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

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.

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.

Blog Memes News War

NinaIllingworth January 2, 2018November 5, 2022 $700B Defense Budget, 9/11 attacks in NYC, A Brief Thought, Afghanistan, American exceptionalism, American Muslims, anti-Muslim bigotry, arms sales, bankers love war, blog, Bush, capitalism, casualties, CIA, Civil Liberties, corporations love war, drone warfare, elites love war, endless war, endless war on terror, environmental catastrophe, FA1, fascism, FBI, Fear and Droning, folly, foreign policy, forever war, Global Trumpism, health care, Iran, Iraq, Islamophobia, madness, Meme, MENA, Middle East, militarized police, Military Industrial Complex, millions dead, MP6, Muslims, NATO, News, Nina Illingworth, nobody was fired for the Iraq War, North Africa, Obama, Observations from Outside the Death Star, OODS, Op-Ed, Patriot Act, Pentagon, pig empire, police state, Politics, PTSD, Russia, social safety net, Surveillance State, terrorism, terrorist, trillion dollar wars, Trump, US arms sales, US drone assassination program, USA, veterans, war, War on Terror, war on the environment, waste, WD7, wounded

Fear & Droning: A War on Everyone, Including Ourselves

My internet conked out on New Years Even and it was either write about something I knew from memory, or read a book written by Hillary Clinton; so let’s talk about the endless US war on everyone, including ourselves.

Blog Site Updates War

NinaIllingworth December 1, 2017November 5, 2022 American forever wars, American intervention, blog, Britain, Canada, capitalism and war, China, CIA, colonialism, Essays, Five Eyes, forever war, global conflict, Imperialism, informal writing, introduction to the Forever War, Latin America, Meme, MENA, Middle East, NATO, neocolonialism, new cold war, New Forever War, new page, News, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Pentagon, pig empire, regime change, Russia, Site Updates, splash page, U.S. Imperialism, United States of America, war, war is a business, WD7, western empire, world wars

Introduction to the New (Old) Forever War

A short blog post about America’s perpetual quest for conflict, that introduces our newly updated Pig Empire imperialism page – The New (Old) Forever War.