Welcome to a citations needed news brief. I am Nima Shirazi.

I'm Adam Johnson.

We do these news briefs in between our regularly scheduled full-length episodes of citations

needed. And this one is actually coming to you from our little summer break.

In between our season eight and season nine. We'll come

back with more episodes of citations needed for our ninth season next month. So thank you,

everyone, for joining us in the meantime. And today, we really want to talk about a recent spate

of media covering up the now undeniable genocide in Gaza

as more and more organizations really apply that label accurately providing all the possible evidence that you could ever have,

including intent laid out very clearly by

Israeli officials, undeniable evidence on the ground of ethnic cleansing and genocide going on

in Gaza. This has been said, obviously, for months, if not years, by groups who know what

they're talking about and also Palestinians living

and surviving this on the ground. So you've seen major media here in the United States really

kind of wiggle out of the genocide label, especially when it comes to the deliberate mass starvation

of people in Gaza, the idea that people are starving to death, which is documented,

which is real, which is undeniable. We have now seen a lot of media articles come out trying

to talk around that clear and horrifying fact. And so we're going to talk about some of those

articles. And we are joined today by

friend of the show and return guest Beatrice Adler Bolton. She is the co-host of the

death panel podcast about the political economy of health. And she is the co-author with Artie

Vierkant of the book, Health Communism, a surplus manifestesto, which was published by Verso Books in 2022.

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