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

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.

Fascism Media Madness Theory Videos

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Film Sessions: Crypto-Fascism and a Modern “Shirt Group” on Media Madness

In this edition of Film Sessions we’re looking at Renegade Cut’s study of the Proud Boys to understand how crypto-fascist propaganda works.

Fascism Media Madness News Police State

NinaIllingworth September 30, 2021November 17, 2022 Adam Johnson, Adolph Reed, Aja Romano, Amanda Gailey, American fascism, Amerikan Musik, analysis, Andrew Ross, Christina Cauterucci, Copaganda, Daily Dot, David Graeber, FA1, Fantastic Lies, far right, fascism, George Monbiot, In the Aggregate, Jacobin, Jason Stanley, John Knefel, Lauren Gill, leftism, long covid, Luke Savage, Marin Scarlett, Matt Cohen, Media, Media Madness, Mikael Thalen, Mother Jones, MP6, new writing, News, Nina Illingworth, nonsite, Novara Media, Offsite Writing, Police, police state, Politics, Propaganda, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Scott Hechinger, Seeing Red, Shane Little, Slate, The American Prospect, The Column, The Guardian, The Intercept, Theory, Twitter, Vox, Woke, Youtube

In The Aggregate: Reactions on Media Madness

I’m taking a snapshot of Pig Empire reaction by examining some essays and articles from around the left(ish) wing internet; on Media Madness.

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.

Anarcharachnid Canada FotB Police State

NinaIllingworth June 30, 2021November 5, 2022 ACAB, activism, Anarcharachnid, anticapitalism, antifa, antifascism, apartheid regime, arresting journalists, austerity, authoritarianism, Canada, Canadian housing bubble, City of Toronto, class war, class warfare, clearing encampments, colonialism, colonizers, Covid eugenics, double-speak, evictions, FA1, FotB, fragility, Friends of the Blog, gaslighting, homeless encampments, homeless people are people, homelessness in Canada, housing crisis, housing is a human right, human rights, Indigenous people, JA5, John Tory, Lawn Order, man on the ground, mass evictions, militarized police, mutual aid, neoliberalism, No Justice No Peace, Orwellian, pepper spray, Police, police state, police violence, Protest, Rue Love Law, settler colonialism, Social Justice, ST2, Star Security, thugs for capitalism, Toronto, Trinity Bellwoods Park, Tuesday June 22nd 2021, WD7

Lawn Order at Trinity Bellwoods Park by Anarcharachnid

In the Pig Empire city of Toronto, the Mayor sent an army to evict two dozen homeless people from a safe park community; and we had a man on the ground to witness it in real time.

FotB Social Justice socialism Walker

NinaIllingworth June 2, 2021November 5, 2022 1776 Report, activism, Alex Ingram, Amy Donofrio, anti-blackness, Black Lives Matter, BLM, CA4, capitalism and racism, capitalism and white supremacy, Chris Walker, Confederacy, Confederate iconography, Confederate symbols, critical race theory, cultural hegemony, Deyona Burton, direct action, DSA, FA1, fascism, Florida, George Floyd, George Floyd Protests, IWW, Jacksonville, Jim Crow, Klu Klux Klan, MP6, Nathan B. Forrest, Racism, revolution, revolutionary praxis, Riverside High School, Robert E Lee, Robert E Lee High School, Ron DeSantis, social inequality, Social Justice, Socialism, solidarity, ST2, Teen Vogue, Temitope Oriola, trauma, Walker, Wayne Flynt, white nationalism, white supremacist terrorism, white supremacy, whiteness

A Heritage, of Hate by Chris Walker

IWW organizer Chris Walker returns to talk about how the fight to change school names in Florida is a continuation of our larger battle against white supremacy.

Canada Journals media Neoliberalism

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Journal: CBC, the Housing Bubble, and Class War Propaganda

A short and informal journal about the casual way Canadian media sells pro-capitalist propaganda and policies as being good for labor class people.

Can't You Read Fascism media Politics

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The War on Sharing: Pretending Is Not a Strategy

In our newest War On Sharing journal, Nina takes an informal look at the terrifying truth everyone in the ruling establishment knows but won’t say; the fascists are winning.

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.

Climate Crisis Media Madness socialism Videos

NinaIllingworth May 19, 2021November 5, 2022 activism, addiction to oil, agriculture, anticapitalism, CA4, capitalism, capitalism goes or we do, capitalism is killing us, carbon emissions, CC3, class war, climate catastrophe, climate change, Climate Crisis, climate crisis is real, climate crisis protests, climate science, climate science denial, climate versus capital, dark money, degrow movement, drought, Exxon funded propaganda, FA1, feedback loops, film sessions, food insecurity, fossil fuels, global warming, greenhouse gasses, Greta Thunberg, imperialism is killing the planet, infinite growth, JT Chapman, left wing Youtube, Media Madness, Naomi Klein, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, oil and gas, Propaganda, ruling classes, Second Thought, Socialism, ST2, The Carter Doctrine, The Profit Motive, Theory, tipping points, Video, water crisis, Water Wars, WD7, world on boil, Youtube

Film Sessions: Capitalism and a World on Boil

Our Film Sessions feature is back to analyze videos about capitalism and climate catastrophe from a familiar favorite of mine, YouTube creator Second Thought.

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.