Scott Horton Interviews Gareth Porter
Scott Horton,
April 02, 2009
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service News Agency, discusses Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s persecution of Sunni Awakening Councils, the U.S. military’s cooperation with Iraq’s government in quelling a Sunni “Sons of Iraq” uprising and how a new outbreak of sectarian violence could give the U.S. occupation a new lease on life.
MP3 here. (20:05)
Gareth Porter’s articles appear on the Huffington Post, Inter Press Service News Agency and on Antiwar.com.
Claus-Erik Hamle
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:08 pm
According to former Trident missile engineer Bob Aldridge-www.plrc.org-the Pentagon aims to achieve a disarming and unanswerable first-strike capability. According to Bob Aldridge the US Navy can track and destroy all enemy submarines simultaneously. Please see the article by Keir Lieber and Daryl Press, “The Rise of US Nuclear Primacy” in the 2006 March/April issue of Foreign Affairs. Even if it´s only for blackmail, the Russians may have no choice but implementing Launch On Warning.
Iraq Disaster Still a Mystery to Some by Alan Bock -- Antiwar.com
April 5th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
[...] the Shia-dominated central government of Iraq never quite trusted these armed Sunni militias, although it promised to incorporate them into the national security [...]