The official UN report on the Israeli assassination of Gaza flotilla protesters is presented. This is good reporting in that it speaks truth to the powers in the US government that toady to the extreme militarists in command of Israeli policy, those powers who have been hiding the report and evidence.

Gareth Porter shows why is is regarded highly in his reporting on the Middle East. At least, highly regarded by those wanting to know what really is going on.

I think we tend to rate a story by its considering coherence, our existing view of the author's competence, credibility and objectivity, whenever we have familiarity with his/her work, as well as available corroborating extrinsic information we bring to the story. On all counts, this report is persuasive. I've always found Gareth's reporting to be sober, probative and insightful.. We know from contemporaneous eyewitness reports that the Israel accounts of the raid were denied, uncorroborated by any credible evidence and available videos I recall seeing were compatible with eyewitness denials. The Israelis' purported intelligence that the flotilla was infiltrated with terrorists, to my knowledge, was unsubstantiated and ... More »