Background Briefing with Ian Masters

September 2, 2026 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Paul Glastris | Ilya Somin by Ian Masters

The Same DHS Trying to Rig the Election For Trump, Increases Its Cruelty, Sending Haitians Back to a Failed State Run By Violent Gangs | Pentagon Leaders Try to Stop Hegseth Escalating a War He's Lost But Claimed He Won Many Times | Trump's $100 Billion Venezuelan Oil Deal With an Illegitimate Leader and a Shady Businessman Accused of Money Laundering and Black Market Oil Sales backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

A Report From Nepal on the Horrific Wall of Water That Swept Away Thousands of Lives | How Biden Lost Our Moral Authority in the Middle East Then Trump Destroyed Our Military Power and Credibility | Meta's $18 Billion Settlement After Decades of Damage to Children and Teens By Its Social Media Platforms backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

Trump Has Chief Justice Roberts' Blessing to Have DHS Create a Master List of All Voters Which Will Be Purged Then the USPS Will Send Mail-In Ballots to a Whittled-Down List of Democratic Voters | China's Reaction to Secretary Bessent's Declaration of Economic Warfare Against Iran | The Small Man With a Big Job at the Pentagon's War Against Reporting on What an Incompetent Racist Poseur He Is backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

Two Subjects of American Doctor, a Film That Makes Us Face Our Complicity in Gaza | How The Tate Brothers Fan Barron Trump Helped Get Out the Manosphere Vote in 2024 Which Has Now Turned Against Trump backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

Trump's "Binky: The Closest Person to Him Who Feeds Our President Far-Right Conspiratorial Fabrication | How Brendan Carr Wants Putin-Style Media in America Devoted to Our "Dear Leader" | The Results of the Florida Primaries Have a DSA Candidate For Senate Winning and Two Of Trump's Picks Losing backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

The Current Iran War Tops the Record As We Keep Losing Wars | Trump's Latest Treasonous Outrage | How a Reactionary Oligarchy Is Capturing Our Politics and Economy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

Our Banana Republic Dictator Orders Blanche and Pirro to Punish Innocent Americans For Embarrassing the "Dear Leader" | Iran Plans to Drag Out the Stalemate in the Gulf Past the November Elections to Punish Trump | As Putin Destroys Ukraine Which He Cannot Conquer, VP Vance Leans on Zelensky Not To Bomb Russian Oil Terminals Chevron and Exxon Have Stakes in backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

After the Democrats Failed Twice to Stop Trump, In the End Will It Be Iran's Theocratic Fanatics Who Bring Him Down? | How To Build a Bridge Between College-Educated Democrats and the Concerns of Working Class Voters | How Did We Get To the Point the World's Most Powerful and Expensive Military is Running Out of Ammo? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

Will the Healing Between Progressive Democrats and Centrists Be Set Back By Tuesday's Primary in Wisconsin? | After Damaging Our Economy, Alliances, Health, Education, Science, Environment, Political Stability, National Cohesion and Rule of Law, Trump is Now Ruining Our Military | Cory Doctorow On How To Think About AI Before It's Too Late backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

A Former Michigan Congressman Who Was Defeated by Congresswoman Stevens and AIPAC Money on Abdul El-Sayed's Victory | Has AIPAC's Power As Washington's Kingmaker Peaked? | With Even Trump Criticising Oil Company Profits, China is Transitioning Away From Fossil Fuel Dependence, But Not the U.S. backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

Trump Backs Down Then Iran Refutes His Claim He Did So Because They Want to Talk | Has the Fratricide Between the Democrats Running For the US Senate in Michigan Doomed the Party's Chances of Winning Back the Senate? | A Whistleblower Who Revealed Trump and Musk's Illegitimate and Dangerous Dismantling of USAID Host: Ian Masters Producers: Graham FitzGibbon, Asher Price

Reviving Their War on Yemen, an Incensed Saudi Leadership Strikes Back at the Houthis | Yesterday's Unseemly Grilling of Fauci by Republican Junkyard Dogs | Similarities Between Stalin's Show Trials and Rand Paul's Ambush of Fauci backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing