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

Blog Fascism Imperialism media

NinaIllingworth July 20, 2025July 31, 2025 anarchists, antifa, blog, Brazil, CBS, Civil Rights, collaborators, DHS, Donald Trump, FA1, fascism, foreign policy, Gestapo, human rights, ICE, immigration, Imperialism, JA5, Jair Bolsonaro, Justice, Kristi Noem, labor rights, Lula da Silva, mass deportations, Media, Migrant Rights, migrants, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Paramount, police state, Politics, Portland, Racism, Sex work, Stephen Colbert, The Skinny, Tom Homan, trans migrants, trans rights, WD7, white nationalism

The Skinny: Hot Gestapo Summer

As the July sun scorches Trump’s fascist America, The Skinny is again here to bring you the very best of Nina’s daily blogging content about the Pork Reich.

Blog Imperialism media Politics

NinaIllingworth July 14, 2025July 15, 2025 apartheid, Benjamin Netanyahu, blog, Brett Wilkins, colonialism, Common Dreams, FA1, fascism, foreign policy, Francesca Albanese, Gaza, genocide, human rights, IDF, Imperialism, IOF, Israel, Marco Rubio, Media, MENA, Middle East, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, Palestinians, Politics, sanctions, Syria, Trita Parsi, United Nations, war, WD7, West Bank

Nina-Bytes: Our Genocide and the Limits of Pretend

With recent news that the US sanctioned UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, it’s time for everyone to admit we’re watching an American genocide in Gaza.

Essays Imperialism Politics War

NinaIllingworth June 22, 2025 1979 Islamic Revolution, Benjamin Netanyahu, Dick Cheney, Donald Trump, Essays, foreign policy, forever war, Imperialism, Iran, Iraq War, Israel, JD Vance, manufacturing consent, Media, MENA, Mohammad Mosaddegh, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Politics, Propaganda, Qasem Soleimani, regime change, Tehran, US Iran Nuclear deal, war, War Crimes, War on Terror, WD7

Forever At Forever War With Iran

On Saturday night US President Donald Trump bombed Iran and put the entire world in peril, but America’s forever war against Iran is already decades old.

KBS Pod Podcast Politics War

NinaIllingworth March 12, 2022November 5, 2022 Afghanistan, Aleksandr Dugin, all billionaires are oligarchs, anti war, anti-imperialism, apologists, arms sales, Azov Battalion, Charles Minnich, Chris Walker, Chrystia Freeland, Climate Crisis, Current Affairs, defense spending, Duginism, Episode 1B, FA1, fascism, fascist billionaire's invasion, foreign policy, FotB, Friends of the Blog, Group Therapy, homophobia, Imperialism, Iraq War, Joe Biden, KBS, KBS Pod, Kropotkin's Barbershop, murder, nationalism, NATO, neonazi mujahedeen, News, NIDC, Nina Illingworth, no left wing support for fascists, oligarchs, Politics, Russian Orthodox Army, sanctions, Scurvy, tankies, Ukrainian neonazi, Vladimir Putin, Wagner Group, war, war economy, war spending, WD7, white ISIS

Kropotkin’s Barbershop Episode 1.5: Group Therapy

Fresh off declaring Russia wouldn’t invade Ukraine, Nina makes an apology and the KBS crew hashes out the fallout in desperate times for the labor class.

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.

media Neoliberalism Police State Theory

NinaIllingworth April 11, 2021November 17, 2022 Alex Shephard, American colonialism, American Prospect, AP News, Aviva Chomsky, Baltimore Sun, Biden's Central America policy, Branko Marcetic, CA4, Central America, colonialism, concentration camps, Daniel Denvir, Donald Trump, Edward Herman, FA1, family separation policy, fascism, foreign policy, Greg Grandin, immigration, Imperialism, jails for kids, Joe Biden, John Washington, Jonathan Lemire, Josh Boak, Jude Joffe-Block, Latin American, manufacturing consent, Marcia Brown, Media, Mehdi Hasan, Mexico, Michael Parenti, Migrant Rights, migrants, Monroe Doctrine, MP6, MSNBC, nativism, neoliberalism, New Forever War, Noam Chomsky, Nomaan Merchant, PBS, pig empire, police state, Politics, prison industrial complex, pro-business Central America policy, Propaganda, propaganda model, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Robert Reich, Six Things I Think, Social Justice, soft power, ST2, Stephen Miller, the border, The Intercept, The Nation, The New Republic, the wall, Theory, war, WD7, white nationalism, white nationalist immigration policy

Six Things I Think: A Bipartisan Propaganda Frontier

An extremely granular look at the how the propaganda model predicts the mind-warping media discussion around the so called “migrant crisis at the border.”

Media Madness socialism Theory War

NinaIllingworth March 31, 2021April 20, 2025 anti-Indigenous policy, Antony Blinken, Bolivia, Catholic Church, christian fundamentalism, Christian nationalism, CIA, coup, Edward Herman, Essays, Evo Morales, FA1, FAIR, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Fantastic Lies, fascism, fascist coup, foreign policy, Imperialism, Jacobin, Jeanine Áñez, Jeff Bezos, Joe Biden, Latin America, left wing theory, lie, Luis Arce, Luis Fernando Camacho, MAS, Media, Media Madness, Media Theory, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, OAS, Offsite Writing, pig empire, Pig Empire imperialism, practical examples of a propaganda model, Propaganda, propaganda model, propaganda theory, re-writing history, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, regime change, Six Things I Think, Socialism, soft power, ST2, The New Old Forever War, Theory, US backed coups, US imperialism, USA, WaPo editorial board, war, war mongers, Washington Post, WD7

Bolivian Stroke: WaPo’s Imperialist Memory Games on Media Madness

A heavily sourced Media Madness essay about the propaganda model and renewed Pig Empire efforts to undermine the socialist government of Bolivia.

Neoliberalism Patreon Politics War

NinaIllingworth January 23, 2021April 19, 2025 "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, Patreon, Patreon Blog, pig empire, Politics, Propaganda, Protesters, Proud Boys, Republican Party, social media, Strom Thurmond, Tara Reade, The Skinny, unity, Wall Street, war

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.

Media Madness Neoliberalism Videos War

NinaIllingworth December 23, 2020April 17, 2025 banks, blog, Books, books you should read, CA4, capitalism, capitalism and imperialism, economic imperialism, Economics, film sessions, foreign policy, forever war, global finance, IMF, Imperialism, imperialism is a profit making enterprise, informal writing, international law, international lending, John Perkins, Media Madness, Monroe Doctrine, neoliberalism, New Confessions of An Economic Hitman, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, pig empire, Politics, predatory loans, Reviews, soft power, Tedx Talk, the debt trap, the New Forever War, the peace of a tyrant, The Washington Consensus, US global superpower, Video, Wall Street, war, war as a business model, War is a Racket, WD7, World Bank, Youtube

Film Sessions: The Devil Walks in Broad Daylight

In this December 2020 Film Sessions post we’re looking at a Tedx Talk by John Perkins, author of (New) Confessions of an Economic Hitman, over on Media Madness.

Books Neoliberalism Social Justice War

NinaIllingworth November 7, 2019November 17, 2022 Allen Dulles, Books, CA4, CC3, CIA, Corporate Fascism, Corporatism, David Talbot, deep state, democratic socialism, elite rule, FA1, fascism, foreign policy, forever war, Ibram X Kendi, Imperialism, Inventing Reality, Left Wing Books, market fundamentalism, Marxism, Media, media bias, Michael Parenti, Milton Friedman, Naomi Klein, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, permanent war economy, Politics, power, Racism, racist ideas, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Reviews, Social Justice, Socialism, ST2, Stamped From the Beginning, The Devil's Chessboard, the economics of racism, The Library, the propaganda model, The Shock Doctrine, Trump Doctrine, Understanding Power, war, WD7

The Library: the First Five

A look at five reasonably mainstream books from The Library that you can read to get a much better grasp on how our world actually works.

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