Background Briefing With Ian Masters

Trump on the Witness Stand in a Case He Has Already Lost | An Expert on Palestinian Issues Examines the Possibility of the End to the Agony in Gaza backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

A Palestinian Mother and Daughter Who Just Lost 36 Members of Their Family in Gaza | An Analysis of the Speech by the Leader of Hezbollah Which Is Poised to Open a Second Front | US/China Relations Ahead of Next Saturday's APEC Summit Where Biden and Xi Will Meet backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Increasing Tensions Inside the American Left on Campuses and Among and Between Arab and Jewish Americans Over the Gaza War | As China Mourns Li Keqiang, Its Insecure and Unpopular Leader Xi Jinping Stifles Expressions of Grief | Will Minnesota's Supreme Court Take the Insurrectionist Trump Off the Ballot Along With Colorado, New Hampshire, Arizona and Michigan? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

MAGA Mike Johnson's Top Priority to Cut Taxes on the Rich by Gutting the IRS's Ability to Collect Revenues From Wealthy Tax Cheats | A Report From Israel Inside the Homes Where Hamas Terrorists Butchered Families | Donald Junior's Testimony in the $250 Million Fraud Trial In Which the Trump Organization Has Already Been Found Liable backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

More Civilian Deaths in Gaza as Israel's Ground Campaign Intensifies | Both Trump and Mike Johnson Were Backed by the Council For National Policy Founded by Right-Wing Fundamentalists and Oil Barons backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

How the War in Gaza is Impacting U.S. Electoral Politics | With the New House Speaker a Champion of the Big Lie, How Do We Deal With the Challenges Ahead From Fake News and Deep Fakes? | After Big Wins For Labor, the UAW Seals a Good Deal With the Big Three backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Winning the Military Campaign But Losing the Information War | After the 565th Mass Shooting This Year, a Look at Red and Yellow Flag Laws | The Ascension of Mike Johnson as a Christian Fundamentalist Politician backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Trump's Christian Soldier MAGA Mike Johnson | Will Iran's Aging Supreme Leader Avoid a Wider War or Bring on the Apocalypse? | An Inside Look at the President and Joe Biden's First Two Years in Office backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Trump Gets His Speaker With a Friendlier Face But a Hard Right Record | A Strategic Overview of the Middle East on the Brink of a Wider War | The Reemergence of the Palestinian Statehood Issue backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Emmer Gets the Nomination, Trump Calls Him a RINO, Then He Drops Out of the Race For Speaker | Are the Insurrectionist House Republicans Fascist or Nihilists, or Both? | When Israel Invades Gaza They Will Cross Iran and Hezbollah's Red Line backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Continuing Paralysis of the Legislative Branch | Instead of Doubling Down on Failed Policies, It's Time to Reconsider Our Position in the Middle East | Argentina's Potty-Mouth Populist is Down But Not Out backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Putin, Hamas and Trump's House Republicans Demonstrate Their Contempt For Democracy | Biden's $105 Billion Aid Request Goes to a Leaderless House With No One Constitutionally Able to Act on It | How Much Will Third Party Candidates Swing the 2024 Election to Trump? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The War on Children as Bombs Fall on Gaza Where Half the Population is Under 18 | The Search for Humanity and Compassion Amid the Killing | The Kraken is Released on Probation and Will Testify Against Trump and His Cohorts backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

An Assessment of the Latest Intelligence on the Strike on the Gaza Hospital Parking Lot | A Local Reaction From a Journalist and Activist to Biden's Short Visit to Israel | Jordan Fails Again After Unleashing Fox News Junkyard Dogs and MAGA Threats at the House Republicans Cowards Caucus backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

With the Facts of Who and What Was Behind the Bombing of a Hospital in Gaza Not Yet Verified, We Look Into How it Has Backfired on Israel | Jim Jordan Falls 20 GOP Votes Short, So Trump Does Not Yet Control the House | Is the Supreme Court's Right Wing Majority Using a Specious Case For a Massive Gift to Their Billionaire Backers? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Paralysis at Home While Wars Rage Abroad With the House to Vote on Jim (Gym) Jordan For Speaker on Tuesday at Noon | Sunday's Election in Poland a Welcome Reversal of Democratic Backsliding | Will the Corrupt, Crooked and Reactionary Establishment in Guatemala Deny the Democratically-Elected President Arévalo His Right to Govern? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Can Israel Destroy Hamas Then Hand Over Gaza to the UN and Arab States to Rebuild and Sustain it? | Rising Tensions on Campuses Between Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestinian Students backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Role the Great Powers are Likely to Play in Israel's War Against Hamas | Gaza Civilians Caught Between Israel's Retaliation For Atrocities by Hamas, and an Illegitimate, Repressive, Religious Fundamentalist Government | Another Indictment Against Senator Menendez For Acting as a Foreign Agent For a Foreign Government While Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Israel's Intelligence Failures and the Recriminations Soon to Come | The Religious Fanatic Who Stacked Our Judiciary Believes Catholics Are Under Threat From Barbarian Secularists | Chaos With No New Speaker as a Block of Republican Members Want to Vote For McCarthy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Jared, MbS, Biden and Bibi Ignored the Palestinians as They Dreamed Up Their Plan for Peace and Prosperity in the Middle East | The Distinction Between Supporting Palestinian Rights and Supporting Terrorists | Elon Musk's X Now Monetizes Disinformation by Fake Journalists With Blue- Check Accounts Who Get Paid to Spread Lies backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia