Gareth Porter

Reprinted from Consortium News with the author’s permission. When the International Court of Justice opens its consideration of the case against Israel’s genocidal policy towards Palestinians living in Gaza on Thursday it will have before it a petition from South Africa, which initiated the case. In legal terms it is a request that the court … Continue reading “South Africa’s Proof of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza”

Reprinted from Consortium News with the author’s permission. In the days after Hamas entered Israeli kibbutzim near Gaza on Oct. 7,  foreign press accounts of what happened have broadly reflected the Israeli interpretation of events of the deliberate slaughter and dismemberment of innocent civilians by Hamas fighters. Those stories were blood-curdling in the extreme: Babies … Continue reading “How Israel Leverages Genocide With Hamas ‘Massacres’”

Reprinted from Consortium News with the author’s permission. The argument over the Israeli accusation that Hamas used Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital as a shield for its military effort against the Israel Defense Forces has continued, even as the headlines have shifted to the Israel-Hamas prisoner swap. On Nov. 23, well-known author and online journalist Fred Kaplan … Continue reading “Peddling Propaganda About al-Shifa”

Reprinted from Consortium News with the author’s permission. Although corporate news media have made it clear they don’t buy the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claim that al-Shifa Hospital has been a cover for a Hamas command and control center and weapons armory, Western media have failed to report a much bigger story. The IDF and … Continue reading “IDF Knew Real Hamas HQ While Lying About al-Shifa”

Reprinted from Consortium News with the author’s permission. UPDATES: Biden defends Israel incursion into al-Shifa hospital against Hamas ‘headquarters’ – The Hill. “You have a circumstance where the first war crime is being committed by Hamas by having their headquarters, their military, hidden under a hospital. And that’s a fact, that’s what’s happened,” Biden said on … Continue reading “Israeli Deceit and the Battle of Shifa Hospital”

Reprinted from Consortium News with the author’s permission. Israel’s systematic and wanton destruction of Gaza has raised long-standing issues of its political and legal culpability over the treatment of Palestinians to a new level of seriousness. It obviously poses familiar issues of Israeli war crimes, and Amnesty International had already clearly designated it as such … Continue reading “The ‘Genocide Moment’”

Reprinted with permission from Responsible Statecraft. There is a rapidly growing political demand for making American officials accountable for the failures of the Afghanistan War, with a focus now on the military leadership and top generals’ role in keeping forces there for 20 years despite all the signs they knew the war was unwinnable. One … Continue reading “How the ‘Self Licking Ice Cream Cone,’ Prolonged the 20-Year War”

Reprinted from The Grayzone with the author’s permission. Following the Taliban’s victory over the US military, US corporate media has churned out a new narrative about the imminent threat of terrorism from Afghanistan that sets the stage for future military interventions. Blasted out in a stunningly disciplined fashion, the media has demonstrated as clearly as … Continue reading “Corporate Media Stirred Global Terror Hysteria To Push Postwar Hostility Toward New Afghan Govt”

Reprinted from The Grayzone with the author’s permission. In the wake of a remarkably successful Taliban offensive capped by the takeover of Kabul, the responses of corporate media provided what may have been the most dramatic demonstration ever of its fealty to the Pentagon and military leadership. The media did so by mounting a full-throated … Continue reading “Afghanistan Collapse Reveals Beltway Media’s Loyalty to Permanent War State”

Reprinted from The Grayzone with the author’s permission. Why did the top think tank Taiwan specialist ignore a longstanding U.S. policy that blocked any move by the Taiwanese leader that might have disrupted the political basis for China-Taiwan cooperation? And why did he give a free pass to the leader of Taiwan’s separatist party? An … Continue reading “How Washington’s Top Taiwan Specialist Embraced Separatist Party Leader and Opened New Cross-Strait Crisis”