Background Briefing (5am) – January 20, 2026
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Background Briefing (5am) – January 16, 2026
Trump’s Resource Imperialism and Imperial Racketeering We begin with the President of the United States not just saying he is in charge of Venezuela but setting up private accounts he controls in Qatar to control the revenues from oil that he allows to get to market since Trump has a naval blockade of Venezuela in … Continued
Background Briefing (5am) – January 15, 2026
Vance and Rubio Meet With the Foreign Ministers of Denmark and Greenland Amid Mafia-like Threats From Trump We begin with the White House meeting today between VP Vance and Secretary of State Rubio and the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland which was preceded by Mafia threats from Trump that the Danes could do it … Continued
Background Briefing (5am) – January 14, 2026
The DoJ Goes After the Victims Wife While Exonerating the ICE Shooter Who Murdered Renee Good We begin with resignations of Minnesota prosecutors and career prosecutors at the DoJ’s Civil Rights Division over its ridiculously unqualified leader’s decision to go after the wife of the victim of the ICE murder in Minneapolis while exonerating the … Continued
Background Briefing (5am) – January 13, 2026
Bondi’s Department of Crime Manufactures Trumped Up Charges Against The Fed Chairman We begin with Trump’s attack on the independence of the Fed via trumped up charges his private law firm the DoJ have manufactured against Chairman Jerome Powell in an effort to lower interest rates to help Republicans in the midterms. Joining us is … Continued
Background Briefing (5am) – January 9, 2026
Trump’s Government Goon Executes the Kind of Person MAGA Hates, a Liberal White Woman We begin with the stark divide between facts on the ground and a government built on fiction as Trump, Vance and Noem shamelessly lie about yesterday’s execution of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE officer as more video evidence and testimony … Continued
Background Briefing (5am) – January 8, 2026
One Of Trump and Miller’s ICE Thugs Just Executed a 37 Year-Old Woman, a Legal Observer, in Minneapolis We will begin with the shooting of a 37 year-old white woman not involved with the protest in Minneapolis today, killed by an ICE agent after one ICE agent tried to rip her door open, the shooter … Continued
Republicans Try to Bury the Truth on the Anniversary of January 6–Trump Has Already Made Life More Miserable For Venezuela and There in More Misery to Come–Trump and Miller Espouse Imperialism as American Fascism is on the March
Republicans Try to Bury the Truth on the Anniversary of January 6 We begin on this anniversary of the January 6 coup attempt by Donald Trump and look into how Trump has subjugated the legislative branch of craven Republican lawmakers, turning them into yapping lapdogs eager to please their master like Stalin’s lackeys spewed alternative … Continued
Background Briefing (5am) – January 6, 2026
A Terrorism and Guerrilla War Expert’s Warning That “Venezuela is Primed For Resistance…Far Worse Than Iraq. Chaos is Coming…” We begin with Maduro and his wife’s court appearance today in Manhattan in which he pled not guilty and claimed he is a victim of a kidnapping and is a prisoner of war. Joining us is … Continued
Background Briefing (5am) – January 2, 2026
A Hopeful Welcome to 2026 On this first day of the new year 2026 we speak with Richard Parker, who teaches economics and public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and is a Senior Fellow at the Shorenstein Center. He is a former managing editor of Ramparts, was a cofounder of Mother Jones magazine, … Continued
An Interview on the Increasing Power of the Unrepresentative Supreme Court/The Ongoing War in Ukraine As It Evolved This Year
An Interview on the Increasing Power of the Unrepresentative Supreme Court Today on this New Years Eve we are looking back at 2025 with guests we were in touch with over the year as major stories evolved chief among them the increasing power of the Supreme Court. Joining us to examine how John Roberts orchestrated … Continued