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August 14, 2025 - Harold Meyerson | Julie Roginsky | Robert Stern
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Trump's Performative Takeover of the Street of Washington DC as Its Residents Cry "Fascists", "Pigs" and "Go Home" | What Can Democrats Do To Be Proactive, Not Reactive to Trump | California Governor Newsom's Announcement of a November 4 Special Election to Counter the Texas Gerrymander backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.a…
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bbriefing_2025_08_14b_julie roginsky by Ian MastersBy Ian Masters
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August 13, 2025 - Tamar Jacoby | Simon Shuster | Steven Simon
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How Ukrainians Feel About the Upcoming Summit to Which They Are Not Invited | The 31 Years-Long Dictatorship That Served as a Backchannel For the Putin/Trump Summit | Trump and Hegseth Have Captured the Generals Who Will Show Loyalty Over Legality and Not Rescue us From Trump as Milley, Mattis and Kelly Did Last Time backgroundbriefing.org/donatetw…
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August 12, 2025 - Sarah Leah Whitson | George Beebe | Lucian Truscott IV
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The UN's Palestinian Representative's Call For a UN Peacekeeping Protection Force in Gaza | What a Peace Plan to End Russia's War on Ukraine Could Look Like | Trump Moves to Use the Military for Domestic Law Enforcement as the Pentagon Plans For Rapid Reaction Forces to Put Down Civil Dissent backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmedia…
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August 11, 2025 - Adele Stan | Dr. Guy Ziv | Dr. Trita Parsi
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Like a Tinpot Dictator, Trump Takes Over the Nation's Capital, Sending Troops Into the Streets as a Show of Force | The Growing Rift Between IDF Generals and Netanyahu as More of Israel's Allies Call For a Palestinian State | The Possibility of a New War Erupting Soon Between Israel and Iran backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediab…
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August 10, 2025 - Anders Aslund | Olga Lautman | Renée DiResta
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Yet Another Sellout by Trump to His Handler Putin | Since Zelensky Will Have to Reject Trump's Phony Peace Deal, Will That Be Trump's Excuse to Abandon Ukraine? | Gabbard's Ridiculous Revisionist History Aimed to Please the Liar-in-Chiefbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/…
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August 7, 2025 - David Salvo | Dr. Sumit Ganguly | David Bell
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Low Expectations Among Experts For the Upcoming Putin/Trump Summit in the UAE | Decades of US Efforts to Woo India Away From Russia and Forge a Strategic Partnership Against China Blown Up Overnight By Trump | The Dark Side of A.I. as Silicon Valley Techno-Utopians Oversell Their Products Again backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmed…
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August 6, 2025 - John Nichols | Alexander Motyl | Matthew Klein
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Will the Lawless Trump Regime Have the FBI Arrest the Democratic Lawmakers Who Fled Texas to Stop Trump's Power Grab? | As Trump Tries to Persuade Putin Ahead of Friday's Deadline, Can Putin End His War on Ukraine? | An Authoritative Analysis on the Economy and Where Trump is Taking itbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app…
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August 5, 2025 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Steven Harper | Chris Hedges
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The House Subpoenas the Epstein Files and Laura Loomer is Back in the Oval Office | The Dirty Deal Already Made Between Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell | As Netanyahu Plans to Reoccupy Gaza, Speaker Johnson Meets Settlers Telling Them They Are the "Rightful Owners" of Palestinian Territorybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app…
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August 4, 2025 - David Daley | Lloyd Green | Paul Pillar
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Texas Democrats Try to Stop the Trump/Abbott Power Grab to Win the House in the Midterms Before a Vote Has Been Cast | With Signs of Stagflation and Recession Emerging, It's Time For the Democrats to Hammer Trump on the Economy | How Will Trump Respond to the Letter From 600 Top Israeli Officials Asking Him to Get Netanyahu to Stop the Killing in G…
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August 3, 2025 - Matt Gold | Scott Horton | Charles Derber
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Trump's Tariff Spree and Shooting the Messenger With the Bad Jobs Report | Trump Accuses Obama of "Treason" As He Tries to Rewrite History Based on Forgeries by Russian Intelligence | American Sociocide in the Misanthropic Era of a Malevolent Sociopathbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.soci…
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July 31, 2025 - Melinda St. Louis | Michael Gerrard | Dean Baker
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50% Tariffs Slapped on Brazil To Force Lula To Drop Charges Against Trump's Fellow Fascist Bolsonaro | Time To Rename the Environmental Protection Agency the Environmental Destruction Agency | In Spite of Trump's Bullying, the Fed Chair Holds Steady on Interest Ratesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmasters…
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July 30, 2025 - Erwin Chemerinsky | Stephen Wertheim | Sidney Blumenthal
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The Trump-controlled US Senate Elevates Bove as the Law is Weaponized to Keep Unqualified Ideologues On As US Attorneys | The Good and the Bad of Having a Foreign Policy Amateur in the Oval Office | The Senate Tries To Make the Epstein Files Public as the Republicans Stonewall Protecting Their "Dear Leader" backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/…
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July 29, 2025 - Robert Kuttner | Daniel Treisman | Mitchell Plitnick
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Trump's Announce First- Details Later Trade Deal With the EU and "Air Farce One: When Gift Becomes Grift" | Trump's New Ultimatum To Putin Seen as a Step Towards War | Trump Rebukes Netanyahu Over Starving Children But OK's Plan to Annex Gaza backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfaceboo…
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July 28, 2025 - Katherine Stewart | Aziz Huq | Peter Loge
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As Trump Appears More Bonkers, We Look Into the "Intellectual" Gloss J.D. Vance Puts on the Administration's Racist and Cruel Policies | What the Supreme Court's Liberals Are Trying to Tell the American People | The Pathetically Thin-Skinned Most Powerful Man in the World Demands "Dear Leader" Worship While Suing Media Outlets That Tell the Truth A…
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July 27, 2025 - Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan | Matt Angle | Nina Burleigh
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Why Thailand and Cambodia Are Fighting Over Their Border and What Should Stop It | Trump's Brazen Plan to Gerrymander the Already Gerrymandered State of Texas to Have 80% of the Power With Only 55% of the Vote | Trump and His Law Firm the DoJ Make Nice With a Convicted Sex Trafficker of Underage Girls as MAGA Media Portrays Maxwell as a Victim to J…
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July 24, 2025 - Omar Shakir | Jared Abbott | Andrew Hartman
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International Outrage at Deliberate Starvation in Gaza Grows | An Analysis of Working Class Social and Economic Attitudes For the Democratic Party to Consider | A New Books Karl Marx in America as Young Americans Embrace Socialism While Trump Calls Democrats Marxist Lunaticsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ia…
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July 23, 2025 - James Thurber | Christopher Bing | Alex De Wall
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The Bipartisan Discharge Petition Working Around Speaker Johnson's Protection of Trump and Epstein | The Weaponization of Confidential IRS Data Now Being Handed Over to ICE and DHS | The Deliberate Starvation of Children in Gaza With Over 1,000 Palestinian Aid-Seekers Killed Since Maybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/…
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July 22, 2025 - Mike Lofgren | Tim Weiner
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The Good Christian Mike Johnson Shuts Down the House to Protect the Best Friend of a Pedophile and Child Sex Trafficker | The Decline of the Intelligence Community Trying to Survive an Anti-Intellectual Regime backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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July 21, 2025 - James Zirin | Jacques Berlinerblau | Sidney Blumenthal
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Is Trump Suing Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal to Find Out Who the Leaker Is? | Cancelling Comedians to Muzzle the American Tradition of Political Satire | The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse Driving Us Into a Hellscape: Trump, Miller and Voughtbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social…
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July 20, 2025 - Nancy Gertner | Sean Wilentz | Richard Parker
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With the Upcoming Senate Confirmation Vote on Emil Bove, Will Trump Get His "Roy Cohn" on the Supreme Court? | We Are Past a Constitutional Crisis and Should be Working on Restoring Our Democracy and Reviving the Constitution | A Way Out of America's Descent Into Authoritarianismbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profi…
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July 17, 2025 - Will Sommer | Scott Horton | Lisa Graves
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After Feeding Them Lies and Delusions For Years, Trump Now Calls His MAGA Cultists "Stupid" and "Weaklings" | AG Bondi's Firing of Maurene Comey Whose Father is High Up on Trump's Enemies List | Today's Walkout by Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committeebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky…
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July 16, 2025 - Joshua Landis | Bill Hing | Sylvia Allegretto
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Israel Bombs Damascus as the Syrian Government Slaughters the Druze Minority, Exposing the Different Interests of Israel and the U.S. When it Comes to the Jihadi in a Suit Leading the New Syria | Geo Group and Core Civic Feast on Taxpayer Money as ICE Detains Whoever They Can Snatch | Apparently the Rich Are Not Rich Enough in Americabackgroundbrie…
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July 15, 2025 - Robert Hockett | David Halperin | Matthew Hongoltz-Hettling
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Trump Escalates His War Against the Fed and Its Chairman Jerome Powell | The Consequence of the Supreme Court Allowing Trump to Continue Dismantling the U.S. Department of Education | What is Behind the War Inside MAGA Over Not Releasing the Epstein Files As Promised? Music:Carla Bozulich - Glass HouseElodie Lauten - Despair Postludebackgroundbrief…
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July 14, 2025 - Michael Kimmage | Casey Michel | Juan Cole
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Trump's Tough Talk Threatening Russia With a 50 Day Deadline For a Ceasefire | Trump and His Family's Unprecedented Corruption and How Foreign Regimes Can Now Buy American Elections | Is There Any Hope of Stopping the Slaughter in Gaza? backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/…
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