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Porter: The Week the IAEA Applied a Nuclear Double Standard
Znet Article, December, 20 2009
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In 2004, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) revealed that a member state had violated its Safeguards Agreement by carrying out covert uranium conversion and enrichment activities and plutonium experiments for more than two decades. The ...
Porter: US-Iran Talks: The Road to Diplomatic Failure
Znet Article, December, 12 2009
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The talks between the G5 plus 1 and Iran are careening toward a premature breakdown. If they do fall apart, it will be due in large part to a serious diplomatic miscalculation by the Obama administration. Along with its European allies, the Obama ...
Porter: The back door is left open
Znet Article, December, 03 2009
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United States President Barack Obama presented a case on Tuesday for sending 30,000 more US troops to Afghanistan that included both soaring rhetoric and a new emphasis on its necessity for US national security.
Porter: New Light on the Qom Facility
Znet Article, November, 22 2009
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published new evidence Monday that Iran had been building "contingency centers" in the event of a U.S. bombing attack as early as 2002, years before it began building the second enrichment facility at ...
Porter: The CIA's Afghan Payroll
Znet Article, November, 01 2009
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The revelation by the New York Times Wednesday that Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, has long been on the payroll of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is only the tip of a much bigger iceberg of heavy dependence ...
Porter: NIE 2007 Report Suggests Construction was a Response to Bush Threats Against Iran's Nuclear Facilities
Znet Article, October, 24 2009
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The Obama administration claims that construction of a second Iranian uranium enrichment facility at Qom began before Tehran's decision to withdraw from a previous agreement to inform the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in advance of suc...
Porter: Karzai and Warlords Mount Massive Vote Fraud Scheme
Znet Article, August, 21 2009
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Afghanistan's presidential election has long been viewed by U.S. officials as a key to conferring legitimacy on the Afghan government, but Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his powerful warlord allies have planned to commit large-scale electoral f...
Porter: Behind Detainee Release
Znet Article, July, 30 2009
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WASHINGTON, Jul 12 (IPS) - The release Friday of five Iranians held by the U.S. military in Iraq for two and a half years highlights the long-simmering conflict between the U.S. and Iraqi views of Iranian policy in Iraq and of the role of its Isla...
Porter: Behind Detainee Release
Znet Article, July, 17 2009
Gareth Porter
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The release Friday of five Iranians held by the U.S. military in Iraq for two and a half years highlights the long-simmering conflict between the U.S. and Iraqi views of Iranian policy in Iraq and of the role of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Cor...
Porter: CIA Secrecy on Drone Attacks Data Hides Abuses
Znet Article, June, 16 2009
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Intelligence analysts have been unable to obtain either the list of military targets of the drone strikes or the actual results in terms of al Qaeda or civilians killed, according to a Washington source familiar with internal discussion of the dro...
Porter: Military Dominance in Mideast Proven a Costly Myth
Znet Article, March, 11 2009
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Six years ago, after the United States had removed the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein in Iraq, the U.S. appeared to be militarily dominant in the region...
Porter: US-AFGHANISTAN: Obama Nixed Full Surge After Quizzing Brass
Znet Article, February, 23 2009
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President Barack Obama decided to approve only 17,000 of the 30,000 troops requested by Gen. David McKiernan, the top commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, and Gen. David Petraeus, the CENTCOM commander, after McKiernan was unable to t...
Porter: Commanders in Iraq Challenge Petraeus on Pullout Risk
Znet Article, February, 19 2009
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CENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus and Multinational Force Iraq (MNF-I) Commander General Ray Odierno have submitted assessments of Iraq combat troop withdrawal plans to President Barack Obama based on the premise that his 16-month withdrawa...
Porter: Petraeus Leaked Misleading Story on Pullout Plans
Znet Article, February, 10 2009
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The political maneuvering between President Barack Obama and his top field commanders over withdrawal from Iraq has taken a sudden new turn with the leak by CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus - and a firm denial by a White House official - of a...
Porter: Generals Seek to Reverse Obama Withdrawal Decision
Znet Article, February, 06 2009
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CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus, supported by Defence Secretary Robert Gates, tried to convince President Barack Obama that he had to back down from his campaign pledge to withdraw all U.S. combat troops from Iraq within 16 months at an Oval...
Porter: Bush Plan Eliminated Obstacle to Gaza Assault
Znet Article, January, 07 2009
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Until mid-2007, there was a serious political obstacle to a massive conventional war by Israel against Hamas in Gaza: the fact that Hamas had won free and fair elections for the Palestinian parliament and was still the leading faction in a fully l...
Porter: Us Military Planned To Subvert Agreement On Withdrawal
Znet Article, January, 01 2009
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Everyone wondered, when Obama won the election, if he would hold to his pledge to withdraw from Iraq. The Pentagon and its political allies had other plans, and were already seeking to reverse the United States' existing agreement with the Iraqi g...
Porter: Obama Pressured to Back Off Iraq Withdrawal
Znet Article, November, 13 2008
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Despite subtle and unsubtle pressures to compromise on his withdrawal plan, however, Obama is likely to pass over Gates and stand firm on his campaign pledge on military withdrawal from Iraq, according to a well-informed source close to the Obama ...
Porter: Final Text of Iraq Pact Reveals a U.S. Debacle
Znet Article, October, 23 2008
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The final draft of the U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces agreement on the U.S. military presence represents an even more crushing defeat for the policy of the George W. Bush administration than previously thought, the final text reveals.
Porter: New Evidence Shows Bush Had No Plan to Catch bin Laden After 9/11
Znet Article, October, 09 2008
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New evidence from former U.S. officials reveals that the George W. Bush administration failed to adopt any plan to block the retreat of Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders from Afghanistan to Pakistan in the first weeks after 9/11.
