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

Books Can't You Read Essays War

NinaIllingworth October 3, 2019November 17, 2022 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.

media Neoliberalism Patreon Politics War

NinaIllingworth September 21, 2019November 5, 2022 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, 2020 US Election, Ashok Koyi, Bernie Sanders, blog, CA4, centrist, charities, civil service unions, class war, corporate media, Democratic Party, democratic socialism, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, Fantastic Lies, gangsterism, General Motors, Gina Haspel, grassroots organizing, IMF, Imperialism, Iran, Jim Mattis, Joe Biden, labor class, liberalism, M4All, Mad Dog, Media, Medicare for all, Mike Pompeo, MP6, NATO, neoliberalism, NGOs, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, organized labor, Patreon, Patreon Blog, pig empire, PMC, Politics, polling, polls, pollsters, Professional Class, Saudi Arabia, Socialism, The Skinny, Union, universal healthcare, Vox, war, War with Iran, World Bank

The Skinny: Class War & Global Gangsterism on Patreon

The Skinny is back with a look at the ongoing class war, 2020 primary narratives and Trump’s nightmare foreign policy.

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 Patreon War

NinaIllingworth April 30, 2019November 5, 2022 activism, CA4, capitalism, capitalism is mass murder, CC3, climate catastrophe, Climate Crisis, colonialism, Doomer poetry, emotional writing, environmental activism, Essays, extinction event, extraction of rents, FA1, financialization, fossil fuels, globalization, Imperialism, informal writing, JA5, Journals, killing people for profit, left wing theory, Left Wing Theory Page, Marxism, Marxist analysis, Marxist historian, mass murder, neocolonialism, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, oligarchy, Patreon, Patreon Blog, plutocracy, Protest, Rent Your Life, rich people are trying to kill you, Socialism, ST2, technocracy, Theory, war, war on the environment, WD7, We Live Lies, yes it's that bad

No Illusions (About How Bad It Is)

A link to a Patreon Blog essay discussion the bald-faced reality that rich people are absolutely trying to murder you for profit.

Books Can't You Read Essays War

NinaIllingworth February 3, 2019November 5, 2022 American history, Books, Bush, Bush Jr, Can't You Read, CIA, CIA black ops in Latin America, Clinton, colonialism, Cuba, death squads, Empire's Workshop, Empire’s Workshop: Latin America the United States and the Rise of the New Imperialism, Essays, fascism, Ford Motors, forever war, France, Good Neighbor Policy, Greg Grandin, Hugo Chavez, Imperialism, John Bolton, Latin America, Libya, MP6, Nicaragua, Nicolas Maduro, Nina Illingworth, Obama, Offsite Writing, oil, Panama, pig empire, Portugal, regime change, Spain, Spanish American War, Standard Oil, the United States, Trump, Trump coup in Venezuela, United Fruit Company, Venezuela, war, WD7, William Walker

Empire’s Workshop & US Imperialist History in Latin America

A brief review of “Empire’s Workshop” and a discussion about the Pig Empire’s endless quest to control Latin America through various forms of violence.

Books Can't You Read Essays Site Updates

NinaIllingworth February 1, 2019November 17, 2022 Allende, Asasata An Autobiography, Assata Shakur, blog, Books, Can't You Read, Chavez, Chile, Chomsky on Anarchism, Essays, Griftopia, Henry Kissinger, Imperialism, Internet Freedom movement, liberalism, Loaded, Maduro, Matt Taibbi, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, Odds and Ends, Patreon Blog, pig empire, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Reviews, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, settler colonialism, Seymour Hersh, Site Updates, Surveillance Valley, The Price of Power, Tumblr, Venezuela, WD7, white moderate, Yasha Levine

Odds and Ends: January 2019

A brief recap of my offsite writing and page updates for January 2019.

Books Can't You Read Politics War

NinaIllingworth January 31, 2019November 5, 2022 40 Committee, Anaconda copper, assassination of Orlando Letelier, Augusto Pinochet, back yard imperialism, Books, Can't You Read, Chase Manhattan Bank, Chile, CIA, cold war, copper, Essays, foreign policy, forever war, Henry Kissinger, Hugo Chavez, Imperialism, International Telephone and Telegraph Company, Latin America, make the economy scream, MP6, Nicolas Maduro, Nina Illingworth, oil, Orlando Letelier, PepsiCo, pig empire, Politics, resource imperialism, Richard Nixon, Salvador Allende, September 11th 1973, Seymour Hersh, The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House, unauthorized autobiography, US State Department, Venezuela, war, WD7

“Backyard” Déjà Vu & Sy Hersh’s Price of Power

A discussion about Hersh’s Price of Power, and the similarities in US Foreign Policy towards Chile’s Allende and Venezuela’s Maduro on Can’t You Read.

Books Can't You Read Social Justice War

NinaIllingworth January 19, 2019November 5, 2022 African slavery, America as a corporation, America as a public private partnership, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, blog, Books, British Crown, Can't You Read, capitalism, chattel slavery, Christianity and colonialism, colonialism, colonists, colonization, cotton, Crown sponsored corporations, Essays, European colonialism, FA1, fascism, firearms, firearms and white supremacy, foundational myths, genocide, guns, Imperialism, Indigenous nations, Indigenous people, informal writing, JA5, land theft, legacy of colonialism, legacy of fascism, Loaded, Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment, mass murder, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Quotes, Racism, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Second Amendment, settler-colonial corporate enterprise, slavery, Social Justice, ST2, the project of colonialism, US history, war, white supremacy, whiteness

Dunbar-Ortiz’s Loaded & America as a Corporate Enterprise

A link to an offsite essay about Roxanne Dubar-Ortiz’s “Loaded” and the true and terrifying origins of the American capitalist project.

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.

Blog Can't You Read Police State Social Justice

NinaIllingworth December 4, 2018November 5, 2022 Angela Nagle, anti-racism, blog, Can't You Read, colonial slavery, colonialism, exploitation, extraction, extractivism, FA1, humanity, immigration, Imperialism, informal writing, Libcom, Nagle Caucus, neocolonialism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, open borders, pig empire, police state, Racism, slavery, Social Justice, The Left Case Against Open Borders, trashfire, WD7

Blog: No Left Case Against Open Borders (Link)

A short, ranty blog from Nina over on Can’t You Read about why there is no such thing as a left wing case against open borders in the Pig Empire.

Essays Fascism Neoliberalism Theory War

NinaIllingworth November 7, 2018November 5, 2022 a new mainfesto for the end of the world, activism, American fascism, Amerikan Musik, anti-imperialism, anticapitalism, Bigotry, capitalism vs the climate, climate catastrophe, climate disaster, Corporatism, Essays, Evil, FA1, fascism, Fascism Ascendant in the USA, global deregulated capitalism, Imperialism, Jair Bolsonaro, Media, Naomi Klein, NATO, neoliberalism, Observations from Outside the Death Star, oligarchy, OODS, Que Se Vayan Todos, rhetoric, ST2, Steve Bannon, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, Theory, they must all go, Trump, Trump Administration, war, western Europe, Western fascism

Praxis of Evil: Words As Weapons

Editor’s Note: I have spent many nights over the past five months ruminating on just how I would explain my