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NinaIllingworth February 21, 2021November 5, 2022 A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Amerikan Musik, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, antifascism, Boogaloo Boys, Books, Canada in the World, class reductionism, class war, communism, contrarian left, David Harvey, democratic socialism, extremely online wankers, FA1, Facebook, fascism, fascism is a bourgeoisie plot, fascism is about destroying the labor class, fascism is antisocialist, Gerald Horne, Glenn Greenwald, informal writing, JA5, Jimmy Dore, Journals, left right alliance, Matt Stoller, Matt Taibbi, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, online discourse, Pacifism As Pathology, personal, reactionary thought, revolution, revolutionary praxis, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Second Tier Faux Left Influencers, settler colonialism, Site Updates, social media, Socialism, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism, Tyler Shipley, Ward Churchill, whiteness, writing schedule

Facebook Update: Alive, Antifascist, and Irritable

A brief update on how I’m doing, what I’m reading, and why your friends online are kind of trash.

Blog media Media Madness News Videos

NinaIllingworth February 11, 2021November 5, 2022 American politics, analysis, Bigotry, blog, Cancel Culture, cancel culture isn't real, class war, common sense, criticism isn't censorship, crowd psychology, culture war, FA1, Fantastic Lies, film sessions, grift, Harper's Letter, JA5, JK Rowling, Jordan Peterson, left wing theory, left wing Youtube, Matt Taibbi, Media, Media Madness, MP6, News, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Politics, Reviews, ST2, Theory, Tom Nicholas, transphobia, Tucker Carlson, Video, What The Theory, Youtube

Film Sessions: Cancel Culture Fear of the Mob by Tom Nicholas

In this week’s Film Session we’re exploring the class and power issues behind the bogus “cancel culture debate” with What the Theory’s Tom Nicholas over on Media Madness.

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NinaIllingworth February 6, 2021August 17, 2023 Adolph Reed Jr, Aimee Terese, American Gestapo, Amerikan Musik, Ammon Bundy, Andy Ngo, Angela Nagle, antifa, antifascism, AOC, beating Hitler, Bernie Sanders, Beth Lynch, Boogaloo Boys, Boogaloo means civil war, Boogaloo movement, Caitlin Johnstone, Chris Rock, Class Notes, class reductionism, class-washing, Counterpunch, crypto fascism, crypto reactionaries, crypto-libertarians, David Graeber, Deep Dives, DHS, Donald Trump, Eli Valley, Eric London, FA1, Fantastic Lies, fascism, fascist recruiting, Fenix Ammunition, Fred Hampton, Freikorps, Glenn Greenwald, Hillary Clinton, JA5, Jerry White, Jimmy Dore, Josh Hawley, Katie Halper, Lee Fang, left right alliance, left-washing, libertarians, Magnus Panvidya, Magnus Panvidya is Zakkari Clark, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, Martin Niemöller, Matt Binder, Matt Stoller, Matt Taibbi, Maya Angelou, Media, Medicare for all, Michigan militia, Mike Cernovich, Mike Tracey, militias, MP6, Nagle Caucus, Nazi Germany, News, nihilism, Nina Illingworth, NOI, playing stupid, Progressive Army, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Red Scare podcast, right wing populism, Rittenhouse drills, Ron Paul, Sam Seder, Six Things I Think, Socialism, ST2, Stalin, Stupidpol, Sturmabteilung, The Jimmy Dore Show, the Majority Report, the Young Patriots, Thought Slime, Tulsi Gabbard, Video, Word Socialist Web Site, WSWS, Youtube, Zaid Jilani, Zakkari Clark

Six Things I Think: The Enemy of My Enemy Is Still a Fascist, Actually

An extremely detailed Deep Dive post explaining why Boogaloos are fascists, Jimmy Dore is no leftist, and online pinkos have a crypto-reactionary infuencer problem.

Essays Fascism media Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth December 18, 2020November 5, 2022 21st century fascism, Aimee Terese, Amerikan Musik, Angela Nagle, anticommunism, Caitlin Johnstone, contrarian left, crypto fascism, distortions, Donald Trump, Downmarket Mussolini, Essays, FA1, fake populism, Fantastic Lies, fascism, gaslighting, Glenn Greenwald, GOP, GOP is fascist, Hitler, independent media, Jason Stanley, Jim Crow fascism, Joe Biden, Josh Hawley, Lee Fang, left right alliance, left wing theory, liberalism empowers fascism, lie, Marxism, Marxist analysis, Masha Gessen, Matt Stoller, Matt Taibbi, Media, Mike Tracey, MP6, Mussolini, neoliberalism, Noam Chomsky, Op-Ed, Palmer Raids, Palooka Joe, Politics, reactionary thought, Red Scare podcast, Republican Party, right wing populism, Ron Paul libertarians, skeptics, social media, ST2, Stupidpol, the Red Scare, Theory, Timothy Snyder, Trump Coup, Trump is a fascist, Trump isn't Hitler but so what?, Trumpism is fascism, woke neoliberalism, Zaid Jilani

‘The Devil You Know? A Response to Recent Revisionist History From the Contrarian “Left”

An op-ed aggressively refuting the contrarian faux-left position that calling Trump a fascist is some sort of liberal psyop designed to distract the left.

Essays Fascism media Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth September 28, 2020November 5, 2022 2008 Financial Crisis, 2016 US Election, Alt Right, Amerikan Musik, conspiracy theory, David Renton, Deep Dives, Essays, FA1, Fantastic Lies, fascism, for profit medial propaganda model, Fox News, Fox News Fear Factory, Hannah Arendt, Harvey Weinstein, How Fascism Works, Hugo Weaving, Inventing Reality, Iraq War, James Clapper, Jason Stanley, Jeff Epstein, Joy Reid, Julius Evola, left wing theory, lie, Lügenpresse, mainstreaming white supremacy, manufacturing consent, Matt Taibbi, Media, Michael Lynch, MP6, MSNBC, neoliberalism, New York Times, News Corp, Noam Chomsky, Owen Jones, pig empire, Political Mind Games, Politics, Poor Democracy, Pork Reich, Rich Media, Robert Paxton, Roy Eidelson, Rupert Murdoch, Russiagate, ST2, The Daily Beast, The Establishment, the New Authoritarians, Theory, Washington Post, white genocide is a nazi conspiracy theory, white nationalism

Theory Discussion: On Media, White Nationalism & Hugo Weaving

An lengthy discussion about why propping up corporate “liberal” media is no antidote to the rise of white nationalism; triggered by reading an interview with Hugo Weaving.

Essays Media Madness Neoliberalism Wall Street

NinaIllingworth May 20, 2019November 5, 2022 2008 Financial Crisis, banks, CA4, derivative trading, Economics, Essays, federally insured gambling, Finance, Fraud, Griftopia, Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan Chase, London Whale scandal, Matt Taibbi, Media Madness, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, OCC, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Offsite Writing, OTC derivative trades, pension funds, stock derivatives, the global economy is a ponzi scheme, Wall Street, Wall Street on Parade

Distant Early Warning on Media Madness

An article about JP Morgan Chase’s 2.2 trillion dollar bespoke betting time bomb and why it could pop at pretty much any time, on Media Madness.

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.

Essays media News Russiagate

NinaIllingworth February 6, 2019November 17, 2022 2016 US Presidential Election, 21 states election systems hacked, Alex Padilla, AP, Associated Press, Atlantic Council, Belarus, Bernie Sanders, Bloomberg News, Brexit, Brian Ross, British Intelligence, British nationalism, broken bombshell, California, Christopher Steele, CIA, CIA mole Ken Dilanian, Clinton campaign, CNN, corporate media, debunking, debunking Russiagate, Democratic Party, Department of Homeland Security, Deutsche Bank, DHS, dissent, DNC Hack, Donald Trump, Doug Johnson Hatlem, Dutch foreign minister, Dutch Intelligence, Dutch media, edits and corrections, Essays, Facebook, Fake News, Fantastic Lies, FBI, Flynn, Fusion GPS, German police, Giant Russia Theory, Glenn Greenwald, Glenn Simpson, GOP, hacked voting registrtaions, hacking, Hallbe Zijlstra, Hamilton 68, hashtag, Hillary Clinton, Impeach Trump, IP addresses, ISIS, Jason Stein, Jeroen van der Veer, Jill Stein, Josh Marshall, Kazakhstan, Ken Dilanian, Klepto Kaiser, liberal mainstream media, live reports, London housing market, Manchurian Candidate, Matt OBrien, Matt Taibbi, McCarthyism, Media, Michael Flynn, MIG, Mike Flynn, Molly McKew, Mueller investigation, NBC, neocon, new cold war, new McCarthyism, New Yorker, News, Nina Illingworth, NSA, nuclear war, OODS, opposition research, Patrick Marley, Patrick Wintour, Paul Manafort, People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, Politico, Politics, Putin, raw intelligence, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Release the Memo hashtag, retractions, Reuters, Robert Mueller, Rolling Stone, RT, Russia, Russia desk, Russia Today, Russiagate, Russian bots, Russian Hacking, Russian trolls, Sam Theilman, shady, Shell Oil, Six Things I Think, skepticism, Steele dossier, Steve Arons, swine emperor Trump, Talking Points Memo, the Baltic States, The Guardian, The Intercept, the Netherlands, think tanks, Tom LoBianco, treason, Trump, Trump Dossier, Trump Transition, Trump-Russia, Truthdig, TV, Twitter, Ukraine, US media, US politics, US sanctions against Russia, US Senate, US Senate Judiciary Committee, USA Today, Vkontakte, Vladimir Putin, walk backs, Wall Street Journal, Washington Free Beacon, Washington Post, Wisconsin

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

Part four 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.

Books Can't You Read Essays Site Updates

NinaIllingworth February 1, 2019November 17, 2022 Allende, Asasata An Autobiography, Assata Shakur, blog, Books, Can't You Read, Chavez, Chile, Chomsky on Anarchism, Essays, Griftopia, Henry Kissinger, Imperialism, Internet Freedom movement, liberalism, Loaded, Maduro, Matt Taibbi, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, Odds and Ends, Patreon Blog, pig empire, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Reviews, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, settler colonialism, Seymour Hersh, Site Updates, Surveillance Valley, The Price of Power, Tumblr, Venezuela, WD7, white moderate, Yasha Levine

Odds and Ends: January 2019

A brief recap of my offsite writing and page updates for January 2019.

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.

Essays media News Russiagate

NinaIllingworth January 23, 2019November 17, 2022 Alfa Bank, Ango-American School of Moscow, Anonymous, AP, Arizona, Associated Press, Bellingcat, Ben Jacobs, Bernie Sanders, Bill Moran, CIA, Clinton campaign, CNN, corporate media, Craig Timberg, David Frum, DCLeaks, debunking, Democratic Party, dissent, DNS, Donald Trump, Doug Johnson Hatlem, Ellen Nakashima, Essays, Fake News, Fantastic Lies, FBI, Franklin Foer, Giant Russia Theory, Glenn Greenwald, GOP, Guccifer 2, hacked voting registrtaions, hacking, hacktivism, Hillary Clinton, hoax, Illinois, Impeach Trump, John Podesta, Joy Reid, Julian Assange, Kurt Eichenwald, Malcolm Nance, Manchurian Candidate, Matt Taibbi, McCarthyism, Media, Mueller investigation, Naked Capitalism, new cold war, new McCarthyism, News, Newsweek, Nina Illingworth, Podesta Emails, Politics, President Obama, Prop or Not, Putin, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, retractions, Robert Mueller, Rolling Stone, RT, Russia, Russiagate, Russian bots, Russian Hacking, Russian trolls, shady, Sid Blumenthal, Six Things I Think, skepticism, Slate, Sputnik, The Guardian, The Intercept, treason, Trump, Trump hotels, Trump-Russia, Truthdig, Twitter, US media, US politics, US sanctions against Russia, Vladimir Putin, walk backs, Washington Post, Wikileaks

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

Part one 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.

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