U.S. Special Operations Forces are reportedly prepared for delicate “contingencies” that could involve direct U.S. involvement in efforts to recover American hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza.
According to Spencer Ackerman of Forever Wars, a senior Pentagon official indicated that “if the time comes where [Sof] are needed,” to aid in the recovery of the hostages then “yes,” involvement by Special Forces would be considered. Ackerman added that his own understanding is that “this option is in the break-glass-in-case-of-absolute-emergency category.”
There are currently no concrete plans for such...
According to Spencer Ackerman of Forever Wars, a senior Pentagon official indicated that “if the time comes where [Sof] are needed,” to aid in the recovery of the hostages then “yes,” involvement by Special Forces would be considered. Ackerman added that his own understanding is that “this option is in the break-glass-in-case-of-absolute-emergency category.”
There are currently no concrete plans for such...
- 11/2/2023
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
HBO announced that comedy series “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” starring Larry David, returns for its 11th season on Oct. 24. The Emmy and Golden Globe-winning series will premiere ten episodes this season, with new episodes airing subsequent Sundays at 10:30 p.m. Et.
The newly released teaser opens on an image of earth seen from space, the globe eventually morphing into David’s head with the text of the trailer reading: “The world has changed. He hasn’t.”
Season 11 of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” is created by David, who also serves as executive producer along with Jeff Garlin and Jeff Schaffer, with co-executive producer Laura Streicher and consulting producers Jon Hayman and Steve Leff. Watch the official teaser trailer below.
Also in today’s TV news roundup:
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HBO Max announced that new comedy special “Phoebe Robinson: Sorry, Harriet Tubman” will premiere on Oct. 14. In her first solo stand-up special, Robinson makes jokes about therapy,...
The newly released teaser opens on an image of earth seen from space, the globe eventually morphing into David’s head with the text of the trailer reading: “The world has changed. He hasn’t.”
Season 11 of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” is created by David, who also serves as executive producer along with Jeff Garlin and Jeff Schaffer, with co-executive producer Laura Streicher and consulting producers Jon Hayman and Steve Leff. Watch the official teaser trailer below.
Also in today’s TV news roundup:
Dates
HBO Max announced that new comedy special “Phoebe Robinson: Sorry, Harriet Tubman” will premiere on Oct. 14. In her first solo stand-up special, Robinson makes jokes about therapy,...
- 9/28/2021
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
Stan Lee changed the world with his stories, but to truly understand his influence, you have to watch him in action. Case in point: Footage of the famed writer in 1992, observing artists Todd McFarlane and Rob Liefeld create a new character called Overkill.
As Lee razzes the younger generation about their artistic skills (including a jab at Liefeld’s ability to draw feet), he offers a very specific sort of feedback: Who is Overkill, exactly? More specifically: “Does he have a double identity? What happens when he takes off the costume, is he a 97-pound weakling?” McFarlane and Liefeld are focused on Overkill’s shoulder pads; Lee is interested in getting to know the guy.
That consistent approach is why Marvel characters had a different sort of impact on the world of pop culture, providing readers and audiences with a clear gateway into the souls of its characters, from a...
As Lee razzes the younger generation about their artistic skills (including a jab at Liefeld’s ability to draw feet), he offers a very specific sort of feedback: Who is Overkill, exactly? More specifically: “Does he have a double identity? What happens when he takes off the costume, is he a 97-pound weakling?” McFarlane and Liefeld are focused on Overkill’s shoulder pads; Lee is interested in getting to know the guy.
That consistent approach is why Marvel characters had a different sort of impact on the world of pop culture, providing readers and audiences with a clear gateway into the souls of its characters, from a...
- 11/13/2018
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
Ales Kot is one of the freshest, most cerebral voices in comics. He cut his teeth on DC Comics’ Suicide Squad with a run focused on the demented serial killer Jim Gordon Jr. before taking his talents to Marvel. Kot wrote two of their quirkiest titles, namely, Secret Avengers, which made supervillain Modok a full-fledged Avenger and had a good mix of references to Jorge Luis Borges and Nick Fury Jr. and Agent Coulson having existential crises in the middle of space. Speaking of space, he has also written Bucky Barnes, Winter Soldier, which followed the titular character’s trippy adventures on distant planets depicted in the style of Heavy Metal by artist Marco Rudy.
But Kot has also worked on creator owned comics as part of the Image Comics renaissance. Zero is an espionage series created by him and his Secret Avengers collaborator Michael Walsh and has found critical and commercial success.
But Kot has also worked on creator owned comics as part of the Image Comics renaissance. Zero is an espionage series created by him and his Secret Avengers collaborator Michael Walsh and has found critical and commercial success.
- 6/8/2015
- by Logan Dalton
- SoundOnSight
Is Wired.com's Danger Room blog done? It sure looks like it. All four of the national security blog's core contributors -- founder Noah Shachtman, Spencer Ackerman, David Axe and Robert Beckhuser -- have exited within the first two weeks of June, updates have been nearly non-existent despite the tremendous amount of recent national security news, and Wired will only say it's discussing the future of the blog. Wired.com editor-in-chief Mark McClusky denies that the site intends to end Danger Room, telling TheWrap: "We're going to be thoughtful about how we move forward...
- 6/21/2013
- by Sara Morrison
- The Wrap
Geraldo Rivera just put his foot in his mustache-topped mouth. The Fox News correspondent and former talk show host took to Twitter to criticize late journalist Michael Hastings, prompting outrage amongst the journalism community that is still mourning Hastings' death. Tributes have been pouring in for Hastings, who died June 18 in a car accident – check out BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith, Guardian national security editor Spencer Ackerman, and Rachel Maddow's for a start. Also read: BuzzFeed Journalist Michael Hastings Dead at 33 Rivera also wanted to express his sympathies, but apparently couldn't...
- 6/20/2013
- by Sara Morrison
- The Wrap
Is The Empire Strikes Back one of your favorite movies? Think it's a flawless sci-fi sequel? Think again. At least this may make you think twice about the military strategies and story choices at the beginning of the film. Wired magazine has posted a fun interactive story online called Inside the Battle of Hoth, written by Spencer Ackerman. It turns out to be a scathing breakdown of the entire opening Battle of Hoth, the ice planet, where the Empire sends a fleet of Star Destroyers and At-at walkers to try and destroy the Rebels hiding out there and capture Luke while they still can. But it's a massive failure, and Spencer explains why. It's a very interesting and specific, nit-picking criticism of the opening Battle of Hoth, but it's still amusing to read. Best of all because it uses couple of sleek interactive graphics that explain the very straight-forward battle plans Darth Vader implements.
- 2/12/2013
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
A sideways look at the big Us news events of the past seven days, plus one story you may have missed
It's a floor wax, it's a dessert topping, it's a tax!
Coverage of the Us supreme court's Affordable Care Act decision continues to focus on the semantic battle between Obama and Romney, as well as Romney and Romney. To the extent that calling the individual mandate a "tax" or a "penalty" matters to voters (as oppose to supreme court justices), it's that Republicans hope to pin Obama down for breaking his pledge of not raising taxes on those making less $200,000 a year.
Need to know: regardless of what you call the mandate, the Aca does contain tax hikes for those making less than $200,000 a year, so there's that. However, the various penalties and taxes contained in the bill are nothing compared to the economic blow that could befall working-class...
It's a floor wax, it's a dessert topping, it's a tax!
Coverage of the Us supreme court's Affordable Care Act decision continues to focus on the semantic battle between Obama and Romney, as well as Romney and Romney. To the extent that calling the individual mandate a "tax" or a "penalty" matters to voters (as oppose to supreme court justices), it's that Republicans hope to pin Obama down for breaking his pledge of not raising taxes on those making less $200,000 a year.
Need to know: regardless of what you call the mandate, the Aca does contain tax hikes for those making less than $200,000 a year, so there's that. However, the various penalties and taxes contained in the bill are nothing compared to the economic blow that could befall working-class...
- 7/7/2012
- by Ana Marie Cox
- The Guardian - Film News
Feeling isolated and overwhelmed with her caretaking duties, a new mom struggles with post-partum depression. Another couple wrestles with the painful decision to give up a beloved pet when the wife's allergies become too severe. A woman in a third family experiences work-family conflicts when she is unable to pick up her kids from their first day at school.
An ordinary episode in just another voyeuristic reality television show, right? Apparently not, according to the Florida Family Association, which urged advertisers to boycott the show, All-American Muslim. In their words, "this program is attempting to manipulate Americans into ignoring the threat of jihad and to influence them to believe that being concerned about the jihad threat would somehow victimize these nice people in this show." The implication is that by depicting some Muslims as human beings, even proud American citizens, we might forget the looming threat of terrorism everywhere. Because...
An ordinary episode in just another voyeuristic reality television show, right? Apparently not, according to the Florida Family Association, which urged advertisers to boycott the show, All-American Muslim. In their words, "this program is attempting to manipulate Americans into ignoring the threat of jihad and to influence them to believe that being concerned about the jihad threat would somehow victimize these nice people in this show." The implication is that by depicting some Muslims as human beings, even proud American citizens, we might forget the looming threat of terrorism everywhere. Because...
- 12/15/2011
- by Rachel Newcomb
- Aol TV.
If rappers Insane Clown Posse have a show in your town, lock your windows and bolt your door: Their fans, who call themselves Juggalos, are officially a "gang threat," according to the FBI. Their inclusion in the 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment apparently puts them in a league with the Bloods and Crips, notes Spencer Ackerman at Wired. The agency says the "loosely-organized hybrid gang" is "forming more organized subsets and engaging in more gang-like criminal activity."...
- 10/27/2011
- by newser.com
- Huffington Post
It turns out that a recent "birther" sign -- which also appeared at the recent Iowa debate in the form of a large billboard -- comes courtesy of the folks over at WorldNetDaily, who are not quite the greatest fans of Obama. Maddow described their mission as essentially "trying to make a buck off the more gullible elements of the conservative base." She then pointed to some of the group's previous projects, such as their reports on the need to wage a war on Islam itself rather than on terrorists acting under their own fundamentalist interpretations. Maddow brought on Wired's Spencer Ackerman, who broke a rather amazing series of reports about how the person behind that WorldNetDaily report has been instructing FBI counter-terrorism officers using ideas prevalent in what Maddow describes as the fringe of the right wing.
- 9/15/2011
- by Alex Alvarez
- Mediaite - TV
This week’s New Yorker features a sketch of C Street House, the shared Washington, D.C., residence of many of Congress’s most high-profile Christians. In the piece, staff writer Peter Boyer reveals house rituals, residents, and reforms, and discusses the scandal that threatened to tear C Street asunder. Careful observers of contemporary urban studies will note that the theologically inclined town house is hardly unique among the capital’s roster of multi-v.I.P. residences. For example, a cadre of Democratic politicians—including Senators Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin—populated another Washington home, while Matt Yglesias and Spencer Ackerman once shared their digs with a pack of progressive bloggers. Here, we contrast C Street House, the blogger-infused Flophouse, and an unnamed Democrat-dominated two-bedroom row house.
- 9/7/2010
- Vanity Fair
General David Petraeus appeared to briefly faint during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing today while taking questions from John McCain (the Arizona Senator and former running mate to the suspiciously well-endowed former Alaska governor, Sarah Palin). Spencer Ackerman reported on Twitter that Petraeus said he “was feeling a little bit lightheaded there. It wasn’t Senator McCain’s questions ... Just got dehydrated,” which, despite your graciousness, Kind General, we find hard to believe. Either you were bored by McCain’s belabored ego-stroking, General Petraeus, or you passed out at the sheer awesomeness of Gary Faulkner, bin Laden hunter, who was arrested in the hills of Pakistan with a pistol, night vision, and a 40-inch sword today while on a self-proclaimed solo mission to kill the 9/11 mastermind. Forget $1 trillion in undiscovered (until the Times reported it) mineral deposits. We need more True American Rambos trained in the skills of America’s Hero,...
- 6/15/2010
- Vanity Fair
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