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Barbarism Starts at Home on Can’t You Read

Nina reviews Spencer Ackerman’s “Reign of Terror” and finds a good book, that could have been so much more. Check out the new Bookish Bits on Can’t You Read.

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In the Aggregate: A Neofeudalist Dystopia

In the Aggregate is back, and we’re on a mad dash through the palaces of reaction, violence and wealth; recapping Nina’s social media analysis in October.

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Film Sessions: Crypto-Fascism and a Modern “Shirt Group” on Media Madness

In this edition of Film Sessions we’re looking at Renegade Cut’s study of the Proud Boys to understand how crypto-fascist propaganda works.

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The War on Sharing: Pretending Is Not a Strategy

In our newest War On Sharing journal, Nina takes an informal look at the terrifying truth everyone in the ruling establishment knows but won’t say; the fascists are winning.

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Film Sessions: the 1776 Commission Report and Cultural Marxism

Our latest Film Sessions post on Media Madness features YouTuber Shaun, the 1776 Report, and Trump’s parting attempt to re-create Hooverism in America.

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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.

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Counting Coup on Can’t You Read

Over on Can’t You Read, Nina closes the Trump-era chapter of American Fascism by reciting her works and counting coup on faux-left contrarians and numpties.

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Film Sessions: Oligarchs Will Let the World Burn with Thought Slime

A late December 2020 Film Sessions post about why leftism is the only option in a world full of Lex Luthor-esque, capitalist supervillains.

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American Fascism and Networks of Power on Can’t You Read

A link to a short essay on Can’t You Read about why fascism will survive Trump; includes a recommended reading article showing fascist power networks in action during the Covid-19 anti-lockdown protests.

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Film Sessions: The Wellspring and the Current with Some More News

A December 2020 Film Session featuring Some More News about why America has always been intimate with the fascist backlash against racial and social progress.

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Opening Pandora’s Box on Can’t You Read (Link)

With Trump’s coup seemingly ground to a halt, it’s time to celebrate the end of the fascist moment – isn’t it? Not so fast says analyst Nina Illingworth. By combining some brief observations on the seemingly-doomed Trumpist “chicken coup,” and a link to a vitally important article by Indi Samarajiva about why even a failed reactionary coup is a disaster for a society that calls itself a democracy, our intrepid author debunks the still quite dangerous idea that we’ve survived the Swine Emperor and everything is going to go back to normal soon.

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