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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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Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Why Iran Wants Its Own Nuclear Fuel Iran's insistence on having its own capability to enrich uranium for its nuclear reactors stems from its bitter experience when forced to rely on outside suppliers that were susceptible to international political pressures, Gareth Porter reports for Inter Press Service.
Tuesday, May 20, 2014Why Iran Wants Its Own Nuclear Fuel Iran's insistence on having its own capability to enrich uranium for its nuclear reactors stems from its bitter experience when forced to rely on outside suppliers that were susceptible to international political pressures, Gareth Porter reports for Inter Press Service.
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Saturday, May 17, 2014
Trying to Scuttle Iran Nuke Talks, Again Official Washington's hardliners are back at it, pushing unrealistic demands about Iran's nuclear program to ensure that a comprehensive agreement is scuttled and the military option is put back on the table, as Gareth Porter explains at Inter Press Service.
Saturday, May 17, 2014Trying to Scuttle Iran Nuke Talks, Again Official Washington's hardliners are back at it, pushing unrealistic demands about Iran's nuclear program to ensure that a comprehensive agreement is scuttled and the military option is put back on the table, as Gareth Porter explains at Inter Press Service.
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Wednesday, May 7, 2014
U.N. Probe Chief Doubtful on Syria Sarin Exposure Claims That the overwhelming majority in the sample had very little or no exposure to Sarin was particularly significant, because those in the sample had been chosen by local opposition authorities as being among the most serious affected survivors. The data suggest that the Syrian opposition and its external supporters had vastly exaggerated the scope and severity of the attack.
Wednesday, May 7, 2014U.N. Probe Chief Doubtful on Syria Sarin Exposure Claims That the overwhelming majority in the sample had very little or no exposure to Sarin was particularly significant, because those in the sample had been chosen by local opposition authorities as being among the most serious affected survivors. The data suggest that the Syrian opposition and its external supporters had vastly exaggerated the scope and severity of the attack.
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Saturday, April 12, 2014
The Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program That Wasn't The Obama administration's brazen suggestion that it was indicting an individual for exporting U.S. products to a company that has been involved in Iran's "nuclear weapons program" is simply a new version of the same linguistic trick used by the Bush administration.
Saturday, April 12, 2014The Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program That Wasn't The Obama administration's brazen suggestion that it was indicting an individual for exporting U.S. products to a company that has been involved in Iran's "nuclear weapons program" is simply a new version of the same linguistic trick used by the Bush administration.
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Monday, March 31, 2014
A Poison Pill for Iran Nuke Talks Israel and its hardline U.S. backers have tried to manipulate the UN’s IAEA to ensure failure of negotiations aimed at constraining but not eliminating Iran’s nuclear program. The new ploy is to sink the talks with a demand for an Iranian “confession,†as Gareth Porter wrote for Inter Press Service.
Monday, March 31, 2014A Poison Pill for Iran Nuke Talks Israel and its hardline U.S. backers have tried to manipulate the UN’s IAEA to ensure failure of negotiations aimed at constraining but not eliminating Iran’s nuclear program. The new ploy is to sink the talks with a demand for an Iranian “confession,†as Gareth Porter wrote for Inter Press Service.
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Sunday, March 2, 2014
Resolving Nuclear Arms Claims Hinges on Iran’s Demand for Documents The record of negotiations between Iran and the IAEA shows Tehran has been ready for the past two years to provide detailed responses to all the charges of an Iranian nuclear weapons work, and that the problem has been the refusal of the IAEA to share with Iran the documentary evidence on which those allegations have been based.
Sunday, March 2, 2014Resolving Nuclear Arms Claims Hinges on Iran’s Demand for Documents The record of negotiations between Iran and the IAEA shows Tehran has been ready for the past two years to provide detailed responses to all the charges of an Iranian nuclear weapons work, and that the problem has been the refusal of the IAEA to share with Iran the documentary evidence on which those allegations have been based.
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Saturday, February 22, 2014
U.S. Adopts Israeli Demand to Bring Iran’s Missiles into Nuclear Talks The Barack Obama administration's insistence that Iran discuss its ballistic missile program in the negotiations for a comprehensive nuclear agreement brings its position into line with that of Israel and senators who introduced legislation drafted by the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC aimed at torpedoing the negotiations.
Saturday, February 22, 2014U.S. Adopts Israeli Demand to Bring Iran’s Missiles into Nuclear Talks The Barack Obama administration's insistence that Iran discuss its ballistic missile program in the negotiations for a comprehensive nuclear agreement brings its position into line with that of Israel and senators who introduced legislation drafted by the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC aimed at torpedoing the negotiations.
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Thursday, February 6, 2014
How Misread Cables Fed Iran Hysteria Official Washington saw how bad intelligence led to the disastrous Iraq War, but U.S. analysts and “experts†like David Albright charged down the same path on Iran’s alleged nuclear program. Again, key â€evidence†collapsed under scrutiny, Gareth Porter wrote for Inter Press Service.
Thursday, February 6, 2014How Misread Cables Fed Iran Hysteria Official Washington saw how bad intelligence led to the disastrous Iraq War, but U.S. analysts and “experts†like David Albright charged down the same path on Iran’s alleged nuclear program. Again, key â€evidence†collapsed under scrutiny, Gareth Porter wrote for Inter Press Service.
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Sunday, January 26, 2014
U.S. "Dismantling" Rhetoric Ignores Iran's Nuclear Proposals The Obama administration evidently views the rhetorical demand for "dismantling" as a minimum necessary response to Israel's position that the Iranian nuclear program should be shut down. But such rhetoric represents a serious provocation to a Tehran government facing accusations of surrender by its own domestic critics.
Sunday, January 26, 2014U.S. "Dismantling" Rhetoric Ignores Iran's Nuclear Proposals The Obama administration evidently views the rhetorical demand for "dismantling" as a minimum necessary response to Israel's position that the Iranian nuclear program should be shut down. But such rhetoric represents a serious provocation to a Tehran government facing accusations of surrender by its own domestic critics.
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Saturday, January 11, 2014
Gates Conceals Real Story of "Gaming" Obama on Afghan War The leaking to the news media of a politically damaging version of internal debate between the White House and the coalition pushing for a major escalation was nothing less than a shot across the bow from Obama's principal national security officials, including Petraeus, Mullen, Gates and Clinton. They were signaling to the president that he would incur a significant political cost if he rejected the McChrystal request.
Saturday, January 11, 2014Gates Conceals Real Story of "Gaming" Obama on Afghan War The leaking to the news media of a politically damaging version of internal debate between the White House and the coalition pushing for a major escalation was nothing less than a shot across the bow from Obama's principal national security officials, including Petraeus, Mullen, Gates and Clinton. They were signaling to the president that he would incur a significant political cost if he rejected the McChrystal request.
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Neocons Twist Iran's Anti-Nuke Fatwa Washington Post "fact checker" Glenn Kessler is infamous for palming off his political bias as a dispassionate look at the evidence, a trick that he tried again by promoting a neocon distortion of Iran's religious renunciation of nuclear weapons, as Gareth Porter explains.
Wednesday, December 11, 2013Neocons Twist Iran's Anti-Nuke Fatwa Washington Post "fact checker" Glenn Kessler is infamous for palming off his political bias as a dispassionate look at the evidence, a trick that he tried again by promoting a neocon distortion of Iran's religious renunciation of nuclear weapons, as Gareth Porter explains.
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Saturday, November 16, 2013
Lavrov Reveals Amended Draft Circulated at "Last Moment" The Obama administration will face a decision whether to press Iran to go along with those changes or to go back to the original compromise when political directors of the six powers and Iran reconvene Nov. 20. That choice will provide the key indicator of how strongly committed Obama is to reaching an agreement with Iran.
Saturday, November 16, 2013Lavrov Reveals Amended Draft Circulated at "Last Moment" The Obama administration will face a decision whether to press Iran to go along with those changes or to go back to the original compromise when political directors of the six powers and Iran reconvene Nov. 20. That choice will provide the key indicator of how strongly committed Obama is to reaching an agreement with Iran.
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Thursday, November 7, 2013
Drone Strike Served CIA Revenge, Blocked Pakistan's Strategy Even though Obama was determined to phase out the drone war in Pakistan and apparently sympathized with the need for the Pakistani government to end it within a matter of months, he was unwilling to reject the CIA's demand for a strike that once again involved the agency's parochial interests.
Thursday, November 7, 2013Drone Strike Served CIA Revenge, Blocked Pakistan's Strategy Even though Obama was determined to phase out the drone war in Pakistan and apparently sympathized with the need for the Pakistani government to end it within a matter of months, he was unwilling to reject the CIA's demand for a strike that once again involved the agency's parochial interests.
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Saturday, October 26, 2013
Geopolitics of the Drone The U.S. drone program has decimated the leadership of al-Qaeda and other Islamic militant groups, but it also has alienated people and governments in countries on the front lines by killing civilians and disrupting political alliances, a complexity often missed by the U.S. media, as Gareth Porter reported for Inter Press Service.
Saturday, October 26, 2013Geopolitics of the Drone The U.S. drone program has decimated the leadership of al-Qaeda and other Islamic militant groups, but it also has alienated people and governments in countries on the front lines by killing civilians and disrupting political alliances, a complexity often missed by the U.S. media, as Gareth Porter reported for Inter Press Service.
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Saturday, October 12, 2013
Israeli Claim of Iranian ICBM Exploits Biased U.S. Intel Iran had a good strategic reason for its disinterest in an ICBM, according to a team of U.S. and Russian specialists in May 2009. Iran would have to use rocket motor clusters,and longer-range missiles based on that technology would have to be launched from above ground. It would take days to prepare for launch and hours to fuel -- all of which would be clearly visible to spy satellites, according to the team.
Saturday, October 12, 2013Israeli Claim of Iranian ICBM Exploits Biased U.S. Intel Iran had a good strategic reason for its disinterest in an ICBM, according to a team of U.S. and Russian specialists in May 2009. Iran would have to use rocket motor clusters,and longer-range missiles based on that technology would have to be launched from above ground. It would take days to prepare for launch and hours to fuel -- all of which would be clearly visible to spy satellites, according to the team.
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Monday, September 9, 2013
CORRECTED REPEAT -- Obama's Case for Syria Didn't Reflect Intel Consensus Despite strong opposition in Congress to the proposed military strike in Syria, no one in either chamber has yet challenged the administration's characterization of the intelligence. But the administration is vulnerable to the charge that it has put out an intelligence document that does not fully and accurately reflect the views of intelligence analysts.
Monday, September 9, 2013CORRECTED REPEAT -- Obama's Case for Syria Didn't Reflect Intel Consensus Despite strong opposition in Congress to the proposed military strike in Syria, no one in either chamber has yet challenged the administration's characterization of the intelligence. But the administration is vulnerable to the charge that it has put out an intelligence document that does not fully and accurately reflect the views of intelligence analysts.
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Attack Syria First, Get Facts Later Secretary of State Kerry's move to shut down or preempt a UN probe of alleged chemical weapons attacks inside Syria suggests that the U.S. doesn't want facts to undermine its case for launching a retaliatory strike, an attitude reminiscent of George W. Bush's behavior on Iraq.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013Attack Syria First, Get Facts Later Secretary of State Kerry's move to shut down or preempt a UN probe of alleged chemical weapons attacks inside Syria suggests that the U.S. doesn't want facts to undermine its case for launching a retaliatory strike, an attitude reminiscent of George W. Bush's behavior on Iraq.
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Thursday, August 8, 2013
Pinning Argentine Bombing on Iran "Defectors" are among the most unreliable intelligence sources since they have an obvious motive for discrediting their former governments, but still have been allowed outsized roles in whipping up hysteria against Iraq in 2003 and now against Iran.
Thursday, August 8, 2013Pinning Argentine Bombing on Iran "Defectors" are among the most unreliable intelligence sources since they have an obvious motive for discrediting their former governments, but still have been allowed outsized roles in whipping up hysteria against Iraq in 2003 and now against Iran.
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Saturday, August 3, 2013
Fresh Doubts on Iran's Nuke Program Though Israeli leaders and U.S. neocons still beat the drum for war on Iran, new evidence suggests top Iranian officials did not sanction nuclear weapons research a decade ago but rather the work originated from scientists who resisted the will of political leaders to shut it down.
Saturday, August 3, 2013Fresh Doubts on Iran's Nuke Program Though Israeli leaders and U.S. neocons still beat the drum for war on Iran, new evidence suggests top Iranian officials did not sanction nuclear weapons research a decade ago but rather the work originated from scientists who resisted the will of political leaders to shut it down.
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Monday, March 11, 2013
Hagel Struggles to Calm Afghan Dispute U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel traveled to Afghanistan seeking to reduce tensions between the Afghan government and U.S. Special Forces who face allegations of supporting armed men accused of abusing civilians.
Monday, March 11, 2013Hagel Struggles to Calm Afghan Dispute U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel traveled to Afghanistan seeking to reduce tensions between the Afghan government and U.S. Special Forces who face allegations of supporting armed men accused of abusing civilians.
