In this patron-only News Brief, Nima and Adam discuss the media's white glove treatment of war criminal Mohammad bin Salman, the Crown Prince of the Saudi kingdom, as he and hi...
2018-04-04 15:29:46 +0000 UTC View PostHi all! Here's this week's newsletter.
Quick production note: we will be off this week but we'll have a patron-only News Brief for all y'all tomorrow.
Thanks as always,
Adam, Florence, and Nima
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We’ve heard this scare story a million times: A theater group at Wesleyan won’t perform The Vagina Monologues because it’s offensive to trans women! Oberlin is banning classes featuring white authorsI Rich, sheltered college students, increasingly indoctrinated by radical...
2018-03-28 16:21:04 +0000 UTC View PostHi all! Thanks again for all your support. Here's this week's newsletter.
Nima, Florence, and Adam
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Welcome to the Dick Cheney Administration&nbs...
2018-03-27 21:22:09 +0000 UTC View Post
We’ve seen the headlines hundreds of times: "ISIS plot foiled," "ISIS in Brooklyn," "Woman Stopped At Airport on Way to Join ISIS." These stories strike fear into the hearts of Americans everywhere, especially in the build-up to the war effort against ISIS in Summer 2014.
The terror group was ev...
2018-03-21 14:56:58 +0000 UTC View PostHi all,
Here's this week's newsletter. Thank you as always!
Florence, Nima, and Adam
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2018-03-20 22:20:31 +0000 UTC View Post
In this patron-only News Brief, we catch up on the latest news in Yemen and the Korean peninsula.
'Human Rights Champion' John McCain Silent on Effor...
2018-03-15 14:51:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Fighting against the far right forces of the Republican Party and their auxiliary white supremacist media makes attempts to appropriate notions of nationalism into a liberal mold a compelling short cut for Democrats looking for easy clapbacks and viral RTs. The temptation to promote a kinder, gentle...
2018-03-14 15:28:05 +0000 UTC View PostHi all,
Hope the weather is warm where you are. Here is this week's newsletter, please enjoy!
-- Adam, Florence, and Nima
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NOTE: If you haven't yet listened to last week's Part I of this episode, please do that first.
The idea that there exists an ongoing effort to achieve a “two-state solution...
2018-03-07 16:03:25 +0000 UTC View PostHi all,
This week's newsletter below. Thanks as always!
––Florence, Adam, and Nima
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The idea that there exists an ongoing effort to achieve a “two-state solution” in Israel and Palestine - often referred to as The Middle East Peace Process™ - is uniformly taken for granted by American media. This "two-state solution" is always at different stages of viability, yet never quite...
2018-02-28 16:23:41 +0000 UTC View PostHi all!
Hope you enjoy this week's newsletter.
–– Nima, Florence, and Adam
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The Right is Trying to Take Down Public Sector Unio...
2018-02-27 20:04:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Citations Needed is off this week, but we do have a fascinating interview with Hoda Katebi on her now-infamous WGN television segment. In this News Brief, we explore what it means to "sound American," the politics of women's clothing, and why everyone with even a single drop of Iranian bloo...
2018-02-21 17:19:34 +0000 UTC View PostHi all,
Here's this week's newsletter. Enjoy!
-- Florence, Nima, and Adam
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Fifteen years after Iraq war prot...
2018-02-20 20:25:47 +0000 UTC View Post
If one were to approach New York Times-reading liberals circa 1990 and tell them about a crime-fighting policy that arbitrarily harassed black and Latino youths who had committed no crime and threw the book at low-level nonviolent offenses, they would be rightfully outraged at the idea. But...
2018-02-14 17:32:43 +0000 UTC View PostHi all,
Here's this week's newsletter. Enjoy and look out for tomorrow's episode with Josmar Trujillo on Stop and Frisk and Broken Windows––it's gonna be good!
Best,
Nima, Florence, and Adam
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The term "welfare" is thrown around so casually in political speeches and media coverage we hardly notice it anymore. CNN reports that “GOP will tackle Medicare, Medicaid, welfare in 2018," while The Washington Post insists that “Trump recently called on Congress to move to cut...
2018-02-07 17:48:50 +0000 UTC View PostHi all,
Here is this week's newsletter. Enjoy!
- Florence, Adam, and Nima
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2018-02-06 20:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Few words elicit such warm feelings as the term "Democracy." Wars are supposedly fought for it, foreign policies are built around it, protecting and advancing it is considered the United States' highest moral order.
Democracy's alleged opposite - broadly called "authoritarianism," "autocracy" or "...
2018-01-31 17:34:21 +0000 UTC View PostHi 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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In this Patron-only News Brief we breakdown the brain dead media narrative surrounding Twitter's government-compelled Russian influence email––have you lived in sin?
2018-01-25 21:16:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Here at Citations Needed we enjoy nothing more than ragging on corporate media - indeed, it’s our primary job. But can constant snark and negativity breed cynicism? Recent feedback from some of our listeners has us wondering if the act of media criticism need also make room for some media...
2018-01-24 17:19:25 +0000 UTC View Post
On this News Brief Adam and Nima discuss why it's not a "government shutdown" but a liberal government shutdown––or, more precisely, a backdoor rightwing coup.
Relevant article:
Hi all!
So we set out to do a newsletter last year but had issues maintaining quality so we ceased sending it... but now it’s back! It will go out every Tuesday and will contain, in addition to our own writing, our favorite reading from others throughout the prior week. We will work hard t...
2018-01-23 22:43:02 +0000 UTC View Post
We’ve all seen these feel good segments on the local news. The adorable and resourceful seven-year-old in California who's been recycling cans since he was three and now has $10,000 saved up for college. The Oklahoma community that chipped in to buy a car for a beloved Walmart greeter so she would...
2018-01-17 16:24:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The unique threat and vileness of Donald Trump’s presidency can’t be overstated. Since he took office a year ago, he’s increased civilian deaths in Afghanistan by 50%, increased civilian deaths in Syria and Iraq (surpassing Obama’s death toll in just under 7 months), issued dozens of nuclear...
2018-01-10 18:13:23 +0000 UTC View Post
In this patron-only News Brief, Nima and Adam discuss the different genres of "do something" responses to the Iranian protests. The most popular of which, "Tear up the Iran Deal for freedom or something", is being led by the pro-Israel, far-right Foundation for Defense of Democracies; a group compos...
2018-01-05 15:45:10 +0000 UTC View Post
According to one 2014 study, 75% of white Americans don’t have any non-white friends. Put another way, white people’s perception of African Ame...
2018-01-03 15:21:16 +0000 UTC View PostA quick note of thanks to our patrons.
We’ve been humbled by the amount of enthusiasm and support we received this year. When we started the podcast in July we never would have guessed how responsive and nice all y'all would be. Since then we've released 21 full-length episodes and 11 news...
2018-01-01 01:37:58 +0000 UTC View Post