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Can't You Read Essays Fascism News

NinaIllingworth January 13, 2021November 17, 2022 Amerikan Musik, Biden crackdown, Can't You Read, Capitol Hill Police, chicken coup, chud riot, contrarian left, coup, coup attempt, crackers, Daily Poster, David Sirota, DC riots, Department of Defense, Donald Trump, doomed to fail, Essays, FA1, fake left, fallout, fascism, fascist coup attempt, Glenn Greenwald, GOP, GOP is fascist, I Told You So, inside job, insurrection, JA5, January 6th 2021, Josh Hawley, liberal enablers, Mike Pence, Mike Tracey, MP6, Nancy Pelosi, neoliberal authoritarianism, News, Nina Illingworth, pathetic coup, Pentagon, political violence, Politics, QAnon, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Republican Party, ST2, stupid coup, Ted Cruz, Trumpism, Trumpism is fascism, yes it was a coup

Counting Coup on Can’t You Read

Over on Can’t You Read, Nina closes the Trump-era chapter of American Fascism by reciting her works and counting coup on faux-left contrarians and numpties.

Media Madness News socialism Videos

NinaIllingworth January 11, 2021November 17, 2022 2008 Financial Crisis, anti Prager U, anticapitalism, beating Prager U, blog, CA4, capitalism, class, Dennis Prager, Dennis Prager is a fascist, Economics, extreme poverty, film sessions, how to attack right wing propaganda, left wing Youtube, Marxism, Marxist economics, Media, Media Madness, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, New York Times, News, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, poverty, PragerU, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Richard Wolff, right wing propaganda, Socialism, ST2, The Gravel Institute, Video, Youtube

Film Sessions: Does Capitalism Really Reduce Poverty (Link)

A new Media Madness blog featuring a short video from the Gravel Institute and Marxist economist (and fan favorite) Richard D. Wolff.

Censorship Essays Patreon Social Media

NinaIllingworth January 5, 2021November 5, 2022 Andy Ngo, anti-Bernie campaign, Bernie Sanders, blue check hierarchy, Bob Mercer, Cambridge Analytica, censorship, CIA, Clinton media list, coordinated harassment, corporate propaganda, Correct the Record, data harvesting, disinformation, Edward Snowden, Essays, FA1, Facebook, Gamergate, Google, Ian Miles Cheong, influence market, Jack Dorsey, Mike Cernovich, MP6, Neera Tanden, neofeudalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, online censorship, online marketing, online surveillance, Patreon, Patreon Blog, Pizzagate, Politics, profanity is praxis, Project Mockingbird, Propaganda, ratfucking, Sally Albright, selling user data, Snowden Leaks, social media, spying on users, ST2, swearing, troll armies, trolls, Trump, Twitter, Twitter rules, twitter suspension, unregulated, Wikileaks

On What Twitter Is & Why I’m Fine With Never Coming Back

A link to a new essay on my free Patreon blog that discusses why Twitter’s role in public discourse is frankly pretty sinister, and I don’t miss it one bit.

Media Madness Neoliberalism News Videos

NinaIllingworth January 2, 2021November 17, 2022 anti-labor, anti-poor, blog, CA4, capitalism, Cornel West, David Harvey, Democracy, elite rule, Eugenics, film sessions, Friedrich Hayek, globalization, Joe Biden, Maggy Thatcher, Marxist analysis, Media Madness, Milton Friedman, monopoly power, Mont Pelerin Society, Naomi Klein, neoliberalism, News, Offsite Writing, privatization, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Ronald Reagan, Six Things I Think, Socialism, ST2, Tom Nicholas, Video, Youtube

Film Sessions: What is Neoliberalism (Link)

A link to offsite writing featuring a short essay, a 26-minute instructional video and seventeen links to important articles – all about neoliberalism.

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NinaIllingworth December 31, 2020November 17, 2022 blog, Can't You Read, censorship, Chomsky, Cody Johnston, crossposting, December writing, Facebook, Facebook Journal, fascism, Herman, Inventing Reality, John Perkins, manufacturing consent, Media, media bias, Media Madness, Michael Parenti, New Confessions of An Economic Hitman, News, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, oligarchy, organization, Patreon Blog, propaganda model, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Site Updates, Six Things I Think, small ball update, Some More News, Stuart Hall, Thought Slime, Tom Nicholas, Video, What The Theory

December Small Ball Update & Content Organization Notes

A collection of links to Nina’s December casual blogging from around the internet.

Media Madness Neoliberalism socialism Videos

NinaIllingworth December 29, 2020November 5, 2022 anarchism, anarchist origin story, anarchist reading list, atomic bomb, billionaire, blog, CA4, capitalism, capitalism is murder, CC3, class war, Climate Crisis, corporate power, corporate rule, crisis of capitalism, death capitalism, Donald Trump, elite rule, exploitation, extraction, extractivism, fascism, film sessions, left wing Youtube, Lex Luthors, Manhattan Project, Media Madness, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, oligarchs, Oligarchs Will Kill Us All, oligarchy, Rants, rich people are mass murderers, rich people are trying to kill you for money, Robert Oppenheimer, slavery, ST2, the end of the world as we know it, Thought Slime, Trumpism, Video, Youtube, YouTube anarchists

Film Sessions: Oligarchs Will Let the World Burn with Thought Slime

A late December 2020 Film Sessions post about why leftism is the only option in a world full of Lex Luthor-esque, capitalist supervillains.

Censorship Journals Site Updates Social Media

NinaIllingworth December 26, 2020November 5, 2022 a cry for help, algorithm, algos, anarchism, attacking the left, Big Tech, Blogspot, censorship, censorship of the left, crypto reactionaries, de ranking, dog pile, FA1, Facebook, Google, Journals, K Hive, liberal online troll armies, mass reporting, Mastodon, Mike Tracey, MP6, Nina Illingworth, online fascists, Patreon, please share my work online, reactionaries, Sally Albright, Site Updates, social media, Socialism, ST2, suppression, TERFs, the faux left, Tumblr, Twitter

Merry Christmas – Your Account Has Been Suspended: Update & Cry for Help

An update on my (now suspended) Twitter account, links to websites where you can still find me and a desperate call for help to share my work before Big Tech strangles me to death.

Can't You Read Social Justice socialism Theory

NinaIllingworth December 24, 2020November 5, 2022 analysis, anti-racism, antifa, Assata Shakur, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Can't You Read, class, class war, coalition building, critical race theory, democratic socialism, Denise DaSilva, diverse coalitions, Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Emma Goldman, Essays, FA1, identity politics, JA5, James Baldwin, labor class, leftism, Malcolm X, marginalized leftists, Michelle Alexander, MLK, MP6, Nell Irvin Painter, neofeudalism, neoliberal identity politics, neoliberal multiculturalism, neoliberalism, non white leftists, Offsite Writing, Op-Ed, Opinion, organizing, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Social Justice, Socialism, ST2, The Black Panthers, the Invention of the White Race, the labor class left, the Sanders left, Theodore Allen, Theory, WD7, weaponized identity politics, WEB Du Bois, whiteness

Essay: On Whiteness, Identity Politics & the Pig Empire Left (Link)

A longer, heavily sourced essay about why vast portions of the labor class left need to get over their reactionary ideas about what identity politics actually means; before history and shifting demographics leave them behind.

Media Madness Neoliberalism Videos War

NinaIllingworth December 23, 2020November 5, 2022 banks, blog, Books, books you should read, CA4, capitalism, capitalism and imperialism, economic imperialism, Economics, film sessions, foreign policy, forever war, global finance, IMF, Imperialism, imperialism is a profit making enterprise, informal writing, international law, international lending, John Perkins, Media Madness, Monroe Doctrine, neoliberalism, New Confessions of An Economic Hitman, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, pig empire, Politics, predatory loans, Reviews, soft power, Tedx Talk, the debt trap, the New Forever War, the peace of a tyrant, The Washington Consensus, US global superpower, Video, Wall Street, war, war as a business model, War is a Racket, WD7, World Bank, Youtube

Film Sessions: The Devil Walks in Broad Daylight

In this December 2020 Film Sessions post we’re looking at a Tedx Talk by John Perkins, author of (New) Confessions of an Economic Hitman, over on Media Madness.

Blog media Media Madness Reviews Videos

NinaIllingworth December 22, 2020November 5, 2022 asylum seekers, BBC, blog, by the rich for the richer, capitalism, colonialism, corporate media, cultural studies, demonizing migrants, Edward Herman, Fantastic Lies, far right, film sessions, for profit media, forever war, hate groups, immigration, manufacturing consent, Marxist analysis, Media, media analysis, media bias, Media Madness, migrant caravan, migrant crisis, Migrant Rights, MP6, nationalism, nationalism leads to fascism, nativism, Newsnight, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, Offsite Writing, pig empire, Propaganda, pushing hate, Racism, refugees, Reviews, right wing fearmongering, selling hate for clicks, Sociology, ST2, Stuart Hall, the propaganda model, Tom Nicholas, Video, What The Theory, white supremacy, whiteness

Film Sessions: the Myth of a Free Press on Media Madness

A December 2020 Film Sessions post about Tom Nicholas’s excellent video “The Myth of a Free Press” that leans more towards the review side of the equation.

Patreon Social Justice socialism Theory

NinaIllingworth December 20, 2020November 5, 2022 Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, antifa, antifascism, austerity, backlash, Black Lives Matter, Covid 19, Democratic Party, democratic socialism, DSA, Energy and Commerce Committee, Essays, FA1, how to build power, Ilhan Omar, informal writing, Jimmy Dore, lay siege to the government, Medicare for all, Medicare for All floor vote, MP6, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, organization, organizing, organizing strategy, Patreon, Patreon Blog, Politics, Protest, reactionary, rigged oligarchy, Social Justice, social media, Socialism, ST2, The Squad, Theory, Un-Civil War, uprising, white lash, whiteness

Essay: Organize or Die (Link)

A lengthy informal essay about the importance of organizing a three tiered societal movement around a radical left wing program.