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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U.S. Hostage Rescue Is A 'Contingency' for U.S. Special Ops in Israel

It isn't the mission for elite U.S. forces, according to a senior Pentagon official. But it's an option—and one that the Biden team has to be very careful about.

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The Anti-Defamation League Is Defaming Palestinian Students as Terrorist Supporters (Director's Cut)

The group is urging hundreds of colleges to investigate Students for Justice in Palestine for material support for terrorism. Sept. 11 politics are back in force.

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Video: How Israel Is Repeating The U.S.' Post-9/11 Mistakes

I spoke with DW, the German news outlet, about the "grim chain of consequences" known as the War on Terror, and how Israel's devastation of Gaza follows the template. PLUS: Amalek in Gaza

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U.S. Bombs Iran in Syria And Tries To Call Time-Out

As it struck Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps positions in Syria, the Pentagon insisted that it's neither part of Israel's war and it doesn't want to fire again. Good luck with that

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The Nation

The Lesson of 9/11 Is That Israel Cannot Win Its Gaza War

Biden says he doesn’t want Israel to repeat America’s mistakes, so why is he supporting Israel as it does exactly that?

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Talking Israel/Palestine on The Ezra Klein Show

PLUS: the Pentagon sees "a prospect for much more significant escalation," while the King of Jordan has a message about U.S. leadership in light of Gaza.

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Biden's "Indispensable Nation" Is on The Brink of A Wider War

A regional war that could involve America is frighteningly close. Biden's speech talked past it

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Veto Joe

Whatever the Biden administration sought this week for humanitarian aid to Gaza, they blocked a U.N. resolution demanding the violence pause in order to provide it.

The War at Home

Islamophobia Kills. Protect Your Neighbors

It was a matter of time before someone listened to the politicians and media figures dehumanizing Palestinians and took action. The victim was a six-year old boy

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Confront 9/11 Politics And They Can Be Defeated

If this is Israel's 9/11, be Susan Sontag. Apartheid is what has gotten over 1200 Israelis killed and may soon "pretty much ethnically cleanse the northern part of the Gaza Strip"

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Sami al-Arian & Daniel Levy on The Return To Open War in Israel/Palestine

Two wise people, a Palestinian and an Israeli, on a harrowing past few days and avoiding the horrors to come. FOREVER WARS editorializes: if you want peace, free Palestine.

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A Deal Signed in Blood

An anticipated deal between the U.S., Saudi Arabia, and Israel is set to create a new Middle Eastern order. But as Israel and Gaza return to war, will the security pact do more than entrench the violence of the status quo?

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The Media's Role in 20 Years of Islamophobia

Notes on a weekend in Doha and my prepared remarks to a panel discussion on Islamophobia that Georgetown University convened. PLUS: Your War on Terror news roundup

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The Nation

Atrocity Exhibition

These New Yorkers want to transform the September 11 museum, but can it be anything other than a purveyor of War on Terror propaganda?

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China Says NSA Surveillance Is Intensifying

As Uncle Ben once said, with great power competition comes great espionage expansions. PLUS: Egypt buys a senator; and more!

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Anatomy of a U.S. Foreign Policy Win

Ukraine gets weapons. Imran Khan gets dismissed and prosecuted. The only ones who lose are Pakistanis, and since when does the U.S. give a shit about them?

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The Virgin Rome And The Chad Constantinople

Do you think about the Roman Empire a lot? Obviously. But which Roman Empire? And which successor to the Roman Empire? PLUS: Some appearances I'm doing.

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Writing Villains: A Place To Put Bad Feelings

Waller Vs. Wildstorm #3, the big action issue, is in stores now! No spoilers, just notes on the catharsis of scripting people who do evil things, like "peace operations officer" Slade Wilson.

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St. Augustine's 9/11 Anniversary

Lord, implored President Biden, let us "turn the page" on the War on Terror. Just not yet.

The War at Home

Drones Over Brooklyn, RICO for Cop City Protesters

As the Air Force pursues AI-powered drones for combat, the NYPD uses older models to spy on Caribbean Brooklyn. What starts as military tech doesn't stay as military tech. PLUS: Georgia files egregious charges against the anti-Cop City movement!

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The Nation

U.S. Foreign Policy Has an Extinction Agenda

As the world loses time to act, US elites are working to dominate the remains of a ruined planet.

The War at Home

Who Is And Isn't A Terrorist, January 6 Edition

An Iraq combat veteran turned Proud Boy sentenced for seditious conspiracy applies the logic of 9/11 to 1/6.

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Military Judge Rejects CIA's 'Rectal Feeding' Narrative for Post-9/11 Sexual Assault

No previous judge has challenged the agency's line about what it did to 9/11-era detainees. PLUS: The absence of the U.S. military for the relief of Maui.

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Rudy Giuliani Was A Creation of The New York Media

This is for every New Yorker who in the 1990s watched our local press launder a racist authoritarian mayor into someone who'd save the city from… the people who live here. He always was who he is now

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A Really Good Place To Be A Climate Refugee

Ireland in August is a great place to contemplate the prospect of civilizational collapse.