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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…
AIPAC Espionage Case Dismissal Gambit Fails:
Ellis Opinion clears way for Logan Act and FARA Prosecutions
An August 9, 2006 opinion by presiding Judge TS Ellis III and forthcoming ruling has dealt a decisive blow to forces supporting full dismissal of the AIPAC espionage case. Defendants Rosen and Weissman, formerly…
Neoconservative Policy Front Groups
Radio Interview – KZYX & Z, 90.7, 91.5, Mendocino County Public Radio Grant Smith: “When we look at the tax filings of PNAC, what we notice is that although it is broadly…
A Whole New World by Darren Dahl
Inc Magazine The Middle East never appeared on Michael Connelly’s list of potential new markets when he thought about expanding overseas. Canada seemed like the next logical step for Connelly’s company, New…
Lebanon Burning
America is normally a “can-do” country, but not when it comes to Middle East policy. As a result of two “do-nothing” diplomats, one at the UN, the other in the State Department,…
“Saving Private Ryan” or the “Clean Break” Plan?
VOA Panel Discussion Pedro Rodriguez Diario ABC de Espanol: To me it looks like an amplified version of what happened in Gaza with Hamas last month (June) with the capture of a soldier….
Are the Final Stages of the Neoconservative “Clean Break” Plan Now Underway?
Israel’s extermination of a Palestinian family picnicking on the beach in June has touched off a growing regional conflict as Hamas and Hezbollah launched indiscriminate retaliatory attacks and detentions against the Jewish state. Israel has now unleashed a broad “collective punishment” campaign against critical infrastructure in…
IRmep referenced in “Soft Power: the Means to Success in World Politics”
by Joseph S. Nye, Jr, Dean of the Kennedy School of Government – Harvard University Chapter 2: “Sources of America’s Soft Power” pp. 43-44 The effects of the Iraq War should not…
The Ahmadinejad Letter and the Iran Nuclear Confrontation
VOA Panel Discussion Grant Smith, IRmep: I think their response was almost inevitable. We can see in the letter that Ahmadinejad at first tries to show some commonalties, and nexus between religions….
TheIsrael Lobby by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt
Letter – London Review of Books We wrote ‘The Israel Lobby’ in order to begin a discussion of a subject that had become difficult to address openly in the United States (LRB,…
HR 4681 and the Congressional Siege on Palestinians
Policy Research Note Punishing the Victim AIPAC’s 290 Congressional co-sponsors and staffers are facing massive opposition in their bid to pass punitive legislation on Palestinians. An array of organized opposition from the American…
Mainstream Media: Spinning the AIPAC Spy Case as a 1st Amendment Issue
The Washington Post Finally gets its Story Straight On Saturday, April 29, 2006 the Washington Post issued a correction to a Walter Pincus story about the AIPAC espionage case at the insistence of IRmep….
Let The AIPAC Spy Trial Begin:
Why Prosecuting Weissman and Rosen Matters Today Judge T.S. Ellis III offered a rare second opportunity to the Rosen and Weissman defense team. They again made their case that the indictment of the…
The Bush Administration’s Final Surprise:
Chinese or Russian Nuclear Missiles Based in Iran Bush’s biggest surprise yet may be just around the corner. Like the other “challenges” it will largely be a disaster of his own making:…
The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy
Harvard-Chicago U Report The U.S. national interest should be the primary object of American foreign policy. For the past several decades, however, and especially since the Six Day War in 1967, the…