Spencer Ackerman

Author of REIGN OF TERROR: HOW THE 9/11 ERA DESTABILIZED AMERICA & PRODUCED TRUMP. Pulitzer/National Magazine Award/etc winning journalist. WALLER VS WILDSTORM for DC Comics, IRON MAN for Marvel.

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The Imperial Boomerang Lands in Los Angeles (Director's Cut)

My latest ZETEO column is about how what America does abroad is what America does at home

The War at Home

Zohran Mamdani Is Right About Israel

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

The War at Home

Stopping The Genocide of Palestinians Will Stop Attacks Like Colorado

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.

The War Abroad

If We Were in Hell, Would We See More Children Burn Than We See in Gaza?

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

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CIA Interrogator Said Infamous Black Site Looked “Like A Nazi Concentration Camp"

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.

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IRON MAN #8: Inside The Issue

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!

The War at Home

The "Invasion" Lie, The Intelligence Purge and The Threat to Habeas Corpus

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

The War Abroad

As Trump Tours Mideast, Palestinians Report War-on-Terror-Like Torture in Israeli Jails

Interviewing over 100 Gazan ex-detainees, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights found "similarities" to torture "in notorious facilities like Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib"

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The Houthis Won

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!

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IRON MAN #7: Inside The Issue

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

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Migrant Torture at Guantanamo Authorized by Trump Administration Memo

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

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Pre-Order IRON MAN VOL. 1 By Friday And Save 25 Percent!

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!

The War at Home

Notes on The Decline And Fall of an Empire

Rethinking some assumptions I had on how the United States' hegemony might collapse. Spiral out with me

The War at Home

El Salvador And The Dark Lessons of Guantanamo

CECOT, the Salvadoran slavery-prison now used for migrant renditions, reflects 2002-4-era Gitmo—with some updates

The War Abroad

Remember What You Felt Watching An Airstrike Collapse American Buildings?

The normalization of 'domicide,' after someone did it to our buildings on a particular day. PLUS: FOREVER WARS needs your feedback!

The War Abroad

Lists

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?

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The Destruction of Gaza, Yemen And U.S. Free Speech Are Parts of The Same Project

Here's my Zeteo column from yesterday, along with my Iron Man/military-industrial complex panel and some pre-paywall extras

The War Abroad

Just Stop The Fucking Genocide And Red Sea Shipping Will Be Safe

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

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IRON MAN #6: Inside The Issue

It's all been building up to this: The Insurgent Iron Man. I beg you to read the issue before this FOREVER WARS edition

The War at Home

Mahmoud Khalil's Detention Is A War on Terror Milestone

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

The War Abroad

How Locking Hambali in Gitmo Denied His Victims Closure

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

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IRON MAN #5: Inside The Issue

This cover-to-cover fight scene was the hardest thing I've ever had to write in my short comics career. Spoilers for everything, including how I escaped my certain fate

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Zeteo

Musk and DOGE Might Soon Have Access to the Most Lucrative Defense-Contract Database of All

Ex-officials warn Zeteo that the USXports database is a means for Musk to undercut competitors to SpaceX in the defense sector

The War at Home

Former Guantánamo Prisoners Condemn Trump’s Order on Migrants

"Guantánamo does not just allow abuse; it ensures cruelty," write sixteen people who know the real Guantánamo, not the propaganda

The War Abroad

Connecting Vance's Neo-Nazi Apologia And His Artificial-Intelligence Boosterism

The Silicon Valley-MAGA alliance is out to globalize the DOGE smash-and-grab. Its version of AI "Great Power Competition" is the thin end of the wedge, so watch who embraces it.