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by Gareth Porter
Writer, Dandelion Salad
crossposted at ISP
Washington
October 25, 2013
The Washington Post on Thursday reported what it presented as new evidence of a secret agreement under which Pakistani officials have long been privately supporting the U.S. drone war in the country even as they publicly criticised it.
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Featuring Chris Hedges and Gareth Porter.
RT on Oct 14, 2013
What is American exceptionalism? Where does the US’s world monopoly on democracy come from? How does the US give itself license to do as it pleases? “Exceptionalism” is a film by RT correspondent Anissa Naouai. Continue reading
by Gareth Porter
Writer, Dandelion Salad
crossposted at ISP
Washington
October 11, 2013
In an effort to provoke any possible opposition in U.S. political circles to a nuclear deal with Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has returned to exploiting an old claim that Iran is building intercontinental ballistic missiles that could hit the United States.
The Netanyahu claim takes advantage of the extreme position that has been taken on the issue by Pentagon and Air Force intelligence organisations but goes even further.
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with Gareth Porter
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Sept. 10, 2013
Some in US Intel. Community Reject Obama Admin Case for Syria Attack
TheRealNews on Sep 9, 2013
Pt 1: Gareth Porter: US Intelligence on Syria “cherry-picked” by proponents of proposed strike Continue reading
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by Gareth Porter
Writer, Dandelion Salad
crossposted at ISP
Washington
Revised September 9, 2013
Contrary to the general impression in Congress and the news media, the Syria chemical warfare intelligence summary released by the Barack Obama administration Aug. 30 did not represent an intelligence community assessment, an IPS analysis and interviews with former intelligence officials reveals.
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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
warisacrime.org
August 29, 2013
Evidence of “weapons of mass destruction” is “no slam dunk,” U.S. officials are saying this time around, reversing the claim made about Iraq by then-CIA director George Tenet.
by Gareth Porter
Writer, Dandelion Salad
crossposted at ISP
Washington
August 27, 2013
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After initially insisting that Syria give United Nations investigators unimpeded access to the site of an alleged nerve gas attack, the administration of President Barack Obama reversed its position on Sunday and tried unsuccessfully to get the U.N. to call off its investigation.The administration’s reversal, which came within hours of the deal reached between Syria and the U.N., was reported by the Wall Street Journal Monday and effectively confirmed by a State Department spokesperson later that day.
by Gareth Porter
Writer, Dandelion Salad
crossposted at ISP
July 30, 2013
WASHINGTON, Jul 30 2013 (IPS) – Newly published recollections by the former French ambassador to Iran suggest that Iran was not running a covert nuclear weapons programme that it then decided to halt in late 2003, as concluded by U.S. intelligence in 2007.
by Gareth Porter
Writer, Dandelion Salad
crossposted at ISP
July 11, 2013
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WASHINGTON, Jul 11 2013 (IPS) – Alberto Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor who was prevented by Argentine President Cristina Kirchner from testifying before a U.S. House subcommittee investigating alleged Iranian terrorist networks in the Americas here this week, claimed in a recent report that Tehran was involved in a 2007 plot to blow up fuel tanks at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport.
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with Gareth Porter
Writer, Dandelion Salad
June 14, 2013
TheRealNews Jun 13, 2013
Gareth Porter interviews veteran US officials about why US policy towards Iran needs to change.
by Gareth Porter
Writer, Dandelion Salad
crossposted at ISP
Mar. 10 2013
WASHINGTON/KABUL, Mar 10 2013 (IPS) – Two weeks after Afghan President Hamid Karzai demanded the withdrawal of all U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) from Wardak province by this date, the issue remains suspended in negotiations between U.S. and Afghan governments.
U.S. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel planned to discuss the matter with Karzai Sunday, but the meeting was postponed after a security incident in Kabul.
with Gareth Porter
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
January 12, 2013
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PressTVGlobalNews·Jan 12, 2013
A political analyst tells Press TV that US President Barack Obama really does not want to keep American troops in Afghanistan any longer and this war is a dead weight around his neck. The comments came after US President Barack Obama said that Afghanistan must grant US forces legal immunity if Kabul wants American troops to stay in the country beyond 2014.
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by Gareth Porter
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
crossposted at ISP
Dec. 13, 2012
WASHINGTON, Dec 13 2012 (IPS) – The suspect graph of a nuclear explosion reportedly provided to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as evidence of Iranian computer modeling of nuclear weapons yields appears to have been adapted from a very similar graph in a scholarly journal article published in January 2009 and available on the internet.
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with Gareth Porter
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Dec. 11, 2012
TheRealNews·Dec 11, 2012
Gareth Porter: America needed a war hero but his “achievements” riddled by half-truths and pure propaganda.
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Updated: Nov. 25, 2012, added a video report
by Gareth Porter
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
crossposted at ISP
Nov. 20, 2012
WASHINGTON, Nov 20 2012 (IPS) – News stories on the latest International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report suggested new reasons to fear that Iran is closer to a “breakout” capability than ever before, citing a nearly 50-percent increase in its stockpile of 20-percent enriched uranium and the installation of hundreds of additional centrifuges at the Fordow enrichment installation.
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