Pax-salon Mailing List: Fwd: Gareth Porter: Manufactured Crisis: the Untold Story of the Iran Crisis May 7 & May 8

[Patty Guerrero (pattypax]

this will be very good.  Maybe you will want to go and hear him.   Patty

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> From: Coleen Rowley <rowleyclan [at] earthlink.net>
> Subject: Gareth Porter: Manufactured Crisis: the Untold Story of the Iran 
> Crisis May 7 & May 8
> Date: May 1, 2014 at 8:10:06 PM CDT
> To: Coleen Rowley <rowleyclan [at] earthlink.net>
> 
> 
> Great upcoming talks by Gareth Porter in case you didn't already see,  Coleen 
> R. 
>  
>  
> “Manufactured Crisis: the Untold Story of Iran Nuclear Scare,” A Talk by
> Gareth Porter, the award-winning investigative journalist and historian will 
> be held Wednesday, May 7, 7:00 p.m., Macalester Plymouth United Church in the 
> Social Hall, 1658 Lincoln Ave., St. Paul (free parking south of the church) 
> and Thursday, May 8, 7:00 p.m., Spirit of St. Stephens, 2201 First Avenue 
> South, Minneapolis (Entrance and free parking in lots on the First Ave. /West 
> side, or on the street.) FREE and open to the public.
>  
> Talks between the P5+1 (The five permanent members of the UN Security 
> Council: U.S., China, Russia, France, Britain + Germany) and Iran resume May 
> 13, to be concluded in June. In his talks in the Twin Cities, Gareth Porter 
> will examine the premise they are based on. Gareth Porter is the author of 
> the Manufactured Crisis: the Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, 
> published in 2014 (Just World Books). Porter will address his findings based 
> on an intensive dissection of allegations about Iran’s nuclear program. 
> Porter is “the most conscientious follower of the fantasy danger of Iran’s 
> purported ‘nuclear weapons program,’”according to Iran expert University of 
> Minnesota William Beeman.
>  
> As an historian and investigative journalist, Porter has b een examining U.S. 
> foreign policy, military and security issues regarding the Middle East and 
> Afghanistan, as well as writing on the Philippines, Korea, Cambodia, and Viet 
> Nam. Porter is a news analyst for Inter Press Service (IPS). His writing is 
> published at Truthout, the Huffington Post, The Nation, Al-Jazeera English, 
> Counterpunch, Raw Story and Salon.com, among other places. He was the 2012 
> recipient of the prestigious London-based Martha Gellhorn Prize for 
> Journalism, an award presented to a journalist who reveals “an unpalatable 
> truth, validated by powerful facts.” (Julian Assange received the award in 
> 2011 for Wikileaks).
>  
> With a PhD in South-East Asian Studies, Porter began his career as the Saigon 
> Bureau Chief for Dispatch News Service during the Vietnam War and went on to 
> report stories for international news media. Throughout his career, he has 
> worked to debunk policy formation and propaganda that can lead to war. His 
> 2005 book, Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in 
> Vietnam (University of California Press) was called “without a doubt, the 
> most important contribution to the history of the U.S. national security 
> policy to appear in the last decade” by historian Andrew Bacevich.
>  
> Today, Iranians are experiencing the detrimental effects of economic 
> sanctions and the continual threat of future military attacks. It will be 
> important to hear what Gareth Porter has to say about the Iran nuclear scare, 
> which provides the premise for U.S. relations with Iran. Sponsored by Women 
> Against Military Madness. Co-sponsored in St. Paul by Macalester Plymouth 
> United Church Peacemakers. Co-sponsored in Minneapolis by Spirit of St. 
> Stephen’s Justice Education and Action Committee.
> 

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