Citations Needed

Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson

  • 1 hour 29 minutes
    Ep 232: US Meddling, the Limits of 'Agency' Discourse and How Media Chooses Which 'Voices' To Center

    In this episode, we discuss the uses and misuses of liberal standpoint theory to promote US meddling, sanctions, and bombing. With guest Vincent Bevins.

    10 December 2025, 2:32 pm
  • 44 minutes 48 seconds
    News Brief: BBC's Gaza Double Standard and Western Liberalism's Crisis of Legitimacy

    In this News Brief, we interview journalist Daniel Trilling and discuss his investigation into the BBC's systemic anti-Palestinian bias.

    3 December 2025, 3:21 pm
  • 1 hour 17 minutes
    Ep 231 - How To Oppose Genocide Without Opposing Genocide (Part 2): AIPAC Dems' Fake Israel Criticisms

    In this episode, we detail the buyers' market for superficial Gaza critiques that permit ambitious Democrats to look pro-Palestine without the downside of actually being so.

    With guest Tariq Kenney-Shawa.

    26 November 2025, 6:25 pm
  • 1 hour 41 minutes
    Ep 230 - How To Oppose Genocide Without Opposing Genocide (Part 1): Biden World's Reputation Laundering PR Tour

    In this episode, we detail recent attempts by former Biden officials to rewrite history and absolve themselves of responsibility for the horrors of Gaza, and lay out the emerging Dem-aligned media industry of vibing past Democrats' lockstep support for genocide.

    19 November 2025, 3:29 pm
  • 54 minutes 40 seconds
    Citations Needed Live Show Beg-a-Thon: MAHA, TikTok and the Rise of Health-Branded Fascism

    In this Live Show Beg-a-Thon from 10/13, we are joined by Justin Feldman to discuss the rise of MAHA, the broader Granola-to-Fascist Pipeline and how corporate-written food policies and our shitty for-profit medical system fuel hucksterism.

    10 November 2025, 8:06 pm
  • 22 minutes 49 seconds
    News Brief: As Trump Attacks Venezuela, Media Takes His Absurd "Drug War" Pretext at Face Value

    In this News Brief, we detail how the AP, Atlantic, Washington Post and New York Times are accepting Trump's framing that his attacks on Venezuela and Colombia are about "going after drug cartels" when it's clear they are—based on Trump's own words—about controlling Venezuela's oil.

    29 October 2025, 3:33 pm
  • 31 minutes 29 seconds
    News Brief: Media Helps Sell ICE Raids with Zero Dark Thirty Ride-Along Schlock

    In this News Brief, we are joined by Matthew Cunningham-Cook to discuss his recent media analysis of "embedded reports" of ICE raids that prime the public for brutal crackdowns on undocumented immigrants.

    22 October 2025, 5:06 pm
  • 29 minutes 50 seconds
    News Brief: The Billionaire-Backed Groups Working to Push Dems Right in 2026 and 2028

    In this News Brie, we detail the major factions seeking to rewrite the history of the 2024 election as "woke" Gone Too Far, downplay Gaza, and prevent economic populism at all costs.

    13 October 2025, 6:03 pm
  • 2 minutes 6 seconds
    Live Show Beg-A-Thon Monday 10/13 - Promo!

    Please join us Monday, Oct 13 for a Beg-A-Thon live show @ 9:30ET/8:30CT! We will be joined by Justin Feldman to discuss the rise of MAHA, the broader Granola-to-Fascist Pipeline and how corporate-written food policies and our horrible, for-profit medical system fuel hucksterism.

    6 October 2025, 3:34 pm
  • 1 hour 14 minutes
    Ep 229: Sociopathic 'You Got To Hand it To 'Em' Punditry and the Rise of Politics as Sport

    In this episode we detail the rise of detached "who's winning and who's losing" political analyses that reduces high stakes life and death issues to fodder for ESPN-style navel-gazing. With guest Jack Mirkinson.

    1 October 2025, 4:36 pm
  • 1 hour 24 minutes
    Ep 228 - Billionaires as Insta-Experts: How Our Media Conflates Extreme Wealth with Expertise

    In Ep 228, "Billionaires as Insta-Experts: How Our Media Conflates Extreme Wealth with Expertise," we break down the media convention of assuming the rich are per se experts on everything from education to "the economy" to poverty in Africa when, in reality, they are Just Some Guys. With guest Rob Larson.

    24 September 2025, 7:11 pm
  • More Episodes? Get the App