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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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President Barack Obama meets in the Situation Room with his national security advisors to discuss strategy in Syria, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013., From ImagesAttr
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, October 16, 2015
US Make-Believe in Syrian War Official Washington and its mainstream media push deeper and deeper into a Mideast fantasyland where mythical "moderate rebels" in Syria represent a real force rather than a P.R. cover for Sunni jihadists, all the better to bash the Russians for their military offensive, as Gareth Porter explains at Middle East Eye.
President Barack Obama talks with President Hassan Rouhani of Iran during a phone call in the Oval Office, Sept. 27, 2013., From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, March 27, 2015
Will Sanctions Fixation Kill Iran Nuke Deal? An agreement to constrain Iran's nuclear program is within reach but could still fail if President Obama succumbs to political pressure and refuses to grant Iran meaningful relief from sanctions, as Gareth Porter explains.
John Kerry and members of the Iranian negotiating team, From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, April 4, 2015
Iran won upfront sanctions relief, but with potential snags Iran is certainly concerned about how a future US administration could and would implement the agreement. Iran was insisting that the UN Security Council resolution repealing previous resolutions with a new one reflecting the comprehensive agreement be passed before the change in administration in Washington in 2017.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 6, 2017
Inquiry Points Toward a Pentagon Plot to Subvert Obama's Syria Policy The hope of provoking a Syrian-Russian decision to end the cease-fire and thus the plan for the JIC was apparently based on the assumption that it would be perceived by both Russians and Syrians as evidence that Obama was not in control of U.S. policy and therefore could not be trusted as a partner in managing the conflict. That assumption proved correct.
IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, From YouTubeVideos
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, June 28, 2020
Israel leverages dubious "Nuclear Archives" to re-enlist IAEA in campaign against Iran The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has once again lent itself to the political interests of the United States and Israel, provoking a needless conflict with Iran.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressing the AIPAC conference in Washington D.C. on March 21, 2016., From ImagesAttr
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 23, 2017
How Clinton Defeat Derailed Syrian War Hawkish think tanks had laid plans for escalating the U.S. "regime change" war in Syria after Hillary Clinton's expected election, but a different result has forced them to repackage their scheme, says Gareth Porter.
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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, December 17, 2011
How Iraq Maneuvered the US Exit The neocons' treasured Iraq War myth of their "successful surge" is belied by the actual history of how Iraqi Shiite leaders collaborated with Iran to tamp down internal violence and then destroy neocon plans for long-term U.S. military bases to project power in the Middle East.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, From ImagesAttr
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, June 5, 2015
Demands in US-Iran nuclear talks as political Kabuki theatre The US delegation is almost certainly preparing to give up its demands for visits to military sites on demand and interviews with Iranian scientists. Meanwhile, however, we can expect the Kabuki theatre over those demands to continue as long as it can be useful for managing the Obama administration domestic political problems.
CIA seal in lobby of the spy agency's headquarters., From ImagesAttr
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, December 14, 2014
The CIA's Bureaucracy of Torture Bureaucratic inertia -- the CIA's desire for bigger budgets and then its fear of negative consequences -- helped drive the torture program from its frantic start to its belated finish, as Gareth Porter explains.
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SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, August 14, 2016
Rigging the Coverage of Syria The major U.S. news media has consistently slanted its coverage of the Syrian conflict to back neocon desires for more U.S. military intervention in support of "regime change," Gareth Porter wrote for FAIR.
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SHARE More Sharing        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.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, March 30, 2012
What Iran Can Do to Strike Back Israel's threats to bomb Iran have hinged on how much damage Israeli aircraft can inflict on Iran's nuclear facilities, but another worry is how much destruction Iranian missiles can inflict on Israel, a danger that Israeli officials are downplaying.
John Bolton, From FlickrPhotos
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, May 12, 2019
Bolton Is Spinning Israeli "Intelligence" to Push for War Against Iran John Bolton has gotten away with a dangerous deception. The national security adviser's announcement Sunday that the Pentagon has deployed air and naval forces to the Middle East, which he combined with a threat to Iran, points to a new maneuver to prepare the ground for an incident that could justify a retaliatory attack against Iran.
President Obama, From FlickrPhotos
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Behind the real US strategic blunder in Syria Secretary of State John Kerry put strong pressure on Obama to use military force against the Assad regime. That resulted in a public commitment by the Obama administration in June 2013 to provide military support to the opposition for the first time. The deepening commitment nearly led to a new US war against the Assad regime in September, after the chemical attack on the Damascus suburbs in August 2013.
Syrian conflict: Obama and Putin, From GoogleImages
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, July 9, 2016
A New Fight Over Syria War Strategy Obama's willingness to increase cooperation with the Russians is recognition that the continuing collaboration between Nusra and the so-called "moderates" represents an untenable situation if Syrian peace negotiations are to have any meaning. If the "moderates" don't separate from Nusra, they effectively serve as its protective shield.
An emergency hospital at Camp Funston, Kansas, 1918., From Uploaded
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, April 6, 2020
How Generals Fueled 1918 Flu Pandemic To Win Their World War The lack of concern of Washington bureaucrats for the well-being of the troops, as they pursue their own war interests, appears to be a common pattern -- seen too, in the U.S. wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. Now it has been revealed once again in the stunningly callous response of the Pentagon to the coronavirus crisis.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt., From Uploaded
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, April 14, 2020
COVID-19: Fallout From a Navy Captain's Heroism: The Possible Emergence of a New Idea of "National Security" The conflict between the Navy high command, a captain and his threatened crew could underscore a new meaning of national security after the pandemic runs its course, says Gareth Porter.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, March 4, 2018
How "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.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        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.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Slain Writer's Book Says US-NATO War Served Al-Qaeda Strategy Shahzad's book "Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban" was published on May 24 -- only three days before he went missing from Islamabad on his way to a television interview. His body was found May 31. He reveals that Osama bin Laden was a "figurehead" for public consumption, and that it was Dr. Ayman Zawahiri who formulated the organization's ideological line or devised operational plans.

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