Background Briefing with Ian Masters

Pedophelia Protection Defines the Trump Administration Along With Treason | Disarray in Europe and Growing Illiberal Populism in a World in Need of a New Architecture For Global Governance | The Genesis of the Growth of Oligarchical Political Power From the Powell Memo to Elon Musk

A White House Correspondent Trump Called a "Sick Person" Who Vance Labelled an "Imbecile" On How He Was Banned From Air Force One | Trump's "Yalta" in His Quest For a Nobel Prize To Take Place at the APEC Summit in China With Putin and Xi But No Zelensky | The Growing Bipartisan Opposition to Data Centers

Trump Follows Putin's Advice to Convene a Summit with Xi, Putin and Trump, Without Zelensky, to End Putin's War on Ukraine | DHS's Efforts to Denaturalize Congresswoman Omar and Obama's Defense of Her | If and When Will Republican Senators Stand Up To Trump?

The Richest Man in the World, Who Bought the Last Election For the Republicans, Has Spent $366 Million So Far On the Midterms Including $168 Million to Elect Ken Paxton | A Brave Young Exiled Russian Journalist and the Filmmaker of MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART II - EXILE | The Author of Crossing the Red Line: Biden, His Advisors, and Israel's War in Gaza

With the Saudi/Houthi War Escalating, How Long Will Trump Stay Out As Oil Prices Surge | Trump's Envoy of "Peace" Kushner Used Saudi Money To Buy Stakes in Israeli Weapons Companies and Made a Killing Out of the Gaza War | Background Briefing's Anna Leah on the Gen Z Vote Which Swung to the Right in the Last Election But Is Swinging Back to the Left in This One Notes: 2 station breaks at 25:13 and...

Musk Cuts off Ukraine From Starlink While Trump Sides With Putin to Reward the Mass Murderer and Punish the Victim 2. Benn Steil on his Article "Fukuyama, Thiel, and the Revenge of the Last Man." 3. Hegseth's Christian Nationalist Cult and Why It Wants a Public Execution of a Muslim Livestreamed

How After the Midterms Democrats Must Extinguish the Many Flavors of Trump and MAGA Fascism | The Left Should Rediscover the Word Evil and Apply it to Trump and MAGA | The Author of Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI

The Democrats Daunting To-Do List When They Take The House and Senate | Hegseth's Obscene Focus on Lethality Mimics Iran's Public Executions and Gives Aid and Comfort to Jihadis | Why Did Leading California Democrats Cave to Larry and David Ellison's Blackmail?

An Expert on Psychopathic Personality Disorder Ties Trump's Deteriorating Condition to the Crises We Face |Background Briefing's Anna Leah With the Authors of Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry

The Third Anniversary of the Hamas Attack on Israel and How Netanyahu's Ignoring of Warnings is Impacting the October 27 Election | How France's Record Debt Underpins the Lack of Investment in Education as Students Protest Nationwide | How we Can Live Like a Citizen and Change Mindsets and Our Country

Trump Invites Iran to Nuke the Democratic Cities of Los Angeles and San Diego | Putin Offers the Mother of All Corrupt Deals to the Trump/Witkoff Families For Selling Out Ukraine | Russia Covers Up a Researcher's Death by Pneumonic Plague in Siberia While Rubio Asks For Transparency

A "Christian" Crusader In Charge of the Nuclear Arsenal Who Is Invested in the End Times Should Scare Us All | "Everyone Got Pete Hegseth Wrong" | How Citizens are Fighting Back Against ICE Cruelty Their Taxpayer Money Is Funding

An Unstable Stalemate in the Persian Gulf is the Likely Outcome of Trump's Disastrous War | With the World's Richest Oligarchs Pushing AI, Will the People Demand Some Agency Over the Future of Their Communities and Livelihoods? | A View From Canada on the Zombification of America as the USA Destroys Itself