It Could Happen Here
It Could Happen Here started as an exploration of the possibility of a new civil war. Now a daily show, it's evolved into a chronicle of collapse as it happens, and an exploration of how we might build a better future. Every day Robert Evans, Garrison Davis, Mia Wong, and James Stout take you on a jaunty walk through the burning ruins of the old world and towards a better one that lays just on the horizon.
Episodes
Margaret reads you folklore about witches in Russia, because she likes witches and it's still sort of Halloween.
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In this series, James describes his journey into the Darién Gap, one of the most remote and dangerous migration routes on earth. We hear from migrants from around the world about the dangers of the journey, their fears that forced them to take it, and their dreams for America.
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Sources can be found in the descriptions of each individual episode.
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The Green Hell: Migration Through the Darién Gap
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James' final episode looks at the people helping migrants once they leave the Darién Gap, and how you can help.
Donation links for groups featured in this series:
Border Kindness: https://borderkindness.org/donate/
Al Otro Lado: https://alotrolado.networkforgood.com/projects/63833-al-otro-lado-fund
Fe Y Alegria: https://www.feyalegria.org/en/home-fya-international/
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In the fourth installment of his series on the Darién Gap, James talks to migrants at Lajas Blancas reception center north of the Darién, who can often be stuck there for months without the money to continue their journeys.
Sources:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DAaDkSwh1Jk/?igsh=bmgyanBteW10czd5
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/09/20/archives/a-new-canaldug-by-atom-bombs-...
In part three of his series on the Darién Gap, James talks about what drives Venezuelan and African migrants to make the journey through the Darién Gap.
Sources:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DAaDkSwh1Jk/?igsh=bmgyanBteW10czd5
In the second part of his series on the Darién Gap, James looks at the impacts of migration on the indigenous Panamanian Emberá community.
Sources:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DAaDkSwh1Jk/?igsh=bmgyanBteW10czd5
In the first of 5 episodes, James describes his journey to the Darién gap in Southern Panama, and the journeys that thousands of migrants take each week on one of the most dangerous land migration routes on earth.
Sources:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DAaDkSwh1Jk/?igsh=bmgyanBteW10czd5
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/09/20/archives/a-new-canaldug-by-atom-bombs-nuclear-en...
Margaret reads you a story in which vampires serve as a metaphor for yet another thing, because vampires are cool.
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. Sources can be found in the descriptions of each individual episode.
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An Alex Jones Update feat. Knowledge Fight
- Infiltrating Local Nazi Groups
- How Trump Rigged an FBI Investigation for Brett Kavanaugh
- Economists Win Worst Nobel Prize Yet, Asked to Please Stop
- Charlie Kirk vs College Students
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Garrison dissociates at a Charlie Kirk x Vivek Ramaswamy rally and wonders if it's even worth it anymore.
Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/11/us/politics/elon-musk-donald-trump-pennsylvania.html
https://www.9news.com/article/news/verify/immigration/new-york-city-free-one-way-plane-tickets-migrants-fact-check/536-c6e7168f-7f16-4bf9-97cd-33389729869c
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/nyregion/n...
Mia and James discuss Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson's recent fake economics Nobel won for being to first economists to discover that history exists.
Sources:
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.91.4.938
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2378023118773614
https://www.nber.org/papers/w10481
https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstra...
Mia, Sophie and Robert relive the horror of the Kavanaugh hearings and discover how Trump made the FBI conduct a fake "investigation" to clear him.
Sources:
https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/KavanaughReport_final.pdf
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-brett-kavanaugh-misogyny.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/08/kavanaugh-trump-wh...
Garrison is joined by Corvallis Antifa and Left Coast Right Watch to discuss the Oregon chapter of White Lives Matter and one particular nazi who is receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in government contracts via his company Whit Industries.
Robert sits down with Dan and Jordan, the world's top Alex Jones experts, to discuss his bankruptcy and the collapse and possible rebirth of Infowars.
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Margaret reads you the story she figures probably inspired Predator.
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. Sources can be found in the descriptions of each individual episode.
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Hurricane Conspiracy Theories
- The 2028 General Strike and Climate Change
- Israel's History with UN Peacekeepers in Lebanon
- Anarchism In Argentina, Pt. 1 feat. Andrew
- Anarchism In Argentina, Pt. 2 feat. Andrew
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Andrew and Mia stride boldly into the future as time and anarchism in Argentina march forth.
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Andrew and Mia discuss the origins of anarchism in Argentina and its first uprisings.
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James and Mia discuss the history of UNIFIL, and the role it plays today as Israel keeps threatening UN peacekeepers in Lebanon.
Sources:
https://unifil.unmissions.org/unifil-ground-operations
https://unifil.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/unifilpresskit.pdf
Mia talks with Rosewater, an organizer with the Sunrise Movement, about how the UAW's plan for a 2028 general strike has changed ecological organizing.
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