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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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

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The Other War In Aleppo

Awkwardly for the next NATO meeting, Turkey's Syrian proxies might soon be in open combat with the U.S.' Syrian proxies. Equilibrium is a fleeting thing in an unsettled war

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Iron Man #2: Inside The Issue

The official canonical story of how Tony Stark got a giant sword—and more secrets revealed! Read at your own risk, because I'm spoiling the whole comic book

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International Law Strikes Back at The 'Rules-Based International Order'

The ICC warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant are a seismic shock to U.S. global hegemony even if the war criminals are never brought to The Hague

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'The Doctor Told Us We Had To Choose Between The Girl And Her Leg'

Another shattering documentary from al-Jazeera's Fault Lines challenges us to experience Israel's genocide in Gaza through the eyes of a wounded child

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Biden's AI Spying Rules Are A Last Gift of Power To Trump

Seems like a bad idea to introduce artificial intelligence into surveillance while the next president focuses on retribution. But Great Power Competition wills it

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The War on Terror Comes To Defund Left & Liberal Nonprofits

And here's the turn of the ratchet to begin the Second Trump Era: using "support for terrorism" to get rid of tax exemptions for organizations that oppose his agenda

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Don't Let Democrats Whitewash What They Did on Gaza Once Trump Is in Office (Director's Cut)

During the last Trump presidency, the same people—then former Obama officials—suggested they had learned their lesson from Yemen. No open letters this time

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Lloyd Austin Cheers Biden's 'Magnificent' Work in The Middle East

You and I see a combination genocide and regional war facilitated by the United States. The Biden administration sees responsible stewardship of a complex regional security environment

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Live Tonight in NYC: Ackerman, Berry & Wertheim

We'll be speaking at a Jewish Currents forum on the 2024 election & U.S. foreign policy at the McNally-Jackson bookstore's South Street Seaport location

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The Conscience of a Biden Liberal During Gaza

Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines is starting to question, as a U.S.-facilitated genocide unfolds, whether she's more harm than good

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There Is No "Threshold" For "Managing" a Mideast War

U.S. foreign policy needs to abandon this concept, since it's blinding us to how regional conflicts escalate

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IRON MAN #1 Is Out Now!

As we prepared to launch 'The Stark-Roxxon War,' our first arc, we took New York Comic Con by storm. Here's my first con diary as a Comics Creator

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FOREVER WARS x TECH WON'T SAVE US

Paris Marx and I talk about the technological aspects of genocide, from quadcopter drones to artificial-intelligence target generation. ALSO: IRON MAN x Big Planet!

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IRON MAN #1 Comes Early To New York Comic Con!

Brooklyn's finest, Bulletproof Comics, will have a booth at NYCC that you cannot miss: Damion Scott, Matt Bors, me! Here's my signing schedule

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The Year After October 7th Was Shaped by the 23 Years After September 11th (Director's Cut)

9/11 gave Israel and the US a template to follow—one that turned grief into rage into dehumanization into mass death. What have we learned from the War on Terror?

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It's Giving Neocons-in-2003 Triumphalism

Get in, loser. We're redrawing the balance of power in the Middle East, something that never goes wrong

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Moment of Truth for The Iranian 'Axis of Resistance' (video)

Talking about the aftermath of Israel's assassination of Hassan Nasrallah with MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin. PLUS: A haunting new documentary, "Starving Gaza"

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U.S.' Military Future in Iraq 'Is Not A Withdrawal,' Officials Declare

The Iraqi PM wants the U.S. out. The U.S. instead negotiates a "transition" to an "enduring bilateral relationship."

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Yes, Israel's Pager Attack in Lebanon Was Terrorism (Director's Cut)

The pager detonations appear to be the opening salvo in a frightening escalation by Israel against Hezbollah.

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A New Tactical Era of Supply-Chain Sabotage at Scale

Preliminary thoughts on Israel's mass detonation of pagers in Lebanon. Now we have a different angle to understand the assertion that supply-chain vulnerabilities are national security concerns

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The Dogs Of The Oligarchs Snarl at Springfield's Haitians

J.D. Vance acknowledges he was lying. For the fascist, the truth is never the point—usefulness is. But solidarity is stronger than its enemies

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Blinken Signals There Will Be No Justice for Aysenur Eygi

Telling Israel to "fundamentally change" its "operations" in the West Bank assumes its continued occupation of the West Bank

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It's Really Important That You Preorder IRON MAN by Monday

So here are some details—including a video trailer!—about what you'll be buying. Also, some journalism (by other people)

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Unseen Photographs of U.S. War Crimes Emerge

Thanks to The New Yorker, photographs of the 2005 U.S. massacre at Haditha, Iraq have come to light. So many more remain hidden