Best Host Dr Matthew Klein Podcasts (2025)

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September 24, 2025 - Richard Parker | George Beebe | Chris Whipple 1:00:19

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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 57:59

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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 1:02:06

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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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September 21, 2025 - Jacob Heilbrunn | James Henry 57:17

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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 1:01:23

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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 1:01:08

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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 1:01:27

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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 1:02:39

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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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September 14, 2025 - Kim Lane Scheppele | Jared Holt | Reality Winner 1:03:01

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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 11, 2025 - Barbara F. Walter | Thomas Mockaitis | Bruce Cumings 1:05:51

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September 11, 2025 - Barbara F. Walter | Thomas Mockaitis | Bruce Cumings by Ian MastersBy Ian Masters

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September 10, 2025 - Jonathan Katz | Harold Meyerson | Juan Cole 1:05:39

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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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The US Tells the Europeans We Will No Longer Work With Them Against Disinformation Warfare 26:08

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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? 14:54

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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? 19:53

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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 9, 2025 - Daoud Kuttab | Olga Luatman | Bill Scher 1:06:14

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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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September 8, 2025 - Anne Nelson | Bruce Fein | Rick Perlstein 1:01:41

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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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September 7, 2025 - Miguel Tinker Salas | Aram Shabanian | Brette Steele 58:25

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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 18:11

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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 1:03:08

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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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September 3, 2025 - Lisa Graves | David Smilde | Dr. Ariel Cohen 1:01:44

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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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The Future of Innovation in Water 48:55

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The world of water innovation is experiencing a remarkable evolution, powered by a perfect storm of entrepreneurial talent, technological advancement, and growing recognition of water's fundamental importance. In this fascinating conversation with Tom Ferguson, Managing Partner of Burnt Island Ventures, we explore how venture capital is catalyzing …

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September 2, 2025 - Sasha Abramsky | Orville Schell | Eric Blanc 1:04:41

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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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September 1, 2025 - Steven Greenhouse | Sylvia Allegretto | Michael Kazin 1:02:10

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The State of Working America Under Assault From Trump and Project 2025 | How Trump and Project 2025 Have Turbocharged the Plutocratic Takeover of American Democracy | The History of Labor Day As Opposed to May Day That Others Celebratebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ia…

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August 31, 2025 - Karen Greenberg | Lawrence Gostin | Seth Harp 1:02:19

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Trump, Hegseth, Ratcliffe, Gabbard, Patel, Bongino and Noem Might as Well be Working For Putin and Xi as They Destroy Our National Security | How the Conspiratorial Mindset of an Entitled Wastrel From a Famous American Political Dynasty is Collapsing America's Public Health | The Blowback at Home From America's Killing Machine in the War on Terrorb…

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August 28, 2025 - David Schultz | Moira Donegan | Kevin O'Leary 1:02:57

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Another Mass Murder of Children, This Time While They Were Praying in Church on Their First Day at School | The Sadistic Absurdity of Trump, Miller, Noem, Lewandowsky and Homan | Democrats Can Learn From Our Best President's Strategic Shift in the Civil War to Save Our Democracy From America's Worst President backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.co…

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August 27, 2025 - Mikkel Runge Olesen | Rick Wilson | Lawrence Douglas 1:00:34

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The U.S. is Caught Spying on a NATO Ally in Support of Trump's Plot to Steal Greenland | Trump's Antisemitic Conspiratorial Rant Threatening George Soros and His Son | Having Survived a Coup Attempt, Can We Endure Dictatorial Creep?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianma…

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August 26, 2025 - David Faris | Robert Hockett | Emma Ashford 1:02:16

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Another Governor, Illinois' Pritzker, Stands up to Trump While Democratic Leaders in the House and Senate are MIA | After Trying to Terminate the Fed Chair, Trump Fires the First and Only Black Woman on the Fed, But She is Staying Put | How the U.S. Should Deal With the Way the World is, Not How We Wish It To Bebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.…

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August 25, 2025 - Stephen Noerper | Philip Rocco | David Hearst 1:03:28

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Since Oval Office Flattery is Required, South Korea's President Praises Trump's Garish Redecoration Only to Have Trump Heap Praise on the North Korean Dictator Who Wants to Annihilate South Korea | A Directionless DNC Meets Today With Coffers Empty and a Growing Split Between Younger Activists and Older Centrists While Trump's GOP Moves to Wipe Out…

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August 24, 2025 - Nina Burleigh | James Fallows | Bill McKibben 1:03:09

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Trump Rewrites His Epstein/Maxwell History as He Has Done With "Russiagate" and "Stop the Steal" But This Time Are the American People That Stupid? | Joining the Residents of Washington DC As They Demonstrate Against the Military Occupation of Our Nation's Capital | Among the First to Warn About Global Warming, Bill McKibbon on His New Book Here Co…

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August 21, 2025 - Peter Stone | Osita Nwanevu 57:40

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Trump Patrols the Streets of the Nation's Capital as He Wages War on the Truth | A Case For a Real Democracy in the U.S.A.backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmediaBy Ian Masters

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August 20, 2025 - Ryan Cooper | Jeremi Suri | Natalie Melnyczuk 1:02:40

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Protestors at DC's Union Station Yell at Vance, Hegseth and Miller Who Calls Them "Crazy Communists" as They Bring Cheeseburgers to National Guard Troops | Texas Gerrymanders 5 Seats For Trump Who is Trying Everything to Stop the Democrats From Taking the House in 2026 | Can Ukraine Hold the Front Against a Russian Offensive Which is Why Putin Does…

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August 19, 2025 - David Andelman | Ori Goldberg | James Moore 1:02:48

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Trump's Pathetic Idea of Diplomacy and the Art of the Giveaway | After Sunday's Massive Demonstrations, Can Israel's Opposition Stop the War on Gaza? | The Fascistic Thuggery of Republican Legislators in Texasbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…

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August 18, 2025 - Charles Kupchan | Richard Hasen | Jeff Hauser 1:03:27

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Damage Control at the White House to Prevent Trump's Sellout of Ukraine to Putin | Trump Wants to Get Rid of Mail-in Ballots and Undo the Constitution's Bedrock of States Controlling Elections | Trump's Burgeoning War Chest to Buy theNext Election Just as Musk Bought the Last backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/…

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August 17, 2025 - Angela Stent | Michael Gorham | Jacob Silverman 1:00:20

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The Shameful Amateurism of Trump's Reality TV Diplomacy as He Sells Out Ukraine While Fawning Over a Wanted War Criminal | A Specialist on Russian Media on the Summit the Russian Public Saw on Putin-Controlled State Media | The Possibility of Crypto-Corruption Greasing the Skids to the Summitbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediab…

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August 14, 2025 - Harold Meyerson | Julie Roginsky | Robert Stern 1:02:01

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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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August 13, 2025 - Tamar Jacoby | Simon Shuster | Steven Simon 59:39

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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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SuperShifts and the Future of Water 50:26

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We stand at the threshold of a new age. As the Industrial Era gives way to the Age of Intelligence, we face unprecedented transformation in every aspect of human existence. Steve Fisher, managing partner at Revolution Factory and chief futurist at the Human Frontier Institute, joins us to explore the nine "SuperShifts" reshaping our world. From his…

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August 12, 2025 - Sarah Leah Whitson | George Beebe | Lucian Truscott IV 1:01:48

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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 1:04:22

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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 59:52

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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 1:02:48

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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 1:01:28

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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 1:01:20

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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 59:21

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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 1:03:28

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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 1:01:01

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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 1:01:14

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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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The Future of Water Awareness Game 28:34

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Amber Desprets joins us to unveil her groundbreaking creation: the Future of Water Awareness Game. This isn't your typical board game - it's a powerful tool designed to shift how we think about our water future using speculative design principles. Through a deck of 112 insight cards and a five-step process, Amber's game takes participants on a jour…

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July 29, 2025 - Robert Kuttner | Daniel Treisman | Mitchell Plitnick 1:01:55

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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 1:03:44

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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…