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A relic of the Cold War, the US embargo and travel restrictions to Cuba violate American freedoms and they accomplish nothing to end Cuba's communist regime or win freedom for Cubans. Yet, this failed policy has persisted for nearly 65 years with no end in sight.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/us-travel-restrictions-cuba-violate-freedoms-americans-and-cubans
What do we mean by equality? F.A. Hayek believed that equality under law and the socialist belief of material equality were opposed to each other. Furthermore, he held liberty to be necessary for civilization itself to flourish.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/equality-under-hayekian-rule-law
On Friday 1st August the US Bureau of Labor Statistics put out their job report data for August. It included revisions to their estimates for the jobs created in May and June which stated there were 258,000 fewer jobs than they had previously estimated. This news was not received well by the White House. President Trump fired the head of the bureau, Erika McEntarfer, calling the numbers ‘phony, rigged, a scam’ and spreading conspiracy theories that McEntarfer had fudged the data. We speak to economist Michael Strain from the American Enterprise Institute, to understand why the revisions happened and the potential consequences of throwing doubt on one of the US’s most important statistical agencies. If you’ve seen a number in the news you think we should take a look at, email the team: moreorless@bbc.co.uk
Presenter: Lizzy McNeill Producer: Lizzy McNeill Series Producer: Tom Colls Production Co-ordinator: Rosie Strawbridge Sound mix: Neil Churchill Editor: Sam Bonham
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
https://sam.gov/opp/53dc2fa997954c1d8acf8888fd8f0b56/view
https://bi2technologies.com/service/iris/
https://www.secureidnews.com/news-item/el-paso-sheriff-to-use-iris-scanners/?ref=404media.co
https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CMSW25P00000040_7012_-NONE-_-NONE-
https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CTD025FR0000036_7012_NNG15SC82B_8000
https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CMSD25P00000047_7012_-NONE-_-NONE-
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https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/03/texas-quorum-breaks-history/
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/texas-democrats-house-warrants-arrest-quorum-break/
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/04/nasa-china-space-station-duffy-directives-00492172
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Active shooter situation near the campus of Emory University in Atlanta; reports of shots fired at a building housing the CDC. President Trump to meet with Russian President Putin in Alaska on August 15. Firefighters make progress on Canyon wildfire California wildfire north of Los Angeles.
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