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No Fugazi Personal Podcast Site Updates

NinaIllingworth December 6, 2021December 6, 2021 Announcement, anticapitalism, antifascism, capitalism sucks, Charles Minnich, Chris Walker, class war, content update notices, end of No Fugazi, fascist creep, FotB, Friends of the Blog, KBS, Kropotkin's Barbershop, New Podcast, NFP, Nick Galea, NIDC, Nina Illingworth, ninaillingworth.com, No Fugazi, No Fugazi Podcast, personal, pig empire, Pork Reich, Scurvy, Site Updates, the end of an era, to whom it may concern, two week warning

Some Other Beginning’s End

A brief content update notice announcing the end of the No Fugazi Podcast, and the birth of a new project we’re calling Kropotkin’s Barbershop.

Blog Can't You Read Fascism Police State

NinaIllingworth November 26, 2021November 5, 2022 ACAB, anticapitalism, antifascism, AOC, Attack on Titan, blog, CA4, Can't You Read, capitalism, capitalism breeds fascism, collaborator, colonialism, corporate America, corporate power and fascism, coup plotters, Crime, Defund the Police, Donald Trump, FA1, fascism, fascism and capitalism, fascist cops, fascist coup, fascist propaganda, FDR, Fred Hampton, genocide, GOP, Imperialism, January 6th 2021, Joe Biden, Kristian Williams, Kurt Vonnegut, Leon Trotsky, looting, Michael Parenti, neoliberalism, neoliberalism can't stop fascism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Old Money, Our Enemies In Blue, Paul Gosar, pig empire, police abolition, police state, political intimidation, Republican, slavery, stochastic terrorism, the GOP is a fascist party, the Mini-Skinny, threats, Trumpism, US politics, voting rights, WD7

Some Mini Skinnys and A Minor Course Alteration

A post explaining why I’m changing how we share essay-length blog material; includes links to four such collections from November 2021.

media Neoliberalism Police State Theory

NinaIllingworth April 11, 2021November 17, 2022 Alex Shephard, American colonialism, American Prospect, AP News, Aviva Chomsky, Baltimore Sun, Biden's Central America policy, Branko Marcetic, CA4, Central America, colonialism, concentration camps, Daniel Denvir, Donald Trump, Edward Herman, FA1, family separation policy, fascism, foreign policy, Greg Grandin, immigration, Imperialism, jails for kids, Joe Biden, John Washington, Jonathan Lemire, Josh Boak, Jude Joffe-Block, Latin American, manufacturing consent, Marcia Brown, Media, Mehdi Hasan, Mexico, Michael Parenti, Migrant Rights, migrants, Monroe Doctrine, MP6, MSNBC, nativism, neoliberalism, New Forever War, Noam Chomsky, Nomaan Merchant, PBS, pig empire, police state, Politics, prison industrial complex, pro-business Central America policy, Propaganda, propaganda model, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Robert Reich, Six Things I Think, Social Justice, soft power, ST2, Stephen Miller, the border, The Intercept, The Nation, The New Republic, the wall, Theory, war, WD7, white nationalism, white nationalist immigration policy

Six Things I Think: A Bipartisan Propaganda Frontier

An extremely granular look at the how the propaganda model predicts the mind-warping media discussion around the so called “migrant crisis at the border.”

Media Madness socialism Theory War

NinaIllingworth March 31, 2021April 20, 2025 anti-Indigenous policy, Antony Blinken, Bolivia, Catholic Church, christian fundamentalism, Christian nationalism, CIA, coup, Edward Herman, Essays, Evo Morales, FA1, FAIR, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Fantastic Lies, fascism, fascist coup, foreign policy, Imperialism, Jacobin, Jeanine Áñez, Jeff Bezos, Joe Biden, Latin America, left wing theory, lie, Luis Arce, Luis Fernando Camacho, MAS, Media, Media Madness, Media Theory, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, OAS, Offsite Writing, pig empire, Pig Empire imperialism, practical examples of a propaganda model, Propaganda, propaganda model, propaganda theory, re-writing history, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, regime change, Six Things I Think, Socialism, soft power, ST2, The New Old Forever War, Theory, US backed coups, US imperialism, USA, WaPo editorial board, war, war mongers, Washington Post, WD7

Bolivian Stroke: WaPo’s Imperialist Memory Games on Media Madness

A heavily sourced Media Madness essay about the propaganda model and renewed Pig Empire efforts to undermine the socialist government of Bolivia.

Neoliberalism Patreon Politics War

NinaIllingworth January 23, 2021April 19, 2025 "dog faced pony solider", "you ain't Black", anarchists, antifascists, Antony Blinken, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Biden death primary, Biden inauguration, Black Lives Matter, BLM, blog, Camelot, Captain Trips, Civil Rights movement, class war, coronavirus, Covid 19, Covid checks, DC riots, Defund the Police, Dem Voltron Primary, Democratic Party, far right violence, fascism, fascist coup, foreign policy, forever war, GOP is fascist, hagiography, Imperialism, informal writing, Jim Clyburn, Joe Biden, Joe Biden lies, Journals, Kamala Harris, Mastodon, MIC, Military Industrial Complex, militias, MP6, Nelson Mandela, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Patreon, Patreon Blog, pig empire, Politics, Propaganda, Protesters, Proud Boys, Republican Party, social media, Strom Thurmond, Tara Reade, The Skinny, unity, Wall Street, war

The Skinny: Biden His Time Edition

A collection of informal journal posts about the new (and yet so uninspiring) Biden era, on my free to read Patreon Blog.

Media Madness Neoliberalism Videos War

NinaIllingworth December 23, 2020April 17, 2025 banks, blog, Books, books you should read, CA4, capitalism, capitalism and imperialism, economic imperialism, Economics, film sessions, foreign policy, forever war, global finance, IMF, Imperialism, imperialism is a profit making enterprise, informal writing, international law, international lending, John Perkins, Media Madness, Monroe Doctrine, neoliberalism, New Confessions of An Economic Hitman, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, pig empire, Politics, predatory loans, Reviews, soft power, Tedx Talk, the debt trap, the New Forever War, the peace of a tyrant, The Washington Consensus, US global superpower, Video, Wall Street, war, war as a business model, War is a Racket, WD7, World Bank, Youtube

Film Sessions: The Devil Walks in Broad Daylight

In this December 2020 Film Sessions post we’re looking at a Tedx Talk by John Perkins, author of (New) Confessions of an Economic Hitman, over on Media Madness.

Blog media Media Madness Reviews Videos

NinaIllingworth December 22, 2020April 17, 2025 asylum seekers, BBC, blog, by the rich for the richer, capitalism, colonialism, corporate media, cultural studies, demonizing migrants, Edward Herman, Fantastic Lies, far right, film sessions, for profit media, forever war, hate groups, immigration, manufacturing consent, Marxist analysis, Media, media analysis, media bias, Media Madness, migrant caravan, migrant crisis, Migrant Rights, MP6, nationalism, nationalism leads to fascism, nativism, Newsnight, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, Offsite Writing, pig empire, Propaganda, pushing hate, Racism, refugees, Reviews, right wing fearmongering, selling hate for clicks, Sociology, ST2, Stuart Hall, the propaganda model, Tom Nicholas, Video, What The Theory, white supremacy, whiteness

Film Sessions: the Myth of a Free Press on Media Madness

A December 2020 Film Sessions post about Tom Nicholas’s excellent video “The Myth of a Free Press” that leans more towards the review side of the equation.

Essays media Patreon socialism Theory

NinaIllingworth December 15, 2020April 17, 2025 $15 minimum wage, 2024 US Election, Adolph Reed Jr, Alex Jones, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, anti war, anti-establishment right, anti-globalization, antifa, AOC, Bernie Sanders, Bidenism, Black Lives Matter, CA4, class reductionism, class theory, class warfare, climate catastrophe, Covid 19, Covid eugenics, Democratic Party, Essays, informal writing, intersectionality, Jimmy Dore, Joe Biden, labor class, left wing organizing, left wing theory, leftism, Mea Culpas, Media, Medicare for all, neoliberalism, Occupy Wall Street, Offsite Writing, online drama, online left, Opinion, Patreon, Patreon Blog, pig empire, police violence, Politics, populism, progressive caucus, social media, Socialism, the Sanders left, Theory, Tulsi Gabbard, Twitter, universal healthcare, Wall Street corruption, Youtube

Essay: On Mea Culpas, the Populist Alliance & the Young American Left (Link)

A link to a (free to read) Patreon Blog essay that looks at online Twitter drama, declaring war on Bidenist neoliberalism and why anti-identity politics populism is cancer for 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.

Justice media Patreon Social Justice Theory

NinaIllingworth March 27, 2020April 15, 2025 a propaganda system, activism, Cheney, Clapper, corporate media, corruption, Crime, criminality, Donald Trump, Essays, George Bush, Hayden, holding power accountable, impeachment, Imperialism, Joe Biden, Justice, left wing theory, lie, mass murderers, Media, MLK, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Obama, Offsite Writing, Panetta, Patreon, Patreon Blog, pig empire, Propaganda, propaganda of amnesia, rigged oligarchy, SCOTUS, Social Justice, ST2, Supreme Court, the propaganda model, Theory, truth speaking, War Crimes, War on Terror, WD7

Link: Theory Discussion – Advocates for Truth

An essay-length Patreon discussion about the difference between wrong and illegal as it pertains to Pig Empire malfeasance, and a note about why we must become advocates for truth.

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.