28 Oct

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Citations Needed | October 28, 2020 | TranscriptSolar panels are tested during a 2015 NATO exercise in Hungary. (Photo Credit: NATO)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-122-climate-chaos-part-ii-the-militarization-of-liberals-climate-change-response[/embed][Music]Intro: This is Citations Needed with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.Nima Shirazi: Welcome to Citations Needed a podcast on the media, power, PR and the history of bullshit. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: Thank you everyone for listening this week, of course you can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed, become a supporter of our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All your help through Patreon is so appreciated, we are 100 percent listener funded, that means no billionaire backers, no commercials or ads and that is all thanks to you.Adam: And if you join our Patreon, you will have access to our 70-plus Patreon-only News Briefs where we recap current events, hot takes and do the occasional film criticism. That is for our patrons, that helps sustain the show and keeps the episodes themselves free, which they always will be.Nima: Pete Buttigieg wants to create a “Senior Cli­mate Secu­ri­ty role in the...

21 Oct

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Citations Needed | October 21, 2020 | Transcript(Photo Credit: J. Scott Applewhite/AP)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep-121-climate-chaos-part-i-how-the-gap-between-liberal-rhetoric-and-policy-promotes-denialism[/embed][Music]Intro: This is Citations Needed with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.Nima Shirazi: Welcome to Citations Needed a podcast on the media, power, PR and the history of bullshit. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: Thank you everyone for listening this week. Of course you can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed and become a supporter of our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All your help through Patreon is so incredibly appreciated. We have no ads or commercials, we have no billionaire donors or corporate sponsors, we are 100 percent listener funded and we cannot thank you enough for that.Adam: Yes. And as always, you can rate and subscribe to us on Apple Podcast. We appreciate any positive reviews. If you want to give us a negative review, just tweet at Nima, don’t put it on Apple Podcast.Nima: I can take it.Adam: We really appreciate that. We are definitely not looking for both sides there. We only want fawning and sycophantic....

14 Oct

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Citations Needed | October 14, 2020 | TranscriptOliver Stone (center, in white) in the Philippines with the cast of Platoon, 1986.[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/news-brief-hollywood-and-the-pentagon-a-follow-up-conversation-with-oliver-stone[/embed][Music]Nima Shirazi: Welcome to a Citations Needed News Brief. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: Citations Needed is a podcast on the media, power, PR and the history of bullshit. You can follow us on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed and become a supporter of our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. We have an exciting News Brief today.Adam: So we did a three-part series on Hollywood and anti-Muslim racism and the final one in that three-part series with guest Matthew Alford we discussed the influence of the CIA and the Pentagon in media. Now, filmmaker Oliver Stone, he has a book out, Oliver Stone has worked in Hollywood for decades, has made movies critical of the Pentagon and the CIA, so we were super excited to get him on the show to talk about his perspective about the sort of general literature around the CIA and Pentagon’s involvement in Hollywood and we’re very excited to...