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

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.

Essays News Politics War

NinaIllingworth May 15, 2019November 17, 2022 aluminum tubes, babies in incubators, Barack Obama, Bibi Netanyahu, Bill Clinton, Cater Doctrine, CIA, Donald Trump, DPRK, drone attacks, Elliot Abrams, Essays, false flag, genocide, George W Bush, GHW Bush, Gulf of Tonkin, Hassan Rouhani, Hillary Clinton, Houthi rebels, Imperialism, Iran, Iraq War, Islamic Republic of Iran, Islamic Revolutionary Guard, Israel, Jimmy Carter, John Bolton, Juan Guaido, lie, Mad Dog Mattis, manufacturing consent, Media, Middle East, Mike Pompeo, Moderate Syrian Rebels, Mohammad bin Salman, Monroe Doctrine, News, Nicolas Maduro, Nina Illingworth, North Korea, nuclear war, nuclear weapons, Observations from Outside the Death Star, oil, OODS, peace, pig empire, Propaganda, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Ronald Reagan, sabotoge, Saudi Arabia, Six Things I Think, South Korea, The New Old Forever War, UAE, Venezuela, war, war hawks, WD7, yellow cake from Niger, Yemen

Six Things I Think: Eve of Destruction Edition

A look at the unfolding nightmare that is American foreign policy under Downmarket Mussolini, his State Department minions and the Witch King of Turtle Bay.

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.

Essays Fascism Memes News War

NinaIllingworth January 22, 2018November 17, 2022 2016 Turkish attempted coup, Afrin, Andrei Karlov, Ankara, assassination, authoritarianism, Bashar al-Assad, CIA, culture war, dictator, divided Turkey, Donald Trump, Egypt, Erdogan, Essays, European Union, FA1, fascism, Fethulla Gulen, finger tip grip dictatorship, foreign policy, forever war, fundamentalist, gas pipelines, Imperialism, Iran, Iran Qatar gas field, ISIS, Islamic Republic of Iran, Israel, kicked out of NATO, Kurdish militias, Kurdistan Workers party, Kurds, Meme, Middle East, Nasser, NATO, new cold war, New Forever War, News, Nina Illingworth, Observations from Outside the Death Star, OODS, Opinion, pig empire, PKK, playing both sides, political purges, President Erdogan, President Trump, Qatar, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Russia, Russian Turkish relations, Sadat, Saudi Arabia, shifting alliances, Six Things I Think, Syria, Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey, Turkey's war on terror, US client states, US-Turkish relations, USA, USSR, Vladimir Putin, war, War on Terror, WD7, would be dictator, YPG

New Forever War: Turkey, Tayyip & Playing Both Sides Against the Middle

As the New Cold, Old Forever War in the Middle East between the US, Russia and their various client stats inches closer to reality, it’s time to stop and take a look at a longtime NATO power sending off confusing signals to the West; Turkey and its president Recept Tayyip Erdoğan.

Essays Politics Russiagate War

NinaIllingworth January 4, 2018November 5, 2022 2009 Green Movement, Afghanistan, ally, America's Forever Wars, anti-war movement, Benjamin Netanyahu, bipartisan support, bombing, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, client state, cold war, DC political establishment, Democrats, Donald Trump, doves, drone strikes, economic inequity, Empire, Essays, foreign policy, forever war, George W Bush, Giant Russia Theory, give peace a chance, Grand Ayatollah Al Khamenei, Hassan Rouhani, Imperialism, Iran, Iran Protests, Iran Russia alliance, Iranian Protests, Iraq, Islamic Republic, Israel, Ivanka Trump, John Bolton, John McCain, Kim Jong Un, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lindsey Graham, Mad Dog Mattis, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, manufacturing consent, McCarthyism, Middle East, Mike Flynn, Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, MSB, Nancy Pelosi, national security doctrine, NATO, neoconservative, neoliberal, new cold war, Nikki Haley, Observations from Outside the Death Star, oil, OODS, Pakistan, peace, Persian Gulf, Politics, President Obama, President Trump, Principlist, Putin, Qassem Soleimani, Quds Force, red-baiting, regime change, Republican, Rex Tillerson, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Russiagate, Russiagate Foreign Policy and the Coming Forever War, Russian allies, sanctions, Sand Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Soleimani, swine emperor Trump, Taliban, Tehran, terrorism, the New McCarthyism, Trump, Trump Administration, Turkey, UN sanctions, US allies, US client states, US imperialism, US Iran Nuclear deal, US political establishment, US Russian relations, US sanctions, war, war hawks, War on Terror, War with Iran, WD7, western imperialism, working class protest in Iran, World War Three

Bipartisan Support: Russiagate, Foreign Policy & the Coming Forever War – Part Two

As news comes out of Iran faster than I can write about it, we take a look at mounting evidence of a coming storm and proof that regime change in Iran is a bipartisan issue for the bloodthirsty US political establishment

Blog Memes News War

NinaIllingworth January 2, 2018November 5, 2022 $700B Defense Budget, 9/11 attacks in NYC, A Brief Thought, Afghanistan, American exceptionalism, American Muslims, anti-Muslim bigotry, arms sales, bankers love war, blog, Bush, capitalism, casualties, CIA, Civil Liberties, corporations love war, drone warfare, elites love war, endless war, endless war on terror, environmental catastrophe, FA1, fascism, FBI, Fear and Droning, folly, foreign policy, forever war, Global Trumpism, health care, Iran, Iraq, Islamophobia, madness, Meme, MENA, Middle East, militarized police, Military Industrial Complex, millions dead, MP6, Muslims, NATO, News, Nina Illingworth, nobody was fired for the Iraq War, North Africa, Obama, Observations from Outside the Death Star, OODS, Op-Ed, Patriot Act, Pentagon, pig empire, police state, Politics, PTSD, Russia, social safety net, Surveillance State, terrorism, terrorist, trillion dollar wars, Trump, US arms sales, US drone assassination program, USA, veterans, war, War on Terror, war on the environment, waste, WD7, wounded

Fear & Droning: A War on Everyone, Including Ourselves

My internet conked out on New Years Even and it was either write about something I knew from memory, or read a book written by Hillary Clinton; so let’s talk about the endless US war on everyone, including ourselves.

Essays Memes News Russiagate War

NinaIllingworth December 31, 2017November 17, 2022 A Brief Thought, Afghanistan, ally, America's Forever Wars, anti-Muslim bigotry, arms sales, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bigotry, bombing, Canada, China, client state, cold war, crushing dissent, DC political establishment, Democrats, Donald Trump, doves, drone strikes, Empire, Essays, fascism, foreign policy, forever war, genocide, genocide in Yemen, George W Bush, Giant Russia Theory, Hezbollah, Hillary Clinton, Imperialism, Iran, Iraq, Israel, John Kerry, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Libya, Mad Dog Mattis, McCarthyism, Meme, Middle East, Mike Flynn, Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, MSB, NATO, natural gas, neoconservative, neoliberal, new cold war, News, Nikki Haley, Nina Illingworth, Observations from Outside the Death Star, oil, OODS, Pakistan, Persian Gulf, pig empire, pipeline wars, Politics, President Obama, President Trump, public opinion polls, Putin, Qatar, Racism, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, red-baiting, Republican, Rex Tillerson, Russia, Russiagate, Russiagate Foreign Policy and the Coming Forever War, Russian allies, Saudi Arabia, Six Things I Think, Steve Bannon, swine emperor Trump, Syria, Syrian pipeline, terrorism, the New McCarthyism, Trump, Trump Administration, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, US allies, US backed atrocities in Yemen, US client states, US imperialism, US Military Industrial Compex, US political establishment, US Russian relations, war, war hawks, War on Terror, War with Iran, WD7, Wesley Clark, western imperialism, white nationalism, William Jennings Bryan, World War Three, Yemen

Gimme Shelter: Russiagate, Foreign Policy & the Coming Forever War – Part One

After a holiday break, I’m back with a detailed and heavily-sourced look at what I think is the coming US “forever war” in the Middle East

Blog Site Updates War

NinaIllingworth December 1, 2017November 5, 2022 American forever wars, American intervention, blog, Britain, Canada, capitalism and war, China, CIA, colonialism, Essays, Five Eyes, forever war, global conflict, Imperialism, informal writing, introduction to the Forever War, Latin America, Meme, MENA, Middle East, NATO, neocolonialism, new cold war, New Forever War, new page, News, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Pentagon, pig empire, regime change, Russia, Site Updates, splash page, U.S. Imperialism, United States of America, war, war is a business, WD7, western empire, world wars

Introduction to the New (Old) Forever War

A short blog post about America’s perpetual quest for conflict, that introduces our newly updated Pig Empire imperialism page – The New (Old) Forever War.

Blog Fascism Personal Site Updates War

NinaIllingworth November 27, 2017January 2, 2021 activism, Alt Right, American fascism, Amerikan Musik, Black Lives Matter, BLM, blog, boiling frog, Bush, Cheney, consequences, corporate media, Democrats, Donald Trump, Europe, Evil, fascism, foreign policy, Giant Russia Theory, GOP, government lies, Imperialism, informal writing, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Iraq war propaganda, KSA, letter to my readers, liberals, lies that sold the Iraq War, mainstream media, Middle East, millions of dead, neoliberalism, Observations from Outside the Death Star, OODS, patriotism, Pentagon, personal, Pokemon Go, Propaganda, Putin, racial violence, Racism, Republican, Russia, Russiagate, Saudi Arabia, Site Updates, Social Justice, swine emperor Trump, Syria, the rise of American fascism, The West, Trump is a Nazi, United States, US, US adventurism, USA, war, war in Iran, war in Syria, war with Russia, warmonger, white nationalism, white supremacists

A Brief Note Explaining My Absence During the Late Fall of 2017 to my Readers & Patrons

How I got run down fighting fascism & imperialism at the same time; and why I’m back to fight again

Blog Opinion Politics Russiagate

NinaIllingworth November 12, 2017January 2, 2021 2016 US Presidential Election, acts of war, blog, bribery, CIA, Comey, Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr, emails, Essays, fascism, FBI, Flynn, foreign policy, FSB, Giant Russia Theory, hacked, Hillary Clinton, KGB, Kushner, letters, Manafort, McCarthyism, Middle East, Mueller, new cold war, Op-Ed, Opinion, Propaganda, proxy war, Radio Free Europe And Radio Liberty, rigged, Russiagate, Russian Hackers, Russian Intelligence, swine emperor Trump, treason, US Intelligence, Vladimir Putin, Wikileaks, World War Three

A Letter to an Anonymous Friend About the Current State of the “Russiagate” Scandal

After a long time away from this website while staring into the abyss, Nina is back with a short letter explaining why the often absurd scandal that is Russiagate really hasn’t progressed all that much in the past two months despite numerous sensational media “revelations” about the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.

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