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Fascism Field Notes Journals Social Justice

Scurvy October 30, 2022November 5, 2022 Adam Tooze, Akela Lacy, American fascism, Andy Rowell, anti-trans pogrom, anticapitalism, anticommunism, antifascism, Augusto Pinochet, Big Oil, CA4, capitalism, Capitalist Propaganda, CC3, Chevron, Climate Crisis, climate justice, climate science denial, cold war, conspiracy theory, corporate media, critical race theory, David Olusoga, FA1, fascism, fascist propaganda, German Fascism, Godwin's Law Is Suspended, GOP, Hannah Arendt, Hitler, independent media, JA5, January 6th, Jason Stanley, Jean-paul Sartre, Jim Crow, Journal, Justice, Larry Krasner, legal fascism, Media, Mike Worth, MP6, Nazi Germany, Nazi Party, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, Origins Of Totalitarianism, Paul Von Hindenburg, pig empire, Post-truth Society, progressive prosecutors, Propaganda, Quickshot Quotations, Quotes, Republican Party, Sam Knight, SCOTUS, ST2, stochastic terrorism, The Big Lie, The Intercept, The Kaisers Holocaust, The Wages of Destruction, The War on Sharing, Third Reich, Trumpism, TWoS, Umberto Eco, Understanding Fascism, US Midterm Elections, US politics, Wall Street, World War II

Field Notes: It Is Happening Again

It’s the weekend and our host Scurvy is back with Field Notes; all the best of Nina Illingworth’s anticapitalist social media writing from around the web.

Essays Fascism Journals Politics

NinaIllingworth August 19, 2020November 5, 2022 Adolf Hitler, Amerikan Musik, antifascism, Benito Mussolini, But He's Not Hitler, cold war, Donald Trump, Essays, Eternal Fascism, FA1, Facebook, Facebook Journals, fascism, Fascist Italy, genocide, Hannah Arendt, Homework, informal writing, Jim Crow, Journals, left wing theory, manifest destiny, Monroe Doctrine, MP6, Nazi Germany, Nazi State, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, On the Origins of Totalitarianism, scholars who study fascism, slavery, Syngman Rhee, Theory, Trump is a fascist, Umberto Eco, Ur Fascism, War on Terror, World War II

Link: “But He’s Not Hitler” Facebook Journal

A link to an essay length journal about why Americans don’t recognize fascism and offering up an essay but Umberto Eco to help them do so more effectively.

Essays Fascism Patreon socialism

NinaIllingworth June 20, 2019November 5, 2022 a history of fascism in America, American Bund, American history, American left, Amerikan Musik, anticommunism, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, civility politics, Clintonism, COINTELPRO, cold war, contrarian left, Deep Dives, Democrat fascist enablers, Democratic Socialists, Democrats, Donald Trump, Encampments, Essays, FA1, fake resistance, far right, fascism, FDR, FDR liberals, George Wallace, GOP, J Edgar Hoover, JA5, LBJ, liberalism, liberalism enables fascism, McCarthyism, neoliberal, neoliberalism breeds fascism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, paleoconservatism, Patreon, Patreon Blog, pig empire, Political Theory, Politics, Pork Reich, radical left, reactionary thought, Reaganism, Republican, Republican Party, rich fascists, Richard Nixon, right wing populism, right wing terrorism, Russiagate, Socialism, the American Tea Party, The Resistance, Theory, Trumpism, Trumpism is fascism, united front against fascism, Volkish populism, War on Terror, WD7, white nationalism

Essay: “Encampments” on my Free Patreon Blog

A deep dive essay about the importance of a united antifascist front even in the face of resistance and neoliberal co-opting operations on my free Patron Blog.

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.

Books Can't You Read Politics War

NinaIllingworth January 31, 2019November 5, 2022 40 Committee, Anaconda copper, assassination of Orlando Letelier, Augusto Pinochet, back yard imperialism, Books, Can't You Read, Chase Manhattan Bank, Chile, CIA, cold war, copper, Essays, foreign policy, forever war, Henry Kissinger, Hugo Chavez, Imperialism, International Telephone and Telegraph Company, Latin America, make the economy scream, MP6, Nicolas Maduro, Nina Illingworth, oil, Orlando Letelier, PepsiCo, pig empire, Politics, resource imperialism, Richard Nixon, Salvador Allende, September 11th 1973, Seymour Hersh, The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House, unauthorized autobiography, US State Department, Venezuela, war, WD7

“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.

Blog Books Can't You Read Police State

NinaIllingworth January 5, 2019November 5, 2022 ARPANET, blog, book review, Books, Can't You Read, Chelsea Manning, CIA, COINTELPRO, cold war, computers, DARPA, data harvesting, deep state, digital imperialism, Edward Snowden, FA1, FBI, Hoover, Imperialism, informal writing, Internet Freedom movement, Julian Assange, metadata, Military Industrial Complex, military intelligence, National Security State, NatSec, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, NSA, Offsite Writing, online surveillance, panopticon, Pentagon, police state, public private partnerships, Reviews, spying, Surveillance Valley, Surveillance Valley The Secret Military History of the Internet, the internet, the Panopticon, Tor, Vietnam War, War on Terror, WD7, whistleblowers, Wikileaks, Yasha Levine

Digital Imperialism & Yasha Levine’s Surveillance Valley CYR

A link to a book review and short discussion about Yasha Levine’s Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet on Can’t You Read.

Essays Politics Russiagate War

NinaIllingworth January 4, 2018November 5, 2022 2009 Green Movement, Afghanistan, ally, America's Forever Wars, anti-war movement, Benjamin Netanyahu, bipartisan support, bombing, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, client state, cold war, DC political establishment, Democrats, Donald Trump, doves, drone strikes, economic inequity, Empire, Essays, foreign policy, forever war, George W Bush, Giant Russia Theory, give peace a chance, Grand Ayatollah Al Khamenei, Hassan Rouhani, Imperialism, Iran, Iran Protests, Iran Russia alliance, Iranian Protests, Iraq, Islamic Republic, Israel, Ivanka Trump, John Bolton, John McCain, Kim Jong Un, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lindsey Graham, Mad Dog Mattis, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, manufacturing consent, McCarthyism, Middle East, Mike Flynn, Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, MSB, Nancy Pelosi, national security doctrine, NATO, neoconservative, neoliberal, new cold war, Nikki Haley, Observations from Outside the Death Star, oil, OODS, Pakistan, peace, Persian Gulf, Politics, President Obama, President Trump, Principlist, Putin, Qassem Soleimani, Quds Force, red-baiting, regime change, Republican, Rex Tillerson, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Russiagate, Russiagate Foreign Policy and the Coming Forever War, Russian allies, sanctions, Sand Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Soleimani, swine emperor Trump, Taliban, Tehran, terrorism, the New McCarthyism, Trump, Trump Administration, Turkey, UN sanctions, US allies, US client states, US imperialism, US Iran Nuclear deal, US political establishment, US Russian relations, US sanctions, war, war hawks, War on Terror, War with Iran, WD7, western imperialism, working class protest in Iran, World War Three

Bipartisan Support: Russiagate, Foreign Policy & the Coming Forever War – Part Two

As news comes out of Iran faster than I can write about it, we take a look at mounting evidence of a coming storm and proof that regime change in Iran is a bipartisan issue for the bloodthirsty US political establishment

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

Essays media News Politics War

NinaIllingworth September 7, 2017November 17, 2022 1994 Agreed Framework, America, Axis of Evil, Betrayal, Bill Clinton, carpet bombing, China, cold war, colonialism, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Dennis Rodman, diplomacy, DPRK, Essays, foreign policy, forever war, genocide, George Bush, human rights abuses, Imperialism, international relations, Iraq, Japan, John McCain, Kim Jong Un, Korean War, Libya, Media, Muammar Gaddafi, negotiations, News, Nikki Haley, Nina Illingworth, North Korea, North Korean Famine, nuclear non-proliferation treaty, Observations from Outside the Death Star, OODS, Opinion, pig empire, Politics, post WWII global order, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Republican, rhetoric, Russia, Saddam Hussein, sanctions, Six Things I Think, South Korea, starvation, The West, trade, Trump, Trump Administration, Trust, UN, United Nations, US military, US war crimes, USA, war, war criminal, War on Terror, WD7, World War Three, WWIII

Recommended Reading: The Truth About the North Korean “Nuclear Crisis”

Twenty links and a brief essay that explain why the only responsible option for the United States is to negotiate for peace with North Korea.

Essays Memes News Social Justice

NinaIllingworth May 15, 2017November 17, 2022 2016 Election, A Brief Thought, activism, Alec Baldwin, Alt Center, Alt Right, anti-gay bigotry, Bigotry, center-left, cold war, comedy, conspiracy theory, Democratic Party, dignity, Donald Trump, Donny Tiny Hands, Essays, fascism, gay issues, gay jokes, gay men, gay voters, Hillary Clinton, homophobia, homophobia is not art, Hypocrisy, insults, insults are not humor, JA5, LGBT, LGBT issues, LGBT voters, liberal media, liberalism, mainstream liberals, mainstream media, Media, Melissa McCarthy, Meme, MP6, nationalism, Nazi, neoliberalism, News, Nina Illingworth, Opinion, parody, poor taste, Protest, Racism, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, respect, Russiagate, Russophobia, Saturday Night Live, Sean Spicer, self colonization, sexism, Six Things I Think, SNL, Social Justice, Stephen Colbert, swine emperor, the rightward shif of the Democratic Party, Third Way, white nationalist, xenophobia

A Brief Thought: Homophobic Humor & the American Liberal Crisis of Conscience

After watching Alec Baldwin’s Trump kiss Melissa McCarthy’s Sean Spicer on SNL, Nina has had just about enough establishment liberal homophobia to last a lifetime.

Essays media Politics Russiagate

NinaIllingworth April 5, 2017November 17, 2022 2008 Democratic Primary season, 30 year service record, 3rd party, 3rd party voters, 4Chan, Alexa, Assange, automated posted, bad campaign, basement email server, Bernie Bros, Bernie Bros myth, Bernie Sanders, Berniecrats, Bill Clinton, Bill Maher, Bill Moran, billion dollar poker, Birtherism, botnet, Brietbart News, Bush lies about Iraq, Caitlin Johnstone, Chuck Schumer, classified documents, Clinton campaign, Clinton Email Server Scandal, Clinton health scandal, Clinton lost the midwest, Clinton ran a horrible campaign, Clinton scandals, ClintonWorld, cold war, conservative smears about Obama, Correct the Record, CtR Trolls, David Brock, Deep Dives, Democrat elites, Democrat establishment, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Party, Democrats, Deportocrats, DNC, DNC rigging, Donald Trump, Entitlement, environment, Essays, Facebook, Fake News, fake social media profiles, Fantastic Lies, FBI investigation, Fight for $15, free college, FSB, gaslighting, Giant Russia Theory, GOP, Green Party, hackers, health care, Hillary Clinton, Hillary is a crook, Hillary is dishonest, hostile bot networks, HRC, ICE, illegal, InfoWars, invasion of East Ukraine, Iraq, James Comey, Joy Reid, Karl Rove, Keith Olbermann, KGB, Kremlin, Kremlin pawn, liberal corporate media, liberal mainstream media, Libertarian Party, Libya, lies that lead to the Iraq War, Macedonian hoax websites, mainstream Democrats, mainstream liberals, McCarthyism, Media, mediocre candidate, Michigan, Mike Cernovich, millenials, Million Dollar Trolls, Mitt Romney, morally wrong, MP6, myopia, neoliberal, neoliberalism, new cold war, new McCarthyism, Nina Illingworth, Obama boys, Opinion, Pennsylvania, Pizzagate smear, Politics, President Obama, Rachel Maddow, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, red states, Republican, rigged 2 party system, rigging the nomination against Bernie Sanders, RT, RT News, RT supported Ron Paul, Russia, Russia Today, Russiagate, Russian Hackers, Russian trolls, sexism, Sid Blumenthal, Six Things I Think, smearing Bernie Sanders, social media, social media bots, Socialism, Spirit Cooking smear, Sputnik, swing voters, Syria, teleSur, The Clinton Foundation, the deportation machine, the emails were ALL real, the Iraq War, trolls, Trump Administration, Trump-Russia conspiracy, Trump-Russia conspiracy theory, Twitter, Twitter bots, Ukraine, Ukraine Russia conflict, unsecured private email server, US Intel, US intelligence agencies, US politics, US Secretary of State, Vladimir Putin, Wall Street, warhawk, warmonger, Wikileaks, Wisconsin, young voters

Fantastic Lies: Of Bernie Bros & Bolshevik Bot Networks

Nina takes another look at the objectively absurd twists and turns of the Russiagate conspiracy theory in the minds of mainstream liberals; now with more Bernie Bros!

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