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

Essays Media Madness Neoliberalism Wall Street

NinaIllingworth May 20, 2019April 13, 2025 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, 2019April 13, 2025 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.

Blog media Media Madness Politics

NinaIllingworth May 17, 2019April 13, 2025 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, 538, Bernie Sanders, blog, Comcast, Comcast was in the tank for Biden, corporate media, democratic socialism, Fantastic Lies, Five Thirty Eight, Joe Biden, liberal establishment, liberals, Media, Media Madness, MP6, MSNBC, MSNBC was in the tank for Biden, Nate Silver, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, political propaganda, Politics, Propaganda, rigged, smearing Bernie Sanders, US politics

“Kingmaking II: Confidence Games” on Media Madness

A link to a short blog post about how the media was already rigging the 2020 Dem Primary, just under a year in advance.

Essays Media Madness Neoliberalism Politics

NinaIllingworth May 16, 2019April 13, 2025 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.

Blog Media Madness Politics Take Downs

NinaIllingworth May 9, 2019April 13, 2025 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, Bernie Sanders, blog, bribery, CA4, carbon, CC3, climate catastrophe, Climate Crisis, coal, democratic socialism, Fantastic Lies, fossil fuels, Harvard, Harvard Law, informal writing, Larry Tribe is on the take, Larry Tribe should shut up, Laurence Tribe, liberal establishment, liberals, lobbying is legalized bribery, lobbyist, Media, Media Madness, money in politics, MP6, neoliberalism, New Green Deal, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, oligarchy, Peabody, Peabody Energy Corp, phony, Politics, Propaganda, propaganda campaigns, smearing Bernie, smears, social media, Socialism, Take Downs, Twitter, US politics, What's Really Troubling Larry Tribe, who is the phony now Larry

“What’s Really Troubling Larry Tribe?” on Media Madness

A short blog post on Media Madness about why Larry Tribe should keep Bernie Sanders’ name out of his coal-encrusted pie hole.

Books Can't You Read Politics Social Justice

NinaIllingworth May 8, 2019April 13, 2025 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.

Neoliberalism Patreon socialism Theory

NinaIllingworth May 4, 2019April 13, 2025 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, 2019April 13, 2025 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.

Blog Books Can't You Read Police State

NinaIllingworth January 5, 2019April 13, 2025 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.

Blog Patreon Politics socialism

NinaIllingworth December 30, 2018April 13, 2025 2020 Dem Primary Season, 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, 2020 US Election, antifascism, Bernie Sanders, Beto ORourke, blog, corporate media, Democrat Machine, Democratic Party, DNC, Donald Trump, Horse Race coverage, how I cover politics, Media, MP6, neoliberal machine, neoliberalism, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Patreon Blog, Politics, rigged, Socialism, stolen primaries

Blog: Thunderdome 2020 & How I Write About Politics (Link)

A link to a short essay on Patreon that outlines the way I cover politics; on the off chance we keep having elections even as the world burns.

Blog Books Can't You Read Neoliberalism

NinaIllingworth December 29, 2018April 13, 2025 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.