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…
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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…
America’s Defense Line: The Justice Department’s Battle to Register the Israel Lobby as Agents of a Foreign Government
An unforeseen effect of the Iraq war is that it has allowed more Americans to speak freely about the role of the Israel lobby. When and how was it born? While it…
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)…