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

NinaIllingworth August 19, 2020November 5, 2022 Adolf Hitler, Amerikan Musik, antifascism, Benito Mussolini, But He's Not Hitler, cold war, Donald Trump, Essays, Eternal Fascism, FA1, Facebook, Facebook Journals, fascism, Fascist Italy, genocide, Hannah Arendt, Homework, informal writing, Jim Crow, Journals, left wing theory, manifest destiny, Monroe Doctrine, MP6, Nazi Germany, Nazi State, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, On the Origins of Totalitarianism, scholars who study fascism, slavery, Syngman Rhee, Theory, Trump is a fascist, Umberto Eco, Ur Fascism, War on Terror, World War II

Link: “But He’s Not Hitler” Facebook Journal

A link to an essay length journal about why Americans don’t recognize fascism and offering up an essay but Umberto Eco to help them do so more effectively.

Essays Fascism Neoliberalism News Politics

NinaIllingworth April 16, 2020November 5, 2022 Andrew Cuomo, Anthony Fauci, austerity, authoritarian, bailout, big business, big business will kill you for profit, CA4, class, class war, coronavirus, coronavirus relief package, corporate takeover, coverage, Covid 19, Donald Trump, Dr Fauci, Essays, essential workers, FA1, fall guy, fascism, grift, health policy, Joe Biden, John Dean, killing grandma for Wall Street, Media, mob boss, neoliberalism, News, Nina Illingworth, Nixon, Politics, Pork Reich, re opening America, Simon Says, Trump Administration, Trump war with Governors, Watergate

On Absolute Power, Nixonian Machinations & Trump’s Fascist Fulminations

A short essay examining two lines of argument emerging from Trump’s most recent unhinged coronavirus press conference and the cat and mouse game he’s playing with Dr. Fauci in order to open up the economy no matter how many people it kills.

Essays Fascism Neoliberalism Patreon

NinaIllingworth March 28, 2020November 5, 2022 America is a business already, American history, American independence, assault on Main Street, austerity, bailout, British Empire, CA4, capitalism, chattel slavery, colonialism, coronavirus, coronavirus relief package, corporate takeover, Corporation America, Essays, exterminating Indigenous people, Facebook, fascism, genocide, Journals, King George, Mastodon, Media, neoliberalism, News, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Ohio River Valley, Patreon, Patreon Blog, Pork Reich, Propaganda, public trust, slavery, small business, social media, the American Revolution, the death of small business, The Skinny, Trump, Twitter, USA

Link: The Skinny – That Austerity Business, March 2020

The March 28th, 2020 edition of The Skinny; collecting three complete social media essays about capitalism, propaganda, and why American is breeding fascism – written by Nina Illingworth.

Essays Neoliberalism Patreon Politics

NinaIllingworth March 24, 2020November 5, 2022 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, against the left, analysis, Article Links, Bernie Sanders, CAP, censorship, coronavirus, corruption, Covid 19, criminality, Deathmatch Primaries, Donald Trump, Election Fraud, Essays, FA1, Facebook, fascism, GOP, informal writing, insider trading, Joe Biden, Journals, Joy Reid, martial law, Mastodon, MP6, MSNBC, Neera Tanden, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Patreon Blog, police state, political analysis, Politics, Pork Reich, Richard Burr, rigged, rigged primaries, social media, The Skinny, Twitter, William Barr

Link: The Skinny – “My Carona & Other Oddities” March 2020

The Skinny is back and we’re talking about killing the poor for profit; rigged Dem Primaries, debate night fallout and coronavirus criminality on my free to read Patreon blog.

Can't You Read Essays Media Madness News

NinaIllingworth December 5, 2019November 17, 2022 Alt America, Alt Right, analysis, antifascism, Bircher nonsense, Can't You Read, conspiracy theory, David Neiwert, Donald Trump, Essays, FA1, fascism, Giant Russia Theory, grifter, Isaac Chotiner, Malcolm Nance, Media Madness, News, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Politics, Propaganda, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Reviews, right wing violence, Russiagate, Russiagate is a conspiracy theory, takedowns, The New Yorker, Trump

Links: Liberal Anti-Fascism in “Alt-America” and Malcolm Nance’s Russiagate Grift – New Review and Essay

Links to my latest essay (about Malcolm Nance and Russiagate) and my most recent book review (about David Neiwert’s Alt-America.)

Essays Neoliberalism Patreon Theory

NinaIllingworth November 14, 2019November 17, 2022 Affordable Care Act, Amazon, anticapitalism, austerity, Ayn Rand, Big Tech, bribery, CA4, colonialism, corporate power, corruption, debt slavery, domestic policy, Economics, Essays, extractivism, Ferguson, financialization, left wing theory, lexicon, medical insurance, Medicare for all, monopoly power, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Obamacare, Offsite Writing, panopticon, Patreon, Patreon Blog, pig empire, policing for profit, private surveillance, privatization, Propaganda, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, rents, social safety nets, special economic zones, ST2, subsidies, taxation, Theory, Theory Discussion, Uber, Wall Street bailout, Walmart

Link: Theory Discussion A Working Definition of Neofeudalism – New Essay

As dystopian as neoliberal capitalism is, adding coercion and corporate recapture to the mix has created a new form of anti-labor extractivism: neofeudalism.

Essays media Patreon Politics socialism

NinaIllingworth October 30, 2019November 17, 2022 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, 2020 US Election, Bernie 2020, Bernie Blackout, Bernie is Back, Bernie Sanders, bogus polls, class war, corporate media, Democratic Party, democratic socialism, Essays, Fantastic Lies, Joe Biden, liberal media, likely voters, Liz Warren, Media, MP6, narrative, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Patreon Blog, political media, Politics, polling, Queens Rally, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, ruling class, Socialism

Link: On Bernie Sanders, Polling and Perception – New Essay

A link to my latest essay on Patreon in which I look at the reasons Bernie Sanders is going to drastically outperform the polls in the 2020 Democratic Party nomination contest.

Essays Fascism Justice Politics

NinaIllingworth October 18, 2019November 5, 2022 Amerikan Musik, Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, checks and balances, constitutional law, Constitutional originalism, Deep Dives, despotism, dictatorship, Donald Trump, Essays, FA1, fascism, Federalist Society, Fox News, GOP, James Madison, John Yoo, Justice, law, lawless state, Mitch McConnell, MP6, Nancy Pelosi, obstruction, Op-Ed, Opinion, Politics, Republican, Richard Nixon, Senate, the GOP is obstructionist, Torture Memos, Trump impeachment, turtle boy, war criminal, WD7

Screw Yoo: the Turtle, the War Criminal and the Mutant who would be King

Nina takes a look at the terrifying logic behind the new-old strain of Republican excuses for a lawless president in “Screw Yoo: the Turtle, the War Criminal and the Mutant who would be King.”

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.

Essays News Patreon Social Media

NinaIllingworth September 26, 2019November 17, 2022 2020 Dem Primary Season, analysis, antifascism, Arun Gupta, Bernie 2020, blog, blogging, Can't You Read, climate catastrophe, Donald Trump, Essays, Facebook, foreign policy, ICE, Jacobin, Joe Biden, labor class, left wing politics, liberals, manufacturing consent, Mastodon, Media, MP6, News, nobody trust the media, Odds and Ends, Offsite Writing, Opinion, Patreon, Patreon Blog, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Six Things I Think, social media, Socialism, The Skinny, Twitter, US politics, voting theory, war on the homeless, Working Families Party

Odds and Ends: A Skinny Week and Malcolm Tucker Goes to War

A link to all my offsite pieces in an extremely busy week of blogging on Patreon and Can’t You Read.