Newsletter Major General Despair The wages of exalting generals and admirals come when we see them express open contempt for the people who exalted them.
Newsletter Never Mind Yemen, Biden OKs $1 Billion in Weapons Sales To Saudis Once upon a time, an administration told a story about how it was going to end a war. Then it erased the distinction between peace and a Saudi victory.
Newsletter Science Fiction Land What happens when the theme-park guys come for Jack Kirby and Chloe Zhao
Newsletter Another War on Terror Ghoul Enters The Biden Administration Ken Wainstein will run the intelligence shop at the Department of Homeland Security. They tried to make me to go to his rehab and I said no, no, no
Newsletter Nihilistic Feelings Are Moving If I try reading The Apocalypse and The End of History by Suzanne Schneider, I see right through them.
Newsletter ‘I Was Raped By The CIA Medics,’ Says Black-Site Survivor In his first-ever statement, Majid Khan detailed the vengeful reality of the post-9/11 CIA: “The more I cooperated and told them, the more I was tortured.”
Newsletter The War Crimes Trials That Never Happened In 1971, one of the greatest journalists of the Vietnam War asked a question that echoes decades later. Join me... and ponder the question... What If?
Newsletter On U.S. Intelligence’s Wiki, Anxiety About Legal Challenges To Drone Strikes Who wants to read a never-before-published document leaked by Edward Snowden? It’s weird
Newsletter "On U.S. Intelligence’s Wiki, Anxiety About Legal Challenges To Drone Strikes," Oct. 22, 2021 Intellipedia entry: “Targeted Killing-Policy, Legal and Ethical Controversy” (PDF) Appended to this article.
Newsletter The Only Man Who Could Have Stopped The Iraq War Is Dead Colin Powell chose to sell a war he knew was wrong. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were unavailable for comment on his death
Newsletter Terrorism, Structural Racism, And Facebook The ‘radical indifference’ of the surveillance-capitalist giant reflects and entrenches a racialized understanding of political violence.
Newsletter Fear Itself In the post-9/11 era, police departments blur the lines that separate them from spy services. More and more Americans get the treatment the CIA gives our non-American comrades
Newsletter Yes, Why Not Let Abu Zubaydah Testify? On one hand: The CIA might not be able to get foreign spy services to torture people. On the other: A tortured man could pursue justice. 🤔
Newsletter Watching The FBI Lose, Destroy the Documents Justifying Surveillance What started as an audit of the Carter Page espionage investigation has expanded and “identified systemic noncompliance” with crucial surveillance constraints.
Newsletter Disparate Fronts: Seth Meyers, Press Freedom, and Our Abortion Fundraiser Just some random things thrown together as me and Sam report out larger stories. Also, an abortion-access fund update.
Newsletter ‘A More Sustainable And Agile Counterterrorism Approach’ An overlooked speech by Joe Biden’s White House homeland-security adviser points to a return to the Sustainable War on Terror. It looks like we’re at the end of the war’s end.
Newsletter Return to Little Pakistan: Mohammad Razvi Holds It Together During COVID-19, as after 9/11, the son of a bodega owner navigated the city’s power structure on behalf of his frightened neighbors. Part 3 in a series
Newsletter Return To Little Pakistan: Bobby Khan v. The Police An immigrant born to working-class activism stands up to an NYPD reborn in the CIA's image. Part 2 in a series
Newsletter Return To Little Pakistan: The Reign of Terror in Brooklyn after 9/11 Pundits and politicians declared America united while "unity” preyed upon New York City’s Muslim communities. We must never forget. Part 1 in a series
Members only Newsletter Ms. Marvel, the Intersectional X-Men, and the War on Terror: A Conversation Between Spencer Ackerman and Saladin Ahmed
