A DAILY PUBLIC RADIO PROGRAM FEATURING NEWS ANALYSIS OF THE DAY'S TOP ISSUES

Background Briefing: September 10, 2023

Modi, the Host of the G20, Employs Fascist Tactics to Make India a Hindu Only Nation We begin with the G 20 summit in India at which China and Russia were absent and from which a lukewarm declaration on the war in Ukraine emerged. Joining us to assess the creeping...

Background Briefing: September 7, 2023

An Alarming Poll by CNN Has 46% Against Biden With 44% Saying Any Democrat Would Be Better Than Trump As Biden and Trump's Favorability Stands at 35% We begin with an alarming poll by CNN that should be a wakeup call for Democrats which finds that nearly half of...

Background Briefing: September 6, 2023

  The Impeachment Trial of the "Christian" Crook Ken Paxton Divides Texas Republicans We begin with the impeachment trial driving a wedge between MAGA Republicans and traditional conservative Republicans as Trump's ally the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton faces...

Background Briefing: September 5, 2023

Erdogan Fails to Revive the Black Sea Grain Deal as Ukraine Breaks Through Russian Defenses  We begin with the unsuccessful effort by Turkey's Erdogan to revive the grain deal for Russia and Ukraine to resume exports of much needed food to Africa and other states and...

Background Briefing: September 3, 2023

What Happened to America's Liberals and Can They Reimagine a Vision For the Future? We begin with the question of what happened to America's liberal majority that dominated the Supreme Court, the House and Senate for decades from the 1960's to the 1980's to the point...

Background Briefing: August 31, 2023

  Proud Boys are Sentenced but Not Their Strategists Roger Stone and Alex Jones We begin with the sentencing today of the lieutenant to the violent Proud Boys militia's leader Enrique Tarrio, Joseph Biggs, who is now facing 17 years in jail. Joining us to assess...

Background Briefing: August 30, 2023

  The Political Rise of the Annoyingly Ambitious Ramaswamy Who Will Do or Say Anything to Get Ahead We begin with Trump toying with the idea of Ramaswamy as his running mate because Ramaswamy said Trump was the greatest American president for a generation....

Background Briefing: August 29, 2023

  As DeSantis Erases Black History, His Campaign Appeals to the Likes of the Young White Nazi Who Murdered 3 Blacks In Jacksonville We begin with Sunday's vigil for the three African Americans murdered by a young white Nazi with swastikas painted on his assault...

Background Briefing: August 28, 2023

Today's Pentagon Announcement to Deploy Thousands of Drones and AI Robotic Warfare Platforms Against China Within Two Years We begin with the announcement today by the Pentagon of an ambitious new program to build and deploy within two years, thousands of drones and...

Background Briefing: August 27, 2023

How NASA and the DoD Defer to Elon Musk Who Holds Ukraine's Fate in His Hands While Buying What Putin is Selling We begin with revelations in The New Yorker that Elon Musk has enormous leverage over the U.S. government, NASA, the Department of Defense and the country...

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