Report Analysis and Discussion Al Jazeera: What are the direct and indirect economic impact of US visa obstacles in the Arab world? IRmep: In this first detailed study we have estimated approximately $101 billion…
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Report Analysis and Discussion US Visa Policy Diminishing Exports and Manufacturing Jobs The arrival of Arab visitors to the US peaked in 2001 at 315,000 thousand entries. By 2005 the number had declined…
The Opportunity Cost of US Visa Denial
Radio Interview Los Angeles KPFK: Analysts at the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy released a report today stating the US economy has lost as much as $101 billion by excessively denying visas…
Visa Denied: How Anti-Arab Visa Policies Destroy US Exports, Jobs and Higher Education
IRmep Publishing Report Release In the aftermath of 9/11 US visa processing in the Arab world has ground to a halt. US consulates formerly striving to outsource key visa processes to travel agencies before the terror…
Escalation: Radio France Internationale
Ana Maria Corneja: President George Bush announced tonight that he would send 21,000 additional troops to Iraq, an unpopular measure opposed not only by Congress now controlled by Democrats, but also public opinion. …
Iraq: The New Nakba? VOA
Adriana Amat, VOA: Latin America is not really a priority for the United States, evidence of this includes the major foreign policy speech Bush Hill deliver in January will be about Iraq. What do…
From Lavon to Pierre Gemayel: Will We Ever Learn?
IRmep on the Diane Rehm Show – National Public Radio Steve Roberts, Syndicated Columnist: The big solution that is supposed to come out of the Baker-Hamilton commission is somehow expanded Middle East…
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Jane Harman: Unfit for Chair of the House Intelligence Committee
The recent Democratic Party take-over of the House and Senate has opened new leadership positions in many key committees. Representative Jane Harman is a six-term member of Congress who was widely thought…
Voters Insist on Qualified and Uncompromised Middle East Policymakers
Radio Interview Mendicino Public Radio KZYX “…there is a group that is as rabidly blinded [as the neocons] on the Democratic side that is chomping at the bit to bring their dogma…
Price Earnings Ratios Still Matter
AL-EQTISADIAH NEWSPAPER Emerging Arab Equities Markets The crash of the Saudi stock market in many respects has been different than the most recent crash affecting US investors. From September 2000 to January…
Israel Lobby Initiates Hispanic Strategy
“Invademos a Iran” AIPAC, the tip of the Israel lobby spear in Washington, began an executive search for a Deputy Director for Hispanic Outreach (PDF) in August of 2006. Reporting directly to AIPAC’s…
A “Clean Break” From Law: Espionage and Engineering the War In Iraq by Nathan Hamme
Falls Church News-Press “The question of whether this document amounts to an engineered coup of American foreign policy control by a non-governmental institution, Smith noted, is dependent largely upon your definition of…
A “Clean Break” From Law: Espionage and Engineering the War In Iraq by Nathan Hamme
Falls Church News-Press “The question of whether this document amounts to an engineered coup of American foreign policy control by a non-governmental institution, Smith noted, is dependent largely upon your definition of…
US Foreign Policy and Terrorism: Still Inviting Attacks
Five years after 9/11, US foreign policy still suffers the scorn of most of the Middle East, a growing number of Americans and invites a terror response from a small number of…
Secret Prisons and the Geneva Convention
VOA Panel Discussion It is not clear that Republican members of Congress are going to accept a military tribunal process that permits secret evidence, hearsay evidence, or testimony extracted under trauma. The…
The Clean Break Plan: A Conspiracy of Theories?
12:30-2:00 p.m Public Forum – The Palestine Center After being elected as Israel’s Prime Minister in 1996, Binyamin Netanyahu called on a group of policy advisors in the United States to outline…
“Deadly Dogma” and the Drive for FARA, Espionage Act and Wire Fraud Prosecutions
Radio Interview – WBAI Pacifica On August 15, 2006 Grant Smith appeared with WBAI Radio host Shelton Walden to discuss the new book and how the IRmep’s Center for Policy and Law…
UN Resolution 1701 and the Underlying Drivers of Middle East Conflict
Radio Interview – WWRL New York Dr. Ron Daniels: “Now UN resolution 242. A lot of people get up and start pounding about the enforcement of these resolutions. There was all of a…
The ‘Clean Break’ Plan Scorecard
Television Interview – “Viewpoint” Viewpoint: Tell me about the “Clean Break” plans for Congressional support.Grant Smith: “In terms of Congressional support, it is amazing what this document states. For example there is…