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

Books Can't You Read Police State Social Justice

NinaIllingworth January 6, 2019April 13, 2025 activism, anti-racism, Assata Shakur, Assata was framed, Assata: An Autobiography, attacks on protesters, Black Panther Party, Black power, blog, Books, Can't You Read, capitalism, Civil Rights movement, COINTELPRO, coverup, Cuba, establishment power, exile, exploitation, FA1, FBI, federal police, frame up, Hoover, informal writing, JA5, liberal antiracism is a joke, liberalism, liberals, lie, MLK, Police, police state, policing, Racism, Social Justice, Socialism, ST2, state power, the myth of tolerance, war on the Black Panthers, white liberals, white moderate

Assata is Innocent & the Myth of Moderate Liberal Tolerance

A link to a short Can’t You Read discussion about the innocence of Assata Shakur and the failure of white moderate liberal anti-racism.

Essays media Patreon Theory

NinaIllingworth December 12, 2018April 13, 2025 capitalism, Chomsky, context, corporate media, Essays, Fantastic Lies, framing, independent media, Inventing Reality, longform writing, manufacturing consent, Media, media bias, media manipulation, media studies, Media Theory, Michael Parenti, MP6, myth of a free press, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, no free press, Offsite Writing, oligarchy, Patreon, Patreon Blog, Propaganda, right wing press, Socialism, ST2, Theory

Essay: Lying Without Lying (Link)

A link to a 2018 Media Theory essay on Patreon that I wrote about the manipulation of framing, context & depth to lie without lying in the media.

Essays Fascism Neoliberalism Theory War

NinaIllingworth November 7, 2018April 20, 2025 a new mainfesto for the end of the world, activism, American fascism, Amerikan Musik, anti-imperialism, anticapitalism, Bigotry, capitalism vs the climate, climate catastrophe, climate disaster, Corporatism, Essays, Evil, FA1, fascism, Fascism Ascendant in the USA, global deregulated capitalism, Imperialism, Jair Bolsonaro, Media, Naomi Klein, NATO, neoliberalism, Observations from Outside the Death Star, oligarchy, OODS, Que Se Vayan Todos, rhetoric, ST2, Steve Bannon, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, Theory, they must all go, Trump, Trump Administration, war, western Europe, Western fascism

Praxis of Evil: Words As Weapons

As an educated person, I’m leery of categorizing any political struggle as a battle of good and evil, but actually the fascist Trump crew is literally just evil

Essays Fascism Neoliberalism Police State

NinaIllingworth March 14, 2018November 5, 2022 anarchists, austerity, Black Identity Extremists, death penalty, death squads, Democrats, dog whistle, Donald Trump, Essays, FA1, fake terror threats, fake war on cops, fascism, FBI, hate crime, Howard Dean scream, JA5, Jeff Sessions, Justice, Mass incarceration, McResistance, Media, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, opioid crisis, police state, Politics, Racism, radical Islam, reactionary violence, Republican, revanchist, Rodrigo Duterte, ST2, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, Vichy Democrats, vigilante justice, war on drugs, white nationalism

Strung Out and Hunted Beneath a Killing Moon

I’m back and this time we’re staring into the dark abyss of Trump’s unhinged comments about seeking the death penalty for drug dealers as an answer to the American opioid crisis.

Climate Crisis Neoliberalism Theory War

NinaIllingworth March 8, 2018November 5, 2022 austerity, bribery, bribes, CA4, Chicago School, climate catastrophe, Climate Crisis, Corporatism, elites, endless war, Essays, FA1, globalization, government, horror, Imperialism, informal writing, Journals, machine, Middle East, Milton Friedman, money in politics, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Op-Ed, personal, psychological torture, Rants, rich people mean you harm, skeptics, ST2, the Watchmen, Theory, Thompson, update, war, wildlife, writer, writer's block, writing

The Hammering In My Head

A short essay channeling Thompson to talk about why rich people are absolutely trying to kill you for literally pennies on the share.

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.

Blog Essays media Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth February 1, 2018November 5, 2022 American Civil War, blog, civil war, conservative, corporate media, Democrats, Essays, FA1, Facebook, Fantastic Lies, fascism, Fox News, GOP, informal writing, Jonathan Chait, Journals, liberals, Media, MP6, MSNBC, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Opinion, Politics, Rachel Maddow, Republican, Sean Hannity, ST2, Theory, Tom Friedman, tribalism

Facebook Journal: Two Truths

An informal essay from early 2018 about fascism, neoliberalism, tribalism and media falsehoods.

Essays media Memes News War

NinaIllingworth January 17, 2018November 5, 2022 Afghanistan War, arms sales, babies in incubators, Bana is propaganda, Barack Obama, Blackwater, bribery, CA4, cable news, Canada, Citizen's United, CNN, Deep Dives, Deregulation, Desert Storm, Dick Cheney, Dwight Eisenhower, Essays, Fantastic Lies, Fear and Droning, foreign policy, forever war, France, genocide, George Bush, Germany, GHW Bush, Giant Russia Theory, Gulf of Tonkin incident, Halliburton, IMF, Imperialism, Invasion of Libya, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Israel, jingoism, KSA Iran proxy war, LBJ, Libya, Living Room War, Lyndon Johnson, manufacturing consent, media consolidation, Meme, mercenaries, Military Industrial Complex, MP6, Nancy Pelosi, national security complex, NATO, NATO war with Russia, NBC News, neocolonialism, neoliberal war machine, neoliberalism, News, Nina Illingworth, NSA domestic surveillance, Observations from Outside the Death Star, OODS, Pentagon, perpetual war machine, Persian Gulf War, pig empire, political class, pro-war lobby, Propaganda, proxy war in Yemen, public and private partnerships, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Russiagate, Saudi Arabia, self censorship, Smedley Butler, ST2, Syria, the endless war show, the New Cold War, the New McCarthyism, the US economy depends on war, the White Helmets are propaganda, UK, US backed Saudi war crimes in Yemen, US corporate media, US military, US Russia Proxy War, USA, Vietnam War, Vladimir Putin, Walter Cronkite, war, War as Entertainment model, war economy, war for profit, war on drugs, War on Terror, war time censorship, WD7, western banks, western imperial powers, White House, worshiping the free market, Yemen

Fear and Droning: Manufacturing Consent for War as a Public-Private Partnership

After finally finishing a protracted move, I’m back with a thorough study of the US perpetual war machine and why the elite class in western democracies are always manufacturing consent for conflict

Essays Fascism News Police State

NinaIllingworth December 7, 2017November 5, 2022 1st amendment rights, activism, American fascism, Amerikan Musik, anarchists, antifa, antifascism, antifascists, Bigotry, black bloc, black bloc tactics, Black Lives Matter, Bryan Adelmeyer, chilling effect, Christopher Wray, Civil Liberties, COINTELPRO, conspiracy, conspiracy theory, conspiracy to riot, corporate media, criminializing protest, Department of Justice, DoJ, Domestic Terrorism, Donald Trump, entrapment, Essays, FA1, Fake News, fascism, FBI, FBI Director Wray, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Ferguson protests, freedom of assembly, government, helping fascists, House Homeland Security Committee, ideology, inauguration protests, independent journalists, J20, J20 protests, JA5, James OKeefe, January 20th Inauguration Day protest, Jeff Sessions, Jennifer Kerkhoff, Jim Crow, journalists, Justice, mainstream media, Media, Meme, Metropolitan DC police, MP6, neonazi, News, Nina Illingworth, nurses, persecuting the left, Police, police state, police violence, President Trump, Project Veritas, Propaganda, Protest, protest fights, Racism, right wing extremist, right wing propagandist, riot, Rizwan Quershi, Robert Mercer, Social Justice, ST2, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, vandalism, War on Terror, white nationalism, white nationalist White House, Wray

TADMZ: Police State of Denial

A look at two clear signs that the US government is aligning itself with right wing reactionaries and against left wing protestors while corporate media shows tepid interest at best.

Essays Neoliberalism News Theory

NinaIllingworth November 29, 2017November 17, 2022 600M dollar CIA contract, A Brief Thought, abuse, Amazon, Amazon vs the World, anti-labor, anticapitalism, austerity, bidding, Black Friday, bribery, brutal work culture, business, CA4, capitalism, carnivore, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, class warfare, corporate welfare, could computing, dancing monkeys, death of Democracy, Democracy, Econ, Economics, elites, Essays, exploitation, feudalism, Foxconn, free money, fuck Jeff Bezos, government for elites by elites, graft, Jeff Bezos, Koch Bros, labor, labor law, labor rights, legalized bribery, libertarian, low wages, market share, Meme, money in politics, monopoly, National Razor Now, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, new Gilded Age, News, Nina Illingworth, oligarchy, on the take, online retail, Op-Ed, Politics, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, retail, rich people, right to work, ripping off the tax payer, scam, Six Things I Think, Socialism, special economic zone, ST2, tax credits, tech bro, tech industry, Theory, Washington Post, workers rights

A Brief Thought: An Empire of One

I’m back with a look at the growing power of Amazon founder and Washington Post CEO Jeff Bezos; being the richest man on earth has it’s advantages but is catering to corporate elites killing US Democracy? In a word, yes.

Essays Fascism Police State Social Justice

NinaIllingworth August 30, 2017November 5, 2022 1933, 25 days, above the law, activism, Adolf Hitler, Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Alt Right, American aristocracy, Amerikan Musik, anarchism, anti Latino discrimination, anti protest laws, anti terrorism, anti Trump protests, antifa, antifa petition, antifascism, Arizona, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Berkley, Berkley anarchists, Bigotry, Black Lives Matter, bourgeoisie, brownshirts, Bull Conner, CA4, camps, centrism, centrist collaborators, Charlottesville, Civil Liberties, civil war, communism, concentration camps, constitutional crisis, corporate media, corruption, crackdown, criminal incompetence, dead prisoners, Deep Dives, Democrats, Department of Justice, deportation machine, Donald Trump, Dr Cornel West, Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Dreamhost, Dylan Roof, Enabling Act, endless war, Eoin Higgins, Essays, ethnonationalism, FA1, fascism, Fascism Ascendant in the USA, fascist Germany, Federal Court, federal judges, Ferguson, First They Came For the Communists, free speech, freedom of the press, genocide, Gitmo, Guantanamo Bay, hate goblin, Heather Heyer, Herr Donald, Hispanic Americans, ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Imperialism, intimidation, Israel, it can't happen here, J20 Disrupt, JA5, Janet Napolitano, Jeff Sessions, Joe Arpaio, Jon Burge, Justice, KKK, Latino, Lee Camp, let them eat sheetcake, liberalism, liberals, longform essays, mainstream liberals, mainstream media, maks, Maricopa County Sheriff, mass surveillance, moderate Republicans, MP6, Murray Snow, Muslim Americans, Nathan J Robinson, Nazi, nazi apologists, Nazi Germany, nazi terrorism, neonazi, never again, Nina Illingworth, NoDAPL, Obama, Op-Ed, Opinion, overt fascism, Palestine, panopticon, Patriot Act, patriotism, pinko activists, police state, political enemies, political persecution, Politics, Pork Reich, PR campaign lies, puppy murder, race war, Racism, racketeering, Reichstag Fire, Reichstag Fire Act, reign of terror, repression, Republican, right wing media, right wing reactionaries, right wing violence, Robert Dear, Robert E Morin, Robert Mueller, Rudolf Hoss, Russiagate, sanctioned murder, Sheriff Joe, smear, Social Justice, ST2, Steven Segal, stop and frisk, swine emperor Trump, swing heil, Tent City, the end of things, the tyranny of evil men, Trump Phoenix Rally, United States, US Constitution, US establishment, US Judiciary branch, US political class, violations, Virginia, war machine, warning, White House, white nationalism, white supremacy

Antifa, Arpaio and Donald Trump’s All-American Reichstag Fire

Examining the growing evidence that we’re living through Donald Trump’s All-American Reichstag Fire.