It Could Happen Here Weekly 256

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

• Israeli Elections and the Palestinians
• 2026 Elections (The Union Ones)
• ¡El Chupacabras!
• Kim Kelly's Morbid Labor Tales 
• Executive Disorder: Lula’s Victory, AI Election Ads, Voter Fraud, Revolt in Albania

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Sources/Links:

Israeli Elections and the Palestinians

• Israel's Elections: What's at Stake?, International Crisis Group (Max Rodenbeck, Mairav Zonszein, Amjad Iraqi), 15 October 2026
• A Jewish Currents Guide to the Israeli Elections, Josh Nathan-Kazis, Jewish Currents, 20 October 2026
• Occupied Thoughts interview with Sami Abu Shehadeh https://fmep.org/resource/barred-from-knesset-elections-sami-abu-shehadeh-on-the-state-of-israeli-democracy/
• Prospect magazine op-ed on the settlers and the state - https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle-east/75279/settler-rioters-are-israeli-state-policythrough-deniable-means

2026 Elections (The Union Ones)

• https://linktr.ee/PamelaSH

¡El Chupacabras!

• Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction and Folklore by Benjamin
  Radford
• Governing Spirits: Religion, Miracles, and Spectacle in Cuba and Puerto Rico,
  1898-1956 by Reinaldo L. Román
• En Qué Quedó Ep. 6 “El Chupacabras”
  https://open.spotify.com/episode/2r9ISXwgY7zTpWj2EJWcF1
• Radio Ambulante “El vampiro entre nosotros”
  https://open.spotify.com/episode/0hvdSD4aXHwoOWoMYAdN9x
• Sucking Vulnerability: Neoliberalism, the Chupacabras, and the Post-Cold War Years by
  William A Calvo-Quirós
• https://web.archive.org/web/20230814111741/http://www.barriology.com/uploads/2/3/2/7/
  23276452/calvo-quiros_sucking_vulnerability_rev.pdf
• El Chupacabra: Icon of Resistance to US Imperialism
• Species (1995) dir. Roger Donaldson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MGZnLsPSRc
• La Operación (1982) dir. Ana María García https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoJoWMbRxvM&t=36s
• La Operación -Background https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6XEuu_auR8&t=8s
• https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/locales/notas/se-registran-dos-ataques-del-chupac
  abras/
• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/30/vieques-puerto-rico-us-navy-base-traini
  ng
• https://www.navfac.navy.mil/Portals/68/Documents/Business-Lines/Environmental/Enviro
  nmental-Restoration/NAVFAC-Atlantic/Vieques/Vieques_Fact_Sheet_03_Depleted_Uran
  ium_in_LIA_Eng.pdf
• https://www.fs.usda.gov/r08/elyunque/recreation/discover-history/us-military-and-el-yunq
  ue-national-forest
• https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24816374-the-history-of-the-us-department-
  of-defense-programs-for-the-testing-evaluation-and-storage-of-tactical-herbicides-agent-
  orange-in-pr/?q=puerto+rico&mode=document#document/p5
• https://www.elvocero.com/actualidad/otros/las-grandes-sequ-as-que-marcaron-a-puerto-
  rico-durante-el-siglo-xx/article_e6a37bce-5269-4040-836d-799a04358fc2.html
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1995/12/26/mystery-creature-ravages-p
  uerto-rican-livestock/b7704250-dae0-4fa3-a886-561db637b463/
• https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-12-03-mn-9730-story.html
• “Monsters and Messiahs by Mike Davis”
•  “Beast of Borikén" by Julio Anta, Daniel IriZarri, Patricio Delpeche, and Lucas Gattoni

Kim Kelly's Morbid Labor Tales