Background Briefing with Ian Masters

Thanksgiving for the Earth and Stopping Shopping on Black Friday | What We Can Be Thankful For and Aspire to Become backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Alleged Rift Between VP Harris and the White House is the Last Thing Biden Needs | Guilty Verdicts in the Ahmaud Arbery Case Come as a Relief to Many backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Attack on the First Amendment From ALEC's Anti-boycott Laws | The U.S., China, India, Japan, South Korea and the U.K. Tap Into Their Strategic Petroleum Reserves | An Appraisal of President Biden's Speech Today on Inflation backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Democrats' Tax Bill Helps Blue State Millionaires While Leaving Billionaires Unscathed | Anti-vaxxer Violence in Europe and Mandatory Vaccination in Austria | Fears of a War Between Russia and Ukraine as the U.S. Ignores Putin's Red Lines backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Open Season on Left Wing Demonstrators by Right Wing Vigilantes Sanctioned by Self Defense Laws and Now Considered Heroes | Build Back Better Now in the Hands of Senator Joe Manchin | The Editor-in-chief of Haaretz on the UCLA Conference on Israel's National Security backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Big Pharma's Blitz to Weaken Biden's Build Back Better Bill | The History of Combating Inflation and Replicating FDR Today | Can Democrats Overcome Gerrymandering and Voter Suppression to Win Texas? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Will an Acquittal of Rittenhouse Embolden the 30% of Republicans Who Believe Violence is Necessary? | The Defiance of Back Row Americans Who Consider Being Unvaccinated a Badge of Honor | Trump's Vengeance Tour in West Virginia Against a GOP Rep. Who Voted For the Infrastructure Bill backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Backsliding Among the World's Democracies | White Collar Crime Moves From the Freezer to the Front Burner at the DOJ | The CBO Outlines 3 Ways to Cut $1 Trillion From the Pentagon backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

A Virtual Summit of America's Messy Democracy Versus Xi Jinping's Efficient Autocracy | Is Putin Poised for a Knockout Blow of Ukraine's Shaky Government? | How the January 6 Insurrection Was a Flashback For a Congressman Who Fought in Iraq backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Our Fragile Planet Hangs By a Thread With a Meek and Weak COP 26 Agreement | Bannon Will Likely Refuse to Testify and Instead Go To Jail as a Martyr | Is the Saudi Crown Prince the Main Driver of Inflation Dogging Biden? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Judge in the Rittenhouse Trial Tips the Scales For an Acquittal | After a Disappointing COP26 Climate Activists Must Now Double Down | Xi Jinping's "Historic Declaration" As He Rolls Back the Clock backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Jan. 6 Committee Drops 10 Subpoenas Today After Issuing 6 on Monday | QAnon, Stop the Steal and White Supremacy Coalesce Around Trump | Refugees Used as Pawns by the Belarus Dictator as Border Tensions Increase backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Latest Twist in the Tangled Tale of Trump's Ties to Putin | Are Republicans Killing Americans For Political Gain? | The Covid Death Toll Between Red and Blue America Grows Wider and Faster backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

An Assessment of the Work So Far at the COP 26 Climate Conference | Great Power Competition is in the Way of the Real National Security Threat, Climate Change | Exaggerated Alarm at the Alleged Demise of the Democrats backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Trump Appears to Have Failed to Block Documents For the 1/6 House Investigation | Democrat's Blame Each Other for Losses in Virginia | The FEC's Appalling Decision to Allow Foreign Money to Corrupt State Ballot Initiatives backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Dog Whistles Worked for Republicans in Virginia While Intraparty Fighting Hurt the Democrats | Can the GOP Run Two Campaigns in 2022, One For the Trumpsters and a Youngkin-like One? | SCOTUS Seems to Want Red State Gun Laws in Blue State backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Solutions at the COP 26 Conference to Remove Atmospheric Methane | Virginia's Trial Run For the GOP to Campaign on the "Critical Race Theory" Lie | No $3.5 Trillion to Build Back America, But For the Next 10 Years, the Pentagon Gets $9 Trillion backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Biden Implores His Fellow Democrats to Accept the Slimmed-down $1.85 Trillion Reconciliation Bill | The Real John Eastman Praises His Memo For the Trump Coup Attempt | Oil Executives Deny Global Warming Disinformation While Funding Attack Ads Against Democrats Who Support Climate Change Initiatives backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

An Open Letter by Prominent Progressives and Conservatives to Save American Democracy From Trump's GOP | Manchin Boasts to a Billionaire Tax Cheat That he Stopped the IRS From Taxing Them backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Trump Faces a Deposition as Bannon Defies a House Subpoena | The Resistance Movement of the Rationals Against the Radical in the GOP | Iran Stalls the Nuclear Talks as it Moves Closer to a Nuclear Weapon Israel Will Not Tolerate backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Relieving the Bottlenecks in the Supply Chain While Not Giving in to Panic Over Inflation | What is Behind the Rise in Oil and Gas Prices | How to Help the Afghan People Avoid Starvation While Not Recognizing the Taliban backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

A Better Way to End the Covid Nightmare | Finally the Government is Cracking Down on the Taxpayer-Funded Crooks of the For-Profit Colleges | A Former CIA Analyst on What Could Have Been Done to Prevent the Syria Tragedy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Intra-party Democratic wrangling is Hurting Biden and the Chances of Holding the House and Senate | China's Escalating Military Pressure on Taiwan Could Get Out of Hand | While Arms From the U.S. Flow to Mexican Criminals, the U.S. Sells Guns To The Mexican Marines backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Lawyer for Abu Zubaydah Whose Case Was Heard Today by the Supreme Court | Lessons From Previous Coastal Oil Spills Have Not Been Learned | How Fight Clubs and MMA Are Incubators For Far Right Hypermasculinity backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Pandora Papers Trove and South Dakota as an Onshore Haven For Dirty Money | The Latest Devastating California Coastal Oil Spill | Facebook Offline and in the Hotseat Following Whistleblower on "60 Minutes" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

January 6 Subpoenas and Republicans Equate Egging of Larry Elder With Growing Threat of Domestic Terrorism | Trying to Understand Kyrsten Sinema Who Controls the Fate of Biden and the Democrats | An Ornithologist Who Has Studied the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Now on the Extinction List backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Showdown Between Progressive and "Corporate" Democrats Over the Infrastructure Bills | The Generals Testify in the Face of Petty Republican Sniping | Evergrande's Impact on 30% of China's Economy and its GDP backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Democrats Should Invoke the 14th Amendment to Raise the Debt Ceiling | Peter Thiel, the Ultimate Plutocratic Populist Financing Far Right Candidates | An Update From Berlin on the Social Democrats Victory and a Likely Coalition with the Greens and Liberals backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Is McConnell Bluffing Over Not Raising the Debt Ceiling? | Reaction to Our Ambassador to Haiti Calling U.S. Treatment of Haitian Refugees "Inhumane" | The Border Patrol as America's Most Out-Of-Control Law Enforcement Agency? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

At the U.N. Biden Urges World Leaders to Face the Challenges of Climate Change and Pandemics | Apple and Google Helped Putin Rig Russia's Parliamentary Elections | Stuffing More Pork Into the NDAA Even As We End Wars in the Middle East backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Could the Collapse of Evergrande Become China's Lehman Brothers Moment? | Border Patrol Officers on Horseback With Whips Round Up Haitian Refugees | Today's Elections in Canada backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

We Need More Covid Booster Shots, Not Less | Rethinking U.S. Drone Policy While Repairing Trump's Damage to Our National Security | Biden's Call to Reduce Methane Emissions by 30% by the End of the Decade backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

China's Reaction to the AUKUS Deal Between the U.S., U.K., and Australia | French Fury at Australia For Cancelling a $66 Billion Submarine Deal | Who Will Show Up For the "Justice For J6" Rally on Saturday? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia