Background Briefing: March 25, 2026
Our Reality TV President Unable to Deal With Reality, Makes Up Stories About Negotiating With Iran We begin with a disastrously delusional American president making up stories about negotiating with the enemy as he tries to get out of a trap he set for himself...
Background Briefing: March 23, 2026
TACO Trump Now Claims Peace is at Hand but Iran Says No Such Talks Are Taking Place We begin with TACO Trump backing down from his ultimatum to bomb Iran's electrical and water infrastructure to him announcing today that he is having "very good and productive...
Background Briefing: March 22, 2026
Contradictory Signals From Trump to Wind Down the War While Sending in More Marines We begin with Trump's ultimatum to Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz, sending contradictory signals saying he is winding down his war on Iran at the same time sending more Marines to...
Background Briefing: March 18, 2026
The Organizer of an International Humanitarian Flotilla Delivering Aid to the Desperate and Starving People of Cuba We begin with the head of an international humanitarian effort underway to alleviate the suffering of the Cuban people whose country is falling apart...
Background Briefing: March 17, 2026
Today's Blowback and the Historical Record of US Meddling in Iran We begin with the killing today of Iran's top national security official and the head of the Basij militia who were hiding in a safe house struck by Israel, opening the way for even more hardline...
Background Briefing: March 16, 2026
Although the US Navy Won't Go Into the Gulf, Trump is Demanding Other Navies Escort Tankers Through the Strait of Hormuz We begin with Trump doubling down on his delusion that tankers can pass through the Strait of Hormuz after calling on tanker owners to "show...
Background Briefing: March 12, 2026
After Declaring Victory Over Iran, Trump Vows That Cuba Is Next We begin with Trump already having claimed victory in the war underway against Iran as well as already announcing that Cuba will be the next to fall in his crusade to assert the "Donroe doctrine." Joining...
Background Briefing: March 11, 2026
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on Trump, Epstein and Putin We begin with the latest examples of Trump's fealty towards Putin who is providing Iran with targeting to kill Americans in the war underway which Trump and Witkoff are denying, along with having the US abstain...
Background Briefing: March 9, 2026
A War Iran Only Has to Stay in While We Can Only Win At a Price We Are Unlikely to Want to Pay We begin with the question, how long can Trump and Hegseth use $4 million interceptors to shoot down $20,000 drones in an asymmetrical war that Iran just has to stay in,...
Background Briefing: March 5, 2026
The U.S. Continues to Resort to Force at Growing Cost in a Region of Diminishing Importance We begin with the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran raging while Trump issues megalomaniacal orders to the Iranians that he will choose their next leader and that the recently killed...