Background Briefing With Ian Masters

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/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Party backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Attention backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Carter backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Points backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 China backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Europe backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Region backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Belarus backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Readiness backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Pipelines backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Missiles backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Reforms backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Pandemic backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia