Citations Needed

Citations Needed is a podcast about the intersection of media, PR, and power, hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.

Ep 241 - The Disempowering Politics of ‘Inevitability’ Part 1: Data Centers and LLM as ‘The Future’ 08/12/2026

News Brief: Very Serious New Yorker Article Launders Biden Officials' Responsibility for Gaza Genocide 07/29/2026

News Brief: Why US Media Has Evoked Israel's "Right to Exist" 1,001 Times vs Only 6 For Palestine 07/15/2026

Ep 240: How the Media's "Burden," the "Straining Resources" Framing Manufactures the Expendable Other 07/08/2026

News Brief: Despite 9-Figure Infusion from Silicon Valley, Abundance Still Seeks Popular Support 07/01/2026

News Brief: The ADL's Bogus Origin Story and Its Rise as Ideological Enforcer for Empire and Israel 06/24/2026

Episode 239: The Vague, Capital-Serving Co-Optation of "Affordability" Politics 06/17/2026

News Brief: The Call to Boycott—and Delegitimize—the New York Times 05/28/2026

Episode 238: The Fictional, Racist, Paranoia-Sowing "Sleeper Cell" Media Construction 05/20/2026

Live Show: 'How to Sell a Genocide' Book Talk at The Word Is Change Bookstore in Brooklyn, NY 05/13/2026

News Brief: "Peak TV," Streamer Studio Accounting Gimmicks, and the Precarity of Hollywood Labor 05/06/2026

News Brief: How the Right Invented — and Exploited — the “Liberal Media” Trope 04/22/2026

Ep 237: How Selective, Patronizing 'Deradicalization' Discourse Pathologizes Anti-Colonial Struggle 04/15/2026

Ep 236: Manufactured Austerity and the Media Assisted 'Public-Private Partnership' Rip-Off 04/08/2026

News Brief: As American Troops Hide in Civilian Hotels, US Media Ignores Pentagon's Use of ‘Human Shields’ 04/01/2026

News Brief: How Decades of Media Distortions and Lies about "Iran's Nuclear Program" Lead to War 03/25/2026

"Shadow Fleets," Sanctions & Western Media's International Law-ification of Arbitrary US Dictates 03/11/2026

News Brief: As Trump Crushes Academia, the NYT and Atlantic Still Fight 'Woke' Wars from 5 Years Ago 02/18/2026

Ep 234: TikTok, Gen Z's Move to Social Media and Elite Panic Over Unsanctioned News 02/04/2026

News Brief: ICE, Senate Dems' Counterinsurgency PR, and the Limits of Body Cam Liberalism 01/30/2026

Ep 233: How US Media Naturalizes Capital Strikes and Helps the Rich Undermine Democracy 01/28/2026

News Brief: As Dem Leadership Waffles—Labor, Organizers, Immigrants Fight Back in Minneapolis 01/22/2026

News Brief: For Media Reporting on Iran, Trump Suddenly Morphs into Pro-Democracy Humanitarian 01/17/2026

News Brief: How Corporate Media Laid the Groundwork for a Rightwing Incitement Campaign in Minnesota 01/07/2026

Ep 232: US Meddling, the Limits of 'Agency' Discourse and How Media Chooses Which 'Voices' To Center 12/10/2025

News Brief: BBC's Gaza Double Standard and Western Liberalism's Crisis of Legitimacy 12/03/2025

Ep 231 - How To Oppose Genocide Without Opposing Genocide (Part 2): AIPAC Dems' Fake Israel Criticisms 11/26/2025

Ep 230 - How To Oppose Genocide Without Opposing Genocide (Part 1): Biden World's Reputation Laundering PR Tour 11/19/2025

Citations Needed Live Show Beg-a-Thon: MAHA, TikTok and the Rise of Health-Branded Fascism 11/10/2025

News Brief: As Trump Attacks Venezuela, Media Takes His Absurd “Drug War” Pretext at Face Value 10/29/2025