News Brief: Media Helps Trump Stoke Tensions with North Korea
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson recap today's North Korea escalation.
Aug 09, 2017•26 min
Citations Needed
Citations Needed is a podcast about the intersection of media, PR, and power, hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.
Episodes
Episode 05: Purging Socialists of Color From History
On Episode 5, we explore the history of the media erasing socialists of color from the history books and present day discourse––a tactic that serves to both commodity and water-down black radicalism and pawn off leftwing politics as a uniquely white or middle class enterprise. Our guests: Robert Greene II and Roqayah Chamseddine. Show notes: goo.gl/QPYT7C...
Aug 02, 2017•1 hr 2 min
Episode 04: The Root of All Evil
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 motives were behind the Bush, Obama and Trump administrations designs for the country. All this in the context of a battle for control over remaining ISIS territory in Syria and Washington, Ri...
Jul 26, 2017•51 min
Episode 03: The Rise of Superpredator 2.0
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, state, and federal officials with little scrutiny from the media. Our guest: Josmar Trujillo, a Harlem-based organizer, writer, trainer, and agitator. See show notes here: https://medium...
Jul 21, 2017•39 min
Episode 02 : The North Korea Memory Hole
In the second episode of Citations Needed, Nima and Adam breakdown the history and present "crisis" on the Korean peninsula.
Jul 19, 2017•59 min
Episode 01 : The Charter School Scam
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 Einhorn): 990s.foundationcenter.org/990pf_pdf_ar…06_990PF.pdf Gates $2 million contribution to film web.archive.org/web/2010101600404…C-OPP1019819.aspx Guest Jennifer Berkshire’s blog: ha...
Jul 12, 2017•56 min
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