Background Briefing: January 7, 2025
The Normalization of Trump By the Press and Social Media as Its Owners Bezos and Zuckerberg Move to Flatter Rather Than Fact-Check Him We begin with Trump's rambling press conference today where he spent the first half hour ranting about electric cars, shower heads...
Background Briefing: January 5, 2025
Trump's Ominous Response to the Recent Terrorist Attacks We begin on this day before the anniversary of the January 6 insurrection with Trump seizing on the terrorist attack in New Orleans to justify the mass roundup of immigrants who he is blaming even though the...
Background Briefing: January 2, 2025
The Latest on the Investigations Into the New Year's Massacre in New Orleans and the Tesla Cyber Truck Explosion in Front of the Trump Hotel We begin with the investigations into the New Year's massacre in New Orleans and the Tesla cyber truck explosion in front of...
Background Briefing: January 1, 2025
Will the Democrats Confront the Economic Conditions That Gave Rise to Right Wing Populism? We begin on this New Year's Day as we broadcast the last of our retrospective of 2024 from a compilation of programs throughout the year we started back in January and ended...
Background Briefing: December 31, 2024
We Should Take Trump at His Word That He Wants to be a Dictator and Jail His Opponents and the Press We begin on this New Year's eve as we broadcast on the last day of 2024 with a retrospective from a compilation of programs throughout the year starting back in...
Background Briefing: December 30, 2024
A View From Abroad as Biden Stands Between the Survival of Global Democracy and the Rule of Law and Dictatorship We countdown the last days of 2024 with a retrospective of programs throughout the past year starting back in January and ending this month and we move...
Background Briefing: December 29, 2024
As Trump Encourages Secession and Threatens Civil War, He Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving to China and Russia We begin as we countdown the last few days of 2024 with a retrospective from a compilation of programs throughout the year starting back in January and...
Background Briefing: December 26, 2024
The Frightening Similarities Between Germany in 1933 and the US in 2024 We begin as this year of 2024 ends in its last few days with a retrospective from a compilation of programs throughout the year starting back in January and February then over the last remaining...
Background Briefing: December 25, 2024
A Christmas Day Message From Bethlehem We begin on this Christmas Day and go to Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ whose parents were poor, undocumented immigrants who could not afford housing and discuss how the Palestinians were the first Christians who kept...
Background Briefing: December 24, 2024
The Contrast Between the Prophet of the Poor and Trump's Billionaires Who Own the White House and Have the Supreme Court We begin on this Christmas Eve with the glaring contrast between the life and lessons of the prophet who ministered to the poor and rose up the...