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The Final Straw Radio @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Join us as @attackerman.bsky.social of @forever-wars.com talks about the international and domestic legacy of the Global War On Terror post-9/11 and the bipartisan escalation of US impunity and exceptionalism that gave us Trumpism thefinalstrawradio.mayfirst.info/2026/09/20/w...
book cover of "Reign of Terror" featuring red-tinged riot cops and teargas plus "TFSR 9-20-26 | We Are All So Terrorized: 9/11, 25 Years In (with Spencer Ackerman"
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 23/09/2026
"The challenge," writes @attackerman.bsky.social, "is to accept that and build something that can deter a world leader from threatening another people with an extermination he has the capacity to carry out."
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Something More Powerful Must Replace The International Criminal Court
Once again, Donald Trump threatens Iran with 'annihilation.' That's supposed to be an actionable offense
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 14/09/2026
“Ansar Allah has drones, but no known aviation assets otherwise to defend their assault,” writes @attackerman.bsky.social “There will be movies made about this some day. Just not in English.”
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Fanute The Houthi Coup
One decade. Three adversaries. Total domination. It's time to respect Ansar Allah
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 11/09/2026
Today we must remember the victims of the war on terror with as much compassion as we remember the victims of the 9/11 attacks, writes @attackerman.bsky.social
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Today We Must Finally Remember What The 9/11 Commemorations Ignore
Righteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 10/09/2026
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The Final Straw Radio @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A refresher on the last quarter century of accelerated US State of Emergency post-9/11 with @attackerman.bsky.social, journalist at @forever-wars.com Patreon supporters of $3+/mo get early access to this chat: www.patreon.com/tfsr/posts/h...
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How the 25 Year State of Exception Has Brought Us to Trump 2.0 | The Final Straw Radio
How the 25 Year State of Exception Has Brought Us to Trump 2.0 by The Final Straw Radio on Patreon. Join The Final Straw Radio's community for exclusive content and updates.
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 01/09/2026
"I've seen some reaction implying that this is a "return" to 9/11 politics," writes @attackerman.bsky.social "All I would say is that over the past 25 years, these politics have never disappeared—they’ve only gone into occasional abeyance."
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It's Always 9/11 Somewhere
A desperate ruling class returns to 9/11 politics as its hold on power slips. This is a clue as to the function of Islamophobia in the United States
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 18/08/2026
For FOREVER WARS, @attackerman.bsky.social got a look at a new report on the shocking frequency of sex crimes committed by DHS enforcers. "One official running Operation Predator, Frank Figueroa, pleaded no contest to exposing himself to a 16-year old girl in an Orlando mall." he writes.
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The Sex Criminals and Child Abusers of ICE and CBP
Rape. Domestic violence. Epstein friendship. It's all tolerated by our valiant homeland-security apparatus. PLUS: COINTELPRO 2026
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 12/08/2026
ICE is planning to order supervillain-style shock gloves for its officers.
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The Coward's Handshake
ICE agents are about to get electric-shock gloves—ideal for 'smaller officers or weaker officers or older officers,' says an ex-cop
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 12/08/2026
ICE is planning to order supervillain-style shock gloves for its officers.
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The Coward's Handshake
ICE agents are about to get electric-shock gloves—ideal for 'smaller officers or weaker officers or older officers,' says an ex-cop
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 06/08/2026
NEW FOR SUBSCRIBERS: @attackerman.bsky.social on the toll investigative journalism takes, and on Charles Manson's pursuers: www.forever-wars.com/when-journal...
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When Journalism Becomes Obsession
This is not a book review. This is the abyss of someone else's professional compulsion gazing back at my own
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 03/08/2026
"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
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The Markets Matter For War—You Don't
Not only has Iran controlled the escalatory ladder, it's exposed another symptom of American decline
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 30/07/2026
Today, @attackerman.bsky.social breaks down the unforgiving math of the US missile interceptor stockpile.
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The Math Behind The U.S. Defeat in Iran
Missile-interceptor stocks are dwindling after only five months. That Memorandum of Understanding is looking pretty enticing!
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 29/07/2026
“By far the scariest escalation of the war occurred this weekend in the Caspian Sea,” writes @attackerman.bsky.social.
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A Regional War, With Options To Expand
And without any reason for Iran to trust in negotiations, this is a one-way elevator until U.S. capitulation
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 28/07/2026
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The End of TPS for Haitians Is A Moment of Truth for Zohran Mamdani
A guest post by Spencer Ackerman with a special offer for subscribers.
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 27/07/2026
“The road to abolition begins with local obstruction,” writes @attackerman.bsky.social
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The End of TPS for Haitians Is A Moment of Truth for Zohran Mamdani
Will 'municipal socialism' stand by as ICE snatches, cages and deports tens of thousands of New Yorkers? Or will it resist?
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 22/07/2026
"[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
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"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 you
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 20/07/2026
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FOREVER WARS
A newsletter tracking the continuities, departures and permutations of the War on Terror.
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 20/07/2026
Iran 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
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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 Intercept
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 17/07/2026
"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.
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The War on Terror Approaches Its Final Form
ICE 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 9/11
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 15/07/2026
A provision in this year's defense bill would merge the US & Israeli defense technological enterprises. @attackerman.bsky.social takes a look at the implications:
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The Israel Commissar Coming To The Pentagon
This year's defense bill seeks to merge the U.S. and Israeli defense technological enterprises. The implications are huge
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 13/07/2026
From @attackerman.bsky.social, an assessment of the late Lindsey Graham, and the impunity and cruelty he wrought.
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Lindsey Graham Is One Of The Reasons Guantanamo Is Open
The late South Carolina Republican, known for his warmongering, helped preserve an extrajudicial cage that is still swallowing people
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 08/07/2026
"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
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The Strait Is Giving Iran The Leverage The U.S. Feared A Nuke Would
Nor will Iran accept negotiating terms any less favorable than what the Memorandum of Understanding provides
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 07/07/2026
Today @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.
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First in Gaza, Now in Lebanon, This Is The Destruction She Saw
An aid worker with recent experience in both places talks to FOREVER WARS about the similarities and differences in both Israeli assaults
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 02/07/2026
The 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."
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Confronting The Belfast Pogroms
Guest writer Sarah Kay reports on the community resistance to the anti-immigrant assaults in her beloved city—a solidarity overlooked by the media
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 24/06/2026
Check out our very own @attackerman.bsky.social on Democracy Now!
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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 historically
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 20/06/2026
“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
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Iran's Forever Leverage
The 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 opportunity
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 17/06/2026
"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
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The Next Step in Criminalizing ICE Protests Is Here
First came Prairieland. Now an indictment treats mutual aid and road-blocking as a criminal conspiracy
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 14/06/2026
The Knicks win and Brooklyn celebrates—a photo and video essay by @attackerman.bsky.social, feat. @lindseyadler.bsky.social and @noahshachtman.bsky.social
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We Were Never Going to Burn Our City Down
It was love on the streets of Brooklyn for the Knicks victory—and ours. A photo and video essay
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 08/06/2026
TODAY: 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
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'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 hour
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 28/05/2026
A state of perpetual violent ceasefire doesn’t seem to bode well for the end of the wars or the Gaza genocide, does it?
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The Lebanon and Gaza Models for The Iran 'Ceasefire'
'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 20/05/2026
Ahmadinejad? AHMADINEJAD? writes @attackerman.bsky.social
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The Plan? We Install Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as A Puppet in Iran
I cannot believe this story is true. It just can't be. My brain is breaking. Ahmedinejad????
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 13/05/2026
Read @attackerman.bsky.social on the US's stinging defeat in Iran.
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Not A Stalemate With Iran, An Unambiguous Loss
PLUS: Video of me and others discussing the Trump's counterterrorism strategy against the left
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 05/05/2026
Read @attackerman.bsky.social on the ways the Global War on Terror brought ICE to our doorsteps.
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Five Ways The War on Terror Empowered The ICE Assault
We got an advance look at a new analysis from the Costs of War Project about the heritage of the 9/11 era on current ICE operations
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 29/04/2026
"[Hegseth's] pugilism toward congressional opposition is crasser than Rumsfeld's, but that's a stylistic and generational difference," writes @attackerman.bsky.social. "Their messages are the same: 'you must proclaim the disaster to be a victory or reveal yourself to be morally derelict.'"
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The Iran War Costs As Much As Afghanistan During The Surge
The Pentagon's acting comptroller tells Congress the war has cost $25 billion thus far. What would you have liked to spend that money on instead of killing schoolgirls?
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 20/04/2026
"Silicon Valley must not simply provide the market with consumer products. It owes 'a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible,' by which Palantir means Silicon Valley must make weapons for the Pentagon," writes @attackerman.bsky.social
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The Tech Oligarch's Republic
A look at the Palantir manifesto, a logical conclusion of the War on Terror
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 20/04/2026
Today, @attackerman.bsky.social examines the Palantir manifesto.
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The Tech Oligarch's Republic
A look at the Palantir manifesto, a logical conclusion of the War on Terror
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 07/04/2026
Spencer on the threat of annihilation. @attackerman.bsky.social
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The Many Fathers of The Murder of Iran
As Trump threatens that "a whole civilization will die tonight," remember that he didn't get here by himself
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 31/03/2026
“That's not just a lost war,” @attackerman.bsky.social writes of the status quo in Iran. “That's a humiliation.”
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So You Lost A War To Iran
And you're going to try to convince us you… won. Wow. Wow, OK
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 30/03/2026
Spencer reports from No Kings and finds the average marcher is mad as hell:
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Grandma Wants Retribution Against ICE
A report from behind a snare drum at No Kings NYC
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 23/03/2026
"The U.S., having learned absolutely nothing from the War on Terror, did this *again*," writes @attackerman.bsky.social.
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Trump, Lost in The Failure of His War, Blinks
Whether or not this is the beginning of the end of the Iran War, now we have to talk about humiliation—and what emerges from it
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 19/03/2026
Is that Xi Jinping's music? asks @attackerman.bsky.social
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Xi Jinping Has A Chance To Do The Funniest Thing Right Now
He could stop the Iran War. And in the process, rebalance the world's great-power politics
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 16/03/2026
"I am saying that not only is their agenda loathsome," writes @attackerman.bsky.social, "they do not know ball."
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None of These People I Insulted Want To Die For Me in The Strait of Hormuz?
The Trump people, on top of everything else, do not know ball. PLUS: U.S. military AI usage killed an Iraqi student in 2024
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 12/03/2026
An American citizen detained by ICE tells FOREVER WARS that a man identifying himself as an HSI agent tried to cultivate him as a source of information about immigrants in the same way counterterror and organized crime units do. Via @attackerman.bsky.social
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ICE Tried To Turn This Minneapolis Teacher Into An Informant
Brandon Siguenza was detained for doing legal-observer work. ICE's real interest was in generating snitches. PLUS: Mojtaba Khamanei isn't surrendering
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 09/03/2026
"In the balance of a long war—again, waged by people on both sides who do not distinguish themselves by their commitments to the value of human life—is the potential to render large swaths of the region uninhabitable," writes @attackerman.bsky.social
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The Water Wars Are Here, And They're Not Woke
The Iran War's latest horrifying component involves attacks on desalination facilities. A "not politically correct" conflict could render much of the region uninhabitable
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 06/03/2026
Observations on the war from @attackerman.bsky.social and a new podcast appearance with @devindra.bsky.social
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When The War Goes AI, The Data Centers Will Be Targets (f/Engadget's Devindra Hardawar)
We talk Anthropic, OpenAI, Iran and the mil-tech oligarchy. Children will be sent to protect data centers the way their fathers were sent to protect oil fields
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 03/03/2026
Donald Trump said the thing.
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Interceptors Versus Missiles: The Iran War's Wrath of The Math
A theory of Iranian strategy. PLUS: Me, Chris Hayes and Ayman Mohyeldin on the war's politics
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 28/02/2026
New from @attackerman.bsky.social on the long beginning of an illegal war:
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Regime Change in Iran (Terms And Conditions Apply)
The warmongers, once again, get the war they've sought for decades. Trump and Netanyahu leave the hard work to the people they're bombing
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 27/02/2026
"When you take Doctor Doom's money to provide him a lathe to construct components for anthropomorphic robots, do you not understand that he is going to build Doombots?" writes @attackerman.bsky.social
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America Doesn’t Make Oppenheimers Like We Used To
What business did Dario Amodei think he was getting into when Anthropic signed on as a Pentagon contractor?
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 26/02/2026
The Pentagon wants to use Anthropic to go to war with Iran. Why? @attackerman.bsky.social thinks it is using the war on Gaza as a template: www.forever-wars.com/the-scent-of...
But were you seeking to destroy the Islamic Republic, you would want to generate lots of targets, through extant surveillance and analysis of webs of association emanating outward from the regime and in particular the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. You would want to further be able to know where those targets are in pretty close to real time and when they are in undefended positions like their homes. You would want to generate a dynamic map of everyone who represents support lent to the regime, something that sounds to outsiders like "the senior ranks of decisionmakers" but in practice looks more like anyone who draws a government paycheck or provides the government with necessary services. In other words, you would want something like Israel's Lavender, Gospel and Where's Daddy AI programs, which were components of the decimation of Gaza.
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