Background Briefing: August 7, 2018
Special Congressional Election in Ohio a Referendum on Trump We begin with the special congressional election today for Ohio’s 12th District in which Republican state Senator Troy Balderson is trying to hold onto a seat the GOP has held for three decades. And...
Background Briefing: August 6, 2018
Trump’s Regime Change Plan for Iran Will Backfire We begin with the re-imposition of U.S. sanctions against Iran beginning on Tuesday which the Trump administration argues unconvincingly is not about regime chance, but aimed at modifying the Iranian regime’s...
Background Briefing: August 5, 2018
An Assassination Attempt on Venezuela’s Beleaguered President We begin with the assassination attempt on Venezuela’s President Maduro who was addressing a military audience at the 81st anniversary of the national army when two drones carrying explosives...
Background Briefing: August 2, 2018
Trump Rules for More Pollution and Higher Fuel Costs We begin with the plans announced Thursday by the Trump administration to freeze fuel-efficiency requirement on the nation’s cars and trucks in an move to not just to rollback efforts to deal with global...
Background Briefing: August 1, 2018
Trump’s Tweet to the AG to Shut Down Mueller “Right Away” We begin with the latest angry tweet from Trump indicating he is freaking out as the Mueller probe closes in on him. Andy Wright, a Professor at Savannah Law School who served in the White House as...
Background Briefing: July 31, 2018
Trump Appears Unaware His Own Government Made 3D Plastic Guns Available to Anyone and Everyone With a federal judge having just blocked the distribution of downloadable 3D-printed guns, we will begin with Joshua Horowitz, the Executive Director of the Coalition...
Background Briefing: July 30, 2018
Sessions’ Bogus Holy War Against an Unnamed “Dangerous Movement” Persecuting American Christians We begin with the Religious Liberty Summit held today at the Department of Justice presided over by Attorney General Jeff Sessions who announced the formation of a...
Background Briefing: July 29, 2018
The Person Who Brought Down Nixon on the Cohen Tapes We begin with the irony that not just one president Richard Nixon was brought down by secret tape recordings, but that another Donald Trump, could also be vulnerable to the many recording his former fixer...
Background Briefing: July 26, 2018
Facebook Takes a Hit but Is Still Strangling the Free Press to Death We begin with Facebook shares plunging 18% on Thursday wiping over $118 billion off Facebook’s market capitalization and crimping Mark Zuckerberg’s personal fortune by $16 billion, we speak...
Background Briefing: July 25, 2018
Trump’s Orwellian Move from Alternative Facts to Rewriting History We begin with the dystopian world of George Orwell’s novel 1984 in which war is peace, love is hate and lies are truth, a world the United States has now entered as our “Big Brother” Donald...