It Could Happen Here Weekly 240
7/11/20262 hr 32 min
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- Palestine in the World Cup
- What's Wrong with Human Rights
- What's Wrong with Human Rights, Pt. 2
- A Report from the Great American State Fair
- Executive Disorder: Platner Allegations, Return of the Tariffs, ICE Shootings
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Sources/Links:
Palestine in the World Cup
https://jewishcurrents.org/de-normalizing-israeli-normalization-at-the-world-cup
https://agsi.org/analysis/palestine-activism-in-the-world-cup/
What's Wrong with Human Rights
Human Rights as Moral Progress? A Critique by Jarett Zigon
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Vol. 28, Issue 4, pp. 716–736. ISSN 0886-7356, online ISSN 1548-1360. C 2013 by the American Anthropological Association. All rights reserved. DOI: 10.1111/cuan.12034
Agamben, Arendt and Human Rights: Bearing Witness to the Human. 2012
John Lechte & Saul Newman
State of Exception. 2005
Giorgio Agamben, translated by Kevin Attell
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind
Simone Weil. Routledge Classics 2002
Executive Disorder: Platner’s Allegations, Return of the Tariffs, ICE Shootings
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5955865-mitch-mcconnell-senate-health-status/
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/06/us/graham-platner-racicot-allegation-maine-invs
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/06/graham-platner-sexual-assault-allegation-00987737
https://x.com/akela_lacy/status/2074604814810415293?s=20
https://x.com/grace_panetta/status/2074266651244073227?s=20
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/us/politics/who-would-replace-graham-platner-maine.html
https://x.com/sahilkapur/status/2074678417006420067
https://thediplomat.com/2026/06/asean-and-trumps-section-301-tariffs/
https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/IF/PDF/IF11346/IF11346.31.pdf
https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/Complaint-in-IALDF-v.-Rubio.pdf
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/07/us/houston-ice-shooting-death
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/us/houston-ice-shooting.html
https://www.wgal.com/article/pa-harrisburg-ice-agent-shoots-video/71807714
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/04/us/live-news/july-4-trump-speech-america-250?post-id=cmr792ght00053b6r6tl4lvzn
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/04/g-s1-132025/mount-rushmore-speech-trump-july-4-250
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