Editor’s note: The following statement (original format [.pdf]) was submitted to the District Court of the District of Columbia on March 3, 1987, by the former secretary of defense one day before Judge Aubry E….
New Side-by-Side Gaza Flotilla Timeline Report Discredits Israeli Version of Events
A comprehensive report examining the minute-by-minute versions of the same events during the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla attack by Israel was released by two charity groups today. Contrasting passenger testimonies against official Israeli…
Israel’s right hand on Capitol Hill
Washington Square News – Ishan Talukdar AIPAC is a lobbying group dedicated to promoting Israeli interests to the American public as well as within the government. It does this by placing people…
Free Pollard Now, Pay Later
Declassified FBI file reveals cost of ignoring Israeli espionage The proposal to free spy Jonathan Pollard in exchange for Israel extending a temporary freeze on settlement building has now received support from four…
Declassified: Israel Lobby’s 50 Year Campaign to Undermine Free Speech in America
Host Jeffrey Blankfort interviews Grant F. Smith on the public radio program “Takes on the World” about newly unsealed Senate Foreign Relations Committee files investigating the Israel lobby. The documents reveal quarterly $5,000 payments from the Jewish…
Could Ground-Zero Mosque’s Backers Be Worse Than AIPAC’s?
Former American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) staffer M.J. Rosenberg told the Israel lobby to “pull the plug” on activities fanning the “anti-Muslim explosion that has seized this country over the past…
The Israel Lobby: Declassified Documents Expose Its Influence
“In the old days, journalists were bought off to ignore them [opposition views on ME policy]. They now do it willingly and reflexively, knowing the consequences otherwise, the Israeli Lobby’s power to…
The Israel Lobby Swims The Atlantic
Jeffrey Goldberg’s current cover story in The Atlantic, “The Point of No Return,” achieved massive distribution across a broad spectrum of old and new media in the United States. Some observers – including Glenn…
Declassified Senate Investigation Files Reveal Clandestine Israeli PR Campaign in America
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Declassified files from a Senate investigation into Israeli-funded covert public relations and lobbying activity in the United States were released by the National Archives and Records Administration…
Try Assange Under the Espionage Act
The outrage over the WikiLeaks release of 90,000 classified operational reports from Afghanistan is slowly congealing into calls for action. Adm. Mike Mullen and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates charged that the leaker and…
Tel Aviv’s worst kept secret: Nuclear arsenal makes it hard for Obama to press for non-proliferation in Middle East
…..Whatever these revelations would precipitate remains to be seen. But it is interesting to note that the focus of US (and international) attention dwarfs another “amazing” but little noticed revelation last May…
American Dilemma
India’s National Magazine The U.S. supports a document calling for a nuclear-free West Asia at the NPT Review Conference and then says the decision was a mistake. U.S. President Barack Obama has…
Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal Espionage, Opacity and Future
Invitation to IRmep Panel Discussion What do newly declassified documents about weapons grade uranium and dual-use technology diversions from the US reveal about the role of espionage in building Israel’s secret arsenal? …
Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal–Espionage, Opacity and Future
IRmep Panel Discussion Audio The following official audio files of “Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal” panel presentations are now available for download: Jeffrey Blankfort reviews US positioning toward the NPT review conference call for a…
Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal: Espionage, Opacity and Future 2010
What do newly declassified documents about weapons grade uranium and dual-use technology diversions from the US reveal about the role of espionage in building Israel’s secret arsenal? Did Israel’s proposed nuclear weapons…
Senator Pressures NRC to Clear NUMEC President of Illegal Uranium Diversions to Israel
via BusinessWire he office of Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania attempted to obtain a statement from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission according to documents newly released under the Freedom of Information Act. On…
Possible Western Pennsylvania link to Israeli nukes boosted
Tribune-Review A recently declassified federal report (PDF, obtained by IRmep) bolsters a long-simmering Cold War theory that uranium was illegally shipped from an Armstrong County plant in 1965 to Israel to support its nuclear…
Vets Deplore Ledeen War Propaganda in VFW Magazine on Memorial Day Eve
WASHINGTON, May 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — U.S. veterans were shocked and dismayed that the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) refused to publish retractions, corrections or responses to an article by Michael Ledeen published…
Declassified GAO Report Exposes Fatally Flawed Israel Investigations
The 2010 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is underway at UN Headquarters in New York. A working paper calls for a nuclear-free Middle East. It would…
Secret GAO Study Finds Investigations of Israeli Weapons Grade Uranium Diversions “Inadequate”
A declassified Government Accountability Office report entitled “Nuclear Diversion in the U.S.? 13 Years of Contradiction and Confusion” reveals serious flaws hampering investigations into diversions of US weapons grade uranium to Israel. …