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Gareth Porter (born 18 June 1942, Independence, Kansas) is an American historian, investigative journalist and policy analyst on U.S. foreign and military policy. A strong opponent of U.S. wars in Southeast Asia, and the Middle East, he has also written on the potential for diplomatic compromise to end or avoid wars in Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines, Iraq and Iran. He is the author of a history of the origins of the Vietnam War, Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam.
Porter has written regular news reports and news analyses on political, diplomatic and military developments in regard to Middle East conflicts for Inter Press Service since 2005. He was the first journalist to provide a detailed account of the alleged secret Iranian diplomatic proposal to the United States in 2003, and has published an in-depth analysis of an exit strategy for Iraq
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Saturday, July 14, 2018The Media's Brazen Dishonesty About North Korean Nuclear Violations A media complex so determined to discredit negotiations with North Korea and so unfettered by political-diplomatic reality seriously threatens the ability of the United States to deliver on any agreement with Pyongyang. That means alternative media must make more aggressive efforts to challenge the corporate press's coverage.
Friday, June 22, 2018An Elite Coalition Emerges Against a Trump-Kim Agreement Media coverage of the Trump-Kim summit has highlighted a political reaction that threatens to torpedo any possible U.S-North Korean agreement on denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, says Gareth Porter.
Thursday, May 24, 2018Bolton Trying to Convince Trump to Topple Iran John Bolton may have backed off wanting to bomb Iran, saying he's not the one to decide, but he's hardly given up trying to convince Trump to replace the regime in Tehran, as Gareth Porter explains.
Wednesday, May 23, 2018How Corporate Media Are Undermining a US-North Korea Nuclear Weapons Deal A central question in the coming weeks will be whether the corporate media will succeed once again in creating a political climate that forces the Trump administration to abandon the only kind of deal that can create an off-ramp from nuclear confrontation.
Friday, May 4, 2018The Latest Act in Israel's Iran Nuclear Disinformation Campaign Benjamin Netanyahu's stage performance about Iran seeking a nuclear weapon not only was based on old material, but evidence shows it was fabricated too, says Gareth Porter in this Consortium News exclusive report.
Wednesday, May 2, 2018Did John Bolton Leak Intelligence to Sabotage a Trump-Kim Deal? Donald Trump-Kim Jong Un summit offers opportunity for a denuclearization deal that would avoid a possible nuclear war, but that remains vulnerable to a hostile corporate media sector and political elites in the United States. At the center of this hostility is national security adviser John Bolton, who's not just uninterested in selling a denuclearization deal to the public. He's working actively to undermine it.
Friday, April 20, 2018What Ken Burns Left Out of the Vietnam Story Indiscriminate targeting of civilian areas and "collective punishment" of the civilian population for support for or assistance to combatants are clear violations of the laws of war. But Ward doesn't even focus on the use of U.S. air power in South Vietnam apart from close air support in ground battles, much less acknowledge that the U.S. military bears responsibility for war crimes.
Sunday, March 18, 2018South Korean Report on Summit Discredits U.S. Elites' Assumption The pattern of U.S. policy is one side of the still-unknown story of the politics of the North Korean issue. The other side of the story is North Korea's effort to use its nuclear and missile assets as bargaining chips get the United States to strike a deal that would change the U.S. stance of enmity toward North Korea.
Tuesday, March 6, 2018Israel Plans a New War in Syria -- but Not for the Reasons It Claims The war that Israel is planning in Syria is at least in part a response to its inability to use force against Hezbollah in Lebanon. And it is not going to alter the fundamental power equation either in Syria or between Israel and Hezbollah.
Sunday, March 4, 2018How "Operation Merlin" Poisoned U.S. Intelligence on Iran Operation Merlin is the perfect example of powerful bureaucratic interests running amok and creating the intelligence necessary to justify their operations. The net result is that Jeffrey Sterling was unjustly imprisoned and that the United States has gone down a path of Iran policy that poses serious -- and unnecessary -- threats to American security.
Sunday, February 11, 2018Can South Korea's Leader End Trump's North Korea Crisis? The North-South talks that have begun will revolve around coming up with a formula for a deal on modifying the joint military exercises in return for a freeze on North Korean strategic weapons testing. The talks could take longer than the Olympics, which might require further postponement of the U.S.-ROK exercises that normally begin in March.
Saturday, January 20, 2018Why Trump's North Korea "Bloody Nose" Campaign Is a Big Bluff Few people outside the administration believe that China will save Trump's bacon. In the end, Trump, like all his post-Cold War predecessors, will have to choose between ineffective threats and real negotiations with North Korea that deal with its demands for security and normalization of relations.
Friday, December 29, 2017How Cheney and His Allies Created the North Korea Nuclear Missile Crisis Cheney and his allies derailed diplomatic efforts to curb North Korean nuclear and missile development, not because they opposed "arms control," but because those agreements would have been a political obstacle to fielding the group's main interest: funding and fielding a national missile defense system as quickly as possible.
Friday, November 24, 2017How US Tries to Link Iran to Al Qaeda The U.S. propaganda campaign against Iran has tried to tie it somehow to Al Qaeda, including exploitation of a newly released document, but a close reading shows a very different story, says Gareth Porter at The American Conservative.
Sunday, November 19, 2017Is the Trump Administration Planning a First Strike on North Korea? It isn't possible to know definitely whether the Trump administration intends to strike first against North Korea. The official threats of such a strike can be discounted as obviously related to an elaborate--if somewhat crude--psychological warfare campaign. But more twists and turns in US policy can be expected in the coming months, and the desperate desire to coerce Pyongyang may have given rise to wishful thinking.
Saturday, November 18, 2017Israel's Ploy Selling a Syrian Nuke Strike The Iraq WMD fiasco wasn't the only time political pressure twisted U.S. intelligence judgments. In 2007, Israel sold the CIA on a dubious claim about a North Korean nuclear reactor in the Syrian desert, reports Gareth Porter.
Saturday, October 21, 2017Trump Bows to Neocons, Netanyahu Rather than expand U.S. exports to Iran -- and create more American jobs -- President Trump fell in line behind Israel's P.M. Netanyahu, decertifying the Iran-nuclear deal and risking more war, as Gareth Porter explains at The American Conservative.
Wednesday, October 4, 2017When Did Congress Vote to Aid the Saudi's Yemen War? The bill introduced by a bipartisan group of House members last week to end the direct U.S. military role in the Saudi coalition war in Yemen guarantees that the House of Representatives will vote for the first time on the single most important element of U.S. involvement in the war -- the refueling of Saudi coalition planes systematically bombing Yemeni civilian targets.
Thursday, July 27, 2017How CIA and Allies Trapped Obama in the Syrian Arms Debacle In the ideology of the national security elite -- especially its Democratic wing -- regional alliances are essential building blocks of what is styled as the U.S.-sponsored global "rules-based order." In practice, however, they have served as instruments for the advancement of the power and prestige of the national security bureaucracies themselves.
Friday, June 23, 2017How America Armed Terrorists in Syria By helping its Sunni allies provide weapons to al Nusra Front and its allies and by funneling into the war zone sophisticated weapons that were bound to fall into al Nusra hands or strengthen their overall military position, U.S. policy has been largely responsible for having extended al Qaeda's power across a significant part of Syrian territory.
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