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

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

June 24, 2026 42:14 7.99 MB ( 52.81 MB less) Downloads: 0

In this News Brief, we talk with Emmaia Gelman, author of The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State, about how––despite posing a civil rights org––the ADL functions as defender of colonialism and enforcer for reactionary western ideologies.

Episode 239: The Vague, Capital-Serving Co-Optation of "Affordability" Politics

June 17, 2026 01:20:38 13.96 MB ( 179.51 MB less) Downloads: 0

In this episode, we detail the long history of generic "affordability" discourse and how, post-Mamdani, it's become the go-to establishment buzzword justifying tax breaks for developers, deregulation, and cosmetic tweaks to our for-profit healthcare and education systems. With guest Luke Savage.

News Brief: The Call to Boycott—and Delegitimize—the New York Times

May 28, 2026 40:29 97.12 MB Downloads: 0

In this News Brief, we talk with Chris Mills Rodrigo from Writers Against The War On Gaza about their campaign to boycott the New York Times and remove the "paper of record" from its pedestal of alleged neutrality and editorial rigor.

Episode 238: The Fictional, Racist, Paranoia-Sowing "Sleeper Cell" Media Construction

May 20, 2026 01:30:33 217.28 MB Downloads: 0

In this episode, we detail the vague, baseless racism-sowing media coverage and pop culture obsession with so-called "sleeper cells," a construction that has consumed post-9/11 America but suffers from one major problem: there's no evidence it exists.

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

May 13, 2026 01:03:50 153.19 MB Downloads: 0

This is a live recording between Nima and Adam at the Word is Change Bookstore May 7, 2026. In this conversation, we discuss key findings that can be found in Adam's new book, How to Sell a Genocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza.

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

May 06, 2026 47:54 68.95 MB Downloads: 0

In this News Brief, we talk with Miranda Banks and Kate Fortmueller, authors of the new book Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers, about rising inequality and precarity in Hollywood, studio consolidation, and how the dream of fame and fortune, 100 years on, is still used to concentrate power and drive down wages.

News Brief: How the Right Invented — and Exploited — the "Liberal Media" Trope

April 22, 2026 51:25 74.02 MB Downloads: 0

In this News Brief, we talk with A. J. Bauer, assistant professor at the University of Alabama, about his new book," Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press". In our discussion we break down the corporate and ideological forces that shaped the popular idea mainstream media was crawling with fifth columnist agitators hostile to the values of Real America.        

Ep 237: How Selective, Patronizing 'Deradicalization' Discourse Pathologizes Anti-Colonial Struggle

April 15, 2026 01:21:51 196.43 MB Downloads: 0

In this episode, we break down the long history of US media reducing recalcitrant populations' grievances to "terrorism," "hate," and "radicalism" in urgent need of re-education.   With guest Prem Thakker.

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

April 08, 2026 01:06:08 95.2 MB Downloads: 0

In this episode we discuss how privatization was rebranded 'Public-Private Partnerships' and unleashed decades of raiding of the public coffers by Wall Street. With guest Donald Cohen, founder and executive director of In the Public Interest.

News Brief: As American Troops Hide in Civilian Hotels, US Media Ignores Pentagon's Use of 'Human Shields'

April 01, 2026 17:55 25.77 MB Downloads: 0

In this News Brief we examine CNN, the Atlantic, Washington Post and NYT's blatant 'human shields' double standard as reports emerge of US troops hiding from Iranian attacks in civilian infrastructure.

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

March 25, 2026 34:41 49.93 MB Downloads: 0

In this News Brief, we discuss a recent poll showing 70% of Americans are fundamentally wrong about the nature of Iran's "nuclear program"—including 1 in 4 who think Iran currently possesses a nuclear weapon, and detail how decades of sleazy media innuendo and fabrications got us to this point.

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

March 11, 2026 01:22:12 197.25 MB Downloads: 0

In this episode, we explore how arbitrary—often unilateral—sanctions against Enemy States are given the halo of international legal legitimacy with a combination of lies, slippery language and brainless court stenography. With guest Maryam Jamshidi, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado School of Law.

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

February 18, 2026 45:54 66.09 MB Downloads: 0

In this News Brief, we are joined by Chenjerai Kumanyika and Todd Wolfson of the American Association of University Professors to discuss Trump's gutting of higher education, its expansion on previous neoliberal privatization efforts, and how big donor and media backlash against "woke "academics and anti-Gaza genocide protestors is fueling the possible end of academic independence as we know it.          

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

February 04, 2026 01:13:49 177.12 MB Downloads: 0

In this episode, we examine our political class' TikTok neurosis, how Gaza fueled its sell to US and Israeli military contractors, and the long history of elite panics around unsanctioned information flows. With guest Omar Zahzah.

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

January 30, 2026 39:34 56.97 MB Downloads: 0

In this News Brief, we detail the fundamental problems with Senate Democrats' cosmetic reforms, the strategy of letting outrage blow over and the conspicuous absence of any proposal that touches ICE's obscene budget.