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IAN MASTERS

BBC trained broadcast journalist, commentator, author, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker.

BACKGROUND BRIEFING

A unique radio program featuring international and national news, expert guests, policy makers and critics with analysis and insight on national security issues. This program goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard in the American media.

"Simply the finest public affairs radio program in the United States." -LA Weekly

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Most Recent program:

June 29th, 2003

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Nicholas Confessore (Editor Washington Monthly www.washingtonmonthly.com) on how the GOP is turning Washington's K-street lobbying industry into an arm of the Republican Party and how this strategy plays into the larger goal of establishing a de facto one-party rule in the USA. This comprehensive political strategy, masterminded by movement conservatives in positions of power and influence such as Tom DeLay, Grover Norquist, Karl Rove and others, seeks to make the Republican Party indistinguishable from corporate cartels and utterly dominant in American life, with a consequent transformation of public service to private profit, the end of social programs, the shrinkage of the middle-class and the gulf between rich and poor expanding to third-world dimensions. This important discussion, and the article which inspired it, are not to be missed.

Dr. Rahul Mahajan (Author of "The New Crusade: America's War on Terrorism" and "Full Spectrum Dominance: US Power in Iraq and Beyond." Dr. Mahajan is a member of the Nowar Collective, the National Board of Peace Action, and the National Committee of the National Network to End the War against Iraq. He holds a PhD. in physics from the University of Texas at Austin. www.rahulmahajan.com ) on what's really happening in Iraq, how the United States will impose "full spectrum" dominance in the Middle-East and elsewhere and how US foreign and economic policies support repressive and kleptocratic regimes worldwide. Dr. Mahajan addresses US manipulation of the UN, the NeoCon agenda for the world and the price to the citizens of the US and the world of the NeoCon empire.

Dr. Cheryl Rubenberg (former Professor of International Studies, Florida International University. Author of "The Palestinians in Search of a Just Peace," "Israel and American National Interest: a Critical Examination," and "Palestinian Women: Patriarchy and Resistance in the West Bank") on the under-reported back-story of the "Roadmap to Peace." Dr. Rubenberg addresses the unlikelihood of success, after 35 years of military occupation, for the peace effort, the questionable sincerity of the participants, the dubious authenticity of the hand-picked by the US and Israel Palestinian representative. She questions the Israeli commitment to a just long-term settlement, given the powerful political and religious forces in Israel that insist of the sovereignty of Israel over the occupied territories. She notes open discussion in Israel of "Palestinian transfer" (see www.gamla.org.il/english ). Dr. Rubenberg offers a simple prescription for a genuine peace: honesty, fairness, abandonment of the settlements, a real state with real democracy, and respect for the humanity of both sides. Can this become a reality?

Other "must hear" Background Briefing programs on the same theme:

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James C. Moore (co-author of "Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove made George Bush presidential") on Karl Rove's--referred by Moore as "co-President"--conflation of policy and politics.

Lina Krushcheva (senior fellow World Policy Institute, New School for Social Research) on the emerging disturbing similarities between the Bush administration and American media to the old Soviet system.

Paul Berman (author "Terror and Liberalism") postulates a threat posed by Islamic fundamentalism and its terrorist manifestation to the western liberal tradition.

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June 1st, 2003

Part 1--The Bush Presidency. James Moore (Emmy and multiple jounalistic award-winning co-author Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove made George W. Bush presidential) on the tactics of Presidential Advisor Rove in guiding GWB's presidency. Moore describes the "what you see is what you DON'T get" strategies of mis and dis-information, bait-and-switch campaigns, and the unprecedented radical agenda of the Bush administration. 48 minutes.

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May 25th, 2003 stream or download

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Roger Morris (former National Security Council under Presidents Johnson and Nixon, author) on rising fascism in the US body politic.

Panel on Israeli/Palestinian peace and the emergence of a political alternative to AIPAC (Tikkun Community), asking the question, who really speaks for Judaism in America? Rabbi Michael Lerner (founder of Tikkun.org, author of "Spirit Matters"), Dr. Stephen Zunes (Assoc. Professor of Politics & Chair of the Peace and Justice Program San Francisco State University, author "Tinderbox: US Middle East foreign policy and the roots of terrorism"); Dr. Michael Nagler (Professor emeritus UC Berkeley, Chair UC Peace and Conflict Program, author "Is There no Other Way: the search for a non-violent future")

Milton Beardon (former Intelligence Officer, oversaw anti-Soviet CIA effort in Afghanistan) on the conflict between the Pentagon and the CIA, the role of intelligence in a democracy, "cooking" intel for political purposes, "blowback" and Middle-East assessment.

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