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Margaret reports from her time at the trial of 12 environmentalists in Virginia who fought against a fracked gas pipeline through Appalachia.
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James talks to Kevin McDonald about the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the history and future of peacekeeping there.
Buy Kevin's book: https://www.mayobooks.ie/A-Life-Less-Ordinary-Kevin-McDonald
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Margaret from the future reports on the dinosaur creche in Finland.
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
The President of Argentina's Meme Coin Scandal
How Trump is Changing Trans Healthcare
Textbooks and Holy Books feat. Steven Moncelli & Dr. Michael Phillips
Democratic Insiders Are Sharing A Warning About Curtis Yarvin, Elon Musk & NeoreactionariesExecutive Disorder: White House Weekly #5
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Sources/Links:
The President of Argentina's Meme Coin Scandal
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-77/
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-main-stock-index-falls-after-milei-crypto-scandal-2025-02-17/
https://crimethinc.com/2024/06/17/six-months-in-a-neoliberal-dystopia-social-cannibalism-versus-mutual-aid-and-resistance-in-argentina
Textbooks and Holy Books feat. Steven Moncelli & Dr. Michael Phillips
Dana Goldstein, “Two States. Eight Textbooks. Two American Stories,” New York Times, January 12, 2020.
Kevin M. Kruse, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America (New York: Basic Books, 2015.)
James W. Loewen, Lies My History Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.)
Alan Nadel, Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995.)
Michael Phillips, White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2011 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.)
Democratic Insiders Are Sharing A Warning About Curtis Yarvin, Elon Musk & Neoreactionaries
https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/democratic-insiders-are-sharing-a
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #5
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-reins-in-independent-agencies-to-restore-a-government-that-answers-to-the-american-people/
https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/trump-signs-order-declaring-only-president-and-ag-can-interpret-us-law-for-executive-branch/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/reevaluating-and-realigning-united-states-foreign-aid/
https://pages.devex.com/rs/685-KBL-765/images/109160-memo.pdf?version=0
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277336/gov.uscourts.dcd.277336.21.0_7.pdf
https://www.one.org/us/what-we-do/the-issues/foreign-assistance-pause-faq/
https://mutualaidsudan.org/
https://www.state.gov/emergency-humanitarian-waiver-to-foreign-assistance-pause/
https://oig.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/USAID%20OIG%20-%20Oversight%20of%20USAID-Funded%20Humanitarian%20Assistance%20Programming%20021025.pdf
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7x87ev5jyo
https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent-workers/employment-based-immigration-fifth-preference-eb-5/about-the-eb-5-visa-classification
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5306990/dan-bongino-fbi-deputy-director
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/new-fbi-director-kash-patel-plans-relocate-1500-119064886
https://www.dailyuw.com/news/washington-state-congressional-candidate-set-to-lead-counterterrorism-center/article_251db152-f32f-11ef-b56b-d7ae1ea3885f.html
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/fbi-kash-patel-antifa-blm-terror-groups
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/24/neo-nazi-trump-fbi-chief
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The gang talks about Germany's election, USAID, the new podcast driven FBI, and how gay the Navy may or may not be.
Sources:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-reins-in-independent-agencies-to-restore-a-government-that-answers-to-the-american-people/
https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/trump-signs-order-declaring-only-president-and-ag-can-interpret-us-law-for-executive-branch/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/reevaluating-and-realigning-united-states-foreign-aid/
https://pages.devex.com/rs/685-KBL-765/images/109160-memo.pdf?version=0
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277336/gov.uscourts.dcd.277336.21.0_7.pdf
https://www.one.org/us/what-we-do/the-issues/foreign-assistance-pause-faq/
https://mutualaidsudan.org/
https://www.state.gov/emergency-humanitarian-waiver-to-foreign-assistance-pause/
https://oig.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/USAID%20OIG%20-%20Oversight%20of%20USAID-Funded%20Humanitarian%20Assistance%20Programming%20021025.pdf
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7x87ev5jyo
https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent-workers/employment-based-immigration-fifth-preference-eb-5/about-the-eb-5-visa-classification
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5306990/dan-bongino-fbi-deputy-director
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/new-fbi-director-kash-patel-plans-relocate-1500-119064886
https://www.dailyuw.com/news/washington-state-congressional-candidate-set-to-lead-counterterrorism-center/article_251db152-f32f-11ef-b56b-d7ae1ea3885f.html
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/fbi-kash-patel-antifa-blm-terror-groups
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/24/neo-nazi-trump-fbi-chief
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Robert walks the audience through a document being shared by DNC employees and think tank workers about the threat Curtis Yarvin and Elon Musk pose to democracy.
Read Robert's full piece on Substack: https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/democratic-insiders-are-sharing-a
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American school children receive two distinct versions of United States history depending on what state they live in: one version of the American past aimed to meet the curricular demands of the largest market, California, and an often strikingly different version to meet the increasingly rightwing expectations of the Texas legislature. Most of the other states in the union pick between the two. This episode will examine how this situation developed, the increasing national influence of one Texas evangelical author David Barton, how Americans perceive the relationship of church and state, the continuing war on the theory of evolution, and the strange story of how efforts to post the Ten Commandments in American classrooms can be traced to Hollywood marketing of the 1950s Cecile B. D. Mille epic, The Ten Commandments.
Sources:
Dana Goldstein, “Two States. Eight Textbooks. Two American Stories,” New York Times, January 12, 2020.
Kevin M. Kruse, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America (New York: Basic Books, 2015.)
James W. Loewen, Lies My History Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.)
Alan Nadel, Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995.)
Michael Phillips, White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2011 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.)
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Two healthcare providers at federally qualified healthcare centers join James and Gare to discuss how providers can organize to take care of their trans patients under the Trump administration.
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Mia and crypto journalist Molly White take a vacation from the horror of American politics to discuss Argentina's president Javier Milei promoting a pump and dump meme coin as Mia attempts to explain Peronism.
https://bsky.app/profile/molly.wiki
Sources:
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-77/
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-main-stock-index-falls-after-milei-crypto-scandal-2025-02-17/
https://crimethinc.com/2024/06/17/six-months-in-a-neoliberal-dystopia-social-cannibalism-versus-mutual-aid-and-resistance-in-argentina
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Margaret from the future relays the last message from Mx. Bunny Face Murder.
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
Coffee Unions Spread to Peet's
Defining Anarchism feat. Andrew
Mutuality feat. Andrew
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #4
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Sources/Links:
Coffee Unions Spread to Peet's
https://linktr.ee/peetslaborunion
https://peetslaborunion.org
@peetslaborunion
https://checkout.square.site/merchant/MLR6ZV4VZRBPT/checkout/2KLSQDHYHY7D3GNP7YUX62CD
Defining Anarchism feat. Andrew
https://davidgraeber.org/interviews/david-graeber-on-acting-like-an-anarchist/
https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/glossary/a-new-glossary/Mutuality feat. Andrew
Debt by David Graeber: https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/glossary/a-new-glossary/
Antinomies of Democracy by Shawn Wilbur: https://humaniterations.net/2016/12/28/the-distinct-radicalism-of-anarchism/
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #4
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/world/americas/trump-migrant-deportation-panama.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/establishing-the-presidents-make-america-healthy-again-commission/
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/kennedy-lays-out-hhs-plan-00204675
https://newrepublic.com/post/191630/donald-trump-tom-homan-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-immigration
https://popular.info/p/in-botched-dei-purge-osha-trashes?r=4v4dm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
https://www.businessinsider.com/doge-list-officials-resigned-fired-musk-trump-federal-government-2025-2
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/17/doge-social-security-musk/
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/usda-accidentally-fired-officials-bird-flu-rehire-rcna192716
https://www.theverge.com/news/614078/faa-air-traffic-control-spacex-elon-musk-layoff-staff-shortage
https://apnews.com/article/rubio-plane-mechanical-issue-munich-conference-031928b920ff8e8d495d1590d508e1e5
https://x.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/1892086856990237059
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/trump-auto-tariff-rate-will-be-around-25-2025-02-18/
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/trump-order-power-independent-agencies-00204798
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/19/nx-s1-5302481/trump-independent-agencies
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The gang get together to discuss White House plans to make Donald Trump king, house migrants in a prison James visited in Panama, and Make America Healthy Again by making it harder to access medicine. We also catch up with Elon Musk, as apartheid's favorite son continues his rampage through the federal government.
Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/world/americas/trump-migrant-deportation-panama.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/establishing-the-presidents-make-america-healthy-again-commission/
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/kennedy-lays-out-hhs-plan-00204675
https://newrepublic.com/post/191630/donald-trump-tom-homan-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-immigration
https://popular.info/p/in-botched-dei-purge-osha-trashes?r=4v4dm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
https://www.businessinsider.com/doge-list-officials-resigned-fired-musk-trump-federal-government-2025-2
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/17/doge-social-security-musk/
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/usda-accidentally-fired-officials-bird-flu-rehire-rcna192716
https://www.theverge.com/news/614078/faa-air-traffic-control-spacex-elon-musk-layoff-staff-shortage
https://apnews.com/article/rubio-plane-mechanical-issue-munich-conference-031928b920ff8e8d495d1590d508e1e5
https://x.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/1892086856990237059
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/trump-auto-tariff-rate-will-be-around-25-2025-02-18/
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/trump-order-power-independent-agencies-00204798
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/19/nx-s1-5302481/trump-independent-agencies
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Andrew and Mia discuss how an anarchist society functions, how people can relate to each other, and how our current society conspires to keep us from being free.
Links:
Debt by David Graeber: https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/glossary/a-new-glossary/
Antinomies of Democracy by Shawn Wilbur: https://humaniterations.net/2016/12/28/the-distinct-radicalism-of-anarchism/
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Andrew and Mia discuss what anarchism actually is as an ethic and a practice.
Links:
https://davidgraeber.org/interviews/david-graeber-on-acting-like-an-anarchist/
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Mia talks with Dino and Cole, two organizers with the Peet's Labor Union, about their ongoing campaign and how the rise of delivery services has increased their exploitation.
https://linktr.ee/peetslaborunion
https://peetslaborunion.org
@peetslaborunion
https://checkout.square.site/merchant/MLR6ZV4VZRBPT/checkout/2KLSQDHYHY7D3GNP7YUX62CD
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A chance to listen to the first scripted series on Myanmar again and hear the stories of how people there stayed in the streets and refused to accept dictatorship.
For new listeners, the second series on Myanmar begins here: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/how-to-build-a-revolution-myanmar-104249884/
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Margaret from the future tells you about Mx. Bunny Face Murder's childhood.
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
Why Trump Wants to Conquer Canada
How the Federal Government Fell
Constitutional Law Professor Reacts
What's Happening To Gaza Under Trump: An Update with Dana El-Kurd
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #3
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Sources/Links:
Why Trump Wants to Conquer Canada
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0sg0782h
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-direct-action
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/07/politics/trump-expansion-ideas-what-matters/index.html
https://www.businesstoday.in/world/canada/story/make-them-pay-canada-puts-trumps-first-friend-elon-musks-tesla-in-the-crosshairs-of-tariff-war-463097-2025-02-01
https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.9669319
https://www.economia.gob.mx/datamexico/en/profile/product/motor-cars-and-other-vehicles-principally-designed-cars-for-transport-of-persons?redirect=true
https://www.economia.gob.mx/datamexico/en/profile/product/oils-of-petroleum-or-bituminous-minerals?redirect=true
https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-country/mex/partner/usa
https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/01/michigan-poised-to-take-a-big-hit-under-trump-tariffs/78099053007/
https://www.ilscompany.com/products-imported-from-mexico/
https://www.trade.gov/country-commercial-guides/mexico-automotive-industry
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/31/trumps-25percent-tariffs-this-is-whats-at-stake-for-us-auto-industry.html
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports/mexico
https://www.businesstoday.in/world/canada/story/make-them-pay-canada-puts-trumps-first-friend-elon-musks-tesla-in-the-crosshairs-of-tariff-war-463097-2025-02-01
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/why-buy-greenland-trump-annex-ronald-lauder-manifest-destiny/
How the Federal Government Fell
https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/how-the-federal-government-fell
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #3
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/imposing-sanctions-on-the-international-criminal-court/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/israeli-spy-chief-icc-prosecutor-war-crimes-inquiry
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2p19l24g2o
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-02-11-vought-restores-cfpb-procedure-that-sustains-mortgage-markets/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/10/politics/tariffs-steel-aluminum-trump
https://www.reuters.com/markets/rates-bonds/bond-traders-waver-trump-questions-us-government-debt-figures-2025-02-10/
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/trump-says-us-might-have-less-debt-than-thought-2025-02-09/
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The gang discuss Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine, sanctions on the ICC, U.S. Treasury bonds and the ongoing war on wokeness.
Sources:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/imposing-sanctions-on-the-international-criminal-court/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/israeli-spy-chief-icc-prosecutor-war-crimes-inquiry
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2p19l24g2ohttps://prospect.org/economy/2025-02-11-vought-restores-cfpb-procedure-that-sustains-mortgage-markets/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/10/politics/tariffs-steel-aluminum-trump
https://www.reuters.com/markets/rates-bonds/bond-traders-waver-trump-questions-us-government-debt-figures-2025-02-10/
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/trump-says-us-might-have-less-debt-than-thought-2025-02-09/
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Robert sits down with Dana El-Kurd to discuss President Trump's surprise announcement that the U.S. plans to annex Gaza and force all Palestinians out of the area.
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