Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses the counterproductive coercive diplomacy in U.S./Iran talks, political pressure brought to bear by U.S. allies on the 2007 Iran NIE, new evidence of manufactured controversy about the Qom facility and Iran's well-reasoned decision to halt disclosure under the additional protocol to their Safeguards Agreement with the IAEA in 2007.

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses the first diplomatic engagement between the U.S. and Iran in a generation, plans to outsource the higher enrichment of Iran’s uranium to Russia, the constant assault on the 2007 Iran NIE by NYT columnists Broad and Sanger and anti-Iran propaganda based on a 1987 A.Q. Kahn brochure and 'smoking laptop' documents.

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses Obama's big lie about Iran's Qom facility, the foreboding language used to describe minor IAEA violations, an anonymous source's revelation that unauthorized Israeli planes entering U.S. controlled airspace will be shot down and how people ignorant of IAEA terminology are duped into thinking Iran is building secret nukes.

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses his article 'IAEA Conceals Evidence Iran Documents Were Forged,' the admission of an IAEA official that the 'smoking laptop' contents were compiled from multiple sources and the mainstream media’s tendency to play fast and loose with the facts on Iran.

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses the pressure brought to bear on the IAEA to condemn Iran, attempts to undermine the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate, the never-ending stream of fabricated evidence used to frame Iran and the split within the IAEA between moderates and the Department of Safeguards.

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses how Afghan election violence is a portent of things to come, Hamid Karzai’s lead in the 'vote for me or I’ll burn down your house' category, Afghan warlords preparing to stuff ballot boxes and how U.S. claims that Iran is supplying arms to Iraq ignore the vibrant Middle East black market.

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses the disputed U.S. claims that Iran is using 'special groups' to destabilize Iraq, the 2007 kidnapping of a British group that threatened to expose (by financial tracking) Iraqi governmental embezzlement, the Obama administration’s revival of accusations that Iran is aiding the Taliban and the domestic political calculus behind seemingly illogical Israeli hostility toward Iran.

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses the Iraqi government's more aggressive stance on the Mujahedin-e Khalq, how the Bush administration's wishful thinking and ignorance guaranteed a disastrous Iraq policy, the de-emphasis of the MEK's Islamic Marxism in U.S. Congress lobbying efforts and the political scheming behind the Iraq/U.S. Status of Forces Agreement.

(This interview was recorded on June 29, 2009) Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses his 5-part series (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) examining the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing, the near certainty al-Qaeda and not Iran was responsible for the bombing, the existence of an Iran-backed Saudi Arabia Hezbollah, former FBI Director Louis Freeh's overly cozy relationship with Saudi Prince Bandar and Bill Clinton's disastrous foreign policy that helped instigate 9-11.

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses evidence that Robert McNamara never told LBJ the August 4, 1964 Tonkin Gulf attack on the USS Maddox and Turner Joy never happened, information revealed in recorded phone conversations between LBJ and McNamara released in 2006 and Gareth Porter's own phone conversation with McNamara. (Note: recorded on June 22, 2009)

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses the new developments in the 'smoking laptop' story and the strongest evidence yet that Israeli intelligence, using the MEK as a front, created the laptop forgery to frame Iran for pursuing nuclear weapons.

  Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service News Agency, discusses Stanley McChrystal's role in extralegal assassinations and the Bagram prison torture program, Rumsfeld's attempt to divert covert special operations from the somewhat accountable CIA to the Pentagon, the mixed messages in U.S. personnel and strategy changes in Afghanistan and how the U.S. continues to create enemies to justify staying in Iraq.

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 Iraqi coup d'etat to replace Nouri al-Maliki and the tendency of empires to enter costly military quagmires that bring their downfall.

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 diplomatic leverage game the U.S. is playing and how U.S. arrogance derived from its superpower status leads to foolish foreign policy strategies.