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They Really Thought Shock And Awe Would Work

After starting a war with Iran, the Trump team thought it could (1) deescalate while (2) flirting with regime change. Now Iranian missiles have targeted the huge U.S. base in Qatar

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War on Terror Nightmare Arrives As Trump Bombs Iran

Just want to congratulate everyone who said Trump was the president of peace, didn't start any new wars, etc. Is there an antiwar party in America?

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IRON MAN #9: Inside The Issue

We're spoiling everything in this shocking issue. After the paywall, I address the questions I've gotten about the future of this series

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Israel's U.S.-Backed Aggression Reaches Its Iraq-War Moment

If Oct. 7 was Israel's Sept. 11, now it's at the phase of making an unsupportable WMD claim to launch the war it's long wanted. But we say no to war with Iran

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Zeteo

The Imperial Boomerang Lands in Los Angeles (Director's Cut)

My latest ZETEO column is about how what America does abroad is what America does at home

The War at Home

Zohran Mamdani Is Right About Israel

He shouldn't have had to field a question that has nothing to do with being mayor of New York. But the only scandal is the attempt to make his answer scandalous

The War at Home

Stopping The Genocide of Palestinians Will Stop Attacks Like Colorado

The return of 9/11 politics post-10/7 means the return of refusing to do what it actually takes to stop the cascade of violence. PLUS: The U.S. military now wargames with AI.

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If We Were in Hell, Would We See More Children Burn Than We See in Gaza?

Edited by Sam Thielman I SAW THE SILHOUETTE of a little girl, alone, as everything around her burned in the predawn darkness. Her name is Ward Jalal al-Shaikh Khalil. Only five years old, she survived the Israeli bombing of the Fahmi al-Jirjawi school-turned-shelter in Gaza City on Monday. Her mother

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CIA Interrogator Said Infamous Black Site Looked “Like A Nazi Concentration Camp"

New disclosures from the military commissions underscore the depravity of the post-9/11 program—through the eyes of its practitioners, not just its victims.

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IRON MAN #8: Inside The Issue

Just in time for the NBA conference finals, we're bringing you basketball, labor militancy and capitalist violence. Stark Unlimited will never be the same. Read the comic before this edition!

The War at Home

The "Invasion" Lie, The Intelligence Purge and The Threat to Habeas Corpus

Venezuela is not invading the United States. But that lie is crucial for Trump, so an Iraq War-era dream is coming true. PLUS: Floating on the East River during the Brooklyn Bridge collision

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As Trump Tours Mideast, Palestinians Report War-on-Terror-Like Torture in Israeli Jails

Interviewing over 100 Gazan ex-detainees, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights found "similarities" to torture "in notorious facilities like Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib"

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Zeteo Featured

The Houthis Won

It's a peak self-inflicted War on Terror L. PLUS: With Trump heading to Saudi Arabia, let's remember why MBS shouldn't have anything nuclear. AND: Pork-flavored ice cream!

The War at Home

ICE Asks the Food Service Industry To Please Oppress Itself

In the absence of manpower, the agency is trying to assign its own work to the managers of the servers and line cooks it’s trying to abduct

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ICE Launches All-Out Assault on DC Businesses in Search of TV Moments for Trump

The richest nation on earth is now a racist reality show for one sad old bigot

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IRON MAN #7: Inside The Issue

Tony Stark's dirty war gets much dirtier as the regime of Doctor Doom calls a meeting. Don't read this edition until you read the comic

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Migrant Torture at Guantanamo Authorized by Trump Administration Memo

If you haven't been to Gitmo, you might not recognize the implications of a brief reference in a recently revealed Pentagon/Homeland Security document

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Pre-Order IRON MAN VOL. 1 By Friday And Save 25 Percent!

Our first collected edition, out in June, has been selected for a three-day sale for Barnes & Noble members! Here's a code—as well as another offer for you!

The War at Home

Notes on The Decline And Fall of an Empire

Rethinking some assumptions I had on how the United States' hegemony might collapse. Spiral out with me

The War at Home

El Salvador And The Dark Lessons of Guantanamo

CECOT, the Salvadoran slavery-prison now used for migrant renditions, reflects 2002-4-era Gitmo—with some updates

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Remember What You Felt Watching An Airstrike Collapse American Buildings?

The normalization of 'domicide,' after someone did it to our buildings on a particular day. PLUS: FOREVER WARS needs your feedback!

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Lists

An Islamophobia industry compiled lists of Muslims in America. Now those lists can feed a deportation engine. PLUS! If Trump declared himself a neocon, what would be different?

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Zeteo

The Destruction of Gaza, Yemen And U.S. Free Speech Are Parts of The Same Project

Here's my Zeteo column from yesterday, along with my Iron Man/military-industrial complex panel and some pre-paywall extras

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Just Stop The Fucking Genocide And Red Sea Shipping Will Be Safe

I didn't expect to write this piece twice in barely a year, but the U.S. is back to bombing Yemen and threatening Iran, so here we are

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IRON MAN #6: Inside The Issue

It's all been building up to this: The Insurgent Iron Man. I beg you to read the issue before this FOREVER WARS edition