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Gareth Porter
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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
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You appear to be unable or unwilling to write a single sentence about Iran and the JCPOA that's not an obvious lie. It was the United States that "scrapped" the nuclear deal, and Iran has every right to alter its compliance accordingly
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Gareth Porter
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Rolling Stone's @mtaibbi nails media outlets' hit pieces against candidates who don't toe their foreign policy line, casting dissent as loyalty to Putin's Russia. Case in point: Daily Beast's shameless insinuation #TulsiGabbard is Russia's candidate. bit.ly/2VI1IXE
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Gareth Porter
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21 mai |
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There's no longer any mystery about that alleged intelligence on a new #Iran threat (which wasn't really intelligence): Here's the real story of how the #Israelis played the Trump administration and created a phony crisis atmosphere. bit.ly/2HGPycD
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Gareth Porter
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20 mai |
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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
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20 mai |
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The rocket fired into the Green Zone in Baghdad was obviously intended to suggest Iran-supported militias were responsible, to advance the #Bolton-####Israeli plan for war with #Iran . But those militias have already denounced the attack as a false flag on.wsj.com/2HsBnsA
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Gareth Porter
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19 mai |
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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. twitter.com/OttenbergEve/s…
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Gareth Porter
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19 mai |
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WINEP, #Israel 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 #Israel. bit.ly/2QdKHDO
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Gareth Porter
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19 mai |
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This newest Saudi airstrike outrage, which killed 77 civilians in Sanaa, is an obvious response to the powerful incentive #Bolton's May 5 statement gave the #Saudis to provoke the #Houthis to retaliate in the hope that Trump will then launch an #IranWar. bit.ly/30xhqZw
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Gareth Porter
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19 mai |
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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
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19 mai |
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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
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18 mai |
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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
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18 mai |
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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". bit.ly/2WRy3g7
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Gareth Porter
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17 mai |
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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
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17 mai |
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WaPo reports (behind paywall) that #Trump was "angry" last weekend about "warlike planning" on #Iran 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. wapo.st/2WOSCcX
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Gareth Porter
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17 mai |
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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
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17 mai |
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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
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17 mai |
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Yes, that is the obvious implication of the engineering team's report on Douma.
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Gareth Porter
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17 mai |
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OPCW's secretariat has confirmed that the report of its #Douma 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. dailym.ai/2E8QsOb
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Gareth Porter
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17 mai |
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Caitlin Johnstone (@Caitoz) 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: #Israel may have done the oil tanker sabotage operation to cast suspicion on #Iran. .bit.ly/2HnOYS4
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Gareth Porter
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14 mai |
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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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