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Books Can't You Read Essays Justice War

NinaIllingworth June 4, 2019November 5, 2022 Afghanistan, Baghdad’s Bloody Sunday, Betsy DeVos, Blackwater, Blackwater The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, Books, Can't You Read, contractor army, crusader, Department of Justice, DoJ, Donald Trump, Erik Prince, Essays, FA1, forever war, genocide, GOP, intelligence contractors, Iraq, Iraq occupation, Islamophobia, Jeremy Scahill, mass murder, mercenaries, military contractors, Nicholas Slatten, Nicholas Slatten pardon, Nina Illingworth, Nisour Square massacre, Offsite Writing, pardoning war criminals to fire up the base, pig empire, Politics, Presidential Pardon, private intelligence, Republican, Reviews, travesty of justice, Trump, Trump coup in Venezuela, Venezuela, War Crimes, WD7

Blackwater and the Slatten Pardon on Can’t You Read

A combination book review and current affairs essay on Can’t You Read that talks about Trump’s pardon power, Erik Prince, and Jeremy Scahill’s “Blackwater.”

Books Essays News Site Updates

NinaIllingworth June 1, 2019November 17, 2022 blogger, Books, Can't You Read, Essays, Facebook, link dump, Media Madness, News, Nina Illingworth, Odds and Ends, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Patreon Blog, Rec Reads, recap, Recommended Reading, Site Updates, Six Things I Think, Tumblr

Odds and Ends: February to May 2019

A recap of my writing from February to May 2019 with links to everything published off-site.

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 Patreon Theory

NinaIllingworth May 29, 2019November 5, 2022 1996 Telecom Act, American history, cable news, class, class war, corporate media, Debunking the Myth of a Forgotten American Free Press, Essays, Fantastic Lies, for profit media, forever war, History, Iraq War, Jeff Bezos, Joe Hill, journalism, Julian Assange, left wing theory, Media, media lied us into war, media lies to you for power, media myths, Media Theory, Michael Parenti, MP6, mythmaking, narrative, Nina Illingworth, Occupy Wall Street, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Propaganda, rich people own the media, ST2, The Post, The Post is a narrative building movie, Theory, Vietnam War, war, Watergate, Wikileaks, WMDs, yellow journalism

The Myth of a Forgotten American Free Press

A short Patreon essay about why corporate media-created narratives about their own role in checking the powerful are bunk.

Climate Crisis Essays News Politics

NinaIllingworth May 24, 2019November 17, 2022 Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Alt Right, anti-climate science, AOC, Bernie Sanders, Beto ORourke, big business, border militias, Bush, capitalism, CC3, Chuck Schumer, climate change, Climate Chaos, Climate Crisis, Corporate Fascism, Democratic Party, Democratic Socialists, Deregulation, DNC, Donald Trump, Donations, DSA, ecofascism, Economics, EPA, Essays, FA1, fascism, fossil fuels, fracking, GOP, Joe Biden, Koch Brothers, libertarians, Mercer family, MP6, Nancy Pelosi, Naomi Klein, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, neonazi, News, Nina Illingworth, Obama, Palooka Joe, Pinkertons, plutocrats, Politics, reactionary, Reagan, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Republican, right wing paramilitaries, Scott Pruitt, Silicon Valley, Six Things I Think, Stephen Miller, Tea Party, Tech Bros, the Green New Deal, Tom Perez, white nationalism

Six Things I Think: Tomb-World Politics Edition

Climate Catastrophe is unquestionably the single most important issue of our era; which is why it’s now become a full time culture war battleground in America.

Essays Media Madness Neoliberalism Wall Street

NinaIllingworth May 20, 2019November 5, 2022 2008 Financial Crisis, banks, CA4, derivative trading, Economics, Essays, federally insured gambling, Finance, Fraud, Griftopia, Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan Chase, London Whale scandal, Matt Taibbi, Media Madness, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, OCC, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Offsite Writing, OTC derivative trades, pension funds, stock derivatives, the global economy is a ponzi scheme, Wall Street, Wall Street on Parade

Distant Early Warning on Media Madness

An article about JP Morgan Chase’s 2.2 trillion dollar bespoke betting time bomb and why it could pop at pretty much any time, on Media Madness.

Patreon Police State Social Justice Theory

NinaIllingworth May 18, 2019November 5, 2022 African Americans, anti racist intellectuals, anti-racism, anticapitalism, Black America, Black Intellectuals, Black Power Movement, capitalism, Civil Rights movement, civil war, class war, COINTELPRO, Economics, economics of racism, Essays, exploitation, FA1, Fred Hampton, genocide, how to get shot in America, J Edgar Hoover, JA5, Jim Crow, Kwame Ture, left wing theory, Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, MLK Jr, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Patreon Blog, Police, police state, Propaganda, race and class for the undercaste, racialized incarceration, Racism, Racism is profitable for the rich, racist propaganda, slavery, Social Justice, social sciences, Socialism, ST2, street racism, structural racism, the Black experience in America, The FBI killed Malcolm and Chairman Fred, Theory, WD7

“How to Get Shot in America” on Patreon

A link to one of my best essays, discussing how talking about where racism, meets capitalism, often results in assassination by the cracker aristocracy.

Essays Media Madness Neoliberalism Politics

NinaIllingworth May 16, 2019November 5, 2022 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, African Americans, analysis, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Biden is a racist, Biden worked with segregationists, capitalism, CBC, Congressional Black Caucus, democratic socialism, Essays, Fantastic Lies, forecasting, Jim Clyburn, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Kingmaking, liberal establishment, Media, Media Madness, media narratives, money in politics, MP6, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Politics, rigged, screwing Bernie, Socialism, South Carolina, the plot to stop Bernie, The War Between Us, voter demographics

Kingmaking on Media Madness

A painfully accurate 2020 Dem nomination forecast that I nevertheless managed to ignore when picking Sanders to win; on Media Madness.

Essays News Politics War

NinaIllingworth May 15, 2019November 17, 2022 aluminum tubes, babies in incubators, Barack Obama, Bibi Netanyahu, Bill Clinton, Cater Doctrine, CIA, Donald Trump, DPRK, drone attacks, Elliot Abrams, Essays, false flag, genocide, George W Bush, GHW Bush, Gulf of Tonkin, Hassan Rouhani, Hillary Clinton, Houthi rebels, Imperialism, Iran, Iraq War, Islamic Republic of Iran, Islamic Revolutionary Guard, Israel, Jimmy Carter, John Bolton, Juan Guaido, lie, Mad Dog Mattis, manufacturing consent, Media, Middle East, Mike Pompeo, Moderate Syrian Rebels, Mohammad bin Salman, Monroe Doctrine, News, Nicolas Maduro, Nina Illingworth, North Korea, nuclear war, nuclear weapons, Observations from Outside the Death Star, oil, OODS, peace, pig empire, Propaganda, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Ronald Reagan, sabotoge, Saudi Arabia, Six Things I Think, South Korea, The New Old Forever War, UAE, Venezuela, war, war hawks, WD7, yellow cake from Niger, Yemen

Six Things I Think: Eve of Destruction Edition

A look at the unfolding nightmare that is American foreign policy under Downmarket Mussolini, his State Department minions and the Witch King of Turtle Bay.

Books Can't You Read Politics socialism

NinaIllingworth May 11, 2019January 22, 2021 2016 US Election, 2020 Dem Primary Season, 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, 2020 US Election, bad predictions, Bernie Sanders, Books, Can't You Read, class war, democratic socialism, Donald Trump, Essays, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, labor class, Listen Liberal, Listen Liberal Or, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Politics, Socialism, Thomas Frank, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People

Listen Liberal & a (Bad) 2020 Dem Primary Prediction

An offsite essay about Thomas Frank’s Listen Liberal and why I thought Bernie would win in 2020.

Essays Media Madness Politics War

NinaIllingworth May 10, 2019November 5, 2022 ally, Brian Hook, China, Donald Trump, Egypt, enemies, Essays, foreign policy, forever war, geopolitics, human rights, human rights violations, Iran, JA5, Media, Media Madness, Nina Illingworth, North Korea, Observations from Outside the Death Star, Offsite Writing, OODS, pig empire, Politico, Politics, Rex Tillerson, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Social Justice, the Philippines, the Pig Empire doesn't give a damn about human rights, Tom Malinowski, Trump Administration, US politics, US State Department, war, War Crimes, WD7

Human Rights & Pig Empire Imperialism on Media Madness

The US doesn’t really care about human rights; and thanks to Trump muppet Rex Tillerson’s bumbling, we now have proof – read more on Media Madness.