University of MD-Zogby International Poll Israel, rather than Iran or Al Qaeda, is perceived as the looming threat to the Arab world according to a recently released opinion poll conducted in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi…
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Five Years Later: Costs of Iraq Hit Home in the US
Five Years Later: Costs of Iraq Hit Home in the US RFI: President George Bush defends the military invasion of Iraq and affirms that the war for liberty will be won… Segment of…
The Lobby, Elliot Abrams and Israel’s Nuclear Weapons
Talk Radio – Republic Broadcasting Network Dr. Kevin Barrett: …regardless of what Elliot Abrams (Deputy National Security Advisor) might think, I think it’s frightening.Grant Smith: Well, it is frightening…when you look at someone like Elliot Abrams, and this…
AIPAC vs the Foreign Agents Registration Act
Talk Radio – The Todd Feinburg Show Radio host Todd Feinburg, named three times to Talkers Magazine’s list of the Top 100 Most Important Talk Hosts in America, interviews Grant Smith about…
Espionage in the 21st Century
Steven Aftergood Espionage remains “a very real threat to U.S. national security,” a House Judiciary Committee panel was told this week. “Since the end of the Cold War, there have been 78…
Is the “Project for a New American Century” Killing off the US Economy?
IRmep Opportunity Cost Analysis The plunging US economy and drastic efforts by the Bush administration to stimulate consumption through a $145 billion package raise an important question, “how did we get into such dire…
The Price of Willful Ignorance
Artur Davis and Eric Cantor “John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt are at it again, attempting to poison the well of American politics with their misleading depiction of an Israeli stranglehold…
What is the True Cost of US-Israel Trade?
What is the True Cost of US-Israel Trade? Economic Espionage and Trade Mitchell Bard “The [US-Israel] relationship extends beyond the federal government to the state and local level. A milestone in these contacts occurred…
Bush Visit to Palestine Tragically Late
Radio France Internationale – Interview RFI: President George Bush will begin a series of meetings in the Middle East. We are joined by Grant Smith of the IRmep in Washington: Grant Smith: The objective…
Israeli-Turkish-Pakistani-US Nuclear Secrets Smuggling Ring?
Foreign Agents crime linked to Marc Grossman An FBI translator under gag order, Sibel Edmonds, has charged that former Ambassador Marc Grossman participated in a money laundering and international nuclear arms secrets smuggling ring, according to the London…
Interpol to Get Involved in 2008?
Spotlight on International Nonprofit Money Laundering Ronald Noble, the Secretary-General of Interpol, has a difficult decision to make in 2008. On August 14, 2005 USA Today and other news organizations broke the news that Israeli…
Case Thrown Out before Trial?
AIPAC Espionage Trial Leonard Charles, Inn World Report: Before we have to go, let’s talk for a moment about the Steve Rosen- Keith Weissman case which comes back into court in April. …
Annapolis Conference – Why Now?
Radio France Internationale – Interview RFI: What is the significance of a peace conference right now? Grant Smith, IRmep: Let’s look at it from a strategic vista. At the very same time Bush administration is reinitiating…
Why AIPAC took over Brookings
Dissident Voice Excerpt from the book “Foreign Agents” By targeting and taking over Middle East policy at Brookings in 2002, Saban and Indyk were able to “leapfrog” AIPAC messaging from second to last in the think…
Weak US Law Enforcement Key to AIPAC Operations
Discussion of the book “Foreign Agents“ “…although it’s quite a dry book, it makes very gripping readingfor what it reveals….the whole thing is a kind of network, a nightmarish network that is brilliantly revealed…
AIPAC Espionage Case Ruling opens door to Executive Privilege Dismissal
Presiding Judge T.S. Ellis ruled against most of the prosecution team’s efforts to limit Rosen and Weissman’s broad subpoena list of high US government officials in the prosecution of the former AIPAC officials. The prosecuting…
Politicized Troop Movements?
Radio France – The Petraeus Report – Analysis Radio France Internationale: The US President George W. Bush Hill announced the withdrawal of 30,000 US troops deployed in Iraq. This message is directed at two audiences. In the US Congress the…
Grant F. Smith: These are stifling times at college campuses
More than a decade later, I stand in awe over how intolerant of diverse views higher education and research institutions have become. The educational ferment is being purposefully watered down as cowardly…
Where Did AIPAC Come From?
The following is an excerpt from Foreign Agents: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee From the 1963 Fulbright Hearings to the 2005 Espionage Scandal. AIPAC was founded by Isaiah L. “Si” Kenen, springing…
New Book FOREIGN AGENTS:
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee from the 1963 Fulbright Hearings to the 2005 Espionage Scandal “In this book, Grant Smith renders a vital public service by providing chapter-and-verse evidence that the…