Background Briefing: June 11, 2023
Overwhelming Evidence of Trump's Endangerment of US National Security We begin with the devastating 37 indictments of Donald Trump by the Special Counsel Jack Smith based on findings by a Florida grand jury which compel the former president to show up on...
Background Briefing: June 8, 2023
A Surprise Ruling From the Supreme Court Whose Supermajority is Increasingly Out Of Touch With Mainstream America We begin with the surprise ruling from the Supreme Court striking down the Alabama Republican legislature's flagrant gerrymandering in a state that...
Background Briefing: June 7, 2023
Evidence That it Was Ukraine, Not Russia Behind the Sabotage of the Nord Stream Gas Pipelines We begin with the revelations from The Washington Post that a small group of six Ukrainian operatives blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines which the US government...
Background Briefing: June 6, 2023
Flooding From a Breached Dam Delays Any Ukrainian Military Attack From the South Into Crimea We begin with the blowing up of the Nova Kakhovka dam presumably by the Russians which has caused catastrophic flooding and environmental damage downstream making it...
Background Briefing: June 5, 2023
The False Equivalence of the Far-Right House Freedom Caucus and the Democrat's Progressive Caucus We begin with the coverage of the recent debt ceiling extortion in which much of the press equated the far right with the progressive left in their opposition to the...
Background Briefing: June 4, 2023
A Phony Crisis Averted Now a Celebration of Compromise and Bipartisanship We begin with a phony crisis averted with the US and global economy not tumbling over the brink which was the alarm sounded often in the press only to be followed by a celebration of...
Background Briefing: June 1, 2023
Trump Eviscerates His Own Defense as Jack Smith Closes in on Indicting Him We begin with what legal analysts and pundits are describing as "game over" for Trump in being able to defend himself from charges pending from the Special Counsel Jack Smith who is...
Background Briefing: May 31, 2023
The Sacklers Get to Keep Most of Their Money After a Million Americans Have Died From Their Drug OxyContin We begin with a Federal Appeals Court Ruling on Tuesday that gives the Sackler family responsible for the opioid epidemic caused by their drug OxyContin immunity...
Background Briefing: May 30, 2023
The Hazardous Passage of the Debt Ceiling Deal Through Congress We begin with the deal struck between President Biden and Speaker McCarthy to avert a default in a manufactured crisis over the debt ceiling which has left progressives on the left furious that Biden...
Background Breifing: May 29, 2023
Remembering an American General Who Would Not Speak of the Glorious Dead on Memorial Day We begin on this Memorial Day and speak with an Army veteran whose grandfather was a hero of World War II Lieutenant General Lucian Truscott Jr who gave an eulogy on Memorial Day...