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…
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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…
The US-Israel Free Trade Agreement: Due for Cancellation?
IRmep Opportunity Cost Analysis Signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1985, the U.S.-Israel Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was our very first FTA. Nearly a quarter century of trade flowing under the agreement reveals a…
Exhausting other Options, Bush Administration turns to Diplomacy
Radio France Internationale – Analysis US-Iran Nuclear Negotiations RFI: The United Status surprised many around the world when it announced that a high level official of the US State Department will for the first…
Is There an Oil Shortage?
Common Dreams Ismael Hossein-zadeh, Drake University The popular perception of the recently skyrocketing oil price is that there is an oil shortage in global energy markets. The perceived shortage is generally blamed…
Talking to Terrorists: at Home and Abroad
“I should add that I would resent anyone, George W. Bush or Shelly Rubin, telling me whom I can talk to and whom I can’t talk to. I hope that we haven’t…
War Induced Inflation Hitting Americans Hard at the Gas Pump
Massive government spending on the US invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan is fueling inflation that many Americans are encountering at the gas pump. But the new energy crisis is affecting Americans much more…
AIPAC report reveals long history of activities harmful to U.S.
Arab American News Washington, DC. Members of the press, bloggers and law enforcement officials could request a free copy of a special 200 page report on the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)…
AIPAC’s Near East Report and the Israeli Nuclear Weapons Program Coverup
Former President Jimmy Carter confirmed that when he was president intelligence briefers advised him Israel possessed 150 nuclear weapons. Back when the United States was fighting for the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty AIPAC founder Isaiah…
2006 Flashback: Heritage, Brookings and AEI Blunders on Iraq and Petroleum Prices
Think Tank Watch – Ignoring the Demand Side of Fuel Prices In a January 2006 report on the future of petroleum, IRmep made several predictions based on supply, and more importantly, demand side factors driving…
Saban Superdelegate Scheme Jeopardizes AIPAC National Security Council Appointees
Think Tank Watch The exposure of Israeli-American media mogul Haim Saban’s efforts to secure superdelegate support for Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton could spell disaster for AIPAC political appointees. Martin Indyk, Dennis Ross, and Kenneth Pollack…
Olmert Scandal May Prevent Necessary Territorial Concessions During Bush Visit
Radio France Internationale – Analysis US-Israel Corruption Scandal RFI: The Justice Ministry of Israel confirmed that prime minister Olmert is under criminal investigation for receiving suspected bribes paid by an American businessman before he assumed power. The money was…
Important First Test in Applying the “Rice Doctrine”
Secretary of State Rice Speech at the AJC During a speech to a meeting of the American Jewish Committee on April 29, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced an important new doctrine for classifying and…
Transferring the Iraq Debacle to the Next President
Radio France Internationale – Analysis RFI: The president of the United Status, George W. Bush, suspended the withdrawal of troops from Iraq that was scheduled for this summer. He was supporting the chief…