Nima. He's VP of Spitfire Strategies, which is a PR/media company.
" Nima is also editor-at-large for Muftah, the digital foreign affairs magazine and a member of the Gulf/2000 Project, an academic forum and online resource service sponsored by the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He co-hosts Citations Needed, the popular media criticism podcast, and a 2020 Webby Awards Honoree in podcasts: news & politics."
"The Gulf/2000 Project web site "was developed by the Gulf/2000 Project at the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University in New York City. It is designed to make available in a single location a wealth of information on the eight countries of the Persian Gulf region--Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates."
"The Gulf/2000 Project is sponsored by the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York City. Major funding for the project has been provided by the W. Alton Jones Foundation and the Ford Foundation, with additional support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and The Open Society Institute. The project is not associated with any government. "
"Clients for the firm include numerous left-leaning nonprofits. Among these are: the 11th Hour Project, Advance Family Planning, Advancement Project, Alliance for Justice, Amnesty International, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Aspen Institute, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Brookings Institution, Change Center for Health and Gender Equality, Color of Change, Conservation International, the Constitution Project, the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, Environmental Defense Fund, Greenpeace, Human Rights Campaign, Humane Society International, Media Democracy Fund, the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Open Society Foundations, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, Progressive States Network, Sierra Club, the Tides Foundation, United Nations Foundation, and the World Wildlife Fund. [5]"
There goes the goal posts. From "Robert Evans is 100% a spook" to "He might not even be a spook but he might as well be." Also being VP of a PR firm (PR being an industry of propaganda invented by capitalists) and working with fronts of the deep state is not doing service to empire? C'mon jack.
The Bill Gates Foundation does imperialism. Do you know what they've done in India? How do you compartmentalize what these people do from what Bellingcat does? I seriously don't get it. It's like you're using a special definition of helping imperial capitalism and propaganda and useful idiot that arbitrarily excludes the CN guy.
So being #2 at a PR company that does PR work (propangada) for the philanthropic and activist front groups of capital imperialism is better than being one of dozens of journalists who work for a company that gives handies to the state department despite the journalist not directly creating propaganda through said company and instead is saying lib things on twitter?
Again, mental gymnastics. For the last time, by the standards you are using to claim Evans is CIA, pretty much every popular leftist podcast is a psyop. And once again, I don't even care. Because politics don't happen in podcasts. If they all came out tomorrow with a group photo and Langley it wouldn't matter. Being a CIA podcaster doesn't do anything to the left. The content of BTB, even if you were to listen uncharitably, is fine 99.999999% of the time. Same with Chapo and TrueAnon and probably CN. The things they have said that are true don't stop being true because they're all CIA.
If the CIA wants to stop the left they're not going to make podcasts. They're going to fucking kill us. Because that's what they did in the past. They would hand us motolovs and tell us to join militias and show us how to make bombs. They would arm right wingers and point them at us. Podcasts do not matter. But if you're going to disparage someone, then be consistent.
Honestly I don't have anything against CN. I never listened to it. But I've had people on here criticize other podcasts for ties with the deepstate then say CN is good. It took two minutes of googling to find this. Either everyone is a spook or nobody is. I'm not putting up with this "my fav podcast is legit but everyone else is an op" shit. Personally I don't care. Nobody I've listened to has steered me away from the left, or steered me into passivity, or did anything particularly spooky. Other than make money doing their job. If a group of podcasts brings down the leftist project then we deserve it.
It doesn't matter. Will, Brace, or Robert being CIA does not chang anything. People are trying to shame others over listening to a podcast because the host has bad opinions. But bad opinions isn't enough to actually change anyone's mind. So then we have to do this thing where it's "well you're enjoying imperialism and endangering the left if you listen to them." Just like the libs roll out idpol on a dime when someone does a wrongthink. And because some people's entire interaction with politics is twitter screenshots on chapo.chat, they think that matters. They think saying dumb things on twitter is carrying out imperialism. There's a screenshot on the front page laughing at a lib for saying tweeting is violence, but then we have people who think tweeting is carrying out the mission of imperialism. It's the same shit. Worse than that, they don't even know what was actually tweeted, but they heard it from reading comments on chapo.chat or r/cth. So now we're full simulacrum and it gets blown up. All it really boils down to is petty infighting between tendencies.
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Nima. He's VP of Spitfire Strategies, which is a PR/media company.
" Nima is also editor-at-large for Muftah, the digital foreign affairs magazine and a member of the Gulf/2000 Project, an academic forum and online resource service sponsored by the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He co-hosts Citations Needed, the popular media criticism podcast, and a 2020 Webby Awards Honoree in podcasts: news & politics."
https://www.spitfirestrategies.com/team/nima-shirazi
"The Gulf/2000 Project web site "was developed by the Gulf/2000 Project at the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University in New York City. It is designed to make available in a single location a wealth of information on the eight countries of the Persian Gulf region--Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates."
"The Gulf/2000 Project is sponsored by the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York City. Major funding for the project has been provided by the W. Alton Jones Foundation and the Ford Foundation, with additional support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and The Open Society Institute. The project is not associated with any government. "
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Gulf/2000_Project
"Clients for the firm include numerous left-leaning nonprofits. Among these are: the 11th Hour Project, Advance Family Planning, Advancement Project, Alliance for Justice, Amnesty International, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Aspen Institute, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Brookings Institution, Change Center for Health and Gender Equality, Color of Change, Conservation International, the Constitution Project, the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, Environmental Defense Fund, Greenpeace, Human Rights Campaign, Humane Society International, Media Democracy Fund, the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Open Society Foundations, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, Progressive States Network, Sierra Club, the Tides Foundation, United Nations Foundation, and the World Wildlife Fund. [5]"
https://www.influencewatch.org/for-profit/spitfire-strategies/
https://www.spitfirestrategies.com/about
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It's as compelling as any evidence other podcasters are CIA agents.
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There goes the goal posts. From "Robert Evans is 100% a spook" to "He might not even be a spook but he might as well be." Also being VP of a PR firm (PR being an industry of propaganda invented by capitalists) and working with fronts of the deep state is not doing service to empire? C'mon jack.
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The Bill Gates Foundation does imperialism. Do you know what they've done in India? How do you compartmentalize what these people do from what Bellingcat does? I seriously don't get it. It's like you're using a special definition of helping imperial capitalism and propaganda and useful idiot that arbitrarily excludes the CN guy.
So being #2 at a PR company that does PR work (propangada) for the philanthropic and activist front groups of capital imperialism is better than being one of dozens of journalists who work for a company that gives handies to the state department despite the journalist not directly creating propaganda through said company and instead is saying lib things on twitter?
Again, mental gymnastics. For the last time, by the standards you are using to claim Evans is CIA, pretty much every popular leftist podcast is a psyop. And once again, I don't even care. Because politics don't happen in podcasts. If they all came out tomorrow with a group photo and Langley it wouldn't matter. Being a CIA podcaster doesn't do anything to the left. The content of BTB, even if you were to listen uncharitably, is fine 99.999999% of the time. Same with Chapo and TrueAnon and probably CN. The things they have said that are true don't stop being true because they're all CIA.
If the CIA wants to stop the left they're not going to make podcasts. They're going to fucking kill us. Because that's what they did in the past. They would hand us motolovs and tell us to join militias and show us how to make bombs. They would arm right wingers and point them at us. Podcasts do not matter. But if you're going to disparage someone, then be consistent.
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What a shock, another "woke" figure ends up just being another spook/non-profit ghoul!
This is why we relentlessly bully and exclude PMCs, folks. No exceptions!
Honestly I don't have anything against CN. I never listened to it. But I've had people on here criticize other podcasts for ties with the deepstate then say CN is good. It took two minutes of googling to find this. Either everyone is a spook or nobody is. I'm not putting up with this "my fav podcast is legit but everyone else is an op" shit. Personally I don't care. Nobody I've listened to has steered me away from the left, or steered me into passivity, or did anything particularly spooky. Other than make money doing their job. If a group of podcasts brings down the leftist project then we deserve it.
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It doesn't matter. Will, Brace, or Robert being CIA does not chang anything. People are trying to shame others over listening to a podcast because the host has bad opinions. But bad opinions isn't enough to actually change anyone's mind. So then we have to do this thing where it's "well you're enjoying imperialism and endangering the left if you listen to them." Just like the libs roll out idpol on a dime when someone does a wrongthink. And because some people's entire interaction with politics is twitter screenshots on chapo.chat, they think that matters. They think saying dumb things on twitter is carrying out imperialism. There's a screenshot on the front page laughing at a lib for saying tweeting is violence, but then we have people who think tweeting is carrying out the mission of imperialism. It's the same shit. Worse than that, they don't even know what was actually tweeted, but they heard it from reading comments on chapo.chat or r/cth. So now we're full simulacrum and it gets blown up. All it really boils down to is petty infighting between tendencies.
I enjoy all of the podcasts I've mentioned and listen to them regularly. They're still spooks.