Spencer Ackerman

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

Edited by Sam ThielmanAT GUANTANAMO BAY last month, a ruling in a pre-trial hearing of the 9/11 military commission contained shocking but little-noticed descriptions from CIA interrogators about one of their most infamous off-the-books prisons of the War on Terror: the Salt Pit black site in Kabul. The 100-plus page ruling, by U.S. Air Force Col. Matthew N.

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

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! Edited by Sam ThielmanTONIGHT, THE KNICKS host the Eastern Conference finals. I was a teenager the last time this happened and today I'm a middle-aged man. Throughout the second round of the playoffs, I assured my eldest that my erratic emotional state had nothing to do with her.

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

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 Edited by Sam ThielmanTULSI GABBARD, the latest opportunist to serve as Director of National Intelligence,fired the two senior leaders of the National Intelligence Council last week.

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

Edited by Sam ThielmanPRESIDENT TRUMP HAS LEFT Riyadh for Doha on a trip that is bearing fruit for bothAmerican and Middle Eastern oligarchs. There's another huge military windfall for the Saudis, the latest in a line stretching back decades, and this one is worth $142 billion. Nvidia and AMD will supply semiconductors for a Saudi artificial-intelligence-focused data center.

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

Edited by Zeteo and Sam ThielmanMY ZETEO COLUMN from Saturday took stock of President Trump backing down from an escalation in the Red Sea and northwest Yemen that he initiated. It was peak War on Terror: a triumphalist expectation of easy victory in a war of choice that quickly displayed American weakness instead. Also, yes, I was high on Knicks fumes when I wrote the lede you'll read after the paywall. Losing Game 3 hasn't dropped me down to earth, since that was a must-win for Boston.