Background Briefing: February 2, 2022
What Kind of Sanctions and Will They Work Against Putin? We begin with the threat of sanctions being leveled against Russia to deter what many see as a likely military invasion of Ukraine and get an analysis of whether sanctions work and how much they are a...
Background Briefing: February 1, 2022
With Trump the GOP Frontrunner, Are We Heading For Putin-style Gangster Government? We begin with whether or not America will soon have gangster government like the Russians have under Putin since our criminal-in-chief Donald Trump now controls the Republican...
Background Briefing: January 31, 2022
In Incendiary Racist Demagoguery, Trump Threatens Civil War if He is Indicted We begin with former President Trump's dangerous demagoguery on display at a rally in Texas on Saturday at which in a racist attack on the prosecutors in New York and Atlanta who are...
Background Briefing: January 30, 2022
Will the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Meet the Infrastructure Crisis With 43,000 Unsafe Bridges Nationwide? We begin with the bridge collapsing in Pittsburgh just before President Biden arrived there to address the dire state of infrastructure in the country...
Background Briefing: January 27, 2022
Understanding Putin's Mindset and Why He Won't Accept Ukrainian Sovereignty We begin with insight into why Putin has manufactured this crisis over Ukraine and why Western leaders can't grasp what is underpinning Putin's mindset which is Russia's historical view...
Background Briefing: January 26, 2022
Lessons Learned From RBG With Justice Breyer Retiring From the Supreme Court We begin with news that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will retire soon and already Senate Majority Leader Schumer is promising a replacement "will be considered and confirmed by...
Background Briefing: January 25, 2022
How to Penetrate Putin's Wall of Propaganda Inside Russia Instead of Feeding It We begin with the propaganda saturating the state controlled media in Russia which portrays NATO as the aggressor, Ukraine as an American puppet, the EU an American lapdog and the...
Background Briefing: January 24, 2022
Mounting Russian Military Preparation as Ukraine Disperses its Army in Readiness For Guerrilla War We begin with mounting Russian preparations for war with Ukraine as Western diplomats and their families leave Kyiv and the stock market drops 1,000 points in...
Background Briefing: January 23, 2022
Russia's Military Industrial Complex and Hawkish Generals Driving the War Party We begin with the expectation of war in Europe as Russia masses more forces surrounding Ukraine in the north from Belarus, the east in the Donbas and the south on the Black Sea and...
Background Briefing: January 20, 2022
SCOTUS Slouches Towards Right Wing Lunacy with a Maskless Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas's Sole Dissent We begin on the 12th anniversary of the Supreme Court's disastrous Citizens United decision which has unleashed torrents of dark money into our politics and...