Background Briefing: December 16, 2025
Is Peace on the Horizon as Ukraine Agrees to Drop Hopes of Joining NATO? We begin with conflicting rumors of peace between Russia and Ukraine with Trump claiming we are closer to peace than ever and the head of the UK's MI6 foreign intelligence service saying Putin...
Background Briefing: December 15, 2025
The Hanukkah Terror Attack in Australia We begin with Sunday's massacre on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia on the first night of Hanukkah in which 16 were killed including one of the two terrorists and dozens were wounded. Joining us from Sydney to discuss the alarm...
Background Briefing: December 14, 2025
An Assessment of Trump's New National Security Strategy We begin with Trump and Vance complaining that Europeans aren't racist enough, wanting them to expel all the Muslims just as he is expelling all the brown skinned immigrants and minorities as fast as Stephen...
Background Briefing: December 11, 2025
Trump Targets Venezuela's Oil, Intensifying Pressure on Maduro We begin with escalating pressure on Venezuela with a "shadow fleet" supertanker carrying oil to Cuba and Iran seized by the U.S. further driving up the cost of exporting Venezuelan oil that is...
Background Briefing: December 10, 2025
Will the Anti-Capitalist Gen Z Left Which Has Energized the Democrats Dominate American Politics in the Future? We begin with a follow up from a recent Harvard Youth Poll that found only 13% of Americans between 18 and 29 say the U.S. is heading in the right direction...
Background Briefing: December 9, 2025
Trump Says Maduro's Days Are Numbered as War Against Venezuela Could Break Out at Any Time We begin with Trump telling Politico that Venezuela's Maduro's days are numbered, refusing to rule out a U.S. ground invasion. With the strikes on so-called drug boats meant to...
Background Briefing: December 7, 2025
A Former JAG on Hegseth and Trump's Murder Spree Which Are Not War Crimes Because We are Not at War We begin with emerging evidence of a war crime following a closed-door intelligence briefing at which a select group of Republican and Democratic lawmakers saw the full...
Background Briefing: December 4, 2025
France's Fifth Government in Three Years Collapses as the Far Right in Europe Rises We begin the collapse of France's fifth government in three years fueling the rise of the far right National Rally party while Germany's nativist AfD party grows in strength and the...
Background Briefing: December 3, 2025
Trump and MAGA's Policies and Politics Are Driven by Sadism We begin with Secretary of Defense Hegseth digging the hole deeper as he sat beside a half-awake Trump in a round-robin exercise in flattery of the "dear leader" cabinet meeting yesterday spouting rapid-fire...
Background Briefing: December 2, 2025
Secretary of Defense Hegseth Needs to Step Down Now! We begin the woefully unqualified and dangerously out-of-his-depth Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in the hot seat for ordering a war crime which he is now trying to blame on the Admiral in charge of Special...