Radio France: What is the significance of the announced troop withdrawal from Iraq?Grant F. Smith: We’ll have to see. Moving from the current number to 50,000 seems like an improvement, but who’s going to remain in all…
Month: February 2009
Obama, Iran and the Israel Lobby
This week Al Jazeera English is broadcasting a special report about the Obama administration, regional policy and the Israel Lobby. Al Jazeera has an audience reach of over 120 million households in…
AIPAC Trade Secrets Leak Led to $71 Billion Export Loss
Wall Street Journal’s Marketwatch via PRNewsWire The ITC compiled “business confidential” information and intellectual property solicited from US corporations and industry associations into a classified report for the negotiations. But on August…
Should AIPAC Decide What’s Classified?
On Feb. 17, Judge T.S. Ellis added a new twist in the case of two former American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) executives indicted under the 1917 Espionage Act. In what the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Secrecy…
Will Obama Break the Law for Israel’s Sake?
Since entering office, President Barack Obama has promised sweeping changes in three aspects of governance: transparency, law enforcement, and stewardship of American tax dollars. For a public weary of law enforcement forever…
American Finance and the End of Empire: Time for Lessons from Islamic Banking?
Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) IRmep International Fellow Tanya Cariina Hsu …It was the best con game in town: get paid well for selling vast amounts of risk, fail, and then…
Dennis Ross Chairmanship of Israeli Government Funded Think Tank Could Torpedo Iran Envoy Job
Former Clinton Administration Middle East diplomat Dennis Ross is under consideration as US State Department envoy to Iran. Ross is currently the chairman of the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute (JPPPI) in Jerusalem, established by the…