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Gareth Porter

Gareth Porter was the Saigon bureau chief for Dispatch News Service International in Saigon during all of 1971 and his articles were  published in leading U.S. newspapers, including the Washington Post.  He was Co-Director of the Indochina Resource Center in Washington, D.C. from 1974-76.  After the publication of his first book, “A Peace Denied: the United States, Vietnam and the Paris Agreement,” he served as the Staff Consultant for the House Select Committee on Missing Persons in Southeast Asia, accompanying the committee on its visit to North Vietnam in January 1976.  He was editor of Indochina Issue, a periodical specializing in Southeast Asian politics, from 1979-1982.  He was on the faculty of City College of New York and the School of International Service, American University in the 1980s, then served as Director or International Program for the Environmental and Energy Study Institute from 1991 to 1996. Over the next 15 years he was a consultant on global environment and sustainable development. He published “Perils of Dominance:Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam” (U. of California Press) in 2005. Early that same year, he began writing as an independent investigative journalist on U.S. national security policy and was a regular contributor to Inter Press Service for the next decade. He was the 2012 winner of the Gellhorn Prize for journalism in recognition of his articles on the U.S. war in Afghanistan. He published “Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare” (Just World Books) in 2014. He has also been published in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Nation, Consortium News, The American Conservative and other publications.

 

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