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Background Briefing has a new home at BackgroundBriefing.org.
Please visit and bookmark the new site. You can search show archives here.
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| We begin with Paul Blumenthal, a reporter for the Huffington Post who covers money in politics and examine investigations now underway into some of the biggest billionaire superPAC donors in this election cycle who have allegedly violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. |
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Then we look into why the latest round of talks in Moscow between to G5+1 and Iran appear to have stalled. Investigative journalist Robert Dreyfuss, the author of “Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam” joins us to discuss the deep well of bitterness between the U.S. and Iran which may explain why the Iranian delegation used up much of the negotiation laying out a long list of grievances with the West. |
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Then finally we get an analysis of why Pakistan’s Supreme Court dismissed Prime Minister Gilani from office, throwing an already unpopular government further into crisis. Junaid Ahmad, a Professor of Law at Lahore University in Pakistan joins us to discuss this latest episode of a political soap opera that is distracting Pakistanis from serious and growing domestic and foreign policy concerns. |
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| MUSIC: Eartha Kitt - Just An Old Fashioned Girl; The Beatles Hello Goodbye; Brenda Lee - I'm Sorry; Shorty Long - Here Comes the Judge |
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