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

Image of graffiti saying "No Cop City" on a concrete lane divider, covered in slightly overgrown forest plants and grasses. Image is posterized.

Activism Police State Social Justice Theory

NinaIllingworth September 11, 2023September 10, 2023 1985 MOVE Bombing, 2020 Uprising, abolition, activism, anarchism, Bill Barr, Chris Carr, Civil Rights, COINTELPRO, Defund the Police, Donald Trump, FA1, fascism, George Floyd, Haymarket bombing, IWW, J Edgar Hoover, JA5, Justice, labor organization, McCarthyism, Michael Reinoehl, Occupy Wall Street, Police, police state, RICO Act, Social Justice, ST2, Stop Cop City, The War on Sharing, Theory, Tortuguita

Mini-Theory Blog: the War on Sharing Escalates in Georgia

Nina talks about why attempts to criminalize protest itself and anarchist ideology in Georgia, are part of America’s long war on sharing and the left.

KBS Pod News Podcast Politics War

NinaIllingworth March 11, 2022November 5, 2022 Afghanistan War, arms sales, Charles Minnich, Chris Walker, Climate Crisis, Current Affairs, defense spending, fascism, fear sells bombs, For Domestic Consumption Only, foreign policy, Imperialism, Iraq War, Joe Biden, KBS, KBS episode 1, KBS Pod, Kropotkin's Barbershop, McCarthyism, MIC, Military Industrial Complex, NATO, News, Nina Illingworth, NSC 68, nuclear weapons, pig empire, Podcast, Politics, post World War II order, Propaganda, Putin is a fascist, Russia, Scurvy, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, war, war economy, War is a Racket, war is the American business, WD7

Kropotkin’s Barbershop Episode 1: For Domestic Consumption Only

Back in February the KBS pod crew met up to discuss a brewing Cold War and why it would be bad for the labor class; featuring a pretty bad prediction by Nina.

Fascism Media Madness Social Justice Videos

NinaIllingworth April 19, 2021November 5, 2022 1619 Project, American exceptionalism, Amerikan Musik, anti-blackness, antisemitism, bad scholarship, Charlie Kirk, Cultural Marxism, Donald Trump, early American history, FA1, fascism, film sessions, Founding Fathers, Hooverism, ideological justification for fascism, JA5, legacy of slavery, lie, McCarthyism, Media Madness, MP6, mythology, News, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, patriotism, patriotism is fascism when it smiles, Racism, revisionist history, right wing conspiracy theories, selective quotations, Shaun Vids, Skull Boy, slavery, slavery apologia, Social Justice, ST2, the 1776 Commission Report, Trumpism, Video, white nationalism, white supremacy, whiteness, writing Black people out of history

Film Sessions: the 1776 Commission Report and Cultural Marxism

Our latest Film Sessions post on Media Madness features YouTuber Shaun, the 1776 Report, and Trump’s parting attempt to re-create Hooverism in America.

Can't You Read Fascism Journals Social Justice

NinaIllingworth September 3, 2020November 5, 2022 activism, against the left, America is a fascist society, American society, anti fascism at the dinner table, antifa, antifascism, beating social Darwinism, Bircherism, blog, Can't You Read, capitalism, conservative politics, debunking fascists, deplatforming fascists, FA1, fascism, GOP, Hooverism, informal writing, Journals, McCarthyism, neoliberal authoritarianism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Opinion, opposing fascism in your every day life, Politics, primed for fascism, pushing back on reactionary thought, reactionary thought, Republican, silence is complicity, Social Darwinism, Social Justice, speaking out, ST2, the American right is fascist

Can’t You Read: The Home Front

A longer Can’t You Read journal that examines the vital importance of fighting the fascist creep on the home front; literally.

Blog Patreon Politics Social Media War

NinaIllingworth October 31, 2019November 17, 2022 American fascism, anti war, Anti-climate conspiracy, Bernie Blackout, Bernie Sanders, blog, capitalism, climate catastrophe, CNN, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, Essays, FA1, fascism, faux left, fixed, foreign policy, Gaetz Gang, GOP stunt, Greta Thunberg, Hillary Clinton, Imperialism, Joe Biden, layman history of liberalism, Liz Warren, McCarthyism, media bias against Sanders, MP6, Odds and Ends, Opinion, Patreon, Patreon Blog, Permanent Record, pig empire, Politics, polling, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Republicans are fascist sympathizers, Russiagate, social media, Squad endoresments, swing voters are an excuse, Trump impeachment, Trump is guilty, Tulsi Gabbard, Ukraine Call Scandal, war, war in Syria, Warren native status lie, Warren Technocrat, WD7, western support of terrorism

Odds and Ends: Thick Skinnys and Malcolm on the Margins

A collection of links to all of my recent Skinny social media essays and Can’t You Read blog posts previously unshared on this site.

media Patreon Politics Russiagate

NinaIllingworth October 23, 2019November 5, 2022 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, anti-Bernie campaign, Ashlee Marie Preston, Bad Grandma, Bernie Sanders, Bigotry, corporate media, corporate media coverage of Bernie Sanders, covering up for Liz Warren, Democratic Party, democratic socialism, Elizabeth Warren, Fantastic Lies, Giant Russia Theory, Hillary Clinton, homophobia, informal writing, Jill Stein, LGBTQ rights, liberals, manufacturing consent, McCarthyism, Media, media bias, MP6, new cold war, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Politics, Racism, Receipts, Russiagate, Russophobia, Sanders surrogates, Social Justice, Susan Sarandon, The Skinny, Vladimir Putin

The Skinny: Receipt Collection

A collection of informal Patreon journals about skullduggery, Russophobia, and corporate media bias in the 2020 Democratic Party Nomination contest.

Essays Fascism Patreon socialism

NinaIllingworth June 20, 2019November 5, 2022 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.

Fascism media Media Madness Politics

NinaIllingworth June 12, 2019November 5, 2022 Alex Shephard, Amerikan Musik, antifascism, Carter Wrenn, census, conspiracy theory, crackers, Crosscheck, Deep Dives, Democracy, Department of Justice, DoJ, Donald Trump, Edward Herman, Election Fraud, Essays, FA1, Fantastic Lies, fascist judges, gerrymandering, GOP, Hofeller leaks, liberalism, manufacturing consent, McCarthyism, Media, Media Madness, MP6, neoliberalism, new Red Scare, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, Offsite Writing, opposing fascism, Pork Reich, racialized voter suppression, Racism, Republican, Russiagate, Russiagate hysteria, stacking the judiciary, Supreme Court, The New Republic, Thomas Hofeller, voter suppression, voting rights, white supremacy, Wilbur Ross Jr

Active Measures on Media Madness

A longer essay on Media Madness about GOP racialized voter suppression, elite liberal complicity and the need for a united antifascist front on the left.

Essays media News Russiagate

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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.

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 25, 2019November 17, 2022 Abby Martin, ABC News, Alex Nichols, Amy Siskand, Andrew McCabe, ANSSI, Anthony Weiner, anti-Russian propaganda, AP, Associated Press, Breaking the Set, Brian Flood, broken bombshell, CIA, CNN, corporate media, Crimea, CSPAN, Current Affairs magazine, debunking, debunking Russiagate, Democratic Party, Department of Justice, dissent, DoJ, Donald Trump, Doug Johnson Hatlem, edits and corrections, Eduard Mikhailov, Essays, Evan Perez, Fantastic Lies, FBI, Ferguson protests, foreign policy, Fortune magazine, Fox News, France, Giant Russia Theory, Glenn Greenwald, GOP, Guillaume Poupard, hacking, Impeach Trump, Iran, James Comey, Jeff Sessions, Joy Reid, liberal mainstream media, Louise Mensch, Macron, Manchurian Candidate, Manu Raju, Maxine Waters, McCarthyism, Media, Mueller investigation, Nathan J Robinson, new cold war, new McCarthyism, New York Times, New Zealand Herald, News, Nina Illingworth, obstruction of justice, OODS, Patribotics, Patrick Leahy, Philippines, Politics, proxy war, Putin, Real Clear Politics, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, retractions, Reuters, Robert Mueller, RT, Russell Goldman, Russia, Russia Today, Russiagate, Russiagate grifters, Russian allies, Russian bots, Russian Hacking, Russian hacking of French Election, Russian trolls, Sessions, shady, Six Things I Think, skepticism, Steve Bannon, swine emperor Trump, Syria, The Guardian, The Intercept, The Wrap, Trump, Trump-Russia, Twitter, US media, US politics, US power grid, US sanctions against Russia, Vermont, Vermont utility grid, Vladimir Putin, walk backs, Washington Post, Wikileaks

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

Part two 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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