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Books Can't You Read Essays War

NinaIllingworth October 3, 2019April 14, 2025 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, 2019April 14, 2025 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, 2019April 13, 2025 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.

Essays Fascism Neoliberalism Politics

NinaIllingworth September 25, 2019November 5, 2022 Amerikan Musik, corruption, Democratic Party, Democrats, Dick Cheney, Downmarket Mussolini, Essays, FA1, fascism, fascist creep, George W Bush, Giant Russia Theory, hubris, Hunter Biden, impeachment, Joe Biden, liberals, MP6, Nancy Pelosi, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Nixon, Opinion, Pelosi, Politics, rich liberal, Russiagate, Trump, Ukraine, US Constitution

Opinion: Why I Support Impeachment but Fear Incompetent Democrat Hubris

A brief look at why I support Nancy Pelosi’s decision to open an impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump even if I doubt her ability to actually seal the deal.

Blog Can't You Read Neoliberalism Politics

NinaIllingworth September 21, 2019November 17, 2022 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, 2020 US Election, Andrew Yang, blog, CA4, Can't You Read, Democratic Party, Essays, Facebook, informal writing, MP6, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Opinion, Politics, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Silicon Valley, Social Justice, UBI, VC Tech Bros

Link: The Trouble With Andy Yang (Facebook)

A short, informal essay about why 2020 Dem Primary candidate Andrew Yang isn’t who he’s pretending to be.

Blog Fascism Media Madness Police State

NinaIllingworth September 19, 2019April 13, 2025 American Gestapo, Amerikan Musik, analysis, blog, concentration camps, Donald Trump, Essays, FA1, fascism, Gestapo, ICE, Media Madness, Media Madness blog, MP6, News, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Police, police state, police violence, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Republican, Stephen Miller, Trump Administration, US politics

Link: Screamsheets America Gestapo Edition (Media Madness)

A brief look at how 4 recent articles about ICE connect together and why the media isn’t doing enough to fight the rise of Americanized fascism from Media Madness.

Essays Personal Social Media

NinaIllingworth September 18, 2019November 17, 2022 censorship, Essays, News, Offsite Writing, Patreon Blog, personal, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, social media, update, writing

Link: The Trouble With Tricks (Patreon Blog)

Link to an offsite essay about my recent struggles with writing and my plan to get back on the horse.

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.

Essays Fascism Police State Politics

NinaIllingworth June 27, 2019November 5, 2022 activism, Adolf Hitler, Alt Right, Amerikan Musik, Andrew Jackson, Armenian Genocide, Border Patrol, concentration camps, Confederate President, Dachau, dehumanization, DHS, Donald Trump, Essays, ethnic cleansing, FA1, Family Raid, fascism, genocidal intent, genocide, GOP, Haaretz, Herero and Nama genocide, ICE, JA5, Kristallnacht house raids, Little Eichmanns, mass deportataions, migrants, Nazi Germany, neonazi, never again, Nina Illingworth, Obama, Police, police state, Politics, Pork Reich, process of genocide, revanchism, Six Things I Think, Social Justice, Stephen Miller, Summer Camp, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, The Holocaust, Trail of Tears, WD7, white nationalism, white supremacy

Summer Camp

Yes, they’re concentration camps – but have you even stopped for a moment to think about what that actually means?

Essays Fascism Police State Politics

NinaIllingworth June 23, 2019November 17, 2022 Amerikan Musik, baby cages, baby jails, CBP, concentration camps, deportations, DHS, Donald Trump, Eoin Higgins, Essays, ethnic cleansing, FA1, Family Raid, Fantastic Lies, fascism, Gestapo police, GOP, ICE, ICE Family Op, immigration, JA5, Media, MP6, nazi sympathizers, Nina Illingworth, Parsing the Pork Reich's Family Raid Pause, police state, Politics, reactionary, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Republican, revanchist, road to genocide, Six Things I Think, Stephen Miller, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, the cruelty is the point, undocumented migrants, white nationalism, white supremacy

Parsing the Pork Reich’s Family Raid Pause

A short essay examining a Common Dreams article by Eoin Higgins and the seemingly mystifying Trump ICE “Family Raid” saga.

Essays Fascism Patreon socialism

NinaIllingworth June 20, 2019April 13, 2025 a history of fascism in America, American Bund, American history, American left, Amerikan Musik, anticommunism, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, civility politics, Clintonism, COINTELPRO, cold war, contrarian left, Deep Dives, Democrat fascist enablers, Democratic Socialists, Democrats, Donald Trump, Encampments, Essays, FA1, fake resistance, far right, fascism, FDR, FDR liberals, George Wallace, GOP, J Edgar Hoover, JA5, LBJ, liberalism, liberalism enables fascism, McCarthyism, neoliberal, neoliberalism breeds fascism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, paleoconservatism, Patreon, Patreon Blog, pig empire, Political Theory, Politics, Pork Reich, radical left, reactionary thought, Reaganism, Republican, Republican Party, rich fascists, Richard Nixon, right wing populism, right wing terrorism, Russiagate, Socialism, the American Tea Party, The Resistance, Theory, Trumpism, Trumpism is fascism, united front against fascism, Volkish populism, War on Terror, WD7, white nationalism

Essay: “Encampments” on my Free Patreon Blog

A deep dive essay about the importance of a united antifascist front even in the face of resistance and neoliberal co-opting operations on my free Patron Blog.