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  • It Could Happen Here Weekly 192

    It Could Happen Here Weekly 192
    Jul 26 2025
    All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. - How We Saved Trans Medicaid Healthcare Coverage - Tracking ICE Removal Flights - How LA Resisted ICE - Why Is Trump So Afraid of Epstein? - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #26 You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today! http://apple.co/coolerzone Sources/Links: How We Saved Trans Medicaid Healthcare Coverage https://transnewsnetwork.networkforgood.com/ https://thefreeradical.org/dont-panic-the-battle-over-the-trans-medicaid-ban-is-far-from-over-heres-how-to-fight-back/ https://ashevilleblade.com‪‪ Social Media: @thefreeradical.org‬, @davidforbes.bsky.social‬, @madycast.com Tracking ICE Removal Flights https://hardghistory.ghost.io/exclusive-ice-may-have-secretly-done-more-third-country-removals-than-previously-known/https://hardghistory.ghost.io/new-ices-eswatini-flight-went-through-us-base-in-djibouti-americans-stationed-there-are-angry/https://hardghistory.ghost.io/a-call-to-action-for-airline-workers-to-stop-ices-deportation-machine/ https://thedawn.com.ss/2025/07/10/govt-places-8-u-s-deportees-behind-bars-in-juba/ witnessattheborder.orghttps://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ice-air-deportation-flightshttps://www.pogo.org/investigations/meet-the-ice-contractor-running-deportation-flightshttps://capitalandmain.com/a-drunk-mechanic-shackled-immigrants-a-crash-landing-the-dangers-of-ice-flightshttps://alexplank.substack.com/p/photos-shackled-migrant-escortedhttps://globe.adsbexchange.com/ How LA Resisted ICE https://linktr.ee/mel_buer‪ @acatwithnews.bsky.social‬ @melbuer.bsky.social‬ Why Is Trump So Afraid of Epstein? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/23/donald-trump-accuser-stacey-williams-jeffrey-epstein https://apnews.com/article/trump-rape-carroll-trial-fe68259a4b98bb3947d42af9ec83d7db https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/17/donald-trump-accused-of-sexual-assault-by-former-model-amy-dorris https://archive.fo/J6z9J https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna218693 https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/21/18701098/trump-accusers-sexual-assault-rape-e-jean-carroll https://archive.fo/aeLYy https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70843413/trump-v-murdoch/ Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #26 Fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/immigration-lawyer-for-primrose https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter-we-have-certain-things-in-common-f918d796?st=dg3j4m&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink https://apnews.com/article/trump-jeffrey-epstein-grand-jury-justice-department-4634e5afceb8b1bb43f23558dfbb1d6c https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/14/teen-models-powerful-men-when-donald-trump-hosted-look-of-the-year https://www.wsj.com/politics/justice-department-told-trump-name-in-epstein-files-727a8038 https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-immigration-deport-chilean-man-living-pennsylvania-refuting-123944071 https://www.fastcheck.cl/2025/07/22/foto-atribuida-a-luis-leon-supuesto-migrante-chileno-deportado-a-guatemala-es-falsa/ https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1165454 https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-07-22/fort-bliss-detention-center-migrants-18520342.html https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/4250988/ https://www.oversight.gov/sites/default/files/documents/reports/2022-02/DODIG-2022-064.pdf https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/fy2024/budget_justification/pdfs/01_Operation_and_Maintenance/O_M_VOL_1_PART_2/OHDACA_OP-5.pdf https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-22/trump-awards-immigration-detention-center-contract-for-fort-bliss-in-texas?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=copy https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/07/21/you-feel-like-your-life-is-over/abusive-practices-at-three-florida-immigration https://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/232598p.pdf https://www.thenation.com/article/world/afghan-refugee-fort-bliss/ https://ecf.cacd.uscourts.gov/doc1/031145354889 https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/ending-taxpayer-subsidization-of-biased-media/ https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/23/trump-announces-massive-trade-deal-with-japan-with-15percent-tariffs.html https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/23/eu-100bn-no-deal-plan-trump-tariffs-threat-us-imports https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-trade-deals-are-arriving-how-they-might-affect-us-economy-rcna220465 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/puerto-rico-law-ban-hormone-therapy-gender-affirming-surgery-transgender-youth/ https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5407157-puerto-rico-gender-affirming-care-ban-transgender-americans/ https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-congress-epstein-mike-johnson-b2793874.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/...
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    3 hrs and 18 mins
  • Part Two: Laetrile: The Fake Cancer Cure That Birthed The Right-Wing Medical Grifting Industry

    Part Two: Laetrile: The Fake Cancer Cure That Birthed The Right-Wing Medical Grifting Industry
    Jul 24 2025

    Robert and Miles discuss the second phase of Laetrile's history, where it becomes a culture war issue for the right wing John Birch Society.

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    59 mins
  • Part One: Laetrile: The Fake Cancer Cure That Birthed The Right-Wing Medical Grifting Industry

    Part One: Laetrile: The Fake Cancer Cure That Birthed The Right-Wing Medical Grifting Industry
    Jul 22 2025

    Robert sits down with Miles Gray to talk about Laetrile, a fraudulent cancer "cure" embraced by the John Birch society as a way to tie right wing politics to alternative medicine.

    (2 Part Series)

    Sources:

    Sci-Hub | Laetrile: A Lesson in Cancer Quackery. CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 31(2), 91–95 | 10.3322/canjclin.31.2.91

    The Controversy Surrounding Chad Green

    Nation: A Battle over Cancer Care - TIME

    Dr. Ernesto Contreras, Sr. / Oasis of Hope Hospital | Big Statues

    first-page-pdf

    Natural Cancer Cures Pioneer Dr. Ernesto Contreras, Founder of Oasis of Hope Cancer Hospital

    Medicine: Debate over Laetrile | TIME

    Ernesto Contreras' TJ laetrile clinic | San Diego Reader

    Laetrile in Historical Perspective | Quackwatch

    Dr Ernst T. Krebs - ENCOGNITIVE.COM.pdf

    OBITUARY -- Ernst T. Krebs Jr.

    The Story of Ernest Krebs, Jr., and Bunk Cancer Cure “Vitamin B17” – Patient Worthy

    Ernst T. Krebs, Jr. (1912-1996)

    The Rise and Fall of Laetrile | Quackwatch

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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • It Could Happen Here Weekly 191

    It Could Happen Here Weekly 191
    Jul 19 2025
    All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. - Humanity, the Good feat. Andrew - Humanity, the Bad feat. Andrew - What Bombing Means for Freedom In Iran - What Does the PKK's Disarmament Mean - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #25 You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today! http://apple.co/coolerzone Sources/Links: Humanity, the Good & the Bad, feat. Andrew Humankind by Rutger Bregman A Paradise Built In Hell by Rebecca Solnit What Bombing Means for Freedom In Iran https://hengaw.net/en https://www.iranhr.net/en/ https://www.instagram.com/kurdistanipeopleii Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #25 https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-help-for-bukets-asylum-case https://www.the-independent.com/bulletin/news/trump-uncle-unabomber-pennsylvania-speech-b2789762.html https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-im-done-talking-about-epstein-time-being-im-gonna-trust-my-friends https://x.com/WIRED/status/1945207066634657854 https://cw39.com/crime/former-us-marine-corps-reservist-charged-in-texas-immigration-detention-center-shooting/ https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/federal-court-blocks-trump-birthright-citizenship-order-certifies-nationwide-class-protecting-all-impacted-babies https://x.com/jeremyphoward/status/1943444549696917714 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c628d9mre3go https://strangematters.coop/supply-chain-theory-of-inflation/ https://x.com/TriciaOhio/status/1945274627976200206 https://www.facebook.com/TimesofEswatini/ https://thedawn.com.ss/2025/07/10/govt-places-8-u-s-deportees-behind-bars-in-juba/ https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/11/homan-says-white-house-hopes-to-forge-more-third-country-deals-in-wake-of-south-sudan-deportations-00448137 https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/legislators-immigration-reform-reintroduced-dignidad-act/ https://archive.ph/DdUIR https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/15/politics/department-of-education-trump-dismantle-explainer https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/14/politics/supreme-court-firings-education https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/16/trump-tariffs-small-countries-00456401 https://www.ft.com/content/65b1fb44-6391-4f74-82db-2d7eb6aaafa9 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/16/trump-brazil-tariffs-ultimatum-backfires-bolsonaro-lula https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/15/economy/trump-says-trade-deal-with-indonesia https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/jul/15/spokane-ice-protesters-including-stuckart-arrested/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    3 hrs and 14 mins
  • Part Two: Antonio Salazar: The Smartest Fascist Dictator

    Part Two: Antonio Salazar: The Smartest Fascist Dictator
    Jul 17 2025
    Antonio Salazar spends his post-war years helping the CIA learn how to torture people and starting a disastrous war with a large portion of Africa. Then he dies! Hooray! Sources:Antonio Salazar de Oliveira of Portugal and his Estado Novo Antonio Salazar: A Quiet Autocrat Who Held Power in Portugal for 40 Years - The New York Times Did Salazar have a love life? Part 2 – Portugal Resident https://www.lemonde.fr/en/history/article/2024/04/25/50-years-ago-the-carnation-revolution-ended-portugal-s-dictatorship-in-one-night_6669464_157.html 50 years ago, the Carnation Revolution ended Portugal's dictatorship in one night Portugal: End of the Salazar Era | TIME Portugal’s secret police – Portugal Resident The PIDE and Portuguese Society under the Salazar Dictatorship 1945-1974: Fear, SelfPolicing, Accommodation. | ICS Portugal’s Dictatorship: Salazar’s Estado Novo - Portugal.com Sci-Hub | Framing Sexual Violence in Portuguese Colonialism: On Some Practices of Contemporary Cultural Representation and Remembrance. Violence Against Women, 25(13), 1558–1577 | 10.1177/1077801219869547 The war that tears Estado Novo down | NewsMuseum friedheim_pub - salazar - leaders of europe 1995.ashx Sci-Hub | | 10.2307/180995 Colonialism and Genocide in Portuguese Africa Three graphics that explain Portuguese colonialism · Global Voices 118979704.pdf Portugal, declassified – POLITICO Acousmatic and Acoustic Violence and Torture in the Estado Novo: The Notorious Revelations of the PIDE/DGS Trial in 1957 SalazarandBritish.pdf Acousmatic and Acoustic Violence and Torture in the Estado Novo: The Notorious Revelations of the PIDE/DGS Trial in 1957 Sci-Hub | Framing Sexual Violence in Portuguese Colonialism: On Some Practices of Contemporary Cultural Representation and Remembrance. Violence Against Women, 25(13), 1558–1577 | 10.1177/1077801219869547 Sci-Hub | | 10.2307/180995 Françafrique: A brief history of a scandalous word Sci-Hub | | 10.2307/180995See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Part One: Antonio Salazar: The Smartest Fascist Dictator

    Part One: Antonio Salazar: The Smartest Fascist Dictator
    Jul 15 2025

    Robert sits down with with Jeff May to talk about Antonio Salazar, the economics professor who became a brutal fascist dictator and was, sadly, really damn good at it.

    (2 Part Series)

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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • It Could Happen Here Weekly 190

    It Could Happen Here Weekly 190
    Jul 12 2025
    All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. - Palestine’s Stolen Future - The Genocide Budget (And How to Stop It) - Protest, Immigration Enforcement, and the Unhoused Community - The Minnesota Assassination & Evangelical Terrorism - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #24 You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today! http://apple.co/coolerzone Sources/Links: Palestine's Stolen Future Raz Segal on genocide - https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide Omer Bartov on genocide – https://www.democracynow.org/2024/12/30/omer_bartov_israel_gaza_genocide Amos Goldberg on genocide - https://thefirethesetimes.com/2025/05/25/intent-holocaust-studies-and-the-gaza-genocide-w-amos-goldberg/ Khaled Elgindy on Biden’s “bear hug” - https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/10/10/biden-israel-hamas-war-gaza-us-policy/ Bezalel Smotrich on population transfer - https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-says-gaza-to-be-totally-destroyed-population-concentrated-in-small-area/ Nissim Vaturi on population transfer - https://www.timesofisrael.com/occupy-expel-settle-minister-mks-at-far-right-rally-call-to-empty-gaza-of-gazans/ Arab Peace Initiative - https://www.kas.de/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=a5dab26d-a2fe-dc66-8910-a13730828279&groupId=268421 Arab Center Washington – “The Biden Administration and the Middle East in 2023” - https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/the-biden-administration-and-the-middle-east-in-2023/ Mike Huckabee on Palestinians - https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/12/politics/mike-huckabee-palestinian-comments-trump-israel-ambassador Steve Witkoff making deals with Hamas - https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-says-witkoffs-gaza-ceasefire-proposal-must-lead-end-war-2025-05-31/ Adam Boehler “we are not an agent of Israel” - https://www.axios.com/2025/03/09/adam-boehler-hamas-israel-talks Philippe Lazzarini on Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/unrwa-commissioner-general-gaza-aid-distribution-has-become-death-trap Doctors without Borders on Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/siege-gaza-msf-denounces-new-aid-mechanism-proposed-us-and-israel Jake Woods, Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, resigns - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/26/gaza-humanitarian-foundation-aid-group-jake-wood-resigns Saudi Minister on Two-State Solution - https://www.mofa.gov.sa/en/ministry/news/Pages/His-Highness-the-Foreign-Minister-A-Two-State-Solution-is-the-Only-Path-to-Achieving-a-Just-and-Lasting-Peace-in-the-Regio.aspx France & Saudi sponsor peace conference - https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-855969 Qatari foreign minister on Saudi sponsored peace conference - https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250613-qatar-france-fms-underscore-importance-of-upcoming-un-two-state-solution-conference-as-real-opportunity-for-peace/ The Oslo Accords and the Palestinian Authority background - https://www.palquest.org/en/highlight/31121/x-oslo-process-and-establishment-palestinian-authority Yitzhak Rabin’s final address to the Knesset - https://www.palquest.org/en/historictext/24965/yitzhaq-rabin%E2%80%99s-address-knesset-after-israeli-palestinian-agreement Mapping Palestinian Politics – European Council on Foreign Relations - https://ecfr.eu/special/mapping_palestinian_politics/plo/ “Abbas is America’s Man” - https://jewishcurrents.org/abbas-is-americas-man Tariq Dana – “Lost in Transition: The Palestinian National Movement After Oslo” - https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/from-the-river-to-the-sea-9781978752658/ Wendy Pearlman – “Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement” - https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/violence-nonviolence-and-the-palestinian-national-movement/0F8D188C7D514D49F68D827066E0FABD BDS call - https://bdsmovement.net/pacbi/pacbi-call Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research – September 2023 poll - https://www.pcpsr.org/sites/default/files/Poll%2089%20English%20Full%20Text%20September%202023.pdf Interview with Ukrainian outlet “Commons” - https://commons.com.ua/en/intervyu-z-danoyu-el-kurd/ Protests against Hamas – July 2023 - https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/07/30/thousands-of-marchers-in-gaza-in-rare-public-display-of-discontent-with-hamas_6073136_4.html Protests against Hamas - https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/25/middleeast/anti-hamas-protests-gaza-intl-latam Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research – May 2025 poll - https://www.pcpsr.org/sites/default/files/Poll%2095%20press%20release%206May2025%20ENGLISH.pdf Changes in PLO structure and new Vice President role - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/08/palestinians-leader-mahmoud-abbas-president ...
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    3 hrs and 4 mins
  • Part Four: Adolf Eichmann: Mr. Holocaust Himself

    Part Four: Adolf Eichmann: Mr. Holocaust Himself
    Jul 10 2025

    World War 2 is coming to an end, and Eichmann cooks up an escape scheme that allows him to flee justice- for a while. Robert and Joe talk about what comes next and conclude the Eichmann story.

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    1 hr and 9 mins