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…
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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…
Appointment of Dennis Ross to Iran Portfolio would be Disastrous
Qualifications for Obama’s Top Iran Diplomat President Barak Obama has passed over naming Dennis Ross to top Middle East or Iran policy jobs. This is an intelligent move. Ross has been correctly associated as…
Pro-Israel Pardons and Leniency Too Costly to Continue
A small but significant trial balloon went up late last year when Charles Winters received a presidential pardon. Winters delivered three converted World War II B-17 bombers to the nascent Israeli armed forces…
DOJ and Treasury Rebuff Calls to Investigate Alleged $60 Billion Israel Money Laundering Ring
Yahoo News via PRNewsWire On November 21, 2005, US Department of Justice officials convened in the Russell Senate Office building for a presentation about this indirect terrorism generator and how US nonprofit money laundering could be stopped…
Pay to Play Mideast Policy Over?
AntiWar.com Grant F. Smith “Saban and the Middle East � not Blagojevich and Illinois � are why this sudden and unexpected law enforcement intrusion into the quiet realm of pay-to-play matters. The hapless governor…
November 6, 2008 Washington Summit to Remove Barriers to US-Arab Investment Flow
AL-EQTISADIAH Newspaper The U.S. Treasury Department will seriously consider the most prominent features of Islamic banking, a necessary step before attempting to effectively tap regional capital. If successful, it could help address the financial crisis still coursing through the…
Registered Foreign Lobby Goes Stealth
Wall Street Journal’s Marketwatch via PRNewsWire Six decades ago Americans working as registered Israeli foreign agents launched New York, Washington and Los Angeles “Israel Office of Information (IOI)” branches. Newly declassified records…
Proposed Status of Forces Agreement would Handcuff Incoming President
Radio France Internationale – Bush Administration-Iraq Occupation Agreement RFI: In Iraq thousands of supporters of the influential cleric Muqtada al-Sadr gathered to demonstrate against the according being negotiated between Washington and Iraq that would…
Why Presidential Candidates Don’t Talk about Israel’s Nuclear Weapons
KZYX – Pacifica Radio Talk Show about “America’s Defense Line” Blankfort: …we see it yesterday in the debates playing out.. Smith: Right, everyone is reading from the script. And, of course, some of…
From Irgun to AIPAC: Israel Lobby’s US Treasury Follies Hurt America
Dissident Voice AIPAC and its associated think tank, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), were instrumental in lobbying the president for the creation of the Office of Terrorism and Financial…
Senator Biden Wrong: AIPAC Does Represent the Government of Israel
Wall Street Journal’s Marketwatch via PRNewsWire Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden publicly chastised the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on Wednesday. Accused of not backing AIPAC sponsored legislation, Biden told reporters,…
McCain-Obama Middle East Policy Converges
Radio France Internationale – Analysis US Troop Withdrawal from Iraq RFI: The White House has just revealed details about an accord to withdraw US troops from Iraq by the year 2011.This information was released…
Why Bush Will Pardon AIPAC for Espionage
AntiWar.com In 2005, Col. Lawrence Franklin was indicted alongside two executives of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) for allegedly violating the 1917 Espionage Act. Franklin later pled guilty to passing…
Declassified Old Documents Shed New Light on AIPAC Espionage Prosecution
Reuters via PR Newswire WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 — More than one thousand documents released under Freedom of Information Act filings reveal details of a secret battle that raged between founders of the…