Within, and It's... Wokeness! | A Global Alliance of Autocrats and Kleptocrats Emerges as Trump Follows Orban's Playbook | Our Top Law Enforcer Pam Bondi Embraces Lawlessness and Corruptionbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump is Selling Out Ukraine to Putin Who He Is Going to Bat For to Have the Pariah Readmitted to the G7 | Republican Senators Confirm an Anti-Vaxxer and Conspiracy Monger to Head HHS | How the Left Lost Its Political Footing and How to Get it Backbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Hegseth Gives Up Ukraine's Leverage Before Russia/Ukraine Peace Talks Begin | Is the Trump Administration Already Capitulating to Putin? | An Assessment of the Awkward Meeting Between Jordan's King Abdullah and Trumpbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Frightening Pace at Which the United States is Embracing Authoritarianism | Why is it Trump's Priority to Attack Allies Like Canada While Cozying up to Enemies Like Putin?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Has Fascism Already Arrived in America? | The MAGA Christian Nationalists' War on the Separation of Church and State | Musk and His Techies Are Purging Workers to Replace Them With Automation and AI Which is Why He's Buying OpenAI For $97.4 Billionbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Technocrats Are Purging Bureaucrats to Grab Data, Control Funds, Weaken Government, Cut Services and Install Loyalists to the Dear Leader | The One-Two Punch of Plutocracy and Theocracy Taking Over the Country | The Tinderbox in Eastern Congo Threatening a Regional Warbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Government Workers Should Not Fall For the Musk/Trump Buyout Trick | The Moral Authoritarian and Billionaire Worshipping Author of Project 2025 About to Head the OMB | Collusion Between the Far Right and American Policing is About to Get Worse Under Trump, Bondi and Kash Patelbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Netanyahu Meets With the Christian Zionist "Crusader" at the Pentagon Where Top Officials Want to Get Out of the Middle East Quagmire | A Palestinian Perspective on Trump's US-Owned Gaza as a "Riviera of the Middle East" | The Growing Alarm at Musk Having Every American's Social Security Number, Address, Email, Income and Personal Detailsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Fatal Combination of a Mentally Ill President and a Mentally Deranged Billionaire Out to Destroy Our Government and Democracy | Stopping the Deadly Fentanyl Trade in Mexico, China and Now India | The Folly of a Trade War With China and a Saner Way To Ease Tensions backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Musk Shuts Down USAID After Trump Illegally Freezes Foreign Aid for 90 Days | The Failure of the Democrats and the American Left In Allowing a Disastrous Misanthrope to Be Elected President Not Just Once, But Twice | Do 76 Million Americans Not Want a Functioning Government and Prefer to be Entertained by a Reality TV Star?Host: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Asher Price
Trump's Lawless, Petty and Vindictive Purge of the Justice Department and FBI | Musk and Trump's Shock and Awe Campaign to Wreck and Loot the US Government | Trump Slaps Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China in a Dangerous and Misguided Frenzy of America First Nationalism backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Republican Senators Who Know Better Appear to Roll Over For Trump, Poised to Confirm the Disastrous Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard | Rather Than Fix the FAA, Our Reality TV President Blames DEI For the Potomac Plane Crashbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Will Republican Senators Watch the Video Carloline Kennedy Sent Them Describing Her Cousin RFK Jr. as a "Predator?" | RFK Jr. and the Spread of Medical Disinformation and Conspiracy Theories | Trump Has Already Violated His Oath of Office on the 14th Amendment Birthright and the Funding Freeze He Had to Rescind backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Reality TV Theatre of Cruelty Underway | Trump Will Hurt the Construction Industry Now in Demand to Rebuild Houses Lost to Hurricanes and Wildfires | Can Musk Buy Elections in the UK and Germany As He Just Did Here? backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Embrace of the Fossil Fuel Industry Which Spent $445 Million to Elect Him and the Republican Congress | China's DeepSeek AI Model Threatens US Dominance as Tech Stocks Tumble | Will Trump Fall For Putin's Flattery?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmediaMusic Breaks:Cate Kennan - ThielsenBlack Devil Disco Club - To Ardent (Vitamin Wig C Remix)
In Their Jihad Against DEI, Trump and Hegseth Are Creating Affirmative Action for White Losers, Drunks and Incompetents | Trump's Wrecking Crew and the Politics of Destruction | Trump Eyes Panama, Greenland and Canada For a Land Grabbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Manifesto to Stand Up in the Face Of Trump's Firehose of Reactionary Initiatives | Trump Threatens to Sanction Putin and Calls on OPEC to Lower Oil Prices to Force Russia's to End Its War On Ukraine | The Tech-Industrial Complex's Plans to Capture the Defense Budget backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Real Christian Confronts Trump Unlike the Christo-Fascists and Evangelical Hucksters Who Worship the False Idol | Trump's Choices to Head American Intelligence Might As Well Have Been Chosen By Putin | The Treason That Helped Elect Nixon, Reagan and Trumpbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How the Roberts Court Laid the Groundwork For a Plutocratic and Theocratic Takeover of American Democracy | Trump's Plans From 1798 to Use the US Military Against Migrants and Drug Cartels | In Releasing Jailed Militia Leaders, Is Trump Following Mussolini and Hitler's Playbook of a "Blackshirt" and "Brownshirt" Assault on Democracy?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Today Trump Issued a Death Sentence to Our Children and Grandchildren | The Unreality of the Reality TV Star Spewing Lies as Promises | The Crypto Grift of $Trump Even Before He Became the Grifter-in-Chiefbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Incoming Horror of Trump and the Outgoing Sadness of Biden | Biden's Warning of a Tech-Industrial Complex and That We Are Losing Our Democracy to Plutocracy | The Future of TikTok Which the Supreme Court Shut Down Today backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
An Analysis of the Israel-Hamas Ceasefire and Hostage Release Deal | Biden's Warning of a New American Oligarchy and the Danger of a Tech-Industrial Complex backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
What Latitude Will "Little Marco" Have As Secretary of State? | The Confirmation of the Pay-to-Play Pam Bondi For Attorney General | Trump's Grossly Unqualified Wrecking Crew Is Aimed at Deconstructing the American State to Serve the Plutocrats Not the Peoplebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Republican Senators Roll Over the Democrats Determined to Do Trump's Bidding and Confirm a Dangerously Unqualified Ideologue as Secretary of Defense | A Former Female JAG Officer on Hegseth's Disparagement of Women in the Military and Military Justice | Jack Smith's January 6 Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted Had the Case Gone To Trial | Unlike Biden, Trump Uses Leverage to Get a Ceasefire and Hostage Release Deal Between Israel and Hamas backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Hearings Begin on Tuesday For Trump's Disastrously Unqualified Nominees | How Pete Hegseth Compares to Former Heads of the Pentagon | The Laken Riley Act Will Empower Anti-Immigrant Zealots
Instead of Helping Angelenos Who Lost Their Homes, Trump Offers Insults | The Third Inauguration of Venezuela's Maduro Who Lost the Last Election in a Landslide | The Scofflaw-in-Chief is Now the Felon-in-Chiefbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Today's Moving Memorial of President Jimmy Carter at His State Funeral | How Climate Change Supercharged the Wildfires That Swept Through LA | A Former LAFD Battalion Chief on What it is Like to Confront a Wall of Flame Driven by 80 MPH Windsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Ghost of Roy Cohn Will Rule Over the Next 4 Years of MAGA Jurisprudence | Environmental and Ecological Factors Behind the Wildfires Raging in LA | Will Homeowners Get Their Insurance Payouts and Will Insurance Still Be Available in Fire-Prone Areas?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Normalization of Trump By the Press and Social Media as Its Owners Bezos and Zuckerberg Move to Flatter Rather Than Fact-Check Him | At Today's Rambling Press Conference Trump Does Not Rule Out Military Force to Take Back the Panama Canal, Grab Greenland and Make Canada the 51st State | Why is Trump Attacking Our Closest Allies While Cozying up to Our Worst Adversaries?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Orwellian January 6 Victory - Four Years Later Lies Have Won and Truth is Endangered | Today's Resignation of Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau After 9 Years in Office | The Need to Lift Sanctions on Syria Before Chaos Consumes a Failed State
Trump's Ominous Response to the Recent Terrorist Attacks | An American Despot is About to Take Charge With So Much More Power Than Hitler Had in 1933 | A Republican Court Kills Net Neutrality to Reward Unpopular and Antiquated Cable and Telecom Giantsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Latest on the Investigations Into the New Year's Massacre in New Orleans and the Tesla Cyber Truck Explosion in Front of the Trump Hotel | Contrasting the Divisive Trump With Jimmy Carter Who Tried to Bridge Divides | Could Trump be a Peacemaker Even If He Only Wants to Win a Nobel Prize?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Will the Democrats Confront the Economic Conditions That Gave Rise to Right Wing Populism? | How 9/11 Made the Trump Presidency Possible and Hollowed Out the Very Idea of Citizenship in the US | Plutocrats No Longer Shape Our Government Behind the Scenes, Musk is Now Giving House Republicans Ordersbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
We Should Take Trump at His Word That He Wants to be a Dictator and Jail His Opponents and the Press | A Deep Investigation of the Far-Right Cult Opus Dei and Its Infiltration of American Politics at the Highest Level | With the Blame Game Underway, the Democrats Need to Focus on Accountability and a Coherent Strategybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A View From Abroad as Biden Stands Between the Survival of Global Democracy and the Rule of Law and Dictatorship | Beyond Biden, America Has a Problem With Gerontocracy | How a Reality TV Star Living in His Own Reality Captured the GOP and up to Half of Americans Now Living in a Phony Realitybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
As Trump Encourages Secession and Threatens Civil War, He Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving to China and Russia | Strengthening the Laws of War as Non-combatants Die in Gaza and Ukraine | The Inevitability of Trump 250 Years in the Making With the U.S. Captive to Its Contentious Pastbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Christmas Day Message From Bethlehem | The Outsized Influence of the Catholic Far Right on the Supreme Court and Project 2025backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Contrast Between the Prophet of the Poor and Trump's Billionaires Who Own the White House and Have the Supreme Court | The Troubling Religious Beliefs of Trump's Team of "Christian" Zionistsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Triumph of Lawlessness and the Weaponization of Kash Patel's Federal Bureau of Retribution | Will Elon Musk's Threat to Deploy His Unlimited Amounts of Campaign Money Bring All Republicans to Heel? | With Trump Back Hate and Extremism Are on the Back Burner For Nowbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Emerging Threat to the US Economy Trump and Musk's Amateurism Poses | An Even More Dysfunctional Congress With Trump and Musk in Charge of Both Houses? | The Foreign Policy Damage Musk is Already Doingbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Plutocrats No Longer Shape Our Government Behind the Scenes, Musk is Now Giving House Republicans Orders | MAGA Republicans Follow Orban's Model With Project 2025 While Trump Moves to Control the Media as Orban Did, Turning a Democracy Into a Kleptocracy and Dictatorship backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Democratic Old Guard Shoots Down a Rising Star Who Appeals to the Youth and Latino Vote | An expert on Terrorism on Charging Luigi Mangione With Terrorism | Jeff Bezos Bends the Knee Today at Mar a Lago as Trump Muses About Privatizing the USPSbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
As Trump Declares War on the Press, ABC News Preemptively Capitulates | The Latest of 323 School Shooting This Year Involves a 15-Year Old Girl Who Killed 2, Wounded 6 and Shot Herself at Her Christian School | Our "Christo-Fascists" Compared to the Islamo-Fascists We Decrybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Jordan Faces Collapse With Israel's Proposed Annexation of the West Bank | An Alternative to Our Broken "Healthcare" System That Does Not Waste Trillions While Delaying and Denying Care | The Fall of the German Government and Whether Support For Ukraine Will Continue
Is Another Arab Spring Possible With Syria's New Leader and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood? | With Trump's Manic Fanboy Kash Patel in Charge of the Country's Most Powerful Law Enforcement Agency, Patel's Delusional List of "Traitors" Will Soon Fill the MAGA Gulag | Georgia's Pro-EU Protests Intensify as the Pro-Russian Parliament Installs a Right Wing Footballer as Presidentbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Will Trump and His Shills For Russia like Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard Turn Us Into Putin's America? | Israel and Turkey Appears to be the Winners in Syria While Russia and Iran are the Losers | How Rising Food Prices Played a Decisive Role in the Election and Efforts to Rein In Food Monopolies Like WalMart backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Wall Street's Role in Why We Have the Worst and Most Expensive "Healthcare" in the Developed World | How Ukrainian Military Intelligence Helped the Syrian Rebels | The Vulnerability of the Kurds to Erdogan's Murderous Militia in the New Syriabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Ghost Guns Now a Proven Untraceable and Undetectable Tool For Assassins | America's Dual System of Justice: Punishing Street Criminals While Corporate CEO's Get a Slap on the Wrist | Kash Patel's FBI Will Go After Trump's Enemies While Opening up the U.S. to Putin's Spiesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How the Islamist Capture of Syria Upends Regional and Global Geopolitics | How Americans Need an Alternative to the Choice Between Trump's "America First" Unilateralism and Biden's "America is Back" Nostalgia
The Fall of Assad Could End Putin, But Trump Will Rescue Him | Rage for Across the US at the Sickness-for-Profit “Healthcare” System | Musk Will Put Millions Out of Work While Making Billions Out of the Government He is Hollowing Outbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
"It's Going to Be Fun" Says Ramaswamy Who Along With Musk Will Try to Cut $2 Trillion By Targeting Social Security and Medicare | How 9/11 Made the Trump Presidency Possible and Hollowed Out the Very Idea Of Citizenship in the USbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Champion of Working Class Voters' Big Con As Trump Forms a Government Of, By and For Plutocrats | The Syria Rebels Just Blew Up Secret US-Israel-UAE Efforts to Lure Assad Away From Iran | What Trump's Pick of Feinberg as Number 2 at DOD Means For the Silicon Valley Defense Tech Takeover of the Pentagon BudgetCreditsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
South Korea's President Yoon Declares Martial Law Then Has to Back Down | Trump Threatens There'll Be " All Hell To Pay in the Middle East" If Hamas Does Not Release the Hostages Before His Inauguration | Will the Apolitical Rank and File at the FBI Survive a Fanatical Pro-Trump Ideologue as Their Director?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Democrats as a Vision Starved Blob Made up of Candidates, Billionaire Donors and Data Addled Consultants | Trump Wins by Calling the System Rigged While the Democrats Remain Silent | Will the FBI Survive a Fanatical Pro-Trump Ideologue?
If the Senate Has Hearings, Hegseth, Gabbard and RFK Jr. Will Not Be Confirmed | Trump's Envoy To Ukraine General Kellogg's Plan to End the War | With Iran and Hezbollah on the Ropes, Syrian Rebels Backed By Turkey Make Surprising Gainsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
What We can Be Thankful For in These Bleak Times | How Women Can Resist and Fight Back Against a Regime of Hate and Misogyny | What We As Individuals Can Do to Resist and Overcome the Coming Darknessbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Declares a Day One Trade War on China, Mexico and Canada | Tariffs on Mexico Will Not Solve Immigration or Drug Consumption in the US | An Update on the Ceasefire Deal Between Israel and Hezbollahbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A 60 Day Ceasefire Expected Soon Between Israel and Hezbollah | With Elon Musk Musing About Buying MSNBC, We Look Into the Future of Cable TV | Christian Nationalists Make Inroads Into Indoctrinating Texas Schoolchildren
Trump's Choice to Head the DOD Sees Half the Country as the Enemy and That There Will Be Civil War | The Arrest of Coup Plotters in Brazil Who Trump Supports For a Military Takeover That Could Happen Here | Putin's Latest Nuclear Sabre Rattling as NATO Crosses Its Red Linesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Gaetz Withdraws AG Nomination as Trump's Pentagon Choice Faces Sexual Assault Allegations | The International Criminal Court Issues Arrest Warrants For Netanyahu, His Former Defense Minister and an Hamas Leader Presumed Dead | An Update on the House Vote To Give Trump the Power to Shut Down Nonprofitsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Can a MAGA Bill to Kill Nonprofits They Don't Like Disguised as an Anti-Terrorism Bill Be Stopped Tomorrow? | As Comcast Sheds MSNBC, Could Elon Musk Buy it and Turn it Into a Platform For Right Wing Trolls? | The US and NATO Are Poised For Hybrid Warfare Retaliation From Putin Now That US Missiles are Striking Russiabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Evidence of Drug Use and Underage Sex by Matt Gaetz is Cracking Open as the Senate is Soon to be Put to the Test | With the Focus on Trump's Appalling Choices, Will RFK Jr Slip By? | 45 Hong Kong Democracy Activists Jailed Under China's National Security Lawbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Consequences of Biden Authorizing Missile Strikes From Ukraine Into Russia | Will the Democrats Confront the Economic Conditions That Gave Rise to Right Wing Populism?
"Trump 2.0: Here Comes The Night" | A Hari Krishna-Like Cult Member and Russian Asset in Charge of US Intelligence! | Russia's Military: It's History and It's War Todaybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Choice of an Unqualified and Incompetent Ideologue to Head the DOJ Who Has Be Charged With Sex Trafficking an Underaged Girl Across State Lines | Trump's Choice of a Fox Propagandist, Grifter and Supporter of For-Profit Colleges That Rip off Veterans to be Secretary of Defense | Trump Wants a Member of a Fringe Hindu Cult and Fan of the Syrian and Russian Dictators to be the Next Head of Our Intelligence Agenciesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
It Looks Like Trump is No Longer Afraid of Being Blackmailed By Putin | Trump Shows Up at the Congress Today With His New Playmate Elon Musk | The Outsized Role the Crypto Industry Played in Electing Trump and Republicansbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Greatest Failure of Federal Law Enforcement in History Thanks to Garland, McConnell and Roberts | Senator Murphy Agrees With Bernie That Democrats Have Abandoned the Working Class | Saudi Arabia and Iran Get Closer in Anticipation of a Trump Presidency backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Too Little Too Late, Biden is Finally Ready to Stand Up to Israel | On Veterans Day, Will We Have Trump Wars and More American Veterans? | We are Entering America's Strongman Era backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
With the Blame Game Underway, the Democrats Need to Focus on Accountability and a Coherent Strategy | The Failure of the Legal System to Bring a Career Criminal to Justice Before he Took Over the World | The Global Implications of the Enormous Power Trump Will Wieldbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
With Republicans Needing 7 and Democrats Needing 15 Seats to Flip the House, Will Trump End Up With the Trifecta of White House, Senate and House? | The Frightening and Less Frightening Contenders for Trump's White House and Cabinet Positions | Democrats Have Joined the Global Trend of Left and Social Democratic Parties Losing to the Far Rightbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Won in a Landslide With 4 Million Fewer Votes Than 2020 While Harris Won 66 Million, Far Less Than Biden's 81 Million in 2020 | The Education Divide With Harris Winning the Educated and Trump the Less Educated | Will Trump and Vance's "America First" Isolationism Define the Next 4 Years?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
$12.32 Billion Will Be Spent on This Election, Most of Which Goes to the Big Media Companies | Hundreds Died in Spain In What Was Not Just a Natural Disaster | The Issue Not Discussed in This Election, Nuclear Disarmamentbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Not-So-Veiled Threat That "Bad Things Could Happen" If He Loses the Election | The Pernicious GOP Operation Underway by Partisan Vigilantes to Purge Voter Rolls | Kamala May Win Big and She Has to Because Trump's GOP Will Cheat Rather Than Compete
Cynical Preparations Underway to Get the MAGA Faithful to Believe an Assured Victory Was Stolen Again | With Trump and Murdoch etc. Having Made Half of America Hate the Other Half, Putin is Already the Winner of the Election | Trump's Promise to America's Women "Whether They Like It Or Not"
The Murdochs and Their Fox News Propagandists Are Laying the Groundwork For a New Civil War | A "Prairie Populist" in Nebraska is Campaigning the Way Democrats Should be in Red States | "Why is This Election Even Close?"backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The October Surprise As a Trump Self-Inflicted Wound | 2024 Collusion Between Trump and Putin and Musk and Putin | The Supreme Court's Latest Partisan Ruling Allowing a Voter Purge in Virginiabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Israel's Expulsion of UNRWA From Gaza Will Worsen an Already Dire Humanitarian Disaster | The Puerto Rican Vote After Trump's Hate-Filled Rally He Called a "Love Fest" | Apparently Trump's "Christians" No Longer "Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself"backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump and His Warm-up Acts Spew Racist Hatred at Sunday's Madison Square Garden Rally | Billionaires and CEOs Suck Up to Trump Hedging Their Bets in Fear of Retribution | The Disputed Election Results in the Former Soviet State of Georgia
Reactions to Israel's Retaliation Against Iran Appear to Indicate a Winding Down of Escalation | The Press Allows Trump to Be Lawless While Expecting Harris to be Flawless | Will the Election be Won by the Billionaire Tech Bros or Will the American People Save Our Democracy?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
What Does North Korea Get in Return For Sending Cannon Fodder to Ukraine? | Another South African Billionaire, the Owner of the LA Times, Comes to the Aid of Donald Trump | This Election as a Reckoning on Whether America Has Abandoned Democracy for Dictatorship Under the Spell of a Convicted Felon and Serial Liarbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How the Latino and Latina Vote Will Decide the Election and Trump's Latest Racist Slur at Mexicans | As Trump Tries to Win the Votes of Workers, His Anti-Worker Record is Glaring | A Scholar of Fascism and Italy, Where Fascism Began, On Trump's Former Chief of Staff's Comment That Trump "Fits Into the General Definition of Fascist"backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Author of the Goldwater Rule Which Gagged Psychiatrists Now Calls For Trump to Be Evaluated For Dementia | Trump's Plans To Round Up Enemies Into Concentration Camps Are the Same as Hitler's Who Quickly Turned Democracy Into Dictatorship | The Abraham Accords Are Becoming a Pipe Dream as Netanyahu Drives Saudi Arabia and Iran Togetherbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
We Should Take Trump's Fascistic Plans Seriously | Kamala Harris's Stand on Gaza Satisfies No One | Were the Leaks From US Intelligence on Israel's Plans to Attack Iran Authorized or Unauthorized?
43 States Are Mere Spectators to a Most Consequential Election That Could be Decided by a Few Counties | With One Third of Americans Agreeing With Trump That "Immigrants Poison the Blood of America" His Bad Genes Invasion Claim Echoes Nazi "Criminal Biology" | "Competitive Coexistence" With China as an Alternative to Cold War Containment and Confrontationbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Killing of Sinwar and the Burning Alive Seen Around the World of a Promising Young Palestinian | The Blatant Buying of a Next Trump Presidency (However Short it May Be) by Right Wing Plutocrats | The Goebbels-Like Nature of the Trump/Vance Campaign of Lies backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
More Important Than Trump's Mental Decline is the Rising Possibility of JD Vance as the Tech Bros President of the United States | A Report From South Korea on the Rising Fury of Kim and His Sister and the Desertion of North Korean Troops in Ukraine | As BRICS Expands, Is it a Dictators Club or an Alternative to the Domination of the Dollar?backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Obvious Mental Deterioration | Netanyahu's Plan to Starve 400,000 in Gaza Prompts the US to Warn Military Aid Could be Cut Off in 30 Days | Canada Expels 6 Indian Diplomats For Colluding With Criminals to Assassinate a Sikh Activist on Canadian Soilbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Intensifying Israeli Attacks on Lebanon and Netanyahu's "Delusion" He Can Reshape the Middle East by Eliminating Hezbollah | How Much do Biden and His Top Officials Believe the Middle East Can be Reshaped by Israeli Military Power | Reports Armed Militias Motivated by Trump and Vance's Lies are Stopping FEMA From Delivering Aid in North Carolina
With the Fateful Election 3 Weeks Away, an Update on Polls and Predictions | Is America Itself on Trial in This Election and Could it Soon Descend Into Darkness Like Germany in the 1930's? | The Political Violence Spilling Out of Red States in Our Vigilante Nationbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The UN Warns Israel it is in Breach of Humanitarian Law For IDF Attacks on UN Peacekeepers in Lebanon | The Impact of Hurricane Helene and Trump/Vance's Lies on Whether Harris Will Win North Carolina | A New Film Exposing the Border Industrial Complex and the Profitable Business of Immigration
As More Evidence of Trump's Collusion With Putin Emerges, We Speak With Former British Intelligence Professional Christopher Steele | With Republicans Making Inroads Into the What's Left of the New Deal Coalition, How the Democratic Party Could Repair its Frayed Connection to the Working Classbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Former State Department Official on Why Biden and Harris Appear Helpless as Netanyahu Pushes the Middle East to the Brink | Bob Woodward's Latest Revelations of Trump's Continuing and Treasonous Contacts with Putin | As Global Warming Drives Superstorms, How We Can Restore the Atmospherebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Israel's One Year Anniversary of the October 7 Attack as Hezbollah Missiles Rain Down on Haifa, Tiberias and Carmiel | How an Israeli Retaliation Against Iran's Nuclear Facilities Could Backfire | It's Time For Trump's "Christian" Soldiers to Ask, is Trump the Antichrist?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Democrats Have to Win Big Because Chris Jankowski, Leonard Leo and John Roberts Have Stacked the Deck Against Them | The Many October Surprises and a Guide to the Cases Against Trump | The Flow of US Weapons Continues Unabated as Civilian Deaths Mount in Gaza and Lebanonbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
What May Be the Only Chance We Have to See Jack Smith's Case Against Trump for January 6 | A Deep Investigation of the Far-Right Cult Opus Dei and Its Infiltration of American Politics at the Highest Levelbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Netanyahu is in the Driver's Seat With Biden and Harris Reluctant Passengers | Under Attack by a Foreign Power, Lebanese and Iranians Rally Around the Flag | The Likely Impact of the East Coast Dockworkers' Strike on the Electionbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Iran Fires 400 Ballistic Missiles at Israel as the Escalation Ladder Has Both Threatening Responses and Responses to Responses | As Michigan Shapes up to be a Critical Swing State, Could Jill Stein be a Spoiler Along With Conservative Muslims Making Alliances With the Christian Right | Will Tim Walz Expose J.D. Vance's Sick Dystopian Vision of America in Tonight's VP Debate?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Now That He is Suddenly Popular, Netanyahu Has Boxed Harris in to Support His War in Gaza and Lebanon | How Turkey's Erdogan, Who Has Stolen Billions, Threw Chump Change to the NYC Mayor Eric Adams | An Assessment of Zelensky's US Visit and the Real Reason Trump Hates Him
After Repeated Humiliations, Will Iran Strike Back at Israel in a Wider Middle East War? | J.D. Vance Doubles Down in His Embrace of Christian Nationalism and "Christo-Fascism | The Filmmaker of the Feature Documentary on the Electoral College One Person, One Vote Which Premieres on PBS's Independent Lens on Mondaybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The US and 21 Allies Call For a Lebanon-Israel Ceasefire Which Netanyahu Rejected | New York's Mayor Charged with Bribery, Wire Fraud and Seeking Illegal Campaign Donations | How J.D. Vance and His Backers Plan to Legislate Moralitybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Israel Appears Poised For a Ground Invasion of Lebanon | UN Activities and Speeches Today and Yesterday | Zelensky Tries to Get the UN to Focus on Ukraine While a War in Lebanon Loomsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Zelensky's "Victory Plan" And His Remark That "We Are Closer To Peace Than We Think" | Trump Can Steal the Election Since He Has the Software For the Voting Machines in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan and Colorado | An Expert on Terrorism on How Election Violence is Already UnderwayHost: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Asher Price
As Netanyahu Goads Hezbollah and Iran Into War, Biden and Harris Will be the Losers But Seem Helpless in Stopping the Escalation | Trump and Vance Are Not Trying to Win Over Voters But Are Focused on Stopping the Democratic Vote and the Counting of Votes | An Analysis of the Quad Meeting of the PMs of Australia, India and Japan Biden HostedHost: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Asher Price
The Republicans Have Stolen the Software for the Voting Machines in Georgia and Can Manipulate the November Results at Will | Trump Abandons His "Black NAZI" Gubernatorial Candidate in North Carolina He Recently Referred to as "Martin Luther King on Steroids" | Can Trump and Vance Win With a Campaign Based on Racist Hatred?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Musk Promotes Russian Fake News Claiming Kamala Harris Injured a Black Girl in a Hit and Run That Did Not Happen | Women Are Dying Because of Abortion Bans by Trump and "Christian" Republicans Who Won't Let Doctors Practice Medicine For Fear of Going to Jail | How Bilious Billionaires Like Musk Are More Influential Than World Leaders backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How the Lowering of Interest Rates by the Fed Will Impact the Economy and the Election | Does Netanyahu Have an "October Surprise" in Store for the Harris/Walz Campaign? | Are We at the Beginning Stage of Another War in the Middle East That the US Will be Dragged Into?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Will Another Humiliation of Hezbollah and Iran Lead to a War in Lebanon? | Chief Justice Roberts Does Not Call Balls and Strikes, He Rigs the Playing Field Before the Game | As Incendiary Hate, Racism and Paranoia From Trump and Vance Escalates, What Can We Expect If They Lose the Election?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Another Assassination Attempt on Trump by Another Assassin Whose Politics Are All Also Over the Map With Both Having Easy Access to Military-Style Assault Rifles | Americans Who Want to Help Ukraine Defend Against Russia: Good and Bad | The Growing Phenomenon of "Caudillismo" in Latin Americabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Is Putin Using Psychological Warfare to Stop Ukraine From Striking Deep Into Russia or Is He Not Bluffing When He Says Doing So Will Mean Russia Is “At War” With NATO? | The Reason Haitians Are in Ohio Is That US Foreign Policy Has Made Haiti Unlivable | Rather Than Race-Bait Harris Head On, Trump and Vance Are Using Racism as the Main Driver of Their Campaignbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump is Hanging Out With Laura Loomer Who Republicans Are Blaming For His Disastrous Debate | Erdogan Inflames Tensions With the US and Israel While Secretly Profiting From Oil and Arms Sales to Israel | What America Would Be Like After a MAGA Takeover Based on the MAGA Takeover of Two Counties in Washington and Northern California
In Last Night's Debate, the Reality TV Star Trump Appeared to Lose His War Against Reality | The Obstacles Women Face in Politics That Harris is Navigating | On the 23rd Anniversary of 9/11, New Evidence of Saudi Involvement With the Hijackers Emergesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Foreign Policy in Tonight's Harris/Trump Debate and Whose Finger Do You Want on the Nuclear Button | Democratic "Irrational Exuberance" With the Polls and "Sane-Washing" by the Mainstream Media | We Should Take Trump at His Word That He Wants to be a Dictator and Jail His Opponents and the Pressbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Mein Kampf of the MAGA Republican Party, Project 2025 | Today's Republican Report on the Withdrawal From Afghanistan is a Political Hit Job on VP Harris | How Putin's Shadow Fleet of "Ghost" Tankers Are an Accident Waiting to Happenbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Americans Colluding With Russia as Spies, Propagandists and Useful Idiots | UK and US Heads of Intelligence Warn of Russia's "Reckless Campaign of Sabotage" | The Accurate Predictor Issues His Presidential Prediction for 2024backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Russia Interferes in Our Elections Underway Via Pro-Trump Influencers Now Running Away From Their Kremlin Paymasters | But For Police Failures, The Gun Culture and No Red Flag Laws, the Latest School Shooting Would Never Have Happened | The Shakeup In Zelensky's Government Who is Pleading For Patriot Missiles in Warehouses as Russian Missiles Kill His Civilians backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Another School Shooting and Can a Progressive Ticket Win the Presidency? | Could the Arsonist Netanyahu Spark a Wider War With Jordan a Powder Keg About to Explode | A New Nuclear Doctrine to Confront Russia, China and North Korea Simultaneouslybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Mounting Pressure on Netanyahu From the Israeli Public as the UK Cuts Off Arms Sales | How the Republicans Are Funding and Boosting the Cornel West and Jill Stein Campaigns | The Putin-Orban-Heritage Foundation-Project 2025 Connectionsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How Much Will the Harris/Walz Pro-Labor Stance Help Get Them Elected With 70% of Americans Approving of Unions? | America's Growing Economic Inequality | The Democratic Party Will Need a House and Senate Majority to Pass the PRO Act for President Harris to Sign
The Media's Horse-race Coverage of the Election as CNN's Pathetic Harris/Walz Interview Asks Trump/Vance Attack Lines to Avoid the "Liberal Media" Label | Give a Post-Gaza Israeli/Palestinian Peace a Chance | The Domestic Threat to Democracy Posed by Trump and Project 2025backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
After Pressure From Republicans and the Press, Will Tonight's CNN Interview With Harris and Walz Answer Policy Questions? | Could Another Historical Breakthrough be the Election of a Black and Asian Woman Married to a Jew? | The Ties Between JD Vance and His New Press Secretary and the Shadowy Christian Nationalist Mens-Only Society for American Civic Renewal backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
As the Press and Republicans Clamour For More Policy Details, Harris/Walz Are Winning on Charisma and Change | Today's Harris/Walz Bus Tour of Georgia | An Olive Branch to the US From Iran's Supreme Leader as We Wait For His Promised Retaliation Against Israelbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How Many Disaffected Republicans Can Kamala Harris Peel Off in a Center Left - Center Right Alliance? | Could Jack Smith's Appeal to the 11th Circuit Result in Judge Cannon Being Taken Off the Case? | Is the Current Crisis in France Politics as Usual?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Harris Surges in the Polls as Trump Tries to Weasel Out of the September 10 ABC Debate With Harris | The French Arrest the Founder of Telegram After a Possible Meeting With Putin | Houthi Recklessness is About to Cause the Fifth Largest Oil Spill in History
The Contrast Between the Best and Worst of America and Why Does Anyone Support Trump's GOP? | A Wrap Up of the DNC and How Will RFK Jr's Endorsement of Trump Impact Swing States | A Military Analysis of Ukraine's Incursion Into Russia and the Escalation Ladder to Nuclear Warbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The FBI Cracks Down on American Kremlin Propagandists as Russian Election Influence Operations Ramp Up | Last Night's Star Turns at the DNC From Tim Walz and Kenan Thompson on Project 2025 | Trump's Anti-Semitic Attacks on Governor Josh Shapirobackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Review of Last Night's Democratic National Convention and a Preview of Tonight's | The Generational Change Underway In the Harris/Walz Democratic Party | China Sues Stanford For Mao's Secretary's Diaries With a Inside Look at the CCP From 1935 to 2018backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Biden Acknowledges the Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators at the DNC in Chicago Have a Point | An Appraisal of Last Night's Speeches at the DNC | The Turnaround in the Polls For the Democrats in the Key Swing States of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
An Update From Chicago on the Democratic National Convention | A Presidential Speechwriter on the Delicate Job a President Passing the Baton to His VP | As Bombs Fall on Gaza and Ukraine, Arms Industries Benefit From Tragedy
Will Biden Come Up With a Strategy For Ukraine the Absence of Which is an Excuse For Trump And the Republicans Not to Support Its Defense Against Russia? | The Irony That Saudi's MbS "Prince Bonesaw" Now Fears Assassination | An Assessment of the Harris/Walz Economic Planbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Peace Negotiations For a Gaza Ceasefire Now Minus a Representative From Hamas | The Origins and Definition of Settler Colonialism Which Used to Be Applied to Australia, Canada and the US But is Now is Labelling Israel | Bangladesh: The Latest Example of the US Not Acting According to Its Democratic Ideals backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How a Reality TV Star Living in His Own Reality Captured the GOP and Up To Half of Americans Now Living in a Phony Reality | America's Historical Irony of its Foundation in a Revolution Against a Mad King Only to Possibly Re-elect a Mad King Anointed by the Supreme Court With Monarchical Power and Immunity | Did Trump's Pandering to Young White Men and Joe Rogan and Elon Musk Fanboys on X Help His Campaign?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
With War Between Israel and Iran Inevitable, a Strategic Analysis of How Much It Could Escalate | Kamala Harris and Donald Trump's Competing Tax Proposals on Tips Aimed at Winning Nevada | Putin's Long Game Counters the Current Optimism as Ukraine Takes Russian Territorybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Former Republican Opposition Researcher on What Damaging Material Might Be In the Leaked Vetting of J.D. Vance by the Trump Campaign | Trump's Plan to Deny a Harris Victory by Stalling Certification of the Vote at the Local and State Levels to Delay Results and Cause Chaos | How Much Humiliation is Driving Iran's Promised Response to Netanyahu's Provocationsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Americans Are Being Denied the Truth About Trump's Mental Instability and Possible Dementia | How Does the Veteran Community Feel About the Latest Round of Swift-Boating? | Can A Deal For Iran Not to Retaliate in Exchange For A Ceasefire in Gaza be Made?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Press Conference Tirade of Child-like Petulance That Biden Had Been Taken Away Like His Favorite Toy and Now He's Stuck Having to Run Against a Black Woman | How Will the Harris/Walz Team Handle More Pro-Palestinian Demonstrations? | Objectives Behind the Ukrainian Incursion Into Russiabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
With Millions From Republican Billionaires, AIPAC Unseats Another Member of The Squad | Have The Democrats Learned Their Lesson of Playing it Safe With VP Picks? | Netanyahu Has Provoked and Khamenei Has Promised a War That Nobody Wants backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
What the VP Pick Tim Walz Brings to the Electoral Map | The Global Menace of Elon Musk Stoking Racial Unrest in the UK | How to Save Government Oversight and Expertise From the Ravages of SCOTUSHost: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Asher Price
Governor Tim Walz May be Kamala Harris's Pick For VP | The Plutocratic Capture of John Roberts's Supreme Court | Wall Street's and the Global Drop in Markets Does Not Spell Recessionbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Evidence the US Government Has Buried For 23 Years Appears Poised to Blow the Lid Off Saudi Involvement in 9/11 | Will Trump's Revival of the "Birther" Dog Whistle Work Against Kamala Harris? | The Noble Lie, J.D. Vance and the New Rightbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Russia Swaps Innocent Hostages For Putin's Spies, Criminals and Hackers | Will Netanyahu Drag the US Into Another Forever War in the Middle East | A Profile of a Possible VP Pick, Minnesota's Governor Tim Walzbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
With Assassinations in Tehran and Beirut, Netanyahu Taunts Iran and Hezbollah to Bring It On | The Arrest of 9 IDF Soldiers by Military Police For Gang Rape of Palestinian Prisoners 36 of Whom Have Been Tortured to Death | A Profile of Senator Mark Kelly as a Possible VP for Kamala Harrisbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Biden's Supreme Court Reform Plans Now That Leonard Leo and the Federalists Have Stacked the Courts | As Governor Shapiro Auditions for the VP Slot, We Look at His Pros and Cons | The Cryptocurrency Industry is All-In For Trump Who is Promising to Give Away the Store to Thembackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Venezuela's Maduro Defies Most of the World Claiming Victory When the Vote Was as Much as 70 to 30% Against Him | On the Brink of Another War as the US and Israel Reject Hezbollah's Claim a Missile That Killed 12 Was Not Theirs | With the GOP Now Seen as a Cult, Why Are Americans Susceptible to Cults?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
With Democrats Reeling From Despair to Euphoria, Kamala Harris Steps Out of the Shadows Into the Limelight | After Capturing Our Judiciary, Opus Dei Operatives Are Poised to Capture the Executive Branch With J.D. Vance and Kevin Roberts, the Leader of Project 2025 | Since He Should Lose Today's Election in Venezuela, Will Maduro Do a Trump and Not Concede?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
More Alarming Information About Who J.D. Vance is and What he Believes Continues to Surface | Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear as a Possible Running Mate For Kamala Harris | Netanyahu's Visit With Biden and Harris Followed by His Meeting Tomorrow With TrumpHost: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Asher Price
A Former State Department Official Who Just Quit Over Gaza on Netanyahu's 4th Address to a Joint Session of Congress | Demonstrations Against Netanyahu Outside Congress Today and the Boycott of His Speech Inside | Netanyahu's Speech Was Aimed at His Domestic Audience With No Ceasefire Since His Coalition Will Collapse If He Makes a Ceasefire Deal Before the Knesset Adjourns backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Contours of a Kamala Harris Campaign Emerges Contrasting the Felon With the Prosecutor Who Went After For-Profit College Ripoffs Like Trump University and Investigated Big Oil While Trump Invited Them to Bribe Him | Kamala Harris Campaigns in Wisconsin Today Which Trump Barely Won in 2016 and Biden in 2020 | Project 2025 Is More of a Corporate Wishlist Than a MAGA Manifesto and Trump and Vance Are Running Away From Its Unpopularity backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How the Most Important Hire in the World Has Been Made With, Good, Bad and Ugly Consequences | The Vice Presidential Sweepstakes and the Importance of Swing States | A Democratic Party Reborn backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Gulf Between Rhetoric and Reality As One Presidential Candidate Drones on Disavowing his Plans While the Other is in a Bunker Not Listening | A Recap of the Republican Convention and What it Tells Us About a Future Trump Presidency | How a Handful of Tech Billionaires Are Poised to Enact Their Techno-Fascist Fantasies with Their Bro in the Oval Officebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Mounting Pressure From Democratic Leaders on Biden to Step Down Could Overwhelm His Stubbornness | Beyond Biden, America Has a Problem With Gerontocracy | Doubling Down on America First, the Trump/Vance Ticket Will Undermine Democracy and the Rule of Law at Home and Abroadbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
J.D. Vance's Foreign Policy Views Plus Trump's Ties to Putin Spell Doom For Ukraine | 75 Years of Rightwing Conmen, Quacks and Charlatans Making Money Attacking Liberals, Influencing the Wider Political Landscape and Moving the Country to the Rightbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Disconnect at the RNC Between Trump's Call For Unity and Partisan Speeches From MAGA Warriors | Republicans Pretend to Love Workers While Biden Loses Support Except For Unions | What is Behind Chinese Soldiers Drilling on the Border With Poland and Ukraine?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Judge Dismisses the Most Winnable Case Against Him Taking Her Cue From Justice Thomas | J.D. Vance, the Authoritarian Brains Behind a Trump Dictatorship | Orban Has Invited China Into Europe as He Acts as a Courier For Secret Messages From Putin and Xi to Trumpbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Assassinations That Changed the World or Might Have Changed the World | America's Historical Legacy of Presidential Assassinations and Attempted Assassinations | The Inciter of Political Violence Now Calls For Unity as He Moves Closer to Joining the Illiberal Club of the World's Despots and Kleptocratsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Former Press Secretary to Kamala Harris on Who Could Best Beat Trump as Divisions Among Democrats Intensify While Republicans Can't Get Enough of Their Candidate's Depravity and Dementia | An Assessment of the So-Called Reformist President of Iran and What He Means For Women, Life, Freedombackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Insight Into Biden's Inner Circle Resisting Growing Calls For Him to Step Down | Shifting the Focus to Trump and His Scary GOP Party Platform | A Journalist Who Has Taken on the Nazis at Charlottesville and Was at Risk Inside the Angry Mob That Stormed the Capitol On Trump's Far-Right Capture of American Politicsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
As Biden and the Democrats Circle the Wagons, Concerns Persist in the Rest of the Country, Meanwhile Trump Gets a Free Pass in the Media | The 75th Anniversary of NATO at a Washington Summit Concerned About Biden and Afraid Trump Could be Reelected | While NATO is Not Ready For Ukraine to Join, Will it Sustain Ukraine Over the Long Haul?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Biden's Defiance As We Learn a Parkinson's Expert Visited the White House 8 Times in 8 Months | The Far Right Comes in Third In France as Le Pen Joins Forces With Orban to Form the Third Largest Bloc in the European Parliament | An Update From Kenya on the Bloody Demonstrations Against a Government Sending Police to Haiti When They Are Needed at Homebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Should Biden Follow the Example of George Washington? | The Washington Gerontocracy | Will a Fresh Face Bring Back Younger Democratic Voters?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A View From Abroad as Biden Stands Between the Survival of Global Democracy and the Rule of Law and Dictatorship | Even If Biden Could be Convinced to Step Down Soon, He Would Be Making Himself a Lame Duck Presidentbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Historical Assessment of How the Major Political Parties Have Become Hollow Shells | Will the Conviction of a Former Trump Business Partner Who Laundered Millions Into Trump Real Estate Revive the Trump/Russia Collusion?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Supreme Court Has Handed the Criminal Trump a Loaded Gun, Might Biden Also Use it? | How the Shift to the Right in Europe Could Impact the War in Ukraine | The Other Alarming SCOTUS Decision Overshadowed by the Ruling to Give Trump a License to Killbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
In the Service of a President Convicted of Crimes, the Supreme Court Allows Presidents to Commit Crimes | Hope in Dark Times as Many Americans Reel From the One-Two Punch of Biden's Debate Performance and Today's Supreme Court Ruling | Alarming Gains by the French Far Right as the Left and Center Maneuver to Block a Neo-Fascist Takeover of Parliamentbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
If Biden is Lucky to Be Running Against Trump and Not a Younger Candidate, Does That Mean The Republicans Would be Worse Off Against a Younger Democratic Candidate? | The Impact of Biden's Disastrous Debate on the Democratic Down-Ticket | "Foolhardy Nonsense" Coming From Pundits, the Press, and Anxious Democrats Clutching Their Pearlsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Why Do More Americans in Swing States Think Trump is Better For Democracy? The Answer Might be the Local Influence of Sinclair Broadcast Group | How We Arrived at a Moment Where a Reality TV Right Wing Populist Captured One of America's Two Major Political Parties | The Author of Nasty Politics: The Logic of Insults, Threats, and Incitementbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Journalist Who Faced Jail Under the Espionage Act on Assange's Plea Deal | Presidential Debate Prep and How to Fact-Check Trump From a Former Democratic Strategist | War Between Israel and Hezbollah Appears Increasingly Likelybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Open Declaration of War Against the Rule of Law | The US is Running Out of Ammo While Spending Trillions of Gold-Plated Turkeys As Enemies Have Plenty of Ammunition and Allies Make Better Ships Much Cheaper | Trump Follows the Far-Right Culture Warrior Governor of Louisiana's Call for the Ten Commandments to be Displayed in Schoolsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Heatwave Baking the Planet and the Contrast Between Biden's Understanding of Global Warming and Trump's Denial | The Sources of Climate Change Denial and a Future Beyond Denial | Is the Putin/Kim Jong Un Pact Alarming or Pathetic as Two Murderous Pariah's Resume Their Love Affair With Trump?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Secret Recordings of Trump's Dirty Trickster Reveals Plans to Steal the Next Election | How the Next Election Can Be Stolen and What to Do About Itbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Juneteenth and the Legacy of Racism in Texas | The Wholesale Self-abasement, Humiliation and Degradation in the Recent Groveling of GOP Lawmakers Before the Insurrectionist Who Directed the Attack on Their Capitol Workplace | The Senate Votes 88 to 2 to Boost Nuclear Power Based on "New" Reactor Technology That is Old and Less Safebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
America's Plutocrats Believe the Threat to Capitalism From Democrats is Worse Than the Threat to Democracy From Trump | A Critique of the Surgeon General's Call for Warning Labels on Social Media Platforms | Putin Meets to Make Weapons Deals With His "Comrade-in-Arms" Kim Jong Un backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Netanyahu Dissolves the War Cabinet as Tensions on Israel's Border With Lebanon Intensify | Trump's Gaza Policy Would Be So Much Worse Given Who He Put in Charge of Israeli/Palestinian Issues During His Presidency | The U.S., the U.K. and Canada Warn Putin is Actively Sabotaging Upcoming Elections in Moldovabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How to Reign in a Supreme Court Even More Out of Step With the American People | The Message Versus the Messenger Conundrum Following Revelations in the Alito Tapes | With Peace Talks Underway, Ukraine's Future and the U.S. Military Industrial Complexbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Senate Launches a Probe Into Jared Kushner's $2 billion Payoff From Saudi Arabia's MbS | The Saudi/Israel Security Pact Biden is Doggedly Pursuing | Italy's PM Giorgia Meloni Hosts the G-7 Summit With Glamour Amidst "Dead Men Walking"backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Hunter Biden Trial as a Political Hit Job With More Humiliation of the Troubled Son Coming in the September Trial | How We Got Hooked On Globalism and a System in Which Corporations Win While Everybody Else Loses | How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequalbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Undercover Activist Who Captured the Real Justice Alito as a Christian Nationalist | The Hypocrisy of MAGA Republicans Celebrating Hunter Biden's Convictions on Gun Laws They Violently Oppose | President Macron's Call For a Snap Election Already Appears to be Backfiringbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Israel's Opposition Leader Quits the War Cabinet But Netanyahu Will Continue the War Through the US Elections to Hurt Biden and Help Trump | An Analysis of the Results of the EU Elections and the Right Wing Sweep That Did Not Materialize | A Historical Analysis of Whether We Are in 1938 With Putin's War on Ukraine backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Already Governing, Trump Has His Puppet Mike Johnson Appoint Two Clowns to Cripple the House Intel Committee | The Inevitability of Trump 250 Years in the Making With the U.S. Captive to Its Contentious Pastbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The 80th Anniversary of D-Day and Today's Struggle Against Tyranny | How Corporate Power and Technology Have Combined to Gouge Consumers | As Billionaires and Corporations Back Trump to Continue Tax Cuts For the Rich, Biden Needs to Make it Clear We Have a Revenue Not a Spending Problem and Make Them Pay
Legal Challenges to Biden's EO on Closing the Border | Agreements and Disagreements Between Americans and Europeans on China, the Wars in Ukraine and Gaza and European Security | An Assessment of the Results of the Elections in India | India's Foreign Policy Choices as Russia and China Grow Closerbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Will Biden's Executive Order to Close the Border Win or Lose Votes? | Although Trump and Biden are Raising Billions, Money Will Have Little Effect on the Presidential Race | Following the CIA, The Pentagon Falls For Silicon Valley's Promise of AI Miracle Weaponsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Oligarch's Lining Up to Line Trump's Pockets | The Upcoming Ukraine Peace Conference China Won't Attend Because Russia Won't Go and Now Saudi Arabia Won't Attend Because China Isn't Going | Will Scheinbaum's and Morena's Blowout Victory Lead to an Institutional Collapse in Mexico?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
After Getting MAGA World and the Trump GOP to Believe He Won the Last Election, Now Trump Has Them Believing the Trial That Convicted Him 34 Times Was Rigged | Are Biden and Netanyahu on the Same Page With the Gaza Ceasefire Plan? | Today's Elections in Mexico Will Result in a Woman as President For the First Timebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Why We Should Care About the Trump Trial and, With the Tail Wagging the Dog, Biden Has to End the Gaza War Which Netanyahu Plans to Continue for 7 Months | The War in Ukraine Has Gone From a Proxy War to a NATO Conflictbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Complaints From Ukraine's Front Lines That Big Ticket U.S. Weapons Don't Work, Get Jammed or are Unsuitable | A Possible Trade War with China or a Necessary Stimulus For the Next Green Economy? | Today's Election in South Africa as a Referendum on the ANCHost: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Evan Green
The Ghost of Roy Cohn Hangs Over Trump's Hush Money Trail as Closing Arguments Were Heard Today | Bibi and MbS Have Biden in a Trap and the Pentagon and the CIA Have Drunk the Silicon Valley Kool-Aid | The Libertarians Boo Trump and Quickly Reject RFK Jrbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
On Memorial Day Those Who Serve America vs Those Who Want to Tear it Apart | Consciousness, Authoritarianism and Political Violencebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Many Staffers in Trump's GOP are White Nationalists Who Casually Use Nazi Terms Like "Unified Reich" Because That is Their Milieu and Mindset | The Political Grifters Who Co Opt Leftist Issues and Repackage Them in MAGA-Friendly Terms | As Armenia and Iran Come Together and Israel and Azerbaijan Grow Closer, There are Now 73 Israeli Bases in Azerbaijan Aimed at Iranbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Right Wing Leaders Gathered in Madrid to Declare War on Socialism | Republicans Are Dusting Off the 1873 Comstock Act to Ban Abortion Pills and Even Birth Control Pills | Justice Alito's display of Christo-Fascist Allegiancebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Norway, Spain and Ireland Recognize a Palestinian State as the ICC is Poised to Issue Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and 3 Hamas Leaders | The Leading Candidate For Top Positions in a Possible Trump Second Term | How the Supreme Court Has Undermined Elections as the GOP Cheats Rather Than Competesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Finally we are Learning More About Saudi State Involvement Behind the 9/11 Attacks | An Investigation Into What Sadly Appears to be the Next Frontier of Warfare, Spacebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Does the Death of Iran's President Open a Path for the Son of Ayatollah Khamenei to Succeed His Ailing Father? | Netanyahu Has Biden Torn Between Supporting Israel and Not Losing the Youth Vote | The Unholy Trinity of Far-Right Texas Leadership; Abbott, Patrick and Paxtonbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Insurrectionists on the Supreme Court Exposed | The Texas Governor Frees a Racist Killer to Please Tucker Carlson | Have Criminals Taken Over Mexico's Elections?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Murky Ties to the Poet and Would-be Assassin of Slovakia's PM Robert Fico | At their 40th Meeting, Xi and Putin Pledge to Deepen Defense and Military Ties | Trump's Lawyer Attacks Michael Cohen as a Liar Even Though Trump's Fixer Lied in the Service of the Liar-in-Chief backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Party of Law and Order Now Embraces Lawlessness as the GOP Speaker Trashes the Rule of Law to Please the Scofflaw-in-Chief | The Setbacks the Ukrainian Military is Suffering as a Result of Trump's 6 Month Delay of U.S. Arms and Ammunition | What is Behind the Rise in Food Prices as a Few Monopolies Gouge the Public and Farmers While Protected by the Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsackbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Mike Johnson Personifies the Staggering Hypocrisy of the "Christian" Right | Is the New York Trial Hurting Trump Who is Polling Ahead in all Swing States But Wisconsin? | The Mainstreaming of America's Neo-Nazi Movement and the Potential for Violence in the Electionbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
In Paying Off A Porn Star For Her Silence Trump Tells Cohen to "Just do it!" | Georgia's Billionaire-Owned Government Passes a Kremlin-Style Law Although the Vast Majority Want to Join the EU | Neo-Nazis, Christian Nationalists and Proud Boys Were in the Pro-Israel Mob at UCLA Claiming to Fight Antisemitismbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
As Ukraine Faces a Long War, Will the US and NATO be There and Is There Any Hope of a Peace Deal? | The FTC Goes After Corporate Greed and AIPAC Goes After a January 6 Herobackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Israeli Public's Support for Continuing the War and Netanyahu's Defiant Response to Biden | Trump's Wildly Inflated Ego Takes a Beating as Stormy Daniels Belittles Trump's Sexual Prowess | Will the Slapdown 359 to 43 Vote Deter "Moscow Marge" From Fomenting Further Chaos in the House?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Delaying Tactic is Working as 3 of the 4 Trials He's Facing Will Likely Not be Heard Before the Election | Following His 5th Inauguration, Putin Is Now Called "Imperator", the Formal Title For the Russian Tsars | Student Protests in the Age of the New McCarthyismHost: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Evan Green
Israel Joins Peace Talks in Cairo Amid IDF Escalation in Gaza | Strengthening the Laws of War as Non-combatants Die in Gaza and Ukraine | Brazen Examples of Foreign Governments Buying US Senators and Congressmenbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Gaza Impasses With Hamas Wanting a Permanent Ceasefire and Israel a Temporary One | A Possible Change in the US's Israel/Palestinian Policy as Grassroots and Student Protests Ended Support For South Africa's Apartheid Regime | Russia Announces Drills For the Use of Tactical Nukes Ahead of Putin's Inauguration Tomorrowbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The House Speaker Uses an Antisemitic Trope Blaming George Soros as he Launches Hearings on Anti Semitism on Campuses | The Role of Right Wing, Christian Zionist and MAGA Provocateurs in Campus Violence | Models of Dialogue and Deescalation as Outside Opportunists Stoke Violence on Campusesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
On the Brink of the Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza as Ceasefire Talks Are Deadlocked | The DEA's Decriminalization of Marijuana as Too Little Too Late | Could a Change in DEA Policy Revive California's Troubled Marijuana Industry?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Pro-Israel Mob Invades the UCLA Campus to Beat up Pro-Palestinian Students While the Police Look On | Assessing the Flaws and Exploring the Fixes to a Constitution That is Failing Americans As Fascism Threatens Our DemocracyHost: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Evan Green
As Campus Protests Intensify and Spread, Northwestern University Serves as a Model For Deescalation | The Disturbingly Accurate Analogies Between Hitler's Rise to Power and Trump's Threat to Democracybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Weaponization of Anti Semitism Against Students Protesting on American Campuses | The Strength of the Only Trial That May End Up Holding Trump to Account Before the Election | Elections Underway in the World's Largest Democracy and the Dark Side Modi's Indiabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The House and Senate Moves to Strip Non-Profit Status From Foundations That Support Palestinian Causes | The Damage the Supreme Court is Doing to the Rule of Law by Making Trump Above the Law | Biden's Reelection Chances According to a Prediction System That Has Got Every Presidential Election Right Since 1984backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
More Special Treatment of Trump by the Supreme Court | Implications of Biden's TikTok Ban | The Enduring Relationship Between the Far-Right and Conservative Movements of "Responsible" and "Respectable" Republicansbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Supreme Court Anti-Abortion Ideologues Threaten Access to Emergency Care | The Search For Diplomatic Openings as the War in Ukraine Escalates | Trump's Republican Party Makes it Clear the GOP Would Rather Cheat Than CompeteHost: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Evan Green
Trump's History of Using and Abusing Women | The Pathetic Man on Display in the Courtroom as a Far Cry From the MAGA Faithful's Superhero | Will SCOTUS Undermine the 8th Amendment's Protection For the Homeless Against Cruel and Unusual Punishment?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Arrests of Students Protesting the War in Gaza Spread From Columbia to Yale | The Optics of Trump on Trial in New York; a President Off His Pedestal Defending Sleazy Criminal Behavior | A Positive Case For America's Next EconomyHost: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Evan Green
Meeting Ukraine's Needs as Russia Mobilizes for a June Offensive | How Ukraine Will Survive and Adjust to Permanent War | The Deadly War in Gaza and Israel's Tenuous Standoff With Iran as Both Israel and Palestine Appear to be Leaderless and Directionlessbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A View From Ukraine as the Fate of Their Country Hangs in the Hands of Mike Johnson and Marjorie Taylor Greene | Jurors Quit the Trump Trial as the Criminal Defendant Tests the Gag Orders | As Billionaires Try to Kill the NLRB, the UAW Makes Gains in the Southbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Prologue to the Trump Criminal Trial Underway in Which AG Barr Went Out of His Way to Protect "Individual 1" | Is Mike Johnson Serious About Aiding Ukraine or Following Trump and Putin's Orders? | Biden's Tax Plan in Contrast to Trump's Giveaway to Billionairesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Look Inside Iran as Its People Wait For Israel's Retaliation Which Could Lead to a Wider War | The Symbiosis Between Israel's Hardline PM and Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei | An Assessment of Today's Oral Argument That Could Result in the Supreme Court Undoing Charges Against Trump and the J6 Insurrectionists backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Biden Meets With Iraq's PM Over Concerns That US Troops in Iraq and Syria Are Vulnerable if Israel Retaliates Against Iran | The First Day of Trump's NY Trial and the Possibility of a Trumpster on the Jury Causing a Mistrial as Happened in the Bannon "We Build the Wall" Fraud Case | The Record Numbers of Election Officials Quitting Under Threats From the "Stop the Steal" Lies backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Iran's Theatrical Response to the Israeli Strike and the Fear of Netanyahu Escalating | Finally the Architect of the Far-Right Takeover of the US Judiciary | An Assessment of the Trump vs Biden Records of Achievementbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Israel's AI Tools "Gospel", "Lavender" and "Where's Daddy" Are Being Used For Targeted Assassinations in Gaza | Increased Cooperation Between the U.S., Japan and The Philippines' Militaries Tops the White House Summit Agenda | An Assessment of the Political Damage to Arizona Republicans From the 1864 Abortion Ban backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Arizona Supreme Court Takes the State Back to 1864 Before it Was a State With a Draconian Abortion Law | The Left/Right Coalition Refusing to Re-Authorize FISA With MAGA Republicans Doing So Because Trump Thinks it Was Used to Spy on Him | The Fatal Combination of Passivity in the Electorate and Trump's Impunity Could End American Democracybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Did Trump's Lawyers Mislead the NY Appeals Court to Get a Lower Bond? | As Trump Encourages Secession and Threatens Civil War, He Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving to China and Russia | How Billionaires Who Don't Pay Taxes Use Their Surplus Money to Buy Politicians to Lower Their Taxes Even Further backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Iran's vow to Retaliate Against an Israeli Strike Could Lead to a Wider War Biden is Trying to Avoid | With MbS and Trump Talking, What Could They Do to Jack Up Gas Prices to Hurt Biden's Reelection? | Good Economic News as Janet Yellen Tries to Get a Level Playing Field With Chinabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Piety in Contrast to the Porn he Faces and the Cruelty and Hatred he Displays | The 100 Right Wing Tax-Exempt Organizations With Over $2 Billion to Elect Trump | AFRICOM Loses Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali and Niger to the Russiansbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Jack Smith's Shot Across the Bow at the Trump-Friendly Judge on the Classified Documents Case | The Florida Supreme Court's 6 Week Abortion Ban and a Ballot Initiative to Enshrine Abortion Access in the Florida State Constitution | "Why Silicon Valley Reactionaries Love RFK Jr."Host: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Evan Green
Israel's Killing of 7 Aid Workers Who Were Feeding Starving Gazans Sparks International Outrage | Will Israel's Strike on an Iranian Consulate That Killed Top IRGC Officials Provoke a Wider War? | What the US Could Learn From the Electoral Rebuke of Erdogan's Dictatorship and Kleptocracybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
New evidence on "Havana Syndrome" Links the GRU's Assassination Unit 29155 to Mysterious Attacks on U.S. Officials and Their Families | A Scholar Just Back From Ukraine on the Heroism of Ukraine and the Nihilism of Mike Johnson | Trump's Illiberalism is Not a Departure But a Recurring Theme in American Historybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The State Department Officer With Feds United for Peace Who Resigned to Protest US Complicity in Israel's War on Gaza | The Success of Propaganda as a Third of Americans Now Believe Trump's Big Lie | Putin's Evolution From Democrat to Despotbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Plutocrats Are Backing Trump, Not Because They Like Him, But to Extend Trump's Tax Cuts For the Ultra-Rich | RFK Jr's Pick For His Running Mate Has Deep Pockets But a Shallow Resume | Guns and Ammo From the US Fuel Anarchy in Haitibackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Is Israel Becoming a Strategic Liability For the United States? | Today's Oral Arguments Before the Supreme Court on a Nationwide Ban of a Medication Abortion Drug | After Today's Trading, Trump's Essentially Worthless Company is Suddenly Worth $15 Billion?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Look at the Islamic State's Global Terrorist Franchises While Putin Tries to Shift the Blame Onto Ukraine | Will The US Help Implement the UN Ceasefire Resolution Which For the First Time It Did Not Veto? | Today's Lifeline Thrown to Trump Reducing His Bond Down From $454 Million to $175 Millionbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Do-Nothing Congress Descends Into the Chaos Congress | Could Billions Made Out of Nothing Pumped Into Truth Social Rescue Trump Tomorrow? | While Putin Has His Security Services Going After Gays and Lesbians He Prioritizes as Terrorists, Real Terrorists Strike Host: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Evan Green
Can the Public Own Giant Tech Companies Who Operate as Monopolies? | In a Major Shift, the US Drafts a UN Resolution For an Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza and a Hostage Deal | The Ethical Obligation to Warn the Public About Trump's Dementiabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
While Kushner's Callous Remarks on the Value of Beachfront Property as a Million Gazans Starve Resonate, Netanyahu Talks to Republican Senators and the House Speaker | AG Garland and Justice Cardoza's Warning That Criminals "Go Free Because the Constable Has Blundered" | Trump Attacks Biden But Avoids His Own Family's History of Dementiabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Who Will Come up With the Billion Dollars Trump Needs as he Faces the Prospect of His Assets Being Seized? | Trump's Call For a Civil War Just as he Called For the January 6 Insurrection | China Ends Freedom of Speech Now That Anyone in Hong Kong Communicating With Anyone Abroad is Guilty of "External Interference"backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
An Alarming Poll on the Rise of the "Duel Haters" Who Want Neither Trump or Biden | The Fate of the Russian Opposition Now That Putin Has Awarded Himself a Blowout Election Victory | Concerns Inside the Intelligence Community Over Trump's Bromance With Putin and Orbanbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Russian Elections and Putin's Plans to Stoke Divisions in an Already-Divided America | The Increasingly Visible Role of Vice President Harris in the Campaign Underway | Trump's GOP Keeps Lowering the Bar With Greater Ignorance, Vitriol, Clownishness and Vulgaritybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
More Evidence Emerges About the Source of Disinformation on Hunter Biden | More Problems For An Already Troubled Boeing Whose Disastrous CEO is Still on the Job | Senator Schumer's Public Break With Netanyahu backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
As Gazans Starve, Will Netanyahu Cross Biden's "Red Line" and Invade Rafah? | 3rd Party Spoilers Already Have 17% of the Vote and Will Hurt Biden More Than Trump | Will Money From Malign Foreign Dictators Bail Out Trump?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Of the $1.6 Trillion in Discretionary Spending in Biden's 2025 Budget, a Trillion Goes to the Military and $499 Billion For Everything Else | Trump's Mafia-Like Extortion of Corporate America | In Hedging its Bet on Biden, Wall Street is Telling Itself Trump is Not That Bad Even Though They Know Betterbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Biden Turns the Tide Against the Press and Pollsters Who Have Written Him Off As Too Old and Losing Badly to Trump | Biden Confronts the Reactionary Supreme Court Over Women's Rights | The State of War and Rumors of Peace Between Ukraine and Russiabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
What Biden Might, Should and Will Say in Tonight's State of the Union Address | Will Biden Take Off the Gloves and Confront the House MAGA Republicans' Pro-Putin Caucus? | Belatedly Biden Appears to be Using the Enormous Leverage the US Has Over Netanyahubackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Can Biden Pick up Haley's Voters While Placating the Uncommitted Young Democrats? | The Challenge the "Uncommitted" Vote in Minnesota Poses to Biden | With $2 Trillion Being Spent on "Nuclear Modernization" of Dangerous and Unnecessary Weapons, Where is the Guns and Butter Argument?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
VP Harris's Clear Rebuke of Netanyahu Calling For a Ceasefire and What Amounts to Regime Change | The Role of the Right Wing Supreme Court as it Goes Out of Its Way to Protect Trump | Sinema Quits the Senate But Rewards From Big Pharma and Hedge Funds Likely Await Herbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Unanimous Supreme Court Ruling to Keep Trump on the Ballot Ignores the Constitution | Haiti's Descent Into Anarchy as Gangs Attack Police and Free 3,700 Prisoners | The Cynical Political Strategy of Choosing the Opponent You Want to Run Againstbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Following the Massacre of Desperate Gazans Storming Food Trucks, Ceasefire Talks Are Underway | How Plutocrats Use Their Power to Own the Truth | With the U.S. AWOL, Growing Resolve Within NATObackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Naked Partisanship of the Supreme Court's Right Wing Majority | The History of Supreme Courts That Have Served the Political Interests of Some of Our Worst Presidents | A Revival of Labor with Organizing Wins at Starbucks and Mercedesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Michigan Vote as an Indicator of How the Gaza War Threatens Biden's Reelection | Senator McConnell Steps Down From Leadership of a GOP He is Out Of Step With | The Embrace of Fascism by Trump's Government in Waiting at CPACbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The President and Congressional Leaders Meet to Prevent Another Government Shutdown | Schumer Describes an "Intense" Meeting as Everybody in the Oval Office Piled on Johnson to Get Aid to Ukraine Done | An Update on the Many Trials Trump Faces As He Tries to Run Out the Clockbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Rise of Christian Nationalism, Dominionism and the New Apostolic Reformation Movements | The Supreme Court Appears Open To Giving Tech Giants Immunity From Content on Their Social Media Platforms | Powerful Leaders, Investors and Celebrities Suck Up to MbS's Sovereign Wealth Fundbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Lackluster CPAC and the VP Auditions In Spite Of Trump Trying to Have His Last VP Killed | The GOP Gets a Free Pass With the Rural Vote While Doing Nothing to Help and a Lot to Harm Rural Folk | The Latest Round of Sanctions While China, India and Brazil Buy Discounted and Smuggled Russian Oilbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
RFK Junior's Role as a Spoiler Since His Campaign's Biggest Donor is Also Trump's Biggest Donor | An Update on Diplomatic Efforts Underway For a Ceasefire in the Gaza War | What is Behind the Rise of Illiberal and Right Wing Politics in Europebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Increasing Signs That Christian Nationalists Plan to Impose an American Theocracy | Evidence That The Source For the "Biden Crime Family" Case is a Dissembler Working for Russian Intelligence | A Plan to Reinvent Our Polarized and Dysfunctional Governmentbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The US Again Gives Israel Cover Vetoing a UN Resolution For an Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza | The American Right's 100-Year Romance With Foreign Dictators | The Latest American Historians' Survey That Has Donald Trump Dead Last in 45th Placebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Navalny Wanted to See "The Beautiful Russia of the Future" While Putin is Fixated on Historical Delusions of Reviving Russian Imperialism | Do Mike Johnson's Financial Ties Explain Why He is Cutting Off Aid to Ukraine? | A Country Held Hostage by Gun Violencebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Friend of the Murdered Leader of the Russian Opposition Discusses Putin's Latest Murder of the Leader of the Russian Opposition | Why Speaker Johnson Admires Putin and Has Shut Down the Government for a Month | What We Know About Recent Warnings Russia Plans To Deploy a Space Weaponbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
What is Behind The Republican Head of the House Intel Committee's Warning of "A Serious National Security Threat"? | The Role of US Consulting Firms Who Launder Election Money and the Reputations of Dictators | How Brazil Handles an Insurrectionist President Compared to the U.S. backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How to Get Around Speaker Johnson's Servility to Trump as He Blocks Aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan | A Resounding Win For Democrats and a Rebuke of Trump and the Republicans on the Border Issue | Will the Far Right Supreme Court's Majority Delay the Cases Trump is Facing in Federal Court?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Voting to Replace George Santos Underway in a Snow Storm In a Race That Will Impact the House GOP's Slim Majority | Elections in Indonesia Could Have a General With Blood on His Hands Who Was Banned From the U.S., Become the Nation's Next President | The Military's Role in the 1965-66 Genocide and the How the U.S. Aided and Abetted the Slaughter of 2 Million Indonesiansbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Alarms Allies Saying He Would Let Russia Do "Whatever the Hell They Want" to a NATO Country | Why Aren't Journalists and Democratic Strategists Exposing Trump's Obvious Ties to Putin? | Is Pakistan on the Brink of Economic and Civil Collapse?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Can Biden Go Around Netanyahu to Save Israel From Its Ruinous Leader? | SCOTUS Avoids Talking About Insurrection in a Case That Was All About the January 6 Insurrection | How Biden Should Counter Questions About His Age and Kamala Harris's Qualificationsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Contrast Between the Transparent Leadership Change in Ukraine and Putin Cancelling the Token Opposition Candidate Because He Was Too Popular | Looking Ahead at the Fact-Free and Violence-Prone 2024 Election | 17 Donor Nations Refuse to Fund UNWRA based on a Disputed Israeli Dossierbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Successful Scuttling of the Immigration Bill and His Toady Mike Johnson's Humiliation | As Trump and Tucker Carlson Work For Putin to Kill Aid to Ukraine, Are They Traitors of "Useful Idiots?" backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
If Trump is Disqualified From the Ballot Waves of Violence Will Follow Whether he Wins or Loses the Election | The Right Wing "Texit" Movement Russia and China are Encouraging | President Zelensky's Planned Leadership Shakeup of "Multiple State Leaders"backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
To Solve Crises, Biden is Increasingly Relying on His Enemies at Home and Abroad | Biden Should Bypass Netanyahu And Go to the Israeli Public With a Peace Plan | The Disconnect Between Biden's Great Economic Numbers and How Voters Feel about the EconomyHost: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Evan Green
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Why Russia's War on Ukraine Has Reached a Stalemate | US Sanctions 4 Israeli Settlers But Not the Ministers Who Support Them | What it Will Take to Save American Journalism From Big Tech and Vulture Capitalismbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
With Biden Poised to Retaliate, Both the US and Iran Say They Don't Want a Wider War | In 1944 FDR Ditched VP Wallace For Truman, Should Biden Do the Same With Kamala Harris? | Bipartisan Outrage in the Senate Today at the CEOs of Meta, X, Snap, TikTok and Discord backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Plutocratic War on the New Deal and American Democracy | With "End Times" Christian Zionists Supporting Israel's War, Could Trump be the Antichrist? | How Layoffs at Newsrooms Will Impact This Year's Elections backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Biden's Options to Retaliate as Pressure Mounts to Strike Iran | Will the Presence of 2,400 US Soldiers in Iraq and Syria Become the Main Reason We Fight Iran? | One of 25 Historians of the Civil War and Reconstruction Who Signed An Amicus Brief to Have Trump Removed From the Ballot Under the 14th Amendmentbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Texas Leads a Secession Movement as Militias Head to the Border in a New Civil War | The Real Reasons Behind Putin's War on Ukraine | Billionaire Republican Donors Are Prepared to Spend Over $100 Million to Primary Progressive House Democratsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Mental Unfitness Will Now be a Campaign Issue Thanks to Nikki Haley | Undeterred, an Emboldened Iran Benefits From Israel's US-Backed War on Gaza | Exposing Hungary's Dictator Orban as the Blackmailer and Kleptocrat That He Isbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Need For a New Strategy to Defend Democracy at Home and Abroad as the US No Longer Deters Iran, Russia, China or North Korea | Life in Russia Which is Becoming a Garrison State With a Wartime Leader Who Started a War He Has No Intention of Stopping | Argentina Faces a General Strike in Opposition to Its Chainsaw-wielding New Leader's Slash and Burn Policies
Why New Hampshire Republican Voters Love Trump | Coming Soon the ICJ Provisional Ruling on South Africa's Genocide Case Against Israel Will Further Isolate Biden | Has Kim Jong Un Made a Strategic Decision to Go to War Against the South?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Rise and Fall of the Warrior Against Woke, Ron DeSantis | An Editor and Contributor to the American Oligarchy Issue of Mother Jones Just Out | A Letter to Davos From 260 Millionaires and Billionaires Demanding World Leaders Increase Their Taxesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Defiant Netanyahu Will Drag Out His War to Hurt Biden and Help Trump | A Failing State Lebanon Poised to Fail Completely Should War Between Israel and Hezbollah Break Out | Uvalde: So Much For the NRA Refrain That The Only Way to Stop a Bad Guy With a Gun Is a Good Guy With a Gunbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Supreme Court Poised to Gut the Administrative State | Should Bitter, Angry Justices in the Thrall of Billionaires and Corporate Power Decide What We Eat, Breath, How Long We Live and What Kind of World We Live in? | Testing US Foreign Policy Assumptions on the Brink of a Wider War in the Middle Eastbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
After Trump's Blowout Victory in Iowa, He is All But Certain to be the GOP's Presidential Nominee | As MAGA World Celebrates Trump's Lawlessness, Is the Rule of Law Itself on Trial in This Election? | A Report From Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan on an Iranian Missile and Drone Strikebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Are Israel and Saudi Arabia Liabilities Emboldened by the US to Pursue Reckless Policies? | An Expert on Impeachment as Rep. Comer Backs Down on Impeaching Biden | An Update From Iowa on the Coldest Caucus Day in Historybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Will Strikes Against the Houthis Scuttle the Saudi Peace Deal to End a War in Yemen MbS Started in 2015? | According to China, the War Party Won and the Peace Party Lost in Taiwan's Election | "Christian" Corruption as Mike Johnson Kills Enforcement After the IRS Collected $520 Million From Rich Tax Cheatsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Will Christie's Exit in New Hampshire Help Nikki Haley Who the Koch Network in Banking On? | The Reporter Behind the NY AG's Suit to Close Down the NRA | The History of Why the Democrats Got Into Bed With Wall Street and the Sanders, Warren, AOC Movement to Return the Party to Its Working Class Rootsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Last Days Ahead of Monday's Iowa Caucuses and Tonight's CNN Debate Overshadowed by a Trump Town Hall on Fox | Amid Gang Violence Ecuador Appears to be Close to a Failed State | Asymmetrical Clashes in the Red Sea Between Powerful Navies and Houthi Rebelsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Immunity Claim is Met With Deep Skepticism From the DC Appeals Court Judges | A Billionaire's War Against Harvard Now Shifts to the Media as His Wife's Plagiarism in Revealed by Business Insider | With Evangelicals at Over 50% of the Vote For Trump in Iowa, the Heathen is Promoting a Video "God Made Trump"backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Why Boeing's 737 Max is Grounded and is a Flying Turkey | The History Behind South Africa's Genocide Case Against Israel in the International Court of Justice | Can the Democrats Return to the New Deal Fight for the Common Man and Equal Opportunity?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
An Historian Who Had Lunch With the President on Wednesday Ahead of Biden's Opening Campaign Speech of 2024 at Valley Forge | How Corporate America Caved After January 6 Pledges Not to Fund Congressional Insurrectionists | A Wider War Looms as the US Gears Up To Retaliate Against the Houthis and Israel Provokes Hezbollah backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Made $7.8 Millions From Foreign Governments While in the White House, $5.5 Million From China | The Names Named in the Documents Just Released About the Epstein Blackmail Factory | Is Israel's Disproportionate Use of Force in Gaza Intended?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Will the Bombings in Iran Following Yesterday's Killing of an Hamas Official Spark a Wider War? | House Republican Grandstanding as They Weaponize Immigration | The Root Causes of The Human Flow From Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico and Around the WorldHost: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Evan Green
Will Israel's Killing of the Hamas Ambassador to Hezbollah Trigger a Wider War? | The Move Underway to Get SCOTUS to Tear Down Jefferson's Wall Between Church and State | The Frightening Similarities Between Germany in 1933 and the US in 2024backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Foreign Policy Landscape Ahead in 2024 and the Chance For Peace in a World at War | The Economy in 2023 and What's Ahead in 2024backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Politics in the Year Ending and the Critical Year About to Begin | A Recovering Republican on the GOP's Embrace of Fascismbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How to Save American Democracy From the Trump 2.0 Revenge Machine | How the US Constitution's Protection Against a Tyranny of the Majority Has Enabled the Opposite | After the 565th Mass Shooting This Year, a Look at Red and Yellow Flag Lawsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Growing Concern at the Supreme Court’s Impunity From Ethical Norms as Its Credibility With the Public Plunges | Evidence That it Was Ukraine, Not Russia Behind the Sabotage of the Nord Stream Gas Pipelines | Is America Now Divided Between “Team Crazy” and “Team Normal”?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A History of Paranoid Fantasies and Today’s Rise of Fascism Led by a Reality TV Star | Rising Tensions With China and a U.S. China Policy of Self-Harm | Hatred and Division Intensifies in the US as the Phony war Against the Woke, Drag Queens and Trans Kids Acceleratesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
America's Foundation as a Christian Nation and How the Right Captured Freedom | The "Christian" Moral Authoritarianism of Supreme Court Justices in the Pockets of Plutocrats
As Christians Celebrate Christmas, a Christian Nationalist With a Smug and Sanctimonious Smile Wants to Undo the First Amendment | What Could Bring Us Together Over the Holidaysbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Will the Supreme Court Fall For Trump's Brazen Tried a True Delaying Tactic? | Will the Colorado Supreme Court's Ruling Hurt or Help Trump? | Will Biden Benefit or be Damaged if Foreign Policy Dominated the 2024 Campaign?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Netanyahu and Putin Drag Out Their Wars That Hurt Biden to Bring Back Trump | The Author of a New Report From Human Rights Watch on Starvation in Gaza | Having Stymied Prior Comprehensive Solutions, Republicans Now Demagogue The Border Crisis backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Texas is About to Turn Into the "Show Me Your Papers" Gestapo State | The US and 10 Nations Will Police the Red Sea Following Houthi Missile Attacks That Have Scared off International Shipping | As Trump Channels Hitler, Insight Into America's 40% Who Would be Happy With an Authoritarian Leaderbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The White House Tells Israel That "Protecting Palestinian Civilians in Gaza is Both a Moral Duty and Strategic Imperative" | Pope Francis Approves Blessing For Same-Sex Couples | Republicans Hold Biden Hostage With An Immigration Deal That Will Anger the Democratic Basebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Top Secret 10 Inch 2,700 Page Binder of Russian Influence and Collusion That Went Missing When Trump Left Office | How Trump and His Minions Tried to Doctor the Evidence in the Missing Binder | The American Right's Embrace of Franco and the Hungarian Kleptocratic Despot Orbanbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The House Republicans Unanimous Evidence-Free Vote For Biden's Impeachment | How Hungary's Crooked Despot Viktor Orban is Blackmailing the EU | Efforts To Reform FISA as Section 702 is Tucked Into the $886 Billion NDAAbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Hunter Biden Defies the House Witch-Hunters Ahead of the Vote To Impeach His Father | Hypocrisy Hardly Begins to Describe What is Going on With Florida Republicans | The COP28 Pledge to "Transition Away" From Fossil Fuels That Leaves a Lot of Wiggle Roombackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Zelensky Tries to Break the Deadlock as Republicans Hold up Aid to Ukraine | How Putin is Determined to Win His War On Ukraine | Musk Offers a Preview of the Media Landscape Ahead If Trump Were to WinHost: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Evan Green
As Russia Emphasizes its Maximalist Demands and Zelensky Heads to the White House to Try to Salvage the Aid Deal, What Kind of Peace is Possible? | How University Presidents Fell Into Congresswoman Stefanik's Trap | After a Death Sentence From the Texas AG and Supreme Court, a Pregnant Woman Escapes the State For an Abortionbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Recently Impeached Texas AG Issues a Life-Threatening Delay to an Abortion | The Emerging Campaign Issue of Dictatorship and What a Second Trump Term Could Look Like | Biden Vetoes a Ceasefire Sticking With Netanyahu Like VP Humphrey Stuck With LBJ in 1968 Host: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Evan Green
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How the Laws of War, International Law and the Right of Self-Defense Apply to the War in Gaza | Aid to Ukraine is Now Stalled in the House and the Senate | As Liz Cheney Campaigns to Stop Trump, "We Are Sleepwalking Into Dictatorship"Host: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Evan Green
The Target of a Lunatic Conspiracy Theory Who Trump Claims Encouraged Jan. 6 Violence on Behalf of the Deep State | Did Blinken Lean on Jordanian and Egyptian Leaders to Allow Palestinians to be Expelled Into Their Territories? | At COP28 Oil and Gas Delegates Vastly Outnumber Climate Scientists, Activist and Indigenous Peoplebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
SCOTUS Poised to Kill Any Wealth Tax Before It Even Exists | The Texas GOP Refuses to Ban Contacts With Anti Semites, Pro-Nazi Sympathizers or Holocaust Deniers in Resolution Supporting Israel | An Exploding Sexual Assault Scandal Involving A Threesome With A Founder of "Moms For Liberty" Has DeSantis Asking his Friend, Florida's GOP Chair, to Step Down backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
An Assessment of the Chillingly Precise Intelligence Report on the Planned Hamas Attack That Was ignored | The Price We Paid For the Capture of US Foreign Policy by Kissinger's Realpolitik | How Deregulation Made Airline Travel Miserable as Underinvestment is Making it Dangerousbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Death of Henry Kissinger, a great Elder Statesman to Some and a War Criminal to Others | The Canadian Connection to the Foiled Assassination Plot on US Soil | Why Did Modi's Government Take Such a Brazen Risk to Conduct a Hit on a US Citizen on US Soil? backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Host of the COP 28 Climate Summit in Dubai Exposed as a Cynic Willing to Sacrifice the Planet for Money and Power | Hugging Netanyahu is Hurting Biden | Charles Koch's $5 Billion Political Slush Fund Will Try to Elect Nikki Haley Presidentbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Tensions Inside Netanyahu's Cabinet and Between Him and the IDF Leadership by Ian Masters
Hunter Biden Calls the Bluff of the Barking Fool Congressman James Comer by Ian Masters
The Possibility of a Ceasefire and the Probability of a Resumption of the War in Gaza by Ian Masters
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An Update on Trump's Many Trials and Whether He Will be Sentenced Before the Election by Ian Masters
Was the Generosity of Native Americans Towards the Pilgrims Repaid With Genocide? | As the Poor and Homeless Are Fed on This Day, What Will it Take to Feed All Americans Every Day? | An Exploration of Future Trends We Can Be Thankful Forbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
An Assessment of Whether the Term Genocide Applies to What is Happening in Gaza | Speaker Mike Johnson's Pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago as his Extremist Views Are Exposed | An Activist Who Preaches Against Consumerism and Black Friday Shoppingbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Brief Pause in Gaza But a Long War to Follow | On Thanksgiving Should We Be Thankful For an Improved Economy? | Lesson For the Democratic Party From Spain Where a Fragmented Left Was Rebuilt to Now Hold Power backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Death of a First Lady Who Made a Difference | A Chainsaw-Wielding Madman Just Got Elected President of Argentina | Musk's Open Anti-Semitism is Being Spread to His 170 Million Followersbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The US Priority of Helping Israel Over Ukraine Which is Repelling the Russian Invader While Israel Turns a Tiny Strip of Land Into Rubble | Will the House Finally Show George Santos the Door? | Most of Us Are Against Inequality, But Few Have Explored What Equality Isbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Escalating Threat of Domestic Terrorism as a Result of the War in Gaza | The Likely Impact of AIPAC's $100 Million Targeting of the Squad in Next Year Primaries | An Appraisal of the Biden-Xi Meetingbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
What the US Can Do To Reach Out To the Chinese People | The Breakdown of Decorum With Outbursts of Schoolyard Taunts and Threats of Violence From Congressmen and Senators | America's Appetite For Misinformation and How the Press Should Handle Trump's Nazi Threatsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Is Israel Trying to Drag the US Into a Wider War That Neither Biden or Iran Want? | The Surprising Pragmatism Coming From the New House Speaker | The Supreme Court's New Ethics Code as a PR Stunt Rather Than an Enforceable Regimebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
On Veterans Day Trump Channels Adolf Hitler | Why Does the Mainstream Media Treat Trump With the Equal and Opposite Convention of So-Called Balance? | Should the US Prepare For a Post-Putin Russian Nuclear Meltdown?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Senate Republicans Protect the Powerful From the Public | A Preview of the Biden/Xi Summit in San Francisco | Will the Saboteur Joe Manchin Deliver Biden a Fatal Blow?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Republican Presidential Hopefuls Want War Against Iran, China, Mexico and Even Canada | Ivanka Trump's Memory Lapses About Her Job That She Was Proud Of | Is Netanyahu Emotionally Destroyed and a Danger to Israel as a Former Israeli PM Charges?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Democratic Wins Look Good For 2024 In Spite of the Party Leader's Poll Numbers | How the Politics of Abortion Will Play Out in 2024 | Islamophobia in the House as the Only Palestinian American in Congress is Censuredbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Trump on the Witness Stand in a Case He Has Already Lost | An Expert on Palestinian Issues Examines the Possibility of the End to the Agony in Gazabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Palestinian Mother and Daughter Who Just Lost 36 Members of Their Family in Gaza | An Analysis of the Speech by the Leader of Hezbollah Which Is Poised to Open a Second Front | US/China Relations Ahead of Next Saturday's APEC Summit Where Biden and Xi Will Meetbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Increasing Tensions Inside the American Left on Campuses and Among and Between Arab and Jewish Americans Over the Gaza War | As China Mourns Li Keqiang, Its Insecure and Unpopular Leader Xi Jinping Stifles Expressions of Grief | Will Minnesota's Supreme Court Take the Insurrectionist Trump Off the Ballot Along With Colorado, New Hampshire, Arizona and Michigan? backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
MAGA Mike Johnson's Top Priority to Cut Taxes on the Rich by Gutting the IRS's Ability to Collect Revenues From Wealthy Tax Cheats | A Report From Israel Inside the Homes Where Hamas Terrorists Butchered Families | Donald Junior's Testimony in the $250 Million Fraud Trial In Which the Trump Organization Has Already Been Found Liablebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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How the War in Gaza is Impacting U.S. Electoral Politics | With the New House Speaker a Champion of the Big Lie, How Do We Deal With the Challenges Ahead From Fake News and Deep Fakes? | After Big Wins For Labor, the UAW Seals a Good Deal With the Big Threebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Winning the Military Campaign But Losing the Information War | After the 565th Mass Shooting This Year, a Look at Red and Yellow Flag Laws | The Ascension of Mike Johnson as a Christian Fundamentalist Politicianbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Christian Soldier MAGA Mike Johnson | Will Iran's Aging Supreme Leader Avoid a Wider War or Bring on the Apocalypse? | An Inside Look at the President and Joe Biden's First Two Years in Officebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Gets His Speaker With a Friendlier Face But a Hard Right Record | A Strategic Overview of the Middle East on the Brink of a Wider War | The Reemergence of the Palestinian Statehood Issue backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Emmer Gets the Nomination, Trump Calls Him a RINO, Then He Drops Out of the Race For Speaker | Are the Insurrectionist House Republicans Fascist or Nihilists, or Both? | When Israel Invades Gaza They Will Cross Iran and Hezbollah's Red Linebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Continuing Paralysis of the Legislative Branch | Instead of Doubling Down on Failed Policies, It's Time to Reconsider Our Position in the Middle East | Argentina's Potty-Mouth Populist is Down But Not Outbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Putin, Hamas and Trump's House Republicans Demonstrate Their Contempt For Democracy | Biden's $105 Billion Aid Request Goes to a Leaderless House With No One Constitutionally Able to Act on It | How Much Will Third Party Candidates Swing the 2024 Election to Trump?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The War on Children as Bombs Fall on Gaza Where Half the Population is Under 18 | The Search for Humanity and Compassion Amid the Killing | The Kraken is Released on Probation and Will Testify Against Trump and His Cohortsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
An Assessment of the Latest Intelligence on the Strike on the Gaza Hospital Parking Lot | A Local Reaction From a Journalist and Activist to Biden's Short Visit to Israel | Jordan Fails Again After Unleashing Fox News Junkyard Dogs and MAGA Threats at the House Republicans Cowards Caucusbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
With the Facts of Who and What Was Behind the Bombing of a Hospital in Gaza Not Yet Verified, We Look Into How it Has Backfired on Israel | Jim Jordan Falls 20 GOP Votes Short, So Trump Does Not Yet Control the House | Is the Supreme Court's Right Wing Majority Using a Specious Case For a Massive Gift to Their Billionaire Backers?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Paralysis at Home While Wars Rage Abroad With the House to Vote on Jim (Gym) Jordan For Speaker on Tuesday at Noon | Sunday's Election in Poland a Welcome Reversal of Democratic Backsliding | Will the Corrupt, Crooked and Reactionary Establishment in Guatemala Deny the Democratically-Elected President Arévalo His Right to Govern? backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Can Israel Destroy Hamas Then Hand Over Gaza to the UN and Arab States to Rebuild and Sustain it? | Rising Tensions on Campuses Between Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestinian Studentsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Role the Great Powers are Likely to Play in Israel's War Against Hamas | Gaza Civilians Caught Between Israel's Retaliation For Atrocities by Hamas, and an Illegitimate, Repressive, Religious Fundamentalist Government | Another Indictment Against Senator Menendez For Acting as a Foreign Agent For a Foreign Government While Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Israel's Intelligence Failures and the Recriminations Soon to Come | The Religious Fanatic Who Stacked Our Judiciary Believes Catholics Are Under Threat From Barbarian Secularists | Chaos With No New Speaker as a Block of Republican Members Want to Vote For McCarthybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Jared, MbS, Biden and Bibi Ignored the Palestinians as They Dreamed Up Their Plan for Peace and Prosperity in the Middle East | The Distinction Between Supporting Palestinian Rights and Supporting Terrorists | Elon Musk's X Now Monetizes Disinformation by Fake Journalists With Blue- Check Accounts Who Get Paid to Spread Liesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Intensifying War Between Israel and Hamas | The Election of a New House Speaker and Jim Jordan as a Leading Insurrectionist | Democrats Should Get Behind Joe Biden and It's the Democratic Party That's Ailing, Not Himbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
After Declaring War on Hamas, Could the Conflict Escalate Against Hezbollah in the North? | The Colossal Israeli Intelligence Failure on the 50th Anniversary of Another Intelligence Failure | The Future of the Israeli/Saudi Arabia Normalization Deal That Does Not Add Up For the U.S.backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Top Biden Officials Meet With Mexico's President AMLO Who Denies Fentanyl is Made in Mexico and Blames the US For Refugees From Cuba and Venezuela | A Warning Against Cutting Off Aid to Ukraine and Expecting a Complete Victory | The Blowback Armenia's Leader Faces After Azerbaijan's Ethnic Cleansing of Nagorno Karabakhbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The United States is Without a Functioning House of Representatives | "Will the Pentagon's Techno-Fantasies Pave the Way for War with China?" | Can Lessons From the Past Save Our Future on an Endangered Planet?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Far-Right House Freedom Caucus Rebels Led by the Brat Matt Gaetz Who Hates McCarthy, Topple the Speaker | Today's Fratricide in House With Democrats Joining the Insurrectionists in a 216 to 210 Vote to Remove McCarthy | The UN Plan to Deploy 1,000 Police From Kenya to Free Haitians From Gangs | Growing Tensions Between Canada and India
Trump's Day in Court Lashing Out Against New York Fraud Charges | 43 Million With Student Debt of $1.65 Trillion Now Have to Make Loan Payments | Will the Supreme Court Give Predatory Payday Lenders a Win as They Rule to Deconstruct the Administrative State?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Apart From Helping Putin, Why is Cutting Aid to Ukraine the Top Priority of Trump and a Handful of Republicans in Congress? | The Urgency to Replace Senator Feinstein as Governor Newsom Backtracks | Astra Taylor on Her New Book The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apartbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
With the Deck Stacked Against American Workers, the Competition to Win Their Votes | The Rise of Antisemitism and the Role of Conspiracy Theories in Our Politics | With 60,000 Emails Hacked From the State Department, An Assessment of the Government's Cybersecuritybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
After Losing His Business License in New York, Trump Could Lose All His Businesses Built on Fraud | Voters Care More About the Economy Than Losing American Democracy | Will Trump's Call to Shut Down the Government Backfire?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Biden Sides With Workers on the Picket Line | The FTC's Antitrust Suit Against Amazon Which 17 States Are Joining In | Why Is Trump So Afraid of General Milley and Cassidy Hutchison?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump’s Latest Full-on Fascist Rant to Shut Down Any Media That’s Critical of Him | The Role of the Supreme Court in Helping Sen. Menendez Dodge a Bullet the First Time | As Thousands Arrive at the Southern Border, Biden Is Under Increasing Pressure From Republicans and Democratsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Tuesday Will See the First American President to Join a Picket Line in the UAW Strike in Detroit | How Shaky is Xi Jinping's Hold on Power? | The Failure of Journalism in the Reagan Era and Now the Trump Erabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The House Freedom Caucus Nihilists Further Weaken McCarthy as They Head For a Shutdown | Judicial Activists Focused on Civil Liberties While Plutocrats Captured the Supreme Court to Deconstruct Government Itself | Investigating Credible Evidence That Indian Agents Assassinated a Sikh Activist on Canadian Soilbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Member of a Delegation of Australian Politicians in Washington Urging the US Not to Extradite Julian Assange | How To Stop Doing Business With Dictators and Undo the Trade Trap We Built | An Update on the Tense Armenia/Azerbaijan Confrontation as a Ceasefire is Reached backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How the US Constitution's Protection Against a Tyranny of the Majority Has Enabled a Tyranny of the Minority | Presidents Biden and Zelensky at the UN today and the Reactions of World Leadersbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
In Spite of Damning, Salacious Testimony, Texas Republicans Acquit AG Paxton | Mitt Romney, the Last Honest Republican in the Senate | The History of What Contributed to the Tragic Loss of Life in Libyabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The UAW and the Transition to EV: Avoiding the False Choice Between a Good Job and a Green Job | After Trillions Wasted by the Military Industrial Complex, Cheap Drones and Robotic Vehicles Operating on AI Are the New Global Arms Race | The Tragic Loss of Life in Libya Already Riven by Civil War and Beset by Corruptionbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The False Equivalence of Hunter Biden on Trial While His Father is Running Against the Head of the Trump Crime Family | The Grey Area Between What is Illegal and What is Corrupt | The Looming Strike by the UAW Against the Big Three Automakersbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How Delusion and Distraction Now Dominate Our Politics | What is Kim Jong Un Getting For Helping Putin's "Great Victory in the Sacred Struggle" in Ukraine? | Child Poverty Has Doubled in a Year From an Historic Low of 5.2% to 12.4% backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
McCarthy Caves Into House Radicals to Impeach Biden After 9 Months of Fruitless Investigation of Hapless Hunter Biden | Can the Democrats Shame Wisconsin's Republican Legislative Thugs? | The DOJ Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Its Monopoly Via Billions Paid to Apple and Samsung backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Why Can't Biden and the Pentagon Control Elon Musk From Helping His Pal Putin? | Ariel Dorfman on the 50th Anniversary of the Coup Against Allende | On the 22nd Anniversary of 9/11 the Senate Homeland Security Committee Wants an Unredacted Report on Saudi Arabia's Role in the Attack backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Modi, the Host of the G20, Employs Fascist Tactics to Make India a Hindu Only Nation | As China's Economy Stumbles With Youth Unemployment at 21.3%, Xi Doubles Down on Repression | The Looming Possibility of Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide Against Armeniabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
An Alarming Poll by CNN Has 46% Against Biden With 44% Saying Any Democrat Would Be Better Than Trump As Biden and Trump's Favorability Stands at 35% | The Only American to be Jailed by a Corporation For Winning a Lawsuit Against Chevron | The Firing of Ukraine's Defense Minister and Zelensky's Efforts to Root Out Corruptionbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Impeachment Trial of the "Christian" Crook Ken Paxton Divides Texas Republicans | Over 60 Environmental Activists Charged Under the Same RICO Statutes Trump and His Allies Face For Trying to Steal an Election | On the Brink of Another War Between Armenia and Azerbaijan as the Kremlin Switches Sides and the U.S. Holds Military Exercises in Armeniabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Erdogan Fails to Revive the Black Sea Grain Deal as Ukraine Breaks Through Russian Defenses | Leaked Intelligence on Putin's Plans to Meet With Kim Jong-Un | The Rising GOP Star Ramaswamy is Angling to Be Trump's Running Mate or Secretary of Statebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Summer of Strikes Enters the Fall With Energized Labor Movements From Hollywood to Detroit | Wage Disparity Grows as CEOs Write Their Own Multi-Million Compensations, Buying Back Stock to Boost Their Earnings | How Much of the Billions in the IRA and CHIPS Act Will End Up in the Pockets of Workers? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
What Happened to America's Liberals and Can They Reimagine a Vision For the Future? | The Greatest Threat to Our Politics, Economy and Culture From Big Tech's Billionaires Musk, Theil, Zuckerberg and Andreessenbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Proud Boys are Sentenced but Not Their Strategists Roger Stone and Alex Jones | America's Internal Colonies of Poverty | The High-Tech Hype of a Revolution in Weaponry in Ukraine as WWI Trench Warfare Grinds onbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Political Rise of the Annoyingly Ambitious Ramaswamy Who Will Do or Say Anything to Get Ahead | How Trump and DeSantis Brought Racism Out Into the Open | How Big Pharma With the Help of the Corporate-Friendly Supreme Court Could Kill the Lowering of Drug Prices backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
As DeSantis Erases Black History, His Campaign Appeals to the Likes of the Young White Nazi Who Murdered 3 Blacks In Jacksonville | The First of Ten Drugs Medicare Will Bargain Down the Prices Of With Big Pharma | Mark Meadows Fumbles Answers to Key Questions in 3 hours of Testimony backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Today's Pentagon Announcement to Deploy Thousands of Drones and AI Robotic Warfare Platforms Against China Within Two Years | The Emerging Digital Military Industrial Complex as Silicon Valley Meets the Pentagon | The Pope Criticizes American Bishops for "A Very Strong, Organized, Reactionary Attitude" as "Ideologies Replace Faith" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedi
How NASA and the DoD Defer to Elon Musk Who Holds Ukraine's Fate in His Hands While Buying What Putin is Selling | How Much the U.S. is Helping and Hindering Ukraine's War Effort | While Trump Gets Celebrity Treatment at the Atlanta Jail and Makes Money Out of His Mugshot, Inmates Inside Rot for Months Without Trial backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Republican Presidential Hopefuls Deny Global Warming and Would Support Trump For President Even If He Is In Jail | The Threat to American Democracy When One of the Two Parties Embraces Authoritarianism and Rejects Election Results | A View From Kyiv of Putin's Assassination of Prigozhin and How the U.S. Does Not Want Ukraine to Win the War backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Revenge is Putin's Dish Best Served Cold to His Former Chef | The Winner of Tonight's GOP Presidential Primary Debate in Not on the Stage | Moscow is Tightening Its Grip on Belarus, Georgia and Moldova backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Under the Leadership of Their Murderous Dictator, Saudi Border Guards Slaughter Ethiopian Refugees | The US Government Warns Americans to Leave Belarus "Immediately" | The Co-Founder of CODEPINK Argues That The New York Times's Criticism of Her and Her Husband is Propaganda and McCarthyism backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Biden's Visit to Maui Where 850 Are Missing After the Worst Fire in American History | Guatemala Elects a Reformer in a Landslide | The BRICS Summit in South Africa With China's Xi But Absent Putin backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Camp David Summit to Bring Japan and South Korea Together as China, Russia and North Korea Strengthen Ties | The U.S. Does Not Want Ukraine to Win and Defeat Russian Aggression | We Are Entering the Age of Fire backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Canada on Fire | Rights-Based Environmentalism as a Legal, Political and Moral Movement | Trump's Only Path to Victory in 2024 | Anti-Democratic Rules Hold up Biden's Diplomatic, Judicial and Military Nominees backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Racist Response to the Latest Indictments is to Call Black Judges, Prosecutors and Election Workers "RIGGERS" | A Win For Young Environmentalists in Red State Montana | Biden Celebrates the One Year Anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Fani Willis's 98-Page indictment With 19 Defendants Including Trump Who Faces 13 Charges | An Expert on Election Law on the Latest Indictments | The Real World Consequences of Trump's Incitement of Violence backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Faces Jeopardy From Reconstruction Era Laws | Trump Warned Not to Turn January 6 Trial Into a Carnival | After 5 Decades in Public Office the So-Called Head of the "Biden Crime Family" Has No Charges Against Him, Unlike the Head of the Trump Crime Family backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Resounding Defeat of an Anti-Abortion Power Grab in Ohio | What Genuine Peace Efforts Can be Taken Following Revelations in the NY Times That An American Peace Group Appears to be Shilling for the Chinese Communist Party | An Examination of the Chinese Government's Global Influence Campaigns backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Power Grab by Ohio Republicans Behind Today's Election | The 'Socialism of Fools' of the 'Anti-Imperialist Left' | The Situation in Niger and the Sahel Where Wagner Mercenaries are Making Inroads backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Have Putin and Xi Handed a Strategic Opportunity to the West? |The Downfall and Jailing of Pakistan's Former PM Imran Khan | Sunday's Loss by the US Women's Soccer Team Celebrated by Right Wing Trolls and Donald Trump backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Ukraine Tries to Woo the BRICS Nations to Get About Their Peace Plan | Did Saudi Arabia Make a Mistake in Not Inviting Russia to the Peace Talks? | Trump Claims Victimhood But the Real Victims Are the 90 Million Americans Whose Votes he Tried To Steal backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Arraignment Today and Why His Defense Won't Work | The Commanding Role Trump Plays Over the Press as the Top Fox News Executives Dine With Him on the Evening of His Indictment | What is Behind the Coup in Niger Where Putin and Wagner Are Seen as Heroes and the French Villains backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Latest Indictment is not a First Amendment Issue About His Words. It's About His Deeds | Examining the Indictments With an Expert on Elections and Election Law | Jack Smith's 45 Page Indictment as a Prosecutorial Masterstroke backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The GOP's Long Quest For an Imperial Presidency. Now They're About To Crown Trump King Donald the First | What Broke the American War Machine That Now Hobbles Ukraine | How Italy's PM Giorgia Meloni Leads the Far Right in Europe backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Ukrainian Peace Plan to be Discussed by 30 Nations in Saudi Arabia on August 5 | Questions Following Jake Sullivan's Saudi Trip to Bolster the Abraham Accords | The Republican Napoleon is Getting Smaller and Smaller backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
More Indictments of Trump That Pro-Trump Jurors in Florida Could Agree Are Crimes | Do the US and NATO Really Want Ukraine's Counteroffensive to Succeed? | A Defiant Alito Tells the Congress He is Above the Law backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Netanyahu's Path of Autocratic Legalism Following Orban, Erdogan, Bolsonaro, Modi and Putin | The Attempt Underway to Give Republicans and Independents Who Can't Vote For Trump an Alternative to Voting For Biden | Senator McConnell Freezes Then Senator Feinstein Has to be Told Repeatedly to Vote "Aye" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Roundup of Legal Issues Facing Hunter Biden, Guiliani, Flynn, Navarro and Trump | Biden's Mental Health Initiative as Addiction and Mental Illness Remain Untreated Across the Country | The Techno-Autocracy of Saudi Arabia as an Example of Capitalism Without Democracy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Deepening Divisions in Israel With the Country's National Security Threatened by Netanyahu's Power Grab | Scientists Predict a Tipping Point Where the Atlantic Gulf Stream Current Could Collapse as Early as 2025 | Is Governor Ron DeSantis Going the Way of Governor Scott Walker? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Massive Demonstrations in Israel Against Netanyahu's Power Grab to Avoid Jail | The Global Heatwave and It's Not Game Over on Climate Change But Game On | Does The US Government and the Pentagon Want Ukraine to Lose the War? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How to Save American Democracy From the Trump 2.0 Revenge Machine | A Plan to Solve the Electoral College and Gerrymandering Problems Undermining American Democracy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Today's Republican Lovefest With RFK Jr. Which Had Democrats Attacking the Anti-Vaxxer and Anti Semite With the Storied Democratic Name | As Russia Attacks Grain Terminals, Mines the Black Sea and Threatens Shipping, Grain Prices Soar | A Legal Historian on How and Why Trump Has Avoided Accountability So Far backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Facing a Third Indictment From Jack Smith in DC for the January 6 Insurrection | Pro-Trump Fake Electors Charged in Michigan With Cases Pending in Arizona and Georgia backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
As the Planet Bakes, Oil Companies Enjoy Record Profits From a Product that is Killing the Planet | The Heritage Foundation Plan to "Deconstruct the Administrative State" and Install Trump as Dictator | What if Trump Controlled the IRS, FDA, FTC, EPA and DOJ and Who Would Benefit? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
No Labels, Flush With Republican Billionaire Dark Money, Woos Joe Manchin to Split the Biden Vote to Elect Trump | Russia's Suspension of the UN-Brokered Black Sea Deal to Export Grains and Fertilizer | The Underground Tartar Resistance Group in Crimea backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
What is Behind the Hatred Spewing Forth From House MAGA Republicans? | The Hate-Filled Amendments to the NDAA Which McCarthy Hailed as Stopping "Wokeness" in the Military | The Impact on the Broader Labor Movement of SAG-AFTRA Joining the WGA Already on Strike backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Birth Control Pills Will Soon be Available Over the Counter Without a Prescription | A Brazen Coup Attempt in Guatemala Which Has the Leading Presidential Candidate Suspending Her Campaign | What Has Happened to the GOP, the Party of Law and Order? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Growing Threat to Public Safety From Ghost Guns | An Assessment of the Just-Concluded NATO Summit | Erdogan Did Not Steal the Limelight at the Summit or End up With Much backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Record Heat in the South and Southwest as Climate Change Scorches the Planet | Considered the Most Corrupt Leader in the World, Erdogan's Successful Blackmail | The Crypto Industry Throws Money at House and Senate Democrats backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Should Ukraine Model Its Security Future on Israel, Not NATO? | What Does Zelensky Want From the NATO Summit? | The Researcher Who Exposed How Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Also Represent the Victims of the Climate Crisis backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
As Russia's Nuclear Threats Recede, Some NATO States Call For Ukraine to be Admitted | Is America Now Divided Between "Team Crazy" and "Team Normal"? | When Will Those Who Incite Violence Be Held to Account For the Consequences? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The US Secretary of State and the UN Secretary General to Send an International Police Force to Haiti to Prop Up a Corrupt Government in League With the Gangs and Repugnant Elite | The Battle of the Billionaires As Zuckerberg's "Threads" Challenges the Future of Musk's Twitter | The Maker of the LOAN WOLVES documentary Which Shows How and Why 43 Million Americans Were Trapped Into $2 Trillion in Student Debt backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Alarming Reports That the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant Could be Blown Up | Can the IAEA Save Zaporizhzhya While Giving the Go Ahead to Dump Fukushima's Radioactive Water Into the Pacific | Biden Meets With Sweden's PM Ahead of Next Week's NATO Summit backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Strategy Behind the Ukrainian Counteroffensive Many Pundits See as Being Bogged Down | Our Cavalier Disregard of Nuclear Threats From Putin Who Said "We Have No Need For a World Without Russia" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
American Democracy Under Threat as Unelected Justices Veto Policies They Don't Like Aided By Phony Front Groups | The Israeli Military Targets Angry Young Palestinians Alienated From Their Own Aged and Inept Government | Has Putin Lost His Monopoly on Violence and Will the ICC Charge Him With Genocide? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Why Not Cancel Student Debts Now Using The Higher Education Act of 1965? | How to Deprogram the Followers Inside the Cult of Trump | An Update on the Mutiny in Russia and Ukraine's Counteroffensive backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Another Right Wing Front Group Gets SCOTUS to Rule With a Predetermined Outcome, This Time Against Affirmative Action | How Asian Students Were Used to Perpetuate the Myth of Colorblindness | The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The SBA Finds That Over $200 Billion Was Stolen From Covid Relief Funds With Billions More Unaccounted For | The Terrible Electoral Systems We Are Left With After the Supreme Court Voted Down an Outrageous GOP Power Grab | What is Being Discussed and Could Emerge From Talks Between the US and Iran in Oman and New York? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Scathing Senate Report "Planned in Plain Sight" Compiles the Failures of the FBI, DHS and Capitol Police to Act on January 6 Warnings | Prigozhin's Fate Now That He is in Belarus Without His Mercenary Army | Did Putin and Lukashenko Set Up a Gangster Style Trap For Prigozhin? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Putin's Angry Address Tries to Drive a Wedge Between Prigozhin and the Rank and File of His Wagner Mercenary Army | How Trump Changed the Culture of Washington With the Influx of Grifters, Con Men, Racists, Creeps and Bottom Feeders backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Putin's Brush With Civil War in Nuclear-Armed Russia | A Profile of the Russian Warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin | What we Might Learn About Trump's Ties to Putin and Collusion with MBS from the Upcoming Trial backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
India's Controversial Leader Modi Gets the Royal Treatment at the White House But is an Alliance with the US in the Cards? | A Supreme Court Captured by Plutocrats Has Thomas and Alito Serving Their Billionaire Buddies | Homelessness is Caused by Loss of Income and Just $300 a Month Could Keep People Off the Streets backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
GOP Show Trials Sputter As 5 Years Later We Have Durham's Nothingburger and Hunter Biden's Misdemeanor Plea Deal | Why Tech Billionaires and Bannon Are Promoting RFK Jr's Primary Challenge of the Biden Presidency | An Update on the Ukraine War and What Russia Has Learned From Past Mistakes backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Why Were the DOJ's Investigations Into January 6 and the Theft of Documents Delayed For 15 Months? | What is Behind Tech Billionaires Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey and David Sacks' Promotion of RFK Jr's Spoiler Campaign? | Will China Play the Leading Role in Ending the Ukraine War? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Can the GOP Convince American Voters That Biden's Government Has Been Captured by Marxists and Communists? | Blinken and Xi Jinping Agree on the Need to Stabilize US-China Relations | The Scathing DOJ Report on the Minneapolis Police backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Why Did Trump Steal Classified Documents? Maybe Because Putin Told Him To | Analogies Between World War I and the War in Ukraine backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Are We at the Point of No Return With American Democracy at the Crossroads? | A Cultural Historian on "Animal Spirits" and How the Universe is Alive backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Blinken Sets Out to Try to Repair Dangerously Frayed Relations Between the World's Leading Military Powers | With Florida Trump Country, Can the Democrats Reverse GOP Gains? | Comparisons Between Berlusconi and Trump and the Media Mogul Turned Italian Leader's Close Relationship With Putin backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Arrested and Arraigned Today, Trump is So Lucky to Have Judge Aileen Cannon Preside over His Prosecution | Could Judge Cannon Influence the Jury Pool to Ensure a Hung Jury? | How Did a Ruthless Colonial Power The Soviet Union Get Away With Portraying Itself as the Anti-Colonial Champion? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
An Overwhelming Majority of Republicans Think Trump Should Serve as President if Convicted and That the Indictments Are Politically Motivated | At War With the Rule of Law, Trump is Calling For a Right Wing Rebellion | Why the PGA - Saudi LIV Merger Will Not Happen backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Overwhelming Evidence of Trump's Endangerment of US National Security | Republican Efforts to Portray the Prosecution as Biden Taking Out His Main Rival For the Presidency | Trump's Uncanny Luck at Having His Pliant Judge Who He Appointed Hear the Case backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Surprise Ruling From the Supreme Court Whose Supermajority is Increasingly Out Of Touch With Mainstream America | Is the Breaching of the Dam in Ukraine an Act of Ecocide? | The Impact on European Public Opinion From Revelations Ukrainians Blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Evidence That it Was Ukraine, Not Russia Behind the Sabotage of the Nord Stream Gas Pipelines | Is the Merger Between the PGA and LIV Golf Tournaments a Way For the Saudis to Pay Off Donald Trump? | The Supreme Court's Shadow Docket Where 99% of Unseen, Unsigned and Unexplained Cases are Decided backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Flooding From a Breached Dam Delays Any Ukrainian Military Attack From the South Into Crimea | A Reporter's Earlier Conversations With Zelensky About Russia Blowing up the Dam | The Impact on Ukrainian Civilian Infrastructure and New Reporting That Ukraine Was Behind the Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The False Equivalence of the Far-Right House Freedom Caucus and the Democrat's Progressive Caucus | Mike Pence and the Growing Republican Ranks of Hopefuls Challenging Trump | Sunday's Massive Demonstrations in Poland Against Anti-Democratic Authoritarianismbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Phony Crisis Averted Now a Celebration of Compromise and Bipartisanship | The Next War of Drones and AI Now in Ukraine | Exporting the Technology of Repression and Australia's Trial of the Century backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Eviscerates His Own Defense as Jack Smith Closes in on Indicting Him | The Disconnect Between Biden's Low Poll Numbers and His Many Achievements | How Defense Contractors Influence the Ukraine Debatebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Sacklers Get to Keep Most of Their Money After a Million Americans Have Died From Their Drug OxyContin | Serbia's Authoritarian Leader and Russian Provocateurs Are Behind What Lavrov Says is a Big Explosion Looming in the Heart of Europe | The March Towards Authoritarianism in States Taken Over by Republican Supermajoritiesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Hazardous Passage of the Debt Ceiling Deal Through Congress | Will Putin Get the Traitor-in-Chief Back in the Oval Office? | Is Erdogan's Victory Also a Victory For Putin?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Remembering an American General Who Would Not Speak of the Glorious Dead on Memorial Day | How Defense Contractors Are Gouging the Taxpayer While Rewarding Shareholders at the Expense of R&D | Is Cybersecurity an Unsolvable Problem?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Impeachment of a MAGA Crook by a Far-Right Republican-Dominated House of the Texas Legislature | Ron DeSantis's Alarming Promise to Do To the Nation What He Has Done To Florida | The Ukrainian Counteroffensive and the "Game of Thrones" Power Struggle Inside the Kremlinbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Meltdown of DeSantis's Big Announcement on Elon Musk's Troubled $44 Billion Platform | A Chief Justice Out of Touch With Reality and a Call For Justice Thomas to Resign | Time to Deal With the One State Reality of Israelbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Continuing Standoff Over the Debt Ceiling as the Congressional Clock Runs Out | As a Red State Turns Blue, New Bills in Texas Target Democratic Voters in Houston | The Shadowy Fixer For the Reverse Altruism of Right Wing Billionaires Who Have Captured Our Courts and Want the Restbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Ron DeSantis Will Announce His Bid For the Presidency in Conversation With Elon Musk on Twitter | Debt Ceiling Negotiations Will Determine How Much Punishment Will Be Inflicted on the Poor to Reward the Rich | Putin Could Be Arrested If He Shows Up For the BRICS Summit in South Africa in August backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Ukrainian Sabotage Operations Inside Russia as Part of the Upcoming Counteroffensive | Europe Can Provide More Military and Economic Assistance to Ukraine | Free Trade Zones as Capitalist Nirvanas to Unleash the Market From the Tyranny of Government and Bureaucracybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Zelensky's Surprise Visit to the G7 in Hiroshima, Japan | MBS Welcomes Assad Back Into the Arab League While Also Welcoming President Zelensky | Russia Warns of Escalation as Biden Allows Ukrainian Pilots to Train on F-16sbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The G7 Summit Underway in Hiroshima, Japan and the Haunting Spectre of Nuclear Weapons | Can the House Radicals Compromise on a Deal Many Democrats Say Biden Should Not Be Negotiating? | The Politics Behind Diane Feinstein's Sad Return to the US Senatebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How Domestic Turmoil Caused by GOP Radicals Makes the U.S. an Unreliable Partner on the World Stage | What Does Trump Owe Rudy Giuliani and Will he Throw Him Under the Bus? | Regulation of Promising But Potentially Dangerous AI Technology is Necessary But is it Practical or Possible?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Lawsuit With Recorded Evidence Against Giuliani By A Woman Scorned Could Be Devastating For Trump | Democrats Cave on a Clean Debt Ceiling Bill | The Disappointing Results of Sunday's Elections in Turkeybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
As the Standoff Over the Debt Ceiling Gets Closer to Default, Can Biden Call the House Republicans Bluff? | Running an Anti-American Campaign, Erdogan is Likely to be Reelected, Making Him Less Constrained and More Authoritarian | Not Only Do We Have a Mad Candidate, Countries Can Fall Into the Grip of Madness as Germany Did in the 1930's backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The First White House Insider to Expose Trump on How Trump Will be Even More Dangerous Next Time | After Top Officials Met For 8 Hours, Could China and the U.S. Work Together to End the War in Ukraine? | A Champion of Democracy and Transparency Who Took on Powerful Interests and Wonbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Unstable Unfitness For Office on Display as the Much of the U.S Falls into the Grip of Madness | A Flood of Desperate and Destitute Migrants Face More Military and Police Response Than Humanitarian Assistance | The Arrest of Imran Khan, the Pakistan Military's Favorite who Fell Out of Favor With Thembackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Today's Indictment of Congressman George Santos on 13 Counts and Calls For Him To Resign, But Not From Speaker McCarthy | Prigozhin Throws Shade on Putin's Victory Day Parade Telling Him Not to F**k Around On Red Square | Could Turkey's Kleptocratic Authoritarian Be Voted out on Sunday and Will He Accept the Results?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Former President Has Been Found Guilty of Sexual Assault But Does the Party of Donald Trump and George Santos Care? | After Today's Pointless Meeting, Biden Should Now Call McCarthy's Bluff on the Debt Ceiling | The Writers' Guild Strike Has Much More Significance Beyond Hollywoodbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Thursday's Expected Influx of Immigrants at the Southern Border and the Failure to Deal With the Root Causes | As Republicans Try to Extort Budget Cuts, the Counter Leverage of the 14th Amendment is in Biden's Pocket | The Weaponization of AI Tech as the Pentagon Looks at CHAT GPTbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Reporter Who Was Banned From Entering the "Woke Free Zone" at CPAC's Conference in Orban's Hungary | The Growing Evidence of Ethical Violations by Justice Clarence Thomas and His Right Wing Activist Wife | The Pillage by Vulture Capitalist in Private Equity Who Make Huge Profits Plundering Companies They Buy backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's StormTroopers the Proud Boys Found Guilty of Seditious Conspiracy | The Possibility the Drone Attack on the Kremlin Was Carried Out By Anti-Putin Russian Partisans | Why Does the Biden Administration Create Red Lines For Ukraine Then Eventually Deliver the Weapons Months if Not a Year Later? backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Was the Drone Attack on the Kremlin Staged or a Ukrainian Attempt to Rattle Putin's Cage? | In the Face of House Republicans Extortion, is the Democratic Work-Around of a Discharge Petition Feasible? | 40% of 8th Graders Are Below Average in History and 31% Are Below Basic Proficiency in Civicsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How the Press Has Framed the Looming Act of Insanity by House Republicans as Dueling Budget Proposals | Royal Fever Ahead of King Charles's Coronation and a Plan to Abolish the Monarchy | Republican Governors are Bringing Back Child Labor in the United Statesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Growing Concern at the Supreme Court's Impunity From Ethical Norms as Its Credibility With the Public Plunges | Biden Pledges "Ironclad" Military Ties With The Philippines As China Warns of "Stoking the Fire" | Biden's Reelection Strategy of Running Against Hate and MAGA Madness backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Sudan is Descending Into a Destructive and Bloody Civil War Along the Lines of Syria and Libya | An Extensive Look Into Military Preparations For a Ukrainian Spring Offensive Aimed at a Decisive Victory Over Russia backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Republican Budget That Punishes the Poorest Americans, Children, to Deal With A Debt They Caused by Cutting Taxes For the Rich | The U.S. Nuclear Guarantees To South Korea to Stop Their Self Nuclearization | Short of a Decisive Blow Against Russia in the Upcoming Offensive, the Ukraine War Will Go On For Yearsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
China's Peace Offer to Ukraine and Does the US Want to Avoid Ukraine Humiliating Putin With Its Upcoming Offensive? | Today's Testimony by E. Jean Carroll Describing How Donald Trump Raped Her in a Bergdorf Goodman's Dressing Room | A Summit on Venezuela in Bogata, Colombia to Which the Former Venezuelan Opposition Leader Showed Up Uninvitedbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Biden Announces He is Running For a Second Term at the End of Which He Will be 86 | Biden's Relationship With Kamala Harris Who Might Succeed Him | DeSantis's Surgeon General Doctors Data to Support his Anti-Vaxxer Lunacybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Murdoch's Abrupt Firing of Tucker Carlson and How Progressives Assumed They'd Dominate Social Media Only to be Outflanked by Right Wing Populism | The Sudden Silencing of the Loudest and Most Commanding Voice That Had Republican Leaders Grovelling | DeSantis's Faltering Campaign as the Anointed Alternative To Trump is Starting to Look Like A Loserbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Tensions Within the Supreme Court As Its Popularity and Credibility Suffers While Justice Thomas Flouts Ethics | More Guns and No Restrictions For the Few Or Safety in Schools, Churches, Malls and Theaters For the Many? | While Foreigners Evacuate, Sudanese Face Starvation, Bombs and Bullets as Two Warlords Fight For Powerbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
What Will it Take For the Supreme Court to Deal With Reality and Politicians to Ignore the NRA? | Growing Pressure From the Clarence Thomas Scandal on the Supreme Court to Adopt a Code of Ethics | How Wall Street Dictates to CEO's of the Military Industrial Complex Have Led to the Ukrainians Running Out of Ammunition backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How Innocent Mistakes Can Get You Killed in the NRA's America | A $787 Million Loss For Fox is a Win In Not Having Tucker Carlson Squirm on the Witness Stand Confronted by His True Statements About His Repeated Lies | Will the Supreme Court Continue Their Moral Crusade Against Abortion or Accommodate Big Pharma?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The House Republican Caucus Fails to Agree on a Budget to Punish the Poor and Reward the Rich Using the Debt Ceiling as Leverage | "Donbass Devushka", The Navy Vet Behind the Pro-Putin Site that Doctored and Spread Documents Stolen by a 21 year-old National Guard Airman | A Chronicle of 40 Years of Delusional Misunderstanding, Appalling Errors and Death and Destruction by the US in the Middle Eastbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How Americans Alarmed by the Murdoch Propaganda Machine and Appalled by Trump, Subsidize Fox News | Speaker McCarthy Declares War on the Poor Before the New York Stock Exchange | The Callous Barbarism of Duelling Warlords in Sudanbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Prigozhin's Call to End the War is Actually a Call to Rise Up From a Temporary Defeat as a "War Monster" | Our Zombie National Security State Transitions From "Forever War" to Eternal War | As the Government Collects More Data Than in the Course of Human History, Deep State Conspiracies Flourishbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Arrest of the Leaker and the Inordinate and Unnecessary Amount of Widely Circulated Classified Material | The Dangers Racist, White Supremacist, Anti Semitic and Anti Government Views Pose to the US Military | Having Missed 60 Votes, Senator Feinstein is in No Hurry to Go Back To Work As She Holds Up Judicial Nominationsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How the FDA Overregulates Mifepristone and Why it Should Decline to Enforce a Ban | The Intellectual Leader of GOP Insurgents Who Want to Abandon Ukraine to Confront China | The New EPA Rules to Ensure Two Thirds of Cars and a Quarter of Trucks Are All-Electric By 2032 backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Manhattan DA Sues Congressman Jim Jordan and the Pentagon Leaks That Have the IC in a State of Alarm | Rumors of Divisions, Russian Moles and Corruption at the Highest Level Inside Ukraine's Leadership | Biden's Visit to Ireland and a New Book There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Damaging Leaks From Inside the Pentagon Embarrass Allies and Demoralize Ukrainian Officials | Along With the House, Senate and Fox News, is There a Pro-Putin Network Inside the Pentagon? | What Will it Take to Censure or Impeach Justice Clarence Thomas?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Far-Right Anti-Abortion Zealot Bans a Drug the FDA Approved 23 Years Ago Which is Safer ThanViagra or Tylenol | The Shadow Network Behind the Capture of Our Judiciary | The Author of The Undertow: Scenes From a Slow Civil Warbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Tennessee's Republican Majority Railroad Three Democratic State Legislators in a Display of Anti-democratic Thuggery | The Dangerous Lack of Dialogue Between the World's Biggest Military and Economic Powers | How to Reverse the Downward Spiral of U.S.- China Relationsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
As Trump Faces Further Legal Jeopardy, Is the Manhattan DA's Case Against Him Weak or Strong? | After Trump's Prime Time Tirade of Bitter Fury and Paranoid Delusion, Will the Mainstream Media Continue to Give Him Free Campaign Advertising? | How Libertarians and Alternative Health Gurus Created the Medical Freedom Hustlebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
With Today's Indictment Securing Trump's Domination of the GOP, is the Monster Right Wing Plutocrats Created Now Out of Their Control? | With So Many Americans Seeing Trump as a Hero and Martyr, What Explains the Failure to Communicate Who He Really Is? | Why Today's Supreme Court Election in Wisconsin Has Critical National Implicationsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The GOP Embraces Lawlessness Placing Trump Above the Law While Denigrating the Rule of Law | The Republican Strategy of Weaponizing the Judiciary by Forum-Shopping in an End-run Around the Executive and Legislative Branches | The Youngest Female World Leader Loses to Older Men as Finland is Poised to Enter NATObackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
What Changed the Manhattan DA's Mind to Charge Trump on 34 Counts? | Trump Will Delay and Defame Into the Summer of 2024, Rallying the GOP to His Side While Locking Out His Primary Challengers | How to Reverse the Global Decline in Democracies and the Rule of Lawbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
An American Journalist Charged with Spying Who Was Arrested in Russia For the Crime of Reporting | More Chemical Spills into Rivers as Plan B for Big Oil is the Manufacture of Plastics | How Far-Right Religious Nationalism Has Captured the World's Biggest Democracy backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Biden's Second Summit for Democracy and the Need For a Plan to Combat the Growth of Autocracies | Starbucks CEO in the Hot Seat Before Bernie Sanders' Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee | Immigrants Burned Alive in Mexico as Guards Refuse to Open Locked Gatesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Majority of Americans Want Their Kids to Come Home From School Alive So It is Time For Them to Stand Up and Be Counted | As MBS Plays America Off Against China, the Abraham Accords Are Stalled With Turmoil in Israel | Is Trump About to Start a Civil War or Fade Away as His Act Gets Stale?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Netanyahu Postpones Power Grab in the Face of Massive Demonstrations and a National Strike | Putin Threatens Nukes in Response to Ukraine Getting 14 British Tanks with Depleted Uranium Ammunition | New Revelations of a CIA Coverup of Saudi Hijacker's Activities in US Before 9/11backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's First 2024 Presidential Rally Shouts Out to the Far Right, Militias and Insurrectionists That He is Their Fuhrer and They Are Coming After You | The Massive Protest in France to Protect a Social Safety Net Americans Could Only Dream Of | How Foreign Wars Test the Moral Convictions of American Leftists backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Beating up on TikTok While Ignoring the Data Mining Business Model of Big Tech Based on Surveillance Capitalism | Netanyahu's Unreported Collusion to Elect Trump in 2016 backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Xi Fails to Deliver a Viable Peace Plan Leaving Putin to Pursue His War While Appearing to be Open to Peace Talks | The Fed Raises Interest Rates for the Ninth Time to Just Under 5% | The Roots of the Radical Right's Capture of the Republican Partybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Could China Deliver a Peace Deal to End the War in Ukraine? | On the Day Trump Said He Would Be Arrested, Where are the Indictments? | Reinvigorating the Labor Movement as Strikes and Union Negotiations Gain National Attentionbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
An Historian Who First Learned of the 1980 October Surprise Which Helped Elect Reagan and End Carter's Presidency | A Carter White House Insider on the Second Act of Treason by Republicans Which Deserves More Than an Apology to Jimmy Carterbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
What An Arrest Warrant For Putin Means and What it Will Achieve | Our Historical Memory Lapse on the 20th Anniversary of the U.S. Invasion of Iraq | A Conservative Scholar's Critique of Tucker Carlson's Pro-Russia Talking Pointsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Under-reported Role of Crypto in the Silicon Valley Bank Crash | Mass Hysteria Got Us Into the Iraq War 20 Years Ago and is on Display Today Over China | An Update From Taiwan, the Flashpoint For a Possible War With Chinabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Russian and American Military Aircraft Clash Over the Black Sea | A Zealous Anti-Abortion Judge in Texas is Poised to Ban an Abortion Drug Nationwide | Fallout From the Failure of the SVB Bank is Spreading to Europebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Hatred and Division Intensifies in the US as the Phony War Against the Woke, Drag Queens and Trans Kids Accelerates | China's Reaction to the AUKUS Deal on Display Yesterday With Biden Beside the PMs of Australia and the UK | What China's Diplomatic Initiative in the Middle East Portends for the Regionbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
China Brings Diplomacy to the Middle East Where the US Has Wasted Trillions on Endless Wars | Trump and the Fed Chair's Role in the Collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank | Are There More Shoes to Drop Following the SVB Failure?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
An "Invitation" to Trump to Testify Before a Manhattan Grand Jury Will Likely be Followed by the First Indictment of a President in US History | The Dire Consequences of Defaulting on Our Debt | Demonstrations in Georgia, Destabilization in Moldova and Russian Pressure on Belarusbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
More Damning Texts and Emails Show That Fox News Considers Telling the Truth Bad For Business | The Saudi War Against Yemen Could be Coming to an End | The Threadbare State Of NATO's Military Readinessbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Fed Chair is asked if he is OK With Putting 2 Million Americans Out of Work by Raising Interest Rates to Curb Inflation | How Best to Respond to Increasingly Extreme GOP Trolling | Another Thinly-Soured Article on Who Blew Up the Nord Stream Pipelinesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Environmental Protestors in Georgia Are Charged With Domestic Terrorism for Exercising Their First Amendment Rights | Why in the Land of the Free Are we Afraid of Being Turned Into Communists by TikTok Videos | Will the Biden Administration Make a Stand Against Netanyahu's Assault on Israeli Democracy?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Bizarre Fact-Free Speech to CPAC Where He Out-Polled DeSantis for the Nomination 3 to 1 | The Russian Strategy to Draw Ukraine's Main Force Into the Bakhmut Battle is Not Working | An Assessment of Reports That Russia Will Supply Uranium to Iran in Exchange For Drones and Missilesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Can Germany Persuade its Biggest Trading Partner China to to Bring Russia to the Peace Table? | 200 Economists Urge Leaders of Congress to Raise the Debt Ceiling to Avoid a "Dangerous and Unnecessary" Economic Crisis | A Different Perspective on Demonstrations in Mexico Against AMLO's Electoral Reformsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
With Biden's First Veto of a Culture War Absurdity "Woke Capitalism" Which Does Not Exist, Is Ron DeSantis Setting the Republican Agenda? | Is There Any Possibility of a Peaceful Solution to the War in Ukraine? | As Putin Spreads Alarm About "Nazi" Terrorist Attacks Inside Russia, Is He Setting the Stage For a False Flag Act to Justify Martial Law?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Amid Rising U.S./ China Tensions, the House Holds a Hearing of Its New Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party | As of Today 42 Million Americans Will Have Food Stamp Benefits Cut Down to $6 Per Person Per Day | The Latest Power Grab by Our Far-Right Supreme Court Using Its "Major Questions Doctrine."backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Bombshells in Unsealed Deposition Have Murdoch Revealing Biden's Ads and Debate Strategy to Trump | Republicans With Shaky Standing Urge the Supreme Court to Kill Biden's Student Debt Relief | The Deeper Structural Failures to Deal With the Coronavirus Pandemicbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
New Intelligence Has the DOE and the FBI Suggesting the Coronavirus Pandemic Could Have Originated from a Lab Accident in China | As Settlers Rampage on The West Bank, a Jordanian/Israeli Agreement is Overruled by Israel's Far-Right Finance Minister | Could an Agreement Between the UK's PM Sunak and the Head of the EU be the Beginning of the End of Brexit?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Russia's War on Ukraine One Year Later | Skepticism About China's "Position Paper" on Ending the Ukraine War Although Zelensky Welcomes It | How the Magic of the Free Market Ended Up Impoverishing Democracy and Weakening Our Ability to Tackle Major Challengesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Ohio Derailment as an Example of Wall Street's Priority of Extracting Wealth Not Creating It | The Vast Constituency of Americans Comprising Much of the GOP Who Believe in Lies and Conspiracies | A New Report on Russia's War Crimes Targeting Ukraine's Healthcare Infrastructure and Personnelbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Spy Scandal Rocking the German Government and the Roll-up of Russian Spies Across Europe | The Orwellian Tone and Stalinist Paranoia and Brutality in Putin's Speech to the Nation | Biden's Meeting With the Bucharest 9 Who Expressed Unanimous Solidarity With Ukrainebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Putin Puts Russia on a Nuclear Hair Trigger While Blaming the U.S. For the War in Ukraine | A Paranoid Russia Threatening Nuclear War While China is Poised to Deliver a Peace Plan or Deepen Its Alliance With Russia | Mexico's Equivalent of the Head of the FBI Convicted for Receiving Briefcases Full of Cartel Cashbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Biden's Surprise Visit to Kyiv and Hysteria From Putin's Supporters on America's Far Right | Deteriorating Relations With China Amid Fears China Will Supply Lethal Aid to Russia | The Supreme Court About to Hear Two Case That Could Determine the Future of the Internet backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
An Update From the Munich Security Conference | Fox News is Afraid of Its Viewers and the Truth Which Would be Bad For Business | The Origins of the Derailment in Ohiobackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Partial Release of Findings From the Special Grand Jury Investigation of Trump's Attempt to "Find" 11,780 Votes in Georgia | Which of the Many Cases Against Trump Will be the First to Issue Indictments | Why the Department of Transportation Can't Regulate Rail Companies to Prevent Derailments of Toxic Chemicalsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How Was a Mentally Ill Man With a Gun Conviction Who Shot Up His Neighborhood Able to Buy Guns and Kill 3 MSU Students? | 54 Countries Make Commitments to Arm Ukraine For a Spring Offensive | What Does Putin Have in Store as His War Begins Its Second Year on February 24?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Authoritarian Movement Underway to Ban Books, Ideas, Knowledge and History in America | The Pious Bigots Behind the $20 Million Superbowl Ad Buy For a Hip and Cool Jesus Who Gets Us | Delayed and Insufficient Information Following the Ohio Derailment That Spilled Hazardous Chemicalsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
What Hazards Did the Unidentified Objects that Were Shot Down Pose to Commercial Aviation? | The Risks to Diplomacy From Intelligence Collection | Russia's Plans to Topple the Government in Moldovabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Religious Zealot Could Ban Nationwide the Pill Used in Over 50% of Abortions and Do So Without Evidence | The History of Balloons Used For Spying and How Many UFOs Were Balloons | Will Mike Pence Tell the Truth About How His Boss Tried To Have Him Lynched?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Far-Right House Republican's Madcap Hearings Yesterday and Today | The Spiking of a Story on The Nation Magazine's Publisher's Pro-Putin Bias By the CJR's Kyle Pope | What Are "Spaces Not Bases" When the US Already has 750 Bases in 80 Countries?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Biden's Pro-Worker Anti-Corporate Profiteering SOTU Speech | Rising Tensions With China and a U.S. China Policy of Self-Harm | As Erdogan Shuts Down Criticism on Social Media, What Will He Do to Stay in Power?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Erdogan's Role in the Critical Delay in Getting Rescue Teams to the Sites of Devastation from the Earthquake | An Expert on Intraplate Earthquakes and Seismic Similarities Between Turkey and California | Can Biden Close the Gap in His SOTU Between His Accomplishments and the Public Perception That Most Americans Are Not Satisfied With his Leadership?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Will Western Donors Respond to Erdogan's Plea for Aid After Earthquakes Devastate Southern Turkey and Northern Syria? | The GOP House Plans To Cut FBI Funding Just as They Stop American Neo-Nazis From Attacking Critical Infrastructure | The Global Struggle Between Democracies Under Threat and Encroaching Autocracies and Kleptocraciesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
What it is Like to Be a Person of Color and a Muslim American Constantly Having Your Loyalty Questioned | Did Xi Jinping Authorize the Chinese Spy Balloon's Intrusion Over the US? | As Pundits Warn of Recession and Inflation, We Get the Best Economic News Since 1969 backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Speaker McCarthy Will Continue Legislative Terrorism to Extort Budget Cuts by Threatening to Crash the US and Global Economy | Cleaning Up Corruption Ahead of Ukraine's Talks on EU Membership | The US/Philippines Deal For "Spaces Not Bases" Close to Taiwanbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Facebook/Meta Reinstates Trump While Allowing Other Despots to Incite Violence and Genocide and Spread Hate and Disinformation | A Top US Russia Expert on Mistakes Made in Dealing With Putin | Pakistan Faces Blowback From the Afghan and Pakistan Talibanbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Could be Indicted in Atlanta and Manhattan Within Days or Weeks | The Ukraine War Has Derailed Russian Espionage Activities Leading to an Unprecedented Number of Arrests | The State Department's Announcement Today that Russia is Not Complying With the New START Treatybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Secretary of State Blinken's Meeting with Netanyahu and Israeli Drone Strike on Iran | Was Top FBI Agent Involved in Comey's Nothingburger and the NY Times's Dismissal of Trump's Russia Ties That Helped Elect Him? | The Systemic Problems From Elite Police Units and Militarized Policingbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Culture of Violence in Elite Police Squads and the Failure of Command to Know or Want to Know What is Going on at the Street Level | George Kennan's Warning About NATO Expansion Eastward | The Rise of the Radical Right at Home and Abroadbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Could the Arrest of a Top FBI Counterintelligence Agent in New York on a Russian Oligarch's Payroll be Connected to HRC's Claim that Comey Cost Her the Election? | The Understaffed National Archives Tries to Preserve the Historical Record While the $18 Billion Classification Machine Keeps Too Many Secrets and Is Slow to Declassify Them | The Doomsday Clock is Now the Closest Ever at 90 Seconds to Midnightbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
McCarthy's Revenge as he Strips Schiff and Swalwell of Their Seats on the House Intelligence Committee | India's Prime Minister Modi's Frantic Efforts to Prevent 1.4 Billion in the World's Biggest Democracy From Seeing a BBC Documentary | Although the Republicans Did Not Vote For the IRA, Green Money is Pouring Into Red Statesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Another Mass Shooting in California, a Record 39th So Far This Year in the US | Assessing Russia's anti-Putin Partisan Movement and How Much the US Should Support Russia's Armed Opposition | The Alarming Growth of Spirit Warrior Christianitybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Another Gift From Biden to Trump and Whether Biden Should Not Run in 2024 | Congressman Ruben Gallego's Announcement Today He is Running to Replace Sinema | Attacks on Academic Freedom by DeSantis and at Harvard and Hamline Universitiesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Why is Germany's Chancellor Scholz Stubbornly Dragging His Heels Lagging Behind German Public Opinion? | Is Russia Becoming a Case in Which a State Fails When it Loses Its Monopoly on Violence? | Inside the Wagner Group the US Just Designated as an International Criminal Enterprisebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How to Deal With the Economic Suicide Attack by Legislative Terrorists | The Surprise Resignation of New Zealand's Much Admired PM Jacinda Ahern | Political Instability in Peru as Voters Feel Betrayed by a Left Wing President Propped up by the Right Wing Establishmentbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Call to the World's Billionaires at Davos to End the Age of Extreme Wealth by Starting to Pay Taxes | Germany on the Spot For Vacillating Over Sending Arms to Ukraine | Why Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk on the Right and Many on the Left Are Apologists For Putinbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A "Stop the Steal" Loser Shoots up the Homes of Democrats Claiming "I stand with Donald J. Trump" | The Good Faith and Credit of the US at the Mercy of Freedom Caucus Nihilists | A History of Paranoid Fantasies and Today's Rise of Fascism Led by a Reality TV Starbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
On MLK Day: Taking on the Jan. 6 Coalition of Racists, Christian Nationalists, Anti-Government Radicals and the Freedom Caucus | Could Russia's Indifference Allow Another Genocide of Armenians? | Japan Joins in a New Arms Race in North East Asia backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
What to do When You Elect a Fictional Character and Get Stuck With an Abject Fraud | A Reporter Who has Been Covering the War in Ukraine For The Guardian Since it Started 326 Days Agobackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
AG Garland Appoints a Special Counsel in Biden’s Classified Docs Self-Inflicted Wound | Brazen Murders in Honduras Raise Questions of How the US Is Dealing With the Root of the Migrant Problem | The Need to Engage Both Russia and Ukraine as a Long War in Ukraine Promises to Grind Onbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Out With the Old and in With the New in the California Race to Replace Senator Feinstein | The New House and the GOP Tradition of Decrying Deficits While Running up the Debt | A Six Year Old in Virginia Shot His Teacher In What is Sadly Not Unusual in Americabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The First Bill the House Republicans Pass Cuts Funds For the IRS to Help Tax Cheats and Run Up the Deficit | The Former Head of Human Rights Watch is Denied a Fellowship at Harvard by the Pro-Israel Thought Police | 11 of the 17 New Chairs of House Committees are Election Deniers Some of Whom Supported the Insurrectionbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Brazil's Pro-Bolsonaro Riot Pales in Comparison to the January 6 Insurrection | McCarthy Has Been Installed by the Same Right Wing Oligarchs Behind, Trump and DeSantis | Mexico's President Calls on Our Right Wing Congress to stop Funding the Pentagon and Fund Central American and Caribbean Countries to Stop the Flow of Refugees to the USbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Biden's Visit to the Border at El Paso on his Way to the North American Leaders Summit in Mexico | Why is the US Not Doing More to Support the Popular Revolution Underway in Iran? | An Historical Perspective and Assessment of the Price McCarthy Will Pay For His Speakershipbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
After 10 Rounds of Voting Still No Speaker as Dysfunction Spills Over to Tomorrow's Second Anniversary of the Jan. 6 Insurrection | 50 Years From One Whistleblower Who Brought Down a President to Another He Inspired to Tell the Truth to the Jan. 6 Committee | Israel's Far-Right Government as Netanyahu Models the Authoritarian Agenda of Viktor Orbanbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Nihilism of Trump's Republican Party on Display in the House Today | A Twice in 100 Years Failure to Elect a Speaker With 9 Ballots in 1923 and 6 Failures So Far Today | Southwest Airlines Executives Blame the Weather for 5,000 Cancellations After Pocketing Billions of PPP Money For Themselvesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
With the Head of the House and the Head of Our Military Agreeing Trump is Crazy, Why Has it Taken So Long For the Truth to Come Out? | The Chaotic Election Underway For the Next House Speaker | The Violence Inherent in NFL Footballbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How in America Liars and Cheats Can Become Presidents or be Sworn in Tomorrow as Congressmen | What Makes Dictatorships Like Russia and Iran so Durable | The Threat of White Christian Nationalism in 2023backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The House in 2023 Crippled by Polarization and the Growing Threat of American Fascism | Are We Seeing a Replay of the 1850 Collapse of the Whig Party and the Rise of the Know-Nothings?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Moscow-Based Defense Analyst on How the Ukrainians Are Winning So Far | Ukraine’s Successful Counter Offensive and Pressure on Putin to Take More Desperate Measures | Why has Such a Small Man as Putin Had a Disproportionate Impact on the World Stage?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
What Patriotic Americans Can Do to Save Their Democracy From the Resurgence of Plutocratic Populism | Trump’s Pressure Campaign on the DOJ and Pardons Sought by the GOP’s Most Ardent Trumpsters | American Fascism Was Never Exorcised, It Was Obscured Beneath Romantic Mythmakingbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Climate Bill Biden Signed Into Law Today is a Major Victory | The US Fought Two Wars To Protect the Saudi Regime, Now They Are Allied With Russia and China | An Update on the COP 27 Climate Talks Underway and an Alternative Approach to the Fight Against Climate Changebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How the American Majority Can Thwart the Tyranny of the Minority | Billionaires Behind Dark Money Can’t Openly Sell Their Terrible Ideas to a Public That Doesn’t Want Them | Having Bought the Supreme Court, American Oligarchs Are Now Trying to Buy the Legislative Branchbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Co-Chair of the Poor People's Campaign on How We Treat the Least Among Us on the Birthday of Jesus Christ | A Warning From the Son of the Founder of the Religious Right About the Dangerous Heresy of Christian Nationalismbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Over Objections From Republicans, the House Ways and Means Committee Make Public Trump's Taxes | Today's Visit of Ukraine's President Zelensky to the White House and the Press Conference That Followed | Is Fox News's Tucker Carlson a Russian Agent?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
More Important Than Jailing Trump, the Jan. 6 Hearings Cry Out For Us to Fix Our Fragile Electoral System That He Exploited | Just the $80 Billion Increase From Last Year's Defense Budget to Today's $858 Billion is More Than Germany, Japan, France and the UK Spend on Defense | As Putin Makes His Last Stand, We Assess the Promise and Peril of Russian Defeatbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The House January 6 Committee Sends 4 Indictments of Trump to the DOJ | An Assessment of the Just-Concluded UN COP15 Biodiversity Conference | Putin Met Today With Lukashenko to Put the Squeeze on Belarus to Join a Russia Offensive From Ukraine'sbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
3 Criminal Referrals of Trump From the Jan. 6 Committee to the DOJ Expected on Monday | The Decades-Long Far-Right Capture of the Supreme Court | How Long Can We Endure the Curse of the Manchild With Musk's Trolling and Trump's Grifting?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Finally the Law is Catching up to Trump and It's Happening on Many Fronts | The UN Votes to Remove Iran from the Commission on the Status of Women | The Second Africa Leaders Summit Underway in Washingtonbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Bipartisan Bill Introduced Today For a National Development Strategy to Rebuild Our Industry and Build Back Our Middle Class | The UN COP15 Biodiversity Conference Underway Aimed at Conserving 30% of the World's Land and Sea by 2030 | The Historic Breakthrough on Nuclear Fusion Announced Todaybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
At Saturday's Celebration of American and European Fascists and Their Sympathizers, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene Called for an Armed Insurrection | How the House Was Flipped by Black and Latino Republicans Who Won Decisively Without Moderating Their MAGA Politics | The Pledge to Primary Sinema Who Bernie Sanders Says Sabotaged the Most Important Legislation and Voting Rightsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Sinema, the Saboteur of the Democratic Agenda, Pulls Another Selfish Stunt | Germany's Bizarre Coup Plot and Putin's Spy Swap Attempt of Paul Whelan For an FSB Assassin | What Biden Can do to Repair Frayed Ties With Laborbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
More Deals With Putin Unlikely Until After a Russian Offensive in the Spring of 2023 | Why Putin Wanted the Merchant of Death Viktor Bout Back | The Dangers Facing Americans Who Travel to Russia, China, Iran and Venezuela | A Farcical Coup Attempt in Peru Which Has Had Five Presidents in Two Yearsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Far Right Supreme Court Justices Seem to Support a Dangerous Fringe Theory That Could Upend Our Elections | The Biden Administration Gets a Lawsuit Against MBS Dismissed in Return he Greets China's Leader With a State Visit | Why Are Top US Conservatives Giving Aid and Comfort to Putin?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Trump Organization Found Guilty With Trump Accused of Explicitly Sanctioning Tax Fraud | The History of Runoff Elections in Georgia Designed to Dilute the Power of the Black Vote | The Mysterious Attacks on Our Electrical Infrastructurebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Our Far-Right Supreme Court Appears Sympathetic to Imposing Conservative Christian Dogma on American Life in the Name of Freedom of Speech | Trump's Call to "Terminate" the Constitution as Treason to the Democratic Way of Life | US Culpability for the Hellscape in Haiti Now Ruled by Violent Gangsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Democrats Change Their Presidential Primary Nominating Calendar for 2024 | Why has Such a Small Man as Putin Had a Disproportionate Impact on the World Stage?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Biden White House's First State Visit by France's President Macron | Railway Workers are Denied Paid Sick Leave in Today's Senate Vote to Avert a Strike | The Plutocratic Takeover of Our Information Spacebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Why the Seditious Conspiracy Convictions of the Oath Keepers' Leaders Matter | Why Americans Like Nick Fuentes and Elon Musk Admire and Support Putin | The Epidemic of Fentanyl Deaths Enabled by Social Media and the DEA's Response backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
An Update on the Heavily-Contested Georgia Runoff For the US Senate | The Decline and Possible Fall of Twitter as Musk Invites Right Wing Trolls, Anti-Vaxxers and White Supremacists Aboard His Platform | Why, Like Other Dictators, Putin Might Endure Staggering Defeats backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Aspirations for Freedom and Democracy Erupt in Demonstrations Across China | Maduro's Deal With Chevron and the Venezuelan Opposition | Pledges by Billionaires to Give Away Vast Fortunes and What Charities End up With backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Veteran War Reporter Just Back From a Month in Ukraine | An Update on the Revolution in Iran Led by Brave Young Women | Progressive Strategies to Build a Democratic Majority in 2024 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
What We Can Be Thankful for in Spite of Hate-Filled Politics at Home and War Crimes Abroad | Making a Future We Can Be Thankful for With Daunting Challenges Ahead backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Finally Trump is Forced to Release His Tax Returns Just Before the House Republicans Shut Down Investigations | Food Insecurity on Thanksgiving in the World's Richest Country | As Trump Attacks the FBI, We Look Into the Life and Legacy of J. Edgar Hoover backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Scandal at the Supreme Court Where There is No Ethical Code of Conduct | The Midterms For the Democrats Were More Like Deliverance Than Victory | Biden Should Stop Fighting For America's Soul and Start Fighting The Far Right Radicals backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Connection Between the Killings of Gay and Trans Americans and the 300 Anti-LGBTQ Republican Bills in 36 States This Year | The Special Counsel in Private on a Parallel Track With the Media and Radical Right House in Public | An Assessment of the World Cup Underway in Qatar backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Will Indictments of Trump That Even Bill Barr Expects, be Delayed by the Appointment of a Special Counsel? | Why Did Deep Blue New York Democrats Cost Their Party the House? | How Big Banks Can Loot Pension Funds Due to Little Oversight From the Department of Labor backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Nancy Pelosi's Former Chief of Staff on Her Career and Legacy | Trump is Now Effectively in Control of the US House of Representatives | Convictions of Those Responsible For Downing a Malaysian Airliner Over Ukraine | The World's Population Has Skyrocketed in Less Than a Century From 2 Billion to 8 Billion backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Boring Announcement and the Election Deniers Electoral Rebuke | The Work of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group of Almost 50 Nations | Inside the Black Box of Chinese Communist Leadership backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Russia Rains Missiles Down on Ukraine as Top US National Security Officials Meet With Their Russian Counterparts | What is Behind the FBI Probe Into Israel's Killing of a Palestinian Journalist and US Citizen? | Trump is Determined to be Relevant Again and Dominate Our Politics for the Next Two Years backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
After a 3 Hour Meeting with Xi Jinping, Biden Declares No New Cold War With China | With Election Deniers Making Up a Third of the New Congress, Could They Elect Trump as Their Speaker? | The Collapse of the FTX Cryptocurrency Exchange and the 75% Loss in the Value of Bitcoin backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Contrary to the Punditry, Trump is in Firm Control of the GOP and Bent on Destroying His Rival | Time For the Democrats to Move Past Trump | Russia's Future as Putin Clings to Power But His Legend in Dead backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How Europe is Adapting to a Cutoff of Russian Energy and Moving Towards a Green Energy Future | Cliffhanger Races in Arizona and Nevada and California Congressional Races Will Determine Who Controls the Senate and House | Apart From the Absence of the "Red Wave", the Other Big Election Story is Court-Sanctioned GOP Gerrymandering backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Results of Yesterday's Election Defy the Poll and Pundits and Shock the Republicans | An Update on the Races and Recriminations | We Can Expect Government Paralysis and the Trump/DeSantis War to Escalate While Questions About Biden Running Again Persist backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Can Persuasion Overcome Delusion in American Politics? | An Update on the COP 27 Climate Talks Underway and an Alternative Approach to the Fight Against Climate Change | Prigozhin Epitomizes the Takeover of Russia by Thugs and Gangsters backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Efforts to Stop Democrats From Voting and Why It Will Take So Long to Count the Vote | Although Not on the Ballot, American Democracy is What is at Stake in Tomorrow's Election | Putin's Election Interference Was All About Ukraine and Still is Today backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Person Most Responsible For Hate, Delusion, Threats and Acts of Violence in Our Politics | With Inflation the GOP's Main Election Issue and the Fed's Cure Worsening it, Who is Most to Blame? | How Will Israel and Saudi Arabia React to Reports Putin Will Help Accelerate the Breakout Period For an Iranian Nuclear Bomb? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Biden Makes an Urgent Case to Defend American Democracy From MAGA Republicans | Putin is Hoping a Republican Victory on Tuesday Will Lead to Less US Support For Ukraine | Kim Jong-un Fires a Record Number of Missiles Ahead of an Expected Nuclear Test backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Questioning Pollsters and Pundits Assumptions That Republicans Will Take the House and the Senate | Changes in Voting Laws Make it Easier to Vote in Some States and Harder in Others | The Need to Prevent the War in Ukraine Escalating Into a Confrontation Between NATO and Russia backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Party of Trolls Makes Fun of an 82 Year-Old Man Who Was Beaten Over the Head With a Hammer in a Home Invasion | Conspiracy Theories Have Entered the Mainstream of Republican Discourse | An Update on the Israeli Election Trending For a Netanyahu Comeback backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Biden Takes on Big Oil and Their Record Windfall Thanks to the Actions of Putin and MBS | The Latest Tweet From a Trump-like Troll With an Ego Inflated by Billions Who Now Owns Twitter | Lula's Narrow Victory in Brazil Where Bolsonaro Has Yet to Concede backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
After Being Demonized by Trump and Republicans, Pelosi Was Targeted by a "Stop the Steal" Q-Anon Follower | In the Name of Free Speech, The World's Richest Man Just Turned a Public Company Into His Own Private Media Megaphone | How America Was Saved From Trump and How the GOP May Save Putin backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Far-Right Vigilantes Engaged in Election Intimidation Will Escalate Violence If the Election Does Not Go Their Way | How to Stop Escalation and Achieve a Peaceful Solution Without Helping Putin and Selling out the Ukrainians | What Should Biden Do in Response to MBS's Insulting and Hostile Moves? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
In an About Face the House Progressive Caucus Withdraws a Letter Urging Biden to Negotiate With Putin Over Ukraine | Last Night's Debate For the Critical US Senate Seat in Pennsylvania | MBS Strung Biden Along Promising to Lower the Price of Oil Only to Stiff Him After the Fist-Bump backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
What Does Britain's Latest PM Mean by "Difficult Decisions to Come"? | Running Against the Biden Economy, Republicans Promise to Tank the Global Economy to Force Cuts in Social Security and Medicare | Escalating Talk of a "Dirty Bomb" Raise Fears Putin is Looking For an Excuse to Use a Nuke in Ukraine backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Author of Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind | Rishi Sunak, Britain's Third PM in Less Than Two Months | Communist Chinese Officials and Intelligence Officers Accused by AG Garland of Trying to Steal Secrets, Punish Critics and Recruit Spies backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Friday's Subpoena From the January 6 Committee and Trump's Next Move | The Senate Race in Ohio as a Referendum On the Direction the Democratic Party Has Taken in Recent Decades | The Education Divide in America and How Republicans Exploit it backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Paralysis Caused by Brexit Claims Another British Conservative Prime Minister | Is Putin Planning to Sabotage Norwegian Gas Pipelines and Infrastructure? | A New Study Finds Record Amounts of Money Pouring into State Races backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
US Generals and Admirals on MBS's Payroll Oversee the Transfer of Advanced Weapons Even Our Reliable Allies Can't Buy | Iran's Regime is Losing Its Grip as Members of the IRGC and Basij Refuse to Shoot Down Teenage Girls | How to Reverse Our Slide Into Oligarchy Enabled by a Reactionary Supreme Court backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The FBI's Failure to Act on Warnings Before Jan. 6 and Sympathy For the Insurgents Within the FBI's Ranks | Why Did American Experts on Russia Get the Ukraine War So Wrong? | AIPAC is Backing Trumpist White Nationalist Candidates As Trump Spouts Antisemitism backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Anti-Semitism From Trump and Kanye West is Feeding the Dual Loyalty Trope | Alarm That the Latest Weapons to Saudi Arabia Now Allied With Putin Could End up in the Wrong Hands | Could Democrats Lose in the Blue States of the West? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Having Bought the Supreme Court, American Oligarchs Are Now Trying to Buy the Legislative Branch | Did the House January 6 Hearing Move the Needle For Democrats Ahead of the Upcoming Election? | With Its Economy in Deep Trouble, the Chinese Communist Party Congress Will Anoint Xi Jinping to Another Decade in Power backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
An Analysis of Today's Final House January 6 Committee Hearing | Who Did Liz Cheney Have in Mind When She Said "We Have Enough Information For Criminal Referrals?" | With the UN Voting Overwhelmingly to Condemn Putin, Why Does Elon Musk, JD Vance, Tucker Carlson and Fox News Support the Murderous Dictator? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Biden's New National Security Strategy and the Danger Putin May Not be Able to Accept Losing His War Without Escalating to Nukes | Haiti Now a Lawless State Controlled by Gangs, is Poised For Another Intervention | Why Is the Democratic Candidate Behind the Most Beatable Republican, Senator Ron Johnson? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Pernicious Polarization Gripping Our Politics As We Head For Electoral Autocracy or a Democratic Collapse | The Ohio Senate Race as a Contest Between an "Ass-kicker and an "Ass-kisser" | Zelensky Expresses Concern to the G7 That Putin is Pressuring Belarus to Enter the War backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Apart From Angry Denunciations of MBS From Congress, What Can Be Done About His Perfidy? | The US Fought Two Wars To Protect the Saudi Regime, Now They Are Allied With Russia and China | Inside Ukraine's Military Strategy and Recriminations Within Putin's Military backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Biden Warns We Are Close to Armageddon and Have To Take Putin's Nuclear Threats Seriously | How We Can Build a Fair and Secure Middle Class Society | Women in America and Iran are Leading the Fight For Democracy Against the Repression of Women in the Name of Religion backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Biden Will Pardon all Federal Offenses of Simple Marijuana Possession | The Breathtaking Hypocrisy of the GOP's "Christian" Base Doubling Down in Their Support of a Brazen Liar and Serial Sinner | Calls to Cut Ties With Saudi Arabia After MBS and His Mentor Putin's "October Surprise" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Murderous Pals MBS and Putin Jack Up the Price of Oil Ahead of the Midterms to Help Republicans and Bring Trump Back | How Putin Uses Mutually Assured Destruction as a Shield to Conduct a Conventional War in Ukraine With Impunity | The Youthful Revolt Underway in Iran Against a Hypocritical and Hated Clerical Kleptocracy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Is Putin Desperate or Upping the Nuclear Ante to Force Biden to the Negotiating Table? | How Close Are We to Having the Nuclear Taboo Which Has Existed Since Nagasaki, Broken By Putin? | What Practical Steps Can be Taken to Restore the Supreme Court's Legitimacy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Questioning the Supreme Court's Legitimacy as a New Term Begins | Oil Company Extortion in California as Consumers Pay Twice as Much Per Gallon as the Rest of the Country | Does it Make Sense to Build High Rises on Ocean Fronts as Hurricanes Get More Powerful?
Will Biden's Threats Deter Putin? Apparently Our Military Does Not Think So | Could Our Shadow War With Russia Spiral Into Nuclear Catastrophe? | The Loser in Today's Election in Brazil Will Contest, Not Concede backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Hurricane Ian's Path of Destruction and the Need To Update Building Codes | Today's First Pacific Islands Summit at the White House as China Makes Inroads Into the Region | The CIA's Investment in Colossal Biosciences to Bring Back the Wooly Mammoth and the Tasmanian Tiger
Who Sabotaged the Nord Stream 1 and 2 Undersea Gas Pipelines? | Is the Disunited States of America Heading For a Civil War? | The Revolution in Iran Broadens Across Society Including Strikes backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Are the Democrats Too Timid Playing Defense While the Republicans Dominate With Illusion? | Highlights From the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Texas | Why Does Hungary Have Such an Outsize Influence Over American Politics? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Italy Lurches to the Far Right in a Low-Turnout Election With the Left Divided | An Update on the Investigations Into Trump Ahead of Wednesday's Jan. 6 Hearing | As Trump Drags the Country Towards Civil War, What Can be Done to Stop Him backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Putin's Nuclear Sabre-Rattling and How to Deal With It | Hideous Russian War Crimes Unearthed in Ukraine | Iran's Corrupt and Hypocritical Clerical Mafia Could Soon be Toppled backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The 11th Circuit's Blistering Smackdown of Judge Cannon's Ruling and Judge Dearie's Call For Trump's Lawyers to Put up or Shut up about Claims the FBI Planted Documents | A Lawyer for Some of the Venezuelan Asylum-Seekers Used in DeSantis' Sadistic Trolling | How Close is Iran to Another Revolution? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The New York AG Sues Trump, the Trump Organization, Don Jr., Eric and Ivanka for Staggering Fraud | Putin Threatens to Use Nukes, Declaring "It's Not a Bluff" | President Biden's Address to the UN General Assembly backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Special Master Essentially Tells Trump's Lawyers to Put Up or Shut Up | Biden Makes a Pitch For the Disclose Act Which Americans Favor But Republicans Don't | The Violent Crackdown on Demonstrations Across Iran After the Death of a Young Woman in the Custody of the Morality Police backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Wall-to-Wall Media Coverage of Mourning and Ritual has Given the British PM a Break From the Crises Left to Worsen | Trump's Humiliating Praise of His Ohio Senate Candidate Before a QAnon Crowd | Could Governors DeSantis and Abbott be Charged With Kidnapping or Human Trafficking? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How an Unqualified Trump Judge Got on the Bench With the Dark Money That Bought the Supreme Court Which Could Also Buy the Next Election | China's Troubled Ties With Putin | With American Women Registering to Vote in Record Number, the Need For Care Infrastructure is a Winning Electoral Issue backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Ron DeSantis's Politics of Hate is Met By the Politics of Love in Martha's Vineyard | After a Cut of 25% of Workers in 7 Years, Railway Workers Fight Back to Be Able to See a Doctor | How Railway Strikes in 1916 Brought About the 8 Hour Workday backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Shadow Power of Trump's Law Firm and the Corruption of Justice | With Russian Gas Cut Off, the Head of the EU Vows "Putin Will Fail, Europe Will Prevail" | Will the Ukrainian Counteroffensive Rout the Russians or Provoke Putin to Use Cyber and/or Nuclear? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Senator Graham's Attempt at Damage Control for the GOP on Abortion | As Global Order Deteriorates Before our Eyes, a Proposal to Establish a New and Benign Order | The Shift to the Right in Sweden and Across Europe backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Ukraine's Successful Counter Offensive and Pressure on Putin to Take More Desperate Measures | Internal Republican Friction and What it Will Take For the GOP to Abandon Trump | "Biden Was Right: MAGA Ideology is Fascism" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The DOJ's Polite Request in Response to the Trump Judge's Indefensible Ruling | The Distinction Between the Queen's Admirable Service and Duty and the Empire and Commonwealth She Served | How the Billionaire Tech "Preppers" Plan to Escape the Apocalypse of Their Own Making backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Death of Queen Elizabeth II and the Royal Family's Future Under a New King Charles | How American Political Culture Disempowers Ordinary Citizens and How to Take Back the Ground We Have Ceded to Anti-Politics backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Now We Learn How Trump Has Endangered Our National Security and Given Aid and Comfort to Our Enemies | Judge Cannon is the Culmination of the Right Wing Project to Capture the Courts to Make Political Rulings in the Name of the Law | The Change in the GOP From National Security Hawks to Lackeys For a Criminal and Traitor backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump, Who Has Contempt For the Law, Has an Unqualified Judge He Appointed Give Him More Than He Asked For | After Months of Leadership Paralysis, the UK Has a New PM Who Promises Tax Cuts For the Rich While Most Britons Can't Pay Their Utility Bills | The Role Of Ranked Choice Voting in the Recent Elections in Alaska backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Good News For Labor With 71% of Americans Approving Unions | Thom Hartmann on The End of Neoliberalism and the Renewal of Social Democracy | How Anti-Union Corporations Delay Contracts After Unionization backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Will Likely be Indicted But Not Until After the November Elections | Biden's Speech to Save American Democracy Was Too Partisan for the TV Networks | Growing up Next to the Nuclear Plant Now Threatened by Russian Occupiers backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
In Tonight's Speech Will Biden Go From Semi Fascist to Full on Fascist in Describing the MAGA Republicans? | Is Fascism in America's Political DNA or Has Trump Brought it Into the Mainstream? | Across the Country Infrastructure is Breaking Down From Underinvestment and Climate Change backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
A Russian Journalist Remembers Gorbachev | Will Russians Eventually See Gorbachev in a Kinder Light? | Internal Battles Within Russia's Security Services backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
In Declaring Himself President Today, Has Trump Lost it? | The Origins of MAGA Republican Radicalism | An Assessment of Ukraine's Offensive in the South and the State of US Intelligence backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Iraq on the Brink of Civil War | Inevitably 3.3 % of Greenland's Ice Sheet Will Melt Causing a Global Sea-Level Rise of 10 Inches | The Need to Electrify Diesel-Burning Trucks That Haul Most of America's Interstate Commerce backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Damning Evidence Against Trump Who Held Onto More Top Secrets Than the Trove Just Revealed in the Unsealed Affidavit | Could the Mar-a-Lago Grifter Posing as Anna de Rothschild be What the KGB Called a "Red Sparrow?" | The Scope of MAGA Voter Suppression and What Can Be Done About It backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
California Will Ban Gasoline Cars Aiming to be 100% All-Electric by 2035 | An Update Six Months Into a War Russia is Waging Against An Embattled Ukraine | With The Revival of the Iran Nuclear Deal Near, Could MBS Drive up the Price of Oil to Hurt Biden in November? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Amateurish "Special Master" Ploy and the 300 Classified Documents Found at Mar-a-Lago | Hostile Intelligence Services Would Be Remiss in Not Targeting Mar-a-Lago | Does Trump Have the "Samson Complex" in Threatening Civil War if he is Indicted? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The $1.6 Billion in Dark Money Leonard Leo Got to Finance Far-Right Causes | Billionaires Behind Dark Money Can't Openly Sell Their Terrible Ideas to a Public That Doesn't Want Them | Russian Organized Crime's Foothold in the US and Putin's "Street University" as a "Khuligan" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Amid Fears Over Ukraine's Nuclear Plant, Putin Appears Poised to Steal 20% of the Country's Electricity | Fears of Revenge For the Assassination Attempt on the Russian Nationalist Called "Putin's Brain" | The Arrest of Mexico's Former Attorney General In Charge of the Investigation Into the Disappearance of 43 Students backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Florida Judge Rules on Unsealing the Affidavit Subject to DOJ Redaction | The Ramifications of the Trump Organization CFO's Guilty Plea | Senators Cruz and Grassley Make Outrageous Threats Against IRS Personnel backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Unanswered Questions Swirling Around the Mar-a-Lago Document Seizure | Has the Law Finally Caught Up to Donald Trump? | Liz Cheney's Wyoming Is Now Trumpland backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Climate Bill Biden Signed Into Law Today is a Major Victory | Did Trump Lose His Get-Out-Of-Jail Bargaining Chip With the Seizure of the Documents? | Did Trump's Lawyers Get Hold of Sensitive Software to Undermine Elections in the Name of Protecting Them? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Attacks the FBI Inflaming His Base While Warning the AG "Our Country is on Fire. What Can I do to Reduce the Heat" | The Threat to Journalists in Mexico From Drug Cartels and in Nicaragua From the Ortegas backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Why Did Trump Take the Top Secret Documents and For What Purpose? | An Investigation Into Reports That Trump Took Nuclear Secrets | Trump Tries to Blame the "Deep State" For His Treasonous Behavior backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Merrick Garland Speaks After Trump Makes Wild Claims About the FBI Whose Office in Cincinnati Was Attacked | A Local Perspective from Miami, Florida on the Mar-a-Lago Raid backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Pleads the 5th as he Doubles Down on Lawlessness to Scam Donations | Other Cases Involving the Theft or Mishandling of Classified Material | Iran's Plot to Kill John Bolton and Another Unnamed Senior Official backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
What Did Trump Take to Mar-a-Lago He Wanted Kept Secret and What Did the FBI Find? | The Party of Law and Order in Complete Submission to Trump's Lawlessness | The Fallout From the Alex Jones Trial backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Biden's Big Wins Defy Pundits Who Were Writing His Political Obituary | Russia's Reckless Endangerment of Europe's Biggest Civilian Nuclear Reactors | Putin's Disastrous War in Ukraine is Making Major Wars Less Likely backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Trump GOP Sweep in Arizona | The Sellout Senator Sinema Auditions for a Job With Hedge Fund Billionaires | Putin’s Weaponization of History backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Alex Jones on Trial and His Lawyer's Blunder That Will Prove a Gift to the January 6 Investigation | How the UK Has Become a Haven For Laundering Dirty Money | Many Countries Are Poised to Default as Rising Interest Rates Make Debt Servicing Harder backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Results From Kansas Signal a Robust National Majority Against the Supreme Court and Republican Legislators | Americans Are in Favor of Settled Law Which the Right Wing Radicals on the Supreme Court Upended | "We Are the Majority: Nothing's the matter with Kansas" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Drone Strike on Al Qaeda's Leader the Taliban Were Hosting in Spite of Reassurances to the Contrary | Why is Xi Jinping Making Such a Big Deal About Pelosi's Visit to Taiwan? | Why Have Efforts to Bring Trump to Justice Been So Timid and Faltering? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Ron DeSantis's Nazification of American Education | When Russia Annexes Captured Territory, Will They Consider an Attack On It a NATO Attack on Russia? | The State of the US Economy and Relations With China backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The DOJ Prepares to Force Top Trump Officials to Testify About the Insurrection and Trump's Role in It | Are We In A Recession Or Entering One? | Brazil's Bolsonaro Poised to the Violently Contest an Election He's About to Lose backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Manchin's Surprise Agreement to a $369 Billion Climate and Tax Increase Deal | While the Fed Frets Over Inflation, Everyone Else Worries About Recession Which the Fed's Actions Make More Likely | Orban Quotes "Pure Nazi Text Worthy of Goebbels" But CPAC Still Wants Him in Dallas Next Week backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
What is Pence's Strategy in Challenging Trump Without Condemning Him? | Pelosi's Trip to Taiwan Has Created an Unnecessary Crisis in an Already Deteriorating Relationship | The Coming Global Debt Crisis That Won't Stop at Sri Lanka backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Pence and Trump's Dueling Speeches and Some Legislative Victories For Biden | How the Oligarchy Bought the Supreme Court to End American Democracy by Decree backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Should Crime Reporters Replace Political Reporters in Covering Trump? | The Growing Influence of White Christian Nationalism in the GOP | The Pope Apologizes to Canada's Indigenous Peoples backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Bannon, the Mini-Me of Grifters, Grandstands After His Conviction | American Fascism Was Never Exorcised, It Was Obscured Beneath Romantic Mythmaking | How the Corrupt and Brutal Rajapaska Family Brought Sri Lanka to Its Knees backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Powerful Case Against Trump Must Result in an Indictment and a Trial Even If There Will Be Trumpsters on the Jury | Will Putin's Strategy of a Long War With Ukraine Work? | If the Crimes Revealed by the Jan. 6 Hearings Go Unpunished, Unacceptable Political Behavior Could Become the Norm backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Rep. Ro Khanna on Democrats More Angry at Biden Than Alarmed by the Embrace of Fascism by Trump’s GOP | The Real Defense Budget of $1.4 Trillion | Comparing German Industrialists’ Support of Hitler With American Plutocrats’ Support of Trump backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Purge at the Top of Ukraine's Intelligence and Prosecutor's Office | With 75% of Americans Seeing Inflation as Their Top Concern, What Will the White House Do to Stop a Wipeout in November? | Will American Plutocrats Support Trump Just As German Industrialists Supported Hilter? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Why Trump Should Immediately be Sued Under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment | The Call For Biden to Declare a Public Health Emergency on Abortion | Enormous Sums Are Pouring Into Democratic Primary Races Over Support For Israel That the Campaign Ads Do Not Mention backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Why Did Biden Meet With Middle East Leaders Who Want Trump Back in the White House? | The Futility of Dealing With Joe Manchin Who Just Stymied Biden's Agenda for a Second Time | Why is the DOJ Prosecuting Low-Level Insurrectionists Instead of Those Who Planned and Led the Coup Attempt? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Impact of the Video of Police Inaction While Children Were Being Slaughtered | The Oct. 31, 2020 Leaked Recording Of Bannon Making Predictions That Proved Eerily Accurate | The Crisis In Sri Lanka and the Default on Its $50 Billion Debt backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
What Will Biden Gain From Meetings With Middle East Leaders Who Want Trump Back? | Could Alarm Over Inflation Trigger a Recession? | Texas Officials More Concerned Over The Leak of a Video Than Holding Police to Account backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How Trump Mainstreamed Violence as a Political Tool | The Centerpiece of Biden's Israel Visit Will Be The Jerusalem Declaration, a US-Israel Strategic Partnership Against Iran | Biden at 44% to Trump at 41% in a 2024 Rerun of the 2020 Election backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Western Europe Braces For Putin's Permanent Cutoff of Russian Gas | The Political Left is More Focused on Biden's Shortcomings Than a Looming Fascist Takeover | An Assessment of the Upcoming Hearing on Trump's Connections to the Militias backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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 Pardon's 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
Coordination Between the Proud Boys and the Mob Trump Sent to the Capitol | Trump's Seven-Point Plan to Undo American Democracy | Now That Putin Wants to "Return and Fortify" Russia's Lost Lands, the Fight is Not Just For Democracy But For Sovereignty backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
An Historian of Fascism on Trump's January 6 Fascist Coup Attempt | Could Ukraine Win Small or Win Big? | The Global Food Crisis Caused by Russian War on Ukraine backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Homelessness as a Moral Issue Not A Blight the Privileged Have to be Protected From | Adding More Police Will Criminalize a Problem Rooted in Inequality, Poverty and Unaffordability | Are We Seeing a Rebuke of the Progressive Left And a Warning to the Democratic Party? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The January 6 Hearings Will Not Be Like the Watergate Hearings But It Could Expose Trump as a Criminal and a Fascist | Biden Moves to Stop One Defunct Company From Killing the US Solar Industry | A Report From Mexico on Its President's Boycott of the Summit of the Americas backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
As More and More Americans Are Killed in Mass Shootings, What Will the Senate Do? | Will This Week's Summit of the Americas Be a Bust? | Will Another Billionaire Real-Estate Developer's $33 Million Buy a Political Office? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
An Assassination Attempt on Putin in March and Cancer Treatment in April | How Much Will the American President Have To Bow Before the Entitled Saudi Thug? | Amid Pomp and Ceremony, a Majority of Young Britons Want an Elected Head of State backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How People Power Trumped the Murdoch Press and How Ranked-Choice Voting Could Revive Our Democracy | How After Mass Shootings, 3 Nations Radically Reduced Gun Massacres | After Relieving Debts of $5.8 Billion For 560,000 Defrauded Students, $1.7 Trillion in Student Debt Remains backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Are We Heading Into a New Cold War With Russia? | Biden's Decision to Deploy U.S. Rocket Systems In Ukraine | After 3 Years the Failure to Prove Barr's Trumpworld Fantasy That Trump Was Spied On backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Amid Growing Outrage Over Police Inaction as Kids Were Slaughtered, What Might The Senate Do About Guns? | Biden Decides Not to Send Offensive Weapons Systems to Ukraine | The E.U. Will Block Most Russian Oil Imports by the End of the Year backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Although We Arm Police With Military Equipment, 19 Officers Stood By As 19 Kids and 2 Teachers Were Slaughtered | Will Democracies Remain United As Putin Intensifies His Destruction of Ukraine? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Putin Digs in For a Long War While His Security Services Tighten Control of Russia | Russia is Inciting Genocide and Violating the U.N. Genocide Convention | Ukrainians Are Fighting For All Who Believe in Democracy and the Rule of Law backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Now Governor Abbott Wants More Action on Mental Health After Calling on Texans to Buy More Guns, Tweeting "Let's Pick up the Pace Texans" | Our Gun Culture and Its Historical Roots | The Chinese Foreign Minister's Tour of Pacific Island Nations Has the U.S. and Australia Alarmed backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Following Today's Thoughts and Prayers Press Conference, Abbott and Cruz Will Join Trump at Friday's NRA Convention | Blaming Mental Health, Not the Availability of Weapons of War in the Hands of Teenagers | Dealing With the Root Causes of Immigration From Central America backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Primaries in Georgia as 14 Children and 1 Teacher are Shot Dead in a Texas Elementary School | Pessimism as a Weapon Authoritarians Use to Defeat Hope | The Urgent Need to Lower the Price and Increase the Availability of Solar Panels backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Republican Moves to Ban Medication Abortion Which is 54% of all Abortions | Rumors Putin Has Cancer and is Crazy Allow Him a Nuclear Advantage | The Economic and Political Consequence of the Fed Interest Rate Hike backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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A Second Day of Sleaze and Slime From Republican Senators | Putin's Totally Orwellian State and the Bioweapons Lie Fox News Echoes | The Undermining of American Democracy by "Cheap Speech" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Republican Attack Dogs Try to Portray Judge Jackson as Soft on Pedophiles | Is Putin's Purge an Attempt to Preempt a Coup Against Him? | Will Freezing Russian Reserves Cause Blowback Against the Dollar as the Reserve Currency? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Having Been Fought to a Standstill, Russia Now Appears Interested in Peace | Biden Calls Putin a War Criminal as Mounting Evidence in Ukraine Makes the Case | The Possibility Russia Might Use Chemical Weapons in Ukraine backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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The National Intelligence Council's "Foreign Threats to the 2020 U.S. Federal Elections" Report | The Just-Released ODNI, Homeland Security, DOJ Report on the Growing Threat of Domestic Terrorism | Today's Testimony Before Bernie Sanders' Senate Budget Committee on Income Inequality backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
How the Television Version of Governor Cuomo Differs From What We Now Read in the Newspaper | Assessing the Sharp Rise in Racist Violence Against Asian Americans | Was the FBI Investigation into Charges Against Kavanaugh a Fake? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
As Two are Charged in the Death of a Capitol Police Officer, Will Trump be Held Responsible? | Republicans no Longer Want to Compete But Instead Plan to Cheat | The PRO Act and How Americans Like Unions But Only 10.7% of Workers Belong to One backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Inside Story of How Trump Bungled the Pandemic and How it Began | Conflicting Messages on Whether We Are Turning the Corner or the Mutations are Getting Worse | The Need to go to the Source of the Problem of Unaccompanied Minors From Honduras backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Pandemic Fatigue, States Opening Up Prematurely and the New Brazilian Covid Variant Among the Challenges Biden Might Address | How to Fix Our Senate | Since Biden is Focused on His Domestic Agenda, Could North Korea Act Up Soon? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Owns the GOP But Now Wants to Turn it Into his Personal Piggy Bank | States Turn Back the Clock to Stop Blacks and Progressive Whites From Voting | How Biden Might Sell the Stimulus in Thursday's Address to the Nation backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Voter Suppression Laws in Georgia May Create a Bigger Backlash Against the GOP Than the Gains From Their Rigging | The Fight For the $15 Minimum Wage Continues | Brazil's Lula is Cleared for 2022 Presidential Race Against Bolsonaro backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Moderate Democratic Senators Now Consider Getting Rid of the Filibuster | A Leading Economist Assesses the $1.9 Trillion American Rescue Plan | Harry and Meghan Use the Tabloids That Have Been Used Against Them backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The GOP is Going the Way of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | Biden Should Deal With the Source of the Problems at the Border, Starting With the Corrupt Regime in Honduras | Could The Derek Chauvin Trial End With an Eruption Like the Rodney King Verdict? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
"How the Party of Lincoln Has Become the Party of Alex Jones" | Christopher Miller and Ryan McCarthy Must Explain Why The Pentagon Waited Over Three Hours to Rescue the Capitol | How One Crackpot Conspiracist is Holding Up Help For Millions of Americans backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Time to Join the Fight Against the Party of White Supremacy's Attempt to Rewrite History | A Former Colleague of Senator Hawley's on Whether the FBI is Investigating Hawley's Ties to the Insurrection | Going After Billionaires Who Pay Millions to Hide Trillions backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The "Christian" GOP Celebrates a Sexual Harasser While the Democrats Show Cuomo the Door | A Plan to Save Democracies From Kleptocracies by Going After Dirty Money | The Brave and Inspiring Kurdish Women Warriors Who Fought ISIS backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Makes It Clear He IS the Republican Party and It's Kingmaker | Trump Outlines Voter Suppression Plans at CPAC | Rob Wallace on the Origins of Covid-19 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's GOP Weaponizes the Big Lie of "Stop the Steal" to Steal the Next Elections | What is Wrong With Paying Workers a Living Wage? | Could the Revelations in Trump's Tax Documents Land Him in Jail? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
While Holding the Mob Accountable For Storming the Capitol, We Cannot Police Our Way Out of Authoritarianism | No Report from the DNI Because Biden Can't Get the Saudi King on the Phone | A Senate Insider on How Nothing Will Get Done Unless the Democrats Get Rid of the Filibuster backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Further Investigations of the Capitol Riot Could Involve Roger Stone, Alex Jones, Mike Flynn and Steve Bannon | Relief For the 45 Million Americans Drowning Under $1.7 Trillion in Student Loan Debt | More Evidence About to Emerge On MbS's Role in the Murder of Khashoggi backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
America's Deadly Milestone of 500,000 Preventable Deaths Had We Not Had Such a Sick and Stupid Leader | Capitol Cops on the Failures of Their Chiefs and Sergeants-at-Arms | Rediscovering America's Tradition of Taming Markets to Advance Freedom backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
SCOTUS Finally Releases Trump's Taxes to the Manhattan DA | If the Democrats Don't Go Bold the GOP Will Control the Senate and Courts Into the Future | Iran Takes an American Hostage as Blinken Endorses the Declaration Against Arbitrary Detention in State to State Relations backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump's Save America PAC in the Real Steal as he Fleeces His Followers Out of $500 million | Can Principled Conservative and Democrats Work Around Trump's GOP? | The River of Guns From the U.S. to Mexico and From Red States Into Inner Cities backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Why Is the Supreme Court Sitting on Trump's Tax Returns? | Bills to Have the IRS Audit Rich Tax Cheats Would Raise $600 Billion a Year | How Putin Has Brought Russia Back and is Reshaping the International Order backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Texas's Political Leaders and Fox News Blame AOC and the Green New Deal for the Frozen Electricity Grid | A Commission to Find the "Facts and Causes" of the Insurrection and Storming of the Capitol | A Witness in the First Impeachment and Special Counsel in the Second on Trump's Legal Landscape Ahead backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
The Democrats Will Get Nowhere Unless They End the Filibuster | Climate Change Deniers in Charge of Texas Grapple With a Frozen Electricity Grid | With Biden Isolating MbS, Will the Saudi Royals Come Up With More Acceptable Leadership? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia