Citations Needed Newsletter 1.30.18

Hi all, these are some of our favorite articles this week. Remember you can send anything you read and liked to our email at citationsneededcontact@gmail.com and we can add!

Take care, 

-- Florence, Adam, and Nima 

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Fitness Tracker Data Highlights Sprawling US Military Footprint in Africa - Nick Turse The Intercept (1/28/18)

Turse has been chronicling US military expansion in Africa for years. This week, we got even more proof of just how sprawling it is. 

The Hunter and His Gun: An American Myth That Just Won't Die - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, LitHub (1/18/18) 

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz dissects the history of American gun culture and its inseparable origins in colonialism and the myth of the hunter.

Stop the attacks on David Palumbo-Liu – The Campus Antifascist Network, Mondoweiss (1/29/18) 

The Campus Antifascist Network calls for an end to the serial and libelous harassment of Stanford University Professor David Palumbo-Liu perpetrated by Fox News, the Stanford Review, and the alt-right.

The Kaepernick Whisperer – Bryan Curtis, The Ringer (1/05/18) 

Not from this week but a long overdue profile of friend-of-the-show Dave Zirin, the sports editor at The Nation. Please check out our interview with Dave back in December.

A Tribute to Robert Parry: Independent Journalism at Its Best – Jim Naureckas FAIR (1/29/18)

This says it all: “[Parry] was once told that a story on Contra financial skullduggery had to be watered down because Newsweek owner Katharine Graham was having Henry Kissinger as a weekend guest.

Losing Sight: A 4-Year-Old Girl Was the Sole Survivor of a U.S. Drone Strike in Afghanistan. Then She Disappeared – May Jeong The Intercept 

An in-depth look into how US carries out drone strikes in Afghanistan that puts a face on the otherwise faceless victims.  

The Racist History of Cartoons – Shon Arieh-Lerer and Scott McGhee Slate (1/20/18)

Interesting Slate video, based on research by University of Toronto Professor Nicholas Sammond, tracing the minstrel origins of several well-known cartoon tropes

WaPo Editor Blames Lack of US Leadership for Famine Caused by US Leadership – Adam Johnson FAIR (1/23/18)

Odious toad Jackson Diehl over at The Washington Post has yet another whitewash of US war crimes in Yemen. 

All Glenn Greenwald’s Women – Marcy Wheeler New Republic (1/23/18)

Wheeler critiques and adds some nuance to the all-male perspective New York Magazine gave to Greenwald’s Trump-Russia skepticism. 

When It Comes to Elections, There Are More Options Than Endorsing a Candidate – Page May and B. Loewe Truth Out (1/29/18)

Elections can be tools of booting out the worst of the worst–all without endorsing anyone. 

J20, One Year Later: What It's Like to Face Decades in Prison for Protesting Elizabeth King Rolling Stone (1/20/18)

We've covered the pernicious J20 prosecutions on this show several times, but never the psychological and emotional impact facing decades in prison can have.