Notes from Richard Beck's Homeland (2024)
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1. Deaths from the war on terror
2. "Impunity culture"
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
9. 1934: "Growth"
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?
15. "Security" vs "safety"
16. Nineteenth-century British capitalism
17. 1870-1970: The major phase of capitalist growth
18. Arrighi on hegemony
19. "Financialization"
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
27. American deportations
28. Beck on the purpose of border surveillance
29. Syrian migration into Europe
30. Obama and the border
31. Parallels between Occupy and BLM
32. Alexis de Tocqueville on Americans' "only pleasure"
33. 2001: Authorization for Use of Military Force
34. 2001-2015: AUMF conflicts
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
41. Occupy and public space
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
48. Indigenous resistance

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