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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'tNot only has Iran controlled the escalatory ladder, it's exposed another symptom of American declinewww.forever-wars.comToday, @attackerman.bsky.social breaks down the unforgiving math of the US missile interceptor stockpile.
The Math Behind The U.S. Defeat in IranMissile-interceptor stocks are dwindling after only five months. That Memorandum of Understanding is looking pretty enticing!www.forever-wars.com“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 ExpandAnd without any reason for Iran to trust in negotiations, this is a one-way elevator until U.S. capitulationwww.forever-wars.comNew! For less than the price of a single year of FOREVER WARS, you can get a one-year subscription to BOTH our newsletter and Jonathan Katz’s THE RACKET. Details here! If you’re already a FW subscriber, you can get a corresponding discount from Jonathan!
The End of TPS for Haitians Is A Moment of Truth for Zohran MamdaniA guest post by Spencer Ackerman with a special offer for subscribers.theracket.news“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 MamdaniWill 'municipal socialism' stand by as ICE snatches, cages and deports tens of thousands of New Yorkers? Or will it resist?www.forever-wars.com"[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 youwww.forever-wars.comIt’s FOREVER WARS’ fifth birthday! Buy a subscription to celebrate! www.forever-wars.com#/portal/signup
FOREVER WARSA newsletter tracking the continuities, departures and permutations of the War on Terror.www.forever-wars.comIran 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 Interceptwww.forever-wars.com"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 FormICE 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 9/11www.forever-wars.comA 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 PentagonThis year's defense bill seeks to merge the U.S. and Israeli defense technological enterprises. The implications are hugewww.forever-wars.comFrom @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 OpenThe late South Carolina Republican, known for his warmongering, helped preserve an extrajudicial cage that is still swallowing peoplewww.forever-wars.com"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 WouldNor will Iran accept negotiating terms any less favorable than what the Memorandum of Understanding provideswww.forever-wars.comToday @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 SawAn aid worker with recent experience in both places talks to FOREVER WARS about the similarities and differences in both Israeli assaultswww.forever-wars.comThe 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 PogromsGuest writer Sarah Kay reports on the community resistance to the anti-immigrant assaults in her beloved city—a solidarity overlooked by the mediawww.forever-wars.comCheck out our very own @attackerman.bsky.social on Democracy Now!
The Iran Capitulations (with Amy Goodman and Behrooz Ghamari)I was on Democracy Now! to discuss the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding—and what it represents historicallywww.forever-wars.com“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 LeverageThe 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 opportunitywww.forever-wars.com"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 HereFirst came Prairieland. Now an indictment treats mutual aid and road-blocking as a criminal conspiracywww.forever-wars.comThe 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 DownIt was love on the streets of Brooklyn for the Knicks victory—and ours. A photo and video essaywww.forever-wars.comTODAY: 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 hourwww.forever-wars.comA 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 peacewww.forever-wars.com