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

Background Briefing: June 4, 2020

  The Likelihood Trump Will Invoke Martial Law Before or After an Electoral Defeat We begin with the announcement by the Secretary of Defense contradicting his boss by opposing Trump’s threat to invoke the Insurrection Act on 1807 followed by the former...

Background Briefing: June 3, 2020

  While Police Mass Against Demonstrations, Stores and Pharmacies are Looted We begin with an examination of the groups trying to hijack or discredit the nationwide demonstration against police brutality as well as those criminal elements and street gangs taking...

Background Briefing: June 2, 2020

  Trump’s Entirely Fabricated Pretext of Domestic Terrorism to Justify Martial Law We begin with Trump’s Mussolini-like photo op yesterday striding across Lafayette Square which he had just ordered cleared of peaceful protesters by the U.S. military...

Background Briefing: June 1, 2020

  The 1992 Rodney King Riots and Today’s Looting and Rioting in LA With Los Angeles under a curfew for a third night in a row following looting yesterday in Santa Monica and Long Beach, we will begin with an historical perspective from a sociologist who has...

Background Briefing: May 31, 2020

  How Rioting and Looting Will Help Trump Cast Himself for Reelection as the “Law and Order” President We begin with the riots and looting across the country sparked by the on-camera murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis which has degenerated into...