2019 | Nina Illingworth Dot Com - Part 2

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

Essays media Patreon Politics socialism

NinaIllingworth October 30, 2019April 15, 2025 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, 2020 US Election, Bernie 2020, Bernie Blackout, Bernie is Back, Bernie Sanders, bogus polls, class war, corporate media, Democratic Party, democratic socialism, Essays, Fantastic Lies, Joe Biden, liberal media, likely voters, Liz Warren, Media, MP6, narrative, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Patreon Blog, political media, Politics, polling, Queens Rally, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, ruling class, Socialism

Link: On Bernie Sanders, Polling and Perception – New Essay

A link to my latest essay on Patreon in which I look at the reasons Bernie Sanders is going to drastically outperform the polls in the 2020 Democratic Party nomination contest.

Neoliberalism Patreon Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth October 28, 2019April 15, 2025 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, 2019April 15, 2025 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.

media Patreon Politics Russiagate

NinaIllingworth October 23, 2019April 15, 2025 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, anti-Bernie campaign, Ashlee Marie Preston, Bad Grandma, Bernie Sanders, Bigotry, corporate media, corporate media coverage of Bernie Sanders, covering up for Liz Warren, Democratic Party, democratic socialism, Elizabeth Warren, Fantastic Lies, Giant Russia Theory, Hillary Clinton, homophobia, informal writing, Jill Stein, LGBTQ rights, liberals, manufacturing consent, McCarthyism, Media, media bias, MP6, new cold war, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Politics, Racism, Receipts, Russiagate, Russophobia, Sanders surrogates, Social Justice, Susan Sarandon, The Skinny, Vladimir Putin

The Skinny: Receipt Collection

A collection of informal Patreon journals about skullduggery, Russophobia, and corporate media bias in the 2020 Democratic Party Nomination contest.

Essays Fascism Justice Politics

NinaIllingworth October 18, 2019November 5, 2022 Amerikan Musik, Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, checks and balances, constitutional law, Constitutional originalism, Deep Dives, despotism, dictatorship, Donald Trump, Essays, FA1, fascism, Federalist Society, Fox News, GOP, James Madison, John Yoo, Justice, law, lawless state, Mitch McConnell, MP6, Nancy Pelosi, obstruction, Op-Ed, Opinion, Politics, Republican, Richard Nixon, Senate, the GOP is obstructionist, Torture Memos, Trump impeachment, turtle boy, war criminal, WD7

Screw Yoo: the Turtle, the War Criminal and the Mutant who would be King

Nina takes a look at the terrifying logic behind the new-old strain of Republican excuses for a lawless president in “Screw Yoo: the Turtle, the War Criminal and the Mutant who would be King.”

Fascism Patreon Politics Social Justice

NinaIllingworth October 16, 2019April 15, 2025 1994 crime bill, 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, Anita Hill, AOC, Bernie Sanders, Caliburn International Corp, Comprehensive Health Services Inc, concentration camps, corruption, Democratic Party, democratic socialism, DHS, endorsements, FA1, fascism, General Dynamics Information Technology, GOP, GOP is a fascist party, ICE, ICE guards union, Ilhan Omar, immigration, Iraq War, James Mattis, Jeff Sessions, Joe Biden, John Kelly, Justice, kids in cages, left wing insurgency, migrants, MP6, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, no justice, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Politics, Pork Reich, prison industrial complex, private prisons, Rashida Tlaib, Social Justice, Socialism, the Dem Party civil war, The GEO Group, The Skinny, The Squad, war on drugs, warehousing migrants is big business

The Skinny: And Sometimes You Miss

Link to an October 2019th edition of The Skinny in which Nina nails contractors in the migrant prison game and screws up political predictions.

Blog Can't You Read media Politics War

NinaIllingworth October 11, 2019April 14, 2025 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, 2019April 14, 2025 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.

Books Can't You Read Essays War

NinaIllingworth October 3, 2019April 14, 2025 Allen Dulles, American exceptionalism, Books, Can't You Read, Castro, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Contra wars, death squads, Essays, establishment thought, History, history of the CIA, Imperialism, Kennedy, Latin America, Legacy of Ashes, lie, mass surveillance, Media, New York Times, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, pig empire, Propaganda, Reagan's wars, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Reviews, secrets, spies, Tim Weiner, US government, war, WD7

Link: They All Fall Down – New Essay

A link to a short essay on Tim Weiner’s “Legacy of Ashes” and the structural reasons why pro-CIA propaganda is written by seemingly well-meaning critics.

Blog Patreon Politics Social Justice

NinaIllingworth October 2, 2019April 14, 2025 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 Essays Police State

NinaIllingworth October 1, 2019April 14, 2025 1984, Books, Can't You Read, Chelsea Manning, CIA, corporate media, Edward Snowden, Espionage Act, Essays, George Orwell, Jeff Bezos, Julian Assange, Karl Rove, liberal media, manufacturing consent, Marshall McLuhan, mass surveillance, Media, Michael Parenti, Nina Illingworth, NSA, Offsite Writing, Permanent Record, police state, privacy rights, Propaganda, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Reviews, Russia, spying, The Guardian, the medium is the message, US government spying, war on freedom of the press, War on Whistleblowers, Washington Post, whistleblowers, Wikileaks

Link: The Casualties of Cacophony – New Essay

A look at the disappointing change in mainstream attitudes towards Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers who’ve spoken out against the abuses of American intelligence.