The radical cleric leaves behind a legacy of sanctified torture, destroyed children and broken families.| FOREVER WARS
What is the meaning of crime? Is it Criminals Robbing Innocent Motherfuckers Everytime?| FOREVER WARS
Zohran Mamdani grew up in a New York defaced by 9/11 into a place that preyed on people like him. Now that he's wounded the predator, it will lash out against his mayoralty| FOREVER WARS
"I promise not to forget." A former detainee talks to two innocent GTMO artists who resisted torture and injustice. There are some things that freedom still denies them| FOREVER WARS
Noah Shachtman's New York Magazine piece doesn't just reveal what the ADL has become, it highlights the contradictions of Zionism as a nativist movement with elite respectability| FOREVER WARS
"We treat these civilians in Gaza worse, with less dignity, than we treated the ISIS fighters that surrendered in Baghouz in Syria." PLUS: Free Chris Smalls| FOREVER WARS
Why did the onset of famine, and not any of the previous 21 months of collective slaughter, not compel them to speak out?| FOREVER WARS
For what is an Iron Man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. The record shows, I wrote the prose. And did it my way| FOREVER WARS
Some podcast promotion. Some stuff we and others have published elsewhere. It's a summer Friday and this is what we're doing| FOREVER WARS
When we "look forward, not back," past atrocities scale up. PLUS: Another American killed in the West Bank without consequence. AND: Anti-Zionist Superman!| FOREVER WARS
Revelations this week detail the threat to free speech posed by extreme Zionist groups whose lists of "dangerous" students ICE uses to detain and deport| FOREVER WARS
At least Adm. Brad Cooper won't be planning military operations against Ir– oh. Also, he's a big artificial-intelligence guy| FOREVER WARS
PM Sudani isn't rushing the U.S. out the door, so people I spoke with aren't sweating it. But he says he's serious about the troops leaving. PLUS: Lloyd Austin, WTAF?| FOREVER WARS
Israel denounces it. The U.S. dismisses it. The International Court of Justice is hearing it. The rest of us can't flinch from reading it.| FOREVER WARS
You do not, in fact, have to choose between American and Russian imperial aggressions. Better to bear witness to what is being done in your name.| FOREVER WARS
You did it, Joe! You escalated the war you spent the week saying shouldn't escalate. And you have a plan now, right? Right?| FOREVER WARS
Against Jewish self-victimization| FOREVER WARS
Wall Street oligarchs aren't the only ones ringing the alarm against the people's mayoral candidate. That's the sound of the police| FOREVER WARS
Capital and nativism will fight even harder against Zohran Mamdani now. But in capital's seat of power, socialism defeated barbarism. I fucking love New York| FOREVER WARS
After starting a war with Iran, the Trump team thought it could (1) deescalate while (2) flirting with regime change. Now Iranian missiles have targeted the huge U.S. base in Qatar| FOREVER WARS
Just want to congratulate everyone who said Trump was the president of peace, didn't start any new wars, etc. Is there an antiwar party in America?| FOREVER WARS
A newsletter tracking the continuities, departures and permutations of the War on Terror.| FOREVER WARS
We're spoiling everything in this shocking issue. After the paywall, I address the questions I've gotten about the future of this series| FOREVER WARS
If Oct. 7 was Israel's Sept. 11, now it's at the phase of making an unsupportable WMD claim to launch the war it's long wanted. But we say no to war with Iran| FOREVER WARS
My latest ZETEO column is about how what America does abroad is what America does at home| FOREVER WARS
He shouldn't have had to field a question that has nothing to do with being mayor of New York. But the only scandal is the attempt to make his answer scandalous| FOREVER WARS
The return of 9/11 politics post-10/7 means the return of refusing to do what it actually takes to stop the cascade of violence. PLUS: The U.S. military now wargames with AI.| FOREVER WARS
Edited by Sam Thielman I SAW THE SILHOUETTE of a little girl, alone, as everything around her burned in the predawn darkness. Her name is Ward Jalal al-Shaikh Khalil. Only five years old, she survived the Israeli bombing of the Fahmi al-Jirjawi school-turned-shelter in Gaza City on Monday. Her mother| FOREVER WARS
New disclosures from the military commissions underscore the depravity of the post-9/11 program—through the eyes of its practitioners, not just its victims.| FOREVER WARS
Just in time for the NBA conference finals, we're bringing you basketball, labor militancy and capitalist violence. Stark Unlimited will never be the same. Read the comic before this edition!| FOREVER WARS
Venezuela is not invading the United States. But that lie is crucial for Trump, so an Iraq War-era dream is coming true. PLUS: Floating on the East River during the Brooklyn Bridge collision| FOREVER WARS
Interviewing over 100 Gazan ex-detainees, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights found "similarities" to torture "in notorious facilities like Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib"| FOREVER WARS
It's a peak self-inflicted War on Terror L. PLUS: With Trump heading to Saudi Arabia, let's remember why MBS shouldn't have anything nuclear. AND: Pork-flavored ice cream!| FOREVER WARS
In the absence of manpower, the agency is trying to assign its own work to the managers of the servers and line cooks it’s trying to abduct| FOREVER WARS
The richest nation on earth is now a racist reality show for one sad old bigot| FOREVER WARS
Tony Stark's dirty war gets much dirtier as the regime of Doctor Doom calls a meeting. Don't read this edition until you read the comic| FOREVER WARS
If you haven't been to Gitmo, you might not recognize the implications of a brief reference in a recently revealed Pentagon/Homeland Security document| FOREVER WARS
Our first collected edition, out in June, has been selected for a three-day sale for Barnes & Noble members! Here's a code—as well as another offer for you!| FOREVER WARS
Rethinking some assumptions I had on how the United States' hegemony might collapse. Spiral out with me| FOREVER WARS
CECOT, the Salvadoran slavery-prison now used for migrant renditions, reflects 2002-4-era Gitmo—with some updates| FOREVER WARS
The normalization of 'domicide,' after someone did it to our buildings on a particular day. PLUS: FOREVER WARS needs your feedback!| FOREVER WARS
An Islamophobia industry compiled lists of Muslims in America. Now those lists can feed a deportation engine. PLUS! If Trump declared himself a neocon, what would be different?| FOREVER WARS
Here's my Zeteo column from yesterday, along with my Iron Man/military-industrial complex panel and some pre-paywall extras| FOREVER WARS
I didn't expect to write this piece twice in barely a year, but the U.S. is back to bombing Yemen and threatening Iran, so here we are| FOREVER WARS
ICE turned a campus activist for Palestine into a political prisoner. Witness a coalescence of several post-9/11 currents that threaten your most basic freedoms| FOREVER WARS
Nasir Abas was a leader in Jamaah Islamiyah. Now he wants his former friend, the mastermind of multiple bombings, put on trial. It won't ever happen| FOREVER WARS
Get ready for the deportation task forces, the expansion of for-profit cages, and Muslim Ban 3.0. PLUS! RIP to whatever remained of the Anti-Defamation League's credibility!| FOREVER WARS
When the killer is a Muslim, too much journalism retreats to a disgraceful 9/11-era template of collective responsibility. Enough| FOREVER WARS
Introducing THE TORTURE AND DELIVERANCE OF MAJID KHAN, and what writing it will mean for this newsletter. PLUS: U.S. troop deaths become a rallying cry for war with Iran| FOREVER WARS
A bill to designate nonprofits "terrorist supporting organizations" failed this week. It'll be back soon, writes Darryl Li| FOREVER WARS
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| FOREVER WARS
U.S. foreign policy needs to abandon this concept, since it's blinding us to how regional conflicts escalate| FOREVER WARS
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.| FOREVER WARS
Let's peer behind the curtain of my upcoming Iron Man series for Marvel Comics.| FOREVER WARS
A young journalist living through a genocide documents the reality of life in Gaza. I'll destroy my Emmy if they rescind her nomination| FOREVER WARS
The commander of U.S. Naval forces in the Mideast can't define an end-state for his mission. It's staring him in the face| FOREVER WARS
In canceling the Guantanamo plea deal, the defense secretary is lying to still-grieving 9/11 families. It's craven and cruel| FOREVER WARS
Three of the accused 9/11 conspirators have accepted a bargain that saves their lives. One of them turned it down. His lawyers tell FOREVER WARS why| FOREVER WARS
Will Harris' approach to Israel be any different from Biden's? Not if a recent speech by her senior foreign-policy aide is any indication| FOREVER WARS
Trump beat Hillary Clinton, but he ran against Barack Obama. He'll have a harder time than he expects now that his opponent is Black| FOREVER WARS
I'm writing the next Iron Man series for Marvel Comics. If you preorder it at a comic store, I'll send you exclusive merch| FOREVER WARS
Trump already used the institutions and authorities of the 9/11 era on Americans in 2020. What will he do with "absolute immunity"?| FOREVER WARS
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| FOREVER WARS
Biden has declared that Israel's reasonable war aims have been achieved. Netanyahu is in no position to agree. Only U.S. pressure can break the impasse. Will Biden apply it?| FOREVER WARS
Forget "not wanting" to escalate. War, especially this one, needs to be actively deescalated before we reach the abyss. PLUS: The White House smears a good reporter.| FOREVER WARS