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"They start by talking about how evil the enemy is—antifa or whatever—and how they supposedly assault women and children and the elderly," Elle Reeve tells @attackerman.bsky.social. "Then they start talking about self-defense, how they'll protect themselves against the enemy."

'They Want To Be A Part of History': Elle Reeve on the Extremely-Online Fascist Resurgencewww.forever-wars.com As we brace for the fallout of the attempted Trump assassination, the journalist and 'Black Pill' author talks to FOREVER WARS

"Anybody could have told you back in October, back in November, that we'd get somewhere like where we are today," former DIA analyst Maj. Harrison Mann tells @attackerman.bsky.social after his public resignation.

Harrison Mann on Escalation in the Middle Eastwww.forever-wars.com The U.S. Army major and intelligence analyst recently resigned over Gaza. With Lebanon in the balance, he walks FOREVER WARS through some nightmare scenarios

"With Lebanon on the brink, how many wet willies is Biden prepared to tolerate?" asks @attackerman.bsky.social

Netanyahu, As Predicted, Humiliates Bidenwww.forever-wars.com With Lebanon on the brink, how many wet willies is Biden prepared to tolerate? PLUS: The "most intense running sea battle the Navy has faced since World War II" is a failure

To me, my X-Men.

Mutants, on Saturday Night We Party in Brooklynwww.forever-wars.com Vita Ayala, Anita Okoye and myself will work out the legacy of Krakoa, a cherished and important era of the X-Men. You're invited

"Expect these authorities to be used against many kinds of people," writes @attackerman.bsky.social. "Among the targets will be U.S. supporters of Palestine."

Warrantless Spying on Pro-Palestine Protesters Is Easier Than Everwww.forever-wars.com The NSA and CIA's warrantless searches of U.S. metadata, made possible by the just-renewed Section 702, rose 129 percent last year, U.S. intelligence just disclosed.

“Silicon Valley and its VCs are on a trajectory to integrate into the extant defense giants,” writes @attackerman.bsky.social in this morning’s exclusive report.

The Silicon Valley/Venture Capital Pentagonwww.forever-wars.com Here's an exclusive first look at new research from the Costs of War Project about a tectonic shift in the political economy of American warfare. Move fast and break things

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Whether Biden understands it or not, Gaza has revealed the reality of the US "Rules Based International Order": an order where there is no law but what US prerogative permits, and it will permit its allies to commit genocide. Me in the NYT:

Opinion | Where Is America’s ‘Rules-Based Order’ Now?www.nytimes.com The United States’ failure to ensure enforcement of the U.N. cease-fire resolution regarding Israel undermines the international rules-based order.

“With Gaza’s enormous death toll and imminent famine, people can be forgiven for wondering about the point of the United States’ rules-based international order,” writes @attackerman.bsky.social in today’s @nytimes.com

My New York Times Op-Ed on Gaza and thewww.forever-wars.com The Times asked me to write about the U.N. Security Council's DOA ceasefire resolution. There wasn't a way to do so without writing about the U.S.' global order

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A personal highlight for me in 2024. I got a shoutout in this excellent @foreverwars.bsky.social piece. I support the equal and universal application of international law. Mr. Biden, I hope you do too.

The Biden administration insists today’s UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza is “nonbinding.” Well, I spoke to one of the U.S.’ leading international-law scholars, and,

That Ceasefire Resolution Is Absolutely Binding on Israelwww.forever-wars.com After declining to veto it at the Security Council, Biden's officials insist the resolution is

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That Ceasefire Resolution Is Absolutely Binding on Israelwww.forever-wars.com After declining to veto it at the Security Council, Biden's officials insist the resolution is

"The remedy for noncompliance with a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding a ceasefire is not merely 'not providing more weapons,'" writes @attackerman.bsky.social

That Ceasefire Resolution Is Absolutely Binding on Israelwww.forever-wars.com After declining to veto it at the Security Council, Biden's officials insist the resolution is

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Tyreece Bauer. Karan Emery. Landon Morton. These are 3 "people" scraped from the internet and given bylines on my work at a long-dead website. As journalism collapses financially, welcome to a vision of its future – or a robotic facsimile thereof – built by desecrating its past.

My Robotic Doppelganger Is The Grim Face of Journalism's Future!foreverwars.ghost.io As journalism endures catastrophic financial collapse, I watch software seize my long-lost archives, erase my name—or attribute my work to a fake person. PLUS: Evan and I sign on Friday!

FOREVER WARSforeverwars.ghost.io A newsletter tracking the continuities, departures and permutations of the War on Terror.

Tyreece Bauer. Karan Emery. Landon Morton. These are 3 "people" scraped from the internet and given bylines on my work at a long-dead website. As journalism collapses financially, welcome to a vision of its future—or a robotic facsimile thereof—built by desecrating its past.

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"One way it would be instantly clear that Harris' comments matter would be for her to tell Benny Gantz today that he gets nothing," writes @attackerman.bsky.social.

All Kamala Harris Has To Tell Benny Gantz Is Noforeverwars.ghost.io But Gantz is in Washington to give Team Biden an Israeli to say yes to who isn't Netanyahu. PLUS: Evan and I sign on Friday!

"I think of the United States as a deeply distressed hoarder of Chekhov's Guns. Like a cat lady of Chekhov's Guns," UChicago anthropologist and Palestine scholar Darryl Li tells @attackerman.bsky.social

The Anti-Palestinian Origins of The War on Terrorforeverwars.ghost.io A new report exposes the groundwork for the 9/11 era. Author Darryl Li talks to FOREVER WARS. PLUS: 101,000 Michiganders say Israel's assault must stop.

"I've never heard of a U.S. servicemember performing such an extreme act," writes @attackerman.bsky.social. "That seems like a turn of the historical ratchet, as well as a bone-deep indictment of U.S. policy from someone inside the national-security apparatus."

'This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal'foreverwars.ghost.io U.S. Airman Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire rather than "be complicit in genocide." His last words were a challenge we must find the courage to heed

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i think everyone should post their Ws today

"Erik Prince started a podcast. It's going about how you'd expect from the founder of Blackwater. Book me, you coward," requests @attackerman.bsky.social

The U.S. And Israel Actually Did Retaliate Against Iranforeverwars.ghost.io They just did it through cyberattacks and pipeline bombings. That'll make Iran surrender, right? PLUS: Can we get a congratulations going for Sam in the chat?

“Hamas is neither capable of annihilating Israel nor does its struggle against Israel have anything to do with Israeli ‘democracy,‘“ writes @attackerman.bsky.social

The Children of Gaza Were Not Killed For Democracyforeverwars.ghost.io Absolutely nothing about Israel's U.S.-sponsored genocide has to do with democracy. Biden needs to stop staining democracy with the blood of children

"[M]illions of Yemenis endured unfathomable hardships, including starvation and cholera. None of this, again, did anything to stop the Houthis," writes @attackerman.bsky.social. "What exactly was Mattis' advice here?"

So How Much of The Yemen War Is Jim Mattis’ Fault?foreverwars.ghost.io The legendary Marine turned Pentagon chief was secretly working for the UAE as far back as 2015, the dawn of the devastating Yemen war. Wish I’d known that when I wrote my Rolling Stone profile!

"Two risible pieces over the weekend, published in highly respectable outlets, put [Islamophobia] on vivid display," writes @attackerman.bsky.social. "Together they offer a look at how conservative media and liberal media each perform dehumanization."

Two Varieties of Media Dehumanizationforeverwars.ghost.io Conservative and liberal Islamophobias, and what they say about the persistence of the War on Terror. PLUS: Biden invokes the 2001 AUMF against…Iran's coalition

"As we learned at enormous cost throughout the War on Terror, political problems do not have military solutions," writes @attackerman.bsky.social. "The White House is moving in this direction anyway."

The Eighteenth Brumaire of The War on Terrorforeverwars.ghost.io A lethal drone attack on U.S. troops in Jordan has created massive pressure to attack Iran. Biden is running out of time to avert all-out war—and learn from very recent history.

“[A] final ruling from the ICJ on whether Israel has violated the Genocide Convention is likely years away, too late to save Palestine, or to arrest a cascading Middle Eastern war,” writes @attackerman.bsky.social. But that is not the end of this story. foreverwars.ghost.io/icj-gaza-isr...

“[T]he Emiratis and the STC would strike Suicide Squad-style deals with imprisoned al-Qaeda operatives who would agree to kill people designated for execution by their new allies,” writes @attackerman.bsky.social

Emirates' U.S. Assassins in Yemen Tell Allforeverwars.ghost.io The Spear Operations Group killed "terrorists" in Yemen, AKA the Emiratis' political enemies. It's big trouble in "Little Sparta" as the mercs talk to the BBC

"Perhaps if the ghost of Lyndon Johnson wishes to do something productive during its eternal purgatory, it should visit Joe Biden before Biden has to make any more statements honoring fallen servicemembers," writes @attackerman.bsky.social

Two Navy SEALs Die in New Forever War Biden Chose Instead of Stopping Israel’s Genocideforeverwars.ghost.io Bombing Yemen isn't working. Netanyahu isn't stopping. And Joe Biden is Lyndon Johnsoning.

Our final edition for 2023! "In Bahrain on Monday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced Operation Prosperity Guardian, a name I feel oddly bound to respect for announcing itself straightforwardly as a military operation for commercial purposes," writes @attackerman.bsky.social.

"We Have To Strike Back At The Houthis"foreverwars.ghost.io Our last edition of 2023 asks: who's ready to Americanize the war in Yemen? PLUS: A Palestinian case before the European Court of Human Rights.

A look at the DoD's devastating ongoing refusal to even acknowledge the civilians it kills to their bereaved families, and at a new letter demanding more, by @attackerman.bsky.social

Somalis Whose Relatives Were Killed by U.S. Strikes 'Have Yet To Receive Acknowledgement'foreverwars.ghost.io A letter human rights groups sent to the Pentagon indicates that the U.S. has reverted its typical callousness. PLUS: 'From The River To The Sea,' a free eBook I contributed to