[audio:http://dissentradio.com/radio/07_08_06_porter.mp3]
Historian and journalist Gareth Porter discusses the reasoning behind the government’s lies that Iran has been supplying the bombs that are killing G.I.s in Iraq, the likely consequences of backing the Iran factions, SCIRI and Dawa even as the U.S. gives up fighting the Sunni insurgents and have begun to arm them.
MP3 here. (32:54)
Gareth Porter was co-director of the Indochina Resource Center, an antiwar lobbying organization in Washington, DC, from 1974 to 1976. He has written about negotiated settlements of wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Philippines and is the author of Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam. He is a reporter for IPS News and writes regularly for the American Prospect.
Scott Horton is editorial director of Antiwar.com, director of the Libertarian Institute and host of the Scott Horton Show
from ScottHorton.org. He’s the author of the 2017 book, Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan, the 2021 book Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism and the 2024 book Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, and editor of The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004–2019
and Hotter Than the Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. He’s conducted more than 6,000 interviews since 2003. Scott lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, investigative reporter Larisa Alexandrovna Horton. He is a fan of, but no relation to the lawyer from Harper’s
.
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