Background Briefing With Ian Masters

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 Challenges backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Personnel backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Ukraine backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Cash backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Ohio backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Chemicals backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Chemicals backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Moldova backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Kleptocracies backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Taiwan backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Taliban backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Treaty backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Policing backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia