A DAILY PUBLIC RADIO PROGRAM FEATURING NEWS ANALYSIS OF THE DAY'S TOP ISSUES

Background Briefing: September 17, 2019

  Trump Awaits Instructions from His Saudi Masters We begin with the increasing likelihood that the drones and missiles fired at the Saudi oil facilities came from Iran and might have been launched by hardliners in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps out to stymie...

Background Briefing: September 16, 2019

  Tehran’s Not-Too-Subtle Message to the White House We begin with heightening tensions in the Gulf following an Iranian strike by drones and cruise missiles on two key Saudi oil facilities which has Trump threatening in a tweet that the U.S. “is locked and...

Background Briefing: September 15, 2019

  Some 2020 Presidential Predictions  We will begin with some political predictions, particularly since some sober analysts like Peter Wehner, in an article at The Atlantic titled “Trump is Not Well”, argue that Trump’s psychological flaws were alarming when he...

Background Briefing: September 12, 2019

  Finally Antitrust Action Against the Tech Monopolies We begin today’s program as the latest round of Democratic presidential candidate’s debates begins in Houston and speak with Matt Stoller, a Fellow at the Open Markets Institute whose latest book out soon,...

Background Briefing: September 11, 2019

  The Falling Out between the Adelsons and the Netanyahus We begin on this 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and speak with veteran Washington correspondent Jim Lobe who was chief of the Washington bureau of Inter Press Services and runs the influential...