Episode 04: The Root of All Evil
Citations Needed
Citations Needed
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
On Episode 04 we talk about a recent New York Times article — and the broader media habit of painting the US as benevolent democracy-seeker and Iran and other Official Enemies as cynical imperialists.
In this episode we dissect the true history of what caused chaos in Iraq, who's to blame and what the real motives were behind the Bush, Obama and Trump administrations designs for the country. All this in the context of a battle for control over remaining ISIS territory in Syria and Washington, Riyadh, and Tel Aviv's desire to stop the dreaded "Shia crescent".
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| 0:00.0 | This is Citations Needed with Nemeshirazi and Adam Johnson. |
| 0:08.0 | Hi, welcome to Citations Needed. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Adam Johnson here with Nemeshirazi. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello everybody. |
| 0:14.0 | On this show we will be talking about media, PR and the history of bullshit. |
| 0:19.0 | Just a little background so people know who we are if you're just catching up to this episode 4. |
| 0:24.0 | My name's Adam Johnson. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm a writer, a contributing writer to Fair Nursing Actors in Reporting. |
| 0:28.0 | I also write for Alternate and Occasionally the Nation in the Early Times. |
| 0:32.0 | And Nemeshirazi is... |
| 0:34.0 | Me. Hi. |
| 0:36.0 | Hi everybody. This is Nemeshirazi. |
| 0:39.0 | I am a editor for the Digital Magazine Moufta, which you can find at Moufta.org. |
| 0:46.0 | That's MUFTAH.org. |
| 0:49.0 | I also have political writings at Y2SleepInAmerica.com |
| 0:54.0 | and my writing has been featured in Salon and El Jazeera and elsewhere from time to time. |
| 0:59.0 | That's our resume. That's it. That's today's show. I'll see you guys later. |
| 1:02.0 | That's a good one. |
| 1:03.0 | Anyway, so today's topic. |
| 1:05.0 | There's a recent article by a gentleman named Tim Aurengo who writes for the New York Times. |
| 1:09.0 | He's the Baghdad Bureau Chief. |
| 1:12.0 | The Baghdad Bureau Chief, so he's not small potatoes. He's a big deal. |
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