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Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news, expert guests, policymakers, and critics offering analysis and insight on national security, foreign and domestic policy, political, cultural, and social issues. backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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September 14, 2025 - Kim Lane Scheppele | Jared Holt | Reality Winner
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Trump and His Co-President Stephen Miller Declare War on the Democratic Party Which Miller Calls "A Domestic Terrorism Organization" | Charlie Kirk's Christian Nationalism is Embraced by the Shadow Rulers J.D. Vance, Mike Johnson and Russ Vought | Reality Winner Got 5 Years in Prison While Trump Got a Free Pass From a Judge he Owns For Far, Far Wor…
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September 25, 2025 - Sidney Blumenthal | Mark Hannah | Jacob Silverman
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The Leninists and Stalinist at the Head of MAGA and the Trump White House | Trump Trashes the UN Leaving China to Fill the Void After the US Withdraws From the World Body | Silicon Valley's Merging of Techno-Fascism and Christo-Fascism as Musk Merges X with xAI is His Latest Griftbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/prof…
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039: Dave Rubin and the Turncoat Grift [Preview]
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To listen to the full episode, sign up for our Patreon: https://patreon.com/PostingThroughIt In an absolutely jam-packed premium episode, Jared and Mike lay out the biography of Dave Rubin, the ex-progressive turned reactionary internet performer and tequila salesman. The guys examine the phenomenon of this unsavory flavor of grifter, answer listen…
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September 24, 2025 - Richard Parker | George Beebe | Chris Whipple
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Could Our Democracy Be Over Before We Get to Vote in 2026? | Zelensky Warns the World is "in the Most Destructive Arms Race in History" | Harris' Book Reminds Us That Biden's Inner Circle Are Responsible For the Catastrophic Return of Trumpbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.c…
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September 23, 2025 - Dulcie Leimbach | Arthur Caplan | Maha Nassar
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September 23, 2025 - Dulcie Leimbach | Arthur Caplan | Maha Nassar Trump Trashes the Countries of the World at the UN in Front of the World's Leaders | The Deadly Consequences of Trump's Lies and Quackery As He Announces a "Cure" For Autism | At the UN Today Trump's Call to End the Wars in Ukraine and Gaza Repeats an Empty Promise backgroundbriefin…
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September 22, 2025 - Ahmed Moor | Andre Pagliarini | Will Bunch
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Does Recognizing Palestine Create an Illusion of Action to End the Agony in Gaza? | Massive Demonstrations Across Brazil Against Pardoning Bolsonaro and How We Should Have Jailed Trump After His Coup Attempt | Trump Spews Hatred at Charlie Kirk's Memorial After Kirk's Widow Invokes Her Christian Faith To Forgive Her Husband's Murderer backgroundbri…
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038: MAGA’s War on Free Speech feat. Kelly Jensen
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Mike and Jared discuss how the Trump Administration and its allies have escalated their efforts to censor and criminalize their opponents in wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. They also talk about the ways leaders in business and media – even “anti-hate” nonprofits – have been spooked into self-censorship. Then, Jared shares an interview he did …
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September 21, 2025 - Jacob Heilbrunn | James Henry
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The Trump Coup Underway and His Assault on the First Amendment | The Real Epstein Files Story in the 7,000 + SARS Files at Treasury and the Central Role of Robert Maxwell and His Depraved Daughter backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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September 18, 2025 - William Cohan | Craig Aaron | Aziz Huq
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The Richest Man in the World, Trump's Buddy Larry Ellison, Will Soon Own Most of the Media and We Will Have Government TV and Wall-to-Wall Fox News | Trump's MAGA Apparatchik Brendon Carr Uses Charlie Kirk to Kill Free Speech | Time For Jimmy Kimmel to Sue the Trump Administrationbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/prof…
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September 17, 2025 - Dean Baker | Ben Freeman | Jonathan Alter
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September 17, 2025 - Dean Baker | Ben Freeman | Jonathan Alter by Ian MastersBy Ian Masters
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September 16, 2025 - Gil Duran | Scott Horton | Nizar Farsakh
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Peter Thiel's Obsession With the Antichrist Brings Techno-Fascism and Christo-Fascism Together | The Senate Grills the Unqualified and Incompetent Kash Patel as the FBI's Top Talent is Purged | Israel Invades Gaza City as a UN Report Concludes Israel is Commititng Genocide in Gaza backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/pro…
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September 15, 2025 - Ben Burgis | Reverend Billy | Stephen Biddle
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Ben Burgis Who Debated Charlie Kirk on "Democratic Socialism vs. Conservative Populism" | Echoes of the 60's and 70's From Protest Songs Against Trump and MAGA Fascism | An Assessment of the Military Standoff Between Russia and Ukrainebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ia…
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036: Who the Hell Was Charlie Kirk?
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Charlie Kirk went from a heavily mocked “lolcow” with astroturfed appeal to a hardened MAGA loyalist and bonafide celebrity known for publishing heavily edited debate-style clips to social media. On September 10, a man assassinated him, shooting him dead in front of a large crowd at Utah Valley University. This episode examines both how Kirk died a…
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September 11, 2025 - Barbara F. Walter | Thomas Mockaitis | Bruce Cumings
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September 11, 2025 - Barbara F. Walter | Thomas Mockaitis | Bruce Cumings by Ian MastersBy Ian Masters
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035: The Death of American Manhood [Preview]
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To get access to the RSS feed with the full episode, sign up to support our show on Patreon: patreon.com/PostingThroughItMike and Jared covered the far-right's latest obsession: the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian woman in Charlotte, North Carolina. They also discussed "Chorus" and shared an excerpt of their conversation with Luke Savage about the s…
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September 10, 2025 - Jonathan Katz | Harold Meyerson | Juan Cole
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Putin Tests the NATO Alliance With a Drone Incursion Into Poland | Why Are Democratic Leaders Avoiding Popular And Promising Candidates Like Mamdani and Maine's Oysterman? | Qatar Was Not Warned About the Israeli Attack Which Happened at 3.46 Because the US Told Them About it 10 Minutes Later at 3.56 backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmast…
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September 9, 2025 - Daoud Kuttab | Olga Luatman | Bill Scher
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With a September 30 Government Shutdown Looming, Do the Democrats Get Blamed or Do They Walk Away and Let the Republicans Own it Since They Don't Negotiate in Good Faith? | Did the US Allow Israel to Strike an Allied Country That Hosts the Biggest US Base in the Middle East? | The US Tells the Europeans We Will No Longer Work With Them Against Russ…
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The US Tells the Europeans We Will No Longer Work With Them Against Disinformation Warfare
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The US Tells the Europeans We Will No Longer Work With Them Against Disinformation Warfare by Ian MastersBy Ian Masters
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Did the US Allow Israel to Strike an Allied Country That Hosts the Biggest US Base in the ME?
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Did the US Allow Israel to Strike an Allied Country That Hosts the Biggest US Base in the ME? by Ian MastersBy Ian Masters
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With a Sept. 30 Gov Shutdown Looming, Do the Dems Get Blamed or Do They Let the Republicans Own it?
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With a Sept. 30 Gov Shutdown Looming, Do the Dems Get Blamed or Do They Let the Republicans Own it? by Ian MastersBy Ian Masters
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September 8, 2025 - Anne Nelson | Bruce Fein | Rick Perlstein
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A Major TV Network Caves Again, Censoring Trump Protests at the US Open Men's Tennis Final | The Growing Rift Between the Supreme Court and the Lower Courts | A Chicagoan Manning the Barricades Ahead of Trump's "Invasion" in His War on Chicagobackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfaceboo…
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034: The Man Who's Constantly Wrong feat. Luke Savage
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Luke Savage, a writer and political analyst who has written for outlets like Jacobin and The New Statesman, joined the show to talk about none other than Matt “Matty” Yglesias, the influential, centrist pundit with a habit of getting things wrong. Matty also changes his opinions–sometimes abruptly. The “leftist hater brigade” also discussed the cur…
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September 7, 2025 - Miguel Tinker Salas | Aram Shabanian | Brette Steele
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Trump Escalates Threats Against Venezuela as Rubio Calls For a Regional Latin American Campaign of Extrajudicial Killings | The Weak and Cynical Trump Plans For Defending Ukraine In a Possible Deal With Putin | The Consequence of DHS Violence Prevention Funding Cuts to Minnesota Just Ahead of the Minneapolis Mass Shooting of Kids on Their First Day…
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The Moral and Strategic Collapse of US Policy in the Middle East
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September 4, 2025 - Jonathan Guyer backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmediaBy Ian Masters
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September 4, 2025 - Thomas Bollyky | Juliegrace Brufke | Jonathan Guyer
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RFK Jr. Grilled by Senate Democrats Who Want him Fired and Republicans He Lied To | A Congressional Reporter on the Women Abused And Trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell as Trump, the Doj and the House Speaker Fight to Keep the Epstein Files From the Public | The Moral and Strategic Collapse of US Policy in the Middle East backgroundbriefing.org/donat…
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To get access to the RSS feed with the full episode, sign up to support our show on Patreon: patreon.com/PostingThroughIt We covered false rumors that Trump died, California Gov. Gavin Newsom emulating the president's social media stylings, and right-wing media outrage over a proposed change to Cracker Barrel's logo. We also examine a great work of…
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September 3, 2025 - Lisa Graves | David Smilde | Dr. Ariel Cohen
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With Trump's DoJ and House Republicans on the Side of a Depraved Socialite Instead of the Victims of Her Sex Trafficking, Maxwell's Survivors Had to Speak in Front of the Capitol Today | Is Trump Cooking Up a Nice Little War to Take Out Maduro as a Distraction From Epstein? | ICE's Shameful Deportation of Asylum Seekers Back to Russian Torture and …
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September 2, 2025 - Sasha Abramsky | Orville Schell | Eric Blanc
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A Federal Court Rules That Trump and Hegseth Violated the Posse Comitatus Act and That Trump is Creating a National Police Force With Him As Its Chief | Does Xi Jinping Command the World Stage Because of His Diplomatic Skills or Because of Trump's Blundering Lack of Diplomacy? | A Mayor Mamdani Will Need A Mass Movement Behind Him To Overcome an Es…
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