Background Briefing: April 30, 2023
Sudan is Descending Into a Destructive and Bloody Civil War Along the Lines of Syria and Libya We begin with the likelihood that Sudan will descend into a bloody and destructive civil war along the lines of Syria and Libya as two warlords fight it out for power...
Background Briefing: April 27, 2023
A Republican Budget That Punishes the Poorest Americans, Children, to Deal With A Debt The GOP Caused by Cutting Taxes For the Rich We begin with the House Republican budget that Speaker McCarthy barely got enough votes from his side to pass 217 to 215 which...
Background Briefing: April 26, 2023
China's Peace Offer to Ukraine and Does the US Want to Avoid Ukraine Humiliating Putin With Its Upcoming Offensive? We begin with what Ukraine's President Zelensky described today as a "long and meaningful" conversation between him and China's President Xi...
Background Briefing: April 25, 2023
Biden Announces He is Running For a Second Term at the End of Which He Will be 86 We begin with the announcement today by President Biden that he is running for a second term at the end of which he would be 86. We examine the concern among some Democrats that...
Background Briefing: April 24, 2023
Murdoch's Abrupt Firing of Tucker Carlson and How Progressives Assumed They'd Dominate Social Media Only to be Outflanked by Right Wing Populism We begin with the unceremonious and abrupt firing of Fox News's highest paid and highest rated prime time presenter, Tucker...
Background Briefing: April 23, 2023
Tensions Within the Supreme Court As Its Popularity and Credibility Suffers While Justice Thomas Flouts Ethics We begin with the Supreme Court stay on the abortion pill case keeping medication abortion legal for a while which brought a blistering dissent from...
Background Briefing: April 20, 2023
What Will it Take For the Supreme Court to Deal With Reality and Politicians to Ignore the NRA? We begin with yet another shooting atrocity in America, this time a six-year-old and her parents were shot by a neighbor after a basketball rolled into his yard. Joining us...
Background Briefing: April 19, 2023
How Innocent Mistakes Can Get You Killed in the NRA's America We begin with a series of shootings in the last few days in which victims making everyday mistakes such as ringing the wrong doorbell, entering the wrong driveway or getting in the wrong car that looks...
Background Briefing: April 18, 2023
The House Republican Caucus Fails to Agree on a Budget to Punish the Poor and Reward the Rich Using the Debt Ceiling as Leverage We begin by mentioning what was predicted on yesterday's program that the Murdochs would settle with Dominion and that just happened with...
Background Briefing: April 17, 2023
How Americans Alarmed by the Murdoch Propaganda Machine and Appalled by Trump, Subsidize Fox News We begin with the delay in the Dominion case against Fox News which indicates there may be a settlement before Rupert Murdoch and Tucker Carlson and other top...