Empire Woes Pentagon Campaign to Recruit Vietnam as Military Ally Against China Exposed Delusions of US War Strategy After convincing itself Vietnam would grant it access for missile bases against China, the Pentagon got a hard dose of reality Gareth Porter 9 Apr 21 1179 12
Our Benevolent Empire Trump Admin Insider Reveals How the Military Sabotaged Peace Agreement to Prolong Afghanistan War Appointed in the final days of Trump’s presidency to remove all US troops from Afghanistan, Douglas Macgregor tells how military leadership got Trump to capitulate Gareth Porter 17 Mar 21 767 4
Our Benevolent Empire The Permanent-War Complex: How Civilians Serve in the Drone Wars, Profit From Them, and Will Keep Them Going Forever The dependence on the private sector in the Pentagon and the intelligence community had reached such a point that it raised a serious question about whether the workforce was now “obligated to shareholders rather than to the public interest” Gareth Porter 10 Mar 21 354 2
Empire Lies US State Department Accusation of China “Genocide” Is Garbage Reliant on Data Abuse and Fraudulent Claims During this "genocide" the Uighur population has grown 25% Gareth Porter 20 Feb 21 84 1
Our Benevolent EmpirePersia Under Siege Biden Admin’s Coercive Iran Policy Threatens Serious New Regional Crisis Biden's foreign policy team is entranced by the belief it can force Iran to accept new US demands. But It isn't going to work that way Gareth Porter 27 Jan 21 447 1
How Centcom Chief Mckenzie Manufactured an Iran Crisis to Increase His Power "The most politically astute CENTCOM commander ever has shown himself to be exceptionally brazen in scheming to defend his interests" Gareth Porter 18 Jan 21 404 1
How the Pentagon Failed to Sell Afghan Government’s Bunk ‘Bountygate’ Story to US Intelligence Agencies Dodgy stories spun by Afghans trying to derail withdrawal and exploited by the Pentagon for the same reason Gareth Porter 9 Jul 20 311 0
Our Benevolent Empire Pompeo and Netanyahu Paved a Path to War With Iran, and They’re Pushing Trump Again Israelis bombed Iraq specifically to provoke Iranian allies into killing an American, and manipulate and railroad Trump into a war Gareth Porter 21 Mar 20 1177 9
Debut of Anti-Interventionist Think Tank Is a Dud, Gives Bullhorn to Perfumed Prince Petraeus The Koch-Soros "Quincy Institute of Responsible Statecraft" proving to be as non-threatening as its name Gareth Porter 9 Mar 20 371 2
There Is Every Reason to Believe Iran’s Rejection of WMDs as Un-Islamic Is Sincere Khomeini repeatedly vetoed IRGC's moves to build WMDs in the 1980s even as Iraq was using them against Iranians with great effect Gareth Porter 23 Jan 20 441 2
Israel’s 2007 Strike Against a Syrian ‘Nuclear Reactor’ Was Nothing of the Sort Israel believed the site housed Hezbollah missiles (which was also not true), but sold it to the US as a North Korean-built nuclear reactor Gareth Porter 21 Jan 20 911 0
Persia Under Siege If Iran Is Responsible for Saudi Attack, So What? US Is Waging Undeclared War It would have been entirely justified Gareth Porter 23 Sep 19 1073 6
John Bolton Lit the Fuse of the British-Iranian Tanker Crisis Bolton arranged for the Iranian tanker to be de-flagged by Panama before it reached Gibraltar, then pressured the Brits to seize it in contravention of freedom of navigation laws Gareth Porter 23 Jul 19 577 3
No US War on Iran for Now — but Mike Pompeo and John Bolton Still Really, Really Want One War crises are bound to continue until either war comes or Trump breaks their hold on US policy Gareth Porter 25 Jun 19 299 1
Adventures in Trumpia Bolton and Pompeo Set Up Pentagon as a Mouthpiece for Israeli Intelligence US' own intelligence services were cut out from the process of determining validity of Israeli claims on Iran Gareth Porter 4 Jun 19 418 4
Iran Didn’t Blow up the Saudi Khobar Towers. It Was a Frame Up Al-Qaeda blew them up and claimed responsibility, but it was more advantageous for the US and the Saudis to claim it had been Iran Gareth Porter 26 Apr 19 538 3
Iran Didn’t Do the Buenos Aires Bombing. It Was a Frame Up How do Washington's constant accusations that Iran is conducting terrorism actually stack up? Gareth Porter 21 Apr 19 686 2
How the US Navy Sold the Vietnam War False narratives paved the way for the Vietnam War. The very first one was a very popular book with phoney tales of Communist atrocities against Catholics Gareth Porter 14 Apr 19 448 6
My Lai Massacre Was No Aberration, It Was Perfectly in Line With US Army Policy in Vietnam The Pentagon’s policy by clear inference was to treat civilians who remained in Communist-controlled areas as enemy combatants Gareth Porter 21 Mar 19 238 1
Ordered to Help Facilitate North Korea Negotiations Bolton Is Instead Sabotaging Them There is strong circumstantial evidence he is leaking intelligence supposedly showing a deal is risky and would be impossible to verify Gareth Porter 4 May 18 379 0
How Cheney and His Allies Created the North Korea Nuclear Missile Crisis for Lockheed Martin They killed not one, but two deals, because peace would have been a disaster for missile defense boondoggle Gareth Porter 7 Jan 18 1103 0
