Background Briefing With Ian Masters

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 Abroad backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Midnight backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 States backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Christianity backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Universities backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Enterprise backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Establishment backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Putin backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Star backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Ago backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 On backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 America backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Insurrection backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 US backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Speakership backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Orban backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Themselves backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Football backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 2023 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia