Background Briefing: March 29, 2023
Biden's Second Summit for Democracy and the Need For a Plan to Combat the Growth of Autocracies We begin with the Biden administration's second Summit for Democracy that began today in Washington D.C. with over 120 world leaders joining in by video minus NATO members...
Background Briefing: March 27, 2023
Netanyahu Postpones Power Grab in the Face of Massive Demonstrations and a National Strike We begin and go to Israel to examine the massive demonstrations across Israel on Sunday in response to Netanyahu firing his Defense Minister who called for a pause in the...
Background Briefing: March 26, 2023
Trump's First 2024 Presidential Rally Shouts Out to the Far Right, Militias and Insurrectionists That He is Their Fuhrer and They Are Coming After You We begin with Trump's first rally as a presidential candidate for 2024 held on Saturday in Waco, Texas, famous...
Background Briefing: March 23, 2023
Beating up on TikTok While Ignoring the Data Mining Business Model of Big Tech Based on Surveillance Capitalism We begin with the hearing today before the House Energy and Commerce Committee at which the CEO of TikTok was aggressively grilled, with the...
Background Briefing: March 22, 2023
Xi Fails to Deliver a Viable Peace Plan Leaving Putin to Pursue His War While Appearing to be Open to Peace Talks We begin with the lack of a viable peace plan emerging from the talks between Xi Jinping and Putin since there was no communication between Xi and...
Background Briefing: March 21, 2023
Could China Deliver a Peace Deal to End the War in Ukraine? We begin with the lengthy meeting in Moscow today between China's President Xi Jinping and Russia's President Putin which was preceded with a little daylight between the two in their "no limits...
Background Briefing: March 20, 2023
An Historian Who First Learned of the 1980 October Surprise Which Helped Elect Reagan and End Carter's Presidency We begin with the confirmation of a second act of treason by Republicans using backchannels to influence the results of presidential elections...
Background Briefing: March 19, 2023
What An Arrest Warrant For Putin Means and What it Will Achieve We begin with an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin issued on Friday by the International Criminal Court for his responsibility in overseeing the forced deportation of children. Along with Putin the...
Background Briefing: March 16, 2023
The Under-Reported Role of Crypto in the Silicon Valley Bank Crash We begin with the least reported aspect of the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank and that is how much crypto loans that bank had made converting fake money into real money with Circle, a...
Background Briefing: March 15, 2023
Russian and American Military Aircraft Clash Over the Black Sea We begin with the downing of a US unmanned aircraft over the Black Sea by Russian fighters that dumped fuel on the Reaper drone before colliding with a propeller which led to the drone operators...