Background Briefing with Ian Masters

How the Lowering of Interest Rates by the Fed Will Impact the Economy and the Election | Does Netanyahu Have an "October Surprise" in Store for the Harris/Walz Campaign? | Are We at the Beginning Stage of Another War in the Middle East That the US Will be Dragged Into? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Will Another Humiliation of Hezbollah and Iran Lead to a War in Lebanon? | Chief Justice Roberts Does Not Call Balls and Strikes, He Rigs the Playing Field Before the Game | As Incendiary Hate, Racism and Paranoia From Trump and Vance Escalates, What Can We Expect If They Lose the Election? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Another Assassination Attempt on Trump by Another Assassin Whose Politics Are All Also Over the Map With Both Having Easy Access to Military-Style Assault Rifles | Americans Who Want to Help Ukraine Defend Against Russia: Good and Bad | The Growing Phenomenon of "Caudillismo" in Latin America backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Is Putin Using Psychological Warfare to Stop Ukraine From Striking Deep Into Russia or Is He Not Bluffing When He Says Doing So Will Mean Russia Is “At War” With NATO? | The Reason Haitians Are in Ohio Is That US Foreign Policy Has Made Haiti Unlivable | Rather Than Race-Bait Harris Head On, Trump and Vance Are Using Racism as the Main Driver of Their Campaign backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter...

Trump is Hanging Out With Laura Loomer Who Republicans Are Blaming For His Disastrous Debate | Erdogan Inflames Tensions With the US and Israel While Secretly Profiting From Oil and Arms Sales to Israel | What America Would Be Like After a MAGA Takeover Based on the MAGA Takeover of Two Counties in Washington and Northern California

In Last Night's Debate, the Reality TV Star Trump Appeared to Lose His War Against Reality | The Obstacles Women Face in Politics That Harris is Navigating | On the 23rd Anniversary of 9/11, New Evidence of Saudi Involvement With the Hijackers Emerges backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Foreign Policy in Tonight's Harris/Trump Debate and Whose Finger Do You Want on the Nuclear Button | Democratic "Irrational Exuberance" With the Polls and "Sane-Washing" by the Mainstream Media | We Should Take Trump at His Word That He Wants to be a Dictator and Jail His Opponents and the Press backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Mein Kampf of the MAGA Republican Party, Project 2025 | Today's Republican Report on the Withdrawal From Afghanistan is a Political Hit Job on VP Harris | How Putin's Shadow Fleet of "Ghost" Tankers Are an Accident Waiting to Happen backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Americans Colluding With Russia as Spies, Propagandists and Useful Idiots | UK and US Heads of Intelligence Warn of Russia's "Reckless Campaign of Sabotage" | The Accurate Predictor Issues His Presidential Prediction for 2024 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Russia Interferes in Our Elections Underway Via Pro-Trump Influencers Now Running Away From Their Kremlin Paymasters | But For Police Failures, The Gun Culture and No Red Flag Laws, the Latest School Shooting Would Never Have Happened | The Shakeup In Zelensky's Government Who is Pleading For Patriot Missiles in Warehouses as Russian Missiles Kill His Civilians backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitte...

Another School Shooting and Can a Progressive Ticket Win the Presidency? | Could the Arsonist Netanyahu Spark a Wider War With Jordan a Powder Keg About to Explode | A New Nuclear Doctrine to Confront Russia, China and North Korea Simultaneously backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Mounting Pressure on Netanyahu From the Israeli Public as the UK Cuts Off Arms Sales | How the Republicans Are Funding and Boosting the Cornel West and Jill Stein Campaigns | The Putin-Orban-Heritage Foundation-Project 2025 Connections backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

How Much Will the Harris/Walz Pro-Labor Stance Help Get Them Elected With 70% of Americans Approving of Unions? | America's Growing Economic Inequality | The Democratic Party Will Need a House and Senate Majority to Pass the PRO Act for President Harris to Sign

The Media's Horse-race Coverage of the Election as CNN's Pathetic Harris/Walz Interview Asks Trump/Vance Attack Lines to Avoid the "Liberal Media" Label | Give a Post-Gaza Israeli/Palestinian Peace a Chance | The Domestic Threat to Democracy Posed by Trump and Project 2025 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

After Pressure From Republicans and the Press, Will Tonight's CNN Interview With Harris and Walz Answer Policy Questions? | Could Another Historical Breakthrough be the Election of a Black and Asian Woman Married to a Jew? | The Ties Between JD Vance and His New Press Secretary and the Shadowy Christian Nationalist Mens-Only Society for American Civic Renewal backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter....

As the Press and Republicans Clamour For More Policy Details, Harris/Walz Are Winning on Charisma and Change | Today's Harris/Walz Bus Tour of Georgia | An Olive Branch to the US From Iran's Supreme Leader as We Wait For His Promised Retaliation Against Israel backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

How Many Disaffected Republicans Can Kamala Harris Peel Off in a Center Left - Center Right Alliance? | Could Jack Smith's Appeal to the 11th Circuit Result in Judge Cannon Being Taken Off the Case? | Is the Current Crisis in France Politics as Usual? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Harris Surges in the Polls as Trump Tries to Weasel Out of the September 10 ABC Debate With Harris | The French Arrest the Founder of Telegram After a Possible Meeting With Putin | Houthi Recklessness is About to Cause the Fifth Largest Oil Spill in History

The Contrast Between the Best and Worst of America and Why Does Anyone Support Trump's GOP? | A Wrap Up of the DNC and How Will RFK Jr's Endorsement of Trump Impact Swing States | A Military Analysis of Ukraine's Incursion Into Russia and the Escalation Ladder to Nuclear War backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The FBI Cracks Down on American Kremlin Propagandists as Russian Election Influence Operations Ramp Up | Last Night's Star Turns at the DNC From Tim Walz and Kenan Thompson on Project 2025 | Trump's Anti-Semitic Attacks on Governor Josh Shapiro backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

A Review of Last Night's Democratic National Convention and a Preview of Tonight's | The Generational Change Underway in the Harris/Walz Democratic Party | China Sues Stanford For Mao's Secretary's Diaries With an Inside Look at the CCP From 1935 to 2018 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Biden Acknowledges the Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators at the DNC in Chicago Have a Point | An Appraisal of Last Night's Speeches at the DNC | The Turnaround in the Polls For the Democrats in the Key Swing States of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

An Update From Chicago on the Democratic National Convention | A Presidential Speechwriter on the Delicate Job a President Passing the Baton to His VP | As Bombs Fall on Gaza and Ukraine, Arms Industries Benefit From Tragedy

Will Biden Come Up With a Strategy For Ukraine the Absence of Which is an Excuse For Trump And the Republicans Not to Support Its Defense Against Russia? | The Irony That Saudi's MbS "Prince Bonesaw" Now Fears Assassination | An Assessment of the Harris/Walz Economic Plan backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Peace Negotiations For a Gaza Ceasefire Now Minus a Representative From Hamas | The Origins and Definition of Settler Colonialism Which Used to Be Applied to Australia, Canada and the US But is Now is Labelling Israel | Bangladesh: The Latest Example of the US Not Acting According to Its Democratic Ideals backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia