Background Briefing: June 12, 2022
Coordination Between the Proud Boys and the Mob Trump Sent to the Capitol We begin and explore the connection made between the far-right militias and Trump's call on January 6 for the mob to march on the Capitol and "fight like hell" that were made in the first...
Background Briefing: June 9, 2022
An Historian of Fascism on Trump's January 6 Fascist Coup Attempt We begin with the first public hearing of the House select committee investigating January 6 which is about to begin with an expectation that Trump will emerge at the center of an insurrection...
Background Briefing: June 8, 2022
Homelessness as a Moral Issue Not A Blight the Privileged Have to be Protected From We begin with the results of the California primaries which in many ways are a referendum on how the nation deals with poverty, homelessness and inequality. Unfortunately the...
Background Briefing: June 7, 2022
The January 6 Hearings Will Not Be Like the Watergate Hearings But It Could Expose Trump as a Criminal and a Fascist We begin with the presentation of the evidence by the House Select Committee that Trump and his motley crew attempted a coup against American...
Background Briefing: June 6, 2022
As More and More Americans Are Killed in Mass Shootings, What Will the Senate Do? We begin with the rash of gun violence in the country with 35 mass shootings since the May 14 massacre in Buffalo and assess what kind of gun safety reform might emerge from...
Background Briefing: June 5, 2022
An Assassination Attempt on Putin in May and Cancer Treatment in April We begin with questions surrounding Putin's health and investigate a classified US report that he underwent treatment for advanced cancer in April and that there was an assassination attempt...
Background Briefing: June 2, 2022
How People Power Trumped the Murdoch Press and How Ranked-Choice Voting Could Revive Our Democracy We begin with Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State, with joint appointments in the Department of Geosciences and the Earth...
Background Briefing: June 1, 2022
Are We Heading Into a New Cold War With Russia? We begin with a warning that the U.S. response to Russian aggression in Ukraine has quickly expanded beyond the immediate military contest in Ukraine into a broader and longer-lasting conflict with Russia and that...
Background Briefing: May 31, 2022
Amid Growing Outrage Over Police Inaction as Kids Were Slaughtered, What Might The Senate Do About Guns? We begin with the growing outrage over the police mishandling of the latest gun massacre at the elementary school in Texas and assess whether senate...
Background Briefing: May 30, 2022
Although We Arm Police With Military Equipment, 19 Officers Stood By As 19 Kids and 2 Teachers Were Slaughtered We begin on this Memorial Day with a member of a famous American Military family, Lucian Truscott IV, a journalist, screenwriter and author of five...