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

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.

Neoliberalism Patreon Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth October 28, 2019November 5, 2022 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, Amerikan Musik, antifascism, Bernie Sanders, Bircher nonsense, blog, Brooks Brothers Riot, CA4, class war, confronting fascism, democratic socialism, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, fascism, history of liberalism, how liberalism works, labor class, left wing theory, liberalism, Liz Warren is a muppet, Matt Gaetz, MP6, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Patreon Blog, PMC, political history, Political Theory, Politics, Professional Class, professional managerial class, Socialism, technocratic incrementalism, technocrats, The Skinny, Theory, Trump impeachment, US politics, why liberals lose, working class

The Skinny: a Liberal Lexicon

A collection of informal journal writing; this time we’re talking about liberalism and the American political imagination.

Can't You Read media Neoliberalism Politics

NinaIllingworth October 24, 2019November 5, 2022 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, bad predictions, Bernie Sanders, blog, building a narrative, Can't You Read, class war, corporate candidate, corporate media, Democratic Party, Joe Biden, liberalism, manufacturing consent, Media, Michigan, Michigan primary was rigged, money in politics, MP6, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Obama, Offsite Writing, Palooka Joe, Politics, polls, Propaganda, Super Tuesday, they cheated Bernie again, Voltron strategy

Blog: Manufacturing A Primary Narrative

A short blog analyzing the media’s false narrative about Joe Biden that turned out to be right, and also wrong, once the primaries started. It’s complicated.

Blog Can't You Read media Politics War

NinaIllingworth October 11, 2019November 5, 2022 anarcho socialist militias, anti-imperialism, Assad, blog, Can't You Read, CIA, crocodile tears, Donald Trump, forever war, imperial policy, Imperialism, Kurdish People, liberal interventionism, liberals don't care about the Kurds, manufacturing consent, Media, MENA, Middle East, Military Industrial Complex, New Forever War, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, oil, Peoples’ Protection Units, pig empire, Politics, regime change, Rojova, Syria, Tayyip Erdogan, Trump is an imperialist too, Trump isn't leaving Syria, Turkey, war, WD7, YPG, YPJ

Can’t You Read: Saving Kurdistan Means Staying In Syria Forever

A Can’t You Read blog post about why leaving Syria means abandoning the YPG even if that’s not a popular decision on the left.

Blog Fascism media Patreon War

NinaIllingworth October 8, 2019November 5, 2022 Al-Qaeda, America does not care about human rights, Amerikan Musik, Assad, blog, CIA, CIA promises, DNA, end the forever wars, Erdogan, false balance, false equivalence, Fantastic Lies, fascism, fascist Gargamel, forever war, GOP, GOP is a fascist party, immigration, Imperialism, informal writing, Iraq, ISIS, James Clapper, Kurdistan, Kurds, liberalism enables fascism, Libya, manufacturing consent, Media, MENA, Middle East, military planning, military propaganda, Moderate Syrian Rebels, nativism, NATO, New Forever War, Nina Illingworth, no war in Syria, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Pentagon, pig empire, Propaganda, Racism, regime change, Republican, Sand Vietnam, SDF, September 11th, spin, Stephen Miller, Sunni radicals, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, terrorism, The Carter Doctrine, The Guardian, the Mujahideen, the Pig Empire funds terrorism, The Skinny, the War on Migrants, Trump, Turkey, US imperialism, US sponsored terrorism, Vietnam War, war, WD7

The Skinny: Spin Doctrine

An October 2019 edition of The Skinny in which Nina discusses how narrative framing twists the issues in the minds of the public in all the wrong directions.

Blog Patreon Politics Social Justice

NinaIllingworth October 2, 2019April 4, 2021 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, appropriation, bad idea jeans, blog, Chuck Schumer, class war, Cole DeLaune, Democratic Party, DNA test, election strategies, Elizabeth Warren, fake outreach, fake progressives, fallacy of the white working class, Indian Country Today, labor class, Liz Warren is a fake lefty, Liz Warren is not Indigenous, Liz Warren was a Republican, Midwest, myth of a white working class, Patreon, Paul Krugman, PMC, Politics, professional managerial class, progressive politics, Racism, snake, Social Justice, Socialism, The Skinny, Twila Barnes, whiteness

The Skinny: Warring With Warren and Fake Labor Class Outreach

Link to an October 2019 edition of the Skinny discussing the image crafting surrounding Liz Warren and Dem Party appeals to a mythical white working class.

Books Can't You Read media Police State

NinaIllingworth September 30, 2019November 5, 2022 a culture of falsehood, a propaganda system, all news is fake news, blog, Books, Can't You Read, class war, corporate media, corporate propaganda, culture war, deep state, Edward Snowden, FA1, Fake News, Fantastic Lies, for profit media, JA5, leaks, manufacturing consent, Mass Surveillance program, Media, MP6, National Security State, Nina Illingworth, NSA, Offsite Writing, Pentagon, Permanent Record, police state, Propaganda, Snowden Leaks, spying on everyone, the Panopticon, the real deep state, War on Whistleblowers, whistleblowers, why people believe fake news

Blog: the Panopticon, Public Trust, and “Fake News”

A medium length blog post exploring why government lies about mass surveillance have had unintended consequences in the fight against “fake news.”

Can't You Read Climate Crisis Media Madness

NinaIllingworth September 29, 2019November 5, 2022 blog, CA4, Can't You Read, carbon emissions, CC3, climate catastrophe is a plot to kill us all, Climate Crisis, climate science denial, coffin ship Earth, conspiracy, culture war, DesmogUK, Fantastic Lies, fossil fuel industry, fossil fuels, global warming, Greta Thunberg, Greta visits the UN, Koch Brothers, Koch network, Kochtopus, lie, manufacturing consent, Media, Media Madness, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, oil companies, oil company propaganda, out of time, Politics, profits over people, right wing media, smear campaigns, smears, think tanks, United Nations, Wall Street

Greta is not the Problem: Climate Crisis and the Culture War

Two blog posts about what the media furor over Greta Thunberg’s visit to the UN means and why rich people aren’t listening to her.

Blog Climate Crisis Patreon Politics War

NinaIllingworth September 27, 2019November 5, 2022 abuse of power, blog, bribery, CC3, climate catastrophe, Climate Crisis, corporate media, dark money, dark money behind climate science denial, Democratic Party, far right propaganda, fascism, foreign policy, Giant Russia Theory, GOP, Greta Thunberg, informal writing, intimidation, Koch Brothers, Koch network, liberals, MP6, nativism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Nixonian, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Patreon Blog, pig empire, Politics, Propaganda, Republican Party, Russiagate, The Skinny, Ukraine, Wall Street, war

The Skinny: Impeachment Politics, Targeting and Anti-Climate Flak

A link to my informal journal writing where we discuss why I’m not Josh Marshall, why Democrat’s will blow impeachment, and why dark money right wing groups are behind attempts to discredit Greta Thunberg.

Essays News Patreon Social Media

NinaIllingworth September 26, 2019November 17, 2022 2020 Dem Primary Season, analysis, antifascism, Arun Gupta, Bernie 2020, blog, blogging, Can't You Read, climate catastrophe, Donald Trump, Essays, Facebook, foreign policy, ICE, Jacobin, Joe Biden, labor class, left wing politics, liberals, manufacturing consent, Mastodon, Media, MP6, News, nobody trust the media, Odds and Ends, Offsite Writing, Opinion, Patreon, Patreon Blog, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Six Things I Think, social media, Socialism, The Skinny, Twitter, US politics, voting theory, war on the homeless, Working Families Party

Odds and Ends: A Skinny Week and Malcolm Tucker Goes to War

A link to all my offsite pieces in an extremely busy week of blogging on Patreon and Can’t You Read.

Blog Climate Crisis media Patreon Politics

NinaIllingworth September 24, 2019November 5, 2022 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, Bernie Sanders, billionaire, blog, capitalism, capitalism will kill us all, capitalist media supports capitalist tyranny, CC3, class war, Climate Crisis, corporate media, Democratic Party, democratic socialism, Elizabeth Warren, Fantastic Lies, fossil fuels, informal writing, Joe Biden, Journals, left wing politics, liberalism, manufacturing consent, Media, MP6, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Patreon Blog, petite bourgeoisie, PMC, Politics, polls, public perception, ruling classes, Socialism, the media lies, The Skinny

The Skinny: Vote Pledging, Untrustworthy Media, and the Urgency of Climate Catastrophe

A collection of my informal writing from late September 2019, including vote pledges, declining trust in media, and why the capitalist solution to climate catastrophe is to kill us all.