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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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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Challenging the Neocons on Iran Despite the Iraq debacle, neocons remain in the driver's seat setting official U.S. attitudes toward Iran, mixing worst-case assumptions with unrelenting hostility. But national security experts Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett have stood up to this neocon-driven conventional wisdom.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013Challenging the Neocons on Iran Despite the Iraq debacle, neocons remain in the driver's seat setting official U.S. attitudes toward Iran, mixing worst-case assumptions with unrelenting hostility. But national security experts Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett have stood up to this neocon-driven conventional wisdom.
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Thursday, February 21, 2013
Bulgaria's Hezbollah "Hypothesis" And The EU Terror List The US and Israel continue a pattern of ignoring the actual evidence in high-profile terrorism cases in order to advance their political interests in relation to Iran and Hezbollah. That pattern was established nearly two decades ago with the US-Israeli pressure on Argentina to finger Iran in the 1994 AMIA bombing despite the absence of any evidence for such an accusation.
Thursday, February 21, 2013Bulgaria's Hezbollah "Hypothesis" And The EU Terror List The US and Israel continue a pattern of ignoring the actual evidence in high-profile terrorism cases in order to advance their political interests in relation to Iran and Hezbollah. That pattern was established nearly two decades ago with the US-Israeli pressure on Argentina to finger Iran in the 1994 AMIA bombing despite the absence of any evidence for such an accusation.
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Monday, February 18, 2013
Hezbollah Link to Bombing Doubted In assessing murky terrorism cases in the Middle East, one must take into account the political pressures on investigators and journalists to push the conclusion in a favored direction. That truism has surfaced again in a bombing at the Bulgarian resort of Burgas.
Monday, February 18, 2013Hezbollah Link to Bombing Doubted In assessing murky terrorism cases in the Middle East, one must take into account the political pressures on investigators and journalists to push the conclusion in a favored direction. That truism has surfaced again in a bombing at the Bulgarian resort of Burgas.
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Sunday, February 17, 2013
Bulgarian Revelations Explode Hezbollah Bombing "Hypothesis" European ministers who demand hard evidence of Hezbollah involvement are not likely to find it in the Bulgarian report on the investigation, which has produced no more than an "assumption" or "hypothesis" of Hezbollah complicity. Major revelations about the investigation by the former head of the probe and by a top Bulgarian journalist have further damaged the credibility of the Bulgarian claim to have found links...
Sunday, February 17, 2013Bulgarian Revelations Explode Hezbollah Bombing "Hypothesis" European ministers who demand hard evidence of Hezbollah involvement are not likely to find it in the Bulgarian report on the investigation, which has produced no more than an "assumption" or "hypothesis" of Hezbollah complicity. Major revelations about the investigation by the former head of the probe and by a top Bulgarian journalist have further damaged the credibility of the Bulgarian claim to have found links...
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Thursday, December 13, 2012
Iranian Bomb Graph Appears Adapted from One on Internet The IAEA's familiarity with the Seifritz graph, two years before it was given graphs that bore a close resemblance to it and which the agency knew contained a huge mathematical error, raise new questions about how the IAEA could have regarded the Israeli intelligence as credible evidence of Iranian work on nuclear weapons.
Thursday, December 13, 2012Iranian Bomb Graph Appears Adapted from One on Internet The IAEA's familiarity with the Seifritz graph, two years before it was given graphs that bore a close resemblance to it and which the agency knew contained a huge mathematical error, raise new questions about how the IAEA could have regarded the Israeli intelligence as credible evidence of Iranian work on nuclear weapons.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Hyping Iran's Nuke Capabilities As Iran and the Obama administration maneuver toward a deal on Iran's nuclear program, the Western news media continues to stoke the crisis by hyping Iran's capabilities, including misreporting the significance of a new report on Iran's supply of 20-percent enriched uranium, Gareth Porter writes at Inter Press Service.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012Hyping Iran's Nuke Capabilities As Iran and the Obama administration maneuver toward a deal on Iran's nuclear program, the Western news media continues to stoke the crisis by hyping Iran's capabilities, including misreporting the significance of a new report on Iran's supply of 20-percent enriched uranium, Gareth Porter writes at Inter Press Service.
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Friday, November 16, 2012
How Mistress Helped Petraeus A back story to the sex scandal that ended David Petraeus's 14 months as director of the CIA is that his mistress, Paula Broadwell, was an apologist for abusive actions by the U.S. command in Afghanistan. She defended the leveling of an Afghan village deemed uncooperative, Gareth Porter says at Inter Press Service.
Friday, November 16, 2012How Mistress Helped Petraeus A back story to the sex scandal that ended David Petraeus's 14 months as director of the CIA is that his mistress, Paula Broadwell, was an apologist for abusive actions by the U.S. command in Afghanistan. She defended the leveling of an Afghan village deemed uncooperative, Gareth Porter says at Inter Press Service.
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Did Netanyahu Seek War with Iran? The Israeli news media is reporting that in 2010 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Israel's military onto high alert for an attack on Iran's nuclear program but was blocked by his military and intelligence chiefs. But the question remains how close to war Israel actually got, writes Gareth Porter for Inter Press Service.
Wednesday, November 7, 2012Did Netanyahu Seek War with Iran? The Israeli news media is reporting that in 2010 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Israel's military onto high alert for an attack on Iran's nuclear program but was blocked by his military and intelligence chiefs. But the question remains how close to war Israel actually got, writes Gareth Porter for Inter Press Service.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Pentagon Nixed 1998 U.S. Nuclear Scientists' Probe of Iranian Program In 1998, the Defence Department vetoed a delegation of prominent U.S. nuclear specialists to go to Iran to investigate its nuclear program at the invitation of the government of newly-elected Iranian President Mohammad Khatami. The veto eliminated the Khatami government's most promising initiative to promote a thaw in U.S.-Iran relations by weakening a key U.S. argument for viewing Iran as a threat.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012Pentagon Nixed 1998 U.S. Nuclear Scientists' Probe of Iranian Program In 1998, the Defence Department vetoed a delegation of prominent U.S. nuclear specialists to go to Iran to investigate its nuclear program at the invitation of the government of newly-elected Iranian President Mohammad Khatami. The veto eliminated the Khatami government's most promising initiative to promote a thaw in U.S.-Iran relations by weakening a key U.S. argument for viewing Iran as a threat.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Iran And West Inch Toward Nuke Deal The outline for a resolution of the Iranian nuclear dispute is coming into focus, perhaps only waiting for the U.S. presidential election to be decided. But suspicions between Iran and the West continue to beset the slow progress toward a resolution, as Gareth Porter noted for Inter Press Service.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012Iran And West Inch Toward Nuke Deal The outline for a resolution of the Iranian nuclear dispute is coming into focus, perhaps only waiting for the U.S. presidential election to be decided. But suspicions between Iran and the West continue to beset the slow progress toward a resolution, as Gareth Porter noted for Inter Press Service.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
How Petraeus's Afghan "Surge" Failed In 2009, Gen. David Petraeus insisted on a troop "surge" in Afghanistan like the one he had overseen in Iraq. Yet, despite the positive PR for Petraeus and his "surges," little was accomplished beyond putting more U.S. GIs within range of devastating IEDs.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012How Petraeus's Afghan "Surge" Failed In 2009, Gen. David Petraeus insisted on a troop "surge" in Afghanistan like the one he had overseen in Iraq. Yet, despite the positive PR for Petraeus and his "surges," little was accomplished beyond putting more U.S. GIs within range of devastating IEDs.
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Friday, October 5, 2012
How Netanyahu's bomb Iran ploy failed The evidence now available indicates that the Netanyahu campaign about a unilateral strike on Iran was from the beginning a bluff aimed at pressuring President Barack Obama to adopt both "crippling sanctions" against Iran's oil export sector and an explicit threat of war if Iran did not end its nuclear program.
Friday, October 5, 2012How Netanyahu's bomb Iran ploy failed The evidence now available indicates that the Netanyahu campaign about a unilateral strike on Iran was from the beginning a bluff aimed at pressuring President Barack Obama to adopt both "crippling sanctions" against Iran's oil export sector and an explicit threat of war if Iran did not end its nuclear program.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Iran Reaffirms Offer on Nukes In his swan song to the UN General Assembly, Iran's term-limited President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is stirring up the usual media outrage with remarks on gays, freedom of speech and Israel. But the West still ignores a substantive Iranian proposal on uranium enrichment, writes Gareth Porter at Inter Press Service.
Wednesday, September 26, 2012Iran Reaffirms Offer on Nukes In his swan song to the UN General Assembly, Iran's term-limited President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is stirring up the usual media outrage with remarks on gays, freedom of speech and Israel. But the West still ignores a substantive Iranian proposal on uranium enrichment, writes Gareth Porter at Inter Press Service.
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Monday, September 24, 2012
Iranian Diplomat Says Iran Offered Deal to Halt 20-Percent Enrichment Iran's position in the two rounds of negotiations with the P5+1 -- China, France, Germany, Russia, Britain, the United States and Germany -- earlier this year was reported to have been that a significant easing of sanctions must be part of the bargain.
Monday, September 24, 2012Iranian Diplomat Says Iran Offered Deal to Halt 20-Percent Enrichment Iran's position in the two rounds of negotiations with the P5+1 -- China, France, Germany, Russia, Britain, the United States and Germany -- earlier this year was reported to have been that a significant easing of sanctions must be part of the bargain.
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Sunday, September 2, 2012
IAEA Report Shows Iran Reduced Its Breakout Capacity Media reports of a doubling of the number of centrifuges at the underground facility at Fordow were also misleading. When the information is examined more carefully, it actually provides further evidence that Iran is not striving to amass the higher level uranium needed for a breakout capability but is maneuvering to prepare for a later negotiated settlement.
Sunday, September 2, 2012IAEA Report Shows Iran Reduced Its Breakout Capacity Media reports of a doubling of the number of centrifuges at the underground facility at Fordow were also misleading. When the information is examined more carefully, it actually provides further evidence that Iran is not striving to amass the higher level uranium needed for a breakout capability but is maneuvering to prepare for a later negotiated settlement.
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Gaps in India's "Iran" bomb case The questionable character of the police case that the four Iranians conspired on the Delhi bombing does not rule out the possibility that it was an Iranian government operation, but it does indicate that SC investigators could not find convincing evidence of such an Iranian role.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012Gaps in India's "Iran" bomb case The questionable character of the police case that the four Iranians conspired on the Delhi bombing does not rule out the possibility that it was an Iranian government operation, but it does indicate that SC investigators could not find convincing evidence of such an Iranian role.
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Friday, August 17, 2012
Israel's Power Play on Obama Israel's latest saber-rattling over Iran's nuclear program may be a pre-election strategy to coerce President Obama into a firm commitment that, if he's re-elected and if Iran doesn't destroy its own nuclear "capability," he will authorize a U.S. military strike next year.
Friday, August 17, 2012Israel's Power Play on Obama Israel's latest saber-rattling over Iran's nuclear program may be a pre-election strategy to coerce President Obama into a firm commitment that, if he's re-elected and if Iran doesn't destroy its own nuclear "capability," he will authorize a U.S. military strike next year.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Israel Pins Bombing on Hezbollah to Get EU Terror Ruling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claim Sunday of absolutely reliable intelligence linking Hezbollah to the bombing in Burgas, Bulgaria last week was apparently aimed at supporting his government's determination to get the EU to declare Hezbollah a terrorist organisation.
Wednesday, July 25, 2012Israel Pins Bombing on Hezbollah to Get EU Terror Ruling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claim Sunday of absolutely reliable intelligence linking Hezbollah to the bombing in Burgas, Bulgaria last week was apparently aimed at supporting his government's determination to get the EU to declare Hezbollah a terrorist organisation.
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012
New Israeli Leader Balks on Iran Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has kept President Obama behind a hard-line strategy on Iran's nuclear program via lobbying pressure from Congress and Washington's neocons. But a new member of the Israeli government is complicating matters, writes Gareth Porter for Inter Press Service.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012New Israeli Leader Balks on Iran Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has kept President Obama behind a hard-line strategy on Iran's nuclear program via lobbying pressure from Congress and Washington's neocons. But a new member of the Israeli government is complicating matters, writes Gareth Porter for Inter Press Service.
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Sunday, July 1, 2012
New Israeli Deputy PM Undercuts Strategy of Pressure on Obama By staking out a policy line on Iran reflecting the views of the Israeli national security leadership, Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz has undercut the Benjamin Netanyahu government's carefully planned strategy to get U.S. President Barack Obama to threaten war against Iran if it doesn't give up its nuclear program.
Sunday, July 1, 2012New Israeli Deputy PM Undercuts Strategy of Pressure on Obama By staking out a policy line on Iran reflecting the views of the Israeli national security leadership, Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz has undercut the Benjamin Netanyahu government's carefully planned strategy to get U.S. President Barack Obama to threaten war against Iran if it doesn't give up its nuclear program.
