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"When the revolution is for everyone, everyone will be for the revolution"

Books Essays News Site Updates

NinaIllingworth July 1, 2019January 16, 2021 Books, Can't You Read, Essays, Facebook, June Summary, Media Madness, News, Nina Illingworth, Odds and Ends, Offsite Writing, Patreon Blog, Quote of the Week, Site Updates, update, writing

Odds and Ends: June 2019

A collection of my offsite writing from June, 2019 and some site update notes.

Essays Fascism Police State Politics

NinaIllingworth June 27, 2019November 5, 2022 activism, Adolf Hitler, Alt Right, Amerikan Musik, Andrew Jackson, Armenian Genocide, Border Patrol, concentration camps, Confederate President, Dachau, dehumanization, DHS, Donald Trump, Essays, ethnic cleansing, FA1, Family Raid, fascism, genocidal intent, genocide, GOP, Haaretz, Herero and Nama genocide, ICE, JA5, Kristallnacht house raids, Little Eichmanns, mass deportataions, migrants, Nazi Germany, neonazi, never again, Nina Illingworth, Obama, Police, police state, Politics, Pork Reich, process of genocide, revanchism, Six Things I Think, Social Justice, Stephen Miller, Summer Camp, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, The Holocaust, Trail of Tears, WD7, white nationalism, white supremacy

Summer Camp

Yes, they’re concentration camps – but have you even stopped for a moment to think about what that actually means?

Essays Fascism Police State Politics

NinaIllingworth June 23, 2019November 17, 2022 Amerikan Musik, baby cages, baby jails, CBP, concentration camps, deportations, DHS, Donald Trump, Eoin Higgins, Essays, ethnic cleansing, FA1, Family Raid, Fantastic Lies, fascism, Gestapo police, GOP, ICE, ICE Family Op, immigration, JA5, Media, MP6, nazi sympathizers, Nina Illingworth, Parsing the Pork Reich's Family Raid Pause, police state, Politics, reactionary, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Republican, revanchist, road to genocide, Six Things I Think, Stephen Miller, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, the cruelty is the point, undocumented migrants, white nationalism, white supremacy

Parsing the Pork Reich’s Family Raid Pause

A short essay examining a Common Dreams article by Eoin Higgins and the seemingly mystifying Trump ICE “Family Raid” saga.

Essays Fascism Patreon socialism

NinaIllingworth June 20, 2019November 5, 2022 a history of fascism in America, American Bund, American history, American left, Amerikan Musik, anticommunism, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, civility politics, Clintonism, COINTELPRO, cold war, contrarian left, Deep Dives, Democrat fascist enablers, Democratic Socialists, Democrats, Donald Trump, Encampments, Essays, FA1, fake resistance, far right, fascism, FDR, FDR liberals, George Wallace, GOP, J Edgar Hoover, JA5, LBJ, liberalism, liberalism enables fascism, McCarthyism, neoliberal, neoliberalism breeds fascism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, paleoconservatism, Patreon, Patreon Blog, pig empire, Political Theory, Politics, Pork Reich, radical left, reactionary thought, Reaganism, Republican, Republican Party, rich fascists, Richard Nixon, right wing populism, right wing terrorism, Russiagate, Socialism, the American Tea Party, The Resistance, Theory, Trumpism, Trumpism is fascism, united front against fascism, Volkish populism, War on Terror, WD7, white nationalism

Essay: “Encampments” on my Free Patreon Blog

A deep dive essay about the importance of a united antifascist front even in the face of resistance and neoliberal co-opting operations on my free Patron Blog.

Media Madness Police State Social Justice Sports

NinaIllingworth June 17, 2019November 5, 2022 2019 NBA Finals, Alameda County, Alameda County Sherriff's Office, Alan Strickland, America is racist, assault, Barack Obama, Black Lives Matter, Deadspin, Deep Dives, Donald Trump, driving while black, Essays, fascism, Ferguson, Gestapo, Golden State Warriors, Greg Wiener, Gregory Ahern, investigation, investigative analysis, JA5, Justice, Kyle Korver, Masai Ujiri, Mass incarceration, Media Madness, Michael McCann, MP6, NBA, Nina Illingworth, no justice, Oakland, Offsite Writing, Olga Rodriguez, Oracle Arena, Patrick Redford, Player's Tribune, Police, police state, police violence, protests, racial politics, racial profiling, racialized police violence, Racism, racist policing, Ray Kelly, Rob Gillies, Sandra Bland, Sheriff Gregory Ahern, Social Justice, Sports, Toronto Raptors, white supremacy

Cracker Barrel of Bullcrap (on Media Madness)

A deep dive investigation into the racist Alameda County Sherriff’s Office and its attempts to charge Masai Ujiri for being racially profiled and assaulted by a Deputy on live TV.

Censorship Personal Site Updates Social Media

NinaIllingworth June 15, 2019January 16, 2021 algorithm, blogger, Can't You Read, censorship, comment sections, Contact, Contact Page, email, Facebook, fascists, Mastodon, Media Madness, neoliberal, Patreon, personal, shadowbanned, Site Updates, social media, TERFs, Tumblr, Tweetstorms, Twitter

Twittering Classes: A Social Media Policy Update

A brief explanation of why I shut down my main Twitter account and how you can find me or my writing online, going forward.

Fascism media Media Madness Politics

NinaIllingworth June 12, 2019November 5, 2022 Alex Shephard, Amerikan Musik, antifascism, Carter Wrenn, census, conspiracy theory, crackers, Crosscheck, Deep Dives, Democracy, Department of Justice, DoJ, Donald Trump, Edward Herman, Election Fraud, Essays, FA1, Fantastic Lies, fascist judges, gerrymandering, GOP, Hofeller leaks, liberalism, manufacturing consent, McCarthyism, Media, Media Madness, MP6, neoliberalism, new Red Scare, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, Offsite Writing, opposing fascism, Pork Reich, racialized voter suppression, Racism, Republican, Russiagate, Russiagate hysteria, stacking the judiciary, Supreme Court, The New Republic, Thomas Hofeller, voter suppression, voting rights, white supremacy, Wilbur Ross Jr

Active Measures on Media Madness

A longer essay on Media Madness about GOP racialized voter suppression, elite liberal complicity and the need for a united antifascist front on the left.

Books Can't You Read Essays Justice War

NinaIllingworth June 4, 2019November 5, 2022 Afghanistan, Baghdad’s Bloody Sunday, Betsy DeVos, Blackwater, Blackwater The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, Books, Can't You Read, contractor army, crusader, Department of Justice, DoJ, Donald Trump, Erik Prince, Essays, FA1, forever war, genocide, GOP, intelligence contractors, Iraq, Iraq occupation, Islamophobia, Jeremy Scahill, mass murder, mercenaries, military contractors, Nicholas Slatten, Nicholas Slatten pardon, Nina Illingworth, Nisour Square massacre, Offsite Writing, pardoning war criminals to fire up the base, pig empire, Politics, Presidential Pardon, private intelligence, Republican, Reviews, travesty of justice, Trump, Trump coup in Venezuela, Venezuela, War Crimes, WD7

Blackwater and the Slatten Pardon on Can’t You Read

A combination book review and current affairs essay on Can’t You Read that talks about Trump’s pardon power, Erik Prince, and Jeremy Scahill’s “Blackwater.”

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.

Books Essays media Neoliberalism

NinaIllingworth May 31, 2019November 5, 2022 anticommunism, antifascism, austerity, Books, CA4, Canada, capitalism, Chris Hedges, Citizen's United, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, class war, climate catastrophe, COINTELPRO, cold war, corruption, Deep Dives, democratic rights, Essays, FA1, fascism, FBI, Glenn Greenwald, Greece, Ibram X Kendi, inverted totalitarianism, Jane Mayer, Jim Crow, lobbying, Margin Notes, mass surveillance, Media, Michelle Alexander, Naomi Klein, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, Owen Jones, plutocrats, quotations, Quotes, Red Scare, Socialism, ST2, Stamped From the Beginning, the Palmer Raids, UK, Wages of Rebellion, War on Terror, Yanis Varoufakis

Margin Notes: Wages of Rebellion and the Inversion Perversion in the Pig Empire

A deep look at the way the underlying logic behind our rights and freedoms are inverted to help the wealthy few at the expense of the many – featuring a quotation from “Wages of Rebellion” by Chris Hedges.

Essays media Patreon Theory

NinaIllingworth May 29, 2019November 5, 2022 1996 Telecom Act, American history, cable news, class, class war, corporate media, Debunking the Myth of a Forgotten American Free Press, Essays, Fantastic Lies, for profit media, forever war, History, Iraq War, Jeff Bezos, Joe Hill, journalism, Julian Assange, left wing theory, Media, media lied us into war, media lies to you for power, media myths, Media Theory, Michael Parenti, MP6, mythmaking, narrative, Nina Illingworth, Occupy Wall Street, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Propaganda, rich people own the media, ST2, The Post, The Post is a narrative building movie, Theory, Vietnam War, war, Watergate, Wikileaks, WMDs, yellow journalism

The Myth of a Forgotten American Free Press

A short Patreon essay about why corporate media-created narratives about their own role in checking the powerful are bunk.