Gareth Porter

In this second part of a series, Gareth Porter compares the same faulty logic employed in two purposely misleading, so-called British intelligence dossiers. By Gareth Porter Special to Consortium News. The British government shared what was supposedly a dossier containing sensitive intelligence to ...

US President Donald Trump says he wants American troops to leave Syria. The foreign policy blob surrounding him says differently. So, what exactly are Washington's goals in Syria? Partition? War for war's sake? Or a means to sticking it to Iran and Russia? All are poorly thought-out options. CrossTalking ...

An alternative explanation to the mystery surrounding the poisoning of Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter may involve a possibility that neither the British nor Russian governments want to talk about, as Gareth Porter explains. By Gareth Porter Special to Consortium News. For weeks ...

Investigators Hans Blix, Scott Ritter and Gareth Porter had cast doubt on the US narrative of Assad's use of sarin in 2017 and are doing so again about Douma. It would help world peace if Donald Trump and Boris Johnson stopped hyperventilating over every event from Syria to Salisbury before credible ...

Does any of this mean the White Helmets are fabricating or lying to the press about an alleged chemical weapons attack? There is no specific evidence at the moment, but it would not be the first time if this turned out to be the case. Journalist Gareth Porter detailed in March 2017 how an account of an attack ...

Gareth Porter is a historian and investigative journalist specializing in US foreign and military policy. He writes regularly for Inter Press Service on US policy towards Iraq and Iran. He is the author of five books, of which the latest is Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare.

In 2015, while the Obama administration was negotiating the Iran nuclear deal, Bolton wrote a piece titled “To Stop Iran's Bomb, Bomb Iran.” We speak to longtime investigative reporter Gareth Porter. His new piece for The American Conservative is titled “The Untold Story of John Bolton's Campaign for War ...

The CIA's “Operation Merlin,” which involved providing Iran with a flawed design for a nuclear weapon and resulted in an alleged whistleblower going to prison, was the perfect example of creating intelligence in order to justify operations, reports Gareth Porter. *****. Jeffrey Sterling, the case officer for the ...

Gareth Porter, a US historian and investigative journalist, noted in 2015 that the evidence for Nisman's accusations against Iran included testimony from four members of the Mujahedeen E-Khalq (MEK), an Iranian opposition group that fought alongside Iraqi troops against their own country in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War.

Gareth Porter is an independent journalist and winner of the 2012 Gellhorn Prize for journalism. He is the author of numerous books, including Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare (Just World Books, 2014). Politics, ...

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Gareth Porter, a historian, investigative journalist, analyst specializing in US national security policy, and the author of “Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare,” and Mark Sleboda, an international ...

Israel is beating the drums of war again, this time over Syria. On February 10 the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) carried out the most aggressive Israeli use of force in Syria thus far. After having bombed a drone base in retaliation for an alleged incursion by an Iranian drone, Israel retaliated for the shooting ...

US President Donald Trump has called on European countries to join the US in reformulating the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the 2015 agreement with Iran that was meant to slow the country's nuclear weapons program in exchange for a loosening of stringent economic sanctions against ...

By Gareth Porter. Jeffrey Sterling, the case officer for the CIA's covert “Operation Merlin,” who was convicted in May 2015 for allegedly revealing details of that operation to James Risen of the New York Times, was released from prison in January after serving more than two years of a 42-month sentence.

And despite the Worldwide Threat Assessment's assurance that “the regime does not intend to negotiate [its nuclear weapons] away,” North Korea has not ceased to assure the world that it would. Investigative journalist Gareth Porter has recently reported on the possibility of an “intra-Korean” agreement ...

Investigative journalist Gareth Porter has recently reported on the possibility of an "intra-Korean" agreement between North and South Korea. Porter says that in a South Korean proposal that has never been reported by the US media, the US and South Korea would "discuss reducing the South Korea-U.S. ...

Antiwar politicians, in contrast, drew on the work of Gareth Porter, a political scientist and journalist, who argued that the killings in Hue were committed on a smaller scale than reported, merely acts of revenge by an army in retreat. Drawing on Porter's work, Senator George McGovern accused the Nixon ...

Gareth Porter, an investigative historian and journalist specializing in US national security policy, received the UK-based Gellhorn Prize for journalism for 2011 for articles on the U.S. war in Afghanistan. His new book is Manufactured Crisis: the Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. He can be contacted at ...

Serious, experienced chemical weapons experts and investigators such as Hans Blix, Scott Ritter, Gareth Porter and Theodore Postol have all cast doubt on “official” American narratives regarding President Assad employing Sarin. These analysts have all focused on the technical aspects of the two attacks ...

President Trump has declassified the much-anticipated Nunes memo, which reveals that Christopher Steele's ties to the Clinton campaign, as well as the political bias of several members of the FBI and Justice Department involved in the investigation, were not properly disclosed to the FISA court.

Investigative journalist and TAC contributor Gareth Porter, a long-time friend of Parry, was, like many of Parry's friends, thunderstruck by the news of his illness and death last week. “Bob was absolutely unafraid of the most powerful men and institutions in this country. He was free of any ideological agenda, ...

Why 'Coercive Diplomacy' is a Dangerous Farce. Offering to talk while threatening military force hasn't worked in 30 years. By Gareth Porter • January 12, 2018 ...

What has not changed is the determination of the U.S. national security state and the supporters of Israel to maintain the myth of an enduring Iranian support for Al Qaeda. Gareth Porter is an independent journalist and winner of the 2012 Gellhorn Prize for journalism. He is the author of numerous books, ...

And he is now senior adviser on science and non-proliferation at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a think tank whose positions on the Iran nuclear issues have closely followed those of the Likud governments in Israel. Gareth Porter is an independent investigative journalist and historian on ...

Author Archives: Gareth Porter · The Untold Story of John Bolton's Campaign for War With Iran. Posted on March 22, 2018. Everyone knows Bolton is a hawk. Less understood is how he labored in secret to drive Washington and Tehran apart.

Author Archives: Gareth Porter · The Untold Story of John Bolton's Campaign for War With Iran. Posted on March 22, 2018. Everyone knows Bolton is a hawk. Less understood is how he labored in secret to drive Washington and Tehran apart.

Gareth Porter, an investigative historian and journalist specializing in US national security policy, received the UK-based Gellhorn Prize for journalism for 2011 for articles on the U.S. war in Afghanistan. His new book is Manufactured Crisis: the Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. He can be contacted at ...

... such as reports by American historian and investigative journalist Gareth Porter, United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq Scott Ritter, Veteran prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, American investigative journalist and political writer Seymour Hersh, and MIT's Theodore Postol. Fabricated accusations against the ...

Chemical weapons experts Hans Blix, Scott Ritter, Gareth Porter and Theodore Postol all question the "official" US narrative that Assad employed deadly gas. Even Defense Secretary James Mattis now admits the US had "no evidence" that Assad used chemical weapons in 2017. (But that didn't stop Trump ...

U.S. forces patrolling on a rural road in the village of Darbasiyah, Syria. (AP via APTV). Pressure is mounting as the Trump administration continues to refuse to reveal its legal justification for bombing Syria in April 2017, despite increased scrutiny from Democratic senators and a Freedom of Information Act ...