…..Whatever these revelations would precipitate remains to be seen. But it is interesting to note that the focus of US (and international) attention dwarfs another “amazing” but little noticed revelation last May…
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American Dilemma
India’s National Magazine The U.S. supports a document calling for a nuclear-free West Asia at the NPT Review Conference and then says the decision was a mistake. U.S. President Barack Obama has…
Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal Espionage, Opacity and Future
Invitation to IRmep Panel Discussion What do newly declassified documents about weapons grade uranium and dual-use technology diversions from the US reveal about the role of espionage in building Israel’s secret arsenal? …
Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal–Espionage, Opacity and Future
IRmep Panel Discussion Audio The following official audio files of “Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal” panel presentations are now available for download: Jeffrey Blankfort reviews US positioning toward the NPT review conference call for a…
Senator Pressures NRC to Clear NUMEC President of Illegal Uranium Diversions to Israel
via BusinessWire he office of Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania attempted to obtain a statement from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission according to documents newly released under the Freedom of Information Act. On…
Possible Western Pennsylvania link to Israeli nukes boosted
Tribune-Review A recently declassified federal report (PDF, obtained by IRmep) bolsters a long-simmering Cold War theory that uranium was illegally shipped from an Armstrong County plant in 1965 to Israel to support its nuclear…
Vets Deplore Ledeen War Propaganda in VFW Magazine on Memorial Day Eve
WASHINGTON, May 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — U.S. veterans were shocked and dismayed that the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) refused to publish retractions, corrections or responses to an article by Michael Ledeen published…
Declassified GAO Report Exposes Fatally Flawed Israel Investigations
The 2010 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is underway at UN Headquarters in New York. A working paper calls for a nuclear-free Middle East. It would…
Secret GAO Study Finds Investigations of Israeli Weapons Grade Uranium Diversions “Inadequate”
A declassified Government Accountability Office report entitled “Nuclear Diversion in the U.S.? 13 Years of Contradiction and Confusion” reveals serious flaws hampering investigations into diversions of US weapons grade uranium to Israel. …
America’s Loose Nukes in Israel
Israel decided this week to send Minister for Intelligence Affairs Dan Meridor to the Nuclear Security summit. This U.S. bid to secure vulnerable nuclear stockpiles against non-state actors is both closely watched and…
Obama Can Stop Funding Illegal Settlements
Pull the Jewish Agency’s US Tax Exemption, and the Settlement Problem Goes Away President Obama, Vice President Biden, and Secretary of State Clinton have been uncharacteristically frank about how illegal Israeli settlements…
US Owes no Gratitude for Israeli Commercial Espionage
P U L SE Israel appeared on the US Trade Representative’s punitive watch list for almost half a decade for massive copycat and counterfeit drugs production severe violations of US patents. On…
Israeli Intelligence, our constant Companion
by Jeff Stein “…..But another of Mossad’s reason for being, as with all the world’s spy services, is to make sure friends are really friends. And judging by once sensitive FBI documents making the…
US Department of Justice Asked to Regulate AIPAC as a Foreign Agent of the Israeli Government
WASHINGTON, March 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The US Department of Justice has been formally asked to begin regulating the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as the foreign agent of the Israeli Ministry…
Israel’s Lobby Imposes Crippling Sanctions on America — Again
The Israel lobby’s campaign against US and international corporations doing business with Iran is gearing up this week. The tip of the spear is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee sponsored expansion of the…
New FBI Files Alleging AIPAC Theft of Government Property and Israeli Espionage Released
Via BusinessWire WASHINGTON, March 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Declassified files detailing an FBI investigation targeting the American Israel Public Affairs Committee are now available on the Internet. AIPAC was investigated after it acquired and…
Israel Violates Economic Sanctions Against Iran
Israel’s Rich — but nutty — history The Obama administration is escalating economic sanctions against Iran. Administered by a secretive unit within the US Treasury Department, they will freeze the assets of Revolutionary Guard…
How Israel’s Lobby Challenges Rule of Law in America
This week the Iranian satellite television channel PressTV is broadcasting a 25 minute interview with IRmep director Grant F. Smith about the Israel lobby’s history of challenges to rule of law and…
The IRS and Illegal Settlements
The Diane Rehm Show IRmep research director Grant F. Smith briefed IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman on National Public Radio about the US Treasury Department’s failure to regulate American charities laundering funds into…
AIPAC officials duplicated classified policy documents before returning to US government
CNBC/BusinessWire Washington – Top officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee duplicated a stolen classified US government policy document before returning it under order of the US Trade Representative. The newly…