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…
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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…
Case Closed: Policy Drives Negative Views of United States in the Arab World
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…
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…