November 17, 2025 - Jonathan Larsen | Mietek Boduszynski | Ben Freeman

Background Briefing with Ian Masters

Ian Masters

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4.7 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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The Cast of Characters Feeding the Bogus and Delusional Intel Trump is Using to Justify a War With Venezuela | Apparent Russian Sabotage of Poland's Rail Link to Ukraine | As They Throw Money at the Pentagon, When Will Our Politicians Address the Guns Versus Butter Issue? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia youtube.com/@ianmastersnet instagram.com/ianmastersmedia

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at backgroundbriefing.org.
0:11.1	I'm Ian Masters, and today we're looking to a number of stories and issues in the news.
0:15.5	We'll begin with Trump, Rubio, and Hakeseth poised to go to war with Venezuela based on the most ridiculous intelligence
0:22.9	from a couple of shadow warriors and threat fabricators financed by the overstock CEO behind the
0:30.1	crack in election deniers, which makes the Iraq war's weapons of mass destruction fraud pale.
0:36.8	Since now, ahead of time time the justification for war with
0:40.4	Venezuela is bogus as opposed to going to war then finding out Iraq's WMD did not exist.
0:47.6	Joining us is Jonathan Larson, the creator of the Effing News. He has been involved in some of the
0:53.2	most popular and well-thought-of programs in TV news,
0:57.4	most notably as executive producer of Up with Chris Hayes.
1:01.5	He also worked for many years on Countdown with Keith Oberman
1:04.4	and helped launch Anderson Cooper's 360.
1:08.3	He writes at Jonathan Larson.substack.com, where his latest article we will discuss is
1:14.4	Trump.
1:15.7	venezuela intel from controversial fixer.
1:19.1	Then we'll examine the sabotage on the main Warsaw to Lubin rail link in Poland that carries
1:25.4	supplies to Ukraine, which is being blamed on foreign services, presumably
1:31.4	Russia. Joining us is Mitek Boduzinsky, who teaches U.S. foreign policy at Pomona College.
1:40.9	He previously served as a diplomat in the United States Department of State with
1:44.6	postings in Albania, Kosovo, Japan, Egypt, Libya, and Iraq. From 2022 to 2023, he worked at the
1:53.1	Pentagon for the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy and as a policy advisor on issues of
1:58.1	civilian protection as well as atrocities, war crimes, and accountability
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