BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS
Series produced by Spencer Downing
IAN MASTERS
Daily in-depth news analysis, focusing on national security, economics, international relations, the environment, and other topics important to us all.
Ian Masters invites knowledgeable, thoughtful experts and insiders into discussions that add context, texture, and insight into the vital subjects leading the day's headlines.
For over thirty years, Australian-born, BBC-trained journalist Ian Masters has broadcast from Los Angeles, analyzing the forces that shape our world to provide a true BACKGROUND BRIEFING.
11 Pieces
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Conversations with two women--one a 17-year-old journalist in Alexandria and the other an established novelist/author in Cairo--to explain the situ...
- Added: Feb 01, 2011
- Length: 54:02
Former Palestinian negotiator Amjad Atallah discusses the Palestine Papers; Gordon Hahn puts Russian bombings into perspective; Daniel Serwer gives...
- Added: Jan 27, 2011
- Length: 53:58
William Cohan talks about the soon-to-be-released report arguing the economic collapse was preventable; former ATF Gerald Nunziato on gun laws; Sam...
- Added: Jan 26, 2011
- Length: 53:58
The chair of American University in Cairo's Political Science Department on events in Egypt; veteran journalist Charles Peters on Obama; historian ...
- Added: Jan 26, 2011
- Length: 54:02
Jonathan Alter talks about Obama's presidency at year 3; Columbia University Professor Kimberly Marten on Chechnya and Russian bombings; Jane Hamsh...
- Added: Jan 24, 2011
- Length: 53:59
Ambassador James Dobbins talks about move to defund USAID; James Baughman on move to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; Robert Young P...
- Added: Jan 24, 2011
- Length: 54:02
Susan Shirk discusses US-China relations; James Fallows analyzes China also; Ben Manski of Move To Amend talks about one year after the Citizens Un...
- Added: Jan 20, 2011
- Length: 53:57
Simon Johnson, author of 13 BANKERS, analyzes about banks in American economic life.
John Feffer discusses "Arab Democracy Now!"
Ted C. Fishman t...
- Added: Jan 19, 2011
- Length: 54:59
Craig Aaron of Free Press discusses the NBC-Comcast deal; Gordon Chang analyzes US-China relations as Hu Jintao arrives in Washington; Amy Wilentz ...
- Added: Jan 18, 2011
- Length: 53:58
"The State of the Dream 2011 - Austerity for Whom?"; Obama's Afghanistan policy; Congress and lobbyists
- Added: Jan 17, 2011
- Length: 53:55
Analysis of the following subjects: Tunisia; foreclosures; MLK Day; the military-industrial complex
- Added: Jan 16, 2011
- Length: 54:56
