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

Books Can't You Read Politics Social Justice

NinaIllingworth May 8, 2019November 5, 2022 2020 Election, America is still segregated, American history, anti-racism, blockbusting, book review, Books, Can't You Read, capitalism, colonialism, colorblind racism, covert white supremacy, Donald Trump, Economics, exploitation, FA1, fascism, History, history of racist ideas, Ibram X Kendi, JA5, Joe Biden, neocolonialism, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, NIMBYism, Nina Illingworth, Not In My Back Yard, Offsite Writing, Politics, Racism, racism is profitable for some, racist ideas, Reviews, segregation, Social Justice, ST2, Stamped From the Beginning, the economics of racism, white supremacy

Stamped From the Beginning, NIMBYs & Blockbusting

Links to an offsite review of Kendi’s Stamped From the Beginning, and a discussion about NIMBY liberal racism in the context of the 2020 election.

Blog media Media Madness Sports War

NinaIllingworth May 7, 2019November 5, 2022 Adam Silver, Bill Clinton, Black Grantland, blog, CA4, capitalism, corporate propaganda, ESPN, Fantastic Lies, genocide, Golden State Warriors, human rights violations, Kagame is a butcher, Kevin Durant, Masai Ujiri, massacre of Hutus, Media, Media Madness, NBA, NBA Africa, NBA loves war criminal Kagame, NBA supports genocide, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Paul Kagame, pig empire, Propaganda, Rwanda, Rwandan genocide, Rwandan Patriotic Front, Sports, The Undefeated, War Crimes, war criminal, WD7, white washing a mass murderer

Bonzo Goes to Bitburg: NBA Edition, on Media Madness

A quick Blog on Media Madness about why the NBA and ESPN can get stuffed after feting genocidal killer Paul Kagame during a Warriors playoff game.

Neoliberalism Patreon socialism Theory

NinaIllingworth May 4, 2019November 5, 2022 anarchism, antifascism, bosses, bourgeoisie, bourgeoisie values, CA4, capitalism, casino lottery, class, class in America, class politics, class theory, class war, definition of class, Essays, exploitation, extraction, global capitalism, labor, labor class, left wing theory, Leftist Theory, living conditions, manager class, Marxism, Marxist Theory, middle class, modern class, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, no war but class war, Occupy Wall Street, Offsite Writing, overseer class, Patreon, Patreon Blog, petite bourgeoisie, pig empire, PMC, Politics, poverty, Professional Class, ruling classes, slavery, Socialism, ST2, the class war never ended, the owner class, Theory, wage slavery, you are probably not middle class

A Functional Class Framework for Modern Western Leftists

A Patreon Blog essay that updates the terminology of class warfare and explains why you probably aren’t middle class if you’re reading this.

Climate Crisis Neoliberalism Patreon War

NinaIllingworth April 30, 2019November 5, 2022 activism, CA4, capitalism, capitalism is mass murder, CC3, climate catastrophe, Climate Crisis, colonialism, Doomer poetry, emotional writing, environmental activism, Essays, extinction event, extraction of rents, FA1, financialization, fossil fuels, globalization, Imperialism, informal writing, JA5, Journals, killing people for profit, left wing theory, Left Wing Theory Page, Marxism, Marxist analysis, Marxist historian, mass murder, neocolonialism, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, oligarchy, Patreon, Patreon Blog, plutocracy, Protest, Rent Your Life, rich people are trying to kill you, Socialism, ST2, technocracy, Theory, war, war on the environment, WD7, We Live Lies, yes it's that bad

No Illusions (About How Bad It Is)

A link to a Patreon Blog essay discussion the bald-faced reality that rich people are absolutely trying to murder you for profit.

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.

Books Can't You Read Police State Social Justice

NinaIllingworth January 6, 2019November 5, 2022 activism, anti-racism, Assata Shakur, Assata was framed, Assata: An Autobiography, attacks on protesters, Black Panther Party, Black power, blog, Books, Can't You Read, capitalism, Civil Rights movement, COINTELPRO, coverup, Cuba, establishment power, exile, exploitation, FA1, FBI, federal police, frame up, Hoover, informal writing, JA5, liberal antiracism is a joke, liberalism, liberals, lie, MLK, Police, police state, policing, Racism, Social Justice, Socialism, ST2, state power, the myth of tolerance, war on the Black Panthers, white liberals, white moderate

Assata is Innocent & the Myth of Moderate Liberal Tolerance

A link to a short Can’t You Read discussion about the innocence of Assata Shakur and the failure of white moderate liberal anti-racism.

Blog Books Can't You Read Neoliberalism

NinaIllingworth December 29, 2018November 5, 2022 2008 Financial Crisis, activism, Alan Greenspan, austerity, Ayn Rand, bailout, banker, blog, book review, Books, CA4, Can't You Read, capitalism, capitalism as religion, casino, corporate welfare, Deregulation, Essays, FEC, Federal Exchange Commission, Foreclosure Crisis, Fraud, free market fundamentalism, Griftopia, hot money, investment banking, laissez faire, Matt Taibbi, Meme, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Racism, speculators, the fraud economy, Theory

Blog: Ayn Rand, Alan Greenspan & Matt Taibbi’s Griftopia

A collection of links to my writing about Taibbi’s Griftopia, including an essay about Ayn Rand & Alan Greenspan.

Books Can't You Read Police State Social Justice

NinaIllingworth December 22, 2018November 5, 2022 13th Amendment, blog, book review, Books, Can't You Read, capitalism, capitalism is white supremacy, critical race theory, exploitation, extraction, FA1, informal writing, JA5, Jim Crow, knowing without knowing, Mass incarceration, Michelle Alexander, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, prison, prison labor, prison labor is slave labor, prisoner, prisoner rights, private prisons, Psychology, racialized incarceration, Racism, Rants, slaver labor, slavery, Social Justice, systemic racism, TADMS, Tales from the American DMZ, The New Jim Crow, white supremacy, whiteness

Blog: New Jim Crow Mini-Review & Commentary (Link)

Link to a short blog post combining a mini-review of The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander with additional commentary about cognitive deceptions.

Essays media Patreon Theory

NinaIllingworth December 12, 2018November 5, 2022 capitalism, Chomsky, context, corporate media, Essays, Fantastic Lies, framing, independent media, Inventing Reality, longform writing, manufacturing consent, Media, media bias, media manipulation, media studies, Media Theory, Michael Parenti, MP6, myth of a free press, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, no free press, Offsite Writing, oligarchy, Patreon, Patreon Blog, Propaganda, right wing press, Socialism, ST2, Theory

Essay: Lying Without Lying (Link)

A link to a 2018 Media Theory essay on Patreon that I wrote about the manipulation of framing, context & depth to lie without lying in the media.

Blog Memes News War

NinaIllingworth January 2, 2018November 5, 2022 $700B Defense Budget, 9/11 attacks in NYC, A Brief Thought, Afghanistan, American exceptionalism, American Muslims, anti-Muslim bigotry, arms sales, bankers love war, blog, Bush, capitalism, casualties, CIA, Civil Liberties, corporations love war, drone warfare, elites love war, endless war, endless war on terror, environmental catastrophe, FA1, fascism, FBI, Fear and Droning, folly, foreign policy, forever war, Global Trumpism, health care, Iran, Iraq, Islamophobia, madness, Meme, MENA, Middle East, militarized police, Military Industrial Complex, millions dead, MP6, Muslims, NATO, News, Nina Illingworth, nobody was fired for the Iraq War, North Africa, Obama, Observations from Outside the Death Star, OODS, Op-Ed, Patriot Act, Pentagon, pig empire, police state, Politics, PTSD, Russia, social safety net, Surveillance State, terrorism, terrorist, trillion dollar wars, Trump, US arms sales, US drone assassination program, USA, veterans, war, War on Terror, war on the environment, waste, WD7, wounded

Fear & Droning: A War on Everyone, Including Ourselves

My internet conked out on New Years Even and it was either write about something I knew from memory, or read a book written by Hillary Clinton; so let’s talk about the endless US war on everyone, including ourselves.

Essays Neoliberalism News Theory

NinaIllingworth November 29, 2017November 17, 2022 600M dollar CIA contract, A Brief Thought, abuse, Amazon, Amazon vs the World, anti-labor, anticapitalism, austerity, bidding, Black Friday, bribery, brutal work culture, business, CA4, capitalism, carnivore, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, class warfare, corporate welfare, could computing, dancing monkeys, death of Democracy, Democracy, Econ, Economics, elites, Essays, exploitation, feudalism, Foxconn, free money, fuck Jeff Bezos, government for elites by elites, graft, Jeff Bezos, Koch Bros, labor, labor law, labor rights, legalized bribery, libertarian, low wages, market share, Meme, money in politics, monopoly, National Razor Now, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, new Gilded Age, News, Nina Illingworth, oligarchy, on the take, online retail, Op-Ed, Politics, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, retail, rich people, right to work, ripping off the tax payer, scam, Six Things I Think, Socialism, special economic zone, ST2, tax credits, tech bro, tech industry, Theory, Washington Post, workers rights

A Brief Thought: An Empire of One

I’m back with a look at the growing power of Amazon founder and Washington Post CEO Jeff Bezos; being the richest man on earth has it’s advantages but is catering to corporate elites killing US Democracy? In a word, yes.