Background Briefing – December 16, 2025
Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of “fake news.”
Background Briefing
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Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of “fake news.”
Background Briefing – December 15, 2025
Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of “fake news.”
Background Briefing – December 11, 2025
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 – December 10, 2025
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 | The Ellison’s Have Promised Trump They Will Revamp CNN to Trump’s Liking | Australia’s Social Media Ban and How the “Tech Left” Can Mobilize Against Techno-Utopianism
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
Hegseth and Trump’s Murder Spree Which Are Not War Crimes Because We are Not at War–The Supreme Court Just Gave Republicans 30 of the 38 House Seats in Texas Before a Vote is Cast in November–13% of Americans Between 18 and 29 Say the U.S. is Heading in the Right Direction With Only 39% Supporting Capitalism–The Naked Partisanship of John Roberts Should be Clear to All As His Gives Trump Unlimited Power
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
Background Briefing – December 4, 2025
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
Background Briefing – December 3, 2025
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
Background Briefing – December 2, 2025
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
Background Briefing – December 1, 2025
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