{"id":3573,"date":"2007-05-18T00:34:12","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T07:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/18\/gareth-porter-3\/"},"modified":"2007-05-18T16:31:30","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T23:31:30","slug":"gareth-porter-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/18\/gareth-porter-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Gareth Porter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Historian and journalist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/porter\/\">Gareth Porter<\/a> explains why the &#8220;permanent government&#8221; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the State Department, the CIA and the military \u00e2\u20ac\u201c have decided that there is not going to be a bombing of Iran. The latest is that the new head of Centcom, Admiral Fallon, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/porter\/?articleid=10976\">refused to allow<\/a> a third carrier battle group to overlap the two already there as Dick Cheney wanted. Also where Iran fits in the neocon plan for world domination, bogus accusations against them in terms of their nuclear program and &#8220;EFPs&#8221; in Iraq, covert support for terrorists in Iran, and the time they offered everything including recognition of Israel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissentradio.com\/radio\/07_05_17_porter.mp3\"><strong>MP3 here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gareth Porter is a historian and journalist for IPS News . His latest book is <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0520239482\/qid=1135638093\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/103-4366619-1303849?\/antiwarbookstore\/\">Perils              of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam<\/a>              <\/em>(University of California Press).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Iran War Off For Now<\/em><\/strong>: But Dick Cheney ain&#8217;t gone yet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3573"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}