Spencer Ackerman

Contributing Editor at The Daily Beast

Reporter & author of REIGN OF TERROR & WALLER VS WILDSTORM. Now writing IRON MAN for Marvel. Not really here anymore, I’m on IG & Bsky, same handle

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New 'One World Under Doom' tie-in issues announced • AIPT

2 weeks ago | aiptcomics.com | Jed MacKay |Yoon Ha Lee |Derek Landy |Spencer Ackerman |Patrick Ross

Marvel today announced new tie-in issues to One World Under Doom coming this summer. This sweeping storyline, crafted by Ryan North and R.B. Silva, expands beyond the main series into several tie-in issues and limited series, with major consequences for beloved heroes and villains alike. Notable highlights include Avengers #28, Iron Man #10, and the climactic finales of Doom’s Division and Doctor Strange of Asgard.
Notes on The Decline And Fall of an Empire

2 weeks ago | forever-wars.com | Spencer Ackerman

Edited by Sam Thielman IT USED TO BE I took a conservative attitudethe handful of times I've been asked, "So, is the American Empire on the verge of collapse?" My typical answer has been that decline can last a very long time before collapse occurs. I consider the Tanzimat reforms of the late 1830s to be the pebble that spiders the windshield of the Ottoman Empire and ultimately leads to its fatal car crash in World War I.
El Salvador And The Dark Lessons of Guantanamo

2 weeks ago | forever-wars.com | Spencer Ackerman

CECOT, the Salvadoran slavery-prison now used for migrant renditions, reflects 2002-4-era Gitmo – with some updatesEdited by Sam ThielmanBY NOW, you’re likely well awareof the Trump administration's "deportations" of migrants to El Salvador's Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), where torture is rampant, confinement can be indefinite, and slave labor such a feature that right-wing President Nayib Bukele posts about it.
Remember What You Felt Watching An Airstrike Collapse American Buildings?

3 weeks ago | forever-wars.com | Spencer Ackerman

The normalization of 'domicide,' after someone did it to our buildings on a particular day.
Lists

1 month ago | forever-wars.com | Spencer Ackerman

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? Edited by Sam ThielmanMORE THAN A DOZEN years ago,a group I had never heard of, Citizens for National Security, accused thousands of Muslims in the United States of being potential terrorists.
The Destruction of Gaza, Yemen And U.S. Free Speech Are Parts of The Same Project

1 month ago | forever-wars.com | Spencer Ackerman

Here's my Zeteo column from yesterday, along with my Iron Man/military-industrial complex panel and some pre-paywall extrasPrologue edited by Sam Thielman, column edited by Zeteo EXHAUSTED, I went to bed early on Monday night and woke to a nightmare: The Israelis had resumed bombing Gaza. Only it was very clear that it wasn't just the Israelis but also, given the full backing of the White House, the Americans, too.
What Ceasefire? Trump Helps Netanyahu Kill Over 400 Palestinians in Gaza

1 month ago | zeteo.com | Spencer Ackerman

Americans watching horror again unfold in Gaza should make no mistake. This is our war, our body count. And it cannot be separated from the authoritarian advance at home that is rapidly choking off our fundamental political freedoms. Late Monday, White House press secretary Karoline Levitt said Israel had consulted with the Trump administration before launching punishing pre-dawn airstrikes that killed more than 400 people, including multiple children.
Just Stop The Fucking Genocide And Red Sea Shipping Will Be Safe

1 month ago | forever-wars.com | Spencer Ackerman

Edited by Sam Thielman CONSPICUOUS IN PRESIDENT Trump’s declaration that the U.S. will resume bombing Yemen was the lack of anything like a strategy to produce the end of Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping. "We will use overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our objective," is the closest he came, but that's just a description of means and aims, with the hope that enough bombs will compel a Houthi surrender.
IRON MAN #6: Inside The Issue

1 month ago | forever-wars.com | Spencer Ackerman

It's all been building up to this: The Insurgent Iron Man. I beg you to read the issue before this FOREVER WARS editionEdited by Sam ThielmanTHERE IS A LOT that I want to address that this edition of FOREVER WARS will not. Most importantly, the ongoing five-alarm fire that is the seizure, caging and potential deportation of political prisoner Mahmoud Khalil, as well as the coalescing legal challenges to it.
Mahmoud Khalil's Detention Is A War on Terror Milestone

1 month ago | forever-wars.com | Spencer Ackerman

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 Edited by Sam ThielmanIMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT (ICE) came for Mahmoud Khalil on Saturday night as he returned home from a post-Ramadan iftar meal.