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

Background Briefing: May 21, 2020

  Trump Trashes Another Treaty We begin with the tearing up of a third major arms control treaty by President Trump, this time the Open Skies Treaty, first proposed by President Eisenhower then eventually signed in 1992 by 34 nations. Joseph Cirincione, the...

Background Briefing: May 20, 2020

  Republican Governors Assist Trump by Undercounting Covid Deaths We begin with the efforts underway by Trump and his loyal governors like DeSantis in Florida, Kemp in Georgia and Ducey in Arizona, to engage in deliberate efforts to undercount their states’...

Background Briefing: May 19, 2020

  Trump’s New Vaccine Czar and Big Pharma’s Grip on Vaccines We begin with the new vaccine czar Moncef Slaoui appointed by Trump to head up what the White House calls “Operation Warp Speed”, having to divest $10 million’s worth in...

Background Briefing: May 18, 2020

  China Gives $2 Billion to the WHO While the US Cuts Funds and Blames Them for the Pandemic We begin with the 73rd WHO, World Health Organization’s assembly which China’s President Xi Jinping addressed by video-link pledging $2 billion to deal with...

Background Briefing: May 17, 2020

  Trump Sidelines Health Professionals While Fox Switches Coverage From Covid to Obamagate We begin with the inescapable conclusion that the top public health professionals advising the White House have become nothing more than window dressing for a president who...