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

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NinaIllingworth December 20, 2020April 17, 2025 Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, antifa, antifascism, austerity, backlash, Black Lives Matter, Covid 19, Democratic Party, democratic socialism, DSA, Energy and Commerce Committee, Essays, FA1, how to build power, Ilhan Omar, informal writing, Jimmy Dore, lay siege to the government, Medicare for all, Medicare for All floor vote, MP6, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, organization, organizing, organizing strategy, Patreon, Patreon Blog, Politics, Protest, reactionary, rigged oligarchy, Social Justice, social media, Socialism, ST2, The Squad, Theory, Un-Civil War, uprising, white lash, whiteness

Essay: Organize or Die (Link)

A lengthy informal essay about the importance of organizing a three tiered societal movement around a radical left wing program.

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, 2020April 15, 2025 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 Theory

NinaIllingworth November 14, 2019April 15, 2025 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.

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.

Essays media News Russiagate

NinaIllingworth January 29, 2019November 17, 2022 17 Intelligence Agencies lie, 2008 Financial Crisis, Abby Martin, Alternet, Anthony Scaramucci, anti-Russian propaganda, AP, Associated Press, Attack on Pearl Harbor, austerity, Axios, Bill Clinton, Brexit, Brian Stetler, broken bombshell, Carol Lee, Chuck Grassley, CIA, CIA mop up man, CNN, corporate media, cyberattack, debunking, debunking Russiagate, Democratic Party, Department of Justice, dissent, DNC email hack, DoJ, Donald Trump, Donations, donors, Doug Johnson Hatlem, edits and corrections, Edward Herman, Erik Wemple, Essays, Ewen MacAskill, Fantastic Lies, fascism, FBI, Ferguson protests, foreign policy, Giant Russia Theory, Glenn Greenwald, GOP, hacking, Henry Kissinger, Hillary Clinton, hit piece, Impeach Trump, Iran, Iraq war lies, James Clapper, James Comey, Jason Zinoman, John Brennan, John Pilger, Ken Dilanian, kompromat, Lee Camp, liberal mainstream media, Libya, Manchurian Candidate, manufacturing consent, Mark Ames, Marshall McLuhan, Matt Taibbi, McCarthyism, Media, Megyn Kelly, Michael Parenti, Mueller investigation, Naked Capitalism, Natalia Veselnitskaya, NBC, NBC News, new cold war, new McCarthyism, New York Times, News, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, obstruction of justice, Occupy Wall Street, ODNI, ONDI report, OODS, Paul Manafort, Politics, proxy war, Putin, Rajeev Syal, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Redacted Tonight, regime change, retractions, RNC, Robert Mueller, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Russia Today, Russiagate, Russiagate grifters, Russian allies, Russian bots, Russian Hacking, Russian trolls, shady, Six Things I Think, skepticism, swine emperor Trump, Talking Points Memo, The Guardian, The Intercept, Trump, Trump Tower meeting, Trump-Russia, Truthdig, Twitter, UK, UK intelligence, US backed coups, US media, US politics, US sanctions against Russia, Vladimir Putin, walk backs, Washington Post, Wikileaks, WMD lies

Insidiocracy: Russiagate, Corporate Media & Losing My Religion – Part Three

Part three of a five part series looking at mainstream corporate media retractions, walk backs, and debunked articles about Russia and reflections on my own personal experiences with the objectively surreal “Russiagate” saga.

Blog Books Can't You Read Neoliberalism

NinaIllingworth December 29, 2018April 13, 2025 2008 Financial Crisis, activism, Alan Greenspan, austerity, Ayn Rand, bailout, banker, blog, book review, Books, CA4, Can't You Read, capitalism, capitalism as religion, casino, corporate welfare, Deregulation, Essays, FEC, Federal Exchange Commission, Foreclosure Crisis, Fraud, free market fundamentalism, Griftopia, hot money, investment banking, laissez faire, Matt Taibbi, Meme, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Racism, speculators, the fraud economy, Theory

Blog: Ayn Rand, Alan Greenspan & Matt Taibbi’s Griftopia

A collection of links to my writing about Taibbi’s Griftopia, including an essay about Ayn Rand & Alan Greenspan.

Essays Fascism Neoliberalism Police State

NinaIllingworth March 14, 2018November 5, 2022 anarchists, austerity, Black Identity Extremists, death penalty, death squads, Democrats, dog whistle, Donald Trump, Essays, FA1, fake terror threats, fake war on cops, fascism, FBI, hate crime, Howard Dean scream, JA5, Jeff Sessions, Justice, Mass incarceration, McResistance, Media, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, opioid crisis, police state, Politics, Racism, radical Islam, reactionary violence, Republican, revanchist, Rodrigo Duterte, ST2, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, Vichy Democrats, vigilante justice, war on drugs, white nationalism

Strung Out and Hunted Beneath a Killing Moon

I’m back and this time we’re staring into the dark abyss of Trump’s unhinged comments about seeking the death penalty for drug dealers as an answer to the American opioid crisis.

Climate Crisis Neoliberalism Theory War

NinaIllingworth March 8, 2018November 5, 2022 austerity, bribery, bribes, CA4, Chicago School, climate catastrophe, Climate Crisis, Corporatism, elites, endless war, Essays, FA1, globalization, government, horror, Imperialism, informal writing, Journals, machine, Middle East, Milton Friedman, money in politics, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Op-Ed, personal, psychological torture, Rants, rich people mean you harm, skeptics, ST2, the Watchmen, Theory, Thompson, update, war, wildlife, writer, writer's block, writing

The Hammering In My Head

A short essay channeling Thompson to talk about why rich people are absolutely trying to kill you for literally pennies on the share.

Blog Neoliberalism News Politics

NinaIllingworth December 18, 2017November 17, 2022 80 percent oppose repealing net neutrality, activism, Ajit Pai, Alt Right, anti free speech, anti-democratic, austerity, blocking, Brendan Carr, bribery, CA4, censorship, Citizen's United, Comcast, compromised, fake comments, FCC, FCC regulations, FCC repeals net neutrality, GOP, hijacked, ignored comments, indentity theft, informal writing, internet for the rich, Internet Service Providers, ISPs, Jessica Rosenworcel, lawsuit, lie, Meme, Michael O’Rielly, Mignon Clyburn, money in politics, monopoly, neoliberalism, Net Neutrality, nightmare scenario, Nina Illingworth, non elected officials, NY Attorney General, online censorship, Op-Ed, Politics, public comment period, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Republican, robbery, scam, Six Things I Think, spambots, taking from the poor to give to monopoloy ISPs, The Simple Truth, throttling, Title II, US politics, Verizon, wealthy elites

The Simple Truth: The FCC & ISPs Are Attacking Free Speech Online

I’m back with a quick but informative look at the FCC’s recent 3-2, heinously anti-democratic decision to repeal Tittle II protection for Net Neutrality and what you can do about it

Essays Neoliberalism News Theory

NinaIllingworth November 29, 2017November 17, 2022 600M dollar CIA contract, A Brief Thought, abuse, Amazon, Amazon vs the World, anti-labor, anticapitalism, austerity, bidding, Black Friday, bribery, brutal work culture, business, CA4, capitalism, carnivore, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, class warfare, corporate welfare, could computing, dancing monkeys, death of Democracy, Democracy, Econ, Economics, elites, Essays, exploitation, feudalism, Foxconn, free money, fuck Jeff Bezos, government for elites by elites, graft, Jeff Bezos, Koch Bros, labor, labor law, labor rights, legalized bribery, libertarian, low wages, market share, Meme, money in politics, monopoly, National Razor Now, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, new Gilded Age, News, Nina Illingworth, oligarchy, on the take, online retail, Op-Ed, Politics, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, retail, rich people, right to work, ripping off the tax payer, scam, Six Things I Think, Socialism, special economic zone, ST2, tax credits, tech bro, tech industry, Theory, Washington Post, workers rights

A Brief Thought: An Empire of One

I’m back with a look at the growing power of Amazon founder and Washington Post CEO Jeff Bezos; being the richest man on earth has it’s advantages but is catering to corporate elites killing US Democracy? In a word, yes.