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

Fascism media Media Madness Politics

NinaIllingworth June 12, 2019November 5, 2022 Alex Shephard, Amerikan Musik, antifascism, Carter Wrenn, census, conspiracy theory, crackers, Crosscheck, Deep Dives, Democracy, Department of Justice, DoJ, Donald Trump, Edward Herman, Election Fraud, Essays, FA1, Fantastic Lies, fascist judges, gerrymandering, GOP, Hofeller leaks, liberalism, manufacturing consent, McCarthyism, Media, Media Madness, MP6, neoliberalism, new Red Scare, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, Offsite Writing, opposing fascism, Pork Reich, racialized voter suppression, Racism, Republican, Russiagate, Russiagate hysteria, stacking the judiciary, Supreme Court, The New Republic, Thomas Hofeller, voter suppression, voting rights, white supremacy, Wilbur Ross Jr

Active Measures on Media Madness

A longer essay on Media Madness about GOP racialized voter suppression, elite liberal complicity and the need for a united antifascist front on the left.

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.

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.

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.

Blog media Media Madness Politics

NinaIllingworth May 17, 2019November 5, 2022 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, 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.

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.

Blog Media Madness Politics Take Downs

NinaIllingworth May 9, 2019November 5, 2022 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.