Background Briefing: April 14, 2022
Russia Threatens and Warns Finland and Sweden Not to Join NATO We begin with threats and warnings from Russia directed at Finland and Sweden, two neutral countries now seriously considering joining NATO because their citizens are alarmed at Russia's barbaric...
Background Briefing: April 13, 2022
SCOTUS Will Soon Make it Easier to Arm Mass Shooters on New York Subways We begin with the arrest of the subway shooter in New York who had terrorized the city having exploded smoke grenades in a subway car on Tuesday and fired 33 shots wounding 10 people...
Background Briefing: April 12, 2022
With Putin at 83% Approval in the Polls, Will the War in Ukraine Bring Him Down? We begin with a former Russian TV anchor who knows Vladimir Kara- Murza who was just arrested in Moscow after appearing on CNN in an interview where he predicted that the...
Background Briefing: April 11, 2022
While Republicans Obsess About Hunter Biden, MBS Rewards Jared Kushner With $2 Billion Over Objections From the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund We begin with the son-in-law of the grifter-in-chief whose many bankruptcies, including casinos where the house always...
Background Briefing: April 10, 2022
Facing Defeat, Russia Mobilizes for the Decisive Offensive in Eastern Ukraine We begin with the decisive offensive the Russians are mobilizing for to take the Donbas and encircle the Ukrainian army in the east. Having lost up to a third of their combat power so...
Background Briefing: April 7, 2022
The War in Ukraine Could Last For Months If Not Years We begin with an assessment of the war in Ukraine lasting months if not years and how that will impact domestic politics with the November elections coming up and the likelihood that, as Ukraine is pounded...
Background Briefing: April 6, 2022
An Analyst Who Exposes Russian Propaganda, Watching it For 8 Hours a Day We begin with the alternative universe the Russian people are in when it comes to what they are told is happening next door in Ukraine as state media propagandists are now working overtime...
Background Briefing: April 5, 2022
Zelensky's Call For a Nuremberg Tribunal Accusing the Russian Military of Behaving Like Nazis We begin with President Zelensky's condemnation of Russia before the U.N. Security Council today accusing Putin's military of behaving like Nazis and calling for war...
Background Briefing: April 4, 2022
Prosecuting Putin For Going to War and Then Committing War Crimes We begin with revelations of atrocities committed by retreating Russian troops in Ukraine with 300 civilians found on the outskirts of Kyiv murdered, many bound and tied shot execution style....
Background Briefing: April 3, 2022
Today's Hungarian Election as a Test Case For America's Democratic Future We begin with today's election in Hungary which has outsized significance, particularly for here in the U.S. since the Republican party and their propagandists like Tucker Carlson and...