Scott Horton Interviews Gareth Porter
Scott Horton,
October 23, 2009
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses the counterproductive coercive diplomacy in U.S./Iran talks, political pressure brought to bear by U.S. allies on the 2007 Iran NIE, new evidence of manufactured controversy about the Qom facility and Iran’s well-reasoned decision to halt disclosure under the additional protocol to their Safeguards Agreement with the IAEA in 2007.
MP3 here. (29:04)
Gareth Porter is an independent historian and journalist. His articles appear on Counterpunch, Huffington Post, Inter Press Service News Agency and Antiwar.com.
mary
October 25th, 2009 at 12:46 am
it is not in the interest of us play against iran right now but they will put russia against iran very soon… wat to see it
DeanTaylor
October 26th, 2009 at 3:00 am
How interesting. The second one mentions, e.g., J-w, or J-ws, or Z-onists, etc., no matter what the context, a flag goes up. AIPAC on your case Antiwar? Have they been harassing you?
DeanTaylor
October 26th, 2009 at 3:13 am
Is this to ignore what is fairly obvious regarding other outlets for Iranian aggression–assuming that they heedlessly, recklessly go that route?
"In July 2003 Foreign Minister Sh-lom predicted that Iran would have nuclear bomb capability by 2006. It did not have nuclear weapons in 2006, though in fact a successful strike by conventional missiles on Dimona, I-rael’s nuclear facility, would radioactivate a good part of I-rael – and both Iran and Syria have such missiles….Iran and the other Arab states will eventually develop or acquire nuclear weapons, making I-rael incredibly insecure for its highly mobile J-wish population – one exhausted by regular service in compulsory reserves. And as already suggested, destroying Dimona with conventional missiles or mortars would be a cheap way to radioactivate a good part of I-rael"[Kolko].
CounterPunch: Gabriel Kolko
Empire: through a glass, darkly
DeanTaylor
October 26th, 2009 at 3:20 am
II.
And, regarding the State/MSM "reporting" of the facts (read: played fast and loose) of Iranian compliance with the IAEA:
"Communists have burned the Reichstag!"
"The sky is falling!"
etc.
Here is Ron Paul on the events as they have unfolded—versus the hysteria- and war-mongering—regarding Iran's actual compliance with the IAEA:
Ron Paul on Iranian compliance
DeanTaylor
October 26th, 2009 at 4:05 am
As for the current regime's influence by AIPAC, Alex Cockburn deftly limns the DC pageant of kowtowing to I-rael, to wit:
"The Biden and Clinton 'foreign' policy is: 1) to recreate the same old Cold War (with a new appendage, the US versus Iran nuclear confrontation) for the same old reasons: to pump up domestic defense spending; and 2) to continue sixty years of supporting Israeli imperialism for the same reasons that every president from Harry to Dubya (perhaps barring Ike) did so: to corner Israel lobby money and votes. Regarding the latter, Obama did the same by grabbing the Chicago-based Crown and Pritzker family money very early in his campaign and by making Rahm Emanuel his very first appointment (the two are hardly unrelated)" [Cockburn].
Empire: through a glass, darkly
Empire: through a glass, darkly
Claus-Erik Hamle
October 26th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
As former Trident missile engineer Bob Aldridge-http://www.plrc.org , Scott Ritter, Dr. Ellsberg, etc. have pointed out the real problem to our world is that The Pentagon aims to achieve a disarming and unanswerable first-strike capability and this leads inevitably to Launch On Warning and suicide by mistake. Bob Aldridge resigned because a First-Strike Capability is suicidal. Brigadier Harbottle suggested that they are "bloody fools" in the Pentagon. Why don´t they give it up and admit that about one hundred nuclear explosions would produce Nuclear Winter ? The Pentagon´s drive for Nuclear Primacy will make this civilization die prematurely. We could have been here 4-5 billion years more if it was not for the crazy people in the Pentagon´s office for First-Strike Plans. Resign, resign, resign as Bob Aldridge did. You see, he realized that you don´t need a CEP of 30-40 metres for Minuteman-3 and Trident-2 D5 in order to hit cities. The Counterforce Syndrome is a book by Bob Aldridge.
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