It Could Happen Here Weekly 194
It Could Happen Here
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.0 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2025
⏱️ 210 minutes
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Summary
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/
https://files.libcom.org/files/[Mark_Fisher]_Capitalist_Realism_Is_There_no_Alte(BookZZ.org).pdf
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20p36e62gyo
https://bsky.app/profile/bishonentype.bsky.social/post/3luq3qktltc2n
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #28
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/economy/tariff-more-expensive
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25#cme17o5l400003b6ns7mwdwnv
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/tech/apple-investment-us-trump
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/tech/apple-investment-us-trump
https://bsky.app/profile/yougov.co.uk/post/3lvnr5fixc22l
https://www.facebook.com/EpiscopalNY/
https://apnews.com/article/florida-immigration-alligator-alcatraz-27fbae217427be730f589323df7cf656
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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/04/nasa-china-space-station-duffy-directives-00492172
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. |
| 0:08.0 | What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? |
| 0:12.2 | Answer, a new podcast called Wisecrack, where a comedian finds himself at the center of a chilling true crime story. |
| 0:18.8 | Does anyone know what show they've come to see? It's a story. |
| 0:23.3 | It's about the scariest night of my life. This is Wisecrack, available now. Listen to Wisecrack on |
| 0:30.3 | the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:36.3 | CallZone Media. Hey everybody. Robert Evans here, and I wanted to let you know this is a compilation episode. |
| 0:42.8 | So every episode of the week that just happened is here in one convenient and with somewhat |
| 0:48.9 | less ads package for you to listen to in a long stretch if you want. If you've been listening to the |
| 0:54.4 | episodes every day this week, there's going to be nothing new here for you, but you can |
| 0:58.0 | make your own decisions. |
| 1:01.7 | Hello and welcome to It Could Happen here. I'm Andrew Siege, also known as Andrewism on |
| 1:07.4 | YouTube, and I'm here with... See, it's James. James and honestly I shouldn't say welcome to it could |
| 1:13.5 | happen here I should really see welcome to it is happening here because I mean just just a second |
| 1:19.1 | with you James how are you doing you safe I'm okay I'm yeah I'm safe right now we we are living |
| 1:25.4 | through wild times in the United States. Every day is a new hell. |
| 1:32.1 | Indeed, indeed. And although I'm not in the US, the flames of that hell definitely lick the rest of the |
| 1:37.7 | world in ways big and small. Yeah, they definitely do. I was just talking to people in Syria yesterday |
| 1:43.4 | and like the Alavis, al-Aweid, whatever you want to call Alevis, whatever you want to say it, are facing quite substantial persecution currently. And like one of the larger refugee accepting countries in the world just isn't doing that anymore unless you're a white South African, of course. And like that has these massive trickle-down effects for everywhere. |
| 2:04.0 | It's just one example of how America, so goes the US, so goes the world, you know? |
| 2:09.1 | Indeed, indeed. |
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