Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - CLASSIC: Why do some people think cannabis can cure cancer?

In tonight's Classic episode, Ben, Matt and Noel dive into a decades-long, surprisingly disturbing conspiracy: with a growing number of Western countries decriminalizing or outright legalizing cannabis, the controversial plant seems set to become an acceptable alternative to some preexisting treatments for appetite loss, chronic pain and more. Yet some supporters of medicinal marijuana products argue the chemicals in this plant can do much more than just make someone hungry or ease their pain -- marijuana, they argue, may actually cure cancer, and this is something the established pharmacuetical industry doesn't want you to know. So how do these claims hold up?

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It Could Happen Here - The LA Anti-ICE Protests

Robert and Mia discuss the recent protests in LA against ICE atrocities and the terrifying response of Trump and the LAPD.

Sources:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/democrats-california-new-york-detention-facilities

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigrants-at-ice-check-ins-detained-and-held-in-basement-of-federal-building-in-los-angeles/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=828415694

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-los-angeles-immigration-protests-trump/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/paramount-california-home-depot-protest-rcna211650

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1kv1lgdpkjo

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Strange News: Suspicious Bodyguards, the Resurrection of Walt Disney, Palantir Will Know EVERYTHING About You, and Why That Is Bad.

The notorious tech giant Palantir may soon create history's most comprehensive -- and controversial -- database on all US residents. Why? Descendants of Walt Disney object to his animatronic likeness. Guinea pigs hate Adele. A bodyguard for New York mayor Eric Adams gets jammed up in shenanigans. Science shows insects are dying out at alarming rates. All this and more in this week's strange news segment.

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It Could Happen Here - Reportback from the West Bank

James talks with Charles McBryde about his recent trip to the West Bank, the disastrous Gaza Humanitarian Fund, and the ongoing Gaza blockade. 

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It Could Happen Here - CZM Book Club : The Revolutionary Fables of Ricardo Flores Magón, Part Two

Margaret reads you more short stories written by the one of the ideological leaders of the Mexican Revolution.

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It Could Happen Here - It Could Happen Here Weekly 185

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

  1. The FDA Wants to Take Away Your Covid Vaccine, ft. Dr. Kaveh Hoda

  2. Tiananmen Remastered, Part 1

  3. Tiananmen Remastered, Part 2
  4. Governing Fertility: How Pronatalist Policies Kill
  5. Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #19

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Sources/Links:

The FDA Wants to Take Away Your Covid Vaccine, ft. Dr. Kaveh Hoda

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb2506929

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-panel-says-covid-vaccines-can-stay-fall-access-concerns-rcna208492

Tiananmen Remastered

https://lausancollective.com/2021/communists-crushed-international-workers-movement/

https://chuangcn.org/journal/two/red-dust/sinosphere/

http://www.tsquare.tv/links/Walder.html

https://chuangcn.org/2019/06/tiananmen-square-the-march-into-the-institutions/

https://www.marxists.org/archive/brinton/1970/workers-control/

https://endnotes.org.uk/issues/4

https://libcom.org/article/utopia-rules-technology-stupidity-and-secret-joys-bureaucracy-david-graeber

Governing Fertility: How Pronatalist Policies Kill

https://www.vscw.ca/en/node/119

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203059913-9/pronatalism-motherhood-franco-spain-mary-nash

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781438402062/html?lang=en

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15335899

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237296749_Marriage_squeeze_and_changes_in_family_formation_historical_comparative_evidence_in_Spain_France_and_the_United_States_in_the_twentieth_century  

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ypdy05jl9o

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/politics/trump-birthrate-proposals.html

https://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/report/treating-infertility-the-new-frontier-reproductive-medicine 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/2/2155893/-Texas-Republican-channels-Stalin-and-Putin-to-glorify-motherhood 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dot-memo-funds-communities-marriage-birth-rates_n_679bf8d8e4b0e1faebeef9c8

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #19

https://www.kpbs.org/news/public-safety/2025/05/19/san-diegos-highest-paid-city-employees-cops-racking-up-overtime-and-earning-over-400-000

https://www.nilc.org/resources/how-calif-dl-records-shared-with-dhs/

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-detained-buona-forchetta-employees

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/expedited-removal 

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/04/nx-s1-5422248/trump-steel-aluminum-50-tariffs-double-prices

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-trump-and-chinas-xi-jinping-speak-at-last-agree-to-more-talks-191201181.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2025/06/02/immigration-restrictions-pile-up-on-international-students/

https://apnews.com/article/international-students-visas-trump-guidance-social-media-a1f5180ce83560aff66dd65534906697

https://apnews.com/article/international-students-visas-trump-guidance-social-media-a1f5180ce83560aff66dd65534906697

https://sahanjournal.com/public-safety/minneapolis-lake-street-law-enforcement-ice-homeland-security/

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/03/elon-musk-trump-white-house-relationship

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/elon-musk-privately-expresses-frustration-range-recent-moves/story?id=122485920

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-doge.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html 

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Crime on the Rails: What is the FTRA?

To some, the Freight Train Riders of America is a vast, secretive criminal network -- deadly ghosts, haunting the country's rails. To others, the FTRA is a loose collection of outcasts doing their best to help each other survive. To still others, the FTRA is nothing more than an urban legend, and never existed at all. In tonight's episode, Ben and Matt dive deep into the hidden world of trainhopping culture, searching for answers to these conspiratorial tales. Be advised this episode may not be appropriate for all audiences.

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It Could Happen Here - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #19

The gang discuss the firebombing in Colorado, TACO Trump, ICE raids, and Elon Musk's messy White House breakup.

Sources:

https://www.kpbs.org/news/public-safety/2025/05/19/san-diegos-highest-paid-city-employees-cops-racking-up-overtime-and-earning-over-400-000

https://www.nilc.org/resources/how-calif-dl-records-shared-with-dhs/

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-detained-buona-forchetta-employees

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/expedited-removal 

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/04/nx-s1-5422248/trump-steel-aluminum-50-tariffs-double-prices

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-trump-and-chinas-xi-jinping-speak-at-last-agree-to-more-talks-191201181.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2025/06/02/immigration-restrictions-pile-up-on-international-students/

https://apnews.com/article/international-students-visas-trump-guidance-social-media-a1f5180ce83560aff66dd65534906697

https://apnews.com/article/international-students-visas-trump-guidance-social-media-a1f5180ce83560aff66dd65534906697

https://sahanjournal.com/public-safety/minneapolis-lake-street-law-enforcement-ice-homeland-security/

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/03/elon-musk-trump-white-house-relationship

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/elon-musk-privately-expresses-frustration-range-recent-moves/story?id=122485920

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-doge.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html 

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - CLASSIC: Why don’t nations trust NGOs?

On paper, non-governmental organizations often sound like something everyone can get behind: these institutions are often dedicated to addressing some of the most dangerous, long-running problems on the planet. It may be surprising, then, to learn that a growing number of nations are taking increasingly aggressive actions to ban NGOs, especially foreign ones. Supporters of NGOs argue these nations are attempting to fight progress in hopes of saving their own corrupt regimes -- but the opponents inside these countries claim many of those do-gooder NGOs are more sinister than they'd have you believe: instead of saving the world, critics argue, these insitutions are foreign-owned fronts for everything from illegal activities of intelligence agencies to acts of industrial espionage, forced regime change and more.

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It Could Happen Here - Governing Fertility: How Pronatalist Policies Kill

The gang talks about the pronatalist right in Trump's orbit, and historical examples of pronatalism from Japan, Spain, and Romania.

Sources:

https://www.vscw.ca/en/node/119

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203059913-9/pronatalism-motherhood-franco-spain-mary-nash

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781438402062/html?lang=en

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15335899

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237296749_Marriage_squeeze_and_changes_in_family_formation_historical_comparative_evidence_in_Spain_France_and_the_United_States_in_the_twentieth_century  

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ypdy05jl9o
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/politics/trump-birthrate-proposals.html
https://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/report/treating-infertility-the-new-frontier-reproductive-medicine 
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/2/2155893/-Texas-Republican-channels-Stalin-and-Putin-to-glorify-motherhood 
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dot-memo-funds-communities-marriage-birth-rates_n_679bf8d8e4b0e1faebeef9c8

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