Background Briefing: May 25, 2021
An Explosive Story That Will Bring Down Turkey's Spectacularly Corrupt Dictator We begin with an explosive story erupting in Turkey that exposes how right wing demagogues like Trump and Bolsonaro destroy civic and government institutions in order to gain more...
Background Briefing: May 24, 2021
A Desperate Move by Europe's Last Dictator the Stalinist Thug Lukashenko We begin with the hijacking of a passenger plane flying between two EU countries by the dictator of Belarus to capture a dissident journalist and speak with an expert on Belarus, David...
Background Briefing: May 23, 2021
Alarming Poll Finds Republicans in an Alternate Universe Believing Trump Lies We begin with the latest Ipsos/Reuters poll which finds that 53% of Republicans say Trump is the "True President" with 56% of Republican believing the 2020 election was either rigged...
Background Briefing: May 20, 2021
The Law is Finally Catching Up With Donald Trump We begin with the law catching up with Donald Trump and the Trump Organization with the announcement by New York Attorney General Leticia James that "We have informed the Trump Organization that our investigation...
Background Briefing: May 13, 2021
Communal Violence Inside of Israel May Restrain Escalation to an Invasion of Gaza We begin with the continuing exchange of rockets and air strikes between Hamas and the IDF and the communal violence erupting in Israel between Israeli nationalists and Israeli...
Background Briefing: May 12, 2021
Vigilante Violence in Israel Against Israeli Arabs and Palestinians We begin with the situation on the ground in Israel getting out of hand with vigilante attacks on Palestinians and Israeli Arabs including an horrific scene in the town of Bat Yam where...
Background Briefing: May 11, 2021
How to Ensure Aid to Central America Will Reach the People, Not Line the Pockets of Corrupt Leaders We begin with the efforts by the Biden Administration to deal with the flood of migrants from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala by attacking the root causes of...
Background Briefing: May 10, 2021
Clashes in Jerusalem as Israel Forms a Far-Right Government Under Naftali Bennett We begin with rockets fired from Gaza and airstrikes in response as 300 Palestinians are injured in clashes in Jerusalem around the third holiest shrine in Islam, the al-Aqsa...
Background Briefing: May 9, 2021
Bill Barr's and Rudy Giuliani's Growing Legal Troubles We begin with the legal troubles facing both former Attorney General Barr and Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani and speak with Harry Litman, a former United States Attorney and deputy assistant attorney general...
Background Briefing: May 6, 2021
Biden's Decision to Ease Patent Rules on Vaccines for Poorer Countries We begin with the Biden Administration's decision to support easing patent rules which has Big Pharma alarmed and is already getting pushback from countries like Germany. Joining us is...