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Citations Needed

Jul 26, 2017

On Episode 04 we talk about a recent New York Times article — and the broader media habit of painting the US as benevolent democracy-seeker and Iran and other Official Enemies as cynical imperialists.

In this episode we dissect the true history of what caused chaos in Iraq, who’s to blame and what the real...


Jul 21, 2017

Episode 03: The Rise of Superpredator 2. 

Episode 3 is about the media narrative surrounding the rise of so-called “gang raids” that have exploded over the past three years. These high-stakes, headline-grabbing spectacles target, almost exclusively, black and brown people and are carried out by hundreds of local,...


Jul 19, 2017

In the second episode of Citations Needed, Nima and Adam breakdown the history and present "crisis" on the Korean peninsula.


Jul 12, 2017

The first episode of Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson's podcast, Citations Needed, tackles the media hype surrounding the privatization of education.

Show notes can be found here:

2010 tax form for Participant Foundation used to fund Waiting for Superman (note: four donors-- Waltons, Eli Broad, Donald Fisher, Dave...