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

Essays media Politics Social Justice

NinaIllingworth January 16, 2019November 5, 2022 2020 Dem Primary, 2020 US Election, Alex Thompson, Anderson Cooper, Arturo Carmona, Bernie 2016, Bernie 2020, Bernie Bros myth, Bernie Sanders, Bill Velazquez, California Nurses Association, Chuck Todd, civil law, class war, CNN, Colin Moir, corporate media, Deep Dives, defamation, Democratic National Convention 2016, Democratic Party, Dianne Feinstein, Eoin Higgins, Essays, Fantastic Lies, felt, feminism, Forward, framing, Friends of Bernie, gender based discrimination, Giulianna Di Lauro, harassment, Hillary Clinton, Huffington Post, Jeff Weaver, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Katie Benner, Kristian Denny Todd, liberal establishment, Linda Sarsour, Marco Antonio Regil, Masha Mendieta, Me Too, Media, Medicare for all, Meet the Press, MP6, MSNBC, Nevada, New York Times, Obama boys, Our Revolution, Politico, Politics, Propaganda, ratfucking, Rich Pelletier, Robert Becker, RoseAnn DeMoro, Sady Doyle, Sarah Slamen, Senator Sanders, sexism, Sexual Harassment, Social Justice, Sydney Ember, The Hill, toxic masculinity in US politics, Virginia Jeffries, Winnie Wong, women's rights, Zoey Jordan Salsbury

Fantastic Lies: Special Ratf*cking Edition Part Two

The battle for the 2020 Dem Nomination has started early this time and the corporate media smear machine is already after Bernie Sanders – Part 2

Essays media News Politics Social Justice

NinaIllingworth January 12, 2019November 17, 2022 2020 Dem Primary, 2020 US Election, Anderson Cooper, Arturo Carmona, Bernie 2016, Bernie 2020, Bernie Bros myth, Bernie Sanders, Beto ORourke, Bill Velazquez, California Nurses Association, CNN, corporate media, Cory Booker, Deep Dives, Democratic Party, Dianne Feinstein, Essays, Fantastic Lies, feminism, Friends of Bernie, gender based discrimination, Giulianna Di Lauro, harassment, Hillary Clinton, Jane Sanders, Jeff Weaver, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Katie Benner, liberal establishment, Linda Sarsour, Marco Antonio Regil, Masha Mendieta, Media, MP6, Nevada, New York Times, News, Obama boys, Our Revolution, Politico, Politics, ratfucking, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Rich Pelletier, RoseAnn DeMoro, Samantha Davis, Sarah Slamen, Senator Sanders, sexism, Sexual Harassment, Six Things I Think, Social Justice, Sydney Ember, toxic masculinity in US politics, Winnie Wong, women's rights

Fantastic Lies: Special Ratf*cking Edition Part One

The battle for the 2020 Democratic Nomination has started early this time and the corporate media smear machine is already in top gear; on Bernie Sanders, toxic campaign culture and the fine art of ratf*cking…

Blog Patreon Politics socialism

NinaIllingworth December 30, 2018April 13, 2025 2020 Dem Primary Season, 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, 2020 US Election, antifascism, Bernie Sanders, Beto ORourke, blog, corporate media, Democrat Machine, Democratic Party, DNC, Donald Trump, Horse Race coverage, how I cover politics, Media, MP6, neoliberal machine, neoliberalism, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Patreon Blog, Politics, rigged, Socialism, stolen primaries

Blog: Thunderdome 2020 & How I Write About Politics (Link)

A link to a short essay on Patreon that outlines the way I cover politics; on the off chance we keep having elections even as the world burns.

Essays Patreon Politics Take Downs

NinaIllingworth December 3, 2018April 13, 2025 activism, Bush crime family, CIA, Essays, forever war, George HW Bush, GOP, Mistah Kurtz He Dead, MP6, neoconservative, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Obituary, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Patreon Blog, pig empire, Politics, President Bush, Racism, Rants, Republican, Take Downs, Vice President Bush, war, war hawks, WD7

Essay: Death of the 41st President of the United States of America (Link)

A short obituary published on Patreon in December 2018 on the passing of George HW Bush; who sucked almost as much as his son.

Essays Fascism Politics War

NinaIllingworth April 2, 2018November 5, 2022 anti-Shia, Axis of Evil, Bashar al-Assad, Bloody Gina Haspel, Body Bag Bolton, Bush, CENTCOM, centrist, chemical weapons, China, CIA, Col Jessup, corporate media, corrupt crusder cabinet, corruption, Death Worshiping Bomb Walrus, Deep Dives, Democrats, Donald Trump, Dr Strangelove, enablers, endless war in Afghanistan, Essays, fascism, foreign policy, forever war, fundamentalism, General Chaos, Gina Haspel, Guantanamo Bay, hawk, HR McMaster, Imperialism, Iran, Iraq War, Iron Mikey, Islamophobia, Israel, James Mattis, John Bolton, John F Kelly, King Leer, Klepto Kaiser, Koch Brothers, liberals, Mad Dog, media manipulators, MEK, Mike Pompeo, murder, NatSec liberals, neocon, Netanyahu, new cold war, New Forever War, Nikki Haley, Nina Illingworth, North Korea, nuclear war, Observations from Outside the Death Star, OODS, Pentagon, pig empire, Politics, pro-war media, Propaganda, Republican, Rex Tillerson, Russia, Russiagate, Russophobia, SOUTHCOM, Syria, Taiwan, Tea Party, transgender military ban, Trump, Trump military parade, US Ambassador to the UN, Vladimir Putin, war, war cabinet, war criminal, war on drugs, War on Terror, warmonger, WD7, Witch King of Turtle Bay, Yemen raid

The Swine Emperor’s Corrupt Crusader Cabinet

In today’s Deep Dive we take a look at Trump’s corrupt crusader war cabinet and why the swine emperor is rocketing towards a conflict with Russian-allied Iran.

Essays Opinion Politics War

NinaIllingworth March 18, 2018November 5, 2022 Afghanistan, Amerikkka, Bloody Gina, Boris Johnson, Central Intelligence Agency, Chuck Schumer, CIA, CIA Democrats, CIA torture site, crusader, Essays, fascism, foreign policy, forever war, France, George Bush, Germany, Gina Haspel, HR McMaster, Iran, Iraq, Islamophobia, Israel, James Mattis, John Bolton, Koch Brothers, KSA, Mad Dog Mattis, Maggy Thatcher, mass murder, Mike Pompeo, National Security Advisor, NATO, neocon, neoliberalism, new cold war, New Forever War, Nina Illingworth, Observations from Outside the Death Star, OODS, Opinion, Pentagon, pig empire, Politics, regime change, Rex Tillerson, Russia, Russiagate, Salisbury spy poisoning, Syria, Tehran, The Pig Empire, The Shock Doctrine, Theresa May, Tony Blair, Torture, Trump, UK, Uncle Scam, US client states, US led coalition, US State Department, USA, Vichy Democrats, Vladimir Putin, war, warmonger, WD7, World War Three, WW3, Yemen

The Pig Empire Prepares For War

It’s been a very, very bad week if you’re rooting for peace…

Essays Fascism Neoliberalism Police State

NinaIllingworth March 14, 2018November 5, 2022 anarchists, austerity, Black Identity Extremists, death penalty, death squads, Democrats, dog whistle, Donald Trump, Essays, FA1, fake terror threats, fake war on cops, fascism, FBI, hate crime, Howard Dean scream, JA5, Jeff Sessions, Justice, Mass incarceration, McResistance, Media, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, opioid crisis, police state, Politics, Racism, radical Islam, reactionary violence, Republican, revanchist, Rodrigo Duterte, ST2, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, Vichy Democrats, vigilante justice, war on drugs, white nationalism

Strung Out and Hunted Beneath a Killing Moon

I’m back and this time we’re staring into the dark abyss of Trump’s unhinged comments about seeking the death penalty for drug dealers as an answer to the American opioid crisis.

Blog Essays media Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth February 1, 2018November 5, 2022 American Civil War, blog, civil war, conservative, corporate media, Democrats, Essays, FA1, Facebook, Fantastic Lies, fascism, Fox News, GOP, informal writing, Jonathan Chait, Journals, liberals, Media, MP6, MSNBC, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Opinion, Politics, Rachel Maddow, Republican, Sean Hannity, ST2, Theory, Tom Friedman, tribalism

Facebook Journal: Two Truths

An informal essay from early 2018 about fascism, neoliberalism, tribalism and media falsehoods.

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

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.

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