Richard Beck's HOMELAND
Notes [oldest to newest]
1. Deaths from the war on terror
3. The American captivity narrative
4. 2005-06: The Detainee Treatment Act vs. the Military Commissions Act
5. Torture and hazing at West Point
6. 1993: Samuel Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations"
7. 2008: "Overseas Contingency Operations"
8. On the "blood-for-oil" thesis
10. Capitalism's dependence on growth
11. 1450-1650: Early capitalist city-states
12. The "autumn" of the Italian capitalist city-states
13. 1600: The "second cycle of material expansion"
14. Do TSA security measures work?
16. Nineteenth-century British capitalism
17. 1870-1970: The major phase of capitalist growth
20. 1970s: Global collapse in stable employment
21. Statistics on informal work
22. On resentment
23. Prolonged low-intensity urban conflict
24. 2002-2003: Homeland Security and the rise of the Border Patrol
25. Border Patrol vs. "surplus" globalized workers
26. The size of Border Patrol / ICE
28. Beck on the purpose of border surveillance
29. Syrian migration into Europe
31. Parallels between Occupy and BLM
32. Alexis de Tocqueville on Americans' "only pleasure"
33. 2001: Authorization for Use of Military Force
35. 33 Thomas St / AT+T Long Lines Building
36. Companies cooperating with NSA surveillance
37. Priest and Arkin's "Top Secret America"
38. Was NSA surveillance successful?
39. Anwar al-Awlaki
40. The failure of American global leadership post-9/11
42. Militarism, racism, and the decline of hegemony
43. The perception that things have "gone wrong" in America
44. Mass shootings
45. 21st-century American economics
46. Standing Rock
47. Stop Cop City
