333 Episodes

  1. News Brief: How US Media Helped Trump and USAID Weaponize "Aid" During 2019 Venezuela Coup Attempt

    Published: 5/12/2021
  2. News Brief: On Palestine, It's Time for Progressives to Stop Reading From the Same Outrage Script & Support BDS

    Published: 5/12/2021
  3. News Brief: On Biden's TRIPS Waiver Support, Substance Matters More than Headlines

    Published: 5/6/2021
  4. News Brief: #VaxLive is a PR Scam So Those Causing Vaccine Inequity Can Pose as Saviors of Global Poor

    Published: 4/30/2021
  5. Episode 135: The “Labor Shortage” Ruse: How Capital Invents Staffing Crises to Bust Unions and Depress Wages

    Published: 4/28/2021
  6. Episode 134: The 80-Year PR Campaign that Killed Universal Healthcare

    Published: 4/21/2021
  7. Episode 133: The Art of Fake-Ending Wars

    Published: 4/14/2021
  8. News Brief: Big Pharma, Bill Gates Spin Against Generic Vaccines for Global South as Biden a No Show

    Published: 4/10/2021
  9. News Brief: Austin Activists Combat Anti-Homeless Stigma in 'Prop B' Media Fight

    Published: 3/24/2021
  10. Episode 132: The House Always Wins  -  How Every Crisis Narrative Enriches the Security and Carceral State

    Published: 3/10/2021
  11. News Brief: The Transactional Dog-Whistle Politics of the Term "Taxpayer"

    Published: 3/3/2021
  12. Episode 131: The "Essential Worker" Racket - How 'COVID Hero' Discourse Is Used To Discipline Labor

    Published: 2/17/2021
  13. News Brief - Covid in Prisons: No One Cares Until Things Start to Burn

    Published: 2/10/2021
  14. Episode 130: 'Heartland,' 'Middle America,' and US Media’s Vaguely Nostalgic, Racialized Code for White Grievance

    Published: 2/3/2021
  15. News Brief: Finance Media's GameStop Meltdown and the Thin Moral Pretexts of Wall Street's Game Rigging

    Published: 1/28/2021
  16. Episode 129 - Vaccine Apartheid: US Media's Uncritical Adoption of Racist "Intellectual Property" Dogma

    Published: 1/27/2021
  17. Episode 128 - The “Healing” Con: How Warm and Fuzzy Appeals for "Unity" Are Used to Protect Power

    Published: 1/20/2021
  18. News Brief: US Media Pathologically Incapable of Criticizing MAGA Mobs Without Evoking Racist Cliches About "Third World"

    Published: 1/7/2021
  19. Episode 127: Democratic Leadership's Predictable Scapegoating of 'Defund the Police'

    Published: 12/16/2020
  20. Episode 126: Obama-Era Media Failures We Shouldn’t Rehash Under Biden (Part II)

    Published: 12/10/2020

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