Gareth Porter
Gareth Porter is an investigative historian and journalist on U.S. national security policy who has been independent since a brief period of university teaching in the 1980s. Dr. Porter is the author of five books, the latest book, “Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare,” was published in February 2014. He has written regularly for Inter Press Service on U.S. policy toward Iraq and Iran since 2005.
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Views Tuesday, May 01, 2018 Did John Bolton Leak Intelligence to Sabotage a Trump-Kim Deal? The still-unscheduled Donald Trump-Kim Jong Un summit offers the opportunity for a denuclearization deal that would avoid a possible nuclear war, but that potential deal remains vulnerable to a hostile corporate media sector and political elites in the United States. At the center of this hostility... Read more |
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Views Friday, January 19, 2018 Why Trump’s North Korea 'Bloody Nose' Campaign Is a Big Bluff The Trump administration’s leaks of plans for a “bloody nose” strike on North Korean nuclear and/or missile sites is only the most recent evidence of its effort to sell the idea that the United States is prepared for a first strike against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). But the “... Read more |
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Views Saturday, October 21, 2017 Trump Trashes Iran Deal to Satisfy Netanyahu President Donald Trump’s new Iran policy clearly represents a dangerous rejection of diplomacy in favor of confrontation. But it’s more than that: It’s a major shift toward a much closer alignment of U.S. policy with that of the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Whether... Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 12, 2017 Congress, End America's Role in Saudi Arabia's War in Yemen The Saudi Arabia-led war in Yemen is a tragedy of epic proportions in which the United States is deeply and directly involved. The war has caused mass starvation and a cholera epidemic that is worse than any the world has witnessed in the past 50 years, with the latest estimate of Yemeni victims at... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 12, 2017 Will Trump Agree to the Pentagon's Permanent War in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria? The two top national security officials in the Trump administration – Secretary of Defence James Mattis and national security adviser HR McMaster - are trying to secure long-term US ground and air combat roles in the three long-running wars in the greater Middle East – Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria... Read more |
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Views Saturday, April 22, 2017 US 'Deep State' Sold Out Counter-Terrorism to Keep Itself in Business New York Times columnist Tom Friedman outraged many readers when he wrote an opinion piece on 12 April calling on President Trump to "back off fighting territorial ISIS in Syria". The reason he gave for that recommendation was not that US wars in the Middle East are inevitably self-defeating and... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, December 27, 2016 Behind the Real US Strategic Blunder in Syria President Barack Obama has long been under fire from the US national security elite and the media for failing to intervene aggressively against the Assad regime. But the real strategic blunder was not that Barack Obama didn’t launch yet another war in Syria, but that he decided to go along with the... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 15, 2016 The John Bolton Threat to Trump’s Middle East Policy Post-election comments on Middle East policy last week by President-elect Donald Trump and one his campaign advisers have provoked speculation about whether Trump will upend two main foreign policy lines of the Obama administration in the Middle East. But the more decisive question about the future... Read more |
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Views Friday, November 04, 2016 US Hypocrisy: Bombing of Aleppo Is No Worse Than What Happened in Gaza and Iraq The Russian-Syrian bombing campaign in eastern Aleppo, which has ended at least for the time being, has been described in press reports and op-eds as though it were unique in modern military history in its indiscriminateness. In an usual move for a senior US official, Secretary of State John Kerry... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 01, 2016 Justifying the Saudi Slaughter in Yemen The Obama administration has carried out a deliberately deceptive campaign accusing Iran of covertly sending arms to the Houthis by sea, a claim that Washington cites to help justify the Saudi massive air attack against the Houthis that began last year. By repeating the accusation over and over,... Read more |