Radio War Nerd EP #621 — US Media Complicity in the Gaza Genocide, feat. Adam Johnson + Guest co-host Aamer
Guest: Adam Johnson, author & podcaster
Recorded: July 15, 2026
We talk to Adam Johnson about his enraging new book How To Sell A Genocide, documenting how the most influential US media lied, contorted, censored and dehumanized all to run cover for Israel's US-backed genocide in Gaza. Mark is joined by guest co-host/friend o' the show Aamer, filling in for John, who should be arriving in the Dubai warzone as this episode goes to post.
Buy Adam's new book How To Sell A Genocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza by Pluto Press.
Check out Adam's podcast Citations Needed, which he cohosts with previous RWN guest Nima Shirazi (RWN EP #117)
Total time: 1:36:59
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Comments (34)
Ok no
Insightful and valuable as always. Will we ever be free of this insanity?
Loved this !
"screams without words? More like crimes without evidence!" There that's my Statler/Waldorf joke for the week
I'm told that "accuse your enemy of the thing you are doing" is ascribed to Göring, nut really if you read enough history you come to understand that "every accusation is a confession" is literally how European empires did PR for centuries. Any time they poisoned a well or burned down a town or slaughtered hundreds of innocent people they'd always say they were doing it because their victims did it. Utterly braindead PR, but it worked, because they never had to worry about somebody from London suddenly discovering that non-whites were human, etc etc.
When will Aamer denounce radical Canadian terrorism?! Has the world (by which I mean America, which is to say the United States, the only *real* country in America) not suffered under their days-long reign of heinous smoke assault long enough? Until Canadians take responsibility for their actions, we must regard them with suspicion as potential terrorists or terrorist sympathizers.
Amazing ep, sending to my NYT loving libbed out friends.
Unbelievable. John is taking part in an airborne assault on dubai international. Hope they hold out longer than the Russians did at antonov
My old college professor still believes the “babies in ovens” claim that the IOF made about October 7th
Tell him that baby Abdul Rauf was put in an oven but that he was Palestinian and his sadistic murderers were the Zionist terror gangs, the Haganah, Irgun, Lehi “Stern Gang” and others that formed militias to carry out the Nakba (1947-1949) before forming the IOF. There’s a picture of him (and his poor father who I believe went in after him and was also murdered) in the documentary 1948: Creation and Catastrophe. EVERY accusation is a confession.
Can I recommend reading Peter Oborne's book 'Complicit: Britain's Role in the Destruction of Gaza' as a companion piece to Adam's book?
Great interview! Was expecting to hear Matthew Miller’s name mentioned more often. Just too many genocidal bootlickers to get to. Will be buying this book.
Great interview. I hope you de-paywall this episode so I can share the podcast with non-Patreons in order to get them to buy the book, which I've just ordered myself.
Jake Tapper is my nemesis
Trust me, my brother, you can do better.
I was in the Scottish highlands on vacation on October 7th. I don’t remember exactly what was said, but the invective against Palestinians that was aired over BBC radio in Scotland was absolutely abominable. I remember being aghast at the straight up racism
Now imagine my (half) Palestinian American 8th grader and all her peers be subjected to that Legacy Media garbage for the rest of the school year in history class, fueling anti-Palestinian racism (APR) towards her; it was the most dehumanizing war propaganda, incitement to genocide. The most recent school year’s history class featured Netanyahu speeches less any context of international law, the apartheid system, occupation, siege, blockade pre-10/7/23, etc., the ICC warrants for his arrest or a Palestinian representative speech for parity. Our Democratic Party politicians including governor Gavin Newsom then signed a censorship bill AB 715 written by the Jewish Lobby to essentially obstruct teaching Palestinian history, culture or the genocide. It is a duopoly mafia and no opposition party.
Incredible interview
I've heard him promote the book on a few shows, and I immediately tune in. I love citations needed they are very clear eyed and sober and to the point, its an important topic and good to hear him discuss it with different people
Adjacent Twitter is having these big batches of mass bans under the guise of bot purges and then demands biometic authentication to log in. No one is really covering it. Blue checks of big names not effected, but real people who don't pay are getting this extortion. You can't even log in and delete your account unless you give biometric.
thanks for the heads up. just screenshotted my whole following list to be safe
great guest great interview but i'm just here to say we love Aamer, hi Aamer
It's so important to remember Bernie Sander's central role in enabling the genocide
What are serious peoples’ guess for the death count in Gaza? I’ve heard as high as a million and as low as one hundred thousand. I don’t mean to be glib, but one hundred thousand dead seems too low given the scale of the devastation and deprivation.
The only way to know to any level of certainty, you'd have to take a census of Gaza and compare the current population to the pre-October 2023 population. There are so many bodies buried under rubble, it's horrifying. Genocide.
Can anyone explain to me how ISIS wasn’t/isnt an american israeli exclusive group project
Bought the book. Thanks for hosting this episode. I voted green in the last US election cause they were the only ones against this genocide at the time. It is THE issue.
Me, too. I’ll never stop voting outside the Epstein class duopoly. Democrats in CA help genocide and help run interference to prevent any accountability and teaching about it. It’s abysmal.
I have to disagree with Adam. The villains from Captain Planet had definite material motives! Mostly to make money.
Bingo
Can I volunteer for executioner? Give Jake the drop!
Been listening to Citations Needed for almost a decade now, Adam is excellent at what he does
Bulk of the wildfires are actually in Minnesota
Love [CN] one of the first pods I suggest to non-brain dead libs questioning their world view