Background Briefing: August 31, 2026
The Same DHS Trying to Rig the Election For Trump Increases Its Cruelty, Sending Haitians Back to a Failed State Run By Violent Gangs We begin with the DHS increasing its cruelty with electric shock gloves to grab immigrants and robot dogs to chase them down as...
Background Briefing: August 30, 2026
The Crypto and AI Billionaire Bros Are Buying the November Election With Fake Money We begin with the alarming report in The New York Times "Meet the Megadonors Who Have Poured $1.2 Billion Into the Midterms" which reveals that crypto and AI billionaires and companies...
Background Briefing: August 27, 2026
A Report From Nepal on the Horrific Wall of Water That Swept Away Thousands of Lives We begin with the horrific wall of water that swept away hundreds if not thousands of lives in Nepal and Tibet as a result of a glacier collapsing in the Hindu Kush Himalayas due to...
Background Briefing: August 26, 2026
Trump Bought Into Netanyahu's War Against the Advice of His Top Intel and Military Officials We begin with reporting from the Wall Street Journal that Trump was warned against starting a war with Iran by his top Intelligence and Military advisors but after a February...
Background Briefing: August 25, 2026
Trump Has Chief Justice Roberts' Blessing to Have DHS Create a Master List of All Voters Which Will Be Purged Then the USPS Will Send Mail-In Ballots to a Whittled-Down List of Democratic Voters We begin with the Supreme Court Shadow Docket ruling by Chief Justice...
Background Briefing: August 24, 2026
Trump Wages the "Dumbest Trade War In History" Against Canada We begin with Trump's trade war with Canada which has even the business-friendly Wall Street Journal saying it is the "dumbest trade war in history. Joining us from Canada is Stephen Marche, a...
Background Briefing: August 23, 2026
"American Doctor," a Film That Makes Us Face Our Complicity in Gaza We begin with a new film American Doctor which has opened in New York and LA and opens in San Francisco on August 28 about three American doctors trying to save lives in Gaza as victims of...
Background Briefing: August 20, 2026
Lesson From the Roman Republic of Emperor Augustus As Trump, With the Help of a Gutless Senate, Turns Our Republic Into a Tyranny We begin with the uncanny parallels between the rise and fall of the Roman republic which lasted for 500 years and the American republic...
Background Briefing: August 19, 2026
Trump's "Binky: The Closest Person to Him Who Feeds Our President Far-Right Conspiratorial Fabrication We begin with the person closest to Trump who feeds him far-right conspiratorial information, writes his texts to foreign leaders and has been described as Trump's...
Background Briefing: August 18, 2026
As Trump and Hegseth Show Callous Indifference to the Morale of the Rank and File, Signs of Resistance Inside the Military Emerge We begin with signs of protest within the ranks of the serving U.S. military with a sailor jumping overboard off the USS Abraham Lincoln...