Background Briefing: September 18, 2018
Russia is Giving Israel a Free Hand in Syria to Go After Iranian Targets We begin with the diplomatic tensions erupting from the shoot-down of a Russian military aircraft in Syria which was blamed on the Israelis although it was the Assad regime’s barrage of...
Background Briefing: September 17, 2018
Kavanaugh’s Accuser Ready to Testify and Take a Lie-Detector Test We begin with the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser Christine Blasey Ford going public and offering to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee and take a lie detector test to...
Background Briefing: September 16, 2018
Patriotism as the Last Refuge of the Scoundrel in the Oval Office Today we compile recent interviews we felt worthy of revisiting. We begin with an interview on the 17th anniversary of 9/11 with Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson the former Chief of Staff to U.S....
Background Briefing: September 13, 2018
The 10th Anniversary of the Wall Street Crash and Paths Not Taken We begin with the 10th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers on September 15, 2008 which triggered the Wall Street crash and speak with Jesse Eisinger, the Pulitzer Prize-winning senior...
Background Briefing: September 12, 2018
Extreme Weather Now the New Normal We begin with the huge hurricane bearing down on the Carolinas and analyze why increasingly destructive and costly floods, fires, droughts and hurricanes are happening with more frequency and intensity as extreme weather...
Background Briefing: September 11, 2018
Patriotism as the Last Refuge of the Scoundrel in the Oval Office We begin on this 17th anniversary of 9/11 and speak with Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson the former Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and discuss how Mohammed Bin Salman the...
Background Briefing: September 10, 2018
Sweden’s Far Right Fills the Vacuum Left by the Left We begin with the elections in Sweden, the results of which many find alarming though not as dire as some predicted with the far right Sweden Democrats gaining 17.6% of the vote to the once-dominant...
Background Briefing: September 9, 2018
Kavanaugh Should Be Impeached for Lying to the Senate We begin with the call to not just reject the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, but to impeach him for lying to the Senate Judiciary Committee in last week’s hearings. Lisa Graves,...
Background Briefing: September 6, 2018
Full Briefing The Warning from Inside Trump’s Inner Circle We begin with the anonymously authored op-ed in The New York Times by a senior Trump Administration official “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration” which has the president lashing...
Background Briefing: September 5, 2018
Kavanaugh Stonewalls Democrats While Republicans Heap Unctuous Praise Upon Him We begin with the testimony today from Brett Kavanaugh where he obfuscated tough questions from Senate Democrats with layers of lofty legalism while being handed groveling softball...