FOREIGN AGENTS analyzes the history and activities of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC. FOREIGN AGENTS begins with testimony and subpoenaed documents from the 1963 Senate investigation into the activities…
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US Financial War against Iran joined by Rhetorical “Surge”
Voice of America – Inter American Forum IRmep: Iranian President Ahmadinejad can travel to Venezuela, he can travel to Bolivia to talk about developing their natural gas. He can travel to Nicaragua to gift new housing,…
Pacifica Radio New York
8/19/2007 Shelton Walden Interviews Grant Smith about Foreign Agents(MP3) (WMA)
Iranian Aid to Nicaragua – Inflating the Threat to the US….Again?
Voice of America – Inter American Forum Roger Noriega (American Enterprise Institute)and former undersecretary of State: “You really have to go out of your way to reach out to one of the four biggest…
International Arab Students not receiving full benefits of a US Education
Inside Higher Education But by and large, the recent history of Saudi-U.S. interaction on U.S. campuses is characterized by “broad failures,” says Grant Smith, director of research for the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern…
US exports to Arab world set to hit $45 billion in 2007
Kaleej Times – US Arab Trade Outlook Sales of American merchandise to the Arab world in 2006 topped $35 billion, a 28 per cent increase over the previous year. The outlook for 2007…
A Good Faith Peace Effort?
Radio France – US Led Regional Peace Conference – Full Interview Radio France Internationale: The American proposal to have a regional peace conference in the coming months has been immediately rejected by the radical…
Installing Fatah in exchange for Withheld Tax and Customs Revenue
Radio France – Outside Military Support for Palestinian Factionalism – Full Interview RFI: The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, signed a decree in the early hours this Sunday a decree creating a new emergency Palestinian government. The new cabinet…
IRmep – An Ex Parte Intervention in the AIPAC Spy Trial
IRmep Center for Policy and Law Enforcement On April 23, 2007, IRmep filed a formal submission urging that evidence presented by the US Attorney’s Office in the AIPAC espionage case not be undermined or…
Is Mainstream Corporate Media subverting the AIPAC Spy Trial?
Graymail and Freedom of the Press Another AIPAC motion to intervene filer, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, clarified the mainstream corporate media’s collective desire to continue serving as a willing conduit for selectively released classified information, According to Lucy…
The Product of Flawed Strategies
Radio France – Chaos in Iraq: RFI: US defense secretary Robert Gates has traveled to Falluja even as criticism of the US troop escalation continue in Washington. Grant Smith, director of the Institute…
AL-EQTISADIAH NEWSPAPER
IMF and World Bank Struggle to be Relevant The International Monetary Fund is struggling to both influence trade, monetary and fiscal policy in an age where it is becoming increasingly less relevant. In Latin…
Douglas Feith’s OSP and Intelligence Falsification: Radio France Internationale
Pre-Invasion Neocon Propaganda Intro: The Pentagon has confirmed in a report that Saddam Hussein did not have links with Al Qaeda, one of the principal arguments of President George Bush for invading Iraq in 2003. There were…
Kiplinger Magazine Profiles IRmep Arab Trade Report
Problems in Iraq aren’t hurting U.S. exports to the Arab world. In fact, they’re boomingthis year and are on course to far outdo last year’s total of around $35 billion. The National…
Never Qualified to Lead the World Bank
Ousting Wolfowitz: Paul Wolfowitz has been blight upon the World Bank and a matter of shame for many Americans who are still seeking clarification over his role in developing and promoting fatally flawed US policies in…
US Exports to Arab World Surging, Report Says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. exports to Arab nations are forecast to reach a record $45 billion in 2007, shattering the previous high set last year, according to a report released on Thursday…
Is the US Considered an “Honest Broker” in the Middle East?
VOA Panel Discussion Adriana Amat: What possibilities for peace in the Middle East do you see, between Israelis and Palestinians, and returning to psychological warfare, children in school are taught from a very…
An Iraq War Subsidy financed by Deficit Spending
Television Interview – “Viewpoint” IRmep: Larger companies, to some extent, and this is a really crass thing to say, but the calculation may be, “I can export microprocessors in PCs (personal computers)…
AL-EQTISADIAH NEWSPAPER
Report Analysis and Discussion The United States continues to tie Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations to political rather than economic objectives. The US has shunned negotiations with existing customs unions such as the GCC…
Visa Denied: How Anti-Arab Visa Policies Destroy Us Exports, Jobs and Higher Education
Visa processing barriers limiting inbound international business and pleasure travelers cost the United States economy billions of dollars in direct revenues while severing vital communications links to the Arab market. Total Arab…