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Books Can't You Read Fascism Reviews War

NinaIllingworth October 18, 2021November 5, 2022 9/11, Afghanistan War, Amerikan Musik, antifascism, Barack Obama, Bill Barr, Black Lives Matter, Book Blog, book review, Bookish Bits, Books, CA4, Can't You Read, Civil Rights, colonialism, Democracy, Dick Cheney, Donald Trump, FA1, fascism, forever war, George W Bush, GOP, Imperialism, Iraq War, Islamophobia, January 6th coup attempt, Michael Reinoehl, National Security State, nativism, neoliberalism breeds fascism, New Forever War, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Patriot Act, police state, Racism, reign of terror, Republican, Reviews, Richard Spencer, Security Industrial Complex, Spencer Ackerman, ST2, Tom Cotton, Trumpism, Trumpism is fascism, war, War on Terror, WD7, white supremacy

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.

Essays Neoliberalism Politics socialism

NinaIllingworth March 14, 2021November 5, 2022 $15 minimum wage, Afghanistan War, Andrew Perez, anti war, anti-labor, anti-racism, anti-war protests, anticapitalism, antifascism, Arizona, Arizona Democrats, austerity, Bernie Sanders, Biden White House, Blue Dog Caucus, CA4, CC3, class war, Climate Crisis, coronavirus, coronavirus relief package, corruption, Covid 19, culture war, David Sirota, Democratic Party, democratic socialism, DSA, Economics, electoralism, Essays, Fight for $15, filibuster, forever war, gone Washington, GOP, Green Party, Iraq War, Jacobin, Joe Biden, Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, left right alliance, left wing theory, let them eat cake, liberalism, Marxism, minimum wage, Mitch McConnell, MP6, neoliberalism, Paula Swearengin, Political Theory, Politics, populism, Progressive, progressive movement, progressive politics, Ralph Nader, reformers, reformism, Republican Party, Senate politics, Socialism, ST2, the Daily Poster, Theory, Thumbs Down, Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, US Federal Minimum Wage, US Senate

Fool Me Twice: Kyrsten Sinema and the Poverty of Progressive Politics

A deeply sourced essay about progressive politics, acts of betrayal, and the need for an explicitly anti-capitalist mass movement in the Pig Empire.

Neoliberalism Patreon Politics War

NinaIllingworth January 23, 2021November 5, 2022 "dog faced pony solider", "you ain't Black", anarchists, antifascists, Antony Blinken, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Biden death primary, Biden inauguration, Black Lives Matter, BLM, blog, Camelot, Captain Trips, Civil Rights movement, class war, coronavirus, Covid 19, Covid checks, DC riots, Defund the Police, Dem Voltron Primary, Democratic Party, far right violence, fascism, fascist coup, foreign policy, forever war, GOP is fascist, hagiography, Imperialism, informal writing, Jim Clyburn, Joe Biden, Joe Biden lies, Journals, Kamala Harris, Mastodon, MIC, Military Industrial Complex, militias, MP6, Nelson Mandela, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, no Camelot, Patreon, Patreon Blog, pig empire, Politics, Propaganda, Protesters, Proud Boys, Republican Party, social media, Strom Thurmond, Tara Reade, The Skinny, unity, Wall Street, war, word games

The Skinny: Biden His Time Edition

A collection of informal journal posts about the new (and yet so uninspiring) Biden era, on my free to read Patreon Blog.

Media Madness Neoliberalism Videos War

NinaIllingworth December 23, 2020November 5, 2022 banks, blog, Books, books you should read, CA4, capitalism, capitalism and imperialism, economic imperialism, Economics, film sessions, foreign policy, forever war, global finance, IMF, Imperialism, imperialism is a profit making enterprise, informal writing, international law, international lending, John Perkins, Media Madness, Monroe Doctrine, neoliberalism, New Confessions of An Economic Hitman, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, pig empire, Politics, predatory loans, Reviews, soft power, Tedx Talk, the debt trap, the New Forever War, the peace of a tyrant, The Washington Consensus, US global superpower, Video, Wall Street, war, war as a business model, War is a Racket, WD7, World Bank, Youtube

Film Sessions: The Devil Walks in Broad Daylight

In this December 2020 Film Sessions post we’re looking at a Tedx Talk by John Perkins, author of (New) Confessions of an Economic Hitman, over on Media Madness.

Blog media Media Madness Reviews Videos

NinaIllingworth December 22, 2020November 5, 2022 asylum seekers, BBC, blog, by the rich for the richer, capitalism, colonialism, corporate media, cultural studies, demonizing migrants, Edward Herman, Fantastic Lies, far right, film sessions, for profit media, forever war, hate groups, immigration, manufacturing consent, Marxist analysis, Media, media analysis, media bias, Media Madness, migrant caravan, migrant crisis, Migrant Rights, MP6, nationalism, nationalism leads to fascism, nativism, Newsnight, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, Offsite Writing, pig empire, Propaganda, pushing hate, Racism, refugees, Reviews, right wing fearmongering, selling hate for clicks, Sociology, ST2, Stuart Hall, the propaganda model, Tom Nicholas, Video, What The Theory, white supremacy, whiteness

Film Sessions: the Myth of a Free Press on Media Madness

A December 2020 Film Sessions post about Tom Nicholas’s excellent video “The Myth of a Free Press” that leans more towards the review side of the equation.

Books Neoliberalism Social Justice War

NinaIllingworth November 7, 2019November 17, 2022 Allen Dulles, Books, CA4, CC3, CIA, Corporate Fascism, Corporatism, David Talbot, deep state, democratic socialism, elite rule, FA1, fascism, foreign policy, forever war, Ibram X Kendi, Imperialism, Inventing Reality, Left Wing Books, market fundamentalism, Marxism, Media, media bias, Michael Parenti, Milton Friedman, Naomi Klein, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, permanent war economy, Politics, power, Racism, racist ideas, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Reviews, Social Justice, Socialism, ST2, Stamped From the Beginning, The Devil's Chessboard, the economics of racism, The Library, the propaganda model, The Shock Doctrine, Trump Doctrine, Understanding Power, war, WD7

The Library: the First Five

A look at five reasonably mainstream books from The Library that you can read to get a much better grasp on how our world actually works.

Blog Can't You Read Politics Russiagate War

NinaIllingworth November 1, 2019November 5, 2022 1st Trump impeachment, Amerikan Musik, Bircher nonsense, Birchers, blog, Can't You Read, conspiracy theory, conspiracy thinking, corporate media, Crime, Donald Trump, fascism, foreign policy, forever war, illegal, impeachable offenses, Imperialism, influence trading, Joe Biden, liberal establishment, liberal media, Mitch McConnell, MP6, Nancy Pelosi, NATO, neoliberalism, new cold war, New Forever War, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, pig empire, Politics, Propaganda, Russia, Russiagate, Russiagate made Trump stronger, spin, the GOP is a fascist party, Trump did it, Trump impeachment, Trump strong armed Ukraine, Ukraine, US Congress, US imperialism, US politics, US Senate, war

Can’t You Read: Russiagate and the 1st Trump Impeachment

An October 2019 Can’t You Read blog post about why the liberal establishment’s ongoing Russiagate conspiracy makes it harder to defeat swine emperor Trump.

Blog Can't You Read media Politics War

NinaIllingworth October 11, 2019November 5, 2022 anarcho socialist militias, anti-imperialism, Assad, blog, Can't You Read, CIA, crocodile tears, Donald Trump, forever war, imperial policy, Imperialism, Kurdish People, liberal interventionism, liberals don't care about the Kurds, manufacturing consent, Media, MENA, Middle East, Military Industrial Complex, New Forever War, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, oil, Peoples’ Protection Units, pig empire, Politics, regime change, Rojova, Syria, Tayyip Erdogan, Trump is an imperialist too, Trump isn't leaving Syria, Turkey, war, WD7, YPG, YPJ

Can’t You Read: Saving Kurdistan Means Staying In Syria Forever

A Can’t You Read blog post about why leaving Syria means abandoning the YPG even if that’s not a popular decision on the left.

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 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.”

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.

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