"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
“That's not just a lost war,” @attackerman.bsky.social writes of the status quo in Iran. “That's a humiliation.”
"The U.S., having learned absolutely nothing from the War on Terror, did this *again*," writes @attackerman.bsky.social.
"I am saying that not only is their agenda loathsome," writes @attackerman.bsky.social, "they do not know ball."
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
"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
Observations on the war from @attackerman.bsky.social and a new podcast appearance with @devindra.bsky.social
"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
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.
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...
"Surrendering Iran's missile fleet has nothing to do with American security and everything to do with making the Iranians either surrender their deterrent capability or provide the U.S. a pretext to attack," writes @attackerman.bsky.social
“I doubt this man, this man who would tell foreign-policy elites in Munich that they belong to a heritage of superior beings, uses a bidet,” writes @attackerman.bsky.social
"Teheran is getting the surrender offer that Trump is said to have offered Nicolas Maduro ahead of the Jan. 3 Caracas raid," writes @attackerman.bsky.social
"Someone in Minnesota is driving. It is not Walz or Frey. It is not Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem or Donald Trump. It is the people themselves: the outraged, galvanized, multiethnic working class, who see the imperial boomerang spinning toward their heads," writes @attackerman.bsky.social
"The last 36 hours in Davos represent a signal moment in the decline and potential fall of the transatlantic alliance, which since 1945 has been a central pillar of American global hegemony," writes @attackerman.bsky.social
"The timelessness of King's words resonates as an incipient death squad marches through Minnesota, prompting a certain strain of Democratic elected official and consultant to shake their head at the awfulness but refuse to redress its cause," writes @attackerman.bsky.social
"There is no 'late capitalism,' there is no 'late empire;' the expansion and the collapse are the same thing," writes @samthielman.com. "There's just us. If we want to put an end to that cycle, we have work to do."
BLOOD WORK / EPISODE 15
REIGN OF TERROR w/ SPENCER ACKERMAN
/ @attackerman.bsky.social
Gregk speaks to Spencer about the long shadow of the GWoT, how America’s response to 9/11 laid the ground for its current condition, the media’s role in justifying & legitimating state violence, and much more.
Here's @attackerman.bsky.social speaking with @chrislhayes.bsky.social and @paoramos.bsky.social about the abduction of Nicolas Maduro:
Iran expert Tara Kangarlou speaks to FOREVER WARS about the inevitability of further US intervention in Iran in the wake of the Maduro abduction.
"After a very long period of pretense, there is clearly no distinction between America First and neoconservatism," writes @attackerman.bsky.social
