by Scott | Feb 18, 2011 | Interviews
Please excuse the technical difficulties that cut this interview a bit short. Gareth Porter’s article can explain any partially-answered questions. Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses US frustration with the Taliban’s highly...
by Scott | Feb 15, 2011 | Interviews
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the importance of National Intelligence Estimates in determining US foreign policy and war-making abilities; how the Afghanistan NIE allows the military to measure their own success, leaving...
by Scott | Feb 8, 2011 | Interviews
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the 2002 Taliban reconciliation deal scuttled by the US, which refused to guarantee the safety of Taliban leaders returning from exile in Pakistan to participate in some sort of unity...
by Scott | Feb 3, 2011 | Interviews
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the cascading failures of US foreign policy in the Mideast; the preemptive measures being taken by US client states all over the region to ward off regime change: Jordan’s government...
by Scott | Jan 19, 2011 | Interviews
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses Ike Eisenhower’s extraordinary (but too little too late) farewell address; how the overblown Soviet threat and missile gap hoax scared Americans enough to boost the bottom line of defense...
by Scott | Jan 4, 2011 | Interviews
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses how Gen. James Jones pushed for NATO to take over the Afghanistan occupation, giving the purposeless organization a new raison d’etre; NATO’s inability to deal with the Afghan...
by Scott | Dec 24, 2010 | Interviews
This recording is excerpted from the KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles broadcast of December 24th. The original program can be heard here. Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the New York Times story about a leaked military proposal for...
by Scott | Dec 20, 2010 | Interviews
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the increasingly brutal US tactics in the Kandahar offensive in Afghanistan including the razing of entire villages; how the US breaks self-imposed counterinsurgency rules when the going gets...
by Scott | Dec 7, 2010 | Interviews
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the dominant (and false) narrative of MSM coverage of WikiLeaks‘ Cablegate; why a US war with Iran is not justified simply because some Arab rulers (in complete opposition to their citizens)...
by Scott | Dec 1, 2010 | Interviews
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses how WikiLeaks badly underestimated the mainstream media’s ability to filter out material damaging to government, the Russian debunking of the US theory that Iran got advanced ballistic...
by Scott | Nov 24, 2010 | Interviews
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the newly-released IAEA Iran report that ‘continues to verify the non-diversion of declared nuclear material in Iran’ but can’t verify the Rumsfeldian ‘absence of undeclared...
by Scott | Nov 19, 2010 | Interviews
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the fraudulent evidence that is cited as proof Iran had a nuclear weapons program and how outdated missile schematics in the MEK (or Mossad)-sourced ‘smoking laptop’ cast suspicion...
by Scott | Nov 2, 2010 | Interviews
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the Frago 242 ‘ignore Iraqi torture’ order in the context of vigorous US support for Shi’ite militias battling the exploding Sunni insurgency, the influence of David Wurmser‘s...
by Scott | Oct 26, 2010 | Interviews
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the 3-way Shi’ite alliance of Moqtada al-Sadr, Nouri al-Maliki and Iran that formed in general opposition to U.S. occupation and attacks on Sadr’s Mahdi Army in particular,...
by Scott | Oct 20, 2010 | Interviews
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the U.N. fact finding mission that concluded Israeli commandos executed flotilla-activist and U.S. citizen Furkan Dogan, the media blackout (and silence from the Obama administration) on the...
by Scott | Oct 18, 2010 | Interviews
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the scant evidence used to justify U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, a possible CIA destabilization campaign to weaken Pakistan and seize its nukes and why the Afghanistan ‘Potemkin’...
by Scott | Sep 23, 2010 | Interviews
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses Gen. Petraeus’s decision to double down in Afghanistan rather than deescalate and blame the quagmire on his predecessors, evidence of a civilian-military rift on war decisions with Obama...
by Scott | Sep 10, 2010 | Interviews
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses Joe Biden’s acceptance of the mainstream (and false) Iraq War narrative, how the U.S. and Iran are essentially partners-in-meddling in Iraqi politics, dispelling the main tenets of surge...
by Scott | Aug 27, 2010 | Interviews
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses Obama’s refusal to declare a ‘red line’ on Iran’s nuclear program, Robert Gates’s insistence that Iran’s low enriched uranium is tantamount to a nuclear weapon, the abundance of...
by Scott | Aug 18, 2010 | Interviews
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses John Bolton’s ‘8 day’ countdown to a possible Israeli strike on Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor, clarifications on the previous day’s interview, more fanciful claims from warmongers...
