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Tuesday, February 09, 2010   14:26 GMT

Stories by Gareth Porter

Gareth Porter is an historian with a PhD in South-east Asian studies from Cornell University in New York state. He was Saigon Bureau Chief for Dispatch News Service in 1970 and 1971. Porter has taught international studies at City College of New York and American University and has written several books on Vietnam, the most recent being "Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War", published by the University of California Press in 2005. He has also written on war and diplomacy in Cambodia, Korea and the Philippines. Porter has been a news analyst for IPS focusing on U.S. policy and developments in Iraq and Iran since September 2005.
POLITICS: Peace Talks May Follow Ex-Taliban Mediators' Plan
by Gareth Porter*
If peace talks do ultimately begin between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Taliban leadership, they may well follow a &com;road map&com; to a political settlement drawn up by a group of ex-Taliban officials who have been serving as intermediaries between the two sides.
POLITICS: US, Karzai Clash on Unconditional Talks with Taliban
Analysis by Gareth Porter*
On the surface, it would seem unlikely that Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who presides over a politically feeble government and is highly dependent on the U.S. military presence and economic assistance, would defy the United States on the issue of peace negotiations with the leadership of the Taliban insurgency.
POLITICS: Behind Cautious Signal, a Decision for Afghan Peace Talks
by Gareth Porter*
Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal's very cautiously-worded support for a negotiated settlement with the Taliban leadership in an interview published Monday is only the first public signal of a policy decision by the Barack Obama administration to support a political settlement between the Hamid Karzai regime and the Taliban, an official of McChrystal's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) command has revealed in an interview with IPS.
POLITICS: Iran Uses Fear of Covert Nuclear Sites to Deter Attack
Analysis by Gareth Porter*
The New York Times reported Tuesday that Iran had &com;quietly hidden an increasingly large part of its atomic complex&com; in a vast network of tunnels and bunkers buried in mountainsides.
IRAN: New Revelations Tear Holes in Nuclear Trigger Story
Analysis by Gareth Porter*
New revelations about two documents leaked to The Times of London to show that Iran is working on a &com;nuclear trigger&com; mechanism have further undermined the credibility of the document the newspaper had presented as evidence of a continuing Iranian nuclear weapons programme.
POLITICS: U.S. Intelligence Found Iran Nuke Document Was Forged
by Gareth Porter*
U.S. intelligence has concluded that the document published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a &com;neutron initiator&com; for an atomic weapon, is a fabrication, according to a former Central Intelligence Agency official.
POLITICS: The Week the IAEA Applied a Nuclear Double Standard
Analysis by Gareth Porter*
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 nature of certain of those enrichment activities, moreover, raised legitimate suspicions of interest in a nuclear weapons programme.
POLITICS: U.S. Silent About Taliban Guarantee Offer on al Qaeda
Analysis by Gareth Porter*
The Barack Obama administration is refusing to acknowledge an offer by the leadership of the Taliban in early December to give &com;legal guarantees&com; that it will not allow Afghanistan to be used for attacks on other countries.
/CORRECTED REPEAT*/POLITICS: Pentagon's War Pitch Belied by Taliban-Qaeda Conflict
by Gareth Porter*
U.S. Secretary of Defence Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen argued in Senate Testimony Wednesday that the 30,000-troop increase is necessary to prevent the Taliban from giving new safe havens to al Qaeda terrorists.
POLITICS: Pentagon's War Pitch Belied by Taliban-Qaeda Conflict
by Gareth Porter*
U.S. Secretary of Defence Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen argued in Senate Testimony Wednesday that the 30,000-troop increase is necessary to prevent the Taliban from giving new safe havens to al Qaeda terrorists.
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