Andrew Sullivan It seems that the Obama administration is beginning to show it means business. This reader helps relieve some of my ignorance:There is a very simple reason why we have to pretend…

Conference Announcement Leading Iraq specialists from the US and abroad will discuss the foundations of the Iraqi state and society in public memory.  Paper presentations and general discussion from Nadje Al-Ali (University…

Book review by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad Supporters of the Israel lobby have long maintained that the reason it does not have to register as an agent of a foreign government is that…

via BusinessWire A legal filing to the United States Trade Representative (USTR) calls for suspension of the US-Israel Free Trade Area. The Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep) “Section 301 of…

When taped a few years ago, our gal was talking to someone at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. AIPAC has long controlled a great many American politicians; its website quotes the New…

Global pharmaceuticals companies, which often argue that Israel should pass stricter legislation to protect intellectual property, have received support from an unexpected corner recently: the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep),…

Radio France Internationale RFI: King Abdullah of Jordan met this week in Washington with President Barak Obama.  The monarch was the first Middle East leader invited to visit during the new administration.  The…

A 92 page legal filing urges the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to immediately suspend preferential Israeli access to the US market.  In 1983 the Israeli Prime Minister and American Israel Public…

The declassified US Army report titled “The Joint Operating Environment 2008” identifies Israel as a nuclear weapons power. Specifically the US Army highlights “a growing arc of nuclear powers running from Israel…

Shutting down the current US v Rosen and Weissman case before it goes to trial would similarly short circuit rule of law in the United States. Only a public trial can reveal…

Free trade agreements (FTAs) are supposed to help American businesses improve their profits, create more jobs and build their industries by opening new markets for export of their products with foreign countries…

Chicago radio host Ray Hanania and Grant Smith discuss an upcoming IRmep report about the US-Israel Free Trade Area (FTA): 1. Impact of AIPAC and the Israeli government’s acquisition of business confidential information…

Radio France Internationale RFI:  On Monday President Obama stopped in Turkey during his European tour.  Turkey is the largest NATO and Muslim ally of the US.  In Ankara President Obama sought to restore…

Radio France: What is the significance of the announced troop withdrawal from Iraq?Grant F. Smith: We’ll have to see. Moving from the current number to 50,000 seems like an improvement, but who’s going to remain in all…

This week Al Jazeera English is broadcasting a special report about the Obama administration, regional policy and the Israel Lobby.  Al Jazeera has an audience reach of over 120 million households in…

Wall Street Journal’s Marketwatch via PRNewsWire The ITC compiled “business confidential” information and intellectual property solicited from US corporations and industry associations into a classified report for the negotiations. But on August…

Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) IRmep International Fellow Tanya Cariina Hsu …It was the best con game in town: get paid well for selling vast amounts of risk, fail, and then…

Former Clinton Administration Middle East diplomat Dennis Ross is under consideration as US State Department envoy to Iran. Ross is currently the chairman of the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute (JPPPI) in Jerusalem, established by the…