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Gareth Porter
Investigative historian and journalist on the national security state and author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare (2014).
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Gareth Porter 14h
There's no longer any mystery about that alleged intelligence on a new threat (which wasn't really intelligence): Here's the real story of how the played the Trump administration and created a phony crisis atmosphere.
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Gareth Porter 21h
Replying to @OttenbergEve
I agree. It looks like that is what's in store in the coming days and weeks. I'm following that thread exclusively for the time being.
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Gareth Porter May 20
The rocket fired into the Green Zone in Baghdad was obviously intended to suggest Iran-supported militias were responsible, to advance the -### plan for war with . But those militias have already denounced the attack as a false flag
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Gareth Porter May 19
Indeed the neooons have always wanted the most extreme right-wing elements in the Iranian society to be in power, and their greatest enemies have always been Iranian moderates and reformist. Ditto, of course, the Likudists in power in Israel.
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Gareth Porter May 19
WINEP, lobby's arm for more sophisticated propaganda, assumes (surprise, surprise) that Iran is responsible for those holes in toil tanker hulls and calls for more US covert ops vs. Iran & overt military moves for war. Very helpful -- to .
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Gareth Porter May 19
This newest Saudi airstrike outrage, which killed 77 civilians in Sanaa, is an obvious response to the powerful incentive 's May 5 statement gave the to provoke the to retaliate in the hope that Trump will then launch an .
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Gareth Porter May 19
Replying to @thomasjuneau
It's useless to try to continue a dialog with you. You simply refuse to respond to my specific point and keep changing the subject from whether White Helmets were working for al Qaeda (proven) to whether they were "sympathetic" to jihadists (unknowable and ultimately irrelevant).
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Gareth Porter May 18
Replying to @thomasjuneau
You are relying on weasel words here. It's not a question of "dealing with many actors"; the White Helmets worked directly under the al Qaeda authorities, as I have documented in both Aleppo and Idlib, cases, and were in charge of working the Western press in both cases.
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Gareth Porter May 18
Replying to @thomasjuneau
It is certainly not a conspiracy theory to point out that the White Helmets have been linked to local al Qaeda authorities in both Aleppo and Idlib provinces: they worked under the authority of those officials in both cases. And the OPCW conclusion on Douma hasn't held up.
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Gareth Porter May 18
We get an inkling of the cynical character of the national security state from the admission of former FBI General Counsel James Baker that he used the Steele dossier to get a FISA warrant on Carter Page even though he viewed it with a "jaundiced eye".
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Gareth Porter May 17
Replying to @OttenbergEve
It's a bit murkier than that, I think. He needs to take much more decision positions publicly to put those folks on the spot than he's been willing to take thus far, and they know it.
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Gareth Porter May 17
WaPo reports (behind paywall) that was "angry" last weekend about "warlike planning" on going well beyond his own thinking. He's aware they are trying to get him closer to war, but still no indication he's ready to dump Bolton -- or Pompeo.
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Gareth Porter May 17
Replying to @thomasjuneau
Have you read the document in question and the OPCW statement confirming that it is a genuine document from the OPCW investigation in Douma? If so, how can you refer to this evidence as "conspiracy theories" and "[R]ussian propaganda"? If not you shouldn't make such accusations
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Gareth Porter May 17
Replying to @WKPAnCap @caitoz
I don't see why there would be any necessary connection among those very different operations. The logic of Houthis carrying out the half-assed limpet mine attack escape me. And if they did it, why wouldn't they take responsibility as they did on the other operations?
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Gareth Porter May 17
Replying to @wmadhoun
Yes, that is the obvious implication of the engineering team's report on Douma.
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Gareth Porter May 16
OPCW's secretariat has confirmed that the report of its investigation engineering subgroup on the famous gas cylinders, released by OPCW critics, which finds the cylinders could not have been dropped by air, is indeed a genuine OPCW document.
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Gareth Porter May 16
Caitlin Johnstone () recalls the Israeli lobby's Patrick Clawson suggesting in 2012 a false flag operation to "get the US into war with Iran." That's very timely: may have done the oil tanker sabotage operation to cast suspicion on . .
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Gareth Porter May 13
Replying to @APDiploWriter
C'mon man. It's obvious Dan Coats, based on the quote attributed to the "US official". It's same kind of inane observation he made about the Russians. He doesn't understand Iran in the least, and it's your job to point that out.
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Gareth Porter May 13
Why is nobody claiming that the "sabotage" of oil tankers near a UAE port is Iran-related? Maybe because In 2010 a Japanese tanker was hit by a suicide bomber very close to that same spot, and Al Qaeda's Abdullah Azzam Brigades claimed responsibility.
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Gareth Porter May 13
administration has refused to give veteran Palestinian peace negotiator Hanan Ashrawi a visa to visit the United States for the first time, obviously punishing her for her criticism of the administration's slavish devoting to Israeli interests.
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