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KBS Pod News Podcast Politics War

NinaIllingworth March 11, 2022November 5, 2022 Afghanistan War, arms sales, Charles Minnich, Chris Walker, Climate Crisis, Current Affairs, defense spending, fascism, fear sells bombs, For Domestic Consumption Only, foreign policy, Imperialism, Iraq War, Joe Biden, KBS, KBS episode 1, KBS Pod, Kropotkin's Barbershop, McCarthyism, MIC, Military Industrial Complex, NATO, News, Nina Illingworth, NSC 68, nuclear weapons, pig empire, Podcast, Politics, post World War II order, Propaganda, Putin is a fascist, Russia, Scurvy, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, war, war economy, War is a Racket, war is the American business, WD7

Kropotkin’s Barbershop Episode 1: For Domestic Consumption Only

Back in February the KBS pod crew met up to discuss a brewing Cold War and why it would be bad for the labor class; featuring a pretty bad prediction by Nina.

Climate Crisis Fascism Neoliberalism News

NinaIllingworth November 6, 2021November 5, 2022 Andrew Cockburn, anticapitalism, antifascism, Assata Shakur, blog, CA4, CC3, centrism, Christopher Rufo, Climate Crisis, critical race theory, CRT, Cultural Marxism, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, FA1, Facebook, fascist conspiracy theories, foreign policy, fossil fuels, Glenn Youngkin, Godwin's Law, Hooverism, Imperialism, In the Aggregate, informal writing, instagram, ItA, James Lindsay, January 6th 2021, Joe Biden, Joe Manchin, Kimberlé Crenshaw, labor rights, Lauren Boebert, liberal antifascism is an oxymoron, liberalism, manufacturing consent, Mastodon, Media, Media Madness, Military Industrial Complex, MP6, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, News, NIDC, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, oligarchy, organized labor, Pinko Postcard, plutocracy, Politics, Quickshot Quotations, Republican Party, Rolling Stone, Social Justice, social media, solidarity, The New Old Forever War, the propaganda model, The Spoils of War, Threads, Twitter, Virginia governor's election, war, Weimar America, Woke

In the Aggregate: Critical Overload

New ItA post today; highlighting the very best of Nina’s social media writing from around the web. We’ve got nazis, neufeudalism and a boiling planet on NIDC.

Neoliberalism Patreon Politics War

NinaIllingworth January 23, 2021November 5, 2022 "dog faced pony solider", "you ain't Black", anarchists, antifascists, Antony Blinken, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Biden death primary, Biden inauguration, Black Lives Matter, BLM, blog, Camelot, Captain Trips, Civil Rights movement, class war, coronavirus, Covid 19, Covid checks, DC riots, Defund the Police, Dem Voltron Primary, Democratic Party, far right violence, fascism, fascist coup, foreign policy, forever war, GOP is fascist, hagiography, Imperialism, informal writing, Jim Clyburn, Joe Biden, Joe Biden lies, Journals, Kamala Harris, Mastodon, MIC, Military Industrial Complex, militias, MP6, Nelson Mandela, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, no Camelot, Patreon, Patreon Blog, pig empire, Politics, Propaganda, Protesters, Proud Boys, Republican Party, social media, Strom Thurmond, Tara Reade, The Skinny, unity, Wall Street, war, word games

The Skinny: Biden His Time Edition

A collection of informal journal posts about the new (and yet so uninspiring) Biden era, on my free to read Patreon Blog.

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 Books Can't You Read Police State

NinaIllingworth January 5, 2019November 5, 2022 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.

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

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.

Justice Memes Social Justice War

NinaIllingworth September 15, 2017November 5, 2022 activism, bombing, bombs, border control, Central America, Chicago School, Corporatism, death squads, economic reforms, Evil, FA1, hellscape, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Immigration ICE, immigration policy, Imperialism, inhumane, Iraq, Iraq War, Justice, libertarianism, Libya, Meme, Mexico, MIC, Middle East, migrants, Military Industrial Complex, MP6, never ending war, North Africa, one breeds the other, Opinion, refugees, Social Justice, South America, The Simple Truth, undocumented migrants, US corporate interests, US foreign policy, US Immigration policy, US intelligence community, war, WD7

The Simple Truth: US Foreign Policy, Refugees & Immigration

A short info-graphic discussing why I have zero patience for first world crackers whining about migrants “illegally” entering “our country.”

Memes Neoliberalism News Politics War

NinaIllingworth October 30, 2016November 17, 2022 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, 7 nations in 6 years, 7 wars in 6 years, A New Beginning, Afghanistan, arms sales, Barack Obama, bombs, drone, drone assassinations, drone strikes, forever war, George Bush, IMotW, Imperialism, Info Meme of the Week, Iraq, Libya, Meme, Middle East, Military Industrial Complex, neoliberalism, News, Nina Illingworth, Nobel Peace Price, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama administration, Observations from Outside the Death Star, OODS, Pakistan, pig empire, Politics, President O-Bomb-A, President Obama, Qatar, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, record arms sales, Saudi Arabia, Six Things I Think, Somalia, Syria, US aggression, US imperialism, war, WD7, weapons contractors, Yemen

Info Meme of the Week: President Oh-Bomb-A

Nina takes a quick look at the Obama legacy liberals & the media would rather ignore.

Essays Neoliberalism Police State Videos

NinaIllingworth September 30, 2016November 5, 2022 "rotten apples", 9/11, Amerikan Musik, anti-war movement, automation, Baltimore, Bilderberg Group, Bush Administration, C.G.P. Grey, capitalism, CIA, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, climate catastrophy, collective bargaining, conflict, conspiracy theorist, control, corporate control, corporate taxes, corporations, Crime, crusade, dark future, Deep Dives, deep state, Democracy, domestic policy, doomsayer, Dystopia, Econ, economic collapse, Economics, elites, endless war, Essays, fascism, Fascism Ascendant in the USA, FBI, Ferguson, feudalism, financial crime, financial crisis, First Crusade, foreign policy, G20 Riots, guaranteed income, human rights violations, Humans Need Not Apply, inequity, Iraq War, It's (Almost) All Economics, jobs, labor, labor power, Libya Invasion, longform writing, Manga Carta, Mass Surveillance program, Military Industrial Complex, mind power, money in politics, muscle power, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, new fascism, Nina Illingworth, NSA, Obama administration, Op-Ed, Opinion, organized labor, people power, Police, police militarization, police state, police violence, policing for profit, political class, Pope Urban II, predicting the future, profiteering, Propaganda, protests, racial profiling, Racism, racist cops, riot, Robocop, robot, Russia, Russia vs NATO & USA, saber rattling, sea level rise, shortages, slave patrols, slavery, social engineering, social theory, Socialism, spies, ST2, student loans, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, tanks, tax the wealthy, taxation, The West, the western World, the work day, Thinkpiece, Torture Program, UBI, unemployable, unemployable labor, unemployment, Universal Basic Income, US & the West, US State Department, V for Vendetta, Video, Vietnam War, Vietnam War Protests, violence, war, war on drugs, War on Terror, war with Russia, WD7, wealthy elites, women's suffrage, work, WTO Riots, WWI, WWII

Tales from the American DMZ: It’s (Almost) All Economics

Nina takes a terrifying look at the potential relationship between police militarization, global war and the coming automation crisis