Spencer Ackerman

Author of REIGN OF TERROR: HOW THE 9/11 ERA DESTABILIZED AMERICA & PRODUCED TRUMP. Pulitzer/National Magazine Award/etc winning journalist. WALLER VS WILDSTORM for DC Comics, IRON MAN for Marvel.

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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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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

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Mahmoud Khalil's Detention Is A War on Terror Milestone

ICE turned a campus activist for Palestine into a political prisoner. Witness a coalescence of several post-9/11 currents that threaten your most basic freedoms

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How Locking Hambali in Gitmo Denied His Victims Closure

Nasir Abas was a leader in Jamaah Islamiyah. Now he wants his former friend, the mastermind of multiple bombings, put on trial. It won't ever happen

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IRON MAN #5: Inside The Issue

This cover-to-cover fight scene was the hardest thing I've ever had to write in my short comics career. Spoilers for everything, including how I escaped my certain fate

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Musk and DOGE Might Soon Have Access to the Most Lucrative Defense-Contract Database of All

Ex-officials warn Zeteo that the USXports database is a means for Musk to undercut competitors to SpaceX in the defense sector

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Former Guantánamo Prisoners Condemn Trump’s Order on Migrants

"Guantánamo does not just allow abuse; it ensures cruelty," write sixteen people who know the real Guantánamo, not the propaganda

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Connecting Vance's Neo-Nazi Apologia And His Artificial-Intelligence Boosterism

The Silicon Valley-MAGA alliance is out to globalize the DOGE smash-and-grab. Its version of AI "Great Power Competition" is the thin end of the wedge, so watch who embraces it.

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Ethnic Cleansing Under The 'Rules-Based International Order'

The wages of impunity are found in telegraphing the removal of Palestinians from their land en masse

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Blowback Like Never Before Will Follow A U.S. Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza

Trump is proposing unambiguous ethnic cleansing. That will mean oceans of blood

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Elon Musk and The Security State's Uvalde Moment

“We have a Constitutional crisis, period," says NSA whistleblower Tom Drake, who can't help but notice how the three-letter agencies that went after him aren't stopping this.

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The Wages of Leaving Guantanamo Open Have Arrived

It was always going to be a matter of time until someone filled it up again. Know your rights

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The CIA Bends The Knee To Trump

The agency’s new take on COVID-19's origin won't be the last time it alters its product to please him. PLUS: Warrantless 'backdoor’ searches under Section 702 ruled unconstitutional!

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IRON MAN #4: Inside The Issue

Ironheart. The Scarlet Witch. A certain Chicago warehouse complex. Let's talk about the new issue, on sale now, and spoil everything

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Mass Deportation’s War-on-Terror DNA

Get ready for the deportation task forces, the expansion of for-profit cages, and Muslim Ban 3.0. PLUS! RIP to whatever remained of the Anti-Defamation League's credibility!

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Israel's War in Gaza Was Destined To Fail

Of course it has already produced nearly as many fighters as before. Palestinian resistance ends with Palestinian freedom

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Biden, Through The Devastation of Gaza, Argues For His Legacy

His last foreign-policy speech whistled past the graveyard he helped fill. PLUS: Tulsi Gabbard's predictable newfound love for warrantless surveillance!

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Did Afghanistan War Crimes Contribute to Soldier’s Cybertruck Detonation in Las Vegas? (Director's Cut)

Consider my latest Zeteo column a sequel to Monday's edition on New Orleans. Plus developments from Iraq, Syria and… Greenland

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Houston's Muslims Are Not to Blame for the New Orleans Attack

When the killer is a Muslim, too much journalism retreats to a disgraceful 9/11-era template of collective responsibility. Enough

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Iron Man #3: Inside The Issue

It's the conclusion of the Stark-Roxxon War, our first arc. That's not a lot of runway to land a plane. Did we make it? Spoilers for the whole comic follow

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Syria's Far Falestin Prison Contains U.S. Torture Secrets

And for subscribers, here's my new column for Zeteo, out of which the first essay sprang. We need what Assad did for the CIA to come to light

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After Assad: A Q&A from Damascus

A tyrant is gone. A million questions remain. A reporter on the ground in the Syrian capital speaks to FOREVER WARS

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Check To See What Apps Your iPhone Is Training AI On

And here's a step-by-step guide to disabling them. FOREVER WARS does some News You Can Use