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

Background Briefing: May 22, 2019

  Trump’s Tax Travails We begin with the bad news on three fronts for Trump who has been hiding his taxes from the Congress and the public peddling the absurd lie that he is under IRS audit. Today New York State lawmakers approved a bill to clear the way...

Background Briefing: May 21, 2019

  Growing Pressure on Speaker Pelosi to Initiate Impeachment Hearings We begin with the growing pressure on Nancy Pelosi from her caucus to initiate impeachment hearings which she is resisting while Trump himself appears to be acting like Clint Eastwood, taunting...

Background Briefing: May 20, 2019

  Another Scandal Involving Trump and Deutsche Bank We begin with the firing of a money-laundering specialist at Deutsche Bank who blew the whistle on suspicious activities connected to Donald Trump’s and Jared Kushner’s accounts involving recent transactions. In...

Background Briefing: May 19, 2019

  The US Has Already Declared Economic Warfare on Iran We begin with the fact that the United States has already declared economic warfare on Iran and is in the process of crippling their economy and impoverishing their people. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, the...

Background Briefing: May 16, 2019

  The US Is Engaged in Economic Warfare Against Iran We  begin with the brinkmanship between the U.S. and Iran as the U.S. engages in economic warfare against the theocratic regime to which Iran’s foreign minister claims the Iranian have a right to respond,...