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Books Can't You Read Essays Politics

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Insane Clown President & Bernie’s Path to the Nomination

A link to an offsite review of Taibbi’s Insane Clown President & Bernie’s 2020 Primary Strategy, on Can’t You Read.

Essays media News Russiagate

NinaIllingworth February 6, 2019November 17, 2022 2016 US Presidential Election, 21 states election systems hacked, Alex Padilla, AP, Associated Press, Atlantic Council, Belarus, Bernie Sanders, Bloomberg News, Brexit, Brian Ross, British Intelligence, British nationalism, broken bombshell, California, Christopher Steele, CIA, CIA mole Ken Dilanian, Clinton campaign, CNN, corporate media, debunking, debunking Russiagate, Democratic Party, Department of Homeland Security, Deutsche Bank, DHS, dissent, DNC Hack, Donald Trump, Doug Johnson Hatlem, Dutch foreign minister, Dutch Intelligence, Dutch media, edits and corrections, Essays, Facebook, Fake News, Fantastic Lies, FBI, Flynn, Fusion GPS, German police, Giant Russia Theory, Glenn Greenwald, Glenn Simpson, GOP, hacked voting registrtaions, hacking, Hallbe Zijlstra, Hamilton 68, hashtag, Hillary Clinton, Impeach Trump, IP addresses, ISIS, Jason Stein, Jeroen van der Veer, Jill Stein, Josh Marshall, Kazakhstan, Ken Dilanian, Klepto Kaiser, liberal mainstream media, live reports, London housing market, Manchurian Candidate, Matt OBrien, Matt Taibbi, McCarthyism, Media, Michael Flynn, MIG, Mike Flynn, Molly McKew, Mueller investigation, NBC, neocon, new cold war, new McCarthyism, New Yorker, News, Nina Illingworth, NSA, nuclear war, OODS, opposition research, Patrick Marley, Patrick Wintour, Paul Manafort, People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, Politico, Politics, Putin, raw intelligence, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Release the Memo hashtag, retractions, Reuters, Robert Mueller, Rolling Stone, RT, Russia, Russia desk, Russia Today, Russiagate, Russian bots, Russian Hacking, Russian trolls, Sam Theilman, shady, Shell Oil, Six Things I Think, skepticism, Steele dossier, Steve Arons, swine emperor Trump, Talking Points Memo, the Baltic States, The Guardian, The Intercept, the Netherlands, think tanks, Tom LoBianco, treason, Trump, Trump Dossier, Trump Transition, Trump-Russia, Truthdig, TV, Twitter, Ukraine, US media, US politics, US sanctions against Russia, US Senate, US Senate Judiciary Committee, USA Today, Vkontakte, Vladimir Putin, walk backs, Wall Street Journal, Washington Free Beacon, Washington Post, Wisconsin

Insidiocracy: Russiagate, Corporate Media & Losing My Religion – Part Four

Part four of a five part series looking at mainstream corporate media retractions, walk backs, and debunked articles about Russia and reflections on my own personal experiences with the objectively surreal “Russiagate” saga.

Books Can't You Read Essays War

NinaIllingworth February 3, 2019November 5, 2022 American history, Books, Bush, Bush Jr, Can't You Read, CIA, CIA black ops in Latin America, Clinton, colonialism, Cuba, death squads, Empire's Workshop, Empire’s Workshop: Latin America the United States and the Rise of the New Imperialism, Essays, fascism, Ford Motors, forever war, France, Good Neighbor Policy, Greg Grandin, Hugo Chavez, Imperialism, John Bolton, Latin America, Libya, MP6, Nicaragua, Nicolas Maduro, Nina Illingworth, Obama, Offsite Writing, oil, Panama, pig empire, Portugal, regime change, Spain, Spanish American War, Standard Oil, the United States, Trump, Trump coup in Venezuela, United Fruit Company, Venezuela, war, WD7, William Walker

Empire’s Workshop & US Imperialist History in Latin America

A brief review of “Empire’s Workshop” and a discussion about the Pig Empire’s endless quest to control Latin America through various forms of violence.

Books Can't You Read Essays Site Updates

NinaIllingworth February 1, 2019November 17, 2022 Allende, Asasata An Autobiography, Assata Shakur, blog, Books, Can't You Read, Chavez, Chile, Chomsky on Anarchism, Essays, Griftopia, Henry Kissinger, Imperialism, Internet Freedom movement, liberalism, Loaded, Maduro, Matt Taibbi, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, Odds and Ends, Patreon Blog, pig empire, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Reviews, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, settler colonialism, Seymour Hersh, Site Updates, Surveillance Valley, The Price of Power, Tumblr, Venezuela, WD7, white moderate, Yasha Levine

Odds and Ends: January 2019

A brief recap of my offsite writing and page updates for January 2019.

Books Can't You Read Politics War

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“Backyard” Déjà Vu & Sy Hersh’s Price of Power

A discussion about Hersh’s Price of Power, and the similarities in US Foreign Policy towards Chile’s Allende and Venezuela’s Maduro on Can’t You Read.

Essays media News Russiagate

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Insidiocracy: Russiagate, Corporate Media & Losing My Religion – Part Three

Part three of a five part series looking at mainstream corporate media retractions, walk backs, and debunked articles about Russia and reflections on my own personal experiences with the objectively surreal “Russiagate” saga.

Essays media News Russiagate

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Insidiocracy: Russiagate, Corporate Media & Losing My Religion – Part Two

Part two of a five part series looking at mainstream corporate media retractions, walk backs, and debunked articles about Russia and reflections on my own personal experiences with the objectively surreal “Russiagate” saga.

Essays media News Russiagate

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Insidiocracy: Russiagate, Corporate Media & Losing My Religion – Part One

Part one of a five part series looking at mainstream corporate media retractions, walk backs, and debunked articles about Russia and reflections on my own personal experiences with the objectively surreal “Russiagate” saga.

Books Can't You Read Social Justice War

NinaIllingworth January 19, 2019November 5, 2022 African slavery, America as a corporation, America as a public private partnership, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, blog, Books, British Crown, Can't You Read, capitalism, chattel slavery, Christianity and colonialism, colonialism, colonists, colonization, cotton, Crown sponsored corporations, Essays, European colonialism, FA1, fascism, firearms, firearms and white supremacy, foundational myths, genocide, guns, Imperialism, Indigenous nations, Indigenous people, informal writing, JA5, land theft, legacy of colonialism, legacy of fascism, Loaded, Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment, mass murder, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Quotes, Racism, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Second Amendment, settler-colonial corporate enterprise, slavery, Social Justice, ST2, the project of colonialism, US history, war, white supremacy, whiteness

Dunbar-Ortiz’s Loaded & America as a Corporate Enterprise

A link to an offsite essay about Roxanne Dubar-Ortiz’s “Loaded” and the true and terrifying origins of the American capitalist project.

Essays media Politics Social Justice

NinaIllingworth January 16, 2019November 5, 2022 2020 Dem Primary, 2020 US Election, Alex Thompson, Anderson Cooper, Arturo Carmona, Bernie 2016, Bernie 2020, Bernie Bros myth, Bernie Sanders, Bill Velazquez, California Nurses Association, Chuck Todd, civil law, class war, CNN, Colin Moir, corporate media, Deep Dives, defamation, Democratic National Convention 2016, Democratic Party, Dianne Feinstein, Eoin Higgins, Essays, Fantastic Lies, felt, feminism, Forward, framing, Friends of Bernie, gender based discrimination, Giulianna Di Lauro, harassment, Hillary Clinton, Huffington Post, Jeff Weaver, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Katie Benner, Kristian Denny Todd, liberal establishment, Linda Sarsour, Marco Antonio Regil, Masha Mendieta, Me Too, Media, Medicare for all, Meet the Press, MP6, MSNBC, Nevada, New York Times, Obama boys, Our Revolution, Politico, Politics, Propaganda, ratfucking, Rich Pelletier, Robert Becker, RoseAnn DeMoro, Sady Doyle, Sarah Slamen, Senator Sanders, sexism, Sexual Harassment, Social Justice, Sydney Ember, The Hill, toxic masculinity in US politics, Virginia Jeffries, Winnie Wong, women's rights, Zoey Jordan Salsbury

Fantastic Lies: Special Ratf*cking Edition Part Two

The battle for the 2020 Dem Nomination has started early this time and the corporate media smear machine is already after Bernie Sanders – Part 2

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Fantastic Lies: Special Ratf*cking Edition Part One

The battle for the 2020 Democratic Nomination has started early this time and the corporate media smear machine is already in top gear; on Bernie Sanders, toxic campaign culture and the fine art of ratf*cking…