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

Books Can't You Read Essays War

NinaIllingworth October 3, 2019November 17, 2022 Allen Dulles, American exceptionalism, Books, Can't You Read, Castro, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Contra wars, death squads, Essays, establishment thought, History, history of the CIA, Imperialism, Kennedy, Latin America, Legacy of Ashes, lie, mass surveillance, Media, New York Times, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, pig empire, Propaganda, Reagan's wars, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Reviews, secrets, spies, Tim Weiner, US government, war, WD7

Link: They All Fall Down – New Essay

A link to a short essay on Tim Weiner’s “Legacy of Ashes” and the structural reasons why pro-CIA propaganda is written by seemingly well-meaning critics.

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.

Books Can't You Read media Police State

NinaIllingworth September 30, 2019November 5, 2022 a culture of falsehood, a propaganda system, all news is fake news, blog, Books, Can't You Read, class war, corporate media, corporate propaganda, culture war, deep state, Edward Snowden, FA1, Fake News, Fantastic Lies, for profit media, JA5, leaks, manufacturing consent, Mass Surveillance program, Media, MP6, National Security State, Nina Illingworth, NSA, Offsite Writing, Pentagon, Permanent Record, police state, Propaganda, Snowden Leaks, spying on everyone, the Panopticon, the real deep state, War on Whistleblowers, whistleblowers, why people believe fake news

Blog: the Panopticon, Public Trust, and “Fake News”

A medium length blog post exploring why government lies about mass surveillance have had unintended consequences in the fight against “fake news.”

Books Essays News Site Updates

NinaIllingworth July 1, 2019January 16, 2021 Books, Can't You Read, Essays, Facebook, June Summary, Media Madness, News, Nina Illingworth, Odds and Ends, Offsite Writing, Patreon Blog, Quote of the Week, Site Updates, update, writing

Odds and Ends: June 2019

A collection of my offsite writing from June, 2019 and some site update notes.

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.

Books Essays media Neoliberalism

NinaIllingworth May 31, 2019November 5, 2022 anticommunism, antifascism, austerity, Books, CA4, Canada, capitalism, Chris Hedges, Citizen's United, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, class war, climate catastrophe, COINTELPRO, cold war, corruption, Deep Dives, democratic rights, Essays, FA1, fascism, FBI, Glenn Greenwald, Greece, Ibram X Kendi, inverted totalitarianism, Jane Mayer, Jim Crow, lobbying, Margin Notes, mass surveillance, Media, Michelle Alexander, Naomi Klein, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, Owen Jones, plutocrats, quotations, Quotes, Red Scare, Socialism, ST2, Stamped From the Beginning, the Palmer Raids, UK, Wages of Rebellion, War on Terror, Yanis Varoufakis

Margin Notes: Wages of Rebellion and the Inversion Perversion in the Pig Empire

A deep look at the way the underlying logic behind our rights and freedoms are inverted to help the wealthy few at the expense of the many – featuring a quotation from “Wages of Rebellion” by Chris Hedges.

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.

Books Can't You Read Politics Social Justice

NinaIllingworth May 8, 2019November 5, 2022 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.

Books Can't You Read Essays Politics

NinaIllingworth February 9, 2019January 16, 2021 2016 campaign book, 2016 US Presidential Election, 2020 US Election, 25 candidates, anti-Bernie campaign, bad predictions, Bernie Sanders, Bernie vs Biden, Bernie was cheated, book review, Books, Can't You Read, clown car primary, Democratic Party civil war, Democratic Party Nomination, democratic socialism, DNC, Donald Trump, Election Fraud, Essays, fascism, Insane Clown President, Matt Taibbi, Meme, Michigan primary was rigged, Offsite Writing, Politics, rigged, RNC, schism, Socialism, Split the vote, The War Between Us, Trump, Wicked Game

Insane Clown President & Bernie’s Path to the Nomination

A link to an offsite review of Taibbi’s Insane Clown President & Bernie’s 2020 Primary Strategy, on Can’t You Read.

Books Can't You Read Essays War

NinaIllingworth February 3, 2019November 5, 2022 American history, Books, Bush, Bush Jr, Can't You Read, CIA, CIA black ops in Latin America, Clinton, colonialism, Cuba, death squads, Empire's Workshop, Empire’s Workshop: Latin America the United States and the Rise of the New Imperialism, Essays, fascism, Ford Motors, forever war, France, Good Neighbor Policy, Greg Grandin, Hugo Chavez, Imperialism, John Bolton, Latin America, Libya, MP6, Nicaragua, Nicolas Maduro, Nina Illingworth, Obama, Offsite Writing, oil, Panama, pig empire, Portugal, regime change, Spain, Spanish American War, Standard Oil, the United States, Trump, Trump coup in Venezuela, United Fruit Company, Venezuela, war, WD7, William Walker

Empire’s Workshop & US Imperialist History in Latin America

A brief review of “Empire’s Workshop” and a discussion about the Pig Empire’s endless quest to control Latin America through various forms of violence.