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"Trump has demonstrated these past six months that warfare, long insulated from what passes in this country for democratic control, has so hollowed out mechanisms for popular accountability that warmakers no longer need to engage in procedural fictions," writes @attackerman.bsky.social
The Markets Matter For War—You Don't
Not only has Iran controlled the escalatory ladder, it's exposed another symptom of American decline
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Today, @attackerman.bsky.social breaks down the unforgiving math of the US missile interceptor stockpile.
The Math Behind The U.S. Defeat in Iran
Missile-interceptor stocks are dwindling after only five months. That Memorandum of Understanding is looking pretty enticing!
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“By far the scariest escalation of the war occurred this weekend in the Caspian Sea,” writes @attackerman.bsky.social.
A Regional War, With Options To Expand
And without any reason for Iran to trust in negotiations, this is a one-way elevator until U.S. capitulation
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The End of TPS for Haitians Is A Moment of Truth for Zohran Mamdani
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“The road to abolition begins with local obstruction,” writes @attackerman.bsky.social
The End of TPS for Haitians Is A Moment of Truth for Zohran Mamdani
Will 'municipal socialism' stand by as ICE snatches, cages and deports tens of thousands of New Yorkers? Or will it resist?
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"[S]ince the U.S. fights in Somalia without conventional ground forces, it has never faced any pressure to demonstrate success, let alone end operations," writes @attackerman.bsky.social
"We Initiated, Basically, A New War" in Somalia (Director's Cut)
PLUS: American Prestige x FOREVER WARS on the war against the left—a left Rubio says belongs to Cuba, which he thinks will scare you
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FOREVER WARS
A newsletter tracking the continuities, departures and permutations of the War on Terror.
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Iran may be using a Chinese alternative to GPS to foil US missile-jamming and force Americans to spend down crucial interceptors, writes @attackerman.bsky.social
Iranian Missile Accuracy's Crucial Chinese Component (Allegedly)
A Chinese alternative to GPS may be crucial to draining the U.S. interceptor magazine. PLUS: FOREVER WARS x The Intercept
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"Absurdity, as many people have already learned over 25 years of the War on Terror, does not stop an asset freeze or an FBI raid," writes @attackerman.bsky.social.
The War on Terror Approaches Its Final Form
ICE executes the nonwhite while the White House and State Department look to declare the U.S. left a Foreign Terrorist Organization. We've been heading here since 9/11
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A provision in this year's defense bill would merge the US & Israeli defense technological enterprises. @attackerman.bsky.social takes a look at the implications:
The Israel Commissar Coming To The Pentagon
This year's defense bill seeks to merge the U.S. and Israeli defense technological enterprises. The implications are huge
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From @attackerman.bsky.social, an assessment of the late Lindsey Graham, and the impunity and cruelty he wrought.
Lindsey Graham Is One Of The Reasons Guantanamo Is Open
The late South Carolina Republican, known for his warmongering, helped preserve an extrajudicial cage that is still swallowing people
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"Justified fears about a return to war have their way of obscuring the truly extraordinary strategic transformation of the long U.S.-Iran hostility that happened this year, a transformation the MOU both represents and entrenches," writes @attackerman.bsky.social
The Strait Is Giving Iran The Leverage The U.S. Feared A Nuke Would
Nor will Iran accept negotiating terms any less favorable than what the Memorandum of Understanding provides
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Today @attackerman.bsky.social has a vital interview from Lebanon, where a relief worker says she sees similarities—and crucial differences—between the conflict there and the war on Gaza.
First in Gaza, Now in Lebanon, This Is The Destruction She Saw
An aid worker with recent experience in both places talks to FOREVER WARS about the similarities and differences in both Israeli assaults
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The pogroms in Belfast, writes @k-interarma.bsky.social, are aided and abetted by vigilantes, including "the same paramilitaries the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, our peace treaty, supposedly forced us to disarm and disband. Colonialism has never left."
Confronting The Belfast Pogroms
Guest writer Sarah Kay reports on the community resistance to the anti-immigrant assaults in her beloved city—a solidarity overlooked by the media
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“The Israelis and their American supporters, fully aware that Trump is out for a separate peace, have entered a deeply satisfying season of lamentation now that the war they have for so long sought to manufacture is the fiasco I told them for decades it would be,” writes @attackerman.bsky.social
Iran's Forever Leverage
The status quo ante in the Strait of Hormuz is gone for good. This is what losing a war against a strong adversary looks like. It's also an anti-Zionist opportunity
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"If you thought the convictions of the anti-ICE demonstrators in Prairieland, Texas were egregious, this time, the Justice Department isn't even alleging proximate gunfire, as at Prairieland, nor any other actual act of violence," writes @attackerman.bsky.social
The Next Step in Criminalizing ICE Protests Is Here
First came Prairieland. Now an indictment treats mutual aid and road-blocking as a criminal conspiracy
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The Knicks win and Brooklyn celebrates—a photo and video essay by @attackerman.bsky.social, feat. @lindseyadler.bsky.social and @noahshachtman.bsky.social
We Were Never Going to Burn Our City Down
It was love on the streets of Brooklyn for the Knicks victory—and ours. A photo and video essay
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TODAY: The Trump-Netanyahu breakdown and a courtside view of fatherhood, politics, and his family’s Brooklyn basketball tradition, reported in person at the Knicks-Spurs game by @attackerman.bsky.social
'I Call All The Shots. He Doesn't Call The Shots'
Trump encounters someone who enjoys even more impunity than him. PLUS: Basketball City dreams of its finest hour
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A state of perpetual violent ceasefire doesn’t seem to bode well for the end of the wars or the Gaza genocide, does it?
The Lebanon and Gaza Models for The Iran 'Ceasefire'
'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace
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Read @attackerman.bsky.social on the ways the Global War on Terror brought ICE to our doorsteps.
Five Ways The War on Terror Empowered The ICE Assault
We got an advance look at a new analysis from the Costs of War Project about the heritage of the 9/11 era on current ICE operations
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"[Hegseth's] pugilism toward congressional opposition is crasser than Rumsfeld's, but that's a stylistic and generational difference," writes @attackerman.bsky.social. "Their messages are the same: 'you must proclaim the disaster to be a victory or reveal yourself to be morally derelict.'"
The Iran War Costs As Much As Afghanistan During The Surge
The Pentagon's acting comptroller tells Congress the war has cost $25 billion thus far. What would you have liked to spend that money on instead of killing schoolgirls?
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"Silicon Valley must not simply provide the market with consumer products. It owes 'a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible,' by which Palantir means Silicon Valley must make weapons for the Pentagon," writes @attackerman.bsky.social
The Tech Oligarch's Republic
A look at the Palantir manifesto, a logical conclusion of the War on Terror
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“That's not just a lost war,” @attackerman.bsky.social writes of the status quo in Iran. “That's a humiliation.”
So You Lost A War To Iran
And you're going to try to convince us you… won. Wow. Wow, OK
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Spencer reports from No Kings and finds the average marcher is mad as hell:
Grandma Wants Retribution Against ICE
A report from behind a snare drum at No Kings NYC
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"The U.S., having learned absolutely nothing from the War on Terror, did this *again*," writes @attackerman.bsky.social.
Trump, Lost in The Failure of His War, Blinks
Whether or not this is the beginning of the end of the Iran War, now we have to talk about humiliation—and what emerges from it
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