
It Could Happen Here Weekly 194
It Could Happen Here
Exploring the Impact of Border Policies
This chapter explores the tragic consequences of border policies on individuals and stresses the need for transparency and accountability. It emphasizes the urgency for collective action involving researchers and activists to address these critical issues.
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- Anti-War Movements feat. Andrew
- Aid as a Tool of War in Gaza feat. Dana El Kurd
- Mapping Border Deaths
- Dogwhistle Politics and Nazi Code Hunting
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #28
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Sources/Links:
Anti-War Movements feat. Andrew
Anarchist Encyclopedia by Sebastien Faure et al
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/james-herod-the-weakness-of-a-politics-of-protest
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jeff-shantz-p-j-lilley-striking-against-the-work-war-machine
Aid as a Tool of War in Gaza feat. Dana El Kurd
Oxfam statement about Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - https://www.oxfamamerica.org/press/more-than-100-organizations-are-sounding-the-alarm-to-allow-lifesaving-aid-into-gaza/
Fogbow in Uganda and Sudan - https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigations/2025/06/16/fogbow-operations-south-sudan-raise-red-flags-aid-private-sector
Bezalel Smotrich’s “Decisive Plan” - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/09/israel-leaders-palestinian-territories-bezalel-smotrich-gaza-7-october
Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini on dismantling UNRWA - https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/notes/unrwa-may-be-forced-stop-saving-lives-gaza-will-world-let-happen
NPR report on famine in Gaza - https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/07/25/g-s1-78968/what-does-it-take-for-a-famine-to-be-declared-in-gaza
US Green Beret on what he saw at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites - https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-07-26/ty-article/i-witnessed-war-crimes-in-gaza-u-s-veteran-and-former-ghf-worker-tells-bbc/00000198-47e0-d6be-a1bd-4ffd67f90000
Aljazeera op-ed by former UN official - https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/7/21/why-is-the-un-not-declaring-famine-in-gaza
UN reporting on deaths at aid sites - https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1165396
Suppressing Dissent edited volume - https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Suppressing-Dissent/Zaha-Hassan/9781836430971
Mapping Border Deaths
https://nomoredeaths.org/migrant-death-mapping/
Dogwhistle Politics and Nazi Code Hunting
https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20p36e62gyo
https://bsky.app/profile/bishonentype.bsky.social/post/3luq3qktltc2n
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #28
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