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Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of “fake news.”
Trump Targets Venezuela’s Oil, Intensifying Pressure on Maduro We begin with escalating pressure on Venezuela with a “shadow fleet” supertanker carrying oil to Cuba and Iran seized by the U.S. further driving up the cost of exporting Venezuelan oil that is discounted to compete with sanctioned Russian and Iranian oil. Joining us is David Smilde, … Continued
Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of “fake news.”
Trump Says Maduro’s Days Are Numbered as War Against Venezuela Could Break Out at Any Time We begin with Trump telling Politico that Venezuela’s Maduro’s days are numbered, refusing to rule out a U.S. ground invasion. With the strikes on so-called drug boats meant to frame the coming conflict in the way weapons of mass … Continued
A Former JAG on Hegseth and Trump’s Murder Spree Which Are Not War Crimes Because We are Not at War We begin with emerging evidence of a war crime following a closed-door intelligence briefing at which a select group of Republican and Democratic lawmakers saw the full video of the September 2 strike on a … Continued
France’s Fifth Government in Three Years Collapses as the Far Right in Europe Rises We begin the collapse of France’s fifth government in three years fueling the rise of the far right National Rally party while Germany’s nativist AfD party grows in strength and the UK’s ruling Labor Party blows its mandate losing voters as … Continued
Trump and MAGA’s Policies and Politics Are Driven by Sadism We begin with Secretary of Defense Hegseth digging the hole deeper as he sat beside a half-awake Trump in a round-robin exercise in flattery of the “dear leader” cabinet meeting yesterday spouting rapid-fire “the dog ate my homework” excuses for not committing a war crime. … Continued
Secretary of Defense Hegseth Needs to Step Down Now! We begin the woefully unqualified and dangerously out-of-his-depth Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in the hot seat for ordering a war crime which he is now trying to blame on the Admiral in charge of Special Operations Command. We explain why both Trump and Hegseth had … Continued
An Investigation Into the CIA-Run “Kill Or Capture” Zero Units the D.C. Shooter Worked With We begin the Trump administration’s racist focus on the Afghan shooter of 2 National Guard soldiers in Washington D.C., one of whom has died, prompting Trump’s call to deport all immigrants from the third world. We investigate the CIA-run “kill … Continued
What We Can Be Thankful For in This Otherwise Bleak Time We begin on this Thanksgiving with an exploration of what we can be thankful for in this otherwise bleak time of creeping fascism, looming war abroad and civil war at home, political polarization and societal division. Joining us is Richard Parker, who teaches economics … Continued
Will the Shooting of 2 National Guardsmen in Washington D.C. Provide Trump With an Excuse to Invoke the Insurrection Act For Example? We begin the breaking news of a shooting in the nation’s capitol of National Guardsmen from West Virginia that just happened with the apparent shooter wounded and in hospital but no more details … Continued
