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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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ABT: Hunting Hawks Through Smoke & Shadow

Something terrifying is happening in the Persian Gulf & despite the mainstream media’s refusal to explain the situation fully – Nina is on the case.

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A Brief Thought: Despinning Michael Flynn, Again

Nina takes a look at the latest Trump-Russia “bombshell” and asks “if Mike Flynn is the key to the Russiagate puzzle, why isn’t he already in custody spilling his guts?”