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Essays Fascism Neoliberalism Patreon

NinaIllingworth March 28, 2020November 5, 2022 America is a business already, American history, American independence, assault on Main Street, austerity, bailout, British Empire, CA4, capitalism, chattel slavery, colonialism, coronavirus, coronavirus relief package, corporate takeover, Corporation America, Essays, exterminating Indigenous people, Facebook, fascism, genocide, Journals, King George, Mastodon, Media, neoliberalism, News, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Ohio River Valley, Patreon, Patreon Blog, Pork Reich, Propaganda, public trust, slavery, small business, social media, the American Revolution, the death of small business, The Skinny, Trump, Twitter, USA

Link: The Skinny – That Austerity Business, March 2020

The March 28th, 2020 edition of The Skinny; collecting three complete social media essays about capitalism, propaganda, and why American is breeding fascism – written by Nina Illingworth.

Books about Neoliberalism & Austerity

A collection of books about the failures of capitalism, globalization, neoliberal economics and austerity. Although much of the material

Fascism Field Notes Social Media socialism

NinaIllingworth October 15, 2022November 5, 2022 anti-imperialism, anticapitalism, antifascism, Article Links, Ben Burgis is a reactionary, billionaire fascists, CA4, Can't You Read, capitalism, CC3, Charles Koch, Climate Crisis, Dark MAGA, Donald Trump, ecofascism, Elon Musk, FA1, Facebook, fascism, fascist coup, fascist judges, fascist street gangs, Field Notes, Fossil Fuel Wars, Geoff Eley, Gramsci, History, In the Aggregate, informal writing, instagram, JA5, Jacobin, Joe Biden, legal coup, longtermism, MAGA Communism, Media Madness, MP6, NATO, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, New Feature announcement, Nina Illingworth, Politics, Proud Boys, Russia, SCOTUS, social media, Socialism, ST2, the Mini-Skinny, Theory, Tom Nicholas, Ukraine, Video, WD7, What The Theory

Field Notes: Long Time Coming

Editor’s note: Field Notes is a weekly roundup of social media writing by Nina Illingworth. Bringing you highlights and links

Climate Crisis media Neoliberalism Politics

NinaIllingworth October 8, 2021November 5, 2022 Andy Kroll, API, Ari Berman, Arizona, Biden Agenda, Brett Wilkins, Build Back Better Act, CA4, CC3, CEPP, Charles Koch, Clean Electricity Performance Program, climate catastrophe, Climate Crisis, coal, Common Dreams, corporate donors, corruption, Daniel Boguslaw, Daniel Strauss, dark money, David Sirota, Democratic Party, FA1, Fantastic Lies, filibuster, fossil fuels, Geoff Dembicki, Gizmodo, immigration reform, infrastructure bill, infrastructure spending, Joe Biden, Joe Manchin, Kate Aronoff, Kochtopus, Kyrsten Sinema, legalized bribery, liberal politics, lobby groups, lobbying, lobbyist, Mark Gruenberg, Media, migrants, Molly Taft, money in politics, Mother Jones, MP6, natural gas, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, oligarchy, People's World, plutocracy, Politics, progressive politics, Propaganda, reconciliation bill, Rolling Stone, Ryan Grim, Sara Sirota, Sharon Zhang, Six Things I Think, Super PACS, the Daily Poster, The Intercept, The New Republic, Truthout, US Senate, West Virginia

Six Things I Think: Reconciliation and the Dirty Pair

Nina’s back with an in-depth investigation into a riddle no one outside of the Beltway was struggling to solve. Power, politics and payola collide on NIDC.

FotB Mental Health Neoliberalism Walker

NinaIllingworth July 21, 2021November 5, 2022 abolish for profit health care, Alzheimer's Disease, artificial scarcity, austerity, big pharma, CA4, capitalism, capitalism and mental health, capitalism is failing us, Chris Walker, community support, compassion, Covid, crisis of capitalism, dignity, FA1, for profit care is an oxymoron, for profit medical care, for profit mental health care, FotB, Friends of the Blog, health insurance, Huntington's Disease, intersectionality, JA5, Kafkaesque, marginalization and mental health, medical insurance companies, mental health, mutual aid, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Our Man in Duval, pandemic, personal, personal experience, police kill people with mental health issues, policing and mental health, policing is not the answer, poverty and health care, poverty and mental health, private healthcare, Psychology, racialization of health care, shared burden, solidarity, ST2, support networks, Walker

Mental Health Isn’t Profitable by Chris Walker

It’s one thing to know for profit healthcare doesn’t work; it’s another to live the experience. Walker is back with a new piece: Mental Health Isn’t Profitable.

Journals Neoliberalism Personal Social Justice

NinaIllingworth May 25, 2021November 5, 2022 ACAB, affordable housing, anti-poor propaganda, austerity, CA4, capitalism, class war, coronavirus, Covid 19, cycles of poverty, dehumanization, Depression, extraction of rents, Facebook Journals, hidden effects of homelessness, homeless, homeless people are people, homelessness in Canada, homelessness in the UK, homelessness in the US, homelessness is not a choice, housing crisis, housing is a human right, humanizing the homeless, inadequate support networks, informal writing, injustice, investor class, invisible, JA5, Journals, landlords, living on the streets, mental health, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, pandemic, personal, policing, Poor Laws, poverty, poverty in the Pig Empire, poverty is not a character flaw, rentier class, rents, shelters, shuffling the poor around, Social Darwinism, Social Justice, social safety net, ST2, stress, workhouse

What They Never Tell You About Being Homeless

A lengthy personal journal discussing the hidden psychological conditions inspired by homelessness and poverty in the Pig Empire.

FotB Neoliberalism Social Justice Walker

NinaIllingworth May 13, 2021November 5, 2022 CA4, CDC, CDC eviction moratorium, Chris Walker, class war, coronavirus, Covid 19, Covid eugenics, Dabney Friedrich, DC Circuit Courts, disaster capitalism, District of Columbia, end stage capitalism, engineered crisis, eviction crisis, evictions, extraction, extraction of rents, Federal Court, FotB, Friends of the Blog, harassment by landlords, homelessness, Housing, housing bubble, housing crisis, housing shortage, institutional racism, IWW, JA5, Jacksonville, Justice, labor class solidarity, landlords, marginalized people, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, pandemic, pandemic profiteering, poverty, poverty kills people, racialized extraction, racialized outcomes, Racism, rental market, rentier class, ruling, Social Justice, solidarity, solidarity against the landlords, ST2, systemic poverty, systemic racism, tax cuts, Tenant unions, Trump judges, Walker, war on the poor, white supremacy

Evictions Are Just a Shot Away by Chris Walker

In a first for NIDC, we’re joined by Florida Wobbly Chris Walker to talk us through about the latest developments in the capitalist eviction apocalypse.

Essays Fascism media Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth December 18, 2020November 5, 2022 21st century fascism, Aimee Terese, Amerikan Musik, Angela Nagle, anticommunism, Caitlin Johnstone, contrarian left, crypto fascism, distortions, Donald Trump, Downmarket Mussolini, Essays, FA1, fake populism, Fantastic Lies, fascism, gaslighting, Glenn Greenwald, GOP, GOP is fascist, Hitler, independent media, Jason Stanley, Jim Crow fascism, Joe Biden, Josh Hawley, Lee Fang, left right alliance, left wing theory, liberalism empowers fascism, lie, Marxism, Marxist analysis, Masha Gessen, Matt Stoller, Matt Taibbi, Media, Mike Tracey, MP6, Mussolini, neoliberalism, Noam Chomsky, Op-Ed, Palmer Raids, Palooka Joe, Politics, reactionary thought, Red Scare podcast, Republican Party, right wing populism, Ron Paul libertarians, skeptics, social media, ST2, Stupidpol, the Red Scare, Theory, Timothy Snyder, Trump Coup, Trump is a fascist, Trump isn't Hitler but so what?, Trumpism is fascism, woke neoliberalism, Zaid Jilani

‘The Devil You Know? A Response to Recent Revisionist History From the Contrarian “Left”

An op-ed aggressively refuting the contrarian faux-left position that calling Trump a fascist is some sort of liberal psyop designed to distract the left.

Essays Fascism media Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth September 28, 2020November 5, 2022 2008 Financial Crisis, 2016 US Election, Alt Right, Amerikan Musik, conspiracy theory, David Renton, Deep Dives, Essays, FA1, Fantastic Lies, fascism, for profit medial propaganda model, Fox News, Fox News Fear Factory, Hannah Arendt, Harvey Weinstein, How Fascism Works, Hugo Weaving, Inventing Reality, Iraq War, James Clapper, Jason Stanley, Jeff Epstein, Joy Reid, Julius Evola, left wing theory, lie, Lügenpresse, mainstreaming white supremacy, manufacturing consent, Matt Taibbi, Media, Michael Lynch, MP6, MSNBC, neoliberalism, New York Times, News Corp, Noam Chomsky, Owen Jones, pig empire, Political Mind Games, Politics, Poor Democracy, Pork Reich, Rich Media, Robert Paxton, Roy Eidelson, Rupert Murdoch, Russiagate, ST2, The Daily Beast, The Establishment, the New Authoritarians, Theory, Washington Post, white genocide is a nazi conspiracy theory, white nationalism

Theory Discussion: On Media, White Nationalism & Hugo Weaving

An lengthy discussion about why propping up corporate “liberal” media is no antidote to the rise of white nationalism; triggered by reading an interview with Hugo Weaving.

Books Neoliberalism Social Justice War

NinaIllingworth November 7, 2019November 17, 2022 Allen Dulles, Books, CA4, CC3, CIA, Corporate Fascism, Corporatism, David Talbot, deep state, democratic socialism, elite rule, FA1, fascism, foreign policy, forever war, Ibram X Kendi, Imperialism, Inventing Reality, Left Wing Books, market fundamentalism, Marxism, Media, media bias, Michael Parenti, Milton Friedman, Naomi Klein, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, permanent war economy, Politics, power, Racism, racist ideas, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Reviews, Social Justice, Socialism, ST2, Stamped From the Beginning, The Devil's Chessboard, the economics of racism, The Library, the propaganda model, The Shock Doctrine, Trump Doctrine, Understanding Power, war, WD7

The Library: the First Five

A look at five reasonably mainstream books from The Library that you can read to get a much better grasp on how our world actually works.

Books Essays News Site Updates

NinaIllingworth June 1, 2019November 17, 2022 blogger, Books, Can't You Read, Essays, Facebook, link dump, Media Madness, News, Nina Illingworth, Odds and Ends, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Patreon Blog, Rec Reads, recap, Recommended Reading, Site Updates, Six Things I Think, Tumblr

Odds and Ends: February to May 2019

A recap of my writing from February to May 2019 with links to everything published off-site.

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