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Canada FotB Podcast Police State

Scurvy January 17, 2023January 17, 2023 Canada, citizen journalism, civil rights violations, Crackdown Podcast, drug war, first person testimony, FotB, Friends of the Blog, Garth Mullins, Indigenous Rights, Mass incarceration, MP6, neoliberalism, Podcast, Police, police budgets, police state, policing, policing for profit, poverty, racialized incarceration, Scurvy, Scurvy's Selection, Socialism, the prison industrial complex, the war on drugs, victims of the drug war, violent policing

Scurvy’s Selection: Crackdown Podcast

In today’s Selection, our host Scurvy brings us the straight dope about the war on drugs by highlighting first person accounts on the amazing Crackdown Podcast.

Canada Capitalism FotB Podcast

Scurvy December 8, 2022 anticapitalism, blog, bread price fixing scandal, British Commonwealth, CA4, Canada, Canadaland, Canadaland COMMONS, capitalism, CC3, Climate Crisis, colonialism, corporate greed, decolonization, dehumanization, exploitation, extractive capitalism, extractivism, FotB, Friends of the Blog, genocide, grocery monopoly, Indigenous Rights, land theft, monopoly, monopoly power, neocolonialism, Podcast, price fixing, resource imperialism, Scurvy, Scurvy's Selection, stolen land, WD7, Weston family, white supremacy

Scurvy’s Selection – Canadaland COMMONS: Monopoly

In this week’s Selection, Scurvy steps back to look at the larger issues of monopoly power and resource imperialism, with help from the folks at Canadaland.

Decolonization FotB Podcast Social Justice

Scurvy November 15, 2022November 16, 2022 against borders, anti-Indigenous policy, antifascism, borders are imperialism, Canada, colonialism, Current Affairs, decolonization, FA1, FotB, Friends of the Blog, genocide, Imperialism, Indigenous antifascism, Indigenous resistance, Indigenous thought, Manitoba, Mary-Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Media, Media Indigena, multi-media, Podcast, pretendians, Rick Harp, Scurvy, Scurvy's Selection, settler colonialism, Social Justice, ST2, Turtle Island, WD7

Scurvy’s Selection: Media Indigena Podcast

Scurvy is back again with a hot new left-leaning podcast to share; this week we’re working towards decolonization with Rick Harp’s Media Indigena Podcast.

Blog Capitalism Climate Crisis Quotes

NinaIllingworth November 14, 2022 Alanis Obomsawin, anticapitalism, blog, CA4, Can't You Read, Canada, capitalism, capitalist ideology, capitalist realism, CC3, class war, climate catastrophe, Climate Crisis, colonial capitalism, colonialism, conservation, decolonization, extractivism, Indigenous environmentalism, Indigenous thought, longtermism, Nina Illingworth, Paul Hawken, pillage, Quickshot Quotations, Quotes, Socialism, ST2, the end of capitalism, Theory, WD7

Quickshot Quotations: Sacrifice and Greed

Using a commonly misattributed quote from Alanis Obomsawin, Nina talks about why capitalist ideology itself is preventing us from stopping climate catastrophe.

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.

Canada Journals media Neoliberalism

NinaIllingworth June 1, 2021November 5, 2022 2008 Financial Crisis, a nation of renters, anti-labor propaganda, banking, CA4, Canada, Canadian housing bubble, capitalism, capitalist, CBC, class war, FA1, Facebook Journals, Fantastic Lies, Finance, homelessness, housing activists, housing crisis, housing is a human right, informal writing, interest rates, investor class, Journals, Mao was right, Marxism, Media, mortgage rates, mortgages, MP6, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Opinion, pandemic, pandemic profiteering, parasitic capitalism, people over profits, priced out, Propaganda, public broadcasting, rent control, rentier class, rigged economy, Socialism, ST2, the extraction of rents, the propaganda model, the ruling classes, two tiers of access

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.

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 Memes News War

NinaIllingworth January 17, 2018November 5, 2022 Afghanistan War, arms sales, babies in incubators, Bana is propaganda, Barack Obama, Blackwater, bribery, CA4, cable news, Canada, Citizen's United, CNN, Deep Dives, Deregulation, Desert Storm, Dick Cheney, Dwight Eisenhower, Essays, Fantastic Lies, Fear and Droning, foreign policy, forever war, France, genocide, George Bush, Germany, GHW Bush, Giant Russia Theory, Gulf of Tonkin incident, Halliburton, IMF, Imperialism, Invasion of Libya, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Israel, jingoism, KSA Iran proxy war, LBJ, Libya, Living Room War, Lyndon Johnson, manufacturing consent, media consolidation, Meme, mercenaries, Military Industrial Complex, MP6, Nancy Pelosi, national security complex, NATO, NATO war with Russia, NBC News, neocolonialism, neoliberal war machine, neoliberalism, News, Nina Illingworth, NSA domestic surveillance, Observations from Outside the Death Star, OODS, Pentagon, perpetual war machine, Persian Gulf War, pig empire, political class, pro-war lobby, Propaganda, proxy war in Yemen, public and private partnerships, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Russiagate, Saudi Arabia, self censorship, Smedley Butler, ST2, Syria, the endless war show, the New Cold War, the New McCarthyism, the US economy depends on war, the White Helmets are propaganda, UK, US backed Saudi war crimes in Yemen, US corporate media, US military, US Russia Proxy War, USA, Vietnam War, Vladimir Putin, Walter Cronkite, war, War as Entertainment model, war economy, war for profit, war on drugs, War on Terror, war time censorship, WD7, western banks, western imperial powers, White House, worshiping the free market, Yemen

Fear and Droning: Manufacturing Consent for War as a Public-Private Partnership

After finally finishing a protracted move, I’m back with a thorough study of the US perpetual war machine and why the elite class in western democracies are always manufacturing consent for conflict

Essays Memes News Russiagate War

NinaIllingworth December 31, 2017November 17, 2022 A Brief Thought, Afghanistan, ally, America's Forever Wars, anti-Muslim bigotry, arms sales, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bigotry, bombing, Canada, China, client state, cold war, crushing dissent, DC political establishment, Democrats, Donald Trump, doves, drone strikes, Empire, Essays, fascism, foreign policy, forever war, genocide, genocide in Yemen, George W Bush, Giant Russia Theory, Hezbollah, Hillary Clinton, Imperialism, Iran, Iraq, Israel, John Kerry, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Libya, Mad Dog Mattis, McCarthyism, Meme, Middle East, Mike Flynn, Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, MSB, NATO, natural gas, neoconservative, neoliberal, new cold war, News, Nikki Haley, Nina Illingworth, Observations from Outside the Death Star, oil, OODS, Pakistan, Persian Gulf, pig empire, pipeline wars, Politics, President Obama, President Trump, public opinion polls, Putin, Qatar, Racism, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, red-baiting, Republican, Rex Tillerson, Russia, Russiagate, Russiagate Foreign Policy and the Coming Forever War, Russian allies, Saudi Arabia, Six Things I Think, Steve Bannon, swine emperor Trump, Syria, Syrian pipeline, terrorism, the New McCarthyism, Trump, Trump Administration, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, US allies, US backed atrocities in Yemen, US client states, US imperialism, US Military Industrial Compex, US political establishment, US Russian relations, war, war hawks, War on Terror, War with Iran, WD7, Wesley Clark, western imperialism, white nationalism, William Jennings Bryan, World War Three, Yemen

Gimme Shelter: Russiagate, Foreign Policy & the Coming Forever War – Part One

After a holiday break, I’m back with a detailed and heavily-sourced look at what I think is the coming US “forever war” in the Middle East

Blog Site Updates War

NinaIllingworth December 1, 2017November 5, 2022 American forever wars, American intervention, blog, Britain, Canada, capitalism and war, China, CIA, colonialism, Essays, Five Eyes, forever war, global conflict, Imperialism, informal writing, introduction to the Forever War, Latin America, Meme, MENA, Middle East, NATO, neocolonialism, new cold war, New Forever War, new page, News, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Pentagon, pig empire, regime change, Russia, Site Updates, splash page, U.S. Imperialism, United States of America, war, war is a business, WD7, western empire, world wars

Introduction to the New (Old) Forever War

A short blog post about America’s perpetual quest for conflict, that introduces our newly updated Pig Empire imperialism page – The New (Old) Forever War.

Essays Justice Opinion Politics

NinaIllingworth June 14, 2016November 5, 2022 2016, activism, Afghan American, Al-Qaeda, anti-LGBT violence, AR 15, bisexual, Canada, Clinton, Deep Dives, Democratic Party, Domestic Terrorism, Essays, Florida, Fox News, gay, Gun Control, gun laws, gun lobby, Gun Violence, hate crime, Hezbollah, ISIS, Islam, Islamic extremism, Islamophobia, JA5, Justice, Latino Americans, lesbian, LGBT, mass shooting tracker, Mass Shootings, mental health, military-grade guns, MP6, National Rifle Association, Nina Illingworth, NRA, One Seven Six, Opinion, Orlando Shooting, Politics, public safety, Pulse Nightclub, radical Islam, radicalization, Republican Party, semi-automatic rifles, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, terrorism, trans, Trump, USA, violence

One Seven Six

Nina takes a cold, hard look at the terrifying Pulse Nightclub mass shooting in Orlando and deconstructs the media spin designed to appropriate the violent deaths of almost 50 LGBT Americans for political purposes.

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