26 Facts About Gareth Porter

Gareth Porter was born on June 18,1942 and is an American historian, investigative journalist, author and policy analyst specializing in US national security issues.

Gareth Porter was an anti-war activist during the Vietnam War and has written about the potential for peaceful conflict resolution in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

Gareth Porter's books include Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam, his explanation of the United States involvement in the Vietnam War.

Gareth Porter was raised as a member of the Church of the Brethren and attended Manchester College in Indiana for three years before transferring to the University of Illinois, where he graduated in 1964.

Gareth Porter received his master's degree in International Politics from the University of Chicago and his Ph.

Gareth Porter has taught international studies at the City College of New York and American University in Washington DC, and he was the first Academic Director for Peace and Conflict Resolution in the Semester program at the university.

Gareth Porter was active in the anti-Vietnam War movement, and was a chairman of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars at Cornell.

Gareth Porter reported on political, diplomatic and military developments in the Middle East for Inter Press Service between 2005 and 2014.

Since 2006, Gareth Porter has been investigating allegations made by the US and Israel about Iran's nuclear program, and has reported on US diplomacy and military and intelligence operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

Gareth Porter is the author of many books, including Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam, Vietnam: History in Documents, Vietnam: The Politics of Bureaucratic Socialism, Global Environmental Politics, Cambodia: Starvation and Revolution, and A Peace Denied: the United States, Vietnam, and the Paris Agreement.

Gareth Porter's analysis estimated that the real number of casualties was between 800 and 2,500.

Gareth Porter stated that Pike manipulated official figures to make it appear that over 4,700 civilians were murdered by the Viet Cong, and the numbers and causes of death were different.

Hildebrand and Gareth Porter were criticized in April 1978 by British author William Shawcross in The New York Review of Books, who wrote that their "use of evidence can be seriously questioned".

Gareth Porter accused them of writing "an extremely sympathetic, indeed approving, account".

Gareth Porter should be a little more careful before he accuses others of deliberately falsifying evidence and of intellectual dishonesty.

In 2010, Gareth Porter said he had been waiting many years for someone to ask him about his earlier views of the Khmer Rouge.

Gareth Porter described how the climate of distrust of the government generated during the Vietnam war carried over to Cambodia.

Gareth Porter has written on the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war, including the Ghouta chemical attack which occurred during the Syrian Civil War.

Gareth Porter wrote in September 2013 about the origins and content of the White House intelligence report entitled US Government Assessment of the Syrian Government's Use of Chemical Weapons on August 21,2013, commenting that analysis by Inter Press Service and interviews with former intelligence officials indicated the report only consisted of White House-selected information, and failed to accurately reflect the opinions of intelligence analysts.

Gareth Porter argues that "the analysis of Khamenei's fatwa [against nuclear weapons] has been flawed" not only because the role of the "guardian jurist" in the Iranian political-legal system is not understood completely, but because the history of Khamenei's fatwa is ignored.

Gareth Porter says that to understand Iranian policy toward nuclear weapons, one should refer to the "historical episode during its eight-year war with Iraq" which explains why Iran never used chemical weapons against Iraq when seeking revenge for Iraqis attacks which killed 20,000 Iranians and severely injured 100,000 more.

Gareth Porter argues that this fact strongly suggests that Iran has sincerely banned developing chemical and nuclear weapons and it is "deep-rooted".

In 2014, Gareth Porter attended an anti-Zionist conference in Tehran, New Horizons, which was reported to have been a platform for antisemitism and Holocaust denial.

Gareth Porter told BuzzFeed News that he would not have attended the conference if he had known the extremist views of other conference participants.

In 2012, Gareth Porter was awarded the annual Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism at the Frontline Club in London to acknowledge reporting that exposes official propaganda for a series of articles about US policies in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Gareth Porter has been awarded a Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism.