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by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
383 EPISODES
Nov 2025
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Ep 242 - The Disempowering Politics of 'Inevitability' Part 2: US Empire as Mysterious, Teleological Force
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
Ep 241 - The Disempowering Politics of 'Inevitability' Part 1: Data Centers and LLM as 'The Future'
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
News Brief: Very Serious New Yorker Article Launders Biden Officials' Responsibility for Gaza Genocide
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
News Brief: Why US Media Has Evoked Israel's "Right to Exist" 1,001 Times vs Only 6 For Palestine
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
Ep 240: How the Media's "Burden," the "Straining Resources" Framing Manufactures the Expendable Other
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
News Brief: Despite 9-Figure Infusion from Silicon Valley, Abundance Still Seeks Popular Support
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
News Brief: The ADL's Bogus Origin Story and Its Rise as Ideological Enforcer for Empire and Israel
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
Episode 239: The Vague, Capital-Serving Co-Optation of "Affordability" Politics
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
News Brief: The Call to Boycott—and Delegitimize—the New York Times
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
Episode 238: The Fictional, Racist, Paranoia-Sowing "Sleeper Cell" Media Construction
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
Live Show: 'How to Sell a Genocide' Book Talk at The Word Is Change Bookstore in Brooklyn, NY
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
News Brief: "Peak TV," Streamer Studio Accounting Gimmicks, and the Precarity of Hollywood Labor
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
News Brief: How the Right Invented — and Exploited — the "Liberal Media" Trope
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
Ep 237: How Selective, Patronizing 'Deradicalization' Discourse Pathologizes Anti-Colonial Struggle
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
Ep 236: Manufactured Austerity and the Media Assisted 'Public-Private Partnership' Rip-Off
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
News Brief: As American Troops Hide in Civilian Hotels, US Media Ignores Pentagon's Use of 'Human Shields'
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
News Brief: How Decades of Media Distortions and Lies about "Iran's Nuclear Program" Lead to War
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
"Shadow Fleets," Sanctions & Western Media's International Law-ification of Arbitrary US Dictates
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
News Brief: As Trump Crushes Academia, the NYT and Atlantic Still Fight 'Woke' Wars from 5 Years Ago
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
Ep 234: TikTok, Gen Z's Move to Social Media and Elite Panic Over Unsanctioned News
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
News Brief: ICE, Senate Dems' Counterinsurgency PR, and the Limits of Body Cam Liberalism
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
Ep 233: How US Media Naturalizes Capital Strikes and Helps the Rich Undermine Democracy
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
News Brief: As Dem Leadership Waffles—Labor, Organizers, Immigrants Fight Back in Minneapolis
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
News Brief: For Media Reporting on Iran, Trump Suddenly Morphs into Pro-Democracy Humanitarian
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
News Brief: How Corporate Media Laid the Groundwork for a Rightwing Incitement Campaign in Minnesota
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
Ep 232: US Meddling, the Limits of 'Agency' Discourse and How Media Chooses Which 'Voices' To Center
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
News Brief: BBC's Gaza Double Standard and Western Liberalism's Crisis of Legitimacy
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
Ep 231 - How To Oppose Genocide Without Opposing Genocide (Part 2): AIPAC Dems' Fake Israel Criticisms
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
Ep 230 - How To Oppose Genocide Without Opposing Genocide (Part 1): Biden World's Reputation Laundering PR Tour
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
Citations Needed Live Show Beg-a-Thon: MAHA, TikTok and the Rise of Health-Branded Fascism
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
News Brief: As Trump Attacks Venezuela, Media Takes His Absurd "Drug War" Pretext at Face Value
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
News Brief: Media Helps Sell ICE Raids with Zero Dark Thirty Ride-Along Schlock
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
News Brief: The Billionaire-Backed Groups Working to Push Dems Right in 2026 and 2028
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
Live Show Beg-A-Thon Monday 10/13 - Promo!
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
Ep 229: Sociopathic 'You Got To Hand it To 'Em' Punditry and the Rise of Politics as Sport
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
Ep 228 - Billionaires as Insta-Experts: How Our Media Conflates Extreme Wealth with Expertise
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
News Brief - NYT, BBC, Guardian: Starvation in Gaza Doesn't Really Count if Victim Has Preexisting Condition
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
Ep 227: The Importance of 'Seriousness,' or Why Palestinians Can't Be Witness to Their Own Genocide (Part II)
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
Ep 226: The Importance of 'Seriousness,' or Why Palestinians Can't Be Witness to Their Own Genocide (Part I)
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
Ep 225: How US Media Frames Democracy that Actually Helps People as 'Buying Votes'
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
Episode 224: Corporate Self-Regulation and the Fine Art of 'Preempting" Public Outrage
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
News Brief: ADL, Corporate Media, Dem Elites Manufature "Antisemitism" Scandal to Discipline Mamdani
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
News Brief: Natural Disaster-izing the Deliberate US-Israeli Starvation Campaign in Gaza
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
News Brief: Pundits Speed-Run 15 Months of Iraq War Propaganda for Iran in Five Days
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
News Brief: US Media, Top Dems Assist Trump and Israel's Unprovoked Attack on Iran
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
Ep. 223: The Empire Strikes First, Part II — 'Abundance' Pablum as Counter to Left Populism
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
Ep 222 - The Empire Strikes First Part I: Party Elites Who Lost to Trump (Twice) Blame Everyone But Themselves
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
Episode 221: Anti-Science Mugging on the Right and the Ascent of American Anti-Intellectualism
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
News Brief: NPR Asks Starving Palestinian Living On Rubble to Denounce Hamas, Co-Sign His Own Ethnic Cleansing
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
News Brief: Baltimore Uprising 10 Years on: PR Co-option vs Genuine Reform
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson