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

Books Can't You Read Politics socialism

NinaIllingworth April 7, 2020April 16, 2025 Amber Frost, anarchism, book review, Books, books about leftist stuff, Brendan James, Can't You Read, Chapo Trap House, Chomsky, comedy, Felix Biederman, Funny, introduction to leftism, labor theory, Left Wing Books, left wing theory, Marx, Marxism, Matt Christman, millennial issues, MP6, Naomi Klein, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Politics, Reviews, socialism for slackers, ST2, the Chapo Guide to Revolution, The Library, US foreign policy as a start up, Virgil Texas, Will Menaker, Zinn

Link: Baby Steps up the Ramparts (The Chapo Guide to Revolution Review)

A link to my latest book review where we’re taking a look at the surprisingly rewarding book from celebrity podcasters Chapo Trap House, the Chapo Guide to Revolution.

Can't You Read Essays Media Madness News

NinaIllingworth December 5, 2019April 15, 2025 Alt America, Alt Right, analysis, antifascism, Bircher nonsense, Can't You Read, conspiracy theory, David Neiwert, Donald Trump, Essays, FA1, fascism, Giant Russia Theory, grifter, Isaac Chotiner, Malcolm Nance, Media Madness, MP6, News, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Politics, Propaganda, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Reviews, right wing violence, Russiagate, Russiagate is a conspiracy theory, takedowns, The New Yorker, Trump

Links: Liberal Anti-Fascism in “Alt-America” and Malcolm Nance’s Russiagate Grift – New Review and Essay

Links to my latest essay (about Malcolm Nance and Russiagate) and my most recent book review (about David Neiwert’s Alt-America.)

Books Neoliberalism Social Justice War

NinaIllingworth November 7, 2019November 17, 2022 Allen Dulles, Books, CA4, CC3, CIA, Corporate Fascism, Corporatism, David Talbot, deep state, democratic socialism, elite rule, FA1, fascism, foreign policy, forever war, Ibram X Kendi, Imperialism, Inventing Reality, Left Wing Books, market fundamentalism, Marxism, Media, media bias, Michael Parenti, Milton Friedman, Naomi Klein, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, permanent war economy, Politics, power, Racism, racist ideas, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Reviews, Social Justice, Socialism, ST2, Stamped From the Beginning, The Devil's Chessboard, the economics of racism, The Library, the propaganda model, The Shock Doctrine, Trump Doctrine, Understanding Power, war, WD7

The Library: the First Five

A look at five reasonably mainstream books from The Library that you can read to get a much better grasp on how our world actually works.

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.

Books Can't You Read Essays Justice War

NinaIllingworth June 4, 2019April 13, 2025 Afghanistan, Baghdad’s Bloody Sunday, Betsy DeVos, Blackwater, Blackwater The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, Books, Can't You Read, contractor army, crusader, Department of Justice, DoJ, Donald Trump, Erik Prince, Essays, FA1, forever war, genocide, GOP, intelligence contractors, Iraq, Iraq occupation, Islamophobia, Jeremy Scahill, mass murder, mercenaries, military contractors, Nicholas Slatten, Nicholas Slatten pardon, Nina Illingworth, Nisour Square massacre, Offsite Writing, pardoning war criminals to fire up the base, pig empire, Politics, Presidential Pardon, private intelligence, Republican, Reviews, travesty of justice, Trump, Trump coup in Venezuela, Venezuela, War Crimes, WD7

Blackwater and the Slatten Pardon on Can’t You Read

A combination book review and current affairs essay on Can’t You Read that talks about Trump’s pardon power, Erik Prince, and Jeremy Scahill’s “Blackwater.”

Books Can't You Read Politics Social Justice

NinaIllingworth May 8, 2019April 13, 2025 2020 Election, America is still segregated, American history, anti-racism, blockbusting, book review, Books, Can't You Read, capitalism, colonialism, colorblind racism, covert white supremacy, Donald Trump, Economics, exploitation, FA1, fascism, History, history of racist ideas, Ibram X Kendi, JA5, Joe Biden, neocolonialism, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, NIMBYism, Nina Illingworth, Not In My Back Yard, Offsite Writing, Politics, Racism, racism is profitable for some, racist ideas, Reviews, segregation, Social Justice, ST2, Stamped From the Beginning, the economics of racism, white supremacy

Stamped From the Beginning, NIMBYs & Blockbusting

Links to an offsite review of Kendi’s Stamped From the Beginning, and a discussion about NIMBY liberal racism in the context of the 2020 election.

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.

Blog Books Can't You Read Police State

NinaIllingworth January 5, 2019April 13, 2025 ARPANET, blog, book review, Books, Can't You Read, Chelsea Manning, CIA, COINTELPRO, cold war, computers, DARPA, data harvesting, deep state, digital imperialism, Edward Snowden, FA1, FBI, Hoover, Imperialism, informal writing, Internet Freedom movement, Julian Assange, metadata, Military Industrial Complex, military intelligence, National Security State, NatSec, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, NSA, Offsite Writing, online surveillance, panopticon, Pentagon, police state, public private partnerships, Reviews, spying, Surveillance Valley, Surveillance Valley The Secret Military History of the Internet, the internet, the Panopticon, Tor, Vietnam War, War on Terror, WD7, whistleblowers, Wikileaks, Yasha Levine

Digital Imperialism & Yasha Levine’s Surveillance Valley CYR

A link to a book review and short discussion about Yasha Levine’s Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet on Can’t You Read.

Books News Site Updates

NinaIllingworth February 28, 2018November 5, 2022 Alex Haley, Amie Parnes, Andrew Roberts, Arthur Herman, Assata Shakur, Bill Yenne, Bob Woodward, Books, Books & Film, Brian Moynahan, C. W. Mills, C.L.R. James, Chris Patten, Christopher Tomlins, Cornel West, D. Kinney, Donna Brazile, Edward W. Said, Elinor Burkett, Gary Webb, Herman, Hillary Clinton, Howard Zinn, Hunter S Thompson, Isaac Deutscher, J. E. Stiglitz, James P. Carse, Jane Mayer, Jared Diamond, Jeremy Scahill, Jonathan Allen, Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, Luke Bergmann, Malcolm X, Mark Twain, Matt Taibbi, Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, Preston, R.K. Wittman, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Reviews, Richard Brookhiser, Schiller, Site Updates, Søren Kierkegaard, ST2, T. Coates, The Library, Upton Sinclair, V.I. Lenin, William L. Shirer

Site Update – The Library

Rebuilding my lost book collection, one by one.

Essays News Politics Reviews

NinaIllingworth April 4, 2017November 17, 2022 A Brief Message to My Fellow Caucasians About Dr Martin Luther King Jr, A Brief Thought: A Cruel and Unusual Future, A Brief Thought: The Ethics of (neo) Nazi Punching, anniversary, brief thoughts, CA4, CC3, Comey & Intent as it Pertains to the Espionage Act, Deep Dives, Essays, FA1, Hillary Clinton, Imperialism and the Lesser of Two Evils, info memes, JA5, Joy-Ann Reid & the Return of McCarthyism, Media, Meme, MP6, News, Nina Illingworth, one year anniversary of NinaIllingworth.com, Op-Ed, Opinion, personal, Politics, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Reviews, self analysis, Site Updates, Six Things I Think, ST2, Take Downs, Tales from the American DMZ: It’s (Almost) All Economics, ten best articles on Nina Illingworth Dot Com, The Biggest Lie: Clinton, The Wall of Shame, Time & Pressure: the Excruciating Patience of Rafael Edward Cruz, top 10 list, Trump's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, WD7, writing

A Year of Living Dangerously

In honor of the recent 1 Year Anniversary of ninaillingworth.com, we take a look at Nina’s top 10 articles, 8 honorable mentions and 2 stories she’s like to have back

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