Gareth Porter

Gareth Porter is an independent investigative journalist and winner of the 2012 Gellhorn Prize for journalism. He is the author of the newly published Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare.

Deferring to Petraeus

Shattering the Myth of Taliban / Al Qaeda Ties

Why Washington Clings to a Failed Middle East Strategy

From Military-Industrial Complex to Permanent War State

How Afghanistan Became a War for NATO

High-Risk Raids Into Pakistan

The Brutal Price of Progress

Wikileaks Exposes Complicity of the Press

Why Gen. Petraeus was Snookered by the "Taliban" Imposter

The Fatal Flaw in the Iran Missile Docs

The Unending Occupation of Iraq

Intel Failure in Yemen

The Futile Surge

The Futile Surge

Bait-and-Switch in Afghanistan

Blowback in Kandahar

The IED War

Turning Iraq Into a "Good War"

Taliban Morale

An Army of Contractors

Top Israeli Generals and Intel Officials Oppose Striking Iran

Serial Denial on Iraq and Afghanistan

Obama Junks 2009 "Troops Out" Pledge

Bomb Iran?

The Afghan War Springs a Leak

Why the CIA is Trying to Burn Amiri

Was Amiri a Double Agent?

McChrystal Probe of Special Forces Killings Excluded Key Eyewitnesses

How the IAEA’s Heinonen Pushed Dubious Iran Nuclear Intel

Why McChrystal Did Obama a Big Favor

McChrystal’s War Plan Fails

Revolt of the Drone Operators

Reaffirming Afghanistan’s Al Capone

Nuclear Swap Meet

Afghanistan’s Great Divide

McChrystal’s Afghan War Plan Unravels

Kandahar Campaign Doomed Before It Begins?

McChrystal Backtracks

Shooting in the Dark

Killings and Cover-Ups in Afghanistan

McChrystal’s Night Raiders

Inside Afghanistan’s Jails

The Uncertain Fate of Afghan Detainees

Negotiating With the Taliban

The Siege of the Fictional City of Marja

Defying the U. S.

The Real Objective of the Marja Offensive

Jailed Taliban Leader Still a Pakistani Asset

The Taliban Isolated Bin Laden

Talking with the Taliban