http://www.IRmep.org/ IRmep Audio Podcasting is a periodic feed of Middle East Policy formulation related content! Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:37:00 GMT IRmepAudio v2.0 http://www.irmep.org/images/policycast.jpg http://www.IRmep.org/ 50 45 Grant F. Smith discusses Israel's nuclear weapons at the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:09:00 -0500 Jeffrey Blankfort discusses Israel's nuclear weapons at the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:09:00 -0500 Scott Horton interviews Grant F. Smith, director of IRmep about 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 over enriched uranium diversions. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:09:00 -0500 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. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Tue, 11 May 2010 19:09:00 -0500 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. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:09:00 -0500 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. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:09:00 -0500 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. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:09:00 -0500 Jeffrey Blankfort discusses 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. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:09:00 -0500 Grant F. Smith discusses Freedom of Information Act requests under the Obama administrations "assumption of openness" mandate, and why the Israel lobby has become "too connected" to be regulated with Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:09:00 -0500 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. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Tue, 09 Sep 2009 19:09:00 -0500 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. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Tue, 17 Aug 2009 19:09:00 -0500 PressTV Washington correspondent Jihan Hafiz interviews Grant F. Smith about recent Israeli pharmaceutical violations of the US-Israel Free Trade Area. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Tue, 4 Aug 2009 19:09:00 -0500 Antiwar Radio's 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. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:09:00 -0500 Chicago radio host Ray Hanania and Grant Smith discuss an upcoming IRmep report about the US-Israel Free Trade Area's negative impact on jobs and intellectual property of US industries. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:09:00 -0500 Radio host Serif S. Fam interviewed Grant Smith on WZBC Cambridge, Massachusetts on his Sunday program "This Week in Palestine." They discussed the history of the Israel lobby and how Obama's cabinet picks will impact the Middle East. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:09:00 -0500 Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio interviews Grant F. 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 discusses 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 Mideast Washington consensus policy in an Obama administration and AIPAC's imposition of obstacles toward US exports to the Mideast. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:09:00 -0500 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". http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:09:00 -0500 How do the radical views and beliefs of National Security Council advisor Elliot Abrams thwart Middle East peace? In what sense are Israeli nuclear weapons aimed at influencing US policy more than a deterrent to regional competitors? Dr. Kevin Barrett interviews Grant Smith about these and other issues. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Sun, 01 Mar 2008 19:09:00 -0500 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 Fullbright 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. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:39:00 -0500 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. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:15:00 -0500 The November 2007 National Intelligence Estimate derailed the Israel lobby's drive for a US war with Iran. Or did it? http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:15:00 -0500 Grant Smith discusses the naval incident in the Straits of Hormuz, the Bush visit to Palestine, and the real cost of US-Israel trade policy. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:15:00 -0500 Grant Smith discusses with INN host Leonard Charles the factors weighing against the AIPAC espionage case making it to trial in April of 2008. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:55:00 -0500 Grant Smith discusses with Epilogue host Martin Short how weak US election law enforcement enables AIPAC power building over the US Congress. http://www.irmep.org/mp3/archives.cfm Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:55:00 -0500 On August 19, Grant Smith discussed upcoming book "Foreign Agents" on WBAI's "Walden's Pond" with radio host Shelton Walden. http://www.irmep.org/mp3/archives.cfm Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:55:00 -0500 On January 25, Grant Smith discussed the newly released report "Visa Denied: How Anti-Arab Visa Policies Destroy US Exports, Jobs and Higher Education. http://www.irmep.org/mp3/archives.cfm Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:55:00 -0500 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 http://www.irmep.org/mp3/archives.cfm Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:55:00 -0500 On January 25, Grant Smith discussed the newly released report "Visa Denied: How Anti-Arab Visa Policies Destroy US Exports, Jobs and Higher Education. http://www.irmep.org/mp3/archives.cfm Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:55:00 -0500 On October 18, Grant Smith appeared with Jeffrey Blankfort on Takes on the World the dauting problem of special interest policymakers thwarting US national interests. Smith reviews chapters of the book "Deadly Dogma". http://www.irmep.org/mp3/archives.cfm Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:55:00 -0500 On August 29, Grant Smith appeared at the Palestine Center in Washington, DC to discuss the theories behind the Neoconservative "Clean Break" plan written by Richard Perle, David Wurmser and Douglas Feith. He then analyzed the changing environment as law enforcement positions itself to take a more proactive stance against Espionage, Foreign Agent Registration, and Logan Act violations by US policymakers. http://www.irmep.org/mp3/archives.cfm Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:55:00 -0500 On August 23, 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. http://www.irmep.org/mp3/archives.cfm Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:55:00 -0500 On August 14, 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. http://www.irmep.org/mp3/archives.cfm Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:20:42 -0500 On August 15, 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 eduating US attorneys about FARA, Espionage Act and Wire Fraud prosecution strategies. http://www.irmep.org/mp3/archives.cfm 15 Aug 2006 17:55:00 -0500 On August 14, 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. http://www.irmep.org/mp3/archives.cfm Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:20:42 -0500 On August 11, 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 diminshed respect for domestic US law. http://www.irmep.org/mp3/archives.cfm Sat, 12 Aug 2006 12:20:42 -0500 On November 10, Grant Smith appeared on the Jim Greenfield show 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 tackling the real causes vs the hype factor and rhetoric in the news media's discussion of suicide terrorism, and the Beirut Declaration. Plus all the news, notes, and political nonsense of the week http://www.irmep.org/mp3/archives.cfm Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:20:42 -0500 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. http://www.irmep.org/mp3/archives.cfm 10 Nov 2005 12:20:42 -0500