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

Analysis Fascism Politics Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth September 2, 2024September 1, 2024 2024 US Election, Amerikan Musik, analysis, AP3, Carole Cadwalladr, coup, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, FA1, fascism, GOP, insurrection, January 6th, Joshua Kaplan, judicial coup, Kenny Bruno, militias, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Politics, ProPublica, Proud Boys, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, riots, SCOTUS, social media, The Guardian, Truthout, Twitter, UK riots

Recommended Reading: Daylight Ambush

Given the available evidence, it’s probably not a question of will Trump try a second coup if he loses the 2024 election, but what form will that coup take?

Analysis Fascism media Politics

NinaIllingworth August 24, 2024August 24, 2024 2024 US Election, analysis, Arthur Milikh, blog, Brad Onishi, Christian nationalism, Claremont Institute, David Azerrad, DoJ, Donald Trump, Douglass Mackey, FA1, fascism, Helen Andrews, Jason Wilson, JD Vance, Media, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, Peter Thiel, Politics, Project 2025, Racism, Scott Yenor, The Guardian, Up from Conservatism, white nationalism

Nina-Bytes: The People and Ideas JD Vance Applauds

As more of JD Vance’s odious worldview is exposed to the light of day, it’s time for the media to start calling the GOP VP nominee what he really is: a fascist.

Blog Capitalism Climate Crisis media

NinaIllingworth August 3, 2024 Anti-Capitalism, Billionaire Tax, blog, Brazil, CA4, capitalism, CC3, class war, Climate Crisis, extractivism, fossil fuels, George Monbiot, mass extinction, Media, News, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, oligarchy, revolution, The Guardian, wealth tax

Nina-Bytes: No Half Measures

Once again George Monbiot is making the argument against oligarchy and climate crisis; it’s just a shame he won’t be honest about the solution to these problems

IDF Chief of the General Staff lieutenant general Herzi Halevi

Blog Decolonization Imperialism War

NinaIllingworth April 1, 2024 apartheid regime, Benjamin Netanyahu, blog, colonialism, decolonization, Famine, Gaza, genocide, Herzi Halevi, IDF, Imperialism, Israel, Joe Biden, Julian Borger, News, Nina-Bytes, Palestine, Palestinians, refugees, Ruth Michaelson, The Guardian, United Nations, United States, UNWRA, war, WD7

Nina-Bytes: Israel’s Quest to Dismantle Palestinian Relief Agency Continues

A brief look at Israel’s latest attempt to dismantle the UN’s Palestinian relief organization as part of its ongoing, U.S. backed genocide in Gaza.

A modern picture of a man in a business suit, walking past a flattering stone mural of Mussolini and the fascist Italian army, during World War II.

Capitalism Fascism News Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth August 26, 2023 AIM, Amazon, American Identity Movement, Bailey Ross, Boogaloo movement, CA4, capitalism, corporate power, DeVos Family, FA1, Facebook, fascism, fascist militias, Jason Wilson, Judd Legum, Mark Zuckerberg, MP6, News, Orlando Magic, Popular Information, Rebecca Crosby, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Shopify, SuperPAC, Tesnim Zekeria, Tess Owen, The Guardian, Vice News

Recommended Reading: Corporations, Fascism, and Profit

Examining three mundane stories in our media, Nina talks about why, contrary to public rhetoric, corporate power is happy to help fascists for money.

Analysis Climate Crisis media Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth November 17, 2022November 18, 2022 activism, analysis, anticapitalism, Big Oil, blog, Brett Wilkins, CA4, capitalism, Capitalist Propaganda, CC3, Climate Action Network, climate catastrophe, Climate Crisis, climate genocide, climate racism, climate theatre, Common Dreams, COP27, Daniel Rodriguez, developing world, fighting climate change, fossil fuels, Fridays for Future, genocide, George Monbiot, Greta Thunberg, Harjeet Singh, Ian Brown, John Vidal, Keep It In the Ground, Letters to the Editor, lobbyist, Luisa Nebauer, Malthusianism, Media, MP6, Nina Illingworth, overpopulation, Politics, Propaganda, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Socialism, The Guardian, Theory, United Nations Climate Change Conference

Recommended Reading: Mass Response

Using two recent media examples, lets talk about hope and the growing body of evidence that everyday people know capitalism is the driver of climate crisis.

Fascism Field Notes Neoliberalism Social Media

Scurvy October 22, 2022November 5, 2022 Amerikan Musik, Andrewism, anti-trans pogrom, Ben Domenech, CA4, Can't You Read, CC3, Chaya Raichik, Citizen's United, Columbus, Columbus Day, corporate media, Daily Dot, Don't Say Gay Bill, FA1, Facebook, fascism, fascist politics, fascist takeover, Field Notes, Florida GOP, genocide, GOP, hate crime, human rights, informal writing, instagram, JA5, John Daniel Davidson, Journals, LGBTQ rights, mainstream media, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Media, Media Madness, MP6, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, Politics, Republican, rigged election, Ron DeSantis, Scurvy, social media, ST2, Steve Bannon, Supreme Court, The Daily Beast, The Federalist, The Guardian, The Holocaust, trans rights, transgender, Trumpism, US Constitution, US Midterm Elections, US politics, US Secret Service, Weimar America

Field Notes: Introductions

Field Notes is back and today we’re proud to introduce a new content curator for our weekly social media writing roundup; our own site administrator, Scurvy.

Fascism Media Madness News Police State

NinaIllingworth September 30, 2021November 17, 2022 Adam Johnson, Adolph Reed, Aja Romano, Amanda Gailey, American fascism, Amerikan Musik, analysis, Andrew Ross, Christina Cauterucci, Copaganda, Daily Dot, David Graeber, FA1, Fantastic Lies, far right, fascism, George Monbiot, In the Aggregate, Jacobin, Jason Stanley, John Knefel, Lauren Gill, leftism, long covid, Luke Savage, Marin Scarlett, Matt Cohen, Media, Media Madness, Mikael Thalen, Mother Jones, MP6, new writing, News, Nina Illingworth, nonsite, Novara Media, Offsite Writing, Police, police state, Politics, Propaganda, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Scott Hechinger, Seeing Red, Shane Little, Slate, The American Prospect, The Column, The Guardian, The Intercept, Theory, Twitter, Vox, Woke, Youtube

In The Aggregate: Reactions on Media Madness

I’m taking a snapshot of Pig Empire reaction by examining some essays and articles from around the left(ish) wing internet; on Media Madness.

Fascism Media Madness News Police State

NinaIllingworth September 1, 2020November 17, 2022 ABC News, ACAB, additional content, Alice Speri, American Prospect, Amerikan Musik, Black Lives Matter, blog, bonus content, Brennan Center for Justice, civil rights violations, Cops, CPUSA, Defund the Police, Department of Justice, FA1, fascism, fascist cops, FBI, George Floyd Protests, George Floyd was murdered, informal writing, JA5, Joel Wendland, John Knefel, Josh Margolin, Kelly Hayes, Kenya Downs, Laura Hazard Owen, Media Madness, Michael German, neonazi cops, News, NiemanLab, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Open Democracy, PBS, Police, police state, Racism, racist cops, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Robert Kuttner, Sam Levin, Simon Purdue, Social Justice, ST2, The Guardian, The Intercept, Truthout, violent neonazi cops, we call them pigs for a reason, white supremacists in law enforcement, white supremacy

Media Madness: Some of Those That Work Forces

This short blog post features something old, something new, and a whole lot of links that prove there’s something rotten about our boys in blue.

Blog Fascism media Patreon War

NinaIllingworth October 8, 2019November 5, 2022 Al-Qaeda, America does not care about human rights, Amerikan Musik, Assad, blog, CIA, CIA promises, DNA, end the forever wars, Erdogan, false balance, false equivalence, Fantastic Lies, fascism, fascist Gargamel, forever war, GOP, GOP is a fascist party, immigration, Imperialism, informal writing, Iraq, ISIS, James Clapper, Kurdistan, Kurds, liberalism enables fascism, Libya, manufacturing consent, Media, MENA, Middle East, military planning, military propaganda, Moderate Syrian Rebels, nativism, NATO, New Forever War, Nina Illingworth, no war in Syria, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Pentagon, pig empire, Propaganda, Racism, regime change, Republican, Sand Vietnam, SDF, September 11th, spin, Stephen Miller, Sunni radicals, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, terrorism, The Carter Doctrine, The Guardian, the Mujahideen, the Pig Empire funds terrorism, The Skinny, the War on Migrants, Trump, Turkey, US imperialism, US sponsored terrorism, Vietnam War, war, WD7

The Skinny: Spin Doctrine

An October 2019 edition of The Skinny in which Nina discusses how narrative framing twists the issues in the minds of the public in all the wrong directions.

Books Can't You Read Essays Police State

NinaIllingworth October 1, 2019November 17, 2022 1984, Books, Can't You Read, Chelsea Manning, CIA, corporate media, Edward Snowden, Espionage Act, Essays, George Orwell, Jeff Bezos, Julian Assange, Karl Rove, liberal media, manufacturing consent, Marshall McLuhan, mass surveillance, Media, Michael Parenti, Nina Illingworth, NSA, Offsite Writing, Permanent Record, police state, privacy rights, Propaganda, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Reviews, Russia, spying, The Guardian, the medium is the message, US government spying, war on freedom of the press, War on Whistleblowers, Washington Post, whistleblowers, Wikileaks

Link: The Casualties of Cacophony – New Essay

A look at the disappointing change in mainstream attitudes towards Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers who’ve spoken out against the abuses of American intelligence.

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