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Background Briefing: March 5, 2024

VP Harris's Clear Rebuke of Netanyahu Calling For a Ceasefire and What Amounts to Regime Change We begin with Vice President Harris making news with a speech on Sunday in Selma, Alabama commemorating the 59th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" at which she called for an...

Background Briefing: March 4, 2024

  A Unanimous Supreme Court Ruling to Keep Trump on the Ballot Ignores the Constitution We begin with the unanimous Supreme Court ruling against the Colorado, Maine and Illinois cases removing Trump from the ballot and speak with one of the signatories of an...

Background Briefing: March 3, 2024

Following the Massacre of Desperate Gazans Storming Food Trucks, Ceasefire Talks Are Underway We begin with the US airdrop of food to the starving Gazans that many see as a BandAid over a gaping wound while talks underway in Cairo could bring about as much as a...

Background Briefing: February 28, 2024

The Michigan Vote as an Indicator of How the Gaza War Threatens Biden's Reelection We begin with the results of yesterday's Michigan primaries which had Biden at 81% of the Democratic vote with the uncommitted protest vote against Biden's stance on Gaza at 13%....

Background Briefing: February 27, 2024

The President and Congressional Leaders Meet to Prevent Another Government Shutdown We begin with the government running out of money on Saturday, meaning that the departments of Transportation, Veterans Affairs, Energy, Education, Agriculture and Housing and Urban...

Background Briefing: February 26, 2024

The Rise of Christian Nationalism, Dominionism and the New Apostolic Reformation Movements We begin with the rise of Christian nationalism, dominionism and the New Apostolic Reformation movements who have found a champion in the heathen Donald Trump who last week in...

Background Briefing: February 25, 2024

A Lackluster CPAC and the VP Auditions in Spite Of Trump Trying to Have His Last VP Killed We begin with Trump's expected victory in South Carolina after his keynote speech on Saturday at CPAC in which he referred to himself as "a proud dissident" and "a total...

Background Briefing: February 22, 2024

  RFK Junior's Role as a Spoiler Since His Campaign's Biggest Donor is Also Trump's Biggest Donor We begin with Biden calling Putin "a crazy SOB" and assess whether that is the wrong target for such blunt language which Biden should be using against Trump....

Background Briefing: February 21, 2024

Increasing Signs That Christian Nationalists Plan to Impose an American Theocracy We begin with the increasing signs of the rise of American theocracy with a theocratic Supreme Court in Alabama ruling that frozen embryos are people and to think otherwise invites "the...

Background Briefing: February 20, 2024

The US Again Gives Israel Cover Vetoing a UN Resolution For an Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza We begin with the US vetoing a UN resolution put forth by Algeria for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza while offering an alternative draft resolution urging a temporary ceasefire...

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