Background Briefing With Ian Masters

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/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Mythmaking backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Change backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Branch backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Nationalism backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Ukraine's President Zelensky's Rousing Speech to a Joint Session of Congress | An Update on the Public Release of the House January 6 Committee Report | Democratic Party Leaders Need to Understand What They are Up Against and Build a Massive Grassroots Movement Against a Radicalized GOP backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Defeat backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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's backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Trump's "Major Announcement" Falls Flat as the White House Recalibrates, Expecting to Run Against DeSantis | Ten Years After Sandy Hook, 150 Million Guns Have Been Sold in America | The European Parliament Recognizes Stalin's Starvation of Ukrainians as Genocide backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Washington backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Today backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Rights backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Labor backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Years backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Infrastructure backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.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 Gangs backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia