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

Blog Fascism Police State Politics

NinaIllingworth July 10, 2025July 11, 2025 Alligator Alcatraz, blog, CBP, CC3, class war, Climate Crisis, concentration camps, DEI, DHS, Donald Trump, education, FA1, fascism, FCC, Florida, fossil fuels, Gestapo, Gitmo, human rights, ICE, immigration, Invasion of LA, JA5, Jenny Ramirez, LAPD, LGBTQ rights, mass surveillance, Migrant Rights, MP6, National Guard, Nina Illingworth, oil, panopticon, Police, police state, Politics, Republican Party, Ron DeSantis, SCOTUS, Stephen Miller, The Skinny, Trotsky, Verizon, War on Terror

The Skinny: Staggering On Fumes

The Skinny returns after a brief hiatus due to a pet death in the author’s family to find that things are not improving in Trump’s emerging Fourth Reich.

Picture of a large, modern Pig Empire city about to be submerged under a tsunami wave as very small people run away from the waterline in the foreground.

Capitalism Climate Crisis Fascism Theory

NinaIllingworth August 25, 2023August 25, 2023 antifascism, billionaires, CA4, capitalism, class war, Climate Crisis, colonialism, corporate power, Covid, Eugenics, extractivism, FA1, fascism, fossil fuels, funding fascism, global boiling, Malthusianism, Mini Theory Blog, oil, pandemic, pig empire, Propaganda, ruling class, ST2, the fascist creep, Theory

Mini-Theory Blog: Let’s Start at the End

In order to understand the news in hellworld, you first have to understand why rising fascism, climate crisis, and Covid eugenics are all the same problem.

Climate Crisis Media Madness socialism Videos

NinaIllingworth May 19, 2021April 22, 2025 activism, agriculture, CA4, capitalism, carbon emissions, CC3, class war, Climate Crisis, climate science, dark money, Degrow, drought, FA1, film sessions, food insecurity, fossil fuels, gas, global warming, greenhouse gasses, Greta Thunberg, JT Chapman, left wing Youtube, Media Madness, Naomi Klein, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, oil, Picture Show, Propaganda, Second Thought, Socialism, ST2, Theory, tipping points, Video, WD7, Youtube

Film Sessions: Capitalism and a World on Boil

Our Film Sessions feature is back to analyze videos about capitalism and climate catastrophe from a familiar favorite of mine, YouTube creator Second Thought.

Can't You Read Climate Crisis Essays Fascism

NinaIllingworth October 5, 2020April 13, 2025 Amerikan Musik, anticapitalism, antifascism, CA4, Can't You Read, capitalism, carbon emissions, CC3, class war, class warfare, climate, climate change, climate change is driving fascism, Climate Crisis, climate genocide, climate justice, doomsday bunkers, ecofascism, environment, Essays, Eugenics, extractivism, extractivism will kill us all, fascism, fossil fuel industry, fossil fuels, genocide, hyperlinks, informal writing, Journals, left wing theory, Leftist Theory, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, oil, oligarchy, Politics, Propaganda, rigged oligarchy, salon discussion, social control, ST2, The Pig Empire, The West, Theory

Link: On the Rule of Capital, Climate Crisis & the Rise of Fascism in the Pig Empire

Link to a new salon discussion style essay by Nina Illingworth on the connection between the absolute rule of capital, impending climate catastrophe and the rise of fascism across much of the Pig Empire; presented on her Journal/Image Blog at Can’t You Read.

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.

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.

Books Can't You Read Essays War

NinaIllingworth February 3, 2019April 13, 2025 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 Politics War

NinaIllingworth January 31, 2019April 13, 2025 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.

Essays Politics Russiagate War

NinaIllingworth January 4, 2018November 5, 2022 2009 Green Movement, Afghanistan, ally, America's Forever Wars, anti-war movement, Benjamin Netanyahu, bipartisan support, bombing, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, client state, cold war, DC political establishment, Democrats, Donald Trump, doves, drone strikes, economic inequity, Empire, Essays, foreign policy, forever war, George W Bush, Giant Russia Theory, give peace a chance, Grand Ayatollah Al Khamenei, Hassan Rouhani, Imperialism, Iran, Iran Protests, Iran Russia alliance, Iranian Protests, Iraq, Islamic Republic, Israel, Ivanka Trump, John Bolton, John McCain, Kim Jong Un, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lindsey Graham, Mad Dog Mattis, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, manufacturing consent, McCarthyism, Middle East, Mike Flynn, Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, MSB, Nancy Pelosi, national security doctrine, NATO, neoconservative, neoliberal, new cold war, Nikki Haley, Observations from Outside the Death Star, oil, OODS, Pakistan, peace, Persian Gulf, Politics, President Obama, President Trump, Principlist, Putin, Qassem Soleimani, Quds Force, red-baiting, regime change, Republican, Rex Tillerson, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Russiagate, Russiagate Foreign Policy and the Coming Forever War, Russian allies, sanctions, Sand Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Soleimani, swine emperor Trump, Taliban, Tehran, terrorism, the New McCarthyism, Trump, Trump Administration, Turkey, UN sanctions, US allies, US client states, US imperialism, US Iran Nuclear deal, US political establishment, US Russian relations, US sanctions, war, war hawks, War on Terror, War with Iran, WD7, western imperialism, working class protest in Iran, World War Three

Bipartisan Support: Russiagate, Foreign Policy & the Coming Forever War – Part Two

As news comes out of Iran faster than I can write about it, we take a look at mounting evidence of a coming storm and proof that regime change in Iran is a bipartisan issue for the bloodthirsty US political establishment

Essays Memes News Russiagate War

NinaIllingworth December 31, 2017November 17, 2022 A Brief Thought, Afghanistan, ally, America's Forever Wars, anti-Muslim bigotry, arms sales, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bigotry, bombing, Canada, China, client state, cold war, crushing dissent, DC political establishment, Democrats, Donald Trump, doves, drone strikes, Empire, Essays, fascism, foreign policy, forever war, genocide, genocide in Yemen, George W Bush, Giant Russia Theory, Hezbollah, Hillary Clinton, Imperialism, Iran, Iraq, Israel, John Kerry, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Libya, Mad Dog Mattis, McCarthyism, Meme, Middle East, Mike Flynn, Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, MSB, NATO, natural gas, neoconservative, neoliberal, new cold war, News, Nikki Haley, Nina Illingworth, Observations from Outside the Death Star, oil, OODS, Pakistan, Persian Gulf, pig empire, pipeline wars, Politics, President Obama, President Trump, public opinion polls, Putin, Qatar, Racism, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, red-baiting, Republican, Rex Tillerson, Russia, Russiagate, Russiagate Foreign Policy and the Coming Forever War, Russian allies, Saudi Arabia, Six Things I Think, Steve Bannon, swine emperor Trump, Syria, Syrian pipeline, terrorism, the New McCarthyism, Trump, Trump Administration, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, US allies, US backed atrocities in Yemen, US client states, US imperialism, US Military Industrial Compex, US political establishment, US Russian relations, war, war hawks, War on Terror, War with Iran, WD7, Wesley Clark, western imperialism, white nationalism, William Jennings Bryan, World War Three, Yemen

Gimme Shelter: Russiagate, Foreign Policy & the Coming Forever War – Part One

After a holiday break, I’m back with a detailed and heavily-sourced look at what I think is the coming US “forever war” in the Middle East

Blog Memes News War

NinaIllingworth June 6, 2017November 17, 2022 A Brief Thought, advisor, Al-Jazeera, Bahrain, blog, closed borders, diplomacy, diplomatic crisis, Donald Trump, Egypt, Emir Al Thani, foreign policy, forever war, gas, gas field, geopolitical conflict, Gulf Cooperation Council, Iran, Iraq, Jared Kushner, KSA, Libya, Maldives, Mattis, Meme, Middle East, national security, natural gas, new cold war, News, Nina Illingworth, Observations from Outside the Death Star, oil, OODS, Op-Ed, Opinion, Persian Gulf, petro dollar, pig empire, Politics, Putin, Qatar, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, regime change, Russia, Salman of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia, Six Things I Think, Syria, terror, terrorism, Tillerson, Trump Administration, Turkey, UAE, violent extremists, war, War on Terror, warmonger, WD7, Yemen

ABT: Hunting Hawks Through Smoke & Shadow

Something terrifying is happening in the Persian Gulf & despite the mainstream media’s refusal to explain the situation fully – Nina is on the case.

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