Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org.

I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with another American citizen murdered in Minneapolis by U.S. Border Patrol officers

who shot him ten times after he was piled on and disarmed of his licensed pistol, which he never had in his hand.

We recorded this interview on Saturday amid massive demonstrations against ice

and shutdowns and strikes just after the shooting happened and before the sick and cynical lies

poured out of DHS Secretary Nome in an orchestrated attempt by this criminal administration

to have us not believe our eyes and accept the insult that

government thugs we are paying for can kill us when they please and it's all the fault of Democrats.

Joining us is Radley Balcoe, an award-winning independent investigative journalist based in Nashville, Tennessee.

He formerly worked for the Washington Post, Huffington Post, and Reason Magazine, and has been published in the New York

Times, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous other publications. His books include The Rise of the

Warrior Cop, the militarization of America's police forces, and the cadaver

King and the country dentist.

And we'll discuss these articles at the New Republic, Trump's immigration nightmare,

it is happening here, and at the New York Times, I've covered police abuse for 20 years.

What ISIS doing is different.

Then we will move from the domestic terrorism waged on American citizens by the Trump administration to the international disaster of Trump's thuggish foreign policy and speak

with our second guest who wrote that, quote, we are drifting towards a world that looks far less like the liberal

universalism of 1945 and far more like the balance of power order of the late 19th century,

spheres of influence, manage rivalry, and transactional diplomacy.

The United States will dominate the Western Hemisphere, China will

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