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8/23/2010 IRmep's Grant F. Smith and Scott Horton of ANTIWAR Radio discuss documents released from the Senate investigation of Israel's covert lobbying and PR campaigns, threats to the continued freedom to practice (out of favor) religions in America, how neoconservatives use their unchallenged talking points in mainstream media to push for war with Iran, the Atlantic magazine's history of promoting Israeli policy objectives and how AIPAC wields power by withholding campaign contributions to wayward politicians. (Download) 07/07/2010 IRmep held a panel discussion at the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC titled "Israel's Nuclear Arsenal: Espionage, Opacity and Future." 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 Middle East free of nuclear weapons. He recounts first hand experiences with an ADL/Apartheid South Africa intelligence agent targeting US activists. (MP3 3.6 MB) Grant F. Smith explores how collaborating in Israeli "strategic ambiguity" undermines rule of law and governance in the United States. He reviews the NUMEC nuclear diversion case and a new Senate attempt to exonerate those involved. (MP3 6.2 MB)Sasha-Polakow Suransky reviews Apartheid South African sales of yellow-cake uranium to Israel's military establishment and argues that AIPAC positively contributed to US policymaking. (MP3 5.9 MB) John J. Mearsheimer discusses why Israel acquired a nuclear arsenal and the danger it presents to US interests. (MP3 6.2 MB) 07/06/2010 Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio and Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, discuss the upcoming International Spy Museum event ""Israel's Nuclear Arsenal: Espionage, Opacity and Future" and newly released documents about Senator Arlen Specter pressuring the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to exonerate NUMEC enriched uranium diversions. Download 05/11/2010 Scott Horton interviews Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C., about the newly declassified 1978 GAO report released by IRmep on 5/10/2010. They cover the diversion of US nuclear material to Israel, marginal investigations and possible cover-ups by the FBI and CIA, prosecutorial immunity for high-profile Americans who commit crimes for Israel's benefit, and billionaire Haim Saban's considerable influence on the Democratic Party. They review new information about why LBJ's political debt to fundraiser Abraham Feinberg (designated by David Ben Gurion as the US funding coordinator for Israel's nuclear weapons program in 1958) probably explained his disdain for the NUMEC investigation and applying nuclear nonproliferation to Israel. Download 04/14/2010 Antiwar radio host Scott Horton and Grant F. Smith discuss Israel’s underwhelming representation at the Nuclear Security summit and the 1960s diversion of highly enriched uranium from Pennsylvania to Israel’s nuclear weapons program. Download 03/24/2010 Antiwar radio host Scott Horton and Grant F. Smith discuss the illegal settlements "row" between Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and vice president Joe Biden, the 1938 Foreign Agents Registration Act, and Israel lobby groups that are now far out of compliance. Download 02/08/2010 Grant F. Smith sits down with PressTV's Susan Modaress to discuss how arms smuggling, subverting a Justice Department foreign agent registration order and string of presidential pardons generated an assumption of criminal immunity within the Israel lobby. They review new tactics US law enforcement agencies are implementing to stem Israeli commercial espionage operations in the United States and why President Obama can't stop illegal settlements as a minor first step toward Middle East peace. Download 01/11/2010 Grant F. Smith makes the case to IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman that the US needs to crack down on US charities laundering tax exempt donations into illegal Israeli settlements. The Diane Rehm Show is produced at WAMU 88.5 and distributed by National Public Radio, NPR Worldwide, and SIRIUS satellite radio. Each week, more than 2.2 million listeners across the country tune in to the program. Download 12/09/2009 Jeffrey Blankfort discusses on KZYX public radio his groundbreaking analysis of a Pew Research poll of Council on Foreign Relations members, which finds them less supportive of current US-Israel relations than the general public. Later in the program Blankfort and Grant Smith discuss findings from the new IRmep book "Spy Trade: How Israel's Lobby Undermines America's Economy" and the current AIPAC drive for economic sanctions and military strikes on Iran. Download 10/07/2009 Grant F. Smith discusses Freedom of Information Act requests under the Obama administration's "presumption of openness" mandate and why the Israel lobby has become "too connected" to be regulated with Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio. Download 09/03/2009 Grant F. Smith discusses Steven Rosen's defamation lawsuit against AIPAC, the "everyone else does it" excuse for trafficking in classified information and the DOJ's history of capitulation to the Israel lobby with Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio. Download 08/18/2009 - Grant F. Smith confronts the Saban Center's Martin Indyk about how improprieties in negotiating the US-Israel Free Trade Area might affect the willingness of other countries to pact trade deals with Israel. Download 07/23/2009 - PressTV Washington correspondent Jihan Hafiz interviews Grant F. Smith about recent Israeli pharmaceutical violations of the US-Israel Free Trade Area. Download 04/08/2009 Scott Horton and Grant F. Smith discuss Steve Rosen's lawsuit against AIPAC, the increasing political stakes in the upcoming Rosen/Weissman espionage trial, the growing political pressure for Barak Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder to dismiss the case and the possibility that AIPAC's function as a foreign agent will be openly discussed in court. Download 03/11/2009 Radio Host Ray Hanania interviewed Grant Smith on WJJG Chicago. They discussed an upcoming report about the Impact of AIPAC and the Israeli government's acquisition of business confidential information provided by concerned US industries to the US Trade Representative during trade negotiations. They reviewed ongoing commercial espionage in weapons systems design, pharmaceutical clinical dossiers, and other intellectual property. The US-Israel FTA is the only bilateral FTA producing multi-billion dollar yearly deficits now totaling $71 billion and negative jobs impact of 126,000 manufacturing related jobs. Review measures the Obama administration should take as it begins reevaluating FTAs against the new trade agenda. Download 11/09/2008 Radio host Sherif S. Fam interviewed Grant Smith on WZBC Cambridge, Massachusetts. During the Sunday morning program "This Week in Palestine." They discussed the history of the Israel lobby in presidential cabinets and how Obama's picks will impact Middle East policy. Download 10/25/2008 - Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio interviews Grant Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy and author of America's Defense Line: The Justice Department's Battle to Register the Israel Lobby as Agents of a Foreign Government. They discuss the intrigue behind the AIPAC espionage case, long range patterns of Neocon activity in the Pentagon and the history behind the Logan Act. They also cover corporate media issue framing, the likely continuity of Washington consensus Mideast policy in an Obama administration and AIPAC's imposition of obstacles toward US exports to the wider Mideast. Download 10/08/2008 - Presidential candidates fiercely debate nuclear proliferation in the Middle East—with one caveat: Israel's nuclear weapons. Jeffrey Blankfort of the Pacifica Radio "Takes on the World" program interviews Grant Smith about the new book "America's Defense Line: The Justice Department's Battle to Register the Israel Lobby as Agents of a Foreign Government". Download (Partial broadcast with listener call-in.) 7/16/2008 - The Bush
administration is reversing its long held position that suspension of
uranium enrichment was the price of Iran's seat at a negotiating table.
But how genuine is the move toward a face-to-face between Undersecretary
of State Burns and Iran's
Javier Solana. Why now? Is it a strategic
shift or policy realignment? And what about the impact on fall
elections? Grant Smith talks to Radio France Internationale.
Download (Foreign Language
Broadcast) 2/24/2008 - The Todd Feinburg Show. Many Americans question the source of Israel's strong political influence in this country. An answer, at least in part, may be offered in Grant Smith's new book, "Foreign Agents - The American Israel Public Affairs Committee from the 1963 Fulbright Hearings to the 2005 Espionage Scandal." A criminal trial against two AIPAC executives will commence this spring, and Smith suggests that Americans will learn more as it unfolds about how Israel lobbyists violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act in their attempts to influence American foreign policy. Download 1/25/2008 - IRmep Policy Podcast. Neoconservatives of the "Project for a New American Century" wanted more US GDP dedicated to military spending and war. They've gotten their wish, but at what cost to the economy? Also, how the US media responds to the Sibel Edmonds question, and the futility of asking the Israel lobby to recognize itself. Download. 1/18/2008 - IRmep Policy Podcast. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Norman Podhoretz pulled out all the stops to urge the Bush Administration to attack Iran in the autumn of 2007. The National Intelligence Estimate stopped their initiative, but for how long? Download. 1/11/08 - IRmep Policy Podcast. An incident at Hormuz Straits, the Bush visit to Palestine, and the real cost of US-Israel trade. MP3 Download. 12/18/07 - INN World News host Leonard Charles discusses the history of AIPAC and likelihood that the case will never go to trial with Grant Smith. MP3 Download. 11/21/07 - PressTV Book Review "Foreign Agents: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee" Martin Short, a British author and producer, Tim Llewellyn the BBC's Middle East correspondent for nearly a decade, and Abe Haim, of Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine sat down to discuss the book "Foreign Agents". MP3 Download. 08/17/07 - WBAI Book Review "Foreign Agents: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee" On August 19, Grant Smith discussed upcoming book "Foreign Agents" on WBAI's "Walden's Pond" with radio host Shelton Walden. MP3 Download. 02/23/07 - "Visa Denied: The Opportunity Cost of Discriminatory Visa Policies" On February 23, Grant Smith discussed the newly released report "Visa Denied: How Anti-Arab Visa Policies Destroy US Exports, Jobs and Higher Education on Viewpoint with James Zogby MP3 Download 01/25/07 - "The Opportunity Cost of Under Resourced US Visa Processing" On January 25, Grant Smith discussed the newly released report "Visa Denied: How Anti-Arab Visa Policies Destroy US Exports, Jobs and Higher Education. Download 10/18/06 - "Special Interest Policymakers and Neoconservative Dogma"
Grant Smith appeared with Jeffrey Blankfort on Takes on the World the
daunting problem of special interest
policymakers thwarting US national interests. Smith reviews chapters
of the book "Deadly Dogma". MP3
Download 08/23/06 - Book Review: "Deadly Dogma: How Neoconservatives Broke the Law to Deceive America" Grant Smith appeared with author and WYZX Radio host Jeffrey Blankfort to discuss findings in "Deadly Dogma" and how the neoconservative influence continues to damage US Middle East policy. MP3 Download 08/15/06 - Book Review: "Deadly Dogma: How Neoconservatives Broke the Law to Deceive America. Grant Smith appeared with WBAI Radio host Shelton Walden to discuss his new book and how the IRmep's Center for Policy and Law Enforcement is educating US attorneys about FARA, Espionage Act and Wire Fraud prosecution strategies. MP3 Download 08/14/06 - UN Ceasefire Resolution 1701 Grant Smith appeared on WWRL Radio with Dr. Ron Daniels to discuss the UN Ceasefire resolution and new information revealing the attacks on Lebanon as a "dry run" for future attacks on Iran. MP3 Download 08/11/06 - Neocon Clean Break plan Update Grant Smith appeared on the LinkTV show Viewpoint to discuss IRmep's book "Neocon Middle East Policy: the 'Clean Break' Plan Damage Assessment." (Available at http://www.irmep.org/cbda.htm) Other topics included legal violations of key neoconservative policymakers, flaws in core policy, and how rejection of international law has also diminished respect for domestic US law. MP3 Download 11/21/2005 - Law enforcement briefing at the Russell Senate Office Building "US Charitable Contributions, Illegal Settlements, and Suicide Terrorism. MP3 Download 11/10/05 - Neocon Clean Break plan or Beirut Declaration? 9/11Grant Smith
appeared on the Jim Greenfield 8/15/05 - The Gaza Withdrawal and Mythologies of the 1967 Arab Israeli War. Was the 1967 Arab Israeli war inevitable? What is the true refugee status of Palestinians? What do the data say about how to really confront suicide terrorism? Grant Smith clears up common misconceptions in a debate with Armstrong Williams. MP3 Download |
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