04/30/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service News Agency, discusses the connection between PNAC and the U.S. empire of bases, how beltway foreign policy advisers changed Obama’s antiwar rhetoric, the rumors of a U.S.-sponsored...

04/09/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service News Agency, discusses the divisions on Iran policy between the U.S. and Israel and within the Obama administration, the misleading journalism from David Sanger of the NY Times, the dangerous...

04/01/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service News Agency, discusses Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s persecution of Sunni Awakening Councils, the U.S. military’s cooperation with Iraq’s government in quelling a Sunni ‘Sons of...

03/26/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses the latest campaign promise broken by Barack Obama, the semantic removal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by calling them ‘advisory and assistance’ brigades and Obama’s...

03/16/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service News Agency, discusses the Obama administration’s attempted duplication of Gen. Petraeus’s Iraq ‘success’ in Afghanistan, the difficulty foreign occupiers have in overcoming the...

02/26/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

Gareth Porter, independent researcher and journalist, discusses Obama’s extended withdrawal plan that keeps tens of thousands of troops in Iraq indefinitely, the political calculation behind the change from a 16 to 19 month withdrawal timetable and the...

02/19/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

Gareth Porter, independent researcher and journalist, discusses the continuing struggle over control of the Iraq war narrative, the influence of retired general Jack Keane on the Bush Administration’s Iraq policy, the surprising strength and stability of the...

02/10/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

Independent historian and journalist Gareth Porter briefly discusses his article last week, ‘Generals Seek to Reverse Obama Withdrawal Decision’ and his follow up ‘Petraeus Leaked Misleading Story on Pullout Plans’ his interaction with a...

02/02/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

Gareth Porter, author of the article ‘Generals Seek to Reverse Obama Withdrawal Decision’, discusses the rift within the military on the issue of troop withdrawal from Iraq, the apparent attempt by Robert Gates and Generals Petraeus and Odierno to...

Antiwar Radio: Gareth Porter

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the Bush/Olmert plan to force Hamas to take all power in Gaza in order to try to provide an excuse for undoing the election results of 2006, how Hamas followed by and Israel broke the...

01/22/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the Bush/Olmert plan to force Hamas to take all power in Gaza in order to try to provide an excuse for undoing the election results of 2006, how Hamas followed by and Israel broke the...