19 May

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Citations Needed | May 14, 2021 | TranscriptBenjamin Netanyahu and Joe Biden. (Michel Euler / AP)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/debunking-the-5-most-popular-anti-palestinian-talking-points[/embed]Nima Shirazi: Welcome to a Citations Needed News Brief. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: We do these News Briefs in between our regularly scheduled episodes and cannot thank you enough for your ongoing support of Citations Needed. Of course, you can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed, and if you have not yet become a supporter, maybe consider it, you can do that through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. We’re 100 percent listener-funded so all your help through Patreon is incredibly appreciated.Gaza, an occupied open air prison surrounded by Israeli walls and gates and tanks and planes and boats and allies in Egypt keeping Palestinians, over a million Palestinians, imprisoned in Gaza, and again, have engaged in airstrikes and Adam, we thought that because this happens, I mean, this is an Israeli policy known unbelievably, genocidally as “mowing the lawn.”Adam: Yeah, some of the Israeli national security community have referred to that unironically, although I don’t believe it’s...

19 May

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Citations Needed | May 19, 2021 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-136-the-ungrateful-athlete-anti-black-anti-labor-currents-in-sports-media[/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: 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 support through Patreon is so incredibly appreciated, we are 100 percent listener funded and so that is because of all the generous support that our listeners give.Adam: Yes, and as always, we have patron-only News Briefs we try to do as often as possible, mini episodes you can unlock if you do sign up for Patreon, if you need more of that content that you crave. We also have newsletters and AMAs, Ask Me Anythings, which we do for patrons as well. If you could help us out there we’d really appreciate it.Nima: “Good, hard working kid”, “they get paid to play a child’s game”, “he’s asking for too...

12 May

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Citations Needed | May 12, 2021 | TranscriptJuan Guaidó speaks at a rally opposing Nicolás Maduro in Caracas. (Rafael Hernandez / DPA/Zuma Press)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/news-brief-how-us-media-helped-trump-and-usaid-weaponize-aid-during-2019-venezuela-coup-attempt[/embed][Music]Nima Shirazi: Welcome to a Citations Needed News Brief. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: We do these News Briefs in between our regularly scheduled Citations Needed episodes when — I don’t know — the Associated Press reveals that a new inspector general report from USAID actually admits that the humanitarian aid convoy sent to Venezuela in February of 2019 was actually part of a regime change operation. So we thought we’d talk about that, of course, I have to first say that 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 support through Patreon is so incredibly appreciated. But Adam, this report was published on April 29, 2021 by the Associated Press, not The Nation, not In These Times.Adam: Well, the way they framed it though is very much, they downplayed it, but if it should be the report it’s pretty scathing....

07 May

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Citations Needed | May 6, 2021 | TranscriptActivists rally on the National Mall in support of global access to Covid-19 vaccines on May 5, 2021, in Washington, D.C. (Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/news-brief-on-bidens-trips-waiver-support-substance-matters-more-than-headlines[/embed][Music]Nima Shirazi: Welcome to a Citations Needed News Brief. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: We do these News Briefs in between our regularly scheduled episodes of Citations Needed when the news just calls for the hottest of takes that we could possibly give. But 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 support through Patreon is so incredibly appreciated, we are 100 percent listener funded and so your support goes such a long way. Adam, I feel like we really need to get to what we’re going to talk about quick, we’re going to cut out any kind of superfluous intro, because there is breaking news regarding the TRIPS waiver, about intellectual property as it pertains to COVID-19 vaccines and we have been following this...

07 May

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Citations Needed | April 30, 2021 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/newsbrief-vaxlive-is-a-pr-scam-so-those-causing-vaccine-inequity-can-pose-as-saviors-of-global-poor[/embed][Music]Nima Shirazi: Welcome to a Citations Needed News Brief. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: We do these News Briefs in between our regularly scheduled episodes when the news just demands the hot Citations Needed takes. 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 support through Patreon is so incredibly appreciated, we are 100 percent listener funded, and we’d love to keep it that way. And this News Brief, Adam, is part of our ongoing series, apparently, about the vaccine rollout, the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, and how there still remains the fight over intellectual property rights. We have discussed this on a full length episode, we talked about this on a News Brief as well after that, but calls for loosening the IP on vaccines, we hear from advocates, we hear from experts, we hear from medical and civil society groups in the Global North and Global South, we’ve heard...