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

Blog Capitalism Fascism Politics

NinaIllingworth August 25, 2024August 26, 2024 billionaires, blog, book bans, CA4, capitalism, Climate Crisis, colonialism, critical race theory, culture war, DEI, education, FA1, fascism, fundamentalism, Gaza, genocide, George Orwell, History, indoctrination, Israel, LGBTQ rights, Nazi Germany, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, police state, Politics, Propaganda, Racism, reactionaries, student protests, Swing Kids, WD7

Nina-Bytes: Indoctrinating A Dystopian Future

The reactionary war on history is about more than money; it’s about creating a generation of fascists who’ll watch billions die for profit as the world burns.

Picture of a wealthy capitalist it top hat and tails, dancing romantically with a skeletal soldier holding a reaper's scythe.

Books Capitalism Quotes Theory

NinaIllingworth August 29, 2023 2008 Financial Crisis, antifascism, Book Blog, Books, CA4, capitalism, Climate Crisis, David Graeber, Debt, FA1, fascism, genocide, geohell, History, mutual aid, neoliberalism, oligarchy, Propaganda, Quickshot Quotations, Quotes, revolution, Socialism, solidarity, ST2, The War on Sharing, Theory

Quickshot Quotation: Debt and Rebirth

Building off a Graeber quote from Debt, Nina briefly touches on the war on sharing, the idea killing machine, and why we discuss alternatives to capitalism.

Fascism Field Notes Social Media socialism

NinaIllingworth October 15, 2022November 5, 2022 anti-imperialism, anticapitalism, antifascism, Article Links, Ben Burgis is a reactionary, billionaire fascists, CA4, Can't You Read, capitalism, CC3, Charles Koch, Climate Crisis, Dark MAGA, Donald Trump, ecofascism, Elon Musk, FA1, Facebook, fascism, fascist coup, fascist judges, fascist street gangs, Field Notes, Fossil Fuel Wars, Geoff Eley, Gramsci, History, In the Aggregate, informal writing, instagram, JA5, Jacobin, Joe Biden, legal coup, longtermism, MAGA Communism, Media Madness, MP6, NATO, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, New Feature announcement, Nina Illingworth, Politics, Proud Boys, Russia, SCOTUS, social media, Socialism, ST2, the Mini-Skinny, Theory, Tom Nicholas, Ukraine, Video, WD7, What The Theory

Field Notes: Long Time Coming

Editor’s note: Field Notes is a weekly roundup of social media writing by Nina Illingworth. Bringing you highlights and links

Blog Books Can't You Read Fascism Reviews

NinaIllingworth April 18, 2021November 17, 2022 American Civil War, American history, anti-brown racism, anti-Mexican racism, Book Blog, book review, Books, Can't You Read, colonialism, crackers, Donald Trump, ecofascism, exploitation, FA1, fascism, Frederick Jackson Turner, genocide, Greg Grandin, History, immigration, Imperialism, JA5, Jim Crow, Latin America, manifest destiny, Mass incarceration, Migrant Rights, migrants, Monroe Doctrine, MP6, nativism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, police state, Politics, Racism, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Reviews, settler colonialism, slavery, ST2, the American Revolution, the border, the border wall, The End of the Myth, the Frontier Myth, the Frontier Thesis, the New Forever War, the thirteen colonies, the War On Terror, Trump's wall, Trumpism, WD7, white supremacy, whiteness

Book Blog: The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin

Book Blog featuring a review & analysis of Greg Grandin’s “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America” on Can’t You Read.

Books Can't You Read Fascism socialism

NinaIllingworth November 26, 2020November 5, 2022 American imperialism, anticapitalism, anticommunism, Blackshirts and Reds, blog, Book Blog, Books, capitalism, capitalism breeds fascism, capitalist triumphalism, classic socialist books, communism, FA1, Fall of Communism, fascism, great Marxist thinkers, History, Imperialism, left wing theory, liberal capitalism, liberalism, Marxism, Marxist analysis, Marxist historical analysis, Michael Parenti, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Parenti over Chomsky, PDF, Pig Empire History, Politics, rational fascism, Reviews, Socialism, socialist history, ST2, Theory, unipolar power, WD7

Book Blog: Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti

A longer Book Blog talking about why you should read Michael Parenti’s Blackshirts and Reds (or really any book he has written) over on Can’t You Read.

Books Can't You Read Essays War

NinaIllingworth October 3, 2019November 17, 2022 Allen Dulles, American exceptionalism, Books, Can't You Read, Castro, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Contra wars, death squads, Essays, establishment thought, History, history of the CIA, Imperialism, Kennedy, Latin America, Legacy of Ashes, lie, mass surveillance, Media, New York Times, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, pig empire, Propaganda, Reagan's wars, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Reviews, secrets, spies, Tim Weiner, US government, war, WD7

Link: They All Fall Down – New Essay

A link to a short essay on Tim Weiner’s “Legacy of Ashes” and the structural reasons why pro-CIA propaganda is written by seemingly well-meaning critics.

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.

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.

Essays Fascism Memes News

NinaIllingworth May 3, 2017November 17, 2022 A Brief Thought, Abe Lincoln, abolition, Abolitionist Movement, American Civil War, Amerikan Musik, Andrew Jackson, Bannon, Bigotry, civil war, Confederacy, conservative media, David Duke, dishonest, Donald Trump, Essays, FA1, fascism, Fascism Ascendant in the USA, Fort Sumter, Gorka, historians, History, Holocaust denial, interview, Islamophobia, Jackson, Jeff Sessions, John Calhoun, KKK, liberal media, Meme, Miller, mistakes, MP6, neoconfederates, neonazi, News, Nina Illingworth, North, Nullification Crisis of 1832, Old Hickory, Opinion, peculiar institution, Politics, President Andrew Jackson, rascism, rascist, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Salena Zito, Sean Spicer, Six Things I Think, slavery, South, Southern intellectuals, the Emancipation Proclamation, Trump, Trump Administration, Union, US history, white supremacy, yes Trump is a racist, yes Trump's government is racist

A Brief Thought: A Very White House

As the Trump administration crashes from controversy to controversy, Nina takes a look at Trump’s most recent foray into revisionist history to ask “did he just say what I think he did?”

Election Fraud Essays Neoliberalism Politics

NinaIllingworth August 1, 2016November 5, 2022 1996 Telecom Act, 2008 Democratic Nomination Process, 2016 Democratic Primary Season, 2016 US Presidential Election, America, An Electoral System In Crisis, Axel Geijsel, Bernie Sanders, Bill Clinton, California Primary, colonialism, Corporatism, corruption, Crime, Deep Dives, Democracy, Democracy Lost, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Primaries, destructive policies, DNC Leaks Scandal, Dominion Voting, Donald Trump, Election Fraud, Election Justice USA, Essays, FA1, fascism, first amendment, fixed elections, flip flops, freedom of the press, GOP, government, Guccifer 2, HBA, HIG Capital, Hillary Clinton, History, Imperialism, Imperialism OODS, Justice, kleptocracy, lawsuit, lie, mainstream media, Media, media bias, media collusion, MP6, neoliberalism, Nevada Primary, Nina Illingworth, NSA surveillance program, Observations from Outside the Death Star, Op-Ed, Opinion, Politics, President Obama, rigged, Rodolfo Cortes Barragan, Secretary of State Clinton, Senator Clinton, Stanford Study, The Clinton Foundation, Thomas Jefferson, Uncounted documentary, USA, Wall of Shame, war, WD7, Wicked Game, Wikileaks

Hillary Clinton, Imperialism and the Lesser of Two Evils – Part One

Nina takes a long, hard look at Hillary Clinton and why the lesser of two evils is probably still going to be pretty evil. Part one in a multi-part essay.

Election Fraud Essays Politics Wicked Game

NinaIllingworth May 5, 2016December 30, 2020 2000 US Presidential Election, 2004 US Presidential Election, 2016 Democratic Primary, America, Bernie Sanders, Beth Clarkson, Bev Harris, black box voting, CNN, corruption, Deep Dives, Democracy, Democratic Party, Election Fraud, Essays, ExitPollGate, Hacking Democracy, Hillary Clinton, History, Hoosier Mommy, Indiana Primary, investigative reporting, Lee Camp, longform writing, Math, Nina Illingworth, Politics, Richard Charnin, Robert Kennedy Jr, Rolling Stone, Show Me the Votes, Spencer Gundert, voting machines, voting rights, Wicked Game

Wicked Game: the Clandestine Murder of Democracy in America pt 2 – Hoosier Mommy

Nina is back on the trail of Election Fraud as we visit the 2016 Indiana Democratic Primary contest, take a trip down History Lane with Richard Charnin to look at historical evidence of election fraud and debunk a few more debunkers for sport and pleasure.

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