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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.

Blog Fascism media Politics

NinaIllingworth May 15, 2025May 18, 2025 Amerikan Musik, blog, conspiracy theories, DNI, Donald Trump, FA1, fascism, Fox News, Gavin Newsom, habeas corpus, immigration, Iraq War, Jeanine Pirro, Media, MP6, News, Nina Illingworth, Politics, Propaganda, South Africa, Stephen Miller, The Skinny, Tulsi Gabbard, Unhoused, US Constitution, US Intelligence, white genocide, white nationalism, WMD lies

The Skinny: Media Manipulation & Regime Propaganda

The fascist Trump Regime went prime time this week to manipulate the media and spread fascist propaganda while bringing in an unlikely ringer: Judge Jeanine.

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.

Books Can't You Read Fascism Reviews War

NinaIllingworth October 18, 2021November 5, 2022 9/11, Afghanistan War, Amerikan Musik, antifascism, Barack Obama, Bill Barr, Black Lives Matter, Book Blog, book review, Bookish Bits, Books, CA4, Can't You Read, Civil Rights, colonialism, Democracy, Dick Cheney, Donald Trump, FA1, fascism, forever war, George W Bush, GOP, Imperialism, Iraq War, Islamophobia, January 6th coup attempt, Michael Reinoehl, National Security State, nativism, neoliberalism breeds fascism, New Forever War, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Patriot Act, police state, Racism, reign of terror, Republican, Reviews, Richard Spencer, Security Industrial Complex, Spencer Ackerman, ST2, Tom Cotton, Trumpism, Trumpism is fascism, war, War on Terror, WD7, white supremacy

Barbarism Starts at Home on Can’t You Read

Nina reviews Spencer Ackerman’s “Reign of Terror” and finds a good book, that could have been so much more. Check out the new Bookish Bits on Can’t You Read.

Essays Neoliberalism Politics socialism

NinaIllingworth March 14, 2021November 5, 2022 $15 minimum wage, Afghanistan War, Andrew Perez, anti war, anti-labor, anti-racism, anti-war protests, anticapitalism, antifascism, Arizona, Arizona Democrats, austerity, Bernie Sanders, Biden White House, Blue Dog Caucus, CA4, CC3, class war, Climate Crisis, coronavirus, coronavirus relief package, corruption, Covid 19, culture war, David Sirota, Democratic Party, democratic socialism, DSA, Economics, electoralism, Essays, Fight for $15, filibuster, forever war, gone Washington, GOP, Green Party, Iraq War, Jacobin, Joe Biden, Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, left right alliance, left wing theory, let them eat cake, liberalism, Marxism, minimum wage, Mitch McConnell, MP6, neoliberalism, Paula Swearengin, Political Theory, Politics, populism, Progressive, progressive movement, progressive politics, Ralph Nader, reformers, reformism, Republican Party, Senate politics, Socialism, ST2, the Daily Poster, Theory, Thumbs Down, Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, US Federal Minimum Wage, US Senate

Fool Me Twice: Kyrsten Sinema and the Poverty of Progressive Politics

A deeply sourced essay about progressive politics, acts of betrayal, and the need for an explicitly anti-capitalist mass movement in the Pig Empire.

Essays Fascism media Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth September 28, 2020November 5, 2022 2008 Financial Crisis, 2016 US Election, Alt Right, Amerikan Musik, conspiracy theory, David Renton, Deep Dives, Essays, FA1, Fantastic Lies, fascism, for profit medial propaganda model, Fox News, Fox News Fear Factory, Hannah Arendt, Harvey Weinstein, How Fascism Works, Hugo Weaving, Inventing Reality, Iraq War, James Clapper, Jason Stanley, Jeff Epstein, Joy Reid, Julius Evola, left wing theory, lie, Lügenpresse, mainstreaming white supremacy, manufacturing consent, Matt Taibbi, Media, Michael Lynch, MP6, MSNBC, neoliberalism, New York Times, News Corp, Noam Chomsky, Owen Jones, pig empire, Political Mind Games, Politics, Poor Democracy, Pork Reich, Rich Media, Robert Paxton, Roy Eidelson, Rupert Murdoch, Russiagate, ST2, The Daily Beast, The Establishment, the New Authoritarians, Theory, Washington Post, white genocide is a nazi conspiracy theory, white nationalism

Theory Discussion: On Media, White Nationalism & Hugo Weaving

An lengthy discussion about why propping up corporate “liberal” media is no antidote to the rise of white nationalism; triggered by reading an interview with Hugo Weaving.

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.

Fascism Patreon Police State Politics

NinaIllingworth September 20, 2019April 13, 2025 1994 crime bill, 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, Amerikan Musik, analysis, Bernie Sanders, Biden worked with segregationists, blog, Buzzfeed, careerism, democratic socialism, Der Stürmer, FA1, Fantastic Lies, fascism, ICE, informal writing, Iraq War, JA5, Joe Biden, Joe Biden is a cracker, Joe Biden voted for the Iraq War, Joe Biden wrote the crime bill, Joe Biden's racist gaffes, Journals, Ken Cuccinelli, Liz Warren, Maurice Mitchell, Media, media normalizes fascism, media protects Biden, MP6, muppet, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Our Revolution, Patreon, Patreon Blog, PMC, police state, Politics, Professional Class, Racism, Socialism, ST2, The Skinny, WD7, WFP, white supremacy, Working Families Party

The Skinny: September Strain on Patreon

Welcome to The Skinny. Today we’ve got ICE fascist propaganda, Biden’s cracker comments, and the WFP smearing Bernie to justify their betrayal.

Essays media Patreon Theory

NinaIllingworth May 29, 2019April 13, 2025 1996 Telecom Act, American history, cable news, class, class war, corporate media, Debunking the Myth of a Forgotten American Free Press, Essays, Fantastic Lies, for profit media, forever war, History, Iraq War, Jeff Bezos, Joe Hill, journalism, Julian Assange, left wing theory, Media, media lied us into war, media lies to you for power, media myths, Media Theory, Michael Parenti, MP6, mythmaking, narrative, Nina Illingworth, Occupy Wall Street, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Propaganda, rich people own the media, ST2, The Post, The Post is a narrative building movie, Theory, Vietnam War, war, Watergate, Wikileaks, WMDs, yellow journalism

The Myth of a Forgotten American Free Press

A short Patreon essay about why corporate media-created narratives about their own role in checking the powerful are bunk.

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.

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