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Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson

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Ep 232: US Meddling, the Limits of 'Agency' Discourse and How Media Chooses Which 'V…

12/10/2025 • 89 min

In this episode, we discuss the uses and misuses of liberal standpoint theory to promote US meddling, sanctions, and bombing. With guest Vincent Bevins. Play episode

News Brief: BBC's Gaza Double Standard and Western Liberalism's Crisis of …
Ep 231 - How To Oppose Genocide Without Opposing Genocide (Part 2): AIPAC …
Ep 230 - How To Oppose Genocide Without Opposing Genocide (Part 1): Biden …
Citations Needed Live Show Beg-a-Thon: MAHA, TikTok and the Rise of Health…
News Brief: As Trump Attacks Venezuela, Media Takes His Absurd "Drug War" …
News Brief: Media Helps Sell ICE Raids with Zero Dark Thirty Ride-Along Sc…
News Brief: The Billionaire-Backed Groups Working to Push Dems Right in 20…
Live Show Beg-A-Thon Monday 10/13 - Promo!
Ep 229: Sociopathic 'You Got To Hand it To 'Em' Punditry and the Rise of P…
Ep 228 - Billionaires as Insta-Experts: How Our Media Conflates Extreme We…
News Brief - NYT, BBC, Guardian: Starvation in Gaza Doesn't Really Count i…
Ep 227: The Importance of 'Seriousness,' or Why Palestinians Can't Be Witn…
Ep 226: The Importance of 'Seriousness,' or Why Palestinians Can't Be Witn…
Ep 225: How US Media Frames Democracy that Actually Helps People as 'Buyin…
Episode 224: Corporate Self-Regulation and the Fine Art of 'Preempting" Pu…
News Brief: ADL, Corporate Media, Dem Elites Manufature "Antisemitism" Sca…
News Brief: Natural Disaster-izing the Deliberate US-Israeli Starvation Ca…
News Brief: Pundits Speed-Run 15 Months of Iraq War Propaganda for Iran in…
News Brief: US Media, Top Dems Assist Trump and Israel's Unprovoked Attack…
Ep. 223: The Empire Strikes First, Part II — 'Abundance' Pablum as Counter…
Ep 222 - The Empire Strikes First Part I: Party Elites Who Lost to Trump (…
Episode 221: Anti-Science Mugging on the Right and the Ascent of American …
News Brief: NPR Asks Starving Palestinian Living On Rubble to Denounce Ham…
News Brief: Baltimore Uprising 10 Years on: PR Co-option vs Genuine Reform
Episode 220: The Power of Thought-Terminating Bad Guy Labels
Ep 219: How Elites Concern Troll 'Waste' to Gut Social Welfare and Divide …
Ep 218: The Siren Song of Rallying Around a 'Common Enemy' to Promote Prog…
News Brief: Dem Leaders, 'Free Speech' Warriors Mostly Shrug as Trump Disa…
Episode 217: A.I. Mysticism as Responsibility-Evasion PR Tactic
News Brief: Trump's Hollow Working Class Aesthetics and How Unions Can Lea…
News Brief: Israel Kills Over 400 in 12 Hrs, Media Unsure if This Counts a…
News Brief: The Disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil and the Phony 'Campus Safe…
Episode 216: Sunday Morning News Shows and the Problem With 'Agenda Settin…
Citations Needed Live Show Beg-a-Thon: Ancient Rome and the False Historie…
News Brief: Silicon Valley Patronage, How To Subtly Drift Right, and the N…
News Brief: Media Continues Painting Musk's Far Right Coup as Good Faith "…
News Brief: Trump's Anti-Migrant Terror PR Strategy, Dr Phil's ICE Reality…
News Brief: Media Won't Say a Nazi Salute is a Nazi Salute and How MAGA Be…
Episode 215: "Bipartisanship" as High-Minded Rhetorical Cover for Pushing …
News Brief: NYT Bars Quakers From Using "Genocide" in Ad and Liberal Squea…
Episode 214: Fake Ceasefire Talks and Feigned 'Concern' - How US Media Hel…
Episode 213: The Shallow, Power-Flattering Appeal of High Status #Resistan…
Episode 212: Gaza and the Political Utility of Selective Empathy
News Brief: Elite Media, Dems Blame 'Woke', 'Headwinds'––Everyone But Them…
Episode 211: Bari Weiss, The 'University' of Austin, and the Silicon Valle…
Episode 210: Seller's Inflation and the Super Serious Economists Mocking "…
News Brief: Harris' Mid 2000s Neocon Re-Brand and Centrist Voters as Free …
Episode 209: Popularism and the "Poll-Driven" Democrat as Cover for Conser…
Episode 208: How US Media Repackages Pro-Police Policies as "Reform"

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