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Canada FotB Podcast Police State

Scurvy January 17, 2023January 17, 2023 Canada, citizen journalism, civil rights violations, Crackdown Podcast, drug war, first person testimony, FotB, Friends of the Blog, Garth Mullins, Indigenous Rights, Mass incarceration, MP6, neoliberalism, Podcast, Police, police budgets, police state, policing, policing for profit, poverty, racialized incarceration, Scurvy, Scurvy's Selection, Socialism, the prison industrial complex, the war on drugs, victims of the drug war, violent policing

Scurvy’s Selection: Crackdown Podcast

In today’s Selection, our host Scurvy brings us the straight dope about the war on drugs by highlighting first person accounts on the amazing Crackdown Podcast.

Journals Neoliberalism Personal Social Justice

NinaIllingworth May 25, 2021November 5, 2022 ACAB, affordable housing, anti-poor propaganda, austerity, CA4, capitalism, class war, coronavirus, Covid 19, cycles of poverty, dehumanization, Depression, extraction of rents, Facebook Journals, hidden effects of homelessness, homeless, homeless people are people, homelessness in Canada, homelessness in the UK, homelessness in the US, homelessness is not a choice, housing crisis, housing is a human right, humanizing the homeless, inadequate support networks, informal writing, injustice, investor class, invisible, JA5, Journals, landlords, living on the streets, mental health, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, pandemic, personal, policing, Poor Laws, poverty, poverty in the Pig Empire, poverty is not a character flaw, rentier class, rents, shelters, shuffling the poor around, Social Darwinism, Social Justice, social safety net, ST2, stress, workhouse

What They Never Tell You About Being Homeless

A lengthy personal journal discussing the hidden psychological conditions inspired by homelessness and poverty in the Pig Empire.

FotB Neoliberalism Social Justice Walker

NinaIllingworth May 13, 2021November 5, 2022 CA4, CDC, CDC eviction moratorium, Chris Walker, class war, coronavirus, Covid 19, Covid eugenics, Dabney Friedrich, DC Circuit Courts, disaster capitalism, District of Columbia, end stage capitalism, engineered crisis, eviction crisis, evictions, extraction, extraction of rents, Federal Court, FotB, Friends of the Blog, harassment by landlords, homelessness, Housing, housing bubble, housing crisis, housing shortage, institutional racism, IWW, JA5, Jacksonville, Justice, labor class solidarity, landlords, marginalized people, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, pandemic, pandemic profiteering, poverty, poverty kills people, racialized extraction, racialized outcomes, Racism, rental market, rentier class, ruling, Social Justice, solidarity, solidarity against the landlords, ST2, systemic poverty, systemic racism, tax cuts, Tenant unions, Trump judges, Walker, war on the poor, white supremacy

Evictions Are Just a Shot Away by Chris Walker

In a first for NIDC, we’re joined by Florida Wobbly Chris Walker to talk us through about the latest developments in the capitalist eviction apocalypse.

Media Madness News socialism Videos

NinaIllingworth January 11, 2021November 17, 2022 2008 Financial Crisis, anti Prager U, anticapitalism, beating Prager U, blog, CA4, capitalism, class, Dennis Prager, Dennis Prager is a fascist, Economics, extreme poverty, film sessions, how to attack right wing propaganda, left wing Youtube, Marxism, Marxist economics, Media, Media Madness, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, New York Times, News, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, poverty, PragerU, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Richard Wolff, right wing propaganda, Socialism, ST2, The Gravel Institute, Video, Youtube

Film Sessions: Does Capitalism Really Reduce Poverty (Link)

A new Media Madness blog featuring a short video from the Gravel Institute and Marxist economist (and fan favorite) Richard D. Wolff.

Neoliberalism Patreon socialism Theory

NinaIllingworth May 4, 2019November 5, 2022 anarchism, antifascism, bosses, bourgeoisie, bourgeoisie values, CA4, capitalism, casino lottery, class, class in America, class politics, class theory, class war, definition of class, Essays, exploitation, extraction, global capitalism, labor, labor class, left wing theory, Leftist Theory, living conditions, manager class, Marxism, Marxist Theory, middle class, modern class, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, no war but class war, Occupy Wall Street, Offsite Writing, overseer class, Patreon, Patreon Blog, petite bourgeoisie, pig empire, PMC, Politics, poverty, Professional Class, ruling classes, slavery, Socialism, ST2, the class war never ended, the owner class, Theory, wage slavery, you are probably not middle class

A Functional Class Framework for Modern Western Leftists

A Patreon Blog essay that updates the terminology of class warfare and explains why you probably aren’t middle class if you’re reading this.

Blog media Memes News War

NinaIllingworth April 14, 2017November 17, 2022 A Brief Thought, Afghanistan, blog, Bush, client state, corporate media, forever war, Imperialism, ISIS, mainstream media, massive ordinance air blast, Media, Meme, MOAB, mother of all bombs, never ending war, News, Nina Illingworth, Obama, Observations from Outside the Death Star, OODS, Op-Ed, Pentagon, pig empire, poverty, pro-war media, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Six Things I Think, slaughter, thermobaric weapons, Trump, US imperialist media, US intervention, US military, war, War in Afghanistan, War on Terror, WD7, Weapon of Mass Destruction, Weapons of Mass Distraction, WMDs

A Brief Thought: Weapons of Mass Distraction

In the ongoing lead up to the next American war, Nina stops to take a look at news from the war we’ve already forgotten: Afghanistan.

Blog Memes Neoliberalism News

NinaIllingworth March 13, 2017November 17, 2022 A Brief Thought, Appalachia, auto industry, automation, bailout, CA4, child labor, corruption, Donald Trump, Econ, economic anxiety, economic collapse, Economics, economists, economy, farming, February Jobs Report, Flint, Flint Michigan, Flint Water Crisis, full employment, good jobs vs part time menial labor, inclusive capitalism, Jobs Report, manufacturing, Mark Blyth, Matt Taibbi, Media, medical insurance, Meme, Midwest, mining, MP6, neoliberalism, News, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, Op-Ed, Opinion Editorial, Over 1000 Days Without Water, policy wonks, Politics, poverty, President Obama, President Trump, put Snyder in Jail, Racism, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, rich elites, rising cost of education, rising cost of healthcare, rising cost of medical insurance, Six Things I Think, student loan debt, student loans, swine emperor, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, the Hamptons are not defensible, The Heartland, Trump Administration, Uber, unemployment, unemployment rate, US government, wage inequity, wealth inequity

A Brief Thought: Secrets A Jobs Report Won’t Tell

Nina takes a brief look at the laughably stupid Jobs Report controversy in a highly personal Op-Ed.