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June 4, 2024 - Margaret Hu | Justin Bulcher | Michael Brenes
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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…
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June 3, 2024 - Chuck Collins | Aram Shabanian | Emiliano Polo
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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.…
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June 2, 2024 - Sophia Rosenfeld | Jennifer Loewenstein | Laura Carlsen
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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/donatetwitte…
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May 30, 2024 - Ryan Cooper | Robert Young Pelton
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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…
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May 29, 2024 - Stephen Biddle | Zach Carter| Dr. Steven Nabieu Rogers
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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…
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May 28, 2024 - Kai Bird | Andrew Cockburn | James Gray
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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…
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May 27, 2024 - Lucian Truscott IV | Stephan Schwartz
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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/ianmastersmediaVon Ian Masters
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May 26, 2024 - David Austin Walsh | Alexander Reid Ross | David Phillips
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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 Azerba…
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May 23, 2024 - Toby Miller | Eleanor Cooney | Frederick Clarkson
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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…
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May 22, 2024 - Samuel Moyn | Jacob Heilbrunn | Joshua Douglas
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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 Candidates 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/ianmastersm…
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May 21, 2024 - Daniel Benjamin | David Ignatius
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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/ianmastersmediaVon Ian Masters
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May 20, 2024 - Nader Hashemi | Jacob Silverman | Terry O'Rourke
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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/ianmaster…
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May 19, 2024 - Caroline Fredrickson | Matt Angle | Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
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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/ianmastersmediaVon Ian Masters
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May 16, 2024 - Orville Schell | Kim Lane Scheppele | James Zirin
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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/ianmas…
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May 15, 2024 - Corey Brettschneider | Simon Shuster | Austin Frerick
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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 b…
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May 14, 2024 - Amanda Marcotte | Joe Lowndes | Spencer Sunshine
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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…
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May 13, 2024 - Adele Stan | Lincoln Mitchell | John Branstetter
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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/i…
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May 12, 2024 - Joshua Shifrinson | Luke Goldstein
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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/ianmastersmediaVon Ian Masters
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May 9, 2024 - Gideon Levy | Jennifer Taub | Mike Lofgren
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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/ianmastersmediafaceb…
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May 8, 20224 - Michael Greenberger | Azamat Junisbai | Henry Giroux
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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…
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May 7, 2024 - Leila Hilal | Oona Hathaway | Casey Michel
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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/ianmastersmediaVon Ian Masters
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May 6, 2024 - Dr. Guy Ziv | Jeremi Suri | Eugene Rumer
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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/dona…
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May 5, 2024 - John Nichols | Harold Meyerson | Brian Levin
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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/ianmastersmediafac…
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May 2, 2024 - Paul Pillar | David Pozen | Cat Packer
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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…
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May 1, 2024 - Ananya Roy | Aziz Rana
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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 GreenVon Ian Masters
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